A college professor finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when a star pupil levels an accusation against one of her colleagues, and a dark secret from her own past threatens to come to light.

Final Flesh

2009

English

5.3

♡ 2

Ike Sanders Director

Guy Perry as Mr. Pollard Melvin

Melvin as Mr. Pollard Yvonne

Yvonne as Mrs. Pollard Kesha

Kesha as Pam Pollard

The Pollard family is calmly discussing their impending death by atom bomb when Mrs. Pollard recounts a dream in which she sensually bathes herself in the "Tears of Neglected Children."

Compulsion

1959

English

7.4

♡ 12

100%

85%

Action

based on a true story

based on novel or book

Richard Fleischer Director

Peter Brocco as Albert, Steiner's Chauffeur

Dean Stockwell as Judd Steiner

John Roy as Juror

Edward Binns as Tom Daly

Two close friends' plan to execute a flawless crime is crushed when one of them inadvertently leaves his glasses at the crime scene.

After the Dark

2013

English

5.6

♡ 64

John Huddles Director

Katie Findlay as Bonnie

Freddie Stroma as Jack

Sophie Lowe as Petra

Erin Moriarty as Vivian

At an international school in Jakarta, a philosophy teacher challenges his class of twenty graduating seniors to choose which ten of them would take shelter underground and reboot the human race in the event of a nuclear apocalypse.

Ship of Theseus

2012

Hindi

8.0

♡ 35

95%

Anand Gandhi Director

Sohum Shah as Navin Prince

Prince as Pancreas recipient

Sanjay Bhatia as Sekhsaria Vijay

Vijay as Street play actor

Three stories about persons forced to think about the ethics and moral issues raised by medical advances.

Metropolitan

1990

English

7.3

♡ 12

93%

manhattan, new york city

Whit Stillman Director

Carolyn Farina as Audrey Rouget

Taylor Nichols as Charlie Black

Isabel Gillies as Cynthia McLean

Chris Eigeman as Nick Smith

A radical student is adopted by a group of young New Yorkers, serves as a catalyst to alter his and their lives. Gathering in a Manhattan apartment, the group of friends meet to discuss social mobility, Fourier's socialism and play bridge in their cocoon of upper-class society - until they are joined by a man with a critical view of their way of life.

The Kingdom of Var

2019

English

3.2

♡ 3

Nicholas Kleban Director

Angela Thompson as Danielle's Guest

Lars Classington as Ghorghoulia the Magnificent

John Williams as Restaurant Patron

Cynthia Stone as Skeleton Woman

College student Sonja summons the demonic sorcerer Var after viewing a 500-year-old film containing his spirit.

Kenji Miyazawa's Night on the Galactic Railroad

1985

Japanese

7.0

♡ 10

Action

Adventure

Animation

based on novel or book

Gisaburô Sugii Director

Chikao Ohtsuka as Birdcatcher

Gorô Naya as Dr. Bulganillo, Campanella's Father

Mayumi Tanaka as Giovanni

Shun Yashiro as (voice)

Giovanni currently lives a dreary life of near non-stop work. At school, his peers ridicule him incessantly, and his employer at work is distant and cold. As his isolation from society becomes unbearable, he suddenly finds himself on a train heading far away from his miserable home. Accompanied by Campanella, an acquaintance from school, Giovanni embarks on a journey that will define the rest of his life.

The Last Earth Girl

2019

English

3.4

♡ 2

Jim Weter Director

Greg Earnest as Benson

Mallorie Lindsey as Debate Panel Member

Donald Meyers as Family friend

Jon W. Sparks as Prof. Mann

Who Will You Be When the World Ends? - When it is announced that the world will end in 7 years, a young woman must decide what is truly important to her in life and what she is willing to sacrifice to reach her goals.

Camus

2010

French

6.3

♡ 1

Action

Biography

philosophy

Laurent Jaoui Director

Stéphane Freiss as Albert Camus

Jicey Carina as Black feet

Edmonde Franchi as Grande mère Camus

Philippe Napias as Journaliste / Caméraman

A romantic, a scoundrel, a private man .... The touching and absurd story of the philosopher Albert Camus as seen through the eyes of the many women in his life.

The Addiction

1995

English

6.5

♡ 24

75%

Abel Ferrara Director

Annabella Sciorra as Casanova

Edie Falco as Jean

Christopher Walken as Peina

Edward Conna as Waiter

A vampiric doctoral student tries to follow the philosophy of a nocturnal comrade and control her thirst for blood.

