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Kanopy
90
8.3
/100987/
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
/76797/
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
Kanopy
89
8.0
/125140/
81
/4725/
81
/2844/
4.4
/1006806/
97
/338/
92
/98/
95
/48/
cc age 15+

Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.
poster
Netflix
88
8.1
/143497/
83
/2640/
79
/954/
4.3
/735520/
97
/205/
97
/182/
85
/43/
cc age 14+

I'm Still Here (2024)
A woman married to a former politician during the 1971 military dictatorship in Brazil is forced to reinvent herself and chart a new course for her family after a violent and arbitrary act.
poster
88
8.2
/40482/
81
/2366/
78
/638/
4.1
/57265/
99
/155/
91
/438/
91
/27/
cc age 16+

They Shall Not Grow Old (2018)
A documentary about World War I with never-before-seen footage to commemorate the centennial of Armistice Day, and the end of the war.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
88
8.2
/191130/
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
/37579/
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
87
8.0
/104634/
79
/2457/
78
/2080/
4.2
/213062/
96
/163/
92
/7559/
90
/31/
cc age 15+

Persepolis (2007)
In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Satrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated Shah's defeat in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. However as Marji grows up, she witnesses first hand how the new Iran, now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, has become a repressive tyranny on its own.
poster
87
8.0
/27547/
79
/602/
77
/453/
4.3
/52377/
97
/38/
93
/635/
cc age 10+

A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
A British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court, hoping to prolong his fledgling romance with an American girl.
poster
Kanopy
86
8.0
/41649/
77
/663/
76
/588/
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.
poster
Kanopy
86
8.2
/699510/
80
/13640/
80
/7200/
4.5
/1182451/
91
/244/
86
/36703/
93
/42/
cc age 16+

There Will Be Blood (2007)
Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview, moves to oil-rich California. Using his son to project a trustworthy, family-man image, Plainview cons local landowners into selling him their valuable properties for a pittance. However, local preacher Eli Sunday suspects Plainview's motives and intentions, starting a slow-burning feud that threatens both their lives.
poster
Criterion Channel
86
8.0
/38246/
78
/673/
75
/704/
4.2
/52258/
97
/36/
93
/731/
88
/18/
cc age 12+

Au Revoir les Enfants (1987)
Au revoir les enfants tells a heartbreaking story of friendship and devastating loss concerning two boys living in Nazi-occupied France. At a provincial Catholic boarding school, the precocious youths enjoy true camaraderie—until a secret is revealed. Based on events from writer-director Malle’s own childhood, the film is a subtle, precisely observed tale of courage, cowardice, and tragic awakening.
poster
Kanopy
86
8.3
/708128/
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
Kanopy
86
8.0
/27887/
77
/514/
76
/539/
4.1
/45197/
97
/32/
90
/404/

Viridiana (1962)
Viridiana is preparing to start her life as a nun when she is sent, somewhat unwillingly, to visit her aging uncle, Don Jaime. He supports her; but the two have met only once. Jaime thinks Viridiana resembles his dead wife. Viridiana has secretly despised this man all her life and finds her worst fears proven when Jaime grows determined to seduce his pure niece. Viridiana becomes undone as her uncle upends the plans she had made to join the convent.
poster
MGM Plus
86
8.4
/159838/
82
/2431/
82
/1602/
4.4
/113664/
100
/41/
95
/743/
76
/12/
cc age 11+

Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
An ailing barrister is thrust back into the courtroom in what becomes one of the most unusual and eventful murder cases of the lawyer's career when he finds himself defending a man being tried for the murder of a socialite.
poster
Criterion Channel
86
7.9
/10540/
79
/308/
79
/228/
4.2
/48777/
94
/17/
93
/134/

Pixote (1980)
10-year-old Pixote endures torture, degradation, and corruption at a local youth detention center where two of its members are murdered by policemen who frame Lilica, a 17-year-old trans hustler. Pixote helps Lilica and three other boys escape and they start to make their living by a life of crime which only escalates to more violence and death.
poster
Kanopy
86
7.8
/84498/
76
/1378/
75
/992/
3.9
/63866/
98
/45/
92
/1439/
97
/18/
cc age 16+

My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989)
No one expects much from Christy Brown, a boy with cerebral palsy born into a working-class Irish family. Though Christy is a spastic quadriplegic and essentially paralyzed, a miraculous event occurs when, at the age of 5, he demonstrates control of his left foot by using chalk to scrawl a word on the floor. With the help of his steely mother — and no shortage of grit and determination — Christy overcomes his infirmity to become a painter, poet and author.
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Kanopy
85
7.7
/50118/
73
/918/
74
/878/
4.0
/98803/
98
/60/
88
/744/
93
/12/

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.
poster
Kanopy
85
7.9
/312737/
78
/7241/
75
/3011/
4.1
/700792/
91
/229/
92
/14901/
90
/38/
cc age 16+

