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6.5

♡ 4

75%

Drama

female friendship

graduation

Sidney Lumet Director

Richard Mulligan as Dick Brown

Joan Hackett as Dottie

Robert Emhardt as Mr. Andrews

Peter Boyle as (uncredited)

It's 1933, and eight young women are friends and members of the upper- class group at a private girl's school, about to graduate and start their own lives. The film documents the years between their graduation and the beginning of the World War in Europe, and shows, in a serialized style, their romances and marriages, their searches for careers or meaning in their lives, their highs and their lows.

Dangerous to Know

1938

6.4

♡ 3

Robert Florey Director

Harry Myers as Guest at Party

Ellen Drew as Secretary

Pierre Watkin as Sen. Carson

Evelyn Keyes as Undetermined Secondary Role

Racketeer Steve Recka, art patron and political power-maker, rules his town and Madame Lan Ying, his beautiful friend and hostess (read:mistress), with an iron hand. He meets Margaret Van Kase, a socialite not impressed by his power nor his wealth, having no money herself, and Steve makes frantic efforts to win her and turns away from the loyal Lin Yang.

Hateship Loveship

2013

6.2

♡ 15

52%

Liza Johnson Director

Jennifer Jason Leigh as Chloe

Kristen Wiig as Johanna Parry

Guy Pearce as Ken

Hailee Steinfeld as Sabitha

A shy caretaker believes that the father of her teenage charge is falling in love with her, unaware that she is actually the victim of the girl's prank.

Baby Face

1933

7.5

♡ 9

100%

Alfred E. Green Director

John Elliott as Bank Director

Douglass Dumbrille as Brody

Edward Van Sloan as Jameson - Bank Director

Matty Roubert as Newsboy

A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins to wonder if her new status will ever bring her happiness.

Woman's World

1954

6.9

♡ 13

67%

Jean Negulesco Director

Cornel Wilde as Bill Baxter

Carleton Young as Executive Reception Guest

June Allyson as Katie Baxter

Amzie Strickland as Woman in Bargain Basement

Needing to fill the position of general manager of his company, and believing that an executive's wife is crucial to her husband's success, auto industry mogul Gifford brings three couples to New York to size up: Jerry and Carol: he hard-driven and self-reliant, she willing to use her beauty to further her husband's career; Sid and Elizabeth, he ulcer-ridden and torn between achieving success and restoring their troubled marriage, she positive that his job will kill him, but gamely agreeing to play the good wife for the duration; and down-to-earth Bill, whose good-natured Katie fears that his promotion would spell the end of their idyllic familiy existence.

A Place in the Sun

1951

7.7

♡ 22

82%

George Stevens Director

John Roy as Courtroom Spectator

Ian Wolfe as Dr. Wyeland

Robert J. Anderson as Eagle Scout

Kathryn Givney as Louise Eastman

A young social climber wins the heart of a beautiful heiress but his former girlfriend's pregnancy stands in the way of his ambition.

True Crime

1999

6.6

♡ 66

58%

Clint Eastwood Director

Hattie Winston as Angela Russel

Christine Ebersole as Bridget Rossiter

Clint Eastwood as Steve Everett

Lucy Liu as Toy Shop Girl

Boozer, skirt chaser, careless father. You could create your own list of reporter Steve Everett's faults but there's no time. A San Quentin Death Row prisoner is slated to die at midnight – a man Everett has suddenly realized is innocent.

A Promise

2013

♡ 26

13%

Patrice Leconte Director

Richard Madden as Friedrich Zeitz

Matt Ward as Hotel Guest With EyeGlasses

Alan Rickman as Karl Hoffmeister

Rebecca Hall as Lotte Hoffmeister

A romantic drama set in Germany just before WWI and centered on a married woman who falls in love with her husband's teacher. Separated by the war, they pledge their devotion to one another.

Patterns

1956

7.7

♡ 8

89%

Fielder Cook Director

Edward Binns as Elevator Starter

Van Heflin as Fred Staples

Everett Sloane as Mr. Ramsey

Beatrice Straight as Nancy Staples

To eliminate internal opposition, a cruel CEO sabotages and humiliates a good-natured executive in an effort to force his resignation — and make the reticent new hire his new yes man.

