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MGM Plus
90
8.4
/257496/
81
/3679/
82
/2796/
4.4
/318575/
98
/125/
95
/3486/
94
/32/
cc age 13+

Sunset Boulevard (1950)
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
poster
Criterion Channel
88
86
8.4
/19281/
83
/342/
81
/263/
4.4
/27918/
97
/29/
95
/192/

Apur Sansar (1959)
Apu, now a jobless ex-student dreaming vaguely of a future as a writer, is invited to join an old college friend on a trip up-country to a village wedding.
poster
Kanopy
85
7.9
/311013/
78
/7075/
74
/2985/
4.1
/659986/
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.
poster
85
7.5
/74941/
76
/3533/
74
/1488/
4.1
/316547/
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
85
7.8
/108412/
77
/1963/
76
/1988/
4.2
/247556/
98
/99/
93
/2326/
87
/34/
cc age 17+

All About My Mother (1999)
Following the tragic death of her teenage son, Manuela travels from Madrid to Barcelona in an attempt to contact the long-estranged father the boy never knew. She reunites with an old friend, an outspoken transgender sex worker, and befriends a troubled actress and a pregnant, HIV-positive nun.
poster
85
8.2
/238333/
80
/4163/
79
/2733/
4.2
/167287/
89
/137/
93
/2239/
80
/36/

The Secret in Their Eyes (2009)
Hoping to put to rest years of unease concerning a past case, retired criminal investigator Benjamín begins writing a novel based on the unsolved mystery of a newlywed’s rape and murder. With the help of a former colleague, judge Irene, he attempts to make sense of the past.
poster
Netflix
84
7.7
/138569/
75
/2927/
74
/1664/
4.2
/390854/
90
/195/
88
/4337/
89
/36/
cc age 18+

Y Tu Mamá También (2001)
In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life, friendship, sex, and each other.
poster
YouTube TV
84
7.8
/276659/
78
/10156/
79
/6613/
4.2
/2401372/
95
/441/
92
/3346/
91
/57/
cc age 10+

Little Women (2019)
Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.
poster
Kanopy
83
7.6
/43087/
73
/1025/
74
/867/
4.0
/87047/
96
/67/
85
/762/

Peeping Tom (1960)
Loner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of women. Also he's making a documentary on fear, which involves recording the reactions of victims as he murders them. He befriends Helen, the daughter of the family living in the apartment below his, and he tells her vaguely about the movie he is making.
poster
Netflix
83
8.1
/476066/
80
/10829/
78
/6238/
4.2
/969586/
92
/64/
94
/13400/
75
/20/
cc age 14+

Stand by Me (1986)
After learning that a boy their age has been accidentally killed near their rural homes, four Oregon boys decide to go see the body. On the way, Gordie, Vern, Chris and Teddy encounter a mean junk man and a marsh full of leeches, as they also learn more about one another and their very different home lives. Just a lark at first, the boys' adventure evolves into a defining event in their lives.
poster
83
8.0
/30184/
77
/487/
75
/293/
4.1
/38119/
94
/81/
83
/23/
86
/22/

The Wild Pear Tree (2018)
Fresh out of university, a Turkish young man with literary aspirations returns to his home village, and to his father, a debt-ridden man with a gambling problem.
poster
Kanopy
83
7.4
/83990/
73
/3216/
73
/1732/
4.0
/298833/
95
/197/
80
/210/
91
/39/
cc age 17+

Burning (2018)
Deliveryman Jong-su is out on a job when he runs into Hae-mi, a girl who once lived in his neighborhood. She asks if he'd mind looking after her cat while she's away on a trip to Africa. On her return, she introduces to Jong-su an enigmatic young man named Ben, who she met during her trip. One day Ben tells Jong-su about his most unusual hobby.
poster
Criterion Channel
83
82
7.8
/22861/
75
/380/
76
/712/
4.0
/35878/
100
/29/
90
/242/
87
/10/

I Vitelloni (1953)
Five young men dream of success as they drift lazily through life in a small Italian village. Fausto, the group's leader, is a womanizer; Riccardo craves fame; Alberto is a hopeless dreamer; Moraldo fantasizes about life in the city; and Leopoldo is an aspiring playwright. As Fausto chases a string of women, to the horror of his pregnant wife, the other four blunder their way from one uneventful experience to the next.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
82
7.8
/81101/
80
/3433/
79
/2176/
4.2
/386167/
95
/21/
90
/1520/
75
/4/
8.2
/224797/
cc age 10+

