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HBO Max Amazon Channel
91
8.5
/647202/
82
/9134/
81
/5822/
4.3
/701291/
99
/135/
95
/19587/
100
/18/
cc age 10+

Casablanca (1943)
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
poster
Kanopy
90
8.3
/100177/
82
/1668/
83
/1260/
4.5
/169556/
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
HBO Max Amazon Channel
90
8.3
/278450/
82
/5405/
81
/3361/
4.3
/551011/
100
/78/
95
/7919/
99
/17/
cc age 6+

Singin' in the Rain (1952)
In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his paranoid screen partner struggle to make the difficult transition to talking pictures.
poster
89
8.4
/26990/
82
/448/
80
/582/
4.3
/16728/
94
/62/
98
/603/
89
/28/

The Best of Youth (2003)
After a fateful encounter in the summer of 1966, the lifepaths of two brothers from a middle-class Roman family diverge, intersecting with some of the most significant events of postwar Italian history in the following decades.
poster
Kanopy
88
8.1
/30212/
79
/520/
79
/719/
4.2
/43205/
98
/41/
93
/453/
92
/9/

Umberto D. (1952)
When elderly pensioner Umberto Domenico Ferrari returns to his boarding house from a protest calling for a hike in old-age pensions, his landlady demands her 15,000-lire rent by the end of the month or he and his small dog will be turned out onto the street. Unable to get the money in time, Umberto fakes illness to get sent to a hospital, giving his beloved dog to the landlady's pregnant and abandoned maid for temporary safekeeping.
poster
Kanopy
88
8.1
/42560/
80
/943/
80
/713/
4.4
/139190/
98
/65/
91
/825/
cc age 10+

The Red Shoes (1948)
Vicky Page is an aspiring ballerina torn between her dedication to dance and her desire to love. While her imperious instructor, Boris Lermontov, urges to her to forget anything but ballet, Vicky begins to fall for the charming young composer Julian Craster. Eventually Vicky, under great emotional stress, must choose to pursue either her art or her romance, a decision that carries serious consequences.
poster
Kanopy
88
8.0
/131365/
78
/2000/
81
/2446/
4.3
/236073/
97
/62/
91
/2558/
93
/23/

8½ (1963)
Guido Anselmi, a film director, finds himself creatively barren at the peak of his career. Urged by his doctors to rest, Anselmi heads for a luxurious resort, but a sorry group gathers—his producer, staff, actors, wife, mistress, and relatives—each one begging him to get on with the show. In retreat from their dependency, he fantasizes about past women and dreams of his childhood.
poster
Kanopy
87
8.1
/40664/
77
/689/
79
/748/
4.2
/42261/
97
/73/
92
/622/

Grand Illusion (1937)
A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieutenant Maréchal, grapple with their own class differences after being captured and held in a World War I German prison camp. When the men are transferred to a high-security fortress, they must concoct a plan to escape beneath the watchful eye of aristocratic German officer von Rauffenstein, who has formed an unexpected bond with de Boeldieu.
poster
Criterion Channel
87
8.1
/32437/
80
/906/
79
/622/
4.5
/147362/
97
/91/
91
/516/
94
/25/

Yi Yi (2000)
Each member of a Taipei family asks hard questions about life's meaning as they experience everyday quandaries. NJ is morose: his brother owes him money, his mother-in-law is in a coma, his wife suffers a spiritual crisis when she finds her life a blank and his business partners make bad decisions.
poster
87
8.4
/438352/
82
/6331/
80
/3939/
4.3
/179798/
92
/162/
96
/11154/
89
/39/
cc age 17+

The Lives of Others (2006)
In 1984 East Berlin, dedicated Stasi officer Gerd Wiesler begins spying on a famous playwright and his actress-lover Christa-Maria. Wiesler becomes unexpectedly sympathetic to the couple, and faces conflicting loyalties when his superior takes a liking to Christa-Maria.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
87
8.5
/994534/
84
/15499/
83
/9791/
4.4
/1069688/
95
/186/
96
/10821/
85
/40/
cc age 15+

The Pianist (2002)
The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.
poster
Kanopy
86
8.0
/41437/
77
/658/
76
/578/
4.1
/23702/
100
/51/
93
/729/
cc age 13+

Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic family. After the family refuses to let her be buried in the family mausoleum, Louis avenges his mother's death by attempting to murder every family member who stands between himself and the family fortune. But when he finds himself torn between his longtime love and the widow of one of his victims, his plans go awry.
poster
Criterion Channel
86
8.0
/38063/
78
/666/
75
/700/
4.2
/49189/
97
/36/
93
/731/
88
/18/
cc age 12+

Au Revoir les Enfants (1987)
Au revoir les enfants tells a heartbreaking story of friendship and devastating loss concerning two boys living in Nazi-occupied France. At a provincial Catholic boarding school, the precocious youths enjoy true camaraderie—until a secret is revealed. Based on events from writer-director Malle’s own childhood, the film is a subtle, precisely observed tale of courage, cowardice, and tragic awakening.
poster
86
8.3
/27884/
82
/1763/
79
/573/
4.2
/83819/
97
/255/
94
/737/
85
/41/
cc age 10+

Won't You Be My Neighbor? (2018)
For more than thirty years, and through his television program, Fred Rogers (1928-2003), host, producer, writer and pianist, accompanied by his puppets and his many friends, spoke directly to young children about some of life's most important issues.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
86
7.8
/349624/
78
/12180/
81
/12505/
3.9
/2489637/
95
/365/
86
/1871/
94
/53/
cc age 16+

Call Me by Your Name (2017)
In the summer of 1983, a 17-year-old Elio spends his days in his family's villa in Italy. One day Oliver, a graduate student, arrives to assist Elio's father, a professor of Greco-Roman culture. Soon, Elio and Oliver discover a summer that will alter their lives forever.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
86
8.0
/64358/
78
/1604/
77
/1196/
4.2
/186557/
92
/51/
93
/1100/
90
/21/

Le Samouraï (1967)
After carrying out a flawlessly planned hit, Jef Costello, a contract killer with samurai instincts, finds himself caught between a persistent police investigator and a ruthless employer, and not even his armor of fedora and trench coat can protect him.
poster
85
7.8
/124278/
76
/2805/
74
/1402/
3.9
/104540/
97
/159/
91
/18305/
90
/33/
cc age 13+

Once (2007)
A vacuum repairman moonlights as a street musician and hopes for his big break. One day a Czech immigrant, who earns a living selling flowers, approaches him with the news that she is also an aspiring singer-songwriter. The pair decide to collaborate, and the songs that they compose reflect the story of their blossoming love.
poster
Kanopy
85
7.6
/46453/
74
/768/
75
/1026/
3.9
/83325/
94
/51/
89
/1072/
97
/18/

Jules and Jim (1962)
In the carefree days before World War I, introverted Austrian author Jules strikes up a friendship with the exuberant Frenchman Jim and both men fall for the impulsive and beautiful Catherine.
poster
Kanopy
85
7.8
/30656/
78
/815/
76
/745/
4.2
/212739/
93
/54/
89
/321/
87
/22/

Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962)
Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy. A chronicle of the minutes of one woman’s life, Cléo from 5 to 7 is a spirited mix of vivid vérité and melodrama, featuring a score by Michel Legrand and cameos by Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina.
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
Kanopy
85
7.7
/11568/
79
/261/
74
/196/
4.0
/27530/
100
/13/
89
/128/

The Official Story (1985)
Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1983. In the last and turbulent days of the military dictatorship, Alicia, a high school history teacher, begins to ask uncomfortable questions about the dark origins of Gaby, her adopted daughter.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
85
7.7
/60631/
76
/1803/
73
/925/
3.9
/44359/
100
/159/
87
/3529/
89
/31/
cc age 13+

Man on Wire (2008)
On August 7th 1974, French tightrope walker Philippe Petit stepped out on a high wire, illegally rigged between New York's World Trade Center twin towers, then the world's tallest buildings. After nearly an hour of performing on the wire, 1,350 feet above the sidewalks of Manhattan, he was arrested. This fun and spellbinding documentary chronicles Philippe Petit's "highest" achievement.
poster
85
7.9
/109610/
77
/2036/
78
/1716/
4.2
/134889/
93
/219/
82
/1472/
95
/45/
cc age 16+

Amour (2012)
Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.
poster
85
7.9
/182935/
77
/5085/
75
/2589/
4.0
/486188/
98
/202/
82
/1653/
94
/41/
cc age 16+

