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Kanopy
90
8.3
/100968/
82
/1727/
83
/1284/
4.5
/178105/
98
/57/
96
/1465/
92
/20/
cc age 11+

Ikiru (1952)
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.
poster
Kanopy
90
8.1
/76785/
81
/1455/
82
/1177/
4.4
/137727/
100
/52/
93
/872/
100
/19/

Tokyo Story (1953)
The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don't have much time to spend with their aged parents, and so it falls to Noriko, the widow of their younger son who was killed in the war, to keep her in-laws company.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
90
8.3
/280128/
82
/5535/
81
/3402/
4.3
/581102/
100
/78/
95
/7923/
99
/17/
cc age 6+

Singin' in the Rain (1952)
In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his paranoid screen partner struggle to make the difficult transition to talking pictures.
poster
Netflix
90
8.5
/376484/
85
/9968/
84
/6315/
4.5
/1050997/
100
/50/
95
/5487/
94
/16/
8.5
/451956/
cc age 15+

Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
In the final months of World War II, 14-year-old Seita and his sister Setsuko are orphaned when their mother is killed during an air raid in Kobe, Japan. After a falling out with their aunt, they move into an abandoned bomb shelter. With no surviving relatives and their emergency rations depleted, Seita and Setsuko struggle to survive.
poster
89
8.3
/338549/
80
/5429/
79
/3315/
4.4
/319779/
93
/132/
93
/5604/
100
/8/
cc age 13+

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
During World War I, English officer Thomas Edward 'T.E.' Lawrence sets out to unite and lead the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes to fight the Turks.
poster
88
8.1
/39129/
78
/708/
78
/618/
4.3
/43681/
92
/53/
95
/536/
97
/13/

Rififi (1955)
Out of prison after a five-year stretch, jewel thief Tony turns down a quick job his friend Jo offers him, until he discovers that his old girlfriend Mado has become the lover of local gangster Pierre Grutter during Tony's absence. Expanding a minor smash-and-grab into a full-scale jewel heist, Tony and his crew appear to get away clean, but their actions after the job is completed threaten the lives of everyone involved.
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Kanopy
88
7.9
/94138/
79
/3604/
78
/2225/
4.3
/282556/
99
/230/
92
/197/
93
/40/
cc age 16+

Shoplifters (2018)
In the outskirts of Tokyo, a poor but close-knit group living on the fringes of society survives through shoplifting and odd jobs. When Osamu and his son take in a neglected young girl, their already fragile existence begins to unravel. As the family grows attached to her, buried secrets surface, forcing them to confront the true meaning of love, belonging, and what makes a family.
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Kanopy
88
8.0
/131905/
77
/2040/
81
/2471/
4.3
/243675/
97
/62/
91
/2559/
93
/23/

8½ (1963)
Guido Anselmi, a film director, finds himself creatively barren at the peak of his career. Urged by his doctors to rest, Anselmi heads for a luxurious resort, but a sorry group gathers—his producer, staff, actors, wife, mistress, and relatives—each one begging him to get on with the show. In retreat from their dependency, he fantasizes about past women and dreams of his childhood.
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Amazon Prime Video
88
8.2
/191116/
80
/2690/
81
/2588/
4.3
/254338/
99
/67/
94
/2156/
cc age 12+

Bicycle Thieves (1948)
Unemployed Antonio is elated when he finally finds work hanging posters around war-torn Rome. However on his first day, his bicycle—essential to his work—gets stolen. His job is doomed unless he can find the thief. With the help of his son, Antonio combs the city, becoming desperate for justice.
poster
88
8.1
/37575/
79
/721/
79
/775/
4.3
/50076/
97
/30/
94
/1032/

Raise the Red Lantern (1991)
In 1920s China, 19-year-old Songlian becomes a concubine of a powerful lord and is forced to compete with his three wives for the privileges gained.
poster
88
8.2
/741954/
80
/18271/
77
/11209/
4.2
/927670/
95
/239/
91
/62196/
98
/37/
cc age 15+

Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
In post–civil war Spain, 10-year-old Ofelia moves with her pregnant mother to live under the control of her cruel stepfather. Drawn into a mysterious labyrinth, she meets a faun who reveals that she may be a lost princess from an underground kingdom. To return to her true father, she must complete a series of surreal and perilous tasks that blur the line between reality and fantasy.
poster
Disney Plus
87
8.4
/1304834/
84
/48050/
81
/19868/
4.2
/2424903/
95
/258/
90
/50436/
95
/39/
cc age 5+

