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Kanopy
90
8.3
/101087/
82
/1733/
83
/1288/
4.5
/179186/
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
89
8.1
/74714/
78
/1208/
78
/860/
4.5
/117074/
99
/95/
95
/1192/
96
/22/

The Battle of Algiers (1966)
Paratrooper commander Colonel Mathieu, a former French Resistance fighter during World War II, is sent to Algeria to reinforce efforts to squelch the uprisings of the Algerian War. There he faces Ali la Pointe, a former petty criminal who, as the leader of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale, directs terror strategies against the colonial French government occupation. As each side resorts to ever-increasing brutality, no violent act is too unthinkable.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
86
8.1
/127358/
79
/1962/
80
/1776/
4.2
/96046/
98
/89/
93
/1004/
90
/20/
cc age 8+

The Gold Rush (1925)
A gold prospector in Alaska struggles to survive the elements and win the heart of a dance hall girl.
poster
Criterion Channel
84
7.7
/18532/
73
/364/
74
/457/
4.0
/33517/
100
/39/
89
/253/

L'Atalante (1934)
Newly married couple Juliette and ship captain Jean struggle through marriage as they travel on the L'Atalante along with the captain's first mate and a cabin boy.
poster
82
7.6
/28495/
73
/402/
71
/384/
3.9
/18545/
93
/160/
84
/747/
83
/40/
cc age 18+

Vera Drake (2004)
Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain – a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
81
7.6
/29939/
74
/646/
74
/426/
3.9
/35377/
96
/76/
87
/492/
82
/16/

Marty (1955)
Marty, a butcher who lives in the Bronx with his mother is unmarried at 34. Good-natured but socially awkward he faces constant badgering from family and friends to get married but has reluctantly resigned himself to bachelorhood. Marty meets Clara, an unattractive school teacher, realising their emotional connection, he promises to call but family and friends try to convince him not to.
poster
Criterion Channel
80
7.4
/39807/
73
/813/
73
/918/
4.0
/147689/
88
/50/
86
/644/

Pierrot le Fou (1965)
Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run.
poster
80
7.6
/25440/
76
/558/
72
/440/
3.9
/26951/
97
/36/
86
/697/
84
/12/
cc age 14+

Victor/Victoria (1982)
A struggling female soprano finds work playing a male female impersonator, but it complicates her personal life.
poster
Criterion Channel
82
79
7.9
/12655/
76
/298/
80
/762/
4.0
/18760/
89
/9/
90
/85/

Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958)
Best friends Peppe and Mario are thieves, but they're not very good at it. Still, Peppe thinks that he's finally devised a master heist that will make them rich. With the help of some fellow criminals, he plans to dig a tunnel from a rented apartment to the pawnshop next door, where they can rob the safe. But his plan is far from foolproof, and the fact that no one in the group has any experience digging tunnels proves to be the least of their problems.
poster
79
7.7
/12396/
75
/199/
74
/174/
4.0
/13235/
90
/51/
89
/587/
66
/17/

Shall We Dance? (1996)
A bored accountant spots a beautiful woman in the window of a ballroom dance studio. He secretly starts taking dancing lessons to be near her, and then over time discovers how much he loves dancing. His wife, meanwhile, has hired a private detective to find out why he has started coming home late smelling of perfume.
poster
Criterion Channel
79
7.1
/3712/
72
/139/
67
/88/
3.6
/4015/
90
/20/
73
/96/
88
/8/

Overlord (1975)
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.
poster
Kanopy
82
78
7.6
/12898/
75
/244/
72
/222/
3.9
/16755/
100
/33/
86
/139/
87
/18/

Odd Man Out (1947)
Belfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman wounded in a daring robbery.
poster
78
7.3
/15796/
72
/271/
69
/210/
3.7
/8183/
96
/28/
82
/243/
86
/15/
cc age 12+

Hope and Glory (1987)
A middle-aged man recalls his childhood growing up in and around London during World War II.
poster
79
77
7.8
/22716/
76
/322/
75
/350/
4.2
/28193/
82
/34/
89
/322/
72
/8/

They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)
In the midst of the Great Depression, manipulative emcee Rocky enlists contestants for a dance marathon offering a $1,500 cash prize. Among them are a failed actress, a middle-aged sailor, a delusional blonde and a pregnant girl.
poster
Netflix
77
7.5
/312430/
76
/8198/
75
/4758/
3.8
/488790/
75
/260/
89
/35583/
66
/35/
cc age 14+

