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  1. The Rainbow Troops cover
    2008 · Drama, Family

    The Rainbow Troops

    Laskar Pelangi

    Set on the tin-mining island of Belitung, an impoverished group of Indonesian schoolchildren and two devoted teachers fight to keep their rural school open, embarking on an inspiring journey of friendship and learning against daunting economic odds.

  2. The Wizard of the Emerald City cover
    2025 · Fantasy, Adventure, Family

    The Wizard of the Emerald City

    Волшебник Изумрудного города. Дорога из жёлтого кирпича

    When a ferocious magical whirlwind sweeps young Ellie and her loyal dog Totoshka away from Kansas to a distant fairy-tale realm, her only hope of returning home lies at the end of the yellow brick road. Guided by ancient prophecy, she sets out toward the Emerald City to petition the mysterious wizard Goodwin, joining forces with an eccentric trio of companions—the Scarecrow in search of a brain, the Tin Woodman longing for a heart, and the Cowardly Lion seeking courage—while evading the vengeful plots of wicked sorceresses.

  3. Confessions of a Gambler cover
    2007 · Drama

    Confessions of a Gambler

    In Cape Town's Muslim community, Abeeda, a devout matriarch and baker, leads an outwardly pious life. When her son falls gravely ill, the emotional devastation propels her into an unlikely sanctuary: a casino floor. After winning on her first visit, Abeeda secretly succumbs to an escalating gambling addiction, struggling to reconcile her faith and family with spiraling debt.

  4. The Sleepwalker cover
    2003 · Drama, War

    The Sleepwalker

    Người đàn bà mộng du

    After surviving the harrowing front lines of the Trường Sơn trail, a former wartime combat medic struggles to readjust to civilian peace as unresolved trauma and the memory of her fallen commander haunt her daily life.

  5. Moon cover
    2009 · Science Fiction, Mystery, Drama

    Moon

    As his three-year solitary mining stint on the far side of the Moon nears its end, astronaut Sam Bell experiences a debilitating accident and makes an unsettling discovery that calls into question his sanity, his identity, and the company he works for.

  6. The Embassy Siege cover
    2000 · Drama, History, Thriller

    The Embassy Siege

    La toma de la embajada

    Reconstructing the 61-day siege of the Dominican Republic Embassy in Bogotá by M-19 guerrillas in 1980, this political drama traces the high-stakes negotiations between hostage-takers, foreign diplomats, and the Colombian government. Interweaving dramatic reenactments with archival footage, the film examines the psychological bonds and moral compromises forged during two months of captivity.

  7. 4 Little Girls cover
    1997 · Documentary, History

    4 Little Girls

    Investigating the devastating 1963 Ku Klux Klan bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, this documentary honors the lives and personalities of the four African-American schoolgirls who were murdered. Through intimate family remembrances and historical testimonies, the film chronicles how personal bereavement galvanized the American Civil Rights Movement.

  8. Intimate Stories cover
    2002 · Comedy, Drama

    Intimate Stories

    Historias mínimas

    Traversing the vast and windswept Patagonian steppe, three modest travelers embark on parallel journeys: an elderly man searching for his runaway dog, a traveling salesman carrying a customized birthday cake, and a young mother heading to a televised game show. Their unassuming quests gently converge around quiet yearnings, resilience, and tender human connection.

  9. Nostalgia cover
    2022 · Drama

    Nostalgia

    After four decades abroad in Egypt, a contemplative businessman returns to his native neighborhood in Naples to care for his aging mother. Wandering the labyrinthine streets of his youth, he finds himself irresistibly drawn toward a reckless confrontation with the Camorra boss who was once his childhood best friend.

  10. The Passion of Michelangelo cover
    2013 · Historical drama

    The Passion of Michelangelo

    La Pasión de Michelangelo

    In 1983 Chile, a teenage orphan claims to see apparitions of the Virgin Mary, sparking a nationwide religious fervor that the Pinochet dictatorship exploits to distract from growing public unrest.

