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MGM Plus
86
8.1
/384017/
78
/5751/
79
/4121/
4.2
/273494/
86
/129/
91
/5764/
90
/18/
cc age 17+

The Deer Hunter (1978)
Three steelworkers enlist in the army and are sent to Vietnam, one leaving behind a rushed marriage, the others a shared love. What they encounter during the war changes their lives forever.
poster
80
8.1
/856057/
80
/18512/
79
/11302/
3.8
/454011/
81
/234/
90
/31594/
73
/34/
cc age 17+

Gran Torino (2008)
Disgruntled Korean War veteran Walt Kowalski sets out to reform his neighbor, Thao Lor, a Hmong teenager who tried to steal Kowalski's prized possession: a 1972 Gran Torino.
poster
Criterion Channel
80
75
7.6
/6119/
72
/148/
71
/94/
3.9
/11703/
100
/26/
89
/141/
80
/13/

Salesman (1969)
This documentary from Albert and David Maysles follows the bitter rivalry of four door-to-door salesmen working for the Mid-American Bible Company: Paul "The Badger" Brennan, Charles "The Gipper" McDevitt, James "The Rabbit" Baker and Raymond "The Bull" Martos. Times are tough for this hard-living quartet, who spend their days traveling through small-town America, trying their best to peddle gold-leaf Bibles to an apathetic crowd of lower-middle-class housewives and elderly couples.
poster
73
7.2
/32240/
73
/898/
71
/496/
3.8
/21629/
80
/20/
81
/1176/
61
/8/

Vanishing Point (1971)
Kowalski works for a car delivery service, and takes delivery of a 1970 Dodge Challenger to drive from Colorado to San Francisco. Shortly after pickup, he takes a bet to get the car there in less than 15 hours.
poster
72
6.7
/28417/
68
/548/
64
/411/
3.3
/14337/
85
/40/
62
/322/
84
/16/

Prizzi's Honor (1985)
Charley Partanna is a hitman who works for the Prizzis, one of the richest crime families in the US. When he sees Irene Walker, it's love at first sight. But he soon finds that she, too, is a killer for hire. Charley can overlook his suspicions, but he can't turn off his heart. And the couple must remember that even if they love each other, the Prizzis love only money.
poster
72
7.3
/159395/
73
/4003/
70
/2261/
3.9
/297926/
91
/65/
85
/4576/
69
/23/
cc age 14+

Raising Arizona (1987)
When a childless couple—an ex-con and an ex-cop—take one of a wealthy family’s quintuplets to raise as their own, their lives grow more complicated than anticipated.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
69
6.6
/2809/
63
/40/
61
/43/
3.4
/1647/
89
/28/
54
/25/
cc age 15+

Enemies, a Love Story (1989)
A ghostwriter finds himself romantically involved with his current wife, a married woman and his long-vanished wife.
poster
73
69
7.4
/11338/
73
/234/
67
/169/
3.6
/7576/
81
/21/
74
/147/

Call Northside 777 (1948)
In 1932, a cop is killed and Frank Wiecek sentenced to life. Eleven years later, a newspaper ad by Frank's mother leads Chicago reporter P.J. O'Neal to look into the case. For some time, O'Neal continues to believe Frank guilty. But when he starts to change his mind, he meets increased resistance from authorities unwilling to be proved wrong.
poster
77
69
7.1
/6420/
78
/200/
66
/64/
3.4
/1563/
100
/6/
81
/145/

To Hell and Back (1955)
The true WWII story of Audie Murphy, the most decorated soldier in U.S. history. Based on the autobiography of Audie Murphy who stars as himself in the film.
poster
69
7.0
/24297/
74
/849/
70
/467/
3.4
/16630/
66
/122/
66
/1518/
65
/30/
cc age 16+

Cadillac Records (2008)
The story of sex, violence, race and rock and roll in 1950s Chicago, and the exciting but turbulent lives of some of America's musical legends, including Muddy Waters, Leonard Chess, Little Walter, Howlin' Wolf, Etta James and Chuck Berry.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
73
68
7.1
/7219/
70
/197/
65
/86/
3.6
/8623/
75
/8/
87
/849/

Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical (2006)
From an ominous Lecturer, a small 1930s middle American community learns of the Harper Affair, in which young Jimmy Harper finds his life of promise turn into a life of debauchery and murder thanks to the new drug menace marijuana. Along the way, he receives help from his girlfriend Mary and Jesus Himself, but always finds himself in the arms of the Reefer Man and the rest of the denizens of the Reefer Den.
poster
Netflix
79
65
7.9
/4805/
73
/194/
75
/79/
3.8
/6166/
94
/21/

Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski (2018)
Artists in LA discover the work of forgotten Polish sculptor Stanislav Szukalski, a mad genius whose true story unfolds chapter by astounding chapter.
poster
Kanopy
64
7.0
/54329/
72
/1558/
67
/678/
3.2
/12664/
63
/51/
67
/713/
50
/15/

Kill the Irishman (2011)
Over the summer of 1976, thirty-six bombs detonate in the heart of Cleveland while a turf war raged between Irish mobster Danny Greene and the Italian mafia. Based on a true story, Kill the Irishman chronicles Greene's heroic rise from a tough Cleveland neighborhood to become an enforcer in the local mob.
poster
Kanopy
63
6.4
/19390/
66
/566/
61
/294/
3.1
/3286/
79
/113/
59
/1856/
64
/25/
cc age 16+

You Kill Me (2007)
While drying out on the West Coast, an alcoholic hit man befriends a tart-tongued woman who might just come in handy when it's time for him to return to Buffalo and settle some old scores.
poster
Kanopy
71
62
7.1
/5528/
67
/57/
70
/84/
3.5
/3841/
79
/14/
73
/58/

The Men (1950)
Ken, a WWII GI, returns home after he's paralyzed in battle. Residing in the paraplegic ward of a veteran's hospital and embittered by his condition, he refuses to see his fiancée and sinks into a solitary world of hatred and hostility. Head physician, Dr. Brock cajoles the withdrawn Ken into the life of the ward, where fellow patients Norm, Leo and Angel begin to pull him out of his spiritual dilemma.
poster
71
61
7.0
/4193/
68
/58/
65
/57/
3.4
/3440/
100
/7/
59
/71/

Black Legion (1937)
When a hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he is seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates foreigners through violence.
poster
62
61
6.8
/19544/
66
/376/
68
/468/
3.5
/17918/
55
/20/
53
/272/
58
/14/

Year of the Dragon (1985)
In New York, racist Capt. Stanley White becomes obsessed with destroying a Chinese-American drug ring run by Joey Tai, an up-and-coming young gangster as ambitious as he is ruthless. While pursuing an unauthorized investigation, White grows increasingly willing to violate police protocol, resorting to progressively violent measures -- even as his concerned wife, Connie, and his superiors beg him to consider the consequences of his actions.
poster
73
58
7.5
/3970/
70
/61/
73
/133/
3.8
/12480/

Decalogue VIII (1989)
Zofia, a professor of ethics, is visited by Elżbieta, an American researching the fate of Jews who survived World War II. A daytime classroom conversation turns into a night of confrontation, and Zofia is forced to answer for a decision she made decades ago that directly affected the course of Elżbieta’s life.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
56
7.3
/18863/
70
/330/
69
/302/
3.4
/2085/
33
/72/
74
/1111/
42
/22/

Trade (2007)
A Texas cop, whose own daughter might have been forced into sexual slavery, joins forces with a Mexican youth to find the boy's sister, who was abducted and forced into prostitution. Meanwhile, a Polish woman who was promised a better life in America also becomes a victim.
poster
67
54
6.5
/2270/
62
/28/
66
/46/
3.7
/1918/
76
/25/
52
/41/
77
/14/

