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Action
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
Brad Bird · 2011
Ethan Hunt and his team are racing against time to track down a dangerous terrorist named Hendricks, who has gained access to Russian nuclear launch codes and is planning a strike on the United States. An attempt to stop him ends in an explosion causing severe destruction to the Kremlin and the IMF to be implicated in the bombing, forcing the President to disavow them. No longer being aided by the government, Ethan and his team chase Hendricks around the globe, although they might still be too late to stop a disaster.
Kingsman: The Secret Service
Matthew Vaughn · 2015
The story of a super-secret spy organization that recruits an unrefined but promising street kid into the agency's ultra-competitive training program just as a global threat emerges from a twisted tech genius.
Top Gun
Tony Scott · 1986
Jeune as du pilotage et tête brûlée d'une école réservée à l'élite de l'Aéronavale américaine, la fameuse « Top Gun », Pete Mitchell, dit Maverick, tombe sous le charme d'une instructrice alors qu'il est en compétition pour le titre du meilleur pilote…
Knives Out
Rian Johnson · 2019
Cuando el renombrado novelista de misterio Harlan Thrombey es encontrado muerto en su mansión justo después de su 85 cumpleaños, el inquisitivo y cortés detective Benoit Blanc es misteriosamente reclutado para investigar. Se moverá entre una red de pistas falsas y mentiras interesadas para tratar de descubrir la verdad tras la prematura muerte del escritor.
The Instigators
Doug Liman · 2024
Rory and Cobby are unlikely partners thrown together for a heist. But when it goes awry, they team up to outrun police, backward bureaucrats, and a vengeful crime boss.
Casino Royale
Martin Campbell · 2006
Le Chiffre, a banker to the world's terrorists, is scheduled to participate in a high-stakes poker game in Montenegro, where he intends to use his winnings to establish his financial grip on the terrorist market. M sends Bond—on his maiden mission as a 00 Agent—to attend this game and prevent Le Chiffre from winning. With the help of Vesper Lynd and Felix Leiter, Bond enters the most important poker game in his already dangerous career.
Romance
Swan Song
Todd Stephens · 2021
An aging hairdresser escapes his nursing home to embark on an odyssey across his small town to style a dead woman's hair for her funeral, rediscovering his sparkle along the way.
Fallen Angels
Wong Kar-Wai · 1995
An assassin goes through obstacles as he attempts to escape his violent lifestyle despite the opposition of his partner, who is secretly attracted to him.
Your Name.
Makoto Shinkai · 2016
High schoolers Mitsuha and Taki are complete strangers living separate lives. But one night, they suddenly switch places. Mitsuha wakes up in Taki’s body, and he in hers. This bizarre occurrence continues to happen randomly, and the two must adjust their lives around each other.
Candy
Neil Armfield · 2006
A poet falls in love with an art student, who gravitates to his bohemian lifestyle — and his love of heroin. Hooked as much on one another as they are on the drug, their relationship alternates between states of oblivion, self-destruction, and despair.
Letters to Juliet
Gary Winick · 2010
Sophie Hall (Amanda Seyfried) es una aspirante a escritora de una revista, quien, junto con su novio Víctor (Gael García Bernal), vuela desde Nueva York a Italia para vivir algo del romance que mucha falta le hace a la relación. Mientras Víctor está fuera, ocupándose de unos asuntos de trabajo, Sofía se encuentra en el famoso patio de Verona, donde mujeres de todas partes del mundo le dejan a Julieta cartas de amores perdidos y no correspondidos. Ella descubre una carta escrita 50 años antes a Julieta por Claire Smith (Vanessa Redgrave) buscando a un joven italiano que la cautivó siendo adolescente. Para sorpresa de Sophie, su carta inspira a Claire, ahora abuela, para viajar a Verona en busca de su amor perdido (Franco Nero).
Before Sunrise
Richard Linklater · 1995
A young man and woman meet on a train in Europe, and wind up spending one evening together in Vienna. Unfortunately, both know that this will probably be their only night together.
We Live in Time
John Crowley · 2024
An up-and-coming chef and a recent divorcée find their lives forever changed when a chance encounter brings them together, in a decade-spanning, deeply moving romance.