Almost Famous (2000)
In 1973, 15-year-old William Miller's unabashed love of music and aspiration to become a rock journalist lands him an assignment from Rolling Stone magazine to interview and tour with the up-and-coming band, Stillwater.
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Hoopla
85
8.1
/71491/
77
/1341/
77
/897/
4.2
/64537/
98
/91/
89
/878/
91
/16/
cc age 14+

All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is destroyed by the harsh realities of combat.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
85
8.1
/14172/
78
/496/
75
/179/
4.0
/23152/
89
95
/24/

Collective (2019)
In the aftermath of a tragic fire in a Romanian club, burn victims begin dying in hospitals from wounds that were not life threatening. A team of investigative journalists move into action uncovering the mass corruption of the health system and of the state institutions. Collective follows journalists, whistle blowers, and authorities alike. An immersive and uncompromising look into a dysfunctional system, exposing corruption, propaganda, and manipulation that nowadays affect not only Romania, but societies around the world.
poster
85
7.5
/75217/
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.
poster
Kanopy
85
7.7
/11643/
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.
poster
85
8.3
/22103/
82
/474/
80
/357/
4.2
/22767/
87
/23/
96
/404/

To Live (1994)
Married couple Fugui and Jiazhen endure tumultuous events in mid-20th century mainland China as their personal fortunes move from wealthy landownership to peasantry.
poster
Criterion Channel
85
7.9
/302336/
77
/6650/
76
/3440/
4.2
/597976/
91
/158/
89
/6370/
86
/28/
cc age 18+

Boogie Nights (1997)
Set in 1977, back when sex was safe, pleasure was a business and business was booming, idealistic porn producer Jack Horner aspires to elevate his craft to an art form. Horner discovers Eddie Adams, a hot young talent working as a busboy in a nightclub, and welcomes him into the extended family of movie-makers, misfits and hangers-on that are always around. Adams' rise from nobody to a celebrity adult entertainer is meteoric, and soon the whole world seems to know his porn alter ego, "Dirk Diggler". Now, when disco and drugs are in vogue, fashion is in flux and the party never seems to stop, Adams' dreams of turning sex into stardom are about to collide with cold, hard reality.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
84
7.7
/66887/
75
/1795/
75
/920/
4.1
/134000/
93
/147/
85
/3212/
87
/35/
cc age 16+

Grizzly Man (2005)
Follows the story of "Grizzly Man" Timothy Treadwell and what the thirteen summers in a National Park in Alaska were like in his attempt to protect the grizzly bears. The film is full of unique images and a look into the spirit of a man who sacrificed himself for nature.
poster
84
8.1
/372297/
81
/8096/
80
/4536/
4.3
/1295458/
100
/51/
93
/5129/
79
/19/
cc age 16+

Before Sunrise (1995)
An unexpected meeting on a train leads two travelers to spend an evening wandering through Vienna. As the night unfolds, they share stories and conversations about life and love, exploring new ideas while a quiet intimacy grows between them, knowing it may be their only night together.
poster
84
7.7
/13540/
76
/225/
75
/279/
4.1
/26482/
95
/39/
85
/190/

Diary of a Country Priest (1951)
An inexperienced, sickly priest shows up in the rural French community of Ambricourt, where he joins the community's clergy. But the locals don't take kindly to the priest, and his ascetic ways and unsociable demeanor make him an outcast. During Bible studies at the nearby girls school, he is continually mocked by his students. Then his attempt to intervene in a family feud backfires into a scandal. His failures, compounded with his declining health, begin to erode his faith.
poster
Criterion Channel
84
7.9
/31217/
78
/633/
75
/672/
4.1
/69765/
93
/60/
91
/448/
94
/16/

Elevator to the Gallows (1958)
A self-assured businessman murders his employer, husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.
poster
Kanopy
84
7.8
/14629/
77
/346/
76
/323/
4.2
/34988/
100
/72/
86
/6642/
87
/24/

Poetry (2010)
A South Korean woman in her sixties enrolls in a poetry class as she grapples with her faltering memory and her grandson's appalling wrongdoing.
poster
Netflix
84
7.8
/57628/
77
/2870/
75
/1295/
4.0
/122940/
96
/224/
87
/750/
85
/41/
cc age 16+

Amy (2015)
A documentary on the life of Amy Winehouse, the immensely talented yet doomed songstress. We see her from her teen years, where she already showed her singing abilities, to her finding success and then her downward spiral into alcoholism and drugs.
poster
The Roku Channel
84
7.8
/254546/
76
/4728/
74
/3438/
3.8
/167931/
95
/321/
87
/6582/
89
/41/
cc age 13+

The Artist (2011)
Hollywood, 1927: As silent movie star George Valentin wonders if the arrival of talking pictures will cause him to fade into oblivion, he sparks with Peppy Miller, a young dancer set for a big break.
poster
83
7.6
/49631/
74
/732/
71
/656/
4.1
/44116/
95
/59/
88
/960/
81
/22/