Moulin Rouge! (2001)
A celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Parisian nightclub, at the cusp of the 20th century. A young poet, who is plunged into the heady world of Moulin Rouge, begins a passionate affair with the club's most notorious and beautiful star.
poster
Kanopy
76
7.2
/10008/
72
/316/
71
/248/
3.6
/11282/
88
/72/
77
/293/
76
/27/
cc age 16+

Chico & Rita (2010)
Chico is a young piano player with big dreams. Rita is a beautiful singer with an extraordinary voice. Music and romantic desire unites them, but their journey - in the tradition of the Latin ballad, the bolero - brings heartache and torment.
poster
Kanopy
76
7.0
/30944/
67
/495/
65
/321/
3.4
/8797/
87
/154/
72
/471/
84
/39/

The Quiet American (2002)
Cynical British journalist Fowler falls in love with a young Vietnamese woman but is dismayed when a naïve U.S. official also begins vying for her attention. In retaliation, Fowler informs the communists that the American is selling arms to their enemy.
poster
76
7.7
/83515/
74
/1857/
74
/1225/
3.8
/30254/
77
/158/
87
/3451/
71
/34/
cc age 18+

Black Book (2006)
Israel, 1956: Jewish teacher Rachel Stein rather unexpectedly meets an old friend at the kibbutz. It brings back memories of her experiences in the Netherlands during the war, memories of betrayal. In September 1944, Rachel's hiding place is bombed by Allied troops; she makes contact with a resistance member and joins a group of Jews to be smuggled across the Biesbosch to the freed South Netherlands. Only Rachel escapes a massacre by patrol Germans, and is rescued by a resistance group under the leadership of Gerben Kuipers, whose son is captured trying to smuggle weapons. Kuipers asks Rachel to seduce SS-hauptsturmführer Ludwig Müntze, a mission that she will soon learn that the boat attack wasn't a coincidence.
poster
Netflix
75
7.1
/15002/
69
/627/
67
/355/
3.5
/30804/
95
/143/
80
/52/
78
/26/

I'm Your Man (2021)
Alma is a scientist coerced into participating in an extraordinary study in order to obtain research funds for her work. For three weeks, she has to live with a humanoid robot tailored to her character and needs, whose artificial intelligence is designed to be the perfect life partner for her. Enter Tom, a machine in human form in a class of its own, created solely to make her happy.
poster
Kanopy
75
7.1
/1530/
61
/20/
64
/30/
3.7
/1301/
73
/11/
88
/15/

A Year of the Quiet Sun (1984)
Shortly after World War II an American soldier (Norman) and a Polish refugee (Emilia) fall in love. Eventually he will return to the U.S. and both expect that she will soon follow him with her mother. Emilia's mother is sick, but will recover with the right medicine. But the mother, and not Emilia, knows that there will only be one ticket...
poster
Kanopy
75
7.2
/22602/
68
/723/
69
/679/
3.5
/60228/
100
/9/
75
/257/

The Great Train Robbery (1903)
After the train station clerk is assaulted and left bound and gagged, then the departing train and its passengers robbed, a posse goes in hot pursuit of the fleeing bandits.
poster
Netflix
75
7.4
/201873/
75
/11214/
71
/3928/
3.6
/257163/
82
/304/
84
/960/
71
/46/
cc age 16+

Molly's Game (2017)
Molly Bloom, a young skier and former Olympic hopeful becomes a successful entrepreneur (and a target of an FBI investigation) when she establishes a high-stakes, international poker game.
poster
Kanopy
82
75
7.7
/6822/
74
/112/
75
/189/
3.8
/7538/
100
/34/
89
/74/
89
/10/

Jenny Lamour (1947)
Paris, France, December 1946. Jenny Lamour, an ambitious cabaret singer, and Maurice, her extremely jealous pianist husband, become involved in the thorough investigation of the murder of a shady businessman, led by Antoine, a peculiar and methodical police inspector.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
74
6.8
/3681/
70
/62/
65
/74/
3.5
/2275/
85
/33/
77
/70/

Wish You Were Here (1987)
In a staid English seaside town after the Second World War, young Lynda grows up with her widowed father and younger sister. Rebellious Lynda has been swearing constantly from an early age. At sixteen, she becomes more exhibitionist and seeks out sexual encounters challenging the prevailing lower-middle class attitudes to sex.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
73
6.3
/1017/
61
/56/
63
/24/
3.5
/5773/
92
/50/
70
/13/
82
/14/

