01-01-2025, a list by BSM.Venger

74

/1792/

73

/441/

4.1

/249348/

95

/223/

90

/17/

88

/42/

4.0

age 13+

A logger leads a life of quiet grace as he experiences love and loss during an era of monumental change in early 20th-century America.

84

7.5

/818/

82

/55/

75

/24/

4.0

/2418/

97

/30/

78

/10/

87

/7/

4.0

Fifteen-year-old Heidi Schreck earned her college tuition by winning Constitutional debate competitions across the United States. In this hilarious, hopeful, and achingly human show, Heidi resurrects her teenage self in order to trace the profound relationship between four generations of women and the founding document that shaped their lives.

84

7.7

/7962/

74

/166/

75

/153/

4.0

/11555/

100

/31/

87

/108/

85

/10/

4.0

A web of blackmail and murder attracts the attention of a barrister with a seemingly idyllic life, threatening to derail his career on the path of success.

83

8.3

/483/

66

/20/

82

/5/

4.0

/10868/

95

/59/

95

/217/

78

/11/

3.5

age 13+

Franklin Shepard is a talented Broadway composer who abandons his theater career and all his friends in New York in order to produce films in Los Angeles. The story begins at the height of his Hollywood fame and moves backwards in time, showing snapshots of the most important moments in Frank’s life that shaped the man he is today. A live recording of the 2024 Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's musical, filmed at the Hudson Theatre in New York City.

82

IMDb 17

7.5

/227869/

76

/5436/

76

/2593/

3.9

/1857701/

85

/365/

94

/622/

78

/58/

4.0

age 16+

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.

82

7.6

/60865/

73

/1239/

73

/1066/

3.9

/90112/

96

/70/

86

/1160/

91

/8/

Beautiful young manicurist Carole suffers from androphobia (the pathological fear of interaction with men). When her sister and roommate, Helen, leaves their London flat to go on an Italian holiday with her married boyfriend, Carole withdraws into her apartment. She begins to experience frightful hallucinations, her fear gradually mutating into madness.

82

7.7

/35701/

74

/889/

74

/641/

4.1

/63362/

95

/57/

86

/615/

88

/17/

A young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted by ghosts and that the children are being possessed.

82

7.4

/6233/

76

/105/

70

/95/

3.9

/9332/

92

/13/

85

/77/

84

/12/

4.0

Working-class couple Shirley and Cyril are in conflict over whether they should have children, their problems with 'yuppies' moving into the neighbourhood and outpricing them, and the advent of Cyril's ageing mother's seventieth birthday.

81

7.4

/16349/

71

/236/

70

/236/

3.8

/9597/

97

/87/

88

/297/

86

/25/

3.5

Determined to have a normal family life once his mother gets out of prison, a Scottish teenager from a tough background sets out to raise the money for a home.

81

7.3

/6246/

70

/125/

69

/81/

3.8

/2781/

93

/105/

81

/386/

89

/25/

4.0

A man planning to commit suicide hires a taxi driver to take him to his jumping-off point.

81

7.7

/144831/

76

/2953/

75

/2109/

3.9

/166546/

93

/55/

88

/1987/

83

/16/

age 17+

New York cop Frank Serpico blows the whistle on the rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him.

80

7.0

/2303/

69

/71/

78

/25/

3.8

/21340/

100

/104/

67

/36/

87

/28/

4.0

On an empty road in the middle of the night, Shula stumbles across the body of her uncle. As funeral proceedings begin around them, she and her cousins bring to light the buried secrets of their middle-class Zambian family.

80

IMDb 14

8.1

/10844/

79

/183/

76

/38/

4.2

/197443/

86

/286/

93

/527/

84

/53/

2.5

age 13+

The powerful story of love and loss that inspired the creation of Shakespeare's timeless masterpiece, Hamlet.

80

7.7

/45663/

75

/989/

73

/549/

3.8

/25193/

97

/29/

91

/1435/

77

/9/

age 12+

In 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War, man-of-the-people Lt. Chard and snooty Lt. Bromhead are in charge of defending the isolated and vastly outnumbered Natal outpost of Rorke's Drift from tribal hordes.

81

80

7.5

/16723/

74

/336/

71

/272/

3.8

/12772/

100

/71/

86

/241/

90

/13/

age 8+

A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipments of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country.

80

7.4

/4078/

73

/80/

72

/101/

3.8

/2877/

80

/10/

84

/52/

83

/23/

4.0

Maggie has had four children, by four different fathers, removed by social services because of a previous violent relationship. When she meets Jorge, a gentle Latin American refugee, she gradually sees her chance for happiness, but her history still haunts her.

80

7.2

/4900/

70

/133/

66

/78/

3.8

/4654/

97

/60/

77

/278/

83

/20/

4.0

Alejandro, a tough and ambitious Latino street orphan on the verge of adolescence, lives and works in an auto-body repair shop in a sprawling junkyard on the outskirts of Queens, New York. In this chaotic world of adults, young Alejandro struggles to make a better life for himself and his 16-year-old sister, Isamar.

