A documentary on the Z Channel, one of the first pay cable stations in the US, and its programming chief, Jerry Harvey. Debuting in 1974, the LA-based channel's eclectic slate of movies became a prime example of the untapped power of cable television.

My Favorite Season

1993

French

6.9

♡ 4

93%

André Téchiné Director

Daniel Auteuil as Antoine

Catherine Deneuve as Emilie

Michèle Moretti as La directrice

Roschdy Zem as Medhi

Elderly woman Berthe leaves her house to live with her daughter Emilie. Emilie and her brother Antoine had a falling out three years ago and have not seen each other since, but Emilie invites him for Christmas. Memories will resurface and impact both Berthe's destiny and the strange relationship between Emilie and Antoine.

Woodland Grey

2021

English

4.2

♡ 1

60%

Adam Reider Director

Art Hindle as Moses

Matthew Giuffrida as Police Officer

Katharine King So as Victoria

Ryan Blakely as William

When a man living alone in the woods saves the life of a young woman, they are forced to coexist. Chaos ensues when the woman makes a terrifying discovery in the woods behind the man's home and unleashes something truly haunting.

Death in Love

2008

English

4.7

♡ 17

45%

Boaz Yakin Director

Morena Baccarin as Beautiful Woman

Adam Brody as Talent Agent

Jacqueline Bisset as The Mother

Betty Gilpin as Young Model

Death in Love is a psychosexual-thriller about a love affair between a Jewish woman and a doctor overseeing human experimentation at a Nazi German concentration camp, and the impact this has on her sons' lives in the 1990s.

Mind Games - The Experiment

2023

English

5.5

♡ 2

Ben Addelman Director

Kassa Korley as Self - Chess Master

Sherry Nhan as Self - eSports Competitor

Ben Pridmore as Self - Memory Sport Competitor

Stephen Fry as Self - Narrator

Can exercise sharpen the brightest minds? In this ground-breaking experiment, four world-class gamers, competing in eSports, Chess, Mahjong and Memory Games, put this to the test.

Banyu Biru

2005

Indonesian

6.6

♡ 2

Teddy Soeriaatmadja Director

Kukuh Adi Rizky as Banyu

Berliana Febryanti as Mirya

Ladya Cheryl as Mysterious fortunetelling girl

Didi Petet as Wahyu

Disillusioned with his life and career, a supermarket customer service employee sets out on a journey to locate his estranged father.

The Dream of Lu

2011

Spanish

6.5

♡ 2

Hari Sama Director

Moisés Arizmendi as Emilio Jr

Úrsula Pruneda as Lucía

Emilio Echevarría as Lucia's Father

Maria Deschamps as Paola

Lucia must find new meaning in her life in order to move forward after a suicide attempt.Dealing with her grief over the death of her son,she establishes new ties and notices small miracles.An encounter and unexpected journey open up the space for her to understand that she can continue to live and to discover that eternity resides in a single instant.

After the Rehearsal

1984

Swedish

7.1

♡ 15

92%

Ingmar Bergman Director

Lena Olin as Anna Egerman

Bertil Guve as Henrik Vogler

Erland Josephson as Henrik Vogler

Ingrid Thulin as Rakel Egerman

Rational, exacting, and self-controlled theater director, Henrik Vogler, often stays after rehearsal to think and plan. On this day, Anna comes back, ostensibly looking for a bracelet. She is the lead in his new production of Strindberg's A Dream Play. She talks of her hatred for her mother, now dead, an alcoholic actress, who was Vogler's star and lover.

Chrysalis

2007

French

5.4

♡ 11

35%

Julien Leclercq Director

Patrick Bauchau as Charles Becker

Mélanie Thierry as Manon Brügen

Marie Guillard as Marie Becker

Marthe Keller as Professeur Brügen

Paris 2020, a high tech surgeon and her daughter are involved in a horrific car accident, the surgeon saves her daughter's life at the cost of manipulating her dreams and memories.

When Did You Last See Your Father?

2007

English

6.8

♡ 3

parent child relationship

Anand Tucker Director

Jim Broadbent as Arthur

Sarah Lancashire as Beaty

Colin Firth as Blake

Carey Mulligan as Rachel

The story of a son's conflicting memories of his dying father.

