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.

Map of the Human Heart

1992

English

7.0

♡ 7

Adventure

arctic polar circle region

Vincent Ward Director

Anne Parillaud as Albertine

Ben Mendelsohn as Farmboy

Richard Zeman as MP

John Cusack as The Mapmaker

In an Arctic village in 1931, British mapmaker Walter Russell selects 12-year-old Eskimo Avik as his guide. When the boy contracts tuberculosis, Walter flies him to a Montreal hospital, where Avik meets Albertine and is infatuated. A decade later, a grown Avik encounters Albertine again in London, where he's serving as a British combat pilot. Despite her relationship with Walter, she and Avik begin an affair.

Lady Jane

1986

English

7.1

♡ 10

56%

Trevor Nunn Director

Tim Plester as Dirty Peasant

Cary Elwes as Guilford Dudley

Patrick Stewart as Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk

Helena Bonham Carter as Lady Jane Grey

The death of King Henry VIII throws his kingdom into chaos because of succession disputes. His weak son, Edward, is on his deathbed. Anxious to keep England true to the Reformation, a scheming minister John Dudley marries off his son, Guildford to Lady Jane Grey, whom he places on the throne after Edward dies. At first hostile to each other, Guildford and Jane fall in love, but they cannot withstand the course of power which will lead to their ultimate downfall.

Camille

1936

English

♡ 7

89%

George Cukor Director

Henry Daniell as Baron de Varville

Edwin Maxwell as Doctor

Mabel Colcord as Madame Barjon

Lionel Barrymore as Monsieur Duval

Life in 1847 Paris is as spirited as champagne and as unforgiving as the gray morning after. In gambling dens and lavish soirees, men of means exert their wills and women turned courtesans exult in pleasure. One such woman is Marguerite Gautier, who begins a sumptuous romance with Armand Duval.

Drunken Angel

1948

Japanese

7.6

♡ 21

94%

Akira Kurosawa Director

Toshirô Mifune as Matsunaga

Reizaburô Yamamoto as Okada

Eitarô Shindô as Takahama

Senkichi Ômura as Yakuza Follower

In postwar Tokyo, a blunt, alcohol-soaked doctor diagnoses a swaggering young yakuza with tuberculosis, forging an uneasy bond that’s tested when the gangster’s ruthless former boss returns and drags him back toward the swampy underworld he can’t escape.

Bending the Arc

2017

English

8.0

♡ 3

100%

Kief Davidson Director

Paul Farmer as Self

Ophelia Dahl as Self

Jim Yong Kim as Self

Jaime Bayona as Self

About the extraordinary doctors and activists—including Paul Farmer, Jim Yong Kim, and Ophelia Dahl—whose work 30 years ago to save lives in a rural Haitian village grew into a global battle in the halls of power for the right to health for all.

Honkytonk Man

1982

English

6.6

♡ 12

93%

64%

Action

based on novel or book

Clint Eastwood Director

Roy Jenson as Dub

Clint Eastwood as Red Stovall

Marty Robbins as Smoky

Jerry Hardin as Snuffy

During the Great Depression, a young boy leaves his family's Oklahoma farm to travel with his country musician uncle who is trying out for the Grand Ole Opry.

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