Marvin & Tige

Marvin, a heavy-drinking widower meets Tige, an 11-year-old orphan. With nowhere else to go, Tige moves in with Marvin and they develop a close friendship. Marvin wants to adopt Tige but knows that he is too poor to give him a good home. Then he discovers who Tige's father is a rich suburbanite who doesn't even know Tige exists. Should Marvin, and can he, give up the boy he loves, and who loves him, in favor of a stranger with the right genes and bank balance?

Ruby Gentry

1952

English

6.6

♡ 5

63%

King Vidor Director

Bill Walker as Bartender

Thomas Browne Henry as Cotton Warehouse Owner

James Anderson as Jewel Corey

Karl Malden as Jim Gentry

A sexy but poor young girl marries a rich man she doesn't love, but carries a torch for another man.

Beatriz at Dinner

2017

English

6.0

♡ 23

75%

Miguel Arteta Director

Salma Hayek as

John Lithgow as Doug

David Warshofsky as Grant

Connie Britton as Kathy

Beatriz, an immigrant from a poor town in Mexico, has drawn on her innate kindness to build a career as a health practitioner. Doug Strutt is a cutthroat, self-satisfied billionaire. When these two opposites meet at a dinner party, their worlds collide, and neither will ever be the same.

Wait, Wait, Don't Kill Me

2020

English

3.5

♡ 2

96%

philadelphia, pennsylvania

police

poverty

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.

Children of Heaven

1997

Persian

8.2

♡ 63

83%

Majid Majidi Director

Amir Farrokh Hashemian as Ali

Mohammad Amir Naji as Ali's Father

Christopher Maleki as Salt Seller

Bahare Seddiqi as Zahra

Zohre's shoes are gone; her older brother Ali lost them. They are poor, there are no shoes for Zohre until they come up with an idea: they will share one pair of shoes. School awaits.

Class Divide

2015

English

7.3

100%

A look at NYC’s gentrification and growing inequality in a microcosm, Class Divide explores two distinct worlds that share the same Chelsea intersection – 10th Avenue and 26th Street. On one side of the avenue, the Chelsea-Elliot Houses have provided low-income public housing to residents for decades. Their neighbor across the avenue since 2012 is Avenues: The World School, a costly private school. What happens when kids from both of these worlds attempt to cross the divide?

10 Items or Less

2006

English

6.5

♡ 13

64%

Brad Silberling Director

Danny DeVito as Big D

Morgan Freeman as Him

Leonardo Nam as Kid at Target

Anne Dudek as Lorraine

An actor who is considering the role of a supermarket manager arrives at a grocery store on the outskirts of Los Angeles to do some field research. He subsequently becomes stranded, without a car or cell phone, and accepts a ride home with Scarlet, a cashier who is about to interview for a new job. The actor rediscovers the essence of his craft while helping Scarlet gain the confidence she needs to change her life.

Eat the Rich

1987

English

5.8

♡ 9

36%

Peter Richardson Director

Adrian Edmondson as Charles

Cathryn Harrison as Joanna

Ron Tarr as Ron

Rupert Vansittart as Rupert

Alex is a disgruntled waiter at a snobby exclusive restaurant who falls on hard times. Forced to deal with the contempt and disgust of the upper class, Alex & cohorts attempt to go on a rampage. Meanwhile, General Karprov and Spider plot to involve the inept anarchists into their plans to derail the prime-minister-to-be's campaign.

Not One Less

1999

Chinese

7.7

♡ 8

96%

Yimou Zhang Director Mei Bai

Mei Bai as Manager, Juxin Restaurant

Jiao Jie as Student

Mingshan Zhang as Student

Huimin Rong as Student

Set in the People's Republic of China during the 1990s, the film centers on a 13-year-old substitute teacher, Wei Minzhi, in the Chinese countryside. Called in to substitute for a village teacher for one month, Wei is told not to lose any students.

Flodder

1986

Dutch

6.6

♡ 9

socially deprived family

suburbian idyll

Dick Maas Director

Cas Enklaar as Excentrieke Buurman

Liz Snoyink as Laura

Ron Smoorenburg as Politieagent

Tina Shaw as Striptease Danseres

A low-class antisocial family ends up in a rich upper-class neighborhood and causes all sorts of trouble.

Teaching Mrs. Tingle

1999

English

5.3

♡ 8

19%

parent child relationship

pornography

scholarship

Thriller

Kevin Williamson Director

Marisa Coughlan as Jo Lynn Jordan

Katie Holmes as Leigh Ann Watson

Molly Ringwald as Miss Banks

Helen Mirren as Mrs. Tingle

A bright high-school senior has her impending status as valedictorian jeopardized when her bitter history teacher, Mrs. Tingle, gives her a poor grade on a project. When an attempt to get ahead in Mrs. Tingle's class goes awry, mayhem ensues and friendships, loyalties and trust are tested by the teacher's intricate mind-games.

A Separation

2011

Persian

8.3

♡ 136

99%

teheran (tehran), iran

Thriller

Asghar Farhadi Director

Shahab Hosseini as Hojjat

Sareh Bayat as Razieh

Leila Hatami as Simin

Sarina Farhadi as Termeh

A married couple are faced with a difficult decision - to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer's disease.

The Visitor

2007

English

7.6

♡ 12

89%

Tom McCarthy Director

Marian Seldes as Barbara

Earl Baker Jr. as Lester James

Hiam Abbass as Mouna

Waleed Zuaiter as Omar

A college professor travels to New York City to attend a conference and finds a young couple living in his apartment.

Half Nelson

2006

English

7.1

♡ 35

91%

Ryan Fleck Director

Ryan Gosling as Dan Dunne

Anthony Mackie as Frank

Tina Holmes as Rachel

Jay O. Sanders as Russ Dunne

Despite his dedication to the junior-high students who fill his classroom, idealistic teacher Dan Dunne leads a secret life of addiction that the majority of his students will never know. But things change when a troubled student Drey makes a startling discovery of his secret life, causing a tenuous bond between the two that could either end disastrously or provide a catalyst of hope.

Love, Simon

2018

English

7.5

♡ 278

92%

87%

Action

based on novel or book

Greg Berlanti Director

Miles Heizer as Cal

Jennifer Garner as Emily

Drew Starkey as Garrett

Darcy Rose Byrnes as High School Student

Alex Sgambati as Terrible Liar Girl

Everyone deserves a great love story, but for 17-year-old Simon Spier, it's a little more complicated. He hasn't told his family or friends that he's gay, and he doesn't know the identity of the anonymous classmate that he's fallen for online.

Pretty in Pink

1986

English

6.7

♡ 44

76%

Howard Deutch Director

Andrew Dice Clay as Bouncer

Jon Cryer as Duckie

Gina Gershon as Girl Friend / Gym Class

James Spader as Steff

Andie is an outcast, hanging out either with her older boss, who owns the record store where she works, or her quirky high school classmate Duckie, who has a crush on her. When one of the rich and popular kids at school, Blane, asks Andie out, it seems too good to be true. As Andie starts falling for Blane, she begins to realize that dating someone from a different social sphere is not easy.