Emmi Kurowski, a cleaning lady, is lonely in her old age. Her husband died years ago, and her grown children offer little companionship. One night she goes to a bar frequented by Arab immigrants and strikes up a friendship with middle-aged mechanic Ali. Their relationship soon develops into something more, and Emmi's family and neighbors criticize their spontaneous marriage. Soon Emmi and Ali are forced to confront their own insecurities about their future.

Lights in the Dusk

2006

Finnish

6.8

♡ 6

68%

Aki Kaurismäki Director

Marja Packalén as Chef

Tommi Korpela as Lecturer

Maria Järvenhelmi as Mirja

Silu Seppälä as Vandal

Outcast by his co-workers and living alone, Koistinen is a security guard who works the night shift in a luxury shopping mall in Helsinki. But when icy blonde Mirja approaches him, the lonely Koistinen falls helplessly for her, unaware she is manipulating him for her criminal boyfriend.

The Fisher King

1991

English

7.5

♡ 72

83%

Terry Gilliam Director

Anita Dangler as Bag Lady

Jayce Bartok as First Punk

Jeff Bridges as Jack

David Hyde Pierce as Lou Rosen

Two troubled men face their terrible destinies and events of their past as they join together on a mission to find the Holy Grail and thus to save themselves.

Umberto D.

1952

Italian

8.1

♡ 8

Vittorio De Sica Director

Lina Gennari as Antonia Belloni

Ileana Simova as La donna nella camera di Umberto

Elena Rea as La suora all' ospedale

Carlo Battisti as Umberto Domenico Ferrari

When elderly pensioner Umberto Domenico Ferrari returns to his boarding house from a protest calling for a hike in old-age pensions, his landlady demands her 15,000-lire rent by the end of the month or he and his small dog will be turned out onto the street. Unable to get the money in time, Umberto fakes illness to get sent to a hospital, giving his beloved dog to the landlady's pregnant and abandoned maid for temporary safekeeping.

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.

Grizzly Man

2005

English

7.8

♡ 19

93%

Werner Herzog Director

David Letterman as Self

Jewel Palovak as Self

Sven Haakanson Jr. as Self - Alutiiq Museum Director

Werner Herzog as Self / Narrator / Interviewer

Werner Herzog's documentary film about the "Grizzly Man" Timothy Treadwell and what the thirteen summers in a National Park in Alaska were like in one man's attempt to protect the grizzly bears. The film is full of unique images and a look into the spirit of a man who sacrificed himself for nature.

September 11

2002

French

6.8

♡ 6

Drama

israeli–palestinian conflict

media

palestinian-israeli conflict

skyscraper

unsociability

war on terror

Alejandro González Iñárritu Director

Mitsuko Baishô as Kayo Furuhashi

Liron Levo as Le démineur

Henry Kissinger as Self

George W. Bush as Self

An anthology of short films inspired by the events of the September 11 World Trade Center attacks.

Lost in Translation

2003

English

7.7

♡ 138

95%

Sofia Coppola Director

Scarlett Johansson as Charlotte

Giovanni Ribisi as John

Anna Faris as Kelly

Kazuko Shibata as Press Agent

Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial -- find an odd solace and pensive freedom to be real in each other's company, away from their lives in America.

Pickpocket

1959

French

♡ 26

93%

Robert Bresson Director

Pierre Leymarie as Jacques

Marika Green as Jeanne

Dolly Scal as La mère

Jean Pélégri as L'inspecteur principal

Michel takes up pickpocketing on a lark and is arrested soon after. His mother dies shortly after his release, and despite the objections of his only friend, Jacques, and his mother's neighbor Jeanne, Michel teams up with a couple of petty thieves in order to improve his craft. With a police inspector keeping an eye on him, Michel also tries to get a straight job, but the temptation to steal is hard to resist.

Dead Man Walking

1995

English

7.5

♡ 55

97%

Tim Robbins Director

Jack Black as Craig Poncelet

Celia Weston as Mary Beth Percy

Susan Sarandon as Sister Helen Prejean

Clancy Brown as State Trooper

A death row inmate turns for spiritual guidance to a local nun in the days leading up to his scheduled execution for the murders of a young couple.

Garden State

2004

English

7.4

♡ 51

86%

Zach Braff Director

Jackie Hoffman as Aunt Sylvia Largeman

Jean Smart as Carol

Trisha LaFache as Kelly

Natalie Portman as Sam

Andrew returns to his hometown for the funeral of his mother, a journey that reconnects him with past friends. The trip coincides with his decision to stop taking his powerful antidepressants. A chance meeting with Sam - a girl also suffering from various maladies - opens up the possibility of rekindling emotional attachments, confronting his psychologist father, and perhaps beginning a new life.

Broken Flowers

2005

English

7.1

♡ 41

87%

Jim Jarmusch Director

Chris Bauer as Dan

Bill Murray as Don Johnston

Sharon Stone as Laura

Tilda Swinton as Penny

Introverted Don Johnston receives an anonymous letter from an ex-lover informing him that he has a son who may be looking for him. A freelance sleuth neighbor motivates Don to embark on a cross-country search for his past flames seeking answers.

Dances with Wolves

1990

English

8.0

♡ 145

87%

Action

Adventure

based on novel or book

Kevin Costner Director

Kevin Costner as Lieutenant Dunbar

Charles Rocket as Lieutenant Elgin

Maury Chaykin as Major Fambrough

Mary McDonnell as Stands With A Fist

Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to his dream post, a remote junction on the Western frontier, and soon makes unlikely friends with the local Sioux tribe.

The Wages of Fear

1953

French

8.1

♡ 37

100%

94%

Action

Adventure

based on novel or book

central and south america

Henri-Georges Clouzot Director

Darling Légitimus as (as Miss Darling)

Darío Moreno as Hernandez

Yves Montand as Mario

René Baranger as (uncredited)

In a run-down South American town, four men are paid to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin into the jungle through to the oil field. Friendships are tested and rivalries develop as they embark upon the perilous journey.

Rebel Without a Cause

1955

English

7.6

♡ 66

91%

parent child relationship

street gang

underground world

unsociability

Nicholas Ray Director

Chuck Hicks as Ambulance Attendant

Robert Foulk as Gene

William Hopper as Judy's Father

Ann Doran as Mrs. Carol Stark

After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark is supposed to have a clean slate, although being the new kid in town brings its own problems. While searching for some stability, Stark forms a bond with a disturbed classmate, Plato, and falls for local girl Judy. However, Judy is the girlfriend of neighborhood tough, Buzz. When Buzz violently confronts Jim and challenges him to a drag race, the new kid's real troubles begin.

The Bridges of Madison County

1995

English

7.6

♡ 71

90%

87%

Action

adultery

based on novel or book

Drama

husband wife relationship

Clint Eastwood Director

Meryl Streep as Francesca Johnson

Debra Monk as Madge

Victor Slezak as Michael Johnson

Clint Eastwood as Robert Kincaid

Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in the 1960s.

The Cuckoo

2002

Russian

7.7

♡ 3

87%

Aleksandr Rogozhkin Director

Valeri Yakovlev as

Sergei Berzin as

Vladimir Knysh as

Viktor Bychkov as Ivan or Psoltõ

September of 1944, a few days before Finland went out of the Second World War. A chained to a rock Finnish sniper-kamikadze Veikko managed to set himself free. Ivan, a captain of the Soviet Army, arrested by the Front Secret Police 'Smersh', has a narrow escape. They are soldiers of the two enemy armies. A Lapp woman Anni gives a shelter to both of them at her farm. For Anni they are not enemies, but just men.