Before Midnight (2013)
It has been nine years since we last met Jesse and Celine, the French-American couple who once met on a train in Vienna. They now live in Paris with twin daughters but have spent a summer in Greece at the invitation of an author colleague of Jesse's. When the vacation is over and Jesse must send his teenage son off to the States, he begins to question his life decisions, and his relationship with Celine is at risk.
poster
MGM Plus
84
8.1
/388597/
79
/6222/
77
/3034/
3.9
/130371/
91
/188/
94
/12273/
79
/40/
cc age 15+

Hotel Rwanda (2004)
Inspired by true events, this film takes place in Rwanda in the 1990s when more than a million Tutsis were killed in a genocide that went mostly unnoticed by the rest of the world. Hotel owner Paul Rusesabagina houses over a thousand refuges in his hotel in attempt to save their lives.
poster
84
8.2
/113153/
79
/1850/
76
/581/
3.9
/44926/
100
/15/
90
/111/

Andhadhun (2018)
A series of mysterious events changes the life of a blind pianist who now must report a crime that was actually never witnessed by him.
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
Amazon Prime Video
84
7.7
/10579/
78
/373/
78
/333/
4.1
/35213/
94
/84/
89
/22/
81
/18/

Invisible Life (2019)
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1950. In the conservative home of the Gusmão family, Eurídice and Guida are two inseparable sisters who support each other. While Guida can share with her younger sister the details of her romantic adventures, Eurídice finds in her older sister the encouragement she needs to pursue her dream of becoming a professional pianist.
poster
The Roku Channel
85
84
8.3
/21901/
80
/437/
79
/427/
4.4
/51709/
96
/26/
93
/249/
76
/9/

The Cranes Are Flying (1957)
Veronika and Boris come together in Moscow shortly before World War II. Walking along the river, they watch cranes fly overhead, and promise to rendezvous before Boris leaves to fight. Boris misses the meeting and is off to the front lines, while Veronika waits patiently, sending letters faithfully. After her house is bombed, Veronika moves in with Boris' family, into the company of a cousin with his own intentions.
poster
Kanopy
84
8.0
/66572/
79
/1675/
79
/1114/
4.2
/115947/
91
/53/
91
/1789/
75
/15/
cc age 13+

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
A former vaudeville child star viciously torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.
poster
Kanopy
84
7.7
/16278/
75
/282/
73
/280/
4.1
/24232/
95
/22/
92
/416/

Stroszek (1977)
Bruno Stroszek is released from prison and warned to stop drinking. He has few skills and fewer expectations: with a glockenspiel and an accordion, he ekes out a living as a street musician. He befriends Eva, a prostitute down on her luck and they join his neighbor, Scheitz, an elderly eccentric, when he leaves Germany to live in Wisconsin.
poster
Criterion Channel
84
8.1
/41290/
81
/785/
79
/669/
4.5
/120450/
85
/33/
92
/358/

Autumn Sonata (1978)
After a seven-year absence, Charlotte Andergast travels to Sweden to reunite with her daughter Eva. The pair have a troubled relationship: Charlotte sacrificed the responsibilities of motherhood for a career as a classical pianist. Over an emotional night, the pair reopen the wounds of the past. Charlotte gets another shock when she finds out that her mentally impaired daughter, Helena, is out of the asylum and living with Eva.
poster
Criterion Channel
84
7.8
/117316/
76
/2054/
76
/1816/
4.2
/229861/
96
/57/
93
/1913/
87
/11/

Three Colors: Blue (1993)
The wife of a famous composer survives a car accident that kills her husband and daughter. Now alone, she shakes off her old identity and explores her newfound freedom but finds that she is unbreakably bound to other humans, including her husband’s mistress, whose existence she never suspected.
poster
83
7.5
/131623/
74
/5332/
75
/2605/
4.0
/556403/
92
/399/
83
/727/
85
/65/
cc age 13+

The Fabelmans (2022)
Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a shattering family secret and explores how the power of films can help him see the truth.
poster
Disney Plus
83
7.9
/297052/
79
/11108/
78
/5847/
4.3
/2323945/
93
/246/
85
/7709/
83
/34/
cc age 7+

Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
The Fantastic Mr. Fox, bored with his current life, plans a heist against the three local farmers. The farmers, tired of sharing their chickens with the sly fox, seek revenge against him and his family.
poster
Kanopy
83
7.4
/106631/
74
/4533/
73
/1762/
4.1
/491736/
98
/325/
92
/96/
89
/49/
cc age 13+

