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Kanopy
90
8.3
/101044/
82
/1727/
83
/1286/
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
84
7.6
/7536/
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
82
7.6
/59546/
72
/1391/
73
/926/
4.0
/52036/
97
/146/
80
/321/
92
/34/

Leviathan (2014)
In a Russian coastal town, Kolya is forced to fight the corrupt mayor when he is told that his house will be demolished. He recruits a lawyer friend to help, but the man's arrival brings further misfortune for Kolya and his family.
poster
Hoopla
80
7.6
/6085/
76
/177/
72
/293/
3.9
/9259/
73
/11/
87
/97/

My Mother's Castle (1990)
To his chagrin, young Marcel Pagnol and his family move back to their home in Marseille, France, far from their pastoral holiday cottage in the hills. Determined, Marcel makes the long voyage back to the cottage on foot and lands himself in trouble. One day Marcel's father discovers a shortcut to the cottage, but it requires trespassing. Despite their trepidations, Marcel and his family begin using the secret trail to reach their cottage.
poster
79
7.8
/221154/
78
/5500/
76
/3587/
4.1
/255807/
98
/63/
90
/7407/
84
/18/
cc age 17+

Brazil (1985)
Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle, he meets the woman from his daydream, and in trying to help her gets caught in a web of mistaken identities, mindless bureaucracy and lies.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
78
7.4
/80514/
73
/2555/
72
/1261/
3.9
/160359/
93
/76/
82
/1381/
75
/15/
cc age 14+

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
The residents of San Francisco are becoming drone-like shadows of their former selves, and as the phenomenon spreads, two Department of Health workers uncover the horrifying truth.
poster
Criterion Channel
75
6.9
/1699/
65
/20/
64
/32/
3.5
/806/
76
/37/
79
/7/
82
/15/

Safe Conduct (2002)
During the Nazi occupation of France as two filmmakers attempt to navigate their careers without compromising their ideals. Facing pressure from the Vichy government, assistant director Jean Devaivre uses his position at the German-controlled studio Continental Films as a cover for his resistance activities, while screenwriter Jean Aurenche uses his wits to keep from being involved in the creation of any collaborationist propaganda.
poster
74
7.4
/99551/
73
/1389/
72
/1238/
3.6
/31369/
74
/141/
85
/6612/
69
/33/
cc age 15+

The Painted Veil (2006)
A British medical doctor fights a cholera outbreak in a small Chinese village, while also being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful wife.
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Kanopy
79
73
7.5
/8111/
72
/123/
68
/140/
3.8
/6473/
100
/24/
82
/75/
84
/6/
cc age 13+

Room at the Top (1958)
An ambitious young accountant schemes to wed a wealthy factory owner's daughter, despite falling in love with a married older woman.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
71
7.0
/87090/
69
/2683/
67
/1592/
3.4
/74923/
75
/32/
71
/2111/
67
/8/
cc age 16+

Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
Imagine a world where absolute conformity rules, and word and thought, including loyalty to Big Brother is demanded. It's the year 1984 and such a world exists. Divided into three vast states, whose inhabitants are dominated by all powerful governments, an illegal love affair begins. Soon, worker drone Winston becomes the target of a brain-washing campaign to force him back to conformity.
poster
Criterion Channel
78
70
7.4
/7343/
72
/123/
69
/129/
3.8
/11012/
93
/15/
84
/62/

Lola (1981)
Germany in the autumn of 1957: Lola, a seductive cabaret singer-prostitute exults in her power as a temptress of men, but she wants out—she wants money, property, and love. Pitting a corrupt building contractor against the new straight-arrow building commissioner, Lola launches an outrageous plan to elevate herself in a world where everything, and everyone, is for sale. Shot in childlike candy colors, Fassbinder’s homage to Josef von Sternberg’s classic The Blue Angel stands as a satiric tribute to capitalism.
poster
70
7.0
/74692/
70
/2442/
69
/1375/
3.5
/60234/
70
/40/
70
/1848/
66
/13/

Soylent Green (1973)
In the year 2022, overcrowding, pollution, and resource depletion have reduced society’s leaders to finding food for the teeming masses. The answer is Soylent Green.
poster
Kanopy
68
6.6
/3116/
69
/74/
65
/82/
3.5
/3655/
87
/77/
48
/15/
71
/25/

Francofonia (2015)
Master filmmaker Alexander Sokurov (Russian Ark) transforms a portrait of the world-renowned museum into a magisterial, centuries-spanning reflection on the relation between art, culture and power.
poster
Netflix
67
6.8
/39112/
68
/1541/
69
/627/
3.4
/39704/
83
/87/
78
/106/
53
/20/
cc age 14+