Short Cuts (1993)
Many loosely connected characters cross paths in this film, based on the stories of Raymond Carver. Waitress Doreen Piggot accidentally runs into a boy with her car. Soon after walking away, the child lapses into a coma. While at the hospital, the boy's grandfather tells his son, Howard, about his past affairs. Meanwhile, a baker starts harassing the family when they fail to pick up the boy's birthday cake.
poster
Starz
83
8.3
/1002772/
82
/20350/
81
/12684/
4.1
/1413728/
78
/82/
93
/30667/
65
/9/
cc age 18+

Scarface (1983)
After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciously murdering anyone who stands in his way, Tony eventually becomes the biggest drug lord in the state, controlling nearly all the cocaine that comes through Miami. But increased pressure from the police, wars with Colombian drug cartels and his own drug-fueled paranoia serve to fuel the flames of his eventual downfall.
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Kanopy
86
83
8.2
/13918/
77
/291/
80
/291/
4.4
/37307/
100
/26/
92
/176/

Satantango (1994)
Inhabitants of a small village in Hungary deal with the effects of the fall of Communism. The town's source of revenue, a factory, has closed, and the locals, who include a doctor and three couples, await a cash payment offered in the wake of the shuttering. Irimias, a villager thought to be dead, returns and, unbeknownst to the locals, is a police informant. In a scheme, he persuades the villagers to form a commune with him.
poster
83
7.5
/66692/
74
/2418/
73
/1868/
4.0
/160674/
96
/306/
91
/78/
87
/43/
cc age 17+

Pain and Glory (2019)
Salvador Mallo, a filmmaker in the twilight of his career, remembers his life: his mother, his lovers, the actors he worked with. The sixties in a small village in Valencia, the eighties in Madrid, the present, when he feels an immeasurable emptiness, facing his mortality, the incapability of continuing filming, the impossibility of separating creation from his own life. The need of narrating his past can be his salvation.
poster
Kanopy
83
8.0
/23743/
78
/434/
79
/573/
4.1
/23453/
88
/40/
90
/335/
84
/15/

Limelight (1952)
A fading music hall comedian tries to help a despondent ballet dancer learn to walk and to again feel confident about life.
poster
Kanopy
83
7.6
/26723/
74
/521/
74
/528/
4.1
/59111/
93
/58/
84
/612/

Last Year at Marienbad (1961)
In a strange and isolated chateau, a man becomes acquainted with a woman and insists that they have met before.
poster
Kanopy
83
8.2
/203187/
80
/3678/
80
/2783/
4.2
/190264/
90
/48/
92
/1803/
75
/11/
cc age 13+

Dial M for Murder (1954)
When her American lover visits London, a wealthy woman’s jealous husband hatches a plan to murder her and inherit her fortune.
poster
Criterion Channel
83
7.6
/11717/
75
/297/
73
/251/
4.1
/75311/
98
/49/
83
/51/
91
/14/

A Summer's Tale (1996)
Awaiting his girlfriend Léna’s arrival at the Breton seaside resort of Dinard, Gaspard befriends — and flirts heavily with — two other women, the companionable ethnology student Margot and the sensual townie Solène, making for a rather complicated situation when Léna finally arrives.
poster
83
7.6
/28607/
75
/388/
74
/416/
4.0
/38107/
98
/97/
90
/375/
84
/29/

The Man Without a Past (2002)
Arriving in Helsinki, a nameless man is beaten within an inch of his life by thugs, miraculously recovering only to find that he has completely lost his memory. Back on the streets, he attempts to begin again from zero, befriending a moody dog and becoming besotted with a Salvation Army volunteer.
poster
Criterion Channel
83
7.4
/38029/
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
Kanopy
83
8.0
/63852/
77
/871/
77
/746/
4.3
/38747/
86
/37/
96
/839/
79
/17/

Underground (1995)
A group of Serbian socialists prepares for the war in a surreal underground filled by parties, tragedies, love and hate.
poster
Criterion Channel
83
7.7
/105183/
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
83
7.8
/190901/
76
/3385/
74
/1987/
4.1
/127689/
96
/135/
90
/2577/
85
/34/
cc age 16+

The Insider (1999)
A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes exposé on Big Tobacco.
poster
Hulu
83
7.5
/157737/
73
/6101/
73
/3208/
3.8
/229590/
97
/277/
87
/1772/
88
/45/
cc age 14+

Brooklyn (2015)
In 1950s Ireland and New York, young Eilis Lacey has to choose between two men and two countries.
poster
Kanopy
82
7.5
/74432/
74
/3368/
72
/1008/
3.8
/80593/
96
/140/
89
/127/
81
/25/
cc age 16+

Riders of Justice (2020)
Markus returns home to care for his daughter when his wife dies in a tragic train accident. However, when a survivor of the wreck surfaces and claims foul play, Markus suspects his wife was murdered and embarks on a mission to find those responsible.
poster
Kanopy
82
7.7
/12810/
70
/244/
75
/252/
3.9
/19162/
93
/44/
86
/308/

Pandora's Box (1929)
The rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires lust and violence in those around her.


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