A Talking Picture (2003)
A meditation on civilization. July, 2001: friends wave as a cruise ship departs Lisbon for Mediterranean ports and the Indian Ocean. On board and on day trips in Marseilles, Pompeii, Athens, Istanbul, and Cairo, a professor tells her young daughter about myth, history, religion, and wars. Men approach her; she's cool, on her way to her husband in Bombay. After Cairo, for two evenings divided by a stop in Aden, the captain charms three successful, famous (and childless) women, who talk with wit and intellect, each understanding the others' native tongue, a European union. The captain asks mother and child to join them. He gives the girl a gift. Helena sings. Life can be sweet.
poster
Plex
66
54
6.9
/4288/
67
/69/
63
/66/
3.4
/4382/
62
/47/

The House on Telegraph Hill (1951)
Concentration camp survivor Victoria Kowelska finds herself involved in mystery, greed, and murder when she assumes the identity of a dead friend in order to gain passage to America.
poster
Hoopla
56
54
6.3
/8417/
59
/251/
59
/92/
3.1
/3077/
48
/40/
52
/422/
54
/11/

Good Dick (2008)
A fidgety, wisecracking video store clerk develops a fixation on a particularly reclusive customer, a frequent visitor to the pornography section of Cinefile, the video store where he works in Los Angeles. After multiple failures to impress her during their brief daily transactions, he finds her street address in the store's database, drives to her apartment building and initiates an unconventional campaign to win her affections.
poster
The Roku Channel
62
52
6.0
/4981/
64
/112/
60
/93/
3.0
/1299/
77
/13/
55
/96/

Oxygen (1999)
When housewife Frances Hannon is abducted and buried alive, detective Madeline Foster is brought in. With only 24 hours before Frances' oxygen runs out, Madeline pursues the trail laid by a killer calling himself Harry Houdini. After capturing him, Madeline brings Harry back to the police station, but is unable to get him to confess where Frances is buried. As time runs down, Harry gets inside the head of unstable, alcoholic Madeline.
poster
51
5.5
/3510/
53
/27/
50
/44/
3.0
/559/
42
/36/
52
/79/

Polish Wedding (1998)
The film centers on a big Polish family. Jadzia is the mother and the ruler of the Pzoniak family (she has five children). Though she's happily married to Bolek, she is also having a long-time affair with Roman. Her young daughter Hala is having an affair with neighbour cop Russell and becomes pregnant by him. Russell is pressed hard to marry Hala.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
53
51
6.3
/10934/
66
/269/
62
/221/
3.1
/4426/
42
/12/
52
/98/
30
/7/

The Cassandra Crossing (1976)
Passengers on a European train have been exposed to a deadly disease, and nobody will let them off the train.
poster
51
6.1
/53350/
62
/1146/
59
/779/
2.8
/11365/
32
/123/
37
/659/
34
/32/
cc age 18+

15 Minutes (2001)
When Eastern European criminals Oleg and Emil come to New York City to pick up their share of a heist score, Oleg steals a video camera and starts filming their activities, both legal and illegal. When they learn how the American media circus can make a remorseless killer look like the victim and make them rich, they target media-savvy NYPD Homicide Detective Eddie Flemming and media-naive FDNY Fire Marshal Jordy Warsaw, the cops investigating their murder and torching of their former criminal partner, filming everything to sell to the local tabloid TV show "Top Story."
poster
50
6.2
/2538/
56
/52/
57
/39/
3.1
/1661/
29
/7/
65
/44/

Fatso (1980)
Dominick DiNapoli is a man who loves food and is overweight as a result. After an obese cousin dies due to health problems, Dominick's sister Antoinette sets out to help him lose weight. Although he has a hard time trying to slim down, Dominick finds inspiration when he meets and falls for shop owner Lydia. Can he get up the courage to ask her out, or will he go back to the comfort of overeating?
poster
49
5.9
/31466/
63
/843/
59
/594/
2.9
/14162/
31
/16/
36
/320/
41
/19/

The Rookie (1990)
Veteran cop Nick Pulovski is used to playing musical partners; many of the partners he's had in the past have died on the job, and often as a result of Nick's risky tactics. But the rookie who's been assigned to help Nick bust a carjacking ring is almost as hotheaded as he is … and when Nick gets kidnapped, his newbie partner is his only hope.
poster
77
43
7.5
/2448/
76
/85/
74
/59/
3.6
/1574/
92
/5/

