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Kanopy
89
8.6
/857997/
85
/13573/
84
/7895/
4.6
/959916/
91
/163/
97
/15603/
79
/33/
cc age 18+

City of God (2002)
In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths. Rocket is a budding photographer who documents the increasing drug-related violence of his neighborhood, while José “Zé” Pequeno is an ambitious drug dealer diving into a dangerous life of crime.
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Criterion Channel
87
8.2
/3514/
81
/163/
74
/64/
4.4
/17109/
100
/12/

Streetwise (1984)
This documentary about teenagers living on the streets in Seattle began as a magazine article. The film follows nine teenagers who discuss how they live by panhandling, prostitution, and petty theft.
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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.
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Netflix
85
7.9
/20058/
82
/1105/
81
/324/
4.3
/205809/
98
/51/
94
/112/
74
/10/

How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies (2024)
M, a university dropout low on money and luck, volunteers to take care of his terminally ill grandmother, in the hope of pocketing an inheritance.
poster
85
8.3
/21950/
82
/465/
80
/350/
4.2
/21920/
87
/23/
96
/404/

To Live (1994)
Married couple Fugui and Jiazhen endure tumultuous events in mid-20th century mainland China as their personal fortunes move from wealthy landownership to peasantry.
poster
85
8.3
/227612/
81
/2435/
79
/1260/
4.0
/87738/
93
/14/
96
/2312/
cc age 13+

Like Stars on Earth (2007)
Ishaan Awasthi is an eight-year-old whose world is filled with wonders that no one else seems to appreciate. Colours, fish, dogs, and kites don't seem important to the adults, who are much more interested in things like homework, marks, and neatness. Ishaan cannot seem to get anything right in class; he is then sent to boarding school, where his life changes forever.
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MGM Plus
84
8.1
/34953/
79
/602/
76
/444/
4.0
/19157/
93
/28/
91
/649/
75
/8/
cc age 12+

Inherit the Wind (1960)
Schoolteacher Bertram Cates is arrested for teaching his students Darwin's theory of evolution. The case receives national attention and one of the newspaper reporters, E.K. Hornbeck, arranges to bring in renowned defense attorney and atheist Henry Drummond to defend Cates. The prosecutor, Matthew Brady is a former presidential candidate, famous evangelist, and old adversary of Drummond.
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Kanopy
84
8.0
/156448/
79
/2772/
79
/2176/
4.2
/270156/
96
/67/
93
/4033/
78
/8/
cc age 9+

Roman Holiday (1953)
Overwhelmed by her suffocating schedule, touring European princess Ann takes off for a night while in Rome. When a sedative she took from her doctor kicks in, however, she falls asleep on a park bench and is found by an American reporter, Joe Bradley, who takes her back to his apartment for safety. At work the next morning, Joe finds out Ann's regal identity and bets his editor he can get exclusive interview with her, but romance soon gets in the way.
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Netflix
84
7.5
/491351/
75
/11855/
72
/5933/
3.8
/293469/
96
/288/
84
/13785/
95
/37/
cc age 17+

The Hurt Locker (2008)
During the Iraq War, a Sergeant recently assigned to an army bomb squad is put at odds with his squad mates due to his maverick way of handling his work.
poster
84
8.4
/121040/
83
/2682/
81
/1879/
4.2
/114476/
90
/181/
93
/198/
75
/33/
cc age 16+

Capernaum (2018)
After running away from his negligent parents, committing a violent crime and being sentenced to five years in jail, a hardened, streetwise 12-year-old Lebanese boy sues his parents in protest of the life they have given him.
poster
Criterion Channel
84
7.6
/25720/
75
/578/
74
/591/
4.0
/47516/
94
/33/
89
/475/
84
/15/

Mon Oncle (1958)
Genial, bumbling Monsieur Hulot loves his top-floor apartment in a grimy corner of the city, and cannot fathom why his sister's family has moved to the suburbs. Their house is an ultra-modern nightmare, which Hulot only visits for the sake of stealing away his rambunctious young nephew. Hulot's sister, however, wants to win him over to her new way of life, and conspires to set him up with a wife and job.
poster
84
7.7
/64886/
74
/1215/
73
/828/
3.9
/57457/
91
/55/
91
/2059/
93
/15/
cc age 7+

Duck Soup (1933)
Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.
poster
Criterion Channel
84
7.8
/50784/
75
/816/
78
/1169/
4.1
/65328/
88
/49/
90
/772/
cc age 17+

Amarcord (1973)
In an Italian seaside town, young Titta gets into trouble with his friends and watches various local eccentrics as they engage in often absurd behavior. Frequently clashing with his stern father and defended by his doting mother, Titta witnesses the actions of a wide range of characters, from his extended family to Fascist loyalists to sensual women, with certain moments shifting into fantastical scenarios.
poster
83
7.9
/10888/
76
/133/
73
/112/
3.9
/9148/
93
/29/
93
/218/
79
/18/