Whisper of the Heart (1995)
Shizuku lives a simple life, dominated by her love for stories and writing. One day she notices that all the library books she has have been previously checked out by the same person: 'Seiji Amasawa'.
poster
81
7.9
/78038/
78
/1367/
76
/993/
4.0
/50946/
86
/35/
92
/2414/
cc age 11+

Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home to tell his two maiden aunts, he finds out his aunts' hobby - killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar!
poster
81
7.9
/693166/
77
/19546/
74
/13502/
3.7
/857711/
86
/253/
84
/9219/
79
/44/
cc age 12+

Life of Pi (2012)
The story of an Indian boy named Pi, a zookeeper's son who finds himself in the company of a hyena, zebra, orangutan, and a Bengal tiger after a shipwreck sets them adrift in the Pacific Ocean.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
80
7.9
/582875/
80
/16459/
78
/10918/
4.0
/2459224/
85
/171/
89
/5420/
67
/36/
cc age 15+

The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1991. High school freshman Charlie is a wallflower, always watching life from the sidelines, until two senior students, Sam and her stepbrother Patrick, become his mentors, helping him discover the joys of friendship, music and love.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
79
7.1
/94873/
69
/1468/
66
/917/
3.6
/76160/
91
/157/
82
/5415/
85
/31/
cc age 16+

Half Nelson (2006)
Despite his dedication to the junior-high students who fill his classroom, idealistic teacher Dan Dunne leads a secret life of addiction that the majority of his students will never know. But things change when a troubled student Drey makes a startling discovery of his secret life, causing a tenuous bond between the two that could either end disastrously or provide a catalyst of hope.
poster
Kanopy
78
7.1
/5764/
73
/290/
66
/92/
3.8
/15962/
99
/102/
74
/42/
83
/24/
cc age 15+

Saint Frances (2020)
At the start of the summer, Bridget has an abortion just as she lands a much-needed job in affluent Evanston, Illinois — nannying a six-year old.
poster
The CW
77
7.5
/56154/
72
/1049/
73
/903/
3.6
/52282/
74
/43/
85
/1219/
68
/9/
cc age 16+

Sophie's Choice (1982)
Stingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes friendly with Sophie and her lover Nathan, he learns that she is a Holocaust survivor. Flashbacks reveal her harrowing story, from pre-war prosperity to Auschwitz. In the present, Sophie and Nathan's relationship increasingly unravels as Stingo grows closer to Sophie and Nathan's fragile mental state becomes ever more apparent.
poster
FXNow
77
8.1
/522480/
81
/12008/
82
/8761/
3.9
/595060/
75
/231/
89
/7632/
62
/41/
cc age 12+

The Help (2011)
Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family's struggles with money and her desperate need for jobs; and Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan is a young white woman who has recently moved back home after graduating college to find out her childhood maid has mysteriously disappeared. These three stories intertwine to explain how life in Jackson, Mississippi revolves around "the help"; yet they are always kept at a certain distance because of racial lines.
poster
Kanopy
76
6.8
/9762/
68
/500/
68
/239/
3.6
/40398/
87
/134/
83
/33/
75
/36/
cc age 15+

Emily (2022)
The imagined life of one of the world’s most famous authors, Emily Brontë, as she finds her voice and writes the literary classic Wuthering Heights. Explore the relationships that inspired her – her raw, passionate sisterhood with Charlotte and Anne; her first aching, forbidden love for Weightman and her care for her maverick brother whom she idolises.
poster
76
6.9
/28337/
72
/1515/
69
/597/
3.3
/51366/
89
/261/
91
/602/
71
/44/
cc age 13+

Blinded by the Light (2019)
In 1987, during the austere days of Thatcher’s Britain, a teenager learns to live life, understand his family, and find his own voice through the music of Bruce Springsteen.
poster
Hoopla
75
6.9
/7288/
67
/138/
68
/88/
3.5
/7486/
88
/42/
75
/6004/
76
/17/

Mother (1996)
A neurotic, twice-divorced sci-fi writer moves back in with his mother to solve his personal problems.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
75
7.0
/24582/
69
/624/
67
/312/
3.5
/19736/
95
/58/
79
/547/
75
/28/
cc age 16+