Munich – The Edge of War (2021)
At the tense 1938 Munich Conference, former friends who now work for opposing governments become reluctant spies racing to expose a Nazi secret.
poster
Criterion Channel
67
7.0
/25339/
68
/314/
65
/259/
3.4
/11086/
66
/65/
74
/444/
65
/32/
cc age 16+

The End of the Affair (1999)
On a rainy London night in 1946, novelist Maurice Bendrix has a chance meeting with Henry Miles, husband of his ex-mistress Sarah, who abruptly ended their affair two years before. Bendrix's obsession with Sarah is rekindled; he succumbs to his own jealousy and arranges to have her followed.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
64
7.0
/33405/
70
/681/
67
/426/
3.4
/17661/
72
/32/
66
/455/
40
/7/

The Boys from Brazil (1978)
Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman discovers a sinister and bizarre plot, masterminded by Dr. Josef Mengele, to rekindle the Third Reich.
poster
Kanopy
64
6.8
/68799/
69
/1480/
64
/933/
3.1
/21753/
68
/148/
64
/1543/
58
/35/
cc age 13+

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2012)
A fisheries expert is approached by a consultant to help realize a sheik's vision of bringing the sport of fly-fishing to the desert and embarks on an upstream journey of faith and fish to prove the impossible possible.
poster
YouTube
64
7.4
/217452/
73
/7678/
73
/4328/
3.4
/103218/
49
/197/
72
/2009/
48
/39/
cc age 16+

The Judge (2014)
A successful lawyer returns to his hometown for his mother's funeral only to discover that his estranged father, the town's judge, is suspected of murder.
poster
70
62
7.1
/4255/
72
/74/
70
/206/
3.7
/4432/
67
/21/
71
/46/
69
/11/

Good Morning, Night (2003)
The 1978 kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro, president of the most important political party in Italy at the time, Democrazia Cristiana, as seen from the perspective of one of his assailants -- a conflicted young woman in the ranks of the Red Brigade.
poster
72
62
7.4
/8982/
67
/128/
70
/92/
3.4
/1678/
85
/477/

The Girl in the Café (2005)
Lawrence, an aging, lonely civil servant falls for Gina, an enigmatic young woman. When he takes her to the G8 Summit in Reykjavik, however, their bond is tested by Lawrence's professional obligations.
poster
59
6.7
/111926/
67
/2389/
63
/1253/
3.2
/33152/
56
/172/
51
/7889/
61
/33/
cc age 17+

The Good Shepherd (2006)
Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young man who values honor and discretion, qualities that help him to be recruited for a career in the newly founded OSS. His dedication to his work does not come without a price though, leading him to sacrifice his ideals and eventually his family.
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Kanopy
58
6.2
/74249/
65
/1928/
61
/1127/
2.9
/50478/
42
/173/
48
/3760/
43
/35/
cc age 15+

Jersey Girl (2004)
Ollie Trinke is a young, suave music publicist who seems to have it all, with a new wife and a baby on the way. But life deals him a bum hand when he's suddenly faced with single fatherhood, a defunct career and having to move in with his father. To bounce back, it takes a new love and the courage instilled in him by his daughter.
poster
Netflix
57
6.4
/15508/
67
/916/
66
/387/
2.9
/8652/
30
/150/
55
/90/
45
/22/
cc age 13+

Red Joan (2018)
London, England, May 2000. The peaceful life of elderly Joan Stanley is suddenly disrupted when she is arrested by the British Intelligence Service and accused of providing information to communist Russia during the forties.
poster
55
6.4
/13659/
66
/266/
61
/180/
3.2
/3886/
32
/88/
62
/318/
48
/28/
cc age 15+

Charlotte Gray (2001)
This is a drama set in Nazi-occupied France at the height of World War II. Charlotte Gray tells the compelling story of a young Scottish woman working with the French Resistance in the hope of rescuing her lover, a missing RAF pilot. Based on the best-selling novel by Sebastian Faulks.
poster
59
54
6.3
/7454/
68
/197/
59
/150/
3.2
/4678/
53
/17/
49
/114/

Rollercoaster (1977)
A young terrorist kills and injures patrons of a Norfolk amusement park by placing homemade explosives on the track of one of its roller coasters. After staging a similar incident in Pittsburgh, he sends a tape to a meeting of major amusement park executives in Chicago, demanding $1 million to make him stop.
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Netflix
75
52
8.1
/15931/
73
/159/
69
/77/
3.6
/9001/
81
/3/

