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7.6

♡ 12

84%

husband wife estrangement

Yôji Yamada Director

Takashi Sasano as

Jun Maeda as

Ken Ogata as Chief Retainer Hori

Hidetaka Yoshioka as Samon Shimada

Set in 19th Century Japan a young samurai who finds himself in love with a farm girl leaves his home to begin a new life. He has to take stock of his new life when he is put to the test and ordered to kill a traitor who just happens to be his dearest friend.

Erotic Symphony

1980

Spanish

4.6

♡ 20

Crime

Drama

Jesús Franco Director

Albino Graziani as Doctor Louys

Mel Rodrigo as Flor

Lina Romay as Martine de Bressac

Aida Gouveia as Wanda

Jess Franco film about a woman returning home from an insane asylum only to discover her husband is now living with a man. The two men eventually find a nun who's been raped and the three come up with a plot to kill the wife for her money.

Bones of Crows

2022

6.8

♡ 4

95%

roman catholic church

world war ii

Marie Clements Director

Glen Gould as Matthew Spears

Cara Gee as Percy Whallach

Karine Vanasse as Sister Ruth

Alanis Obomsawin as TRC Film Director

Cree matriarch Aline Spears survives a childhood in Canada’s residential school system to continue her family’s generational fight in the face of systemic starvation, racism, and sexual abuse. She uses her uncanny ability to understand and translate codes into working for a special division of the Canadian Air Force as a Cree code talker in World War II. The story unfolds over 100 years with a cumulative force that propels us into the future.

The Last of the Mohicans

1992

7.6

♡ 116

88%

Adventure

Drama

History

interracial relationship

Michael Mann Director

Jodhi May as Alice Munro

Jared Harris as British Lieutenant

Pete Postlethwaite as Capt. Beams

Benton Jennings as Scottish Officer

In war-torn colonial America, in the midst of a bloody battle between British, the French and Native American allies, the aristocratic daughter of a British Colonel and her party are captured by a group of Huron warriors. Fortunately, a group of three Mohican trappers comes to their rescue.

Downton Abbey

2019

7.4

♡ 115

84%

Michael Engler Director

Stephen Campbell Moore as Captain Chetwode

Elizabeth McGovern as Cora Crawley

Matthew Goode as Henry Talbot

Phyllis Logan as Mrs. Hughes

The beloved Crawleys and their intrepid staff prepare for the most important moment of their lives. A royal visit from the King and Queen of England will unleash scandal, romance and intrigue that will leave the future of Downton hanging in the balance.

New Tale of Zatoichi

1963

7.3

♡ 15

Tokuzô Tanaka Director

Seizaburô Kawazu as Banno

Tatsuo Endô as Inn keeper

Chitose Maki as Tame's wife

Fujio Suga as Yasuhiko

Wishing to find peace, Zatoichi travels to his old village but only finds trouble when he ends up in a love triangle and finds old scores have followed him home.

Suffragette

2015

6.9

♡ 36

73%

Sarah Gavron Director

Samuel West as Benedict Haughton

Helena Bonham Carter as Edith Ellyn

Brendan Gleeson as Inspector Arthur Steed

Drew Edwards as Male Laundry Worker

Based on true events about the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal State.

Coco Before Chanel

2009

French

6.6

♡ 8

63%

57%

Anne Fontaine Director

Marie Gillain as Adrienne Chanel

Alessandro Nivola as Boy Capel

Benoît Poelvoorde as Étienne Balsan

Audrey Tautou as Gabrielle Chanel

Several years after leaving the orphanage, to which her father never returned for her, Gabrielle Chanel finds herself working in a provincial bar. She's both a seamstress for the performers and a singer, earning the nickname Coco from the song she sings nightly with her sister. A liaison with Baron Balsan gives her an entree into French society and a chance to develop her gift for designing.

Peterloo

2018

6.5

♡ 30

67%

Mike Leigh Director

Leo Bill as John Tyas

Karl Johnson as Lord Sidmouth, the Home Secretary

Philip Whitchurch as Magistrate Col Fletcher

Philip Martin Brown as Mill Owner

An epic portrayal of the events surrounding the infamous 1819 Peterloo Massacre, where a peaceful pro-democracy rally at St Peter’s Field in Manchester turned into one of the bloodiest and most notorious episodes in British history. The massacre saw British government forces charge into a crowd of over 60,000 that had gathered to demand political reforms and protest against rising levels of poverty.