WALL·E (2008)
What if mankind had to leave Earth and somebody forgot to turn the last robot off? After hundreds of years doing what he was built for, WALL•E discovers a new purpose in life when he meets a sleek search robot named EVE. EVE comes to realize that WALL•E has inadvertently stumbled upon the key to the planet's future, and races back to space to report to the humans. Meanwhile, WALL•E chases EVE across the galaxy and sets into motion one of the most imaginative adventures ever brought to the big screen.
poster
Kanopy
87
8.1
/36490/
82
/765/
79
/654/
4.4
/62486/
90
/52/
93
/726/
84
/28/

Farewell My Concubine (1993)
In an epic tale of theater, gender, love and class, two Beijing opera actors navigate political turmoil as their friendship evolves over decades.
poster
Criterion Channel
87
8.1
/33227/
81
/959/
79
/633/
4.5
/162987/
97
/91/
91
/517/
94
/25/

Yi Yi (2000)
A Taipei family faces personal and moral uncertainty as everyday events test their relationships and sense of purpose.
poster
Kanopy
87
7.9
/26206/
80
/997/
78
/409/
4.3
/142155/
100
/58/
93
/725/
87
/18/

Tampopo (1985)
In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop selling ramen noodles. The widowed owner, Tampopo, begs them to help her turn her establishment into a paragon of the "art of noodle-soup making". Interspersed are satirical vignettes about the importance of food to different aspects of human life.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
86
8.3
/23111/
81
/387/
81
/392/
4.4
/32161/
73
/15/
94
/388/
90
/10/

Red Beard (1965)
Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him to a small country clinic under the gruff doctor Red Beard. Yasumoto rebels in numerous ways, but Red Beard proves a wise and patient teacher. He gradually introduces his student to the unglamorous side of the profession, ultimately assigning him to care for a prostitute rescued from a local brothel.
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Kanopy
86
8.0
/41648/
77
/663/
76
/586/
4.1
/25175/
100
/51/
93
/729/
cc age 13+

Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic family. After the family refuses to let her be buried in the family mausoleum, Louis avenges his mother's death by attempting to murder every family member who stands between himself and the family fortune. But when he finds himself torn between his longtime love and the widow of one of his victims, his plans go awry.
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Kanopy
86
8.3
/708031/
83
/17845/
82
/9520/
4.4
/1378943/
82
/160/
94
/11753/
78
/33/
cc age 17+

Oldboy (2003)
With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate man seeks revenge on his captors.
poster
86
8.1
/311480/
80
/6519/
78
/3688/
4.3
/799335/
94
/181/
91
/5132/
91
/39/
cc age 16+

Before Sunset (2004)
Nine years later, Jesse travels across Europe giving readings from a book he wrote about the night he spent in Vienna with Celine. After his reading in Paris, Celine finds him, and they spend part of the day together before Jesse has to again leave for a flight. They are both in relationships now, and Jesse has a son, but as their strong feelings for each other start to return, both confess a longing for more.
poster
85
7.9
/82269/
77
/1600/
75
/1090/
4.1
/73480/
95
/64/
92
/1748/
83
/16/
cc age 14+

Being There (1979)
A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television.
poster
85
7.5
/75212/
76
/3609/
74
/1507/
4.1
/321118/
97
/350/
87
/477/
89
/47/
cc age 11+

The Farewell (2019)
A headstrong Chinese-American woman returns to China when her beloved grandmother is given a terminal diagnosis. Billi struggles with her family's decision to keep grandma in the dark about her own illness as they all stage an impromptu wedding to see grandma one last time.
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Kanopy
85
7.5
/8285/
76
/241/
74
/186/
4.1
/27259/
100
/24/
83
/101/
92
/8/

Maborosi (1995)
A tragedy strikes a young woman's life without warning or reason. She continues living while searching for meaning in a lonely world.
poster
Kanopy
85
7.7
/11642/
79
/265/
75
/198/
4.0
/28376/
100
/13/
89
/128/

The Official Story (1985)
Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1983. In the last and turbulent days of the military dictatorship, Alicia, a high school history teacher, begins to ask uncomfortable questions about the dark origins of Gaby, her adopted daughter.
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MGM Plus
84
8.1
/389904/
79
/6316/
77
/3060/
3.9
/134504/
91
/188/
94
/12274/
79
/40/
cc age 15+