Croupier (1998)
Jack Manfred is an aspiring writer who to make ends meet, takes a job as a croupier. Jack remains an observer, knowing that everything in life is a gamble and that gamblers are born to lose. Inevitably, he gets sucked into the world of the casino which takes its toll on his relationships and the novel he is writing.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
75
7.1
/26617/
71
/710/
71
/812/
3.7
/62030/
85
/39/
80
/426/

The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970)
An American writer living in Rome witnesses an attempted murder that is connected to an ongoing killing spree in the city and conducts his own investigation, despite he and his girlfriend being targeted by the killer.
poster
74
7.2
/8490/
69
/153/
66
/89/
3.6
/2383/
84
/64/
79
/538/
64
/25/

In Search of a Midnight Kiss (2007)
Broke and alone on New Year's Eve, Wilson just wants to spend the rest of a very bad year in bed. But, when his best friend convinces him to post a personal ad, he meets a woman bent on finding the right guy to be with at midnight.
poster
74
7.3
/27233/
70
/564/
70
/478/
3.5
/7661/
77
/132/
78
/1068/
67
/33/
cc age 17+

Barney's Version (2010)
The picaresque and touching story of the politically incorrect, fully lived life of the impulsive, irascible and fearlessly blunt Barney Panofsky.
poster
74
7.2
/44724/
72
/1713/
70
/1099/
3.5
/42898/
85
/234/
77
/311/
77
/36/
cc age 15+

The Wife (2018)
A wife questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm with her husband, where he is slated to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
poster
74
7.4
/334221/
72
/16409/
74
/8097/
3.7
/603918/
74
/302/
74
/1501/
67
/45/
cc age 17+

Nocturnal Animals (2016)
Susan Morrow receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband – a man she left 20 years earlier – asking for her opinion of his writing. As she reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of Tony Hastings, a mathematics professor whose family vacation turns violent.
poster
79
73
7.6
/8980/
74
/154/
71
/108/
3.7
/6231/
100
/10/
84
/157/
76
/8/

The Snake Pit (1948)
Virginia Cunningham is confused upon finding herself in a mental hospital, with no memory of her arrival at the institution. Tormented by delusions and unable to even recognize her husband, Robert, she is treated by Dr. Mark Kik, who is determined to get to the root of her mental illness. As her treatment progresses, flashbacks depict events in Virginia's life that may have contributed to her instability.
poster
Kanopy
73
7.4
/108192/
72
/2470/
71
/1748/
3.5
/133999/
82
/39/
85
/1756/
60
/11/

Following (1999)
Bill, an idle, unemployed aspiring writer, walks the crowded streets of London following randomly chosen strangers, a seemingly innocent entertainment that becomes dangerous when he crosses paths with a mysterious character.
poster
72
6.9
/3555/
69
/128/
68
/166/
3.7
/13823/
90
/31/
65
/2/
69
/11/

The Passengers of the Night (2022)
On election night in 1981, celebrations spill out onto the street and there is an air of hope and change throughout Paris. But for Elisabeth, her marriage is coming to an end and she will now have to support herself and her two teenage children. She finds work at a late-night radio show and encounters a troubled teenager named Talulah whom she invites into her home.
poster
Kanopy
72
6.5
/17043/
63
/886/
63
/171/
3.3
/76890/
94
/219/
64
/126/
80
/43/
cc age 15+

You Hurt My Feelings (2023)
A novelist's longstanding marriage is suddenly upended when she overhears her husband giving his honest reaction to her latest book.
poster
Starz Apple TV Channel
72
6.8
/83942/
71
/2849/
71
/2715/
3.5
/164461/
77
/141/
74
/11889/
64
/33/
cc age 9+

Peter Pan (2003)
In stifling Edwardian London, Wendy Darling mesmerizes her brothers every night with bedtime tales of swordplay, swashbuckling and the fearsome Captain Hook. But the children become the heroes of an even greater story, when Peter Pan flies into their nursery one night and leads them over moonlit rooftops through a galaxy of stars and to the lush jungles of Neverland.
poster
Netflix
70
6.2
/2285/
61
/100/
63
/65/
3.2
/21629/
82
/118/
85
/50/
73
/25/
cc age 15+