  11. I Carry You with Me cover
    2020 · Drama, Romance

    I Carry You with Me

    Te llevo conmigo

    Spanning decades between provincial Mexico and New York City, this docudrama chronicles the tender romance between an ambitious aspiring chef and a teacher whose bond endures across borders and the perils of undocumented immigrant life.

  12. The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls cover
    2009 · Documentary

    The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls

    This exuberant documentary chronicles the journey of twin sisters Jools and Lynda Topp from rural dairy farming to national stardom as beloved, yodeling lesbian country-music and political activist icons.

  13. Nhot Must Marry cover
    2023 · Comedy, Drama

    Nhot Must Marry

    Con Nhót mót chồng

    Facing early menopause, an unmarried neighborhood woman rushes into finding a husband while trying to reconcile with her repentant, alcoholic father.

  14. Mouth to Mouth cover
    2005 · Drama

    Mouth to Mouth

    Mun mot mun

    After running away from her volatile family, an estranged teenage daughter falls under the sway of a manipulative criminal, forcing her desperate parents to confront their own fractures to bring her home.

  15. Madame Sata cover
    2002 · Biographical drama

    Madame Sata

    Madame Satã

    In 1930s Rio de Janeiro, a fiery, marginalized Afro-Brazilian performer and street fighter navigates poverty, systemic oppression, and nightlife subcultures while forging his subversive cabaret alter ego.

  16. In the Mood for Love cover
    2000 · Drama, Romance

    In the Mood for Love

    花樣年華

    In 1962 Hong Kong, two married neighbors discover that their spouses are having an affair. As they find comfort in each other, a growing attraction tests their resolve to remain faithful to their own principles.

  17. Alamar cover
    2009 · Drama, Documentary

    Alamar

    Before moving to Italy with his mother, a young boy joins his father on the remote coral reef of Banco Chinchorro, discovering traditional spearfishing and forming a deep, contemplative bond with nature and family.

  18. Hello Stranger cover
    2010 · Romance, Comedy

    Hello Stranger

    กวน มึน โฮ

    While on separate solo trips to South Korea, two Thai strangers unexpectedly cross paths and make an impulsive pact: explore the country together as travel companions while keeping their names and personal identities completely secret.

  19. The Constant Gardener cover
    2005 · Drama, Mystery, Thriller

    The Constant Gardener

    After his activist wife is found murdered in remote Kenya, a quiet British diplomat pursues the truth behind her death, unearthing a corrupt alliance between influential government officials and multinational pharmaceutical companies.

  20. Burnt Money cover
    2000 · Crime, Drama, Thriller

    Burnt Money

    Plata quemada

    In 1965 Buenos Aires, two criminal lovers known as the twins take part in an armored-car robbery gone wrong, fleeing across the border to Uruguay where police siege and personal friction threaten their survival.

  21. Tea with Mussolini cover
    1999 · Drama, Comedy

    Tea with Mussolini

    In 1930s Florence, an illegitimate Italian boy is taken in and raised by a circle of British and American expatriate women. As Benito Mussolini's fascist regime tightens its grip and World War II approaches, the eccentric expatriates band together to protect the boy and preserve their community.

  22. Concrete Clouds cover
    2013 · Drama, Romance

    Concrete Clouds

    ภวังค์รัก

    Following his father's suicide in the wake of the 1997 Asian financial crisis, an expatriate currency trader returns home to Bangkok, rekindling ties with an old flame while his adolescent brother navigates first love amid an uncertain future.

  23. The Shoe Fairy cover
    2005 · Fantasy, Romance

    The Shoe Fairy

    人魚朵朵

    Born unable to walk, an imaginative young woman undergoes surgery that grants her mobility, sparking a lifelong romance with collecting whimsical footwear. When she marries a gentle dentist, their idyllic existence must weather unforeseen challenges as she learns to anchor love beyond material wonder.

  24. A Reasonable Man cover
    1999 · Crime, Drama

    A Reasonable Man

    An ex-soldier turned defense lawyer takes on the legal defense of a young Zulu herd boy accused of killing an infant, whom the boy claims was an evil spirit called a Tikoloshe. As the trial proceeds, the courtroom becomes the arena for a profound collision between Western legal doctrines and traditional spiritual realities.

