Release Date: 2012-11-15

Overview: A journey into the labyrinthine heart of ideology, which shapes and justifies both collective and personal beliefs and practices: with an infectious zeal and voracious appetite for popular culture, Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj Žižek analyzes several of the most important films in the history of cinema to explain how cinematic narrative helps to reinforce prevailing ethics and political ideas.

Rating: 7.325 (134 votes)

Release Date: 2022-02-17

Overview: Rosa is a young rebel girl who lives with her grandmother and her uncle in a remote part of Calabria, in Southernmost Italy. Her mother's untimely death when Rosa was a child casts a gloomy shadow on her present life.

Rating: 5.7 (36 votes)

Release Date: 2013-09-11

Overview: A promising kickboxer struggles to resist the temptations of a life of crime.

Rating: 6.8 (49 votes)

Release Date: 1985-12-01

Overview: At the turn of the century on Prince Edward Island, Matthew Cuthbert and his sister Marilla decide to take on an orphan boy as help for their farm. But they get an unexpected jolt when they're mistakenly sent a girl instead: Anne Shirley.

Rating: 8.1 (240 votes)

Release Date: 2006-02-24

Overview: A manager of an orphanage in India is sent to Copenhagen, Denmark, where he discovers a life-altering family secret.

Rating: 7.138 (443 votes)

Release Date: 2012-04-13

Overview: On July 19–21, 2001, over 200,000 people took to the streets of Genoa to protest against the ongoing G8 summit. Anti-globalization activists clashed with the police, with 23-year-old protester Carlo Giuliani shot dead after confronting a police vehicle. In the aftermath, the police organized a night raid on the Diaz high school, where around a hundred people between unarmed protesters—mostly students—and independent reporters who documented the police brutality during the protests had took shelter. What happened next was called by Amnesty International "the most serious breach of civil liberties in a democratic Western country since World War II."

Rating: 7.2 (425 votes)

Release Date: 1966-03-22

Overview: Paul, a young idealist trying to figure out what he wants to do with his life, takes a job interviewing people for a marketing research firm. He moves in with aspiring pop singer Madeleine. Paul, however, is disillusioned by the growing commercialism in society, while Madeleine just wants to be successful. The story is told in a series of 15 unrelated vignettes.

Rating: 7.246 (398 votes)

Release Date: 2009-03-06

Overview: When disc jockey Grant Mazzy reports to his basement radio station in the Canadian town of Pontypool, he thinks it's just another day at work. But when he hears reports of a virus that turns people into zombies, Mazzy barricades himself in the radio booth and tries to figure out a way to warn his listeners about the virus and its unlikely mode of transmission.

Rating: 6.453 (654 votes)

Release Date: 1990-04-05

Overview: The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances towards him while he is trying to battle Big Boy Caprice's united mob.

Rating: 6.153 (971 votes)

Release Date: 2005-12-25

Overview: A drama about explorer John Smith and the clash between Native Americans and English settlers in the 17th century.

Rating: 6.5 (1196 votes)

Release Date: 2014-05-21

Overview: Sandra is a young woman who has only one weekend to convince her colleagues they must give up their bonuses in order for her to keep her job — not an easy task in this economy.

Rating: 6.893 (957 votes)

Release Date: 2015-10-30

Overview: The true story of the relationship between Alan Bennett and the singular Miss Shepherd, a woman of uncertain origins who ‘temporarily’ parked her van in Bennett’s London driveway and proceeded to live there for 15 years.

Rating: 6.414 (766 votes)

Release Date: 1952-06-09

Overview: Will Kane, the sheriff of a small town in New Mexico, learns a notorious outlaw he put in jail has been freed, and will be arriving on the noon train. Knowing the outlaw and his gang are coming to kill him, Kane is determined to stand his ground, so he attempts to gather a posse from among the local townspeople.

Rating: 7.672 (1492 votes)

Release Date: 1982-12-17

Overview: On another planet in the distant past, a Gelfling embarks on a quest to find the missing shard of a magical crystal and restore order to his world, before the grotesque race of Skeksis find and use the crystal for evil.

Rating: 7.1 (1175 votes)

Release Date: 1974-11-22

Overview: In 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before.

Rating: 7.145 (1475 votes)

Release Date: 2021-10-08

Overview: 19 year old Linnéa leaves her small town in Sweden and heads for Los Angeles with the aim of becoming the world's next big porn star, but the road to her goal turns out to be bumpier than she imagined.

Rating: 6.334 (689 votes)

Release Date: 2019-01-11

Overview: Following the roguish terrorist attacks at Uri Army Base camp in Kashmir, India takes the fight to the enemy, in its most successful covert operation till date with one and only one objective of avenging their fallen heroes.

Rating: 7 (439 votes)

Release Date: 1974-04-07

Overview: A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered.

Rating: 7.518 (1868 votes)

Release Date: 1976-11-14

Overview: When veteran anchorman Howard Beale is forced to retire his 25-year post because of his age, he announces to viewers that he will kill himself during his farewell broadcast. Network executives rethink their decision when his fanatical tirade results in a spike in ratings.

Rating: 7.816 (1848 votes)

Release Date: 2019-07-12

Overview: 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.

Rating: 7.423 (1459 votes)