Buddy Amaral, a successful and self-absorbed Los Angeles advertising executive, switches airline tickets with a stranger just before boarding a long-delayed flight so that he might enjoy an overnight fling with a pretty Dallas businesswoman. When the plane goes down, killing all aboard, Buddy's guilt soon turns into an alcohol problem. As part of his 12-step program, Buddy seeks atonement and decides to seek out the woman he thinks he's left a widow.

In China They Eat Dogs

1999

Danish

7.3

♡ 16

90%

Lasse Spang Olsen Director

Trine Dyrholm as Hanne

Kim Bodnia as Harald

Søren Sætter-Lassen as Henning

Nikolaj Lie Kaas as Martin

Arvid is an ordinary bank clerk who lives a rather unassuming life with his dear girlfriend. But his life is turned completely upside down when he bravely manages to avert a robbery against the bank where he works.

Blind Chance

1987

Polish

7.7

♡ 15

73%

Krzysztof Kieslowski Director

Marzena Trybala as 2. Werka

Jerzy Stuhr as dzialacz ZSMP

Aleksander Mikolajczak as dzialacz ZSMP

Boguslaw Linda as Witek Dlugosz

Witek runs after a train. Three variations follow on how such a seemingly banal incident could influence the rest of Witek's life.

Liar Game: Reborn

2012

Japanese

6.2

♡ 5

Hiroaki Matsuyama Director

Eiko Koike as

Ikkei Watanabe as

Mana Ashida as

Mikako Tabe as Yu Shinomiya

To exact revenge, the Liar Game office is revived. The target is only one person: Shin'ichi Akiyama. Because of new heroine Shinomiya, Shin'ichi, who kept refusing to take part in the game, finds himself in the game. Along with Akiyama, there's 19 other players competing for the prize of two billion yen. Omega, who revived the game, plays the game at the Liar Game office with Alice. Alice sets up the game, chooses the players, and sets the traps.

Afterimage

2016

Polish

7.0

♡ 4

86%

Andrzej Wajda Director

Zofia Wichlacz as Hania

Mariusz Bonaszewski as Madejski

Ewa Wencel as School's manager

Magdalena Kuta as Secretary

In 1945, as Stalin sets his hands over Poland, famous painter Wladislaw Strzeminski refuses to compromise on his art with the doctrines of social realism. Persecuted, expelled from his chair at the University, he's eventually erased from the museums' walls. With the help of some of his students, he starts fighting against the Party and becomes the symbol of an artistic resistance against intellectual tyranny.

One Night Stand

1997

English

5.9

♡ 8

34%

Mike Figgis Director

Chris Bauer as Bartender

Robert Downey Jr. as Charlie

Amanda Donohoe as Margaux

Thomas Kopache as Merv

In Los Angeles, Max Carlyle makes a good living directing commercials and has a happy home life with his wife, Mimi, and two children. When Carlyle travels to New York City to visit his friend Charlie, who has been diagnosed with AIDS, he has repeat run-ins with a beautiful woman, Karen, and eventually sleeps with her. Though he goes home the next day and doesn't return until a year later, Carlyle's infidelity still lingers.

Sliding Doors

1998

English

6.7

♡ 29

65%

Peter Howitt Director

Peter Howitt as Cheeky Bloke

Neil Stuke as Defensive Bloke

John Lynch as Gerry

Jeanne Tripplehorn as Lydia

London publicist Helen, effortlessly slides between parallel storylines that show what happens when she does or does not catch a train back to her apartment. Love. Romantic entanglements. Deception. Trust. Friendship. Comedy. All come into focus as the two stories shift back and forth, overlap and surprisingly converge.

Magnolia

1999

English

8.0

♡ 160

82%

Paul Thomas Anderson Director

Tom Cruise as Frank T.J. Mackey

Julianne Moore as Linda Partridge

Luis Guzmán as Luis

William H. Macy as Quiz Kid Donnie Smith

On one random day in the San Fernando Valley, a dying father, a young wife, a male caretaker, a famous lost son, a police officer in love, a boy genius, an ex-boy genius, a game show host and an estranged daughter will each become part of a dazzling multiplicity of plots, but one story.

A Tale of Winter

1992

French

7.2

♡ 10

Éric Rohmer Director

Claudine Paringaux as Customer

Marie Rivière as Dora

Christiane Desbois as Mother

Edwige Navarro as Perdita

Felicie and Charles have a whirlwind holiday romance. Due to a mix-up on addresses they lose contact, and five years later at Christmas-time Felicie is living with her mother in a cold Paris with a daughter as a reminder of that long-ago summer. For male companionship she oscillates between hairdresser Maxence and the intellectual Loic, but seems unable to commit to either as the memory of Charles and what might have been hangs over everything.