Indian (1996)
Senapathy, an ex-freedom fighter, is angry. He is angry against the rampant corruption at every level of the bureaucracy. He will clean it up at any cost.
poster
75
51
7.9
/3198/
74
/60/
78
/45/
3.6
/1206/

India (1993)
Heinzi Boesel and Kurt Fellner are two Austrian health inspectors forced to work together, traveling through Austria. Over time a beautiful friendship evolves between the odd couple who couldn't stand each other initially; a friendship that even overcomes the boundaries of great tragedy.
poster
fuboTV
65
51
6.7
/4660/
64
/91/
62
/91/
3.4
/3487/
64
/23/

The Deadly Affair (1967)
Charles Dobbs is a British secret agent investigating the apparent suicide of Foreign Office official Samuel Fennan. Dobbs suspects that Fennan's wife, Elsa, a survivor of a Nazi Germany extermination camp, might have some clues, but other officials want Dobbs to drop the case. So Dobbs hires a retiring inspector, Mendel, to quietly make inquiries. Dobbs isn't at all sure as there are a number of anomalies that simply can't be explained away. Dobbs is also having trouble at home with his errant wife, whom he very much loves, having frequent affairs. He's also pleased to see an old friend, Dieter Frey, who he recruited after the war. With the assistance of a colleague and a retired policeman, Dobbs tries to piece together just who is the spy and who in fact assassinated Fennan.
poster
79
51
8.4
/6636/
79
/68/
74
/43/
3.8
/2558/
82
/4/

The Elusive Summer of '68 (1984)
For the young man who lives in Serbian province town, the maturing coincides with the turbulent political events of the year 1968.
poster
55
50
5.4
/4238/
59
/255/
58
/121/
2.6
/2487/

The Marco Effect (2021)
When a homeless Romani boy is arrested at the Danish border for possession of a missing public servant's passport, police inspector Carl Mørck and Department Q are tasked with finding the connection.
poster
Criterion Channel
70
50
6.9
/2987/
71
/32/
65
/48/
3.6
/3069/

Effi Briest (1974)
When 17-year-old Effi Briest marries the elderly Baron von Instetten, she moves to a small, isolated Baltic town and a house that she fears is haunted. Starved for companionship, Effi begins a friendship with Major Crampas, a charismatic womanizer.
poster
75
48
7.0
/2163/
66
/43/
66
/27/
3.8
/10526/
90
/10/
86
/9/

Chilly Scenes of Winter (1979)
Charles is a bored civil servant struggling through a harsh Utah winter. He spends most of his time reflecting on his romance with Laura, a coworker who left him to return to her husband, an A-Frame salesman.
poster
64
47
6.9
/2459/
65
/47/
63
/55/
3.4
/2109/
80
/5/
44
/17/

Crime and Punishment (1935)
Former student Raskolnikov is pushed to murder when struggling to pay the rent on his apartment. When the murder is being investigated by the police, Raskolnikov struggles between trying to hide his guilt and the pressure to confess.
poster
57
44
6.8
/3300/
60
/63/
64
/71/
3.3
/1323/
20
/5/
66
/3267/

Days of Darkness (2007)
Jean-Marc is a man without qualities living in times that are out of joint. His wife and children ignore him; he's a mid-level government functionary in Montreal doing his job without care. He has an active imagination of sexual conquest, but his only real feelings come when he visits his aged mother, whose health is failing. When his wife leaves abruptly to work in Toronto, Jean-Marc sets out to reorder things with his daughters, his social life, and at work. In a world that at best is a farce, does he stand a chance?
poster
62
44
6.9
/2675/
67
/74/
58
/37/
3.3
/348/
57
/21/
68
/108/
51
/13/

Cowboys & Angels (2004)
This story concerns a hapless civil servant who gets more than he bargains for when he moves into an apartment in Limerick with a gay fashion student and becomes a star on the catwalk. A contemporary story embracing the essence of what it is to be young in today's Ireland.
poster
74
43
7.6
/2751/
72
/21/
62
/43/
3.7
/1710/
88
/11/

Oblomov (1980)
St. Petersburg, mid 19th century: the indolent, middle-aged Oblomov lives in a flat with his older servant, Zakhar. He sleeps much of the day, dreaming of his childhood on his parents' estate. His boyhood companion, Stoltz, now an energetic and successful businessman, adds Oblomov to his circle whenever he's in the city, and Oblomov's life changes when Stoltz introduces him to Olga, lovely and cultured. When Stoltz leaves for several months, Oblomov takes a country house near Olga's, and she determines to change him: to turn him into a man of society, action, and culture. Soon, Olga and Oblomov are in love; but where, in the triangle, does that leave Stoltz?
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Kanopy
71
42
6.8
/1651/
70
/30/
64
/44/
3.5
/1035/
88
/8/
69
/12/