Voyage of Time

2016

English

7.0

♡ 18

90%

Terrence Malick Director

Gabi Rojas as Early Human

Shaun Ross as Early Human

Jejuan Plair as Early Human

Brad Pitt as Narrator

A celebration of the universe, displaying the whole of time, from its start to its final collapse. This film examines all that occurred to prepare the world that stands before us now: science and spirit, birth and death, the grand cosmos and the minute life systems of our planet.

Eros + Massacre

1969

Japanese

7.4

♡ 13

Yoshishige Yoshida Director

Yoshihide Gotô as

Yûko Kusunoki as Itsuko Masaoka

Mariko Okada as Noe Ito

Daijirô Harada as Wada

Two interwoven stories. The first is a biography of anarchist Sakae Osugi which follows his relationship with three women in the 1920s. The second centers around two 1960s students researching Osugi's theories.

Children of the Sea

2019

Japanese

6.5

♡ 12

62%

Ayumu Watanabe Director Yû Aoi

Yû Aoi as Azumi Kanako

Gorô Inagaki as Azumi Masaaki

Mana Ashida as Azumi Ruka

Marie Ôi as Fuyuko

Ruka is a young girl whose parents are separated and whose father works in an aquarium. When two boys, Umi and Sora, who were raised in the sea by dugongs, are brought to the aquarium, Ruka feels drawn to them and begins to realize that she has the same sort of supernatural connection to the ocean that they do. Umi and Sora's special power seems to be connected to strange events that have been occurring more and more frequently, such as the appearance of sea creatures far from their home territory and the disappearance of aquarium animals around the world. However, the exact nature of the boys' power and of the abnormal events is unknown, and Ruka gets drawn into investigating the mystery that surrounds her new friends.

Léon Morin, Priest

1961

French

7.5

♡ 12

Action

based on novel or book

Jean-Pierre Melville Director

Gérard Buhr as Gunther

Jean-Paul Belmondo as Léon Morin

Howard Vernon as The colonel

Volker Schlöndorff as Un soldat allemand

Barny, although a Marxist, is intrigued by the mysteries of religion. In confession, she teases a priest, Léon Morin, but he is a young and intelligent man and ready to discuss anything.

Charles, Dead or Alive

1969

French

7.2

♡ 4

75%

Alain Tanner Director

Martine Simon as Cilette

Michèle Martel as Germaine Dé, la femme de Charles

Janine Christoffe as La femme de chambre

Francis Reusser as Le second infirmier

On the 100th anniversary of the founding of a watchmaking company in Geneva, Charles Dé the founder's 50-year-old grandson has had it: he speaks eccentrically to a reporter, recognizing his grandfather as a craftsman and his son as a businessman, but is evasive about himself. He gives his family the slip and moves in with a young couple he meets by chance, doing the cooking, reading, drinking, and engaging in philosophical discussions with them. The young couple comes to love Charles. In secret, he stays in touch with a daughter, and the rest of the family hires a private investigator to find him, setting in motion a business take-over that threatens his Bohemian happiness.

Examined Life

2008

English

7.0

♡ 3

77%

Astra Taylor Director

Slavoj Zizek as Self

Cornel West as Self

Michael Hardt as Self

Peter Singer as Self

Examined Life pulls philosophy out of academic journals and classrooms, and puts it back on the streets. Offering privileged moments with great thinkers from fields ranging from moral philosophy to cultural theory, Examined Life reveals philosophy's power to transform the way we see the world around us and imagine our place in it.

A Trip to Infinity

2022

English

7.0

♡ 8

71%

Jonathan Halperin Director

Anthony Aguirre as Self

Brian Greene as Self

Steve Strogatz as Self

Brian Greene as Self - Theoretical Physicist

Does infinity exist? Can we experience the Infinite? In an animated film (created by artists from 10 countries) the world's most cutting-edge scientists and mathematicians go in search of the infinite and its mind-bending implications for the universe. Eminent mathematicians, particle physicists and cosmologists dive into infinity and its mind-bending implications for the universe.

The Oxford Murders

2008

English

6.0

♡ 41

23%

Álex de la Iglesia Director

John Hurt as Arthur Seldom

Elijah Wood as Martin

Danny Sapani as Scott

Burn Gorman as Yuri Podorov

At Oxford University, a professor and a grad student work together to try and stop a potential series of murders seemingly linked by mathematical symbols.

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