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♡ 30

82%

72%

book burning

co-worker relationship

dystopia

Sci-Fi

totalitarian regime

François Truffaut Director

Denis Gilmore as Book Person: 'The Martian Chronicles'

Tom Watson as Instructor Sergeant

Donald Pickering as TV Announcer

Aileen Lewis as Woman on Train

In the future, the government maintains control of public opinion by outlawing literature and maintaining a group of enforcers, known as “firemen,” to perform the necessary book burnings. Fireman Montag begins to question the morality of his vocation…

Mr. Holland's Opus

1995

7.3

♡ 18

75%

Stephen Herek Director

Forest Whitaker as Bobby Tidd - Adult

Alicia Witt as Gertrude Lang

Joanna Gleason as Governor Gertrude Lang

William H. Macy as Vice Principal Gene Wolters

In 1965, passionate musician Glenn Holland takes a day job as a high school music teacher, convinced it's just a small obstacle on the road to his true calling: writing a historic opus. As the decades roll by with the composition unwritten but generations of students inspired through his teaching, Holland must redefine his life's purpose.

The Ruthless

2019

Italian

6.2

♡ 2

48%

mafia

Renato De Maria Director

Michele De Virgilio as Avvocato Giovanni Bova

Sara Serraiocco as Mariangela

Andrea Iaia as Mario Barbieri

Riccardo Scamarcio as Santo Russo

Milan, Italy, 1967. Santo Russo, a boy of Calabrian origin, arrives north with his parents and younger brother to find better living conditions. Due to an absurd misunderstanding and his father's contempt, Santo ends up in prison, where he gets a “true education.” In 1978, he and his friends Slim and Mario embark on a 15-year criminal career, a successful and ruthless spiral of robberies, kidnappings, murders and heroin smuggling.

A Hidden Life

2019

7.4

♡ 42

82%

conscientious objector

Terrence Malick Director

Ermin Sijamija as Ermin

Bruno Ganz as Judge Lueben

Maria Simon as Resie Schwaninger

Waldemar Kobus as Warder Stein

Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter faces the threat of execution for refusing to fight for the Nazis during World War II.

The Housewife and the Hustler

2021

6.4

♡ 4

legal scandal

prosecution

reality star

Go inside the real-life legal drama facing the husband of "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" cast member Erika Jayne, legal titan Tom Girardi. Once considered a crusader of justice, Girardi now stands accused of embezzling from the victims he swore to protect.

The Good Shepherd

2006

6.7

♡ 62

56%

51%

central intelligence agency (cia)

berlin, germany

london, england

Thriller

Robert De Niro Director

Robert De Niro as Bill Sullivan

Matt Damon as Edward Wilson

James Faulkner as Lord Cooper

Angelina Jolie as Margaret 'Clover' Russell

Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young man who values honor and discretion, qualities that help him to be recruited for a career in the newly founded OSS. His dedication to his work does not come without a price though, leading him to sacrifice his ideals and eventually his family.

The Work and the Glory II: American Zion

2005

6.2

50%

80%

estranged son

Sterling Van Wagenen Director

Sam Hennings as Benjamin Steed

R.D. Call as Boggs

Brenda Strong as Mary Ann Steed

Mike Pniewski as Wilson Everett

Divided by their diverse reactions to a nascent ideology, the Steeds struggle to hold together as the strength of their convictions and their filial bonds are tested. The stirring narrative of the faith that led a persecuted people to Missouri and beyond is one of the most poignant untold tales of American history. It is the account of a valiant struggle to exercise the rights promised by a fledgling nation.

The Blood Spattered Bride

1972

Spanish

6.2

♡ 5

family secrets

Horror

isolated house

Mystery

vampirism

Vicente Aranda Director

Dean Selmier as Doctor

Simón Andreu as Husband

Alexandra Bastedo as Mircala Karstein / Carmila

Maribel Martín as Susan

A young newlywed woman begins to have disturbing nightmares just after settling into the old mansion that has belonged to her husband's family for centuries. When her sinister dreams come true, the innocent bride is caught in a maddening maze of unspeakable horrors.