Along Came Polly

2004

English

6.0

♡ 56

27%

John Hamburg Director

Ben Stiller as Reuben Feffer

Todd Stashwick as Security Officer

Nick Jameson as Van Lew Executive

Kevin Hart as Vic

Reuben Feffer is a guy who's spent his entire life playing it safe. Polly Prince is irresistible as a free-spirit who lives for the thrill of the moment. When these two comically mismatched souls collide, Reuben's world is turned upside down, as he makes an uproarious attempt to change his life from middle-of-the-road to totally-out-there.

Open Hearts

2002

Danish

7.5

♡ 3

93%

Susanne Bier Director

Sonja Richter as Cæcilie

Birthe Neumann as Hanne

Nikolaj Lie Kaas as Joachim

Mads Mikkelsen as Niels

Cecilie and Joachim are about to get married when a freak car accident leaves Joachim disabled, throwing their lives into a spin. The driver of the other car, Marie, and her family don’t get off lightly, either. Her husband Niels works in the hospital where he meets Cecilie and falls madly in love with her.

The Change-Up

2011

English

6.3

♡ 116

26%

co-worker relationship

Fantasy

fountain

jealousy

David Dobkin Director

Jason Bateman as Dave Lockwood

Roger Jackson as Hotel Guest

Timothy J. Richardson as Lorno Grip

Ryan Reynolds as Mitch Planko

Lifelong friends Dave and Mitch are envious of the other's life. Mitch thinks Dave has it all: a beautiful, loving family and a high-paying job at a prestigious law firm. But Dave thinks Mitch’s stress-free playboy life without obligation or consequence is the real dream come true. One fateful drunken night, they both admit that they wish they had the other’s life while peeing in a fountain when lightning strikes. The next morning, they wake up, hungover, in each other’s bodies! With time not on their side, Mitch and Dave comically struggle to avoid completely destroying each other’s lives before they can find a way to get their old ones back.

Home Again

2017

English

5.8

♡ 46

33%

los angeles, california

love

Romance

woman director

Hallie Meyers-Shyer Director

Reese Witherspoon as Alice

Michael Cyril Creighton as Teacher

Christine Woods as Yoga Friend

Lake Bell as Zoey

Life for a single mom in Los Angeles takes an unexpected turn when she allows three young guys to move in with her.

Into the Blue 2: The Reef

2009

English

4.7

♡ 13

17%

Stephen Herek Director

Katie Doyle as Doctor

Audrina Patridge as Kelsey

Michael Graziadei as Mace

Chris Carmack as Sebastian

When they're hired to recover the lost treasure of Columbus, married scuba divers Sebastian and Dani think they've hit the jackpot. But as they get closer to the fortune, the couple begins to suspect their employers have their own agenda. Hitting upon the real plan, the two come to the chilling realization that they may be expendable and that there's much more than riches at stake.

Serendipity

2001

English

6.8

♡ 85

58%

79%

Action

chance

christmas movie alternative

Peter Chelsom Director

Eugene Levy as Bloomingdale's Salesman

Jeremy Piven as Dean Kansky

Ajay Mehta as Pakistani Cab Driver

Kate Beckinsale as Sara Thomas

Although strangers Sara and Jonathan are both already in relationships, they realize they have genuine chemistry after a chance encounter – but part company soon after. Years later, they each yearn to reunite, despite being destined for the altar. But to give true love a chance, they have to find one another again.

Kaiji 2: The Ultimate Gambler

2011

Japanese

6.3

♡ 3

based on manga

chance

Drama

drastic change of life

game

japan

mind game

Tôya Satô Director

Ryû Nakatani as

Tatsuya Fujiwara as Kaiji Itô

Yoshiyuki Morishita as Man Sitting at Bar

Yuriko Yoshitaka as Yumi Ishida

3 years after the ultimate life-or-death game with Teiai Group, Kaiji was entrapped by Teiai and again back in the underground, forced to do hard labour. One day, Kaiji wins a bet to get out of the underground with 1 million yen, and promises the other workers that he will save them. But to do so, he only has 14 days and needs 200 million yen! Kaiji meets his former rival Tonegawa and learns that there is a chance to turn the tables in the game. It was a monster casino machine that will make 1 billion yen if you win...

Voyager

1991

German

6.7

♡ 8

56%

Volker Schlöndorff Director

Traci Lind as Charlene

Deborra-Lee Furness as Ivy

Julie Delpy as Sabeth

Sam Shepard as Walter Faber

Walter Faber has survived a crash with an airplane. His next trip is by ship. On board this ship he meets the enchanting Sabeth and they have a passionate love affair. Together they travel to her home in Greece, but the rational Faber doesn't know what fate has in mind for him for past doings.

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