Hotel Rwanda (2004)
Inspired by true events, this film takes place in Rwanda in the 1990s when more than a million Tutsis were killed in a genocide that went mostly unnoticed by the rest of the world. Hotel owner Paul Rusesabagina houses over a thousand refuges in his hotel in attempt to save their lives.
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Criterion Channel
84
7.5
/71484/
73
/1326/
71
/911/
4.4
/9070/
97
/65/
84
/903/
86
/20/
cc age 17+

The Player (1992)
A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?
poster
84
8.0
/11512/
72
/204/
73
/196/
4.0
/12547/
96
/27/
90
/150/

Greed (1924)
A lottery win of $5,000 forever changes the lives of a miner turned dentist and his wife.
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Public Domain Movies
84
8.1
/60185/
77
/2406/
78
/1935/
4.0
/268875/
100
/14/
90
/650/

A Trip to the Moon (1902)
Professor Barbenfouillis and five of his colleagues from the Academy of Astronomy travel to the Moon aboard a rocket propelled by a giant cannon. Once on the lunar surface, the bold explorers face the many perils hidden in the caves of the mysterious planet.
poster
84
8.1
/34224/
81
/2125/
82
/1712/
3.9
/183962/
93
/14/
92
/58/
8.5
/654314/

I Want to Eat Your Pancreas (2018)
After his classmate and crush is diagnosed with a pancreatic disease, an average high schooler sets out to make the most of her final days.
poster
Criterion Channel
84
8.1
/21562/
79
/509/
77
/429/
4.1
/51269/
96
/25/
91
/607/
cc age 7+

The Red Balloon (1956)
A young boy discovers a stray balloon, which seems to have a mind of its own, on the streets of Paris. The two become inseparable, yet the world’s harsh realities finally interfere.
poster
Criterion Channel
84
7.6
/25854/
75
/582/
74
/599/
4.0
/50835/
94
/33/
89
/475/
84
/15/

Mon Oncle (1958)
Genial, bumbling Monsieur Hulot loves his top-floor apartment in a grimy corner of the city, and cannot fathom why his sister's family has moved to the suburbs. Their house is an ultra-modern nightmare, which Hulot only visits for the sake of stealing away his rambunctious young nephew. Hulot's sister, however, wants to win him over to her new way of life, and conspires to set him up with a wife and job.
poster
Kanopy
84
7.6
/7530/
77
/209/
73
/327/
3.9
/12758/
100
/8/
88
/127/
cc age 9+

My Father's Glory (1990)
Raised by his science teacher father, Joseph Pagnol, and seamstress mother Augustine, young Marcel grows up during the turn of the century in awe of his rationalist dad. When the family takes a summer vacation in the countryside, Marcel becomes friends with Lili, who teaches him about rural life.
poster
Kanopy
84
7.9
/5810/
78
/174/
75
/97/
3.9
/6088/
99
/74/
92
/310/
76
/23/

Bill Cunningham New York (2011)
Doubling as a cartography of the ever-changing city, Bill Cunningham New York portrays the secluded pioneer of street fashion with grace and heart.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
83
7.9
/42360/
75
/925/
76
/847/
4.1
/79575/
77
/30/
92
/844/

Fitzcarraldo (1982)
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.
poster
83
7.9
/467666/
77
/19365/
75
/11770/
3.8
/1181110/
99
/146/
72
/1318882/
92
/30/
cc age 7+

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
An alien is left behind on Earth and saved by the 10-year-old Elliott who decides to keep him hidden in his home. While a task force hunts for the extra-terrestrial, Elliott, his brother, and his little sister Gertie form an emotional bond with their new friend, and try to help him find his way home.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
83
8.2
/1695057/
81
/49785/
77
/22170/
3.8
/1892812/
85
/285/
94
/66671/
70
/41/
cc age 13+

Batman Begins (2005)
Driven by tragedy, billionaire Bruce Wayne dedicates his life to uncovering and defeating the corruption that plagues his home, Gotham City. Unable to work within the system, he instead creates a new identity, a symbol of fear for the criminal underworld - The Batman.
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Disney Plus
83
8.1
/916183/
80
/66176/
78
/20082/
4.1
/1364822/
93
/428/
91
/7191/
77
/51/
cc age 16+