I Hate Mondays (1971)
An acute case of Mondayitis in Warsaw. Interwoven stories of a few inhabitants of Warsaw, including one very unlucky Italian on a governmental mission and a charitable Polish American.
poster
65
39
6.6
/2465/
70
/46/
58
/26/
3.1
/888/
89
/9/
46
/14/

Wake Island (1942)
In late 1941, with no hope of relief or re-supply, a small band of United States Marines tries to keep the Japanese Navy from capturing their island base.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
64
32
6.6
/1184/
68
/20/
58
/26/
3.4
/1105/
83
/6/
39
/3/

The Wedding Night (1935)
While working on a novel in his country home in Connecticut, married writer Tony Barrett develops romantic feelings for Manya Novak, the daughter of a neighboring farmer. Manya is unhappily engaged to Frederik Sobieski. After a snowstorm, Tony and Manya get trapped together in his house overnight. The next day, Manya's father insists that her wedding to Frederik take place in spite of Manya's misgivings. Drunkenness and jealousy result in tragedy at the wedding reception that night.
poster
64
26
7.0
/1462/
61
/15/
68
/15/
3.3
/421/
54
/100/

Good Morning, Miss Dove (1955)
Miss Dove is a prim New England school teacher who is treasured by her students in the small town of Liberty Hill. When she falls ill, a kindly doctor, who is a former student of Miss Dove's, comes to her aid. As many of her pupils, present and past, come to see her in the hospital, they reveal how Miss Dove has greatly impacted their lives over the years. These visitors include a police officer, a playwright, a banker, a convict, and an unmarried mother.
poster
65
26
6.9
/760/
60
/10/
63
/15/
3.5
/556/
64

The Conductor (1980)
A violinist in a provincial Polish orchestra, whose husband is the director of the ensemble, on a visit to the US ties up with the world- renowned symphony conductor. As it turns out he was once in love with violinist's mother. The conductor, a slightly unstable hypochondriac, returns to Poland to lead the provincial orchestra. He also tries to revive old love affair using the violinist as a surrogate of her mother. Her husband is resentful of the conductor for both personal and professional reasons.
poster
Hoopla
42
26
5.7
/2038/
54
/45/
65
/40/
2.7
/354/
9
/22/
35
/111/
26
/7/

Everybody Wants to Be Italian (2007)
Are all relationships based on lies? Jake Bianski runs a fish market in north Boston, surrounded by Italians. For years, he's carried a torch for Isabella, an ex-girlfriend now married with three children and no interest in Jake. Yet, he tells everyone she's his girlfriend, including Marisa, a veterinarian his employees set him up with at the Italian singles club. She's interested in him until he tells her about his girlfriend, then he's persistent in asking her to be his friend. As the friendship bumps along, Jake realizes that reality may be better than fantasy, but what if Isabella changes her mind about Jake, and what if it comes out that Marisa, like Jake, isn't Italian?
poster
Plex
59
23
6.2
/1437/
60
/12/
55
/14/
3.2
/328/
53
/615/

The Time of Your Life (1948)
Joe spends a lot of his time at Nick's Pacific Street Saloon. Tom, who credits Joe with once saving his life, stops by regularly to run errands for Joe. Today, Tom notices a woman named Kitty when she comes into Nick's, and he quickly falls in love with her. Meanwhile, a distraught young man repeatedly calls his girlfriend, begging her to marry him. Nick himself muses on all the various persons who come into his bar, some to ask for work and others just to pass the time.
poster
Criterion Channel
66
20
7.0
/390/
57
/9/
65
/8/
3.7
/1427/

In Heaven There Is No Beer? (1984)
A joyous romp through the dance, food, music, friendship, and even religion of the Polka. The explosive energy and high spirits of the polka subculture are rendered with warmth and dedication to scholarship in this journey through Polish-American celebrations. Polka stars like Jimmy Sturr, Eddie Blazonzyck and Walt Solek are featured.
poster
62
17
6.6
/1225/
68
/14/
59
/15/
3.2
/380/
56
/12/

