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♡ 11

90%

Ken Loach Director

Maureen Carr as Ellen

Peter Mullan as Jake

Ricky Tomlinson as Larry

Robert Carlyle as Stevie

Stevie, fresh from prison in Scotland, finds a job on a London construction site. The working conditions are poor and most of the men are working under aliases, due to immigration status and to not conflict with their "signing on" for unemployment benefits. Some coworkers help Stevie secure housing, squatting in a council estate. Then Stevie meets Susan, from Ireland, who's struggling to be a professional singer.

Europe '51

1952

Italian

7.4

♡ 13

75%

Roberto Rossellini Director

Alexander Knox as George Girard

Giulietta Masina as Giulietta, detta Passerotto

Alfred Brown as Hospital Priest

Ingrid Bergman as Irene Girard

A wealthy, self-absorbed Rome socialite is racked by guilt over the death of her young son. As a way of dealing with her grief and finding meaning in her life, she decides to devote her time and money to the city’s poor and sick. Her newfound, single-minded activism leads to conflicts with her husband and questions about her sanity.

All We Had

2016

6.0

♡ 18

40%

49%

mother daughter relationship

woman director

Katie Holmes Director

Michael Cavadias as Doctor

Luke Wilson as Lee

Judy Greer as Patti

Katie Holmes as Rita Carmichael

A mother struggles to make a better life for her daughter.

Cuba and the Cameraman

2017

8.2

♡ 37

100%

This revealing portrait of Cuba follows the lives of Fidel Castro and three Cuban families affected by his policies over the last four decades.

The Cloud-Capped Star

1960

Bangla

7.8

♡ 26

86%

Ritwik Ghatak Director

Arati Das as

Narayan Dhar as

Suresh Chatterjee as (as Suresh Chattopadhyay)

Ranen Ray Choudhury as Baul singer

A selfless young woman, the daughter of a middle-class refugee family from East Pakistan, sacrifices her own happiness for her unappreciative family.

Dodes'ka-den

1970

Japanese

7.3

♡ 15

73%

77%

despair

garbage dump dwellers

multiple storylines

slum

Akira Kurosawa Director

Akemi Negishi as Good-Looking Housewife

Yûko Kusunoki as Misao Sawagami

Kiyoko Tange as Mrs. Shima

Michiko Araki as Restaurant proprietress

On a Tokyo dump’s shantytown edge, interwoven vignettes follow residents scraping by: a boy who “drives” an imaginary trolley, a homeless father and son designing a dream house, a young woman brutalized at home, drunks, schemers, and saints of small kindnesses. Kurosawa crafts a ragged mosaic of hardship, fantasy, and flickers of grace that keep people moving forward.

Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai

2011

Japanese

7.3

♡ 16

76%

Takashi Miike Director

Munetaka Aoki as Hikokuro Omodaka

Hikari Mitsushima as Miho

Takehiro Hira as Naotaka Ii

Takashi Sasano as Sousuke priest

A tale of revenge, honor and disgrace, centering on a poverty-stricken samurai who discovers the fate of his ronin son-in-law, setting in motion a tense showdown of vengeance against the house of a feudal lord.

The Whisperers

1967

7.1

♡ 4

67%

60%

Bryan Forbes Director

Oliver MacGreevy as 2nd Redeemer

Tom Kempinski as 2nd Young Man

Avis Bunnage as Mrs. Noonan

Edith Evans as Mrs. Ross

Margaret Ross is an impoverished old woman who lives alone in a seedy apartment and enjoys a rich fantasy life as an heiress. One day she discovers stolen money hidden by her son and believes her fantasy has come true.

Scheme Birds

2019

7.2

♡ 5

90%

As her adolescence gives way to the obligations of motherhood, troubled Gemma matures in Motherwell, her Scottish hometown, heavily dependent on the steel industry. Unfortunately for her, her hedonistic way of understanding the world does not fit in with the philosophy of the rest of the villagers, so trouble soon follows.

Native Son

2019

5.7

♡ 28

62%

48%

a24

chicago, illinois

Rashid Johnson Director

Ashton Sanders as Bigger Thomas

Bryant Carroll as Dispatch

Margaret Qualley as Mary Dalton

Stephen Henderson as Mr. Green

A young black man named Bigger Thomas takes a job working for a highly influential Chicago family, a decision that will change the course of his life forever.

Curly Sue

1991

5.9

♡ 21

13%

John Hughes Director

John Ashton as Frank Arnold

Kelly Lynch as Grey Ellison

Barbara Tarbuck as Mrs. Arnold

Steve Carell as Tesio

Bill is a penniless drifter who scams strangers out of just enough money to feed himself and his partner in crime, an orphan girl known as Curly Sue. Bill and Curly Sue target Grey, a yuppie lawyer, but their con takes an unexpected turn when the successful woman begins to like the ramshackle duo. But there's one problem—Grey's jealous, conniving boyfriend, Walker.

Meth Storm

2017

6.6

♡ 2

Brent Renaud Director

As police and DEA agents battle sophisticated cartels, rural, economically-disadvantaged users and dealers–whose addiction to ICE and lack of job opportunities have landed them in an endless cycle of poverty and incarceration–are caught in the middle.

Wait, Wait, Don't Kill Me

2020

philadelphia, pennsylvania

3.5

♡ 2

96%

police

quarantine

Adam Lippe Director

Ed Feldman as Cerberus Mud Tunnel Resident #2

Justin Michael Woods as Doctor

Joe L'Erario as Host of 'The Sauce'

Andrew Hunsicker as The General

On the hottest day of the year, an unknown virus spreads throughout inner-city Philadelphia. The infected victims, crazed by dehydration, begin attacking other residents of the neighborhood in gruesome ways. When the military is brought in to contain the situation, but realize they can't come up with a vaccine quickly enough, they fence off the area and let everyone die. A group of locals, stuck in the basement of their building, behind the fences, and separated from their family members, band together to try to survive.

Mi tío Jacinto

1956

Spanish

7.3

♡ 3

childhood

matador (bullfighter)

poor man

uncle nephew relationship

Ladislao Vajda Director

Walter Chiari as Caballero elegante

Carlo Campanini as Caballero provinciano

Pedro Porcel as Cliente 1º

Paolo Stoppa as Restaurador

Hyacinth, a former matador who lives miserably with his nephew Pepote, receives a letter reminding him that, as agreed a few days before, he must participate in a bullfight to be held that same afternoon.

Class Divide

2015