Abe is a man who is in his thirties and who lives with his parents. He works regretfully for his father while pursuing his hobby of collecting toys. Aware that his family doesn't think highly of him, he tries to spark a relationship with Miranda, who recently moved back home after a failed literary/academic career. Miranda agrees to marry Abe out of desperation, but things go awry.

Burke and Hare

2010

English

6.1

♡ 24

33%

John Landis Director

Tim Curry as Doctor Monro

Isla Fisher as Ginny Hawkins

Simon Pegg as William Burke

Andy Serkis as William Hare

Two 19th-century opportunists become serial killers so that they can maintain their profitable business supplying cadavers to an anatomist.

Damsel

2018

English

5.6

♡ 26

67%

David Zellner Director

Robert Forster as Old Preacher

David Zellner as Parson Henry

Mia Wasikowska as Penelope

Robert Pattinson as Samuel Alabaster

Oregon, a small town near the sea, around 1870. Henry, a grieving man who aspires to preach as a way to overcome his unfortunate past, reunites with eccentric pioneer Samuel Alabaster, who has hired him to officiate at his marriage to the precious Penelope. What Henry ignores is that both must embark on a dangerous journey through the inhospitable wilderness to meet her.

The Magic Christian

1969

English

5.8

♡ 8

61%

68%

Action

based on novel or book

Joseph McGrath Director

Arthur Goodman as Boxing Fan / Boat Race Umpire

Peter Bayliss as Pompous Toff

Roland Culver as Sir Herbert

John Le Mesurier as Sir John

Sir Guy Grand, the richest man in the world, adopts a homeless man, Youngman. Together, they set out to prove that anyone--and anything--can be bought.

Footnote

2011

Hebrew

7.1

♡ 6

88%

Joseph Cedar Director

Albert Iluz as Committee Member

Gad Kaynar as Committee Member

Yuval Scharf as Noa newspaper reporter

Lior Ashkenazi as Uriel Shkolnik

Jerusalem, Israel. Professors Eliezer and Uriel Shkolnik, father and son, have dedicated their lives to the study of the Jewish scriptures. Eliezer is a stubborn and methodical scholar who has never been recognized for his work; Uriel is a rising star, someone admired and praised by his colleagues. The fragile balance that has kept their personal relationship almost intact is broken in an unexpected way by a simple phone call.

The Last Hurrah

1958

English

7.3

♡ 10

83%

81%

Action

based on novel or book

black humor

Comedy

co-worker relationship

Drama

election campaign

husband wife relationship

irish-american

John Ford Director

Roy Jenson as Fighter

Chuck Hicks as Fighter

John Roy as Mourner at Wake

Carleton Young as Winslow

In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a young sports journalist, witnesses how his uncle, Frank Skeffington, a veteran and honest politician, mayor of a New England town, tries to be reelected while bankers and captains of industry conspire in the shadows to place a weak and manageable candidate in the city hall.

The Suicide Shop

2012

French

6.2

♡ 20

71%

Patrice Leconte Director

Pierre-François Martin-Laval as Le joli garçon

Eric Métayer as Le SDF

Jacques Mathou as Monsieur Calmel / Monsieur Dead for Two

Jules Poisson as Un copain d'Alan

In a cold French city where suicide is a common urge, there is a colorful shop, managed for many years by the Tuvache family, where it is very easy to obtain the necessary tools to satisfy the sinister desires of so many depressed citizens.

The Letter Room

2020

English

6.8

♡ 13

Elvira Lind Director

Michael Benjamin Hernandez as

Eileen Galindo as Irene

Oscar Isaac as Richard

Alia Shawkat as Rosita

Richard, a lonely and well-meaning prison officer, is put in charge of reading and censoring the letters received by inmates.