Dangerous Love Affairs (1959)
Juliette Merteuil and Valmont is a sophisticated couple, always looking for fun and excitement. Both have sexual affairs with others and share their experiences with one another. But there is one rule: never fall in love. But this time Valmont falls madly in love with a girl he meets at a ski resort, Marianne.
poster
71
41
7.1
/707/
70
/27/
73
/56/
3.6
/13341/

The Great Arch (2025)
1983. The biggest architectural competition in history, both anonymous and open, is launched under the impetus of a new socialist president, François Mitterrand. Coveted by all the biggest international architectural firms, the competition is surprisingly won by an unknown: Johan Otto von Spreckelsen, an architecture teacher from Copenhagen. Until then, the fifty-year-old Danish had only built 4 buildings: his home and three small chapels.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
45
37
5.1
/3429/
48
/52/
51
/74/
3.0
/1683/
32
/25/
29
/183/
44
/7/

Klimt (2006)
A portrait of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt whose lavish, sexual paintings came to symbolize the art nouveau style of the late 19th and early 20th century.
poster
64
36
6.6
/1604/
62
/21/
56
/26/
3.3
/829/
80
/5/
56
/19/

The End of the Affair (1955)
During the 1940s, Maurice Bendrix, a writer recently discharged from the armed service, falls in love with Sarah Miles, whom he interviews for a book. Sarah is married, but she and Maurice eventually give in to their mutual attraction, leading to an affair that lasts several months. Maurice's jealousy, along with the bombing of London by the Germans, seemingly leads to the end of their relationship. However, the reasons are later revealed to be more complex.
poster
67
32
6.8
/1149/
71
/99/
66
/22/
3.4
/362/
64
/37/

And Along Come Tourists (2007)
Sven arrives in nowadays Auschwitz to do his civil service at the memorial. He encounters unfriendliness, especially by Stanislaw Krzeminski, the 85 year old KZ-survivor, and Krzysztof Lanuszewski, brother of his early love affair Ania. Even his boss Herold, the places manager, does little to help Sven familiarize. But when problems accumulate Sven realises that he already has become involved.
poster
Criterion Channel
66
30
6.3
/1038/
58
/18/
56
/18/
3.5
/2389/
80
/13/

Baal (1970)
An exploration of the cult of the genius, an anti-heroic figure who chooses to be a social outcast and live on the fringe of bourgeois morality.
poster
66
25
6.8
/726/
70
/19/
51
/19/
3.5
/223/
78
/9/
63
/9/

War Book (2015)
Government officials practice their response and decisions in a simulated escalation of nuclear threat.
poster
73
25
7.1
/1250/
72
/36/
70
/39/
3.5
/486/
83
/2/

The Swissmakers (1978)
This romantic drama follows two policemen whose job is to investigate the lives of foreigners who have applied for Swiss citizenship. Among the applicants they must screen are a French psychiatrist and his wife, and a ballet dancer. The married couple are quickly accepted, but the dancer's life offers some objections. However, since the younger policeman has fallen in love with her, there is a chance that she, too, will win Swiss citizenship.
poster
70
24
7.7
/1391/
66
/13/
67
/21/
3.6
/549/

The Wannsee Conference (1984)
A real time recreation of the 1942 Wannsee Conference, in which leading SS and Nazi Party officals gathered to discuss the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question". Led by SS-General Reinhard Heydrich, the Wannsee Conference was the starting point for the Jewish Holcaust which led to the mass murder of six million people.
poster
64
23
6.2
/624/
64
/19/
62
/45/
3.4
/405/

Mr. Peek-a-Boo (1951)
Léon, a humble civil servant, has the unusual ability to walk through walls, however thick they are. One day, he falls madly in love with a charming hotel thief by the name of Suzan.
poster
68
22
7.4
/2005/
62
/29/
62
/18/
3.5
/409/
76
/6/

Cloaca (2003)
Four old college friends in their forties come together in a time of trouble and despair. Old joy relives, but the harsh reality of their problems can't satisfy them and eventually endangers their friendships.
poster
Criterion Channel
59
22
6.1
/576/
55
/8/
57
/30/
3.2
/929/

Baby's Laxative (1931)
A little boy won't go to the bathroom, which leads to all sorts of complications for his parents and their friends.


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