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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

based on novel or book

Comedy

Drama

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%

Drama

marriage

neglect of one's spouse

Rainer Werner Fassbinder Director

Günter Lamprecht as Dr. Herbert Salomon

Peter Chatel as Kaiser

Wolfgang Schenck as Meister

Kurt Raab as Secretary - German embassy

After the death of her abusive father, lonely librarian Martha finds herself caught up in a strange, sadomasochistic relationship with a monstrous husband whom she begins to suspect may be trying to murder her.

The Emigrants

1971

Swedish

8.0

♡ 15

94%

minnesota

ship

the new world

Jan Troell Director

Allan Edwall as Danjel

Hans Alfredson as Jonas Petter

Max von Sydow as Karl Oskar

Liv Ullmann as Kristina

Karl and Kristina Nilsson work on a farm in a cold and desolate area of 19th century rural Sweden. Growing privations, combined with increasing social and religious persecution, motivate the Nilssons and many of their neighbors to strike out for the United States. Following a treacherous ocean crossing and an equally grueling land passage, the emigrants find themselves in seemingly idyllic Minnesota.

The Scarlet Pimpernel

1934

7.3

♡ 5

90%

secret identity

Harold Young Director

Arthur Hambling as Captain of the Guard

Melville Cooper as Romney

Joan Gardner as Suzanne de Tournay

Bramwell Fletcher as The Priest

18th century English aristocrat Sir Percy Blakeney leads a double life. He appears to be merely the effete aristocrat, but in reality is part of an underground effort to free French nobles from Robespierre's Reign of Terror.

Eye of the Devil

1966

6.1

♡ 7

57%

Mystery

J. Lee Thompson Director

John Le Mesurier as Dr. Monnet

Edward Mulhare as Jean-Claude Ibert

Sharon Tate as Odile de Caray

Arthur Goodman as Villager

A French nobleman deserts his wife because of an ancient family secret.

Wifemistress

1977

Italian

6.7

♡ 3

40%

Comedy

Drama

hiding

mistress

Romance

sexual awakening

Marco Vicario Director

Annie Belle as Clara

William Berger as Count Brandini

Hélène Chanel as Landlady

Marcello Mastroianni as Luigi De Angelis

A vineyard's manager marries the owner's very young daughter; father dies. Deceit, infidelity. The husband is forced to watch from a distance as his wife blossom socially in his absence; then the plot thickens.

The Man Who Invented Christmas

2017

7.0

♡ 85

79%

78%

based on novel or book

london, england

Bharat Nalluri Director

Dan Stevens as Charles Dickens

Jonathan Pryce as John Dickens

Justin Edwards as John Forster

Eddie Jackson as Scam Artist

In 1843, despite the fact that Dickens is a successful writer, the failure of his latest book puts his career at a crossroads, until the moment when, struggling with inspiration and confronting reality with his childhood memories, a new character is born in the depths of his troubled mind; an old, lonely, embittered man, so vivid, so human, that a whole world grows around him, a story so inspiring that changed the meaning of Christmas forever.

Just the Way You Are

2015

5.8

♡ 15

24%

Kristoffer Tabori Director

Jessie Fraser as Carly Tate

Rukiya Bernard as Claire

Reese Alexander as Committee Member

Chris Shields as Father Bob

When a professional matchmaker’s own marriage loses its spark, she seeks to recharge the relationship by asking her husband out on a blind date. As Mother’s Day approaches and their romance starts to rekindle, she wonders if her career-driven husband will finally learn to put his family’s needs before his job.

The Nativity Story

2006

6.8

♡ 17

37%

Romance

three kings

Catherine Hardwicke Director

Hiam Abbass as Anna

Ciarán Hinds as Herod

Oscar Isaac as Joseph

Shelby Young as Naomi

Mary and Joseph make the hard journey to Bethlehem for a blessed event in this retelling of the Nativity story. This meticulously researched and visually lush adaptation of the biblical tale follows the pair on their arduous path to their arrival in a small village, where they find shelter in a quiet manger and Jesus is born.

It's a Gift

1934

7.1

♡ 2

94%