Salaam Bombay! (1988)
After destroying his older brother's motorbike in retaliation for his constant bullying, 11-year-old Krishna is sent to a traveling circus to earn money to pay for the bike's repairs, but soon winds up in the streets of Bombay's poorest slums. There, he befriends the drug dealer Chillum and young prostitute Sola Saal, while trying to make enough money at a neighborhood tea stall to repay his debt to his family.
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Netflix
82
7.2
/55149/
73
/2610/
71
/764/
3.5
/242325/
94
/372/
94
/1444/
84
/55/
cc age 11+

In the Heights (2021)
The story of Usnavi, a bodega owner who has mixed feelings about closing his store and retiring to the Dominican Republic or staying in Washington Heights.
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Disney Plus
82
7.3
/894994/
75
/52276/
73
/22988/
3.7
/2466625/
96
/526/
79
/9118/
88
/55/
cc age 12+

Black Panther (2018)
King T'Challa returns home to the reclusive, technologically advanced African nation of Wakanda to serve as his country's new leader. However, T'Challa soon finds that he is challenged for the throne by factions within his own country as well as without. Using powers reserved to Wakandan kings, T'Challa assumes the Black Panther mantle to join with ex-girlfriend Nakia, the queen-mother, his princess-kid sister, members of the Dora Milaje (the Wakandan 'special forces') and an American secret agent, to prevent Wakanda from being dragged into a world war.
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MGM Plus
82
7.7
/20835/
76
/433/
76
/410/
4.0
/25743/
100
/17/
88
/247/

Scarlet Street (1945)
Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she's really only interested in Johnny, a two-bit crook. When Kitty and Johnny find out that art dealers are interested in Chris's work, they con him into letting Kitty take credit for the paintings. Cross allows it because he is in love with Kitty, but his love will only let her get away with so much.
poster
82
7.8
/8923/
73
/221/
73
/136/
3.9
/10713/
96
/79/
90
/341/
83
/27/

Bus 174 (2002)
Documentary depicts what happened in Rio de Janeiro on June 12th 2000, when bus 174 was taken by an armed young man, threatening to shoot all the passengers. Transmitted live on all Brazilian TV networks, this shocking and tragic-ending event became one of violence's most shocking portraits, and one of the scariest examples of police incompetence and abuse in recent years.
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Kanopy
81
7.6
/77986/
74
/1506/
73
/737/
3.8
/43039/
94
/159/
89
/2032/
81
/36/
cc age 16+

The Station Agent (2003)
When his only friend dies, a man born with dwarfism moves to rural New Jersey to live a life of solitude, only to meet a chatty hot dog vendor and a woman dealing with her own personal loss.
poster
80
7.7
/160882/
78
/6830/
75
/3024/
4.0
/191973/
90
/188/
89
/10747/
78
/38/
cc age 14+

Kung Fu Hustle (2004)
It's the 1940s, and the notorious Axe Gang terrorizes Shanghai. Small-time criminals Sing and Bone hope to join, but they only manage to make lots of very dangerous enemies. Fortunately for them, kung fu masters and hidden strength can be found in unlikely places. Now they just have to take on the entire Axe Gang.
poster
The Roku Channel
79
7.6
/45830/
73
/763/
71
/483/
3.7
/12987/
89
/121/
84
/3835/
79
/29/
cc age 13+

The Visitor (2008)
A college professor travels to New York City to attend a conference and finds a young couple living in his apartment.
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Kanopy
79
7.1
/10356/
69
/369/
69
/264/
4.0
/39060/
95
/91/
67
/32/
88
/23/

Long Day's Journey into Night (2018)
Luo Hongwu returns to Kaili, the hometown from which he fled many years ago. He begins the search for the woman he loved and whom he has never been able to forget.
poster
Criterion Channel
82
79
7.9
/12541/
76
/293/
81
/750/
4.0
/17101/
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
The Roku Channel
79
7.4
/43771/
74
/909/
70
/457/
3.6
/36725/
90
/79/
81
/1371/
74
/11/
cc age 8+

Oliver! (1968)
Musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, a classic tale of an orphan who runs away from the workhouse and joins up with a group of boys headed by the Artful Dodger and trained to be pickpockets by master thief Fagin.
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The Roku Channel
79
7.7
/3584/
76
/55/
73
/61/
3.8
/1394/
89
/19/
91
/135/

The King of Masks (1995)
Wang Bianlian is an aging street performer known as the King of Mask for his mastery of Sichuan Change Art in a true story. His wife left him with and infant son over 30 years ago. The son died from illness at age 10. This left Wang a melancholy loner aching for a male descendent to learn his rare and dying art.
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Fandango at Home Free
78
7.1
/38802/
72
/864/
70
/617/
3.7
/58806/
95
/101/
79
/1245/
83
/18/
cc age 8+