Under the Tuscan Sun
Audrey Wells · 2003
After a rough divorce, Frances, a 35-year-old professor and writer from San Francisco takes a tour of Tuscany at the urgings of her friends. On a whim she buys Bramasole, a run down villa in the Tuscan countryside and begins to piece her life together starting with the villa and finds that life sometimes has unexpected ways of giving her everything she wanted.
Call Me by Your Name
Luca Guadagnino · 2017
In 1980s Italy, a relationship begins between seventeen-year-old teenage Elio and the older adult man hired as his father's research assistant.
Thriller
Lady in the Lake
Alma Har'el · 2024
When the disappearance of a young girl grips the city of Baltimore in 1966, the lives of two women converge on a fatal collision course.
Vivarium
Lorcan Finnegan · 2019
A young woman and her fiancé are in search of the perfect starter home. After following a mysterious real estate agent to a new housing development, the couple finds themselves trapped in a maze of identical houses and forced to raise an otherworldly child.
Underwater
William Eubank · 2020
After an earthquake destroys their underwater station, six researchers must navigate two miles along the dangerous, unknown depths of the ocean floor to make it to safety in a race against time.
The Menu
Mark Mylod · 2022
Una joven pareja viaja a uno de los destinos más exclusivos del mundo para cenar en un restaurante que ofrece una experiencia culinaria única. Sin embargo, el chef ha preparado un ingrediente secreto que tendrá un resultado sorprendente en los dos enamorados.
Whiplash
Damien Chazelle · 2014
Under the direction of a ruthless instructor, a talented young drummer begins to pursue perfection at any cost, even his humanity.
Last Night in Soho
Edgar Wright · 2021
A young girl, passionate about fashion design, is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s where she encounters her idol, a dazzling wannabe singer. But 1960s London is not what it seems, and time seems to be falling apart with shady consequences.
Snowpiercer
Bong Joon-ho · 2013
In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine.
Souls
2022
In Stockholm, pregnant pathologist Allie tries everything to prevent her beloved husband and pilot Leo from flying. In Berlin, 25-year-old Linn joins a cult whose members, for a variety of reasons, desperately want to believe in life after death. Meanwhile in a hospital in the middle of Germany, Hanna wakes up after a serious car accident and wonders how her 14-year-old son Jacob managed to save them both from drowning. When, a few days after the accident, Jacob suddenly claims to remember a past life as a pilot of a missing passenger plane, he dramatically changes the fate of the three women. Is he telling the truth?
Dark
Baran bo Odar, Jantje Friese · 2017
A missing child causes four families to help each other for answers. What they could not imagine is that this mystery would be connected to innumerable other secrets of the small town.
Disclaimer
Alfonso Cuarón · 2024
When an intriguing novel appears at the bedside of a journalist whose career has been built on revealing transgressions, she is horrified to realize she's a key character in a long-buried story—one that exposes her darkest secret.
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Anthony Minghella · 1999
Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. Opportunity knocks in the form of a wealthy U.S. shipbuilder who hires Tom to travel to Italy to bring back his playboy son, Dickie. Ripley worms his way into the idyllic lives of Dickie and his girlfriend, plunging into a daring scheme of duplicity, lies and murder.
Closer
Mike Nichols · 2004
Michael Scofield s'engage dans une véritable lutte contre la montre : son frère Lincoln est dans le couloir de la mort, en attente de son exécution. Persuadé de son innocence mais à court de solutions, Michael décide de se faire incarcérer à son tour dans le pénitencier d'état de Fox River pour organiser leur évasion...
Science Fiction
Blade Runner 2049
Denis Villeneuve · 2017
Trinta anos após os eventos do primeiro filme, K, um novo blade runner, oficial da LAPD, desvenda um segredo há muito enterrado que pode potencialmente mergulhar no caos o que resta da sociedade. A descoberta de K leva-o numa missão para localizar Rick Deckard, um antigo blade runner da LAPD, desaparecido há 30 anos.
Leave the World Behind
Sam Esmail · 2023
A family's getaway to a luxurious rental home takes an ominous turn when a cyberattack knocks out their devices—and two strangers appear at their door.
