Far away from the site of a gruesome murder, a teenager named Jill Johnson arrives at a luxurious home for a baby-sitting job. With the children fast asleep, she settles in for what she expects to be an ordinary evening. Soon, the ringing of a phone and the frightening words of a sadistic caller turn Jill's routine experience into a night of terror.

Babel

2006

English

7.5

♡ 135

68%

san diego, california

Alejandro González Iñárritu Director

Elle Fanning as Debbie Jones

Michael Peña as John - Border Patrol

Brad Pitt as Richard

Cate Blanchett as Susan

Tragedy strikes a married couple vacationing in the Moroccan desert, which jumpstarts an interlocking story involving four different families.

A Rumor of Angels

2000

English

6.8

30%

75%

based on novel or book

Drama

loss of loved one

unlikely friendship

Peter O'Fallon Director

Vanessa Redgrave as Maddy Bennett

Catherine McCormack as Mary Neubauer

Ray Liotta as Nathan Neubauer

Ron Livingston as Uncle Charlie

An old woman helps a young boy resolve his feelings over the death of his mother.

Donkey Skin

1970

French

♡ 15

89%

Jacques Demy Director

Catherine Deneuve as La princesse / La reine bleue

Micheline Presle as La reine rouge, la seconde reine

Jacques Perrin as Le prince charmant

Jean Daniel as Le troisième médecin

A fairy godmother helps a princess disguise herself so she won't have to marry her father.

A Tale of Two Sisters

2003

Korean

7.1

♡ 89

86%

Jee-woon Kim Director

Ae-ri Won as Closet Ghost / Nurse 1

Seong-Young Kim as Nurse 2

Song-i Kim as Young Soo-mi

Seo-in Park as Young Soo-yeon

Two sisters return home after a stay in a mental institution, only to face disturbing events and a strained relationship with their stepmother. As eerie occurrences unfold, dark family secrets begin to surface, blurring the line between reality and nightmare.

Orange County

2002

English

6.2

♡ 19

47%

Jake Kasdan Director

Kyle Howard as Arlo

John Lithgow as Bud Brumder

Jack Black as Lance Brumder

Ben Stiller as The Firefighter

Shaun Brumder is a local surfer kid from Orange County who dreams of going to Stanford to become a writer and to get away from his dysfunctional family household. Except Shaun runs into one complication after another, starting when his application is rejected after his dim-witted guidance counselor sends in the wrong form.

Louder Than Bombs

2015

English

6.6

♡ 39

73%

parent child relationship

sibling relationship

war photographer

Joachim Trier Director

Megan Ketch as Amy

Rachel Brosnahan as Erin

Amy Ryan as Hannah

Jesse Eisenberg as Jonah

Three years after his wife, acclaimed photographer Isabelle Reed, dies in a car crash, Gene keeps everyday life going with his shy teenage son, Conrad. A planned exhibition of Isabelle’s photographs prompts Gene's older son, Jonah, to return to the house he grew up in - and for the first time in a very long time, the father and the two brothers are living under the same roof.

21 Grams

2003

English

7.6

♡ 93

80%

Alejandro González Iñárritu Director

Lew Temple as County Sheriff

Naomi Watts as Cristina Peck

Benicio Del Toro as Jack Jordan

Sean Penn as Paul Rivers

Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré; Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife and mother of two girls; and Jack Jordan, a born-again ex-con, are brought together by a terrible accident that changes their lives.

Joe Dirt

2001

English

6.0

♡ 25

9%

looking for birth parents

loss of loved one

parent child relationship

trailer park

white trash

Dennie Gordon Director

Joe Don Baker as Don, Brandy's Dad

Kevin Nealon as Greasy Mechanic

Jaime Pressly as Jill

Amy Weber as Shorter Brunette Lifeguard

Joe Dirt is a janitor with a mullet hairdo, acid-washed jeans and a dream to find the parents that he lost at the Grand Canyon when he was a belligerent, trailer park-raised eight-year-old. Now, blasting Van Halen in his jacked-up economy car, the irrepressibly optimistic Joe hits the road alone in search of his folks.

A Dark Song

2016

English

6.2

♡ 107

91%

Liam Gavin Director

John Cantillion as Demon

Steve Oram as Joseph Solomon

Mark Huberman as Neil Hughes

Catherine Walker as Sophia Howard

A determined young woman and a damaged occultist risk their lives and souls to perform a dangerous ritual that will grant them what they want.