  25. Vizontele cover
    2001 · Comedy, Drama

    Vizontele

    In 1974, the arrival of the first television transmitter in an isolated southeastern Anatolian village sparks wonder, confusion, and rivalry as the eccentric local tinkerer and town mayor strive to bring the device to life.

  26. Rust cover
    2018 · Drama

    Rust

    Ferrugem

    After an intimate video of a high school girl is leaked across school chat groups in Curitiba, she and a classmate must navigate the devastating psychological fallout of cyberbullying and digital exposure.

  27. Munich cover
    2005 · Historical Drama, Thriller

    Munich

    Following the 1972 massacre of Israeli athletes at the Summer Olympics, a young Mossad officer leads a secret five-man team assigned to assassinate eleven Palestinian operatives across Europe, eroding their moral certainty as violence spirals.

  28. It's Me, Anna cover
    2015 · Drama, Crime Drama

    It's Me, Anna

    Dis ek, Anna

    Years after enduring horrific childhood sexual abuse by her stepfather, an adult South African woman shatters decades of silence by seeking retribution, forcing the legal system and her community to confront the trauma she survived.

  29. Spit cover
    2025 · Crime, Comedy

    Spit

    Twenty years after vanishing overseas, eccentric ex-con Johnny "Spit" Spitieri sneaks back into Australia on a forged passport and promptly lands in an immigration detention center. Surrounded by hostile guards and old adversaries looking to settle scores, Spit relies on his street-smart cunning and an unorthodox lesson in Aussie mateship to build allies among his fellow detainees and navigate a way out.

  30. Suddenly Dangdut cover
    2006 · Musical comedy, Drama

    Suddenly Dangdut

    Mendadak Dangdut

    When an arrogant alternative rock singer and her sister are forced to go on the run after being framed in a drug scandal, she reluctantly disguises herself as the lead vocalist of a traveling village dangdut troupe.

  31. Balloon cover
    2018 · Historical Thriller, Drama

    Balloon

    Ballon

    In 1979 East Germany, two families secretly construct a homemade hot-air balloon to escape across the heavily fortified border into the West. When their initial flight fails and the Stasi discovers the crash site, they face an agonizing race against time to build a second balloon before authorities track them down.

  32. El Leyton cover
    2002 · Drama, Romance

    El Leyton

    In an isolated Chilean fishing cove, Leyton, a carefree and seductive fisherman, pursues Marta, the young and timid bride of his hardworking lifelong friend Modesto. Their secret affair sets off a volatile cascade of passion, betrayal, and jealousy that threatens to tear their coastal community apart.

  33. Triangle of Sadness cover
    2022 · Black comedy

    Triangle of Sadness

    Celebrity model couple Carl and Yaya join an extravagant cruise populated by the ultra-wealthy. When a violent storm shipwrecks the yacht, the survivors are cast away on a remote island where survival skills flip social power dynamics completely.

  34. I Love Cinema cover
    2004 · Comedy-drama

    I Love Cinema

    بحب السيما

    In 1960s Cairo, a young Coptic Christian boy falls in love with the magic of cinema, finding wonder in movies despite his rigid father's conviction that the silver screen is sinful.

  35. Fragile Balance cover
    2016 · Documentary

    Fragile Balance

    Frágil equilibrio

    Guided by the philosophical reflections of former Uruguayan president José Mujica, this global documentary weaves together three parallel realities—sub-Saharan migrants attempting to reach Europe, overworked Tokyo executives, and evicted families in Spain—to examine contemporary consumption and human purpose.

  36. The Bench cover
    2000 · Drama

    The Bench

    Bænken

    An unemployed alcoholic who spends his days drinking on a neighbourhood park bench in Copenhagen confronts his past when his estranged adult daughter and young grandson move nearby, offering an unexpected path toward redemption.