The Beast

2016

English

4.6

♡ 1

Ryan LeBoeuf Director

Clarence Gilyard Jr. as Auguste Porter

Zachary A. Beaulieu as Barnaby Crabbins

Patrick Sean Clark as Diner

David Schmoeller as The Old Man

Eccentric community theatre director August Porter invites a few guests to his secluded mountain lodge for a dinner party. But something is in the woods… waiting…

In Action

2020

English

5.7

86%

Sean Kenealy Director

Eric Silvera as Eric

Sean Kenealy as Sean

Sean and Eric are just two bumbling screenwriters working on the “next big action flick,” utterly oblivious to the shit storm that awaits when the government intercepts their script, believing it to be a veritable terrorist plot.

The Twentieth Century

2019

English

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.

Donbass

2018

Ukrainian

♡ 12

88%

73%

Action

based on a true story

Sergey Loznitsa Director

Sergey Russkin as Chapai

Valeriu Andriutã as Commander

Thorsten Merten as German journalist

Boris Kamorzin as Mikhalych

In the historic Donbass region of eastern Ukraine, despite the cruel war that has been raging since 2014 between the self-proclaimed People's Republics of Donetsk and Luhansk and the Ukrainian government, people try to survive in the rotten heart of chaos, where violence disguises itself as peace, propaganda becomes univocal truth and hatred reigns in the name of love.

The Octopus

1998

French

6.4

♡ 1

Guillaume Nicloux Director

Clotilde Courau as Cheryl

Jean-Pierre Darroussin as Gabriel Lecouvreur, 'le Poulpe'

Philippe Nahon as Patron de bar 2

James Faulkner as Thomas

Gabriel, dit Le Poulpe (The Octopus) is a laid-back private investigator who works on cases for his own pleasure. He is drawn to the fictional Loire Valley port of Angerneau, with his lover Clotilde who has been summoned by the police concerning the defacement of a deceased relative's grave. Since Angernau is her home town, she wants to leave it as soon as possible to avoid old acquaintances, but Gabriel stumbles on intriguing events concerning the cargo of a ship in port.

A Delicate Balance

1973

English

6.5

♡ 11

67%

62%

Action

alcoholic drink

based on play or musical

Tony Richardson Director

Katharine Hepburn as Agnes

Betsy Blair as Edna

Joseph Cotten as Harry

Paul Scofield as Tobias

In their finely appointed Connecticut home, Agnes and Tobias have grown used to the imperfection and fragility of their marriage. Quietly nursing their grief over the death of their son, they get by well enough together. Agnes' boozy sister wanders in and out, and they allow anxiety-stricken friends to move into an upstairs room. But, when their daughter, Julia, shows up announcing her fourth divorce, long-repressed emotions come to the surface.

Girlfriend from Hell

1989

English

5.1

♡ 12

59%

Daniel Peterson Director

James Karen as Carl's Dad

Dana Ashbrook as Chaser

James Daughton as David

Daphna Kastner as Nun with Gun

The inventor of the condom has become God's bounty hunter and is tasked with tracking down and capturing the Devil, who has possessed the body of a high school wallflower in order to feed on human souls via sex.

Scrubbers

1982

English

5.6

♡ 5

43%

Mai Zetterling Director

Timothy Kightley as Dr. Siles

Brian Croucher as Leo

Dawn Archibald as Mary

Steve Alder as Terry

Inmates fight, pair off, try suicide and attempt escape at a British reform school for girls.

The Movie

2022

English

4.0

♡ 2

40%

Michael Mandell Director

Bonnie Root as Janet / Claudia

Jarrod Pistilli as Walter / Gustave

A creepy director uses a movie shoot to torture his favorite actress in her own home.

Very Bad Things

1998

English

6.3

♡ 51

40%

Peter Berg Director

Daniel Stern as Adam Berkow

Jon Favreau as Kyle Fisher

Jeremy Piven as Michael Berkow

Christian Slater as Robert Boyd

Kyle Fisher has one last night to celebrate life as a single man before marrying Laura, so he sets out to Vegas with four of his best buddies. But a drug and alcohol filled night on the town with a stripper who goes all the way, turns into a cold night in the desert with shovels when the stripper goes all the way into a body bag after dying in their bathroom. And that's just the first of the bodies to pile up before Kyle can walk down the aisle...