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6.9

♡ 8

95%

Matthew Rankin Director

Brent Skagford as Arthur Meighen

Dan Beirne as Mackenzie King

Louis Negin as Mother

Trevor Anderson as Mr. Justice Richardson

Toronto, Canada, 1899. William Lyon Mackenzie King (1874-1950) fervently believes that he is destined to become Prime Minister, but to do so he will first have to fight his personal obsessions and overcome the many obstacles he will encounter on his tortuous path to power.

Mama

Chinese

6.3

Dongmei Li Director

Xiaoping Wang as Father

Shuqiong Cheng as Mother

Guoli Xia as Xiaowei

Wendan Ge as Xiaoxian

The story follows twelve-year-old Xiaoxian's memories of her family and her village. During seven days, the girl witnesses three deaths and two births, including the death of her own mother, who dies giving birth to her fourth sister.

Amateurs

Polish

6.0

♡ 4

Iwona Siekierzynska Director

Mariusz Bonaszewski as Director

Anna Dymna as Mother

Agnieszka Holland as Self

Roma Gasiorowska as Wiki

Krzysiek Biuro Rzeczy Osobistych Theater (created by intellectually disabled actors) is the winner of a festival, in which the prize is a performance in a professional theater. With great joy and expectations, Krzysiek and his actors are currently working on a new play "Zorba." It would be great to perform it on a real stage. It turns out, however, that the director of the theater, when offering them assistance, sets certain conditions, and when rehearsals begin, a few professional actors take part: Bartoszek - an aging actor, Olbińska - a former star who now plays lesser roles, and Wiktoria - a star who was acquired by the theater director.

The Blood of Hussain

1980

6.9

♡ 1

80%

Jamil Dehlavi Director

Abdul Karim Baloch as Akbar

Kika Markham as Katherine

Aliya Begam as Mother Mubila

Mubila as Prostitute

A dramatic depiction of the life of Hussain, with allegorical references to the history of the Prophet Muhammad and his descendants. It is prophesied that Young Hussain will one day lead the impoverished masses to a better life. It is his brother, Hasan, however who gains in prominence and when the government is overthrown in a military coup, he tries to adapt. Hussain in the meanwhile gets married and leads a small band of rebels in an attempt to fight the military dictatorship.

Father Dear Father

1973

5.0

♡ 2

William G. Stewart Director

Jack Watling as Bill Mossman

Clifton Jones as Larry

Joyce Carey as Mother

Richard O'Sullivan as Richard

After divorcing his wife, Patrick Glover decides it is time to remarry, and chooses his literary agent, only to then mistakenly propose to the cleaning lady. Part of his reason for wanting to remarry is to regain some control over his wayward daughters, but they and their lovers continue to complicate his home and his life... A farcical comedy full of hilarious confusions, this feature-length version of the popular sitcom Father, Dear Father is a real gem of British humour at its best.

Moonlight

2002

6.0

♡ 3

60%

Paula van der Oest Director

Halina Reijn as Crazy Woman in Car

Johan Leysen as Father

Andrew Howard as Gang Leader

Jemma Redgrave as Mother

Claire lives with her wealthy adopted parents in a luxurious and isolated house in the woods. She discovers a wounded and bleeding boy her age in her family's garden shed. The boy is a young drug courier from Afghanistan; shot and wounded after serving his purpose as human packing material. Claire decides to keep the boy a secret. He slowly recovers under her care; and they fall in love. When the drug dealers return and Claire's family is due to move back to the city; they decide to flee; though Claire finds it difficult to outrun her past as an abandoned child.

Lourdes

2009

French

6.9

♡ 1

91%

pyrenees mountain ridge

woman director

Jessica Hausner Director

Elina Löwensohn as Cécile

Hubert Kramar as Herr Oliveti

Léa Seydoux as Maria

Petra Morzé as Mother

In order to escape her isolation, wheelchair-bound Christine makes a life changing journey to Lourdes, the iconic site of pilgrimage in the Pyrenees Mountains.

Guys Reading Poems

2016

5.2

♡ 3

100%

Hunter Lee Hughes Director

Adrian Quinonez as Actor In Underwear

Alexander Dreymon as Father

Omar Leyva as Investigator

Patricia Velasquez as Mother

A resourceful boy creatively uses poetry to survive when his mother, a disturbed avant garde painter, locks him in a puppet box and builds an art installation around his imprisonment.