  37. Closed Curtain cover
    2013 · Drama

    Closed Curtain

    پرده

    Sequestered in a secluded Caspian Sea villa with blacked-out windows, a screenwriter hides his companion dog from repressive authorities until a fugitive young woman breaks in, fracturing his isolation and blurring the line between scripted drama and real-world censorship.

  38. The River cover
    1997 · Drama

    The River

    河流

    After briefly acting as a floating corpse in Taipei's polluted Tamsui River, a young man develops an excruciating, unexplainable neck pain that intensifies while the quiet alienation and hidden lives within his family home begin to unravel.

  39. Voice Over cover
    2014 · Comedy-drama

    Voice Over

    La voz en off

    In Valdivia, Chile, thirty-five-year-old vegetarian Sofia embarks on a self-imposed digital fast to reset her life following a recent separation. Her search for peace quickly unravels when her father abruptly walks out on her mother after thirty-five years of marriage, her sister returns from Europe to disrupt the household, and her children develop an obsession with eating meat.

  40. Josep cover
    2020 · Animated biographical drama

    Josep

    In February 1939, as Spanish Republicans flee Franco's dictatorship into France, artist Josep Bartolí is interned in a squalid concentration camp, where a compassionate French gendarme secretly provides him pencil and paper, forging an enduring bond that keeps his art alive.

  41. Souleymane's Story cover
    2024 · Drama

    Souleymane's Story

    L'Histoire de Souleymane

    Working as an undocumented bicycle food courier in Paris, a young Guinean asylum seeker races against time to memorize a fabricated survival story in the intense two days before his official refugee interview.

  42. Classmates Minus cover
    2020 · Black comedy

    Classmates Minus

    同學麥娜絲

    Four middle-aged school friends gather regularly in a local tea shop, confronting personal setbacks, unfulfilled ambitions, and the quiet absurdities of adult life in Taiwan.

  43. One for the Road cover
    2021 · Drama

    One for the Road

    วันสุดท้าย..ก่อนบายเธอ

    Facing a terminal leukemia diagnosis, a young man reunites with his estranged best friend to embark on a nostalgic road trip across Thailand, saying goodbye to past lovers while confronting unresolved regrets.

  44. Carla's Song cover
    1996 · Drama, Romance

    Carla's Song

    In 1987 Glasgow, a spirited bus driver falls in love with an exiled Nicaraguan refugee and journeys alongside her into her war-torn homeland to confront the traumas and family she left behind.

  45. Get Real cover
    1998 · Comedy, Drama, Romance

    Get Real

    A witty, closeted British teenager forms a clandestine romance with his high school's star athlete, forcing both young men to confront societal expectations and their own authenticity.

  46. Avengers: Endgame cover
    2019 · Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

    Avengers: Endgame

    Following Thanos's catastrophic erasure of half the universe, the surviving Avengers mount a daring time-travel heist through their own past to retrieve the Infinity Stones and resurrect the fallen.

  47. Laurence Anyways cover
    2012 · Drama, Romance

    Laurence Anyways

    In 1990s Montreal, a high school literature teacher reveals her identity as a transgender woman, testing the enduring bond with her passionate partner across a turbulent decade.

  48. Mondays in the Sun cover
    2002 · Drama

    Mondays in the Sun

    Los lunes al sol

    In the wake of a northern Spanish shipyard shutdown, a group of unemployed dockworkers spend their idle days gathered at a local tavern, confronting poverty, loss of purpose, and fractured dignity.

  49. Planet B-Boy cover
    2007 · Documentary, Music

    Planet B-Boy

    Filmmaker Benson Lee follows elite breakdancing crews from South Korea, Japan, France, and the United States as they train rigorously for the high-stakes Battle of the Year championship in Germany.

  50. Tang Wong cover
    2013 · Comedy, Drama

    Tang Wong

    ตั้งวง

    When their prayers at a local spirit shrine unexpectedly come true, four modern Bangkok teenage boys must fulfill a hasty pledge to perform an intricate traditional Thai folk dance, enlisting a seasoned trans performer to teach them.