The Founder

2016

♡ 225

80%

82%

Action

based on a true story

mcdonald's restaurant

John Lee Hancock Director

Laura Dern as Ethel Kroc

Linda Cardellini as Joan Smith

Catherine Dyer as Mrs. Horford

Patrick Wilson as Rollie Smith

The true story of how Ray Kroc, a salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California. Kroc was impressed by the brothers’ speedy system of making the food and saw franchise potential. He maneuvered himself into a position to be able to pull the company from the brothers and create a billion-dollar empire.

The Private Affairs of Bel Ami

1947

6.7

♡ 5

60%

Albert Lewin Director

Angela Lansbury as Clotilde de Marelle

Jean Del Val as Commissioner

Leonard Mudie as Potin

Marie Wilson as Rachel Michot

A self-serving journalist uses influential women in late-1800s Paris and denies the one who truly loves him.

American Movie

1999

7.8

♡ 9

94%

Chris Smith Director

Billy Crystal as Academy Awards EmCee

Mark Borchardt as Filmmaker

Cliff Borchardt as Mark's Dad

Dean Allen as Props / Special effects

American Movie documents the story of filmmaker Mark Borchardt, his mission, and his dream. Spanning over two years of intense struggle with his film, his family, financial decline, and spiritual crisis, American Movie is a portrayal of ambition, obsession, excess, and one man's quest for the American Dream.

A Killing Success

1963

French

6.1

♡ 1

Action

Marcel Bluwal Director

Guy Bedos as

Alain Delon as Lambert

Louis de Funès as Norbert Charolais

Albert Dinan as Un homme

Paul Martin is the subservient brown-nosing youngster who needs quick advancement up the hierarchy to pay for the modern lifestyle he is buying on credit. Seeing that marrying his immediate superior's daughter will not get him the results he wants, he begins plotting the demise of the head of the company. The company itself specializes in holiday travel and unscrupulously brutalizes its customers for maximum profit, spending more thought on publicity gimmicks than customer service...

Fitzcarraldo

1982

German

7.9

♡ 36

77%

Werner Herzog Director

José Lewgoy as Don Aquilino

Claudia Cardinale as Molly

Peter Berling as Opera Manager

Mick Jagger as Wilbur

Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, in order to finance his project, he embarks on an epic adventure to collect rubber, a very profitable product, in a remote and unexplored region of the rainforest.

Morning Glory

1933

6.4

♡ 4

60%

Lowell Sherman Director

Charlie Hall as Actor

Robert Bolder as Actor

John Carradine as Dream Apparition

Richard Carle as Henry Lawrence

Wildly optimistic chatterbox Eva Lovelace is a would-be actress trying to crash the New York stage. She attracts the interest of a paternal actor, a philandering producer, and an earnest playwright. Is she destined for stardom, or will she fade like a morning glory after its brief blooming?

Macbeth: David Tennant & Cush Jumbo

2025

7.7

♡ 1

100%

based on play or musical

Max Webster Director

Cal MacAninch as Banquo

Cush Jumbo as Lady Macbeth

Rona Morison as Lady Macduff

David Tennant as Macbeth

Fearless and unforgettably creepy. This high-concept production, filmed live at London’s Donmar Warehouse, stars the formidable talents of David Tennant and Cush Jumbo in Shakespeare’s most infamous tragedy.

Cocktail

1988

5.9

♡ 63

9%

Roger Donaldson Director

Tom Cruise as Brian Flanagan

Gina Gershon as Coral

Harvey J. Alperin as Job Interviewer

Elisabeth Shue as Jordan Mooney

After being discharged from the Army, Brian Flanagan moves back to Queens and takes a job in a bar run by Doug Coughlin, who teaches Brian the fine art of bar-tending. Brian quickly becomes a patron favorite with his flashy drink-mixing style, and Brian adopts his mentor's cynical philosophy on life and goes for the money.

The Tragedy of Macbeth

2021

7.1

♡ 71

93%

74%

husband wife relationship

based on play or musical

Drama

Fantasy

History

Joel Coen Director

Bertie Carvel as Banquo

Brendan Gleeson as Duncan

Denzel Washington as Macbeth

Sean Patrick Thomas as Monteith

Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.

Throne of Blood

1957

Japanese

8.0

♡ 55

96%

93%

Action