Level Five

1997

French

7.0

♡ 5

94%

Chris Marker Director

Catherine Belkhodja as Laura

Chris Marker as Self

Nagisa Ôshima as Self

Kinjo Shigeaki as Self

Laura, a French programmer, inherits the task of creating a game about the World War II Battle of Okinawa. Her research and interviews with Japanese experts and witnesses prompt her to reflect on life, humanity, and the lasting influence of history and memories.

Fresh Hell

2021

English

3.8

♡ 2

100%

Ryan Imhoff Director

Alison Plott as 911 Operator

Tyler Owen Parsons as Brian

Grant Lancaster as Det. Pierson

Christina Reis as Laura

During the dog days of the pandemic, a group of old friends fall prey to a psychotic troll. Blood. Chuckles. Very cool ;)

Penny Pincher!

2016

French

5.9

♡ 6

29%

Fred Cavayé Director

Dany Boon as François Gautier

Christophe Canard as Gilles, violoniste

Noémie Schmidt as Laura

Laurence Arné as Valérie

François Gautier is stingy! Saving puts the joy, it causes pay sweats. His life is set for the sole purpose of never spend anything. A life that will switch in one day: he falls in love and discovers he has a daughter he did not know existed. Forced to lie in order to hide his terrible default, this will be the beginning for François problems. Because lie can sometimes be expensive. Very expensive…

The Debacle

6.1

Ryan N. Wood Director

David Hight as Elijah

Rebecca Chaney as Laura

Mike Becht as Mr. Carter

Simeon Burks as Sebastian

Best friends Vaughn and Larry never met a challenge they haven't run from. So, when a chance encounter with a stranger finds them transported to a western town in the 1870s, they're forced into situations where failure is inevitable! Terrified by change and even the hint of danger, Vaughn and Larry are given a task that must be completed, or they will never be able to return to the modern-day.

A E I O U: A Quick Alphabet of Love

2022

German

5.5

♡ 2

older woman younger man relationship

Romance

Nicolette Krebitz Director

Laura Tonke as Laura

Udo Kier as Michel

Moritz Bleibtreu as Talkshow-Gast

Oskar Melzer as Toni

Anna is 60 and her acting heyday is now behind her. She lives on her own but has a friend and confidant in her downstairs neighbour Michel, who is also single. Reluctantly, Anna accepts a job as a language coach for 17-year-old Adrian who has a speech impediment and is something of a misfit. She recognises him as the boy who recently snatched her handbag in the street.

Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives

1992

English

7.3

♡ 5

80%

Lynne Fernie Director

Marie-Jo Therio as Beth

Stephanie Morgenstern as Laura

Carol Ritchie-MacKintosh as Self

Amanda White as Self

Ten women in Canada talk about being lesbian in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s: discovering the pulp fiction of the day about women in love, their own first affairs, the pain of breaking up, frequenting gay bars, facing police raids, men's responses, and the etiquette of butch and femme roles. Interspersed among the interviews and archival footage are four dramatized chapters from a pulp novel, "Forbidden Love".

Bootlegger

2021

French

5.7

♡ 2

coming home

Drama

indigenous

Caroline Monnet Director

Charles Bender as Éric

Pascale Bussières as Laura

Devery Jacobs as Mani

Joséphine Bacon as Nora

Mani, a master’s student, returns to the reserve in northern Quebec where she grew up. Her painful past resurfaces. Resolved to reintegrate into the community, she gets involved in the debate around a referendum on allowing the free sale of alcohol on the reserve. Laura, a bootlegger, pockets the profits she makes there under the protection of the band council and her partner Raymond. The latter is still angry with Mani, whom he holds responsible for the death of his daughter in a fire. Opposing forces quickly divide the community into two sides who face each other to determine the best path to independence.

Adrift

2017

Portuguese

4.5

♡ 2

Sérgio Graciano Director

Dânia Neto as Ana

Afonso Pimentel as Daniel

Diogo Amaral as Jaime

Dalila Carmo as Laura

When a group of friends fail to lower the ladder of their boat, they find themselves stranded in the surrounding waters and struggle to survive.

After School Massacre

2014

English

2.9

♡ 1

22%

Jared Masters Director

Art Roberts as Dean Wheatley

Lindsay Lamb as Laura

Mindy Robinson as Linda

Dawna Lee Heising as Naomi Perkins

High school history teacher, Ty Anderson, has a minor online communication with a teasing student which finds him immediately fired and snaps him into a psychotic killing spree, terrorizing his former female students at their slumber party.

Refugiado

2014

Spanish

6.3

♡ 2

Drama

Thriller

Diego Lerman Director

Carlos Weber as Francisco

Julieta Díaz as Laura

Paula Ituriza as Mamá Eugenia

Lucrecia Gelardi as Trabajadora Social

7 year old Matías returns home from a friend’s birthday party to find his mother, Laura, unconscious on the floor. When she recovers her senses they decide to leave home and rush to a shelter for abused women where they spend 48 hours before Laura decides to rebuild her life somewhere else. Through the eyes of Matías we will discover their escape in a city where everything Matías once knew feels dangerous and foreign until Laura finds a secure place to raise her son.