Jane Austen Wrecked My Life (2025)
An aspiring author looking to get more out of life takes up a writing residency and finds herself in the sort of romantic entanglements that could come from the pages of a Jane Austen novel.
poster
MGM Plus
70
6.8
/173566/
67
/4680/
63
/2280/
3.3
/186445/
89
/213/
61
/8578/
76
/34/
cc age 16+

Adventureland (2009)
In the summer of 1987, a college graduate takes a 'nowhere' job at his local amusement park, only to find it's the perfect course to get him prepared for the real world.
poster
70
7.1
/139752/
72
/7639/
69
/3251/
3.6
/182528/
81
/250/
78
/562/
67
/42/
cc age 18+

T2 Trainspotting (2017)
After 20 years abroad, Mark Renton returns to Scotland and reunites with his old friends Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
70
7.0
/4348/
65
/50/
66
/50/
3.3
/1122/
81
/16/
73
/123/

The Whole Wide World (1996)
In 1930s Texas, pulp fiction master Robert E. Howard is introduced to Novalyne Price, a teacher with aspirations of becoming an author herself, and they begin a unique relationship filled with conversation and imagination. Although the possibility exists for romance, Howard's obsession with his work and dedication to his sick mother leads Price to look elsewhere for love, leaving Howard feeling betrayed and alone.
poster
70
6.7
/4242/
64
/89/
61
/52/
3.7
/7013/
88
/25/
70
/99/
68
/15/

Walking and Talking (1996)
Just as Amelia thinks she's over her anxiety and insecurity, her best friend announces her engagement, bringing her anxiety and insecurity right back.
poster
Kanopy
69
7.0
/8447/
68
/331/
70
/678/
3.8
/27033/
88
/108/
69
/18/
75
/22/
cc age 14+

Martin Eden (2019)
The tale of an individualist proletarian in a time marked by the rise of mass political movements. In early 20th-century Italy, illiterate sailor Martin Eden seeks fame as a writer while torn between the love of a bourgeois girl and allegiance to his social class.
poster
Hoopla
69
7.0
/17414/
71
/413/
66
/289/
3.7
/21966/
75
/20/
70
/246/
54
/8/

Deathtrap (1982)
A Broadway playwright puts murder in his plan to take credit for a student's script.
poster
Kanopy
68
5.6
/2780/
56
/186/
57
/91/
3.0
/23234/
65
/103/
87
/22/
65
/25/
cc age 15+

Oh, Canada (2024)
Famed Canadian-American leftist documentary filmmaker Leonard Fife was one of sixty thousand draft evaders and deserters who fled to Canada to avoid serving in Vietnam. Now in his late seventies, Fife is dying of cancer in Montreal and has agreed to a final interview in which he is determined to bare all his secrets at last, to demythologize his mythologized life.
poster
68
6.4
/49626/
60
/787/
62
/662/
3.0
/30980/
82
/157/
59
/2151/
71
/35/
cc age 17+

The Good Girl (2002)
A discount store clerk strikes up an affair with a stock boy who considers himself the incarnation of Holden Caulfield.
poster
Kanopy
68
5.7
/2299/
57
/55/
65
/91/
3.4
/6235/
77
/31/
46
/6/
74
/14/

Cosmos (2015)
Two young men seek the solitude of the country; their peace is disturbed when a set of random occurrences suggest to their susceptible minds a pattern with sinister meanings.
poster
67
6.5
/411/
70
/2/
54
/15/
73
/30/
68
/6/
67
/17/

Almost Peaceful (2002)
Set during the largely unexplored period immediately following World War II, the film follows a group of mostly Jewish Parisians who attempt to restart their lives and rekindle their capacity for happiness in the shadow of unspeakable horrors. Variety called it "thoroughly charming. Sad, gentle, and funny in the best French tradition of high quality cinema." A film by Marcelo Gomes
poster
74
67
7.5
/9544/
71
/116/
69
/86/
3.5
/5634/
86
/7/
80
/130/
71
/5/

The Man Who Came to Dinner (1941)
An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in indefinitely with a Midwestern family.
poster
67
5.6
/5460/
59
/417/
52
/158/
3.1
/4515/
92
/38/
53
/45/
75
/10/

Nina Forever (2016)
Holly loves Rob and tries to help him through his grief – even if it means contending with his dead girlfriend Nina, who comes back, bloody and broken, every time they make love


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