80

7.2

/19850/

69

/385/

68

/251/

3.6

/9782/

93

/45/

81

/344/

89

/19/

4.0

age 13+

Aging King George III of England is exhibiting signs of madness, a problem little understood in 1788. As the monarch alternates between bouts of confusion and near-violent outbursts of temper, his hapless doctors attempt the ineffectual cures of the day. Meanwhile, Queen Charlotte and Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger attempt to prevent the king's political enemies, led by the Prince of Wales, from usurping the throne.

79

7.3

/15560/

72

/289/

69

/259/

3.9

/17243/

83

/23/

84

/407/

78

/13/

4.0

Architect Mark Wallace and his wife, Joanna, travel to France to meet with an affluent client. While there, they reflect on their first decade of marriage -- memories of when they first met, of courtship, and of road trips through the French countryside. As flirtation and playful quarreling turn to boredom with the banality of married life, the Wallaces struggle to rekindle their passion, while mutual infidelity threatens to tear them apart.

79

7.1

/3696/

72

/139/

67

/86/

3.6

/3993/

90

/20/

73

/96/

88

/8/

4.0

During World War II, a young man is called up and, with an increasing sense of foreboding, undertakes his army training ready for D-Day, June 6th, 1944.

79

7.3

/16261/

69

/248/

67

/190/

3.7

/10751/

96

/52/

85

/377/

86

/24/

3.5

age 15+

A murderous lust for the British throne sees Richard III descend into madness. Though the setting is transposed to the 1930s, England is torn by civil war, split between the rivaling houses of York and Lancaster. Richard aspires to a fascist dictatorship, but must first remove the obstacles to his ascension—among them his brother, his nephews and his brother's wife. When the Duke of Buckingham deserts him, Richard's plans are compromised.

78

6.6

/5279/

68

/515/

70

/81/

3.2

/13264/

95

/79/

83

/229/

78

/13/

4.0

age 11+

When a young girl’s sketchbook falls into a strange pond, her drawings come to life—chaotic, real, and on the loose. As the town descends into chaos, her family must reunite and stop the monsters they never meant to unleash.

78

6.5

/260/

64

/14/

75

/2/

3.5

/584/

100

/27/

96

/33/

80

/5/

3.0

In a modern re-imagining of Little Red Riding Hood, a social pariah discovers a teenage runaway in the Oregon Wilderness and does his best to help her find a way home - a troubling exploration of trauma and redemption.

77

7.1

/576/

Trakt

67

/24/

64

/14/

3.6

/8669/

93

/69/

91

/15/

77

/17/

3.5

age 10+

After wildfires take his ranch, a cowboy named Dusty winds up in a FEMA camp, finding community with others who lost homes, including his daughter and ex-wife.

78

7.2

/5920/

68

/97/

67

/44/

3.7

/6004/

96

/108/

83

/279/

83

/31/

3.5

Victor, a Lower East Side teenager, as he deals with his eccentric family, including his strict grandmother, his bratty sister, and a younger brother who completely idolizes him. Along the way he tries to win the affections of Judy, who is very careful and calculating when it comes to how she deals with men.

78

6.6

/620/

60

/14/

73

/14/

3.6

/621/

93

/41/

83

/21/

82

/15/

4.0

Standing on the edge of adulthood, Andrew yearns to find his purpose as a young African-American in today's America. With his mother longing to find more to her life then parenting, Andrew is forced to take on the mounting pressure of family responsibility. His search for connection with an absent father, leads him to a dangerous crossroads.

78

7.3

/3864/

67

/68/

65

/63/

3.9

/4538/

91

/58/

88

/275/

79

/15/

3.5

After returning home to his long-estranged mother upon a request from her deathbed, a man raised by his parents in an orphanage has to confront the childhood memories that have long haunted him.

78

7.3

/5376/

68

/74/

64

/57/

3.6

/2851/

91

/107/

84

/227/

75

/33/

4.0

Director Mario Van Peebles chronicles the complicated production of his father Melvin's classic 1971 film, "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song." Playing his father in the film, Van Peebles offers an unapologetic account of Melvin's brash and sometimes deceptive conduct on the set of the film, including questionable antics like writing bad checks, tricking a local fire department and allowing his son, Mario, to shoot racy sex scenes at the age of 11.

78

7.3

/43058/

71

/703/

70

/624/

3.7

/13699/

84

/148/

81

/1639/

77

/35/

4.0

When brash Texas border officer Mike Norton wrongfully kills and buries the friend and ranch hand of Pete Perkins, the latter is reminded of a promise he made to bury his friend, Melquiades Estrada, in his Mexican home town. He kidnaps Norton and exhumes Estrada's corpse, and the odd caravan sets out on horseback for Mexico.