Summering

2022

English

4.5

♡ 7

34%

James Ponsoldt Director

Madalen Mills as Dina

Ashley Madekwe as Joy

Lake Bell as Laura

Megan Mullally as Stacie

Four best friends, on the brink of starting middle school, realize their lives are about to change forever. So on the last weekend of summer, they set out to make the most of it. Nothing could prepare them, though, for the startling discovery they make while revisiting one of their favorite haunts.

Raw Wind in Eden

1958

English

5.6

♡ 2

Richard Wilson Director

Rossana Podestà as Costanza Varno

Rik Battaglia as Gavino

Esther Williams as Laura

Jeff Chandler as Mark Moore / Scott Moorehouse

Passengers struggle to survive after their plane crashes on a remote island. Director Richard Wilson's 1958 drama stars Esther Williams, Jeff Chandler and Rosanna Podesta.

Touch Me Not

2018

Romanian

5.6

♡ 3

59%

Adina Pintilie Director

Juliana Saiska as

Laura Benson as Laura

Irmena Chichikova as Mona

Tómas Lemarquis as Tomas

Together, a filmmaker and her characters venture into a personal research project about intimacy. On the fluid border between reality and fiction, Touch Me Not follows the emotional journeys of Laura, Tómas and Christian, offering a deeply empathic insight into their lives. Craving for intimacy yet also deeply afraid of it, they work to overcome old patterns, defense mechanisms and taboos, to cut the cord and finally be free. Touch Me Not looks at how we can find intimacy in the most unexpected ways, at how to love another without losing ourselves.

Monstrous

2022

English

4.7

♡ 52

55%

63%

1950s

1957 chevy station wagom

Chris Sivertson Director

Carol Anne Watts as Jane

Christina Ricci as Laura

Lew Temple as Mr. Alonzo

Darin Cooper as Tow Truck Driver

Laura, traumatized by an abusive relationship, runs away from her former husband with her seven-year-old son Cody. But in their new, idyllic and remote sanctuary, they find they have another, bigger and more terrifying monster to deal with…

Peep World

2010

English

5.5

♡ 2

24%

Barry W. Blaustein Director

Jack Plotnick as Bookstore Manager

Michael Cavanaugh as Brad Thompkins

Judy Greer as Laura

Kate Mara as Meg

On the day of their Father's 70th birthday party, four siblings come to terms with the publication of a novel written by the youngest sibling, that exposes the family's most intimate secrets.

La donna per me

2021

Italian

6.0

♡ 2

Action

Comedy

Fantasy

Marco Martani Director

Francesca Agostini as

Angela Curri as

Eduardo Scarpetta as Giulio

Alessandra Mastronardi as Laura

What if you could answer any question and eliminate all doubts before making the most important decision of your life? What if, by some sort of magic, you could live your life pursuing your wildest and deepest desires? That’s what’s about to happen to Andrea, a thirty-year-old man on the eve of his wedding with Laura, the girl he met in college and with whom he built a life together. Andrea starts waking up everyday in a different life and a different self, in realities where he and Laura never got together in the first place. Exploring the many paths his life could have lead him on to, from unapologetic womanizer to acclaimed musician, Andrea will have to face the void Laura’s absence left in his many different “iterations”. Will he try to break the spell?

Pieles

2017

Spanish

6.0

♡ 11

Eduardo Casanova Director

Carmen Machi as Claudia

Jon Kortajarena as Guille

Macarena Gómez as Laura

Álex de la Iglesia as Locutor TV

In a strange world where people share numerous deformities, the same problem we all face challenges each of them: to find someone who accepts you as you are. Sometimes, that means finding yourself first.

Trade

2007

English

7.3

♡ 6

33%

Marco Kreuzpaintner Director

Anna Maria Horsford as Detective Martinez

Kate del Castillo as Laura

Linda Emond as Patty Sheridan

Kevin Kline as Ray Sheridan

A Texas cop, whose own daughter might have been forced into sexual slavery, joins forces with a Mexican youth to find the boy's sister, who was abducted and forced into prostitution. Meanwhile, a Polish woman who was promised a better life in America also becomes a victim.

Factotum

2005

English

6.6

♡ 10

74%

62%

alcoholism

based on novel or book

Bent Hamer Director

Matt Dillon as Hank Chinaski

Raye Birk as Heathercliff

Marisa Tomei as Laura

Fisher Stevens as Manny

This drama centers on Hank Chinaski, the fictional alter-ego of "Factotum" author Charles Bukowski, who wanders around Los Angeles, CA trying to live off jobs which don't interfere with his primary interest, which is writing. Along the way, he fends off the distractions offered by women, drinking and gambling.

The Barcelona Vampiress

2020

Catalan

5.8

♡ 4

Lluís Danés Director

Pablo Derqui as Fuster

Alejandra Howard as Laura

Albert Pérez as Periodista 2

Francesca Piñón as Sor Engracia

Barcelona, Spain, 1912. The disappearance of a girl from a wealthy family triggers a series of events that will shake the weak foundations of a hypocritical society.

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Fresh Hell

Penny Pincher!

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A E I O U: A Quick Alphabet of Love

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Bootlegger

Adrift

After School Massacre

Refugiado

Summering

Raw Wind in Eden

Touch Me Not

Monstrous

Peep World

La donna per me

Pieles

Trade

Factotum

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