An American in Paris (1951)
Jerry Mulligan is an exuberant American expatriate in Paris trying to make a reputation as a painter. His friend Adam is a struggling concert pianist who's a long time associate of a famous French singer, Henri Baurel. A lonely society woman, Milo Roberts, takes Jerry under her wing and supports him, but is interested in more than his art.
poster
78
7.3
/5575/
72
/88/
69
/112/
4.1
/11374/
85
/55/
79
/132/
79
/20/

What Time Is It There? (2001)
A street vendor with a grim home-life forges a connection with a young woman on her way to Paris.
poster
The Roku Channel
78
8.1
/336461/
81
/8159/
80
/6984/
3.9
/236083/
64
/28/
85
/2221/
cc age 10+

Hachi: A Dog's Tale (2009)
A drama based on the true story of a college professor's bond with the abandoned dog he takes into his home.
poster
77
7.6
/15726/
70
/178/
68
/119/
3.7
/5093/
90
/94/
90
/1783/
77
/25/

Water (2005)
The year is 1938, and Mahatma Gandhi's groundbreaking philosophies are sweeping across India, but 8-year-old Chuyia, newly widowed, must go to live with other outcast widows on an ashram. Her presence transforms the ashram as she befriends two of her compatriots.
poster
79
77
7.5
/15194/
74
/305/
71
/220/
3.7
/9307/
95
/19/
89
/363/
cc age 8+

A Day at the Races (1937)
Doctor Hugo Hackenbush, Tony, and Stuffy try and save Judy's sanitarium by winning a big race with a finicky horse owned by Judy's boyfriend Gil. There are a few problems. Hackenbush, who was recently put in charge of the sanitarium, isn't really a doctor, he's a veterinarian.
poster
76
7.2
/7321/
70
/127/
66
/87/
3.7
/3344/
86
/28/
78
/114/
68
/22/
cc age 13+

Avalon (1990)
A Polish-Jewish family comes to the U.S. at the beginning of the twentieth century. There, the family and their children try to make themselves a better future in the so-called promised land.
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Kanopy
76
7.3
/95189/
74
/7698/
70
/1663/
3.5
/34742/
95
/219/
82
/1270/
73
/39/
cc age 15+

Eye in the Sky (2015)
A UK-based military officer in command of a top secret drone operation to capture terrorists in Kenya discovers the targets are planning a suicide bombing and the mission escalates from “capture” to “kill.” As American pilot Steve Watts is about to engage, a nine-year old girl enters the kill zone, triggering an international dispute reaching the highest levels of US and British government over the moral, political, and personal implications of modern warfare.
poster
77
75
7.6
/23380/
75
/271/
72
/229/
3.6
/9582/
89
/27/
89
/332/
71
/12/

In July (2000)
Daniel’s drab existence as a physics teacher takes an adventurous turn when he falls in love with a Turkish girl named Melek. He spontaneously decides to follow her to Instanbul by car. On the road across Europe, he picks up his free-spirited friend Juli, who is secretly in love with him.
poster
84
75
8.3
/8063/
77
/108/
72
/69/
4.2
/11187/
100
/8/
90
/50/

Pyaasa (1957)
Vijay, a destitute poet, searches for true love while attempting to get his work published. With the assistance of two women in his life, his dream comes true - but at a cost that causes Vijay to rethink his worldview.
poster
75
7.3
/4520/
66
/45/
62
/53/
3.6
/1402/
89
/62/
88
/117/
75
/25/

In This World (2003)
Torn straight from the headlines, Michael Winterbottom's compelling and prescient 'In This World' follows young Afghan Jamal and his older cousin Enayat as they embark on a hazardous overland trip from their refugee camp at Peshawar, north-west Pakistan. Entering Turkey on foot through a snowy, Kurdish-controlled pass, the pair again take their lives into their hands and face suffocation when they are locked in a freight container on a ship bound for Italy. From there they plan to travel on to Paris, the Sangatte refuge centre and ultimately asylum in London.
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Kanopy
75
7.2
/17803/
72
/496/
68
/501/
3.6
/19839/
88
/130/
81
/64/
76
/29/
cc age 17+

Dheepan (2015)
Three war-torn strangers posing as a family flee Sri Lanka’s civil war to start over in a troubled Paris suburb, but their past traumas resurface as they struggle to survive in their new environment.
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Kanopy
75
7.4
/13868/
77
/643/
74
/586/
3.9
/27315/
84
/58/
85
/47/
60
/16/