The Unknown Country (2023)
A grieving woman embarks on an unexpected road trip as she grapples with the pain of her recent loss and seeks to understand her place in the world.
poster
74
73
7.3
/13692/
74
/474/
69
/170/
3.6
/23367/
89
/18/
76
/231/
64
/7/

Christmas in Connecticut (1945)
While recovering in a hospital, war hero Jefferson Jones grows familiar with the "Diary of a Housewife" column written by Elizabeth Lane. Jeff's nurse arranges with Elizabeth's publisher, Alexander Yardley, for Jeff to spend the holiday at Elizabeth's bucolic Connecticut farm with her husband and child. But the column is a sham, so Elizabeth and her editor, Dudley Beecham, in fear of losing their jobs, hasten to set up the single, childless and entirely nondomestic Elizabeth on a country farm.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
76
73
7.6
/10581/
72
/278/
73
/352/
3.8
/22417/
87
/627/

A Dog's Life (1918)
The Tramp and his dog companion struggle to survive in the inner city.
poster
MGM Plus
73
6.6
/3175/
62
/43/
60
/53/
3.4
/1177/
91
/11/
70
/44/

Dance with a Stranger (1985)
Ruth Ellis lives with her ten-year old son Andy next to a night club. One night she meets David Blakely, and they start a love affair. However, for David with his upper-class background, it is impossible to uphold the relationship. He breaks up with her, something which makes Ellis, obsessed by him, very upset.
poster
Criterion Channel
80
71
7.6
/6613/
74
/99/
73
/198/
3.8
/6819/
100
/15/
84
/49/

Casque d'Or (1952)
At the end of the 19th century, during a ball in Joinville, on the outskirts of Paris, Georges, a former delinquent working as a carpenter, meets Marie, a young woman connected to a criminal gang.
poster
Hoopla
71
7.0
/3823/
64
/41/
64
/33/
3.5
/810/
74
/61/
73
/178/
67
/22/

Schultze Gets the Blues (2003)
Schultze is an accordion player and newly without work. When the local music club celebrates its 50th anniversary, his taste of music changes unexpectedly.
poster
Kanopy
78
71
7.2
/7622/
72
/115/
68
/123/
3.7
/7375/
95
/21/
83
/170/
82
/5/
cc age 12+

Billy Liar (1963)
A young Englishman dreams of escaping from his working class family and dead-end job as an undertaker's assistant. A number of indiscretions cause him to lie in order to avoid the penalties. His life turns into a mess and he has an opportunity to run away and leave it all behind.
poster
71
6.7
/22716/
63
/495/
61
/309/
3.2
/21785/
90
/92/
70
/686/
82
/31/
cc age 16+

My Summer of Love (2005)
In the Yorkshire countryside, working-class tomboy Mona meets the exotic, pampered Tamsin. To seal their friendship, Mona introduces Tamsin to her born-again Christian brother and helps her spy on her adulterous father. Bound together by their secrets, the two girls see their friendship deepen and enter into dangerous waters.
poster
70
6.7
/916/
63
/13/
56
/17/
81
/21/
72
/25/
82
/14/

Gilles' Wife (2004)
Gilles' wife, Elise, who smiles when she thinks of him, cooks and scrubs and cheerfully makes love to him, suspects during her third pregnancy that he is having an affair with her coquettish younger sister, Victorine. Elise suffers, usually in silence. She listens to her husband rave; she asks her priest; she breaks picture frames; she weeps. She decides on a strategy to keep him. Will she succeed?
poster
Kanopy
77
70
7.3
/7539/
70
/130/
68
/129/
3.7
/7826/
95
/22/
85
/163/
cc age 13+

Brighton Rock (1948)
Centring on the activities of a gang of assorted criminals and, in particular, their leader – a vicious young hoodlum known as "Pinkie" – the film's main thematic concern is the criminal underbelly evident in inter-war Brighton.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
77
70
7.0
/6340/
71
/159/
69
/149/
3.6
/7596/
100
/6/
79
/39/

Day of Anger (1967)
A scruffy garbage boy becomes the pupil of famed gunfighter Talby, and the stage for confrontation is set when the gunman overruns the boy's town through violence and corruption.
poster
70
7.1
/29492/
69
/626/
68
/531/
3.5
/26125/
81
/31/
72
/463/
64
/8/

Saboteur (1942)
Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane flees across the United States after he is wrongly accused of starting the fire that killed his best friend.
poster
The Roku Channel
70
7.0
/7742/
70
/161/
61
/71/
3.4
/3109/
72
/25/
76
/160/
cc age 13+

