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7.1

♡ 1

80%

85%

Jack Couffer Director

Roddy McMillan as Busdriver

Peter Jeffrey as Colin Wilcox

Archie Duncan as Road mender

Bill Horsley as Timid man

Stuck in a dead-end job, Graham Merrill adopts an otter, Mij, as a pet and then moves to an isolated village in western Scotland. Together they set out to explore the curious and magnificent natural wonders that surround their seaside home. Soon, Graham finds himself falling in love with the beautiful town doctor, Mary. Before long, the three become inseparable friends.

Coming Out of the Ice

1982

6.4

♡ 3

83%

biography

Biography

Drama

Waris Hussein Director

Clive Merrison as Bikov

Malcolm Storry as Guard Commander 2

Tom Chadbon as Samsonov

John Savage as Victor Herman

A biographical film about Victor Herman, based on the memoir of the same name.

Romulus, My Father

2007

6.6

♡ 4

55%

65%

Richard Roxburgh Director

Franka Potente as Christina Gaita

Marton Csokas as Hora

Eric Bana as Romulus Gaita

Simon Maiden as Town Lad

The story of Romulus, his beautiful wife, Christina, and their struggle in the face of great adversity to bring up their son, Raimond. It is a story of impossible love that ultimately celebrates the unbreakable bond between father and son.

Waltzing with Brando

2024

6.9

♡ 4

1970s

architect

The story of how Marlon Brando plucked Bernard Judge, an obscure but idealistic Los Angeles architect from his stable existence and convinced him that he should build the world’s first ecologically perfect retreat on a tiny and uninhabitable Tahitian island.

Playing for Time

1980

7.3

♡ 29

74%

auschwitz-birkenau concentration camp

Joseph Sargent Director

Clarence Felder as Commandant Kramer

Marisa Berenson as Elzvieta

Robin Bartlett as Etalina

Melanie Mayron as Marianne

When a Jewish songstress is plucked from the stage and sent to Auschwitz, she and other musicians find themselves assigned to a terrible task—using their talents to soothe fellow prisoners who are sentenced to die in the gas chambers.

Miral

2010

6.2

♡ 13

19%

54%

arab–israeli war (1948)

based on novel or book

Julian Schnabel Director

Liron Levo as Dan

Willem Dafoe as Eddie

Hiam Abbass as Hind Husseini

Alexander Siddig as Jamal

A drama centered on an orphaned Palestinian girl growing up in the wake of the first Arab-Israeli war who finds herself drawn into the conflict.

The Bromley Boys

2018

6.2

♡ 8

58%

98%

1970s

Comedy

football (soccer)

Steve Kelly Director

Lucy-Jane Quinlan as Emelda

Martine McCutcheon as Gertie Roberts

Tom Owen as Mr.Blake

Rav Wilding as Policeman !

A boy, a girl, and the worst football team in Britain. You can't choose who you're going to fall in love with.

In Like Flynn

2018

5.2

♡ 18

50%

Russell Mulcahy Director

Timothy V. Murphy as Frank

Dan Fogler as Joel Schwartz

Lochlyn Munro as Ronald

Nathan Jones as The Mountain

A mostly true account of future Hollywood star Errol Flynn's sea adventures in the early thirties, sailing from Australia to Papua in search of gold, along with his best friend Rex, a former Canadian smuggler; Dook, a handy English gentleman; and Charlie, a grumpy old sailor.

Blaze

2018

6.6

♡ 18

95%

68%

based on a true story

Ethan Hawke Director

Steve Zahn as Oilman

Sam Rockwell as Oilman

Ethan Hawke as Radio DJ

Ritchie Montgomery as T J

Inspired by the life of Blaze Foley, the unsung songwriting legend of the Texas outlaw country movement that spawned the likes of Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson. The film weaves together three periods in Blaze's life, exploring his love affair with Sybil Rosen; his last, dark night on Earth; and the impact his songs and his death had on his fans, friends, and foes.

King of the Hill

1993

7.3

♡ 19

91%

84%

Steven Soderbergh Director

Amber Benson as Ella McShane

Adrien Brody as Lester

Elizabeth McGovern as Lydia

Karen Allen as Miss Mathey

Based on the Depression-era bildungsroman memoir of writer A. E. Hotchner, the film follows the story of a boy struggling to survive on his own in a hotel in St. Louis after his mother is committed to a sanatorium with tuberculosis. His father, a German immigrant and traveling salesman working for the Hamilton Watch Company, is off on long trips from which the boy cannot be certain he will return.

Postcards from the Edge

1990

6.7

♡ 16

83%

67%

actress

mother daughter relationship

Mike Nichols Director

Ted Raimi as Emergency Room Attendant

Dennis Quaid as Jack Faulkner

Oliver Platt as Neil Bleene

Marcelo Tubert as Sound Editor

A substance-addicted actress tries to look on the bright side even as she's forced to move back in with her mother to avoid unemployment.

The Other Side of Heaven

2001

6.2

♡ 19

29%

74%

Adventure

Mitch Davis Director

Pua Magasiva as Finau

Anne Hathaway as Jean Sabin

Christopher Gorham as John Groberg

Miriama Smith as Lavania

John H. Groberg, a middle class kid from Idaho Falls, crosses the Pacific to become a Mormon missionary in the remote and exotic Tongan island kingdom during the 1950's. He leaves behind a loving family and the true love of his life, Jean. Through letters and musings across the miles, John shares his humbling and sometimes hilarious adventures with "the girl back home", and her letters buoy up his spirits in difficult times. John must struggle to overcome language barriers, physical hardship and deep-rooted suspicion to earn the trust and love of the Tongan people he has come to serve. Throughout his adventure-filled three years on the islands, he discovers friends and wisdom in the most unlikely places. John H. Groberg's Tongan odyssey will change his life forever.

Waffle Street

2015

6.2

♡ 3

47%

Eshom Nelms Director

Julie Gonzalo as Becky Adams

Danny Glover as Edward Collins

Marshall Bell as Miles Drake III

Ernie Lively as Wright Adams

The true story of Jimmy Adams, a V.P. of a $30 billion hedge fund, who loses his job and winds up working as a waiter at a waffle shop. Amidst the greasy madness of the 24-hour diner, Jimmy befriends Edward, an ex-con grill master who serves up hard lessons about life, finance, and grits.

Against the Law

2017

7.2

♡ 4

100%

70%

based on a true story

based on novel or book

Fergus O'Brien Director

Mark Gatiss as Dr. Landers

David Robb as Lord Wolfenden

Daniel Mays as Peter Wildeblood

Richard Dillane as Prosecutor Roberts

United Kingdom, March 24, 1954. Ten years before the decriminalization of homosexuality, journalist Peter Wildeblood and his friends Lord Montagu and Michael Pitt-Rivers are convicted and imprisoned for indecency and sodomy.

The C Word

2015

7.5

100%

90%

blogger

cancer

Drama

Tim Kirkby Director

Susannah Fielding as Abigail

Michael Maloney as Ian McFarlane

Haydn Gwynne as Jane McFarlane

Michael Heath as Wig Man

The C Word is an adaptation of Lisa Lynch's inspiring and candid book, based on her blog, about her battle with cancer.

Living Free

1972

6.0

♡ 3

51%

Adventure

africa

Jack Couffer Director

Edward Judd as Game Warden Weaver

Nigel Davenport as George Adamson

Susan Hampshire as Joy Adamson

Geoffrey Keen as Kendall

When Elsa's three mischievious cubs begin wreaking havok on the nearby villages, Joy and her husband are forced to move them hundreds of miles to a game preserve.

Breakthrough

2019

6.3

♡ 76

60%

81%