Ghosthunter

In Sydney, Australia, Jason King, a security guard and a part-time ghost hunter, has spent decades searching for his absent father. When this personal endeavor crosses paths with a police investigation, an unspeakable family secret comes to light.

Back Roads

2018

English

6.3

♡ 32

55%

based on novel or book

Alex Pettyfer Director

Nicola Peltz as Amber Altmyer

Juliette Lewis as Bonnie Altmyer

Jennifer Morrison as Callie Mercer

Robert Patrick as Chief Mansour

A young man cares for his younger sisters after their mother is imprisoned for murdering their abusive father. When he strikes up an affair with a married woman, long-dormant family secrets bubble to the surface.

The Official Story

1985

Spanish

7.7

♡ 17

100%

89%

Action

buenos aires, argentina

husband wife relationship

military dictatorship

War

Luis Puenzo Director

Marcos Woinsky as

Pablo Rago as

Norma Aleandro as Alicia

Héctor Alterio as Roberto

Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1983. In the last and turbulent days of the military dictatorship, Alicia, a high school history teacher, begins to ask uncomfortable questions about the dark origins of Gaby, her adopted daughter.

Footnote

2011

Hebrew

7.1

♡ 6

88%

Joseph Cedar Director

Albert Iluz as Committee Member

Gad Kaynar as Committee Member

Yuval Scharf as Noa newspaper reporter

Lior Ashkenazi as Uriel Shkolnik

Jerusalem, Israel. Professors Eliezer and Uriel Shkolnik, father and son, have dedicated their lives to the study of the Jewish scriptures. Eliezer is a stubborn and methodical scholar who has never been recognized for his work; Uriel is a rising star, someone admired and praised by his colleagues. The fragile balance that has kept their personal relationship almost intact is broken in an unexpected way by a simple phone call.

The Tree of Blood

2018

Spanish

6.4

♡ 7

55%

Julio Medem Director

Ángela Molina as Julieta

Najwa Nimri as Macarena

Joaquín Furriel as Olmo

Úrsula Corberó as Rebeca

Marc and Rebeca, a young couple, travel to an old country house that used to belong to their family. Once there, they write the shared history of their roots, creating a huge family tree that harbours relationships of love, heartbreak, sex, madness, jealousy and infidelity, and under which also lies a history laden with secrets.

Malabimba

1979

Italian

5.6

♡ 18

Andrea Bianchi Director

Giuseppe Marrocco as Adolfo Caroli

Enzo Fisichella as Andrea Caroli

Pupita Lea Scuderoni as Bimba's Grandmother

Elisa Mainardi as The Medium

Bimba lives in a gothic castle with her parents, however, when her mother dies under mysterious circumstances while involved in a seance, she begins acting in increasingly strange and perverted ways.

Ellie & Abbie

2020

English

6.0

♡ 7

Action

aunt niece relationship

Monica Zanetti Director

Zoe Terakes as Abbie

Marta Dusseldorp as Erica

Rachel House as Patty

Madeleine Withington as Young Erica

School captain Ellie is seriously crushing on her rebellious classmate Abbie. Determined to ask her first love to the year 12 formal, Ellie devises a plan to go public with the invitation but before she can go through with it, her dead aunt Tara reappears from beyond the grave. Believing she's been brought back from the dead to be Ellie's fairy godmother, Tara dishes out unwanted dating advice based on her life as an out lesbian in the '80s.

The Dark Valley

2014

German

7.1

♡ 13

33%

Andreas Prochaska Director

Sam Riley as Greider

Tobias Moretti as Hans Brenner

Clemens Schick as Luis Brenner

Paula Beer as Luzi

The Alps, late 19th century. Greider, a mysterious lone rider who claims to be a photographer, arrives at an isolated lumber village, despotically ruled by a family clan, asking for winter accommodation.

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

1946

English

7.4

♡ 7

100%

husband wife relationship

noir

Romance

Lewis Milestone Director

Ann Doran as Bobbi St. John

Walter Baldwin as Dempsey

Amzie Strickland as Nightclub Patron

Darryl Hickman as Sam - As a Child

Three childhood friends, Martha, Walter and Sam, share a terrible secret. Over time, the ambitious Martha and the pusillanimous Walter have married. She is a cold businesswoman; he is the district attorney: a perfect combination to dominate the corrupt city of Iverstown at will. But the unexpected return of Sam, after years of absence, deeply disturbs the life of the odd couple.

Born in Evin

2019

German

7.1

♡ 5

frankfurt am main, germany

home movie footage

woman director

women's prison

Maryam Zaree Director

Johann Kriegler as Self

Chahla Chafiq as Self

Effat Mahbaz as Self

Sahar Delijani as Self

Follows filmmaker and actress, Maryam Zaree, on her quest to find out the violent circumstances surrounding her birth inside one of the most notorious political prisons in the world.