Logan (2017)
In the near future, a weary Logan cares for an ailing Professor X in a hideout on the Mexican border. But Logan's attempts to hide from the world and his legacy are upended when a young mutant arrives, pursued by dark forces.
poster
Criterion Channel
83
7.4
/38027/
70
/553/
68
/416/
3.9
/24097/
98
/61/
86
/722/
91
/23/

The Sweet Hereafter (1997)
A small mountain community in Canada is devastated when a school bus accident leaves more than a dozen of its children dead. A big-city lawyer arrives to help the survivors' and victims' families prepare a class-action suit, but his efforts only seem to push the townspeople further apart. At the same time, one teenage survivor of the accident has to reckon with the loss of innocence brought about by a different kind of damage.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
83
7.8
/35059/
77
/641/
74
/492/
4.0
/26172/
100
/32/
93
/1200/
81
/5/

C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005)
A young French Canadian, one of five boys in a conservative family in the 1960s and 1970s, struggles to reconcile his emerging identity with his father's values.
poster
83
7.6
/58670/
74
/874/
73
/686/
3.7
/23178/
91
/43/
90
/1093/
87
/25/
cc age 15+

Shine (1996)
Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim.
poster
83
7.7
/59123/
75
/1246/
73
/1016/
4.0
/66703/
94
/147/
90
/2477/
91
/35/
cc age 12+

The Triplets of Belleville (2003)
When her grandson is kidnapped during the Tour de France, Madame Souza and her beloved pooch Bruno team up with the Belleville Sisters—an aged song-and-dance team from the days of Fred Astaire—to rescue him.
poster
Criterion Channel
83
7.5
/46777/
75
/1936/
75
/992/
4.0
/120933/
93
/30/
88
/876/
78
/9/
cc age 14+

Police Story (1985)
Officer Chan Ka Kui manages to put a major Hong Kong drug dealer behind the bars practically alone, after a shooting and an impressive chase inside a slum. Now, he must protect the boss' secretary, Selina, who will testify against the gangster in court.
poster
Kanopy
83
7.7
/79486/
76
/2282/
77
/1636/
4.2
/180909/
96
/121/
89
/974/
79
/31/
cc age 15+

Mother (2009)
A mother lives quietly with her son. One day, a girl is brutally killed, and the boy is charged with the murder. Now, it's his mother's mission to prove him innocent.
poster
Criterion Channel
83
7.7
/105178/
75
/2443/
75
/3265/
4.1
/150233/
91
/135/
81
/658/
86
/34/
cc age 17+

The Great Beauty (2013)
Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.
poster
Netflix
82
IMDb 15
7.5
/248708/
76
/5436/
77
/2765/
3.9
/2063657/
85
/366/
94
/624/
78
/58/
cc age 16+

Frankenstein (2025)
Dr. Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist, brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation.
poster
Netflix
82
7.5
/40456/
76
/2966/
74
/597/
3.8
/436159/
100
/138/
90
/280/
83
/31/
cc age 7+

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (2024)
Gromit’s concern that Wallace is becoming too dependent on his inventions proves justified, when Wallace invents a “smart” gnome that seems to develop a mind of its own. When it emerges that a vengeful figure from the past might be masterminding things, it falls to Gromit to battle sinister forces and save his master… or Wallace may never be able to invent again!
poster
Criterion Channel
82
7.6
/18438/
76
/660/
75
/402/
4.1
/72346/
100
/10/
86
/416/
80
/6/

Lady Snowblood (1973)
Yuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals. These criminals kidnap and brutalize her mother but leave her alive. Later her mother ends up in prison with only revenge to keep her alive. She creates an instrument for this revenge by purposefully getting pregnant. Yuki never knows the love of a family but only killing and revenge.
poster
Kanopy
82
7.6
/33747/
74
/676/
73
/517/
3.8
/31581/
100
/35/
87
/585/
91
/7/
cc age 10+

The Ladykillers (1955)
Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
82
8.2
/504615/
84
/18770/
83
/10768/
4.3
/2230678/
88
/185/
93
/14660/
82
/40/
8.6
/1012446/
cc age 8+

Howl's Moving Castle (2004)
Sophie, a young milliner, is turned into an elderly woman by a witch who enters her shop and curses her. She encounters a wizard named Howl and gets caught up in his resistance to fighting for the king.


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