Brainstorm

1983

English

6.4

♡ 10

57%

Douglas Trumbull Director

Joe Dorsey as Hal Abramson

Bill Morey as James Zimbach

Christopher Walken as Michael Brace

Darrell Larson as Security Technician

Two brilliant research scientists have invented a device capable of recording and playing back sensory experiences only to have devastating results when one of them records their own death.

The Ganzfeld Haunting

2014

English

3.1

♡ 2

4%

Michael Oblowitz Director

Dominic Purcell as Detective Malone

Holt McCallany as Detective Murphy

Billy Zane as Father

Rumer Willis as Lucky

In a world where past meets present and the present gets lost in time, reality is blurred for 5 College psychology students who are pushing all boundaries during an ESP experiment over a lost weekend...

Waterland

1992

English

6.6

♡ 5

47%

62%

1970s

based on novel or book

Stephen Gyllenhaal Director

Cara Buono as Judy Dobson

Ethan Hawke as Matthew Price

Jeremy Irons as Tom Crick

Lena Headey as Young Mary

The story of a mentally anguished high school history teacher going through a complete reassessment of his life. His method for reassessing his life is to narrate it to his class and interweave in it three generations of his family's history.

The Sense of an Ending

2017

English

6.4

♡ 42

75%

52%

Action

based on novel or book

Ritesh Batra Director

Matthew Goode as Mr. Hunt

Nick Mohammed as Postman Danny

Emily Mortimer as Sarah Ford

Michelle Dockery as Susie Webster

A man becomes haunted by his past and is presented with a mysterious legacy that causes him to re-think his current situation in life.

Just Remembering

6.9

Daigo Matsui Director

Miwako Ichikawa as Makita

Eiko Koike as Taxi no joukyaku

Saki Takaoka as Taxi passenger

Sairi Itô as Yo'u Nobara

A former couple remembers their most intimate days, only to part once again. A bittersweet love story inspired by a Jim Jarmusch masterpiece, set in times of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Giver

2014

English

6.4

♡ 105

34%

based on novel or book

Phillip Noyce Director

Cameron Monaghan as Asher

Alexander Skarsgård as Father

Emma Tremblay as Lilly

Jeff Bridges as The Giver

In a seemingly perfect community, without war, pain, suffering, differences or choice, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man about the true pain and pleasure of the "real" world.

In Vitro

2019

Arabic

6.7

♡ 4

Søren Lind Director

Yazeed Faruja as

Walaa Eltiti as

Maisa Abd Elhadi as Alia

Hiam Abbass as Dunia

In an underground orchard in Bethlehem, decades after an otherworldly ecodisaster, two scientists discuss exile, loss and nostalgia.

Falling in Love Again

5.0

Steven Paul Director

Terrence Evans as Beaver

Elliott Gould as Harry Lewis

Susannah York as Sue Lewis

Michelle Pfeiffer as Sue Wellington

Harry and Sue Lewis met in the 40s as teenagers living in the Bronx. He was an aspiring architect, she was the most beautiful girl in school, and both had a fondness for bran muffins. They fell in love, got married, moved to Los Angeles, and had two kids. While struggling with his midlife crisis, Harry receives an invitation for his high school's reunion back so he takes Sue and their teenage kids on a cross-country car trip back to the Big Apple. Will they see in the Bronx what they expected? Will the good memories from their past help rekindle their fading love? Is it too late to dream?

Memory

2023

English

6.7

♡ 29

85%

Michel Franco Director

Josh Charles as Isaac

Merritt Wever as Olivia

Peter Sarsgaard as Saul

Jessica Chastain as Sylvia

Sylvia is a social worker who leads a simple and structured life: her daughter, her job, her AA meetings. This is blown open when Saul follows her home from their high school reunion. Their surprise encounter will profoundly impact both of them as they open the door to the past.

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My Favorite Season

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When Did You Last See Your Father?

Brainstorm

The Ganzfeld Haunting

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The Sense of an Ending

Just Remembering

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In Vitro

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