Home from the Hill

1960

English

7.4

♡ 8

90%

Vincente Minnelli Director

Everett Sloane as Albert Halstead

Eleanor Parker as Hannah Hunnicutt

Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams as Hugh Macauley

Anne Seymour as Sarah Halstead

The wealthiest man in a Texas town decides to teach his teenage son how to hunt to make a man out of him.

Sarah Plays a Werewolf

2017

French

6.3

♡ 2

Katharina Wyss Director

Lou Spring as Esther

Arcadi Radeff as Johannes

Loane Balthasar as Sarah

Sabine Timoteo as Schroeter

17-year old Sarah, filled with adolescent angst, is an extreme person who in her rehearsals with a theatre group is transformed until she is almost in a trance, and her performances at home or elsewhere verge on excess. A cold, intellectual father, a timid mother, a younger sister and an older brother who has left home complete the picture: a silent time bomb.

Savage State

2019

French

5.1

♡ 3

Action

Drama

family secrets

husband wife relationship

missouri

sibling relationship

smuggling (contraband)

voodoo ritual

Western

David Perrault Director

Alice Isaaz as Esther

Déborah François as Justine

Grégoire Colin as Monsieur de Lisle

Kevin Janssens as Victor

Saint Charles County, Missouri, December 1863. Edmond, a prosperous French perfume merchant, decides to flee to a safer place when the storms of the American Civil War start knocking at his door, threatening the life and fortune of his family.

The Hamiltons

2006

English

5.0

♡ 17

38%

Mitchell Altieri Director

Joe Egender as Allen Davies

Brittany Daniel as Dani Cummings

Jason Pennetta as David's Friend

Andrew Casden as Trevor

The Hamiltons seem to be the picture-perfect American family. They are hardworking community members; giving to their local charities, attending town hall meetings and always respectful of their neighbors...except for the fact that they usually end up killing them.

Little White Lie

2014

English

7.2

80%

Lacey Schwartz Director

Robert Schwartz as Self

Kristin Parker as Self

Rodney Parker as Self

Mehret Mandefro as Self

Lacey Schwartz grew up in a typical upper-middle-class Jewish household in Woodstock, NY, with loving parents and a strong sense of her Jewish identity - despite the open questions from those around her about how a white girl could have such dark skin. She believes her family's explanation that her looks were inherited from her dark-skinned Sicilian grandfather. But when her parents abruptly split, her gut starts to tell her something different. At age of 18, she finally confronts her mother and learns the truth: her biological father was not the man who raised her, but a black man named Rodney with whom her mother had had an affair.

Palm Trees in the Snow

2015

Spanish

7.3

♡ 10

83%

79%

1970s

Action

based on novel or book

Fernando González Molina Director

Berta Vázquez as Bisila

Mario Casas as Killian

Daniel Grao as Manuel

José Manuel Poga as Marcial

Spain, 2003. An accidental discovery leads Clarence to travel from the snowy mountains of Huesca to Equatorial Guinea, to visit the land where her father Jacobo and her uncle Kilian spent most of their youth, the island of Fernando Poo.

Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case

1959

French

7.0

♡ 4

Action

based on novel or book

Jean Delannoy Director

Hélène Tossy as Adèle Gaultier

Jacques Marin as Albert - le chauffeur

Charles Bouillaud as Le garçon de café

René Hell as Le typographe

Police Commissioner Jules Maigret returns to the small village where he spent his childhood at the request of the Countess of Saint-Fiacre, who has received a disturbing anonymous letter.

Like a House on Fire

2020

English

6.0

♡ 10

100%

Jesse Noah Klein Director

Amanda Brugel as Audrey

Jared Abrahamson as Danny

Kelly Reich as Department Store Cashier

Sheila McCarthy as Katherine

Dara returns home to reconnect with her husband and her young daughter, whom she left two years earlier. When she arrives, she discovers that a woman who is seven months pregnant has taken her place and that her daughter no longer recognizes her.

The Inheritance

2020

English

3.5

♡ 3

91%

Chad Barager Director

Nastia Bezsonova as Attendant

Nicholas Wittman as Peter

Arina Kucheieva as Shadow

Vova Barabanov as Shady Man 1

A woman's inheritance leads her to Eastern Europe to uncover a dark and disturbing family secret.

Black Panther

2014

German

5.4

♡ 5

Samuel Perriard Director

Jonas Hien as Andreas / Emilie's boyfriend

Lucy Wirth as Emilie / Sister

Samuel Perriard as Jäger / Hunter

Ole Jacobs as Jakob / Brother

After many years apart, Emilie meets her brother Jakob again. She not only shares her sadness about the loss of their parents with him, but also a secret...

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Sarah Plays a Werewolf

Savage State

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Little White Lie

Palm Trees in the Snow

Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case

Like a House on Fire

The Inheritance

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