Brothers

2009

English

7.1

♡ 135

63%

62%

Action

afghanistan war (2001- )

afghanistan war (2001-2021)

Jim Sheridan Director

Tobey Maguire as Capt. Sam Cahill

Natalie Portman as Grace Cahill

Rebecca Grant as Nurse

Jake Gyllenhaal as Tommy Cahill

When his helicopter goes down during his fourth tour of duty in Afghanistan, Marine Sam Cahill is presumed dead. Back home, brother Tommy steps in to look over Sam’s wife, Grace, and two children. Sam’s surprise homecoming triggers domestic mayhem.

Ghost Dad

1990

English

4.4

♡ 14

6%

parent child relationship

satan

Sidney Poitier Director

Christine Ebersole as Carol

Amy Hill as Nurse #1

Ian Bannen as Sir Edith Moser

Brian Stokes Mitchell as Teacher

Elliot Hopper, a widower with three children, is working on a business deal to get his family out of financial straits when he is suddenly killed in a taxi accident. With the aid of a paranormal researcher, Elliott attempts to complete the deal from the beyond, ensuring his family will be taken care of.

Hamlet

1996

English

7.7

♡ 42

95%

Kenneth Branagh Director

Rowena King as Attendant to Gertrude

Rufus Sewell as Fortinbras

Kenneth Branagh as Hamlet

Kate Winslet as Ophelia

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother now marrying the murderer... his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.

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.

The Shaolin Temple

1982

Chinese

6.8

♡ 16

89%

Hsin-Yen Chang Director

Szu-Ying Chien as Jet Li

Jet Li as Jue Yuan Hai Yu

Hai Yu as Tan Zong Shi Fu

Chenghui Yu as Wng Renze

The Tang emperor is betrayed by one of his generals, who installs himself as emperor in the East Capital. The son of one of his slave workers escapes to the Shaolin Temple, learns kung fu, and sets out to kill the traitor who killed his father.

Let's Go to Prison

2006

English

5.9

♡ 17

13%

Bob Odenkirk Director

Richard Bull as Board Member #2

Bob Odenkirk as Duane

Amy Hill as Judge Eva Fwae Wun

Ozzy Osbourne as Self

When a career criminal's plan for revenge is thwarted by unlikely circumstances, he puts his intended victim's son in his place by putting him in prison...and then joining him.

Stomp the Yard

2007

English

5.4

♡ 24

27%

Sylvain White Director

Meagan Good as April

Jamie Starr as BLACK

Harry Shum Jr. as Other Crew Dancer

Brian White as Sylvester

After the death of his younger brother, a troubled 19-year-old street dancer from Los Angeles is able to bypass juvenile hall by enrolling in the historically black, Truth University in Atlanta, Georgia. But his efforts to get an education and woo the girl he likes are sidelined when he is courted by the top two campus fraternities, both of which want and need his fierce street-style dance moves to win the highly coveted national step show competition.

The Milk of Sorrow

2009

Spanish

6.7

♡ 4

78%

Claudia Llosa Director

Susi Sánchez as Aída

Daniel Núñez as Amadeo

Magaly Solier as Fausta

Efraín Solís as Noé

Fausta is suffering from a rare disease called the Milk of Sorrow, which is transmitted through the breast milk of pregnant women who were abused or raped during or soon after pregnancy. While living in constant fear and confusion due to this disease, she must face the sudden death of her mother. She chooses to take drastic measures to not follow in her mother's footsteps.

Sommersby

1993

English

6.3

♡ 18

63%

Jon Amiel Director

Richard Gere as Jack

Jodie Foster as Laurel

Maury Chaykin as Lawyer Dawson

Bill Pullman as Orin

Set in the South just after the US Civil War, Laurel Sommersby is just managing to work the farm without her husband, believed killed in battle. By all accounts, Jack Sommersby was not a pleasant man, thus when he suddenly returns, Laurel has mixed emotions. It appears that Jack has changed a great deal, leading some people to believe that this is not actually Jack but an imposter. Laurel herself is unsure, but willing to take the man into her home, and perhaps later into her heart.

Secret Sunshine

2007

Korean

7.5

♡ 15

94%

76%

Action

based on novel or book

Chang-dong Lee Director

Sung-min Lee as

Mi-kyung Kim as

Kang-ho Song as Jong-chan Kim

Do-yeon Jeon as Shin-ae Lee

Shin-ae moves to her recently late husband’s hometown. Despite her efforts to settle in this unfamiliar and too-normal place, she finds that she can’t fit in. After a sudden tragedy, Shin-ae turns to Christianity to relieve her pain, but when even this is not permitted, she wages a war against God.

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Ghost Dad

Hamlet

The Dream of Lu

The Shaolin Temple

Let's Go to Prison

Stomp the Yard

The Milk of Sorrow

Sommersby

Secret Sunshine