Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World

2005

English

5.5

♡ 1

44%

Albert Brooks Director

B.J. Ward as Barbara Nader

Amy Ryan as Emily Brooks

Ahmed Ahmed as Escort

Ajay Mehta as Indian Official

To improve its relations with Muslim countries, the United States government sends comedian Albert Brooks to south Asia to write a report on what makes followers of Islam laugh.

Don Verdean

2015

English

5.4

♡ 14

30%

Jared Hess Director

Amy Ryan as Carol Jensen

Sam Rockwell as Don Verdean

Will Forte as Pastor Fontaine

Danny McBride as Tony Lazarus

Biblical archaeologist Don Verdean is hired by a local church pastor to find faith-promoting relics in the Holy Land. But after a fruitless expedition he is forced to get creative in this comedy of faith and fraud.

Lost Girls

2020

English

6.2

♡ 32

72%

50%

Action

based on a true story

based on novel or book

Liz Garbus Director

Ross Degraw as Construction Boss

Amy Ryan as Mari Gilbert

Reed Birney as Peter Hackett

Thomasin McKenzie as Sherre Gilbert

When Mari Gilbert's daughter disappears, police inaction drives her own investigation into the gated Long Island community where Shannan was last seen. Her search brings attention to over a dozen murdered prostitutes.

Louder Than Bombs

2015

English

6.6

♡ 39

73%

parent child relationship

sibling relationship

war photographer

Joachim Trier Director

Megan Ketch as Amy

Rachel Brosnahan as Erin

Amy Ryan as Hannah

Jesse Eisenberg as Jonah

Three years after his wife, acclaimed photographer Isabelle Reed, dies in a car crash, Gene keeps everyday life going with his shy teenage son, Conrad. A planned exhibition of Isabelle’s photographs prompts Gene's older son, Jonah, to return to the house he grew up in - and for the first time in a very long time, the father and the two brothers are living under the same roof.

Jack Goes Boating

2010

English

6.3

♡ 14

67%

Philip Seymour Hoffman Director

Amy Ryan as Connie

Tom McCarthy as Dr. Bob Thomas

Stephen Mailer as Happy Husband

Daphne Rubin-Vega as Lucy

A limo driver's blind date sparks a tale of love, betrayal, friendship and grace—centered around two working-class New York City couples.

Strange But True

2019

English

♡ 44

54%

Rowan Athale Director

Brian Cox as Bill

Amy Ryan as Charlene

Margaret Qualley as Melissa

Nick Robinson as Philip

A woman surprises the family of her deceased boyfriend by telling them she's pregnant with his child.

Green Zone

2010

English

6.8

♡ 107

53%

weapon of mass destruction

Paul Greengrass Director

Jason Isaacs as Briggs

Amy Ryan as Lawrie Dayne

Brendan Gleeson as Martin Brown

Matt Damon as Miller

During the U.S.-led occupation of Baghdad in 2003, Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller and his team of Army inspectors are dispatched to find weapons of mass destruction believed to be stockpiled in the Iraqi desert. Rocketing from one booby-trapped and treacherous site to the next, the men search for deadly chemical agents but stumble instead upon an elaborate cover-up that threatens to invert the purpose of their mission.

Abundant Acreage Available

2017

English

5.9

♡ 2

79%

69%

Drama

Angus MacLachlan Director

Steve Coulter as Charles

Max Gail as Hans

Terry Kinney as Jesse

Amy Ryan as Tracy

After their father dies, a middle-aged brother and sister wrestle with legacy and ownership when three brothers, whose family farmed the land for generations, return after 50 years.

Win Win

2011

English

7.1

♡ 12

95%

Tom McCarthy Director

Melanie Lynskey as Cindy

Amy Ryan as Jackie Flaherty

Paul Giamatti as Mike Flaherty

Tim Ransom as Stuart Thatcher

When down-on-his-luck part-time high school wrestling coach Mike agrees to become legal guardian to an elderly man, his ward's troubled grandson turns out to be a star grappler, sparking dreams of a big win -- until the boy's mother retrieves him.

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