The Miracle of the Bells (1948)
The body of a young actress is brought to her home town by the man who loved her. He knows that she wanted all the church bells to ring for three days after she was buried, but is told that this will cost a lot of money. The checks that he writes to the various churches all bounce, but it is the weekend and, in desperation, he prays that a miracle will happen before the banks reopen. It does, but not in the way he hoped.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
60
12
6.4
/657/
59
/10/
71
/11/
48
/7/

Harlan County War (2000)
A Kentucky woman whose mine-worker husband is nearly killed in a cave-in, and whose father is slowly dying of black lung disease, joins the picket lines for a long, violent strike.
poster
?
5.6
/18/
10
/2/

Polack (2010)
A closeted Polish-American seeks answers but must face the hard truths hidden beneath the humor. A complex documentary, Polack layers striking images from history and pop culture, with a gay man's search for home. Beyond the punch lines, we sway between outsider and insider, where victim becomes bully.
poster
61
?
5.8
/173/
60
/3/
60
/2/
3.3
/497/

Travel Essentials (2024)
Ada is an American journalist of Polish origin. She has just moved to Hamburg with her partner and is struggling to find her way in the new reality. One day, a mysterious package arrives at the editorial office where she works.
poster
?
10
/1/

Out of Solidarity (1989)
Follows three Polish families who have come to America.
poster
?
7.3
/95/
61
/5/
66
/5/

Age 7 in America (1991)
An adaption of the British TV series, this documentary chronicles the lives of a group of economically, racially and socially diverse 7-year olds living throughout America in 1990. The filmmakers will return every seven years to chronicle the children's growth.
poster
59
?
6.2
/313/
62
/7/
53
/7/

As the Earth Turns (1934)
Love happens between the son of Polish immigrants settled in Maine and the daughter of a neighboring farm family.
poster
75
?
8.0
/268/
73
/8/
74
/7/
3.9
/494/

Birthplace (1992)
Henryk Greenberg is a Polish-born American who lost much of his family in the Holocaust. Certain of the location where his father and younger brother were murdered, Greenberg returns to find most of his former neighbors predictably claiming foggy memories at first; but soon their recollections come more easily.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
47
?
6.3
/192/
45
/2/
35
/2/

Murder: By Reason of Insanity (1985)
A married couple from Poland emigrates to the U.S.,. but things don't turn out as well as they had imaged. The husband's business fails, while his wife's career really takes off. The husband, unable to cope with the pressures of his failed business, his failing marriage and the adjustments necessary to live in a completely different society, begins to take out his frustrations on his wife.
poster
52
?
6.3
/493/
40
/2/
53
/5/

That Certain Feeling (1956)
When Larry Larkin's comic strip needs some freshening up, he calls in ghost-writer Francis X. Dignan to help him with the strip. Things get complicated when Francis rekindles his love for his ex-wife, who happens to be Larkin's secretary and soon-to-be wife.
poster
?
7.0
/34/
10
/1/
45
/2/

Ezer Kenegdo (2017)
Frictions develop when Yisroel "Izzy" Jonigkeyt, a Chassidic Jew from Crown Heights, travels to San Francisco to visit Polish-born Catholic friend Marek Wisniewski with the intent of discovering why a Bay Area art-world iconoclast named Harry Kierk seeks to destroy a lifetime's worth of his own work. As the visit progresses, Izzy and Marek discover for the first time that complex historical baggage impinges on their curious friendship and, soon, they begin to understand why Kierk is driven towards destruction. Continued encounters with Marek's vaguely anti-Semitic cousin Irek (who is their only gateway to contact Kierk) only compound these tensions.
poster
61
?
6.8
/530/
61
/6/
54
/5/
3.3
/220/
60
/2/

A Streetcar Named Desire (1984)
As Blanche’s fragile world crumbles, she turns to her sister Stella for solace – but her downward spiral brings her face to face with the brutal, unforgiving Stanley Kowalski.


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