Poor Things
Yorgos Lanthimos · 2023
Bella Baxter viene riportata in vita dal brillante e poco ortodosso scienziato Dr. Godwin Baxter. Affamata della mondanità che le manca, Bella fugge con Duncan Wedderburn, un avvocato elegante e dissoluto, in una vorticosa avventura attraverso i continenti.
Constellation
Peter Harness · 2024
When a fatal accident occurs on board the International Space Station, a lone astronaut makes the heroic journey back to Earth, only to discover key pieces of her life—including her young daughter—have changed.
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Bob Persichetti · 2018
Struggling to find his place in the world while juggling school and family, Brooklyn teenager Miles Morales is unexpectedly bitten by a radioactive spider and develops unfathomable powers just like the one and only Spider-Man. While wrestling with the implications of his new abilities, Miles discovers a super collider created by the madman Wilson "Kingpin" Fisk, causing others from across the Spider-Verse to be inadvertently transported to his dimension.
Death of a Unicorn
Alex Scharfman · 2025
Elliot and his daughter Riley accidentally hit and kill a unicorn while en route to a weekend work retreat, where Elliot's billionaire boss seeks to exploit the creature's miraculous curative properties.
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Daniel Scheinert · 2022
An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save what's important to her by connecting with the lives she could have led in other universes.
Tenet
Christopher Nolan · 2020
Armed with only one word - Tenet - and fighting for the survival of the entire world, the Protagonist journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in something beyond real time.
Dune
Denis Villeneuve · 2021
Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and his people. As malevolent forces explode into conflict over the planet's exclusive supply of the most precious resource in existence-a commodity capable of unlocking humanity's greatest potential-only those who can conquer their fear will survive.
Chronicle (2012)
Coming of Age
All About Lily Chou-Chou
Shunji Iwai · 2001
Charts the troubled teenage years of students Yūichi Hasumi and Shūsuke Hoshino, exploring the shifting and complex power dynamics of their relationship against the backdrop of Yūichi's love for the dreamy and abstract music of pop star Lily Chou-Chou.
tick, tick... BOOM!
Lin-Manuel Miranda · 2021
On the brink of turning 30, a promising theater composer navigates love, friendship and the pressure to create something great before time runs out.
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Ben Stiller · 2013
A timid magazine photo manager who lives life vicariously through daydreams embarks on a true-life adventure when a negative goes missing.
The Tree of Life
Terrence Malick · 2011
The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father. Jack finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith.
Bridge to Terabithia
Gábor Csupó · 2007
Jess Aarons, un chico que se siente extraño tanto en el colegio como en su propia casa, se ha entrenado durante todo el verano para correr una carrera; pero llega al colegio Leslie Burke y le gana. A pesar de ello, pronto se hacen amigos. Leslie, aficionada a contar fantásticas y mágicas historias, le abre a Jess las puertas de un mundo dominado por la imaginación. A Jess le gusta dibujar, pero nunca había compartido esa afición con nadie. Los dos crean el reino secreto de Terabithia, un lugar mágico cuya entrada sólo ellos conocen. Allí reinan, luchan contra el Maestro Oscuro y sus criaturas y trazan planes para vengarse de los compañeros prepotentes del colegio.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky · 2012
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1991. High school freshman Charlie is a wallflower, always watching life from the sidelines, until two senior students, Sam and her stepbrother Patrick, become his mentors, helping him discover the joys of friendship, music and love.
Dead Poets Society
Peter Weir · 1989
En un elitista y estricto colegio privado de Nueva Inglaterra, un grupo de alumnos descubrirá la poesía, el significado de "Carpe Diem" -aprovechar el momento- y la importancia de perseguir los sueños, gracias a un excéntrico profesor que despierta sus mentes por medio de métodos poco convencionales.
Close
Lukas Dhont · 2022
Two 13-year-old boys spend an idyllic summer together, but their connection is put to the test when they become the subject of speculation at school.
Rom-com
Flipped
Rob Reiner · 2010
When Juli meets Bryce in the second grade, she knows it's true love. After spending six years trying to convince Bryce the same, she's ready to give up - until he starts to reconsider.
Love Actually
Richard Curtis · 2003
Eight very different couples deal with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London.