Untold Scandal

2003

Korean

6.8

♡ 14

86%

68%

Je-yong Lee Director

Ha-kyeong Kim as Concubine

Jae-Jin Jung as Elder 2

Seo Yoon as Jeong Geum-i

Do-yeon Jeon as Lady Jeong

In late 1700s Korea, Lady Cho challenges the playboy Lord Jo-won into seducing and sleeping with her husband's coming young, virgin concubine. Lady Cho agrees to sleep with him if he succeeds.

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

2004

5.0

♡ 2

4%

36%

18th century

Mary McGuckian Director

Robert De Niro as Archbishop of Peru

Geraldine Chaplin as The Abbess

Harvey Keitel as Uncle Pio

F. Murray Abraham as Viceroy of Peru

The Bridge of San Luis Rey is American author Thornton Wilder's second novel, first published in 1927 to worldwide acclaim. It tells the story of several interrelated people who die in the collapse of an Inca rope-fiber suspension bridge in Peru, and the events that lead up to their being on the bridge. A friar who has witnessed the tragic accident then goes about inquiring into the lives of the victims, seeking some sort of cosmic answer to the question of why each had to die.

Eighteen Springs

1997

Chinese

6.8

♡ 5

51%

adapted from a novel

Ann Hui Director

Yaying Zhu as Elder sister-in-law

Anita Mui as Gu Manlu

Leon Lai as Shen Shijun

Annie Wu as Shi Cuizhi

In 1930s Shanghai, a young office girl falls in love with a factory worker in the same company.

Henry VIII and His Six Wives

1972

6.8

♡ 5

79%

Waris Hussein Director

Charlotte Rampling as Ann Boleyn

Arthur Goodman as Council Member

Robin Sachs as Thomas Culpeper

Clive Merrison as Weston

Adapted from the BBC2 serial The Six Wives of Henry VIII. 1547, King Henry VIII's life has taken a turn for the worse and he is forced to look back over his life and the many loves which had brought him his three children, only one of which was the desired male heir to secure the Tudor dynasty.

Unforgiven

2013

7.0

♡ 25

94%

Sang-il Lee Director

Kôichi Satô as Ichizo Oishi

Ken Watanabe as Jubee kamata

Shiori Kutsuna as Natsume

Eiko Koike as Okaji

An old swordsman, his former comrade and a young braggart are hired by prostitutes to track down bandits who mutilated one of the women.

Northanger Abbey

2007

7.2

♡ 27

79%

Jon Jones Director

Felicity Jones as Catherine Morland

Carey Mulligan as Isabella Thorpe

Sylvestra Le Touzel as Mrs Allen

Mal Whyte as Rude Man

A young woman's penchant for sensational Gothic novels leads to misunderstandings in the matters of the heart.

Samurai Rebellion

1967

8.3

♡ 23

100%

93%

Masaki Kobayashi Director

Tatsuyoshi Ehara as Bunzo Sasahara

Toshirô Mifune as Isaburo Sasahara

Masao Mishima as Sanzaemon Yanase

Yoshirô Aoki as Takazo Komiya

The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped away from her husband by the lord. The husband and his samurai father must decide whether to accept the unjust decision, or risk death to get her back.

Sisi & I

2023

German

6.4

63%

Frauke Finsterwalder Director

Annette Badland as

Anthony Calf as Earl Spencer

Sandra Hüller as Irma

Tom Rhys Harries as Smythe

After an elaborate application process, Empress Elisabeth of Austria hires Countess Irma as her new lady-in-waiting and takes her to her summer residence on Corfu. As the two women become closer there, this soon leads to tensions back in Vienna.

Living

2022

7.2

♡ 46

96%

Oliver Hermanus Director

Adrian Rawlins as Middleton

Michael Cochrane as Sir James

Tom Burke as Sutherland

Bill Nighy as Williams

London, 1953. Mr. Williams, a veteran civil servant, is an important cog within the city's bureaucracy as it struggles to rebuild in the aftermath of World War II. Buried under paperwork at the office and lonely at home, his life has long felt empty and meaningless. Then a devastating medical diagnosis forces him to take stock, and to try and grasp some fulfilment before it passes permanently beyond reach.

Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai

2021