Release Date: 1996-05-24

Overview: After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother. She's shocked when her research leads her to Cynthia, a working class white woman.

Rating: 7.6 (674 votes)

Release Date: 1992-02-21

Overview: Shortly after the Gulf War, oil fires were raging all through Kuwait. In the week before this sea of fire would be extinguished, Werner Herzog filmed this apocalyptic landscape with its murky skies, scorched earth and capricious flames.

Rating: 7.83 (138 votes)

Release Date: 2003-01-30

Overview: A contemporary story of love, rejection, and triumph as a young Maori girl fights to fulfill a destiny her grandfather refuses to recognize.

Rating: 7.062 (420 votes)

Release Date: 1995-04-07

Overview: David Carr is a British Communist who is unemployed. In 1936, when the Spanish Civil War begins, he decides to fight for the Republican side, a coalition of liberals, communists and anarchists, so he joins the POUM militia and witnesses firsthand the betrayal of the Spanish revolution by Stalin's followers and Moscow's orders.

Rating: 7.339 (280 votes)

Release Date: 2017-08-01

Overview: Kaveh Nariman is a Doctor in the medical examiner's office. One day at his work he meets a corpse which is very familiar to him.

Rating: 6.756 (123 votes)

Release Date: 2012-06-01

Overview: Narrowly avoiding jail, new dad Robbie vows to turn over a new leaf. A visit to a whisky distillery inspires him and his mates to seek a way out of their hopeless lives.

Rating: 6.947 (585 votes)

Release Date: 2003-09-26

Overview: A young drifter working on a river barge disrupts his employers' lives while hiding the fact that he knows more about a dead woman found in the river than he admits.

Rating: 5.8 (176 votes)

Release Date: 1996-10-30

Overview: A Glasgow man visits war-torn Nicaragua with a refugee tormented by her memories.

Rating: 6.771 (85 votes)

Release Date: 1992-05-08

Overview: A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?

Rating: 7.204 (870 votes)

Release Date: 2009-09-24

Overview: An aged tailor recalls his life as the schoolteacher of a small village in Northern Germany that was struck by a series of strange events in the year leading up to WWI.

Rating: 7.482 (1061 votes)

Release Date: 2003-08-11

Overview: A former gunslinger is forced to take up arms again when he and his cattle crew are threatened by a corrupt lawman.

Rating: 7.214 (1128 votes)

Release Date: 2023-09-29

Overview: A pub landlord in a previously thriving mining community struggles to hold onto his pub. Meanwhile, tensions rise in the town when Syrian refugees are placed in the empty houses in the community.

Rating: 7.246 (350 votes)

Release Date: 2004-09-24

Overview: Lugano, Switzerland. Titta Di Girolamo is a discreet and sullen man who has been living for almost a decade in a modest hotel room, a prisoner of an atrocious routine, apparently without purpose. His past is a mystery, nobody knows what he does for a living, he answers indiscreet questions evasively. What secrets does this enigmatic man hide?

Rating: 7.6 (859 votes)

Release Date: 1990-08-17

Overview: Young lovers Sailor and Lula hit the road to start a new life together away from the wrath of Lula’s deranged, disapproving mother, who has hired a team of hitmen to cut the lovers’ surreal honeymoon short.

Rating: 7 (1773 votes)

Release Date: 2019-11-14

Overview: Stéphane has recently joined the Anti-Crime Squad in Montfermeil, in the suburbs of Paris, France, where Victor Hugo set his famed novel “Les Miserables”. Alongside his new colleagues Chris and Gwada – both experienced members of the team – he quickly discovers tensions running high between local gangs. When the trio finds themselves overrun during the course of an arrest, a drone captures the encounter, threatening to expose the reality of everyday life.

Rating: 7.564 (1551 votes)

Release Date: 1922-02-16

Overview: The mysterious Count Orlok summons Thomas Hutter to his remote Transylvanian castle in the mountains. The eerie Orlok seeks to buy a house near Hutter and his wife, Ellen. After Orlok reveals his vampire nature, Hutter struggles to escape the castle, knowing that Ellen is in grave danger. Meanwhile Orlok's servant, Knock, prepares for his master to arrive at his new home.

Rating: 7.7 (2283 votes)

Release Date: 2005-09-25

Overview: When the renegade crew of Serenity agrees to hide a fugitive on their ship, they find themselves in an action-packed battle between the relentless military might of a totalitarian regime who will destroy anything – or anyone – to get the girl back and the bloodthirsty creatures who roam the uncharted areas of space. But... the greatest danger of all may be on their ship.

Rating: 7.4 (3641 votes)

Release Date: 2011-01-21

Overview: Emma is a busy doctor who sets up a seemingly perfect arrangement when she offers her best friend Adam a relationship with one rule: No strings attached. But when a fling becomes a thing, can sex friends stay best friends?

Rating: 6.298 (4792 votes)

Release Date: 2012-05-15

Overview: The heroic story of a dictator who risks his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed.

Rating: 6.206 (6044 votes)

Release Date: 2008-12-18

Overview: An IRS agent with a fateful secret embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing the lives of seven strangers.

Rating: 7.605 (6925 votes)