In This Corner of the World

2016

Japanese

7.8

♡ 21

97%

japan

War

world war ii

Sunao Katabuchi Director

Joe Ochman as Additional Voices

Kira Buckland as Keiko

Laura Post as Suzu Non

Non as Suzu

Japan, 1943, during World War II. Young Suzu leaves her village near Hiroshima to marry and live with her in-laws in Kure, a military harbor. Her creativity to overcome deprivation quickly makes her indispensable at home. Inhabited by an ancestral wisdom, Suzu impregnates the simple gestures of everyday life with poetry and beauty. The many hardships, the loss of loved ones, the frequent air raids of the enemy, nothing alters her enthusiasm…

Starfish

2016

6.6

♡ 4

75%

67%

based on a true story

infection

rehabilitation

Bill Clark Director

Michele Dotrice as Jean

Joanne Froggatt as Nicola Ray

Tom Riley as Tom Ray

Phoebe Nicholls as Tom's Mother

Based on the real story of Tom and Nicola Ray from Rutland. Their perfect life is totally ruined in a single moment after Tom had developed sepsis. While her husband was in coma, Nicola gave birth to their second child on the other side of the same hospital. Within a matter of days, sepsis would rob Tom of both his arms and legs, and left his face severely disfigured. As an ordinary man, Tom never put himself at risk — he just woke up two months later in a nightmare, a face-off quadruple amputee... This incredible story of survival shows what can be overcome when love is unconditional.

X, Y & Zee

1972

5.8

♡ 2

29%

romance

Brian G. Hutton Director

John Standing as Gordon

Richard O'Brien as Party Guest

Michael Caine as Robert Blakeley

Susannah York as Stella

The venomous and amoral wife of a wealthy architect tries, any way she can, to break up the blossoming romance between her husband and his new mistress; a good-natured young widow who holds a dark past.

Chilly Scenes of Winter

1979

7.0

♡ 4

Comedy

Joan Micklin Silver Director

John Heard as Charles

Gloria Grahame as Clara

Jerry Hardin as Mr. Patterson

Frances Bay as Mrs. Delillo

Charles is a bored civil servant struggling through a harsh Utah winter. He spends most of his time reflecting on his romance with Laura, a coworker who left him to return to her husband, an A-Frame salesman.

Chicken with Plums

2011

French

7.0

♡ 2

74%

violin

violinist

woman director

Marjane Satrapi Director

Éric Caravaca as Abdi

Christian Friedel as Cyrus, 22 ans

Golshifteh Farahani as Irâne

Isabella Rossellini as Parvine

Since his beloved violin was broken, Nasser-Ali Khan, one of the most renowned musicians of his day, has lost all taste for life. Finding no instrument worthy of replacing it, he decides to confine himself to bed to await death.

When the Wind Blows

1986

7.7

♡ 25

88%

nuclear war

War

world war ii

Jimmy T. Murakami Director

Peggy Ashcroft as Hilda Bloggs

Harry S. Truman as Himself

Joseph Stalin as Himself

John Mills as Jim

With the help of government-issued pamphlets, an elderly British couple build a shelter and prepare for an impending nuclear attack, unaware that times and the nature of war have changed from their romantic memories of World War II.

Burning Man

2011

6.4

♡ 14

72%

Jonathan Teplitzky Director

Anthony Hayes as Brian

Essie Davis as Karen

Rachel Griffiths as Miriam

Matthew Goode as Tom

Tom is a British chef in a Bondi restaurant who seems to have decided there are no longer any rules he needs to obey. Whatever Tom is up to, his actions seem to be tolerated by those around him. As Tom descends into darkness, fragments of a different story begin to emerge. All the women in his world are trying in their own, very different ways to help put him back together.

All Is True

2018

6.3

♡ 18

73%

london, england

united kingdom

Kenneth Branagh Director

Judi Dench as Anne Hathaway

Ian McKellen as Henry Wriothesley

Harry Lister Smith as Jack Cade

Kenneth Branagh as William Shakespeare

London, June 29th, 1613. The Globe Theater, ran by the famous playwright William Shakespeare, accidentally burns to ashes. Seriously affected, he stops writing and returns to his hometown, where his wife Anne and daughters Judith and Susanna get surprised to hear he intends to stay there definitively, after two decades working in the capital, neglecting his sincere affections for them.

Black Beach

2020

5.6

♡ 4

21%

mother son relationship

Esteban Crespo Director

Raúl Arévalo as Carlos

Paulina García as Elena

Luka Peros as Negociador

Antonio Buíl as Stephan

Carlos, a ruthless Spanish negotiation expert working in Brussels, is tasked with handling the kidnapping of a senior oil company executive in a troubled West African country —with which he has old and deep ties—, torn by ethnic tensions and government abuses.

Downhill

2020

4.9

♡ 53

36%

Nat Faxon Director

Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Billie

Kristofer Hivju as Michel

Zoe Chao as Rosie

Zach Woods as Zach

Barely escaping an avalanche during a family ski vacation in the Alps, a married couple is thrown into disarray as they are forced to reevaluate their lives and how they feel about each other.

Martha

1974

German

7.5

♡ 10

86%

88%