Meet Joe Black
Martin Brest · 1998
William Parrish es un poderoso y meticuloso magnate cuya vida se ve alterada por la llegada de un enigmático joven llamado Joe Black que se enamora de su hija. Se trata, en realidad, de la personificación de la muerte, con una misión que cumplir en dicho hogar. Versión del filme de 1934 "La muerte de vacaciones".
Two Weeks Notice
Marc Lawrence · 2002
Dedicated environmental lawyer Lucy Kelson goes to work for billionaire George Wade as part of a deal to preserve a community center. Indecisive and weak-willed George grows dependent on Lucy's guidance on everything from legal matters to clothing. Exasperated, Lucy gives notice and picks Harvard graduate June Carter as her replacement. As Lucy's time at the firm nears an end, she grows jealous of June and has second thoughts about leaving George.
10 Things I Hate About You
Gil Junger · 1999
On the first day at his new school, Cameron instantly falls for Bianca, the gorgeous girl of his dreams. The only problem is that Bianca is forbidden to date until her ill-tempered, completely un-dateable older sister Kat goes out, too. In an attempt to solve his problem, Cameron singles out the only guy who could possibly be a match for Kat: a mysterious bad boy with a nasty reputation of his own.
Crime
Black Bird
Dennis Lehane · 2022
As Jimmy Keene begins a 10-year prison sentence, he gets an incredible offer: If he can elicit a confession from suspected killer Larry Hall, Jimmy will be freed. Completing this mission becomes the challenge of a lifetime.
Presumed Innocent
David E. Kelley · 2024
A horrific murder upends the Chicago Prosecuting Attorney's Office when one of its own is suspected of the crime—leaving the accused fighting to keep his family together.
The Night Manager
David Farr · 2016
Former British soldier Jonathan Pine navigates the shadowy recesses of Whitehall and Washington where an unholy alliance operates between the intelligence community and the secret arms trade. To infiltrate the inner circle of lethal arms dealer Richard Onslow Roper, Pine must himself become a criminal.
A Guilty Conscience
Wai-Lun Ng · 2023
After his negligence causes an innocent woman to go to jail, a lawyer and his colleagues work to clear her name.
Catch Me If You Can
Steven Spielberg · 2002
A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars worth of checks as a Pan Am pilot, doctor, and legal prosecutor. An FBI agent makes it his mission to put him behind bars. But Frank not only eludes capture, he revels in the pursuit.
The Green Mile
Frank Darabont · 1999
A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses the mysterious power to heal people's ailments. When the cell block's head guard, Paul Edgecomb, recognizes Coffey's miraculous gift, he tries desperately to help stave off the condemned man's execution.
The Shawshank Redemption
Frank Darabont · 1994
Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope.
White Collar
Jeff Eastin · 2009
In exchange for his freedom, charming con artist Neal Caffrey provides his expertise to help straight-man FBI agent Peter Burke catch elusive white-collar criminals.
Family
The Pursuit of Happyness
Gabriele Muccino · 2006
A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to begin a life-changing professional career.
Comedy
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Wes Anderson · 2014
The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, the battle for an enormous family fortune and the slow and then sudden upheavals that transformed Europe during the first half of the 20th century.
Bullet Train
David Leitch · 2022
Cinco asesinos a sueldo se encuentran a bordo de un tren bala que viaja de Tokio a Morioka con unas pocas paradas intermedias. Descubren que sus misiones no son ajenas entre sí. La pregunta es quién saldrá vivo del tren y qué les espera en la estación final.
Night at the Museum
Shawn Levy · 2006
Chaos reigns at the natural history museum when night watchman Larry Daley accidentally stirs up an ancient curse, awakening Attila the Hun, an army of gladiators, a Tyrannosaurus rex and other exhibits.
Animation
Love, Death & Robots
Tim Miller · 2019
Terrifying creatures, wicked surprises and dark comedy converge in this NSFW anthology of animated stories presented by Tim Miller and David Fincher.
Madagascar
Eric Darnell · 2005
Alex the lion is the king of the urban jungle, the main attraction at New York's Central Park Zoo. He and his best friends—Marty the zebra, Melman the giraffe and Gloria the hippo—have spent their whole lives in blissful captivity before an admiring public and with regular meals provided