Minari (2021)
A Korean American family moves to an Arkansas farm in search of its own American dream. Amidst the challenges of this new life in the strange and rugged Ozarks, they discover the undeniable resilience of family and what really makes a home.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
83
7.5
/64757/
73
/2024/
74
/1538/
4.0
/168001/
92
/254/
82
/176/
90
/45/
cc age 16+

Cold War (2018)
A man and a woman meet in the ruins of post-war Poland. With vastly different backgrounds and temperaments, they are fatally mismatched and yet drawn to each other.
poster
83
7.5
/66439/
74
/2387/
73
/1855/
4.1
/158350/
96
/306/
91
/78/
87
/43/
cc age 17+

Pain and Glory (2019)
Salvador Mallo, a filmmaker in the twilight of his career, remembers his life: his mother, his lovers, the actors he worked with. The sixties in a small village in Valencia, the eighties in Madrid, the present, when he feels an immeasurable emptiness, facing his mortality, the incapability of continuing filming, the impossibility of separating creation from his own life. The need of narrating his past can be his salvation.
poster
Kanopy
83
8.0
/23602/
78
/430/
79
/566/
4.1
/21722/
88
/40/
90
/336/
84
/15/

Limelight (1952)
A fading music hall comedian tries to help a despondent ballet dancer learn to walk and to again feel confident about life.
poster
83
7.9
/42694/
76
/691/
76
/636/
4.0
/36680/
97
/74/
90
/592/

The Lost Weekend (1945)
Don Birnam, a long-time alcoholic, has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst... but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother and girlfriend, he begins a four-day bender that just might be his last - one way or another.
poster
Criterion Channel
83
7.8
/40527/
76
/657/
74
/547/
3.9
/34865/
95
/37/
90
/816/
90
/16/

To Have and Have Not (1945)
A Martinique charter boat skipper gets mixed up with the underground French resistance operatives during WWII.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
83
7.4
/26907/
77
/739/
72
/411/
4.0
/59452/
95
/55/
85
/859/
88
/16/
cc age 10+

Funny Girl (1968)
The life of famed 1930s comedienne Fanny Brice, from her early days in the Jewish slums of New York, to the height of her career with the Ziegfeld Follies, as well as her marriage to the rakish gambler Nick Arnstein.
poster
83
7.6
/58466/
74
/852/
74
/683/
3.7
/22249/
91
/43/
90
/1093/
87
/25/
cc age 15+

Shine (1996)
Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim.
poster
83
7.7
/58941/
75
/1228/
73
/1002/
4.0
/63140/
94
/146/
90
/2478/
91
/35/
cc age 12+

The Triplets of Belleville (2003)
When her grandson is kidnapped during the Tour de France, Madame Souza and her beloved pooch Bruno team up with the Belleville Sisters—an aged song-and-dance team from the days of Fred Astaire—to rescue him.
poster
Netflix
83
7.4
/56852/
75
/2424/
73
/1274/
3.8
/54871/
97
/202/
85
/314/
85
/44/
cc age 15+

Mudbound (2017)
In the post–World War II South, two families are pitted against a barbaric social hierarchy and an unrelenting landscape as they simultaneously fight the battle at home and the battle abroad.
poster
83
8.0
/742071/
77
/29191/
79
/17660/
4.1
/3922735/
91
/469/
82
/5134/
94
/54/
cc age 13+

La La Land (2016)
Mia, an aspiring actress, serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and Sebastian, a jazz musician, scrapes by playing cocktail party gigs in dingy bars, but as success mounts they are faced with decisions that begin to fray the fragile fabric of their love affair, and the dreams they worked so hard to maintain in each other threaten to rip them apart.
poster
Kanopy
82
7.7
/12728/
70
/242/
75
/251/
3.9
/17502/
93
/44/
86
/308/

Pandora's Box (1929)
The rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires lust and violence in those around her.
poster
MGM Plus
82
8.2
/295332/
80
/5801/
80
/4266/
4.2
/226515/
92
/38/
94
/2662/
74
/8/
cc age 12+

For a Few Dollars More (1965)
Two bounty hunters both pursue the brutal and sadistic bandit, El Indio, who has a large bounty on his head.


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