Murphy's Romance (1985)
Emma, a divorced single mother seeking to start her life over, moves to a small town in Arizona. She befriends Murphy, the older local pharmacist, but things turn complicated when her ex-husband shows up.
poster
fuboTV
71
70
7.1
/15699/
74
/468/
68
/235/
3.3
/5785/
75
/8/
85
/401/
57
/4/

Big Jake (1971)
An aging Texas cattle man who has outlived his time swings into action when outlaws kidnap his grandson.
poster
Kanopy
70
6.6
/22334/
67
/770/
62
/340/
3.4
/25900/
85
/74/
66
/648/
66
/13/

Snowtown (2011)
Based on true events, 16 year-old Jamie falls in with his mother's new boyfriend and his crowd of self-appointed neighborhood watchmen, a relationship that leads to a spree of torture and murder.
poster
69
6.7
/2555/
68
/28/
64
/29/
3.5
/1151/
52
/23/
78
/111/
65
/6/

The Tango Lesson (1997)
On a trip to Paris Sally meets Pablo, a tango dancer. He starts teaching her to dance then she returns to London to work on some "projects". She visits Buenos Aires and learns more from Pablo's friends. Sally and Pablo meet again but this time their relationship changes, she realises they want different things from each other. On a trip to Buenos Aires they cement their friendship.
poster
Hoopla
76
68
7.1
/6255/
73
/130/
69
/104/
3.5
/3207/
100
/14/
75
/82/

Dodge City (1939)
In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of a railroad line.
poster
Criterion Channel
73
68
7.2
/10785/
69
/174/
66
/157/
3.6
/11888/
88
/25/
75
/111/
cc age 12+

Crossfire (1947)
A man is murdered, apparently by one of a group of soldiers just out of the army. But which one? And why?
poster
68
6.7
/7314/
65
/212/
67
/203/
3.4
/5280/
78
/99/
61
/68/
63
/24/

Jimmy's Hall (2014)
Jimmy Gralton returns from New York and reopens his beloved community hall, only to meet opposition from the local parish.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
75
67
7.2
/5978/
73
/107/
67
/68/
3.7
/4074/
82
/11/
86
/107/

Love with the Proper Stranger (1963)
Angie Rossini, an innocent New York City sales clerk from a repressive Italian-American family, engages in a short-lived affair with a handsome jazz musician named Rocky Papasano. When Angie becomes pregnant, she tracks down Rocky hoping he'll pay for her abortion.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
73
66
7.0
/5670/
69
/107/
62
/95/
3.5
/8126/
100
/7/
72
/56/

Lured (1947)
Sandra Carpenter is a London-based dancer who is distraught to learn that her friend has disappeared. Soon after the disappearance, she's approached by Harley Temple, a police investigator who believes her friend has been murdered by a serial killer who uses personal ads to find his victims. Temple hatches a plan to catch the killer using Sandra as bait, and Sandra agrees to help.
poster
73
65
7.1
/4997/
74
/95/
68
/72/
3.5
/2970/
83
/12/
77
/112/

Follow the Fleet (1936)
When the US Navy fleet docks at San Francisco, sailor Bake Baker tries to rekindle the flame with his old dancing partner, Sherry Martin, while Bake's buddy Bilge Smith romances Sherry's sister, Connie. But it's not all smooth sailing—Bake has a habit of losing Sherry's jobs for her and, despite Connie's dreams, Bilge is not ready to settle down.
poster
70
65
6.9
/7588/
73
/179/
69
/86/
3.8
/16341/
80
/10/
73
/232/
53
/6/

Sweet Charity (1969)
Taxi dancer Charity continues to have faith in the human race despite apparently endless disappointments at its hands, and hope that she will finally meet the nice young man to romance her away from her sleazy life. Maybe, just maybe, handsome Oscar will be the one to do it.
poster
Kanopy
65
6.5
/27906/
63
/535/
63
/581/
3.2
/42384/
82
/28/
58
/381/

Killer's Kiss (1955)
Davey Gordon, a New York City boxer at the end of his career, falls for dancer Gloria Price. However, their budding relationship is interrupted by Gloria's violent boss, Vincent Rapallo, who has eyes for Gloria. The two decide to skip town, but before they can, Vincent and his thugs abduct Gloria, and Davey is forced to search for her among the most squalid corners of the city, with his enemy hiding in the shadows.


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