77

IMDb 90

7.2

/1013/

58

/23/

75

/4/

3.7

/15920/

100

/91/

62

/101/

79

/20/

4.0

age 15+

A socially awkward tween endures the ruthless hierarchy at a water polo camp, his anxiety spiraling into psychological turmoil over the summer.

77

7.0

/1099/

60

/29/

64

/18/

3.7

/6018/

98

/62/

87

/21/

3.5

An octogenarian woman transitions to life in assisted living as she contends with her conflicting relationship to herself and her caregivers amidst her shifting memory, age identity, and desires.

79

77

7.5

/23678/

73

/275/

70

/234/

3.8

/8791/

94

/143/

81

/3578/

88

/36/

age 14+

Fiona and Grant have been married for nearly 50 years. They have to face the fact that Fiona’s absent-mindedness is a symptom of Alzheimer’s disease. She must go to a specialized nursing home, where she slowly forgets Grant and turns her affection to Aubrey, another patient in the home.

77

6.9

/6378/

68

/112/

63

/73/

3.6

/5483/

89

/45/

71

/161/

84

/27/

4.0

age 16+

Several Black men take a cross-country bus trip to attend the Million Man March in Washington, DC in 1995. On the bus are an eclectic set of characters including a laid-off aircraft worker, a man whose at-risk son is handcuffed to him, a black Republican, a former gangsta, a Hollywood actor, a cop who is of mixed racial background, and a white bus driver. All make the trek discussing issues surrounding the march, including manhood, religion, politics, and race.

77

7.0

/776/

60

/7/

62

/14/

3.6

/3545/

100

/9/

92

/2/

77

/17/

3.5

Deadpan, small-time Kosher Nostra mobster Harry Plotnick goes meshugga when he gets into the catering biz with his ex-brother-in-law.

77

7.5

/105382/

74

/5402/

74

/2646/

3.6

/119971/

77

/300/

96

/2500/

68

/46/

3.5

age 15+

Richard Jewell thinks quick, works fast, and saves hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives after a domestic terrorist plants several pipe bombs and they explode during a concert, only to be falsely suspected of the crime by sloppy FBI work and sensational media coverage.

77

6.9

/4768/

70

/201/

67

/128/

3.8

/18184/

98

/84/

73

/23/

80

/20/

3.5

Convicted of witchcraft, 8-year-old Shula is brought to live in a penal colony where witches do hard labour in service of the government.

77

7.1

/6483/

75

/552/

72

/123/

3.5

/9065/

89

/82/

84

/63/

75

/22/

3.5

age 16+

A progressive graduate student finds success and sparks outrage when his interest in battle rap as a thesis subject becomes a competitive obsession.

77

7.2

/11879/

68

/182/

68

/184/

3.7

/7912/

84

/32/

83

/258/

68

/21/

4.0

An alienated teenager, saddened that he has moved away from London, must find a way to deal with a dark family secret.

77

7.5

/22756/

72

/297/

67

/181/

3.8

/18137/

85

/136/

79

/4214/

82

/33/

3.5

age 14+

The American-born son of Indian immigrants strives to fit in among his fellow New Yorkers despite his family's unwillingness to let go of their traditional ways.

77

7.4

/15016/

78

/545/

72

/251/

4.0

/78087/

88

/90/

88

/679/

65

/28/

age 15+

A Chinese-American lesbian and her traditionalist mother are reluctant to go public with secret loves that clash against cultural expectations.

79

76

7.5

/5413/

76

/302/

71

/104/

4.0

/11071/

94

/28/

A behind-the-scenes documentary about the recording of Aretha Franklin's best-selling album finally sees the light of day more than four decades after the original footage was shot.

76

IMDb 91

6.9

/9952/

66

/308/

68

/109/

3.7

/66756/

90

/212/

77

/72/

78

/43/

3.5

age 15+

On the evening of March 31, 1943, legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart confronts his shattered self-confidence in Sardi’s bar as his former collaborator Richard Rodgers celebrates the opening night of his ground-breaking hit musical “Oklahoma!”.

76

6.6

/400/

68

/33/

63

/3/

3.6

/1451/

91

/23/

98

/30/

67

/8/

3.5

Disappearing into a monkey costume and creating a new persona, Jane strives to break free from a toxic relationship when she encounters a suicidal radio show host, Roy, who presents a path to freedom. After hitting the open road in Roy's Airstream, the unlikely duo soon hatch a plan that could help finance a new life, but could also land them in jail. Hot on their heels is Jane's controlling partner, Wade, who aims to put an end to Jane's newfound freedom.

76

IMDb 28

7.1

/1629/

68

/35/

76

/3/

3.5

/28525/

85

/143/

83

/67/

73

/37/

3.5

age 16+

As their marriage quietly unravels, Alex faces middle age and an impending divorce, seeking new purpose in the New York comedy scene while Tess confronts the sacrifices she made for their family—forcing them to navigate co-parenting, identity, and whether love can take a new form.

76

6.8

/2901/

74

/291/

73

/87/

3.5

/3530/

86

/36/

85

/18/

77

/4/