Hotel Limbo

5.5

♡ 9

94%

Romance

Tina Adams Director

Arthur Holden as Hotel Director

Michelle Christa Smith as Mother

Lisa Ryder as Nurse

Leigh Ann Taylor as (voice)

Diana thinks she's the next Paris Hilton. After all, she's just received an unexpected inheritance - a hotel in an upscale Canadian mountain resort. She's an heiress! But Diana's dreams of glitz and glamour are dashed when she arrives with her two rescue dogs to find the hotel is far from what she'd imagined...

Stitches

1991

4.5

♡ 1

Gina Prince-Bythewood Director

Ronald W. Lawrence as Malcom

Vivian Smith as Mother

Taron Cavesse Patton as Taron

Gary Quinn as Uncle Lark

Graduate film of Gina Prince-Bythewood.

Lone

2014

6.7

♡ 5

Mystery

Mark Pellington Director

John Walbank as

Rhoda Pell as Mother

Richard Kray as Old Man Memory

Bianca D'Ambrosio as Twin #1

A unique new form merging film and music into a dark subconscious stew set to the music of Chelsea Wolfe's 2013 album Pain is Beauty.

Zatoichi's Vengeance

1966

Japanese

7.2

♡ 5

Tokuzô Tanaka Director

Kei Satô as Boss Gonzo

Shigeru Amachi as Genpachiro Kuroda

Kôichi Mizuhara as Joshuya

Mitsuko Yoshikawa as Mother

Zatoichi comes upon a dying man who asks him to give a bag of money to "Taichi". Zatoichi has no idea who this is but when he comes upon a small town harassed by gangsters, he finds that "Taichi" was the man's young son. Along his travels he also met a blind monk who makes Zatoichi question his murderous lifestyle. In trying to help the town, Zatoichi kills some gangsters and becomes a hero to the boy. He must make a choice of whether to use non-violence and set a good example, or violence and set the boy on the wrong path in life.

Sberné surovosti

1965

Czech

6.5

♡ 1

based on short story

Juraj Herz Director

A. Mukensnáblová as

O. Novotná as

F. Pelikán as

Libuse Palecková as Mother

Juraj Herz adapts Bohumil Hrabal's story about a man who works in a junk shop.

The Cement Garden

1993

7.0

♡ 6

85%

74%

based on novel or book

Andrew Birkin Director

William Hootkins as Commander Hunt

Hanns Zischler as Father

Charlotte Gainsbourg as Julie

Sinéad Cusack as Mother

After the death of her husband, the mother of Julie, Jack, Sue and Tom begins to suffer from a mysterious illness. Aware that she is going to have to go into hospital she opens a bank account for the children, so that they can be financially self-sufficient and will be able to avoid being taken into care by the authorities. Unfortunately she also dies and Julie and Jack (the older, teenage children) decide to hide her body in the basement so that they can have free reign of their household. Soon Tom has taken to dressing as a girl whilst Sue has become increasingly reticent, confiding only to her diary, meanwhile Jack and Julie sense an attraction developing for each other. However Julie's new beau, Derek, threatens to unearth the many dark secrets within this family as he becomes increasingly suspicious of Jack.

Papier-Mache

Russian

5.6

♡ 2

Vitaliy Suslin Director

Ivan Lashin as Ivan Sergeyevich

Tatyana Skaredneva as Librarian

Tatyana Lashina as Mother

Yury Sidorov as Policeman

Ivan Lashin, a young man who lives with his mother in the country and works at home, met director Vitaly Suslin. The young man told the director about his life, they wrote a script together and thus the feature film "Head. Two Ears" was born, in which Ivan played himself as the main character. Russia’s most important festival Kinotavr declared it the best script and the film also received the award of the Russian Film Critics Guild. Now, a few years later, Vitaly and Ivan have made a new film which talks about Ivan’s life after festivals: has he changed, what is he dreaming about?

Homeward

2019

Ukrainian

7.3

♡ 4

77%

57%

crimea annexation (2014)

russian invasion of ukraine

occupation of crimea

russian invasion of ukraine (2022)

Nariman Aliev Director

Viktoriya Chuharkova as Mother

Olga Pasichnyk as Olya

Maya Yarmolenko as Sveta

Arseniy Zurov as Taras

Having lost his oldest son in the war between Russia and Ukraine, Mustafa resolves to bring the boy’s body to the land of his birth: Crimea. Together, he and his younger son set out on a journey that will profoundly mark their relationship.

Wadjda

2012

Arabic

7.5

♡ 28

99%

Haifaa Al-Mansour Director

Abdullrahman Al Gohani as Abdullah

Reem Abdullah as Mother Ahd

Ahd as Ms. Hussa

Waad Mohammed as Wadjda

An enterprising Saudi girl signs on for her school's Quran recitation competition as a way to raise the remaining funds she needs in order to buy the green bicycle that has captured her interest.

Hellbender

2021