Sweet Bean (2015)
The master of a dorayaki pastry store hires a 76-year-old woman whose talents attract customers from all over. But she's hiding a troubling secret. Life's joys are found in the little details, and no matter what may be weighing you down, everyone loves a good pastry.
poster
Disney Plus
75
7.1
/227172/
72
/8373/
68
/5590/
3.5
/560084/
93
/192/
80
/38424/
75
/32/
cc age 6+

Enchanted (2007)
The beautiful princess Giselle is banished by an evil queen from her magical, musical animated land and finds herself in the gritty reality of the streets of modern-day Manhattan. Shocked by this strange new environment that doesn't operate on a "happily ever after" basis, Giselle is now adrift in a chaotic world badly in need of enchantment. But when Giselle begins to fall in love with a charmingly flawed divorce lawyer who has come to her aid - even though she is already promised to a perfect fairy tale prince back home - she has to wonder: Can a storybook view of romance survive in the real world?
poster
YouTube TV
74
7.6
/536432/
81
/27929/
75
/11307/
3.8
/473747/
71
/70/
87
/24378/
52
/22/
cc age 14+

The Fifth Element (1997)
In 2257, a taxi driver is unintentionally given the task of saving a young girl who is part of the key that will ensure the survival of humanity.
poster
Kanopy
73
7.4
/784/
63
/13/
70
/12/
3.5
/289/
90
/41/
77
/14/
72
/10/

Siddharth (2013)
A chain-wallah from Delhi travels across India in search of his missing son, in the hopes that whoever took him, returns him unharmed.
poster
Kanopy
73
7.0
/2801/
66
/29/
69
/42/
3.5
/960/
89
/61/
79
/179/
67
/21/

Jellyfish (2007)
Meduzot (the Hebrew word for Jellyfish) tells the story of three very different Israeli women living in Tel Aviv whose intersecting stories weave an unlikely portrait of modern Israeli life. Batya, a catering waitress, takes in a young child apparently abandoned at a local beach. Batya is one of the servers at the wedding reception of Keren, a young bride who breaks her leg in trying to escape from a locked toilet stall, which ruins her chance at a romantic honeymoon in the Caribbean. One of the guests is Joy, a Philippine chore woman attending the event with her employer, and who doesn't speak any Hebrew (she communicates mainly in English), and who is guilt-ridden after having left her young son behind in the Philippines.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
73
8.3
/1656419/
80
/57075/
81
/27030/
3.8
/4054258/
68
/598/
89
/23598/
59
/60/
cc age 16+

Joker (2019)
During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.
poster
73
6.7
/10277/
68
/308/
61
/168/
3.5
/5476/
74
/38/
73
/420/
77
/9/

Bedazzled (1967)
A hapless loser sells his soul to the Devil in exchange for seven wishes, but has trouble winning over the girl of his dreams.
poster
Kanopy
72
7.5
/13501/
76
/406/
68
/153/
3.6
/9612/
74
/19/
84
/351/
58
/8/
cc age 6+

Scrooge (1970)
A musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic ghost tale starring Albert Finney.
poster
72
7.0
/5020/
66
/39/
66
/115/
3.7
/1837/
77
/83/
86
/104/
65
/26/

Respiro (2002)
Grazia is a free-spirited mother-of-three married to shy fisherman Pietro and living on the idyllic but isolated island of Lampedusa in the Mediterranean Sea. She shows signs of manic depressive behavior — one moment she's laughing wildly and swimming half-naked in the sea, while the next she's curled in a ball on her bed. Out of her earshot, the adult members of her extended family vaguely discuss sending her to a facility of some sort in Northern Italy.
poster
72
7.5
/4618/
72
/55/
74
/110/
3.7
/2909/
63
/65/
93
/227/
52
/29/
cc age 14+

Valentin (2002)
Valentin, a 9-year-old boy living with his grandmother in late-1960s Buenos Aires, believes his family has problems that only he can solve. The youngster dreams of being reunited with his mother, who's separated from Valentin's abusive father.
poster
80
72
7.9
/11750/
76
/93/
75
/77/
3.8
/5936/
98
/41/
87
/114/
74
/14/

The Song of Sparrows (2008)
When an ostrich-rancher focuses on replacing his daughter's hearing aid, which breaks right before crucial exams, everything changes for a struggling rural family in Iran. Karim motorbikes into a world alien to him - incredibly hectic Tehran, where sudden opportunities for independence, thrill and challenge him. But his honor and honesty, plus traditional authority over his inventive clan, are tested, as he stumbles among vast cultural and economic gaps between his village nestled in the desert, and a throbbing international metropolis.
poster
72
6.7
/12275/
63
/247/
64
/203/
3.2
/8028/
86
/155/
61
/785/
73
/30/
cc age 14+

Me and Orson Welles (2008)
New York, 1937. A teenager hired to star in Orson Welles' production of Julius Caesar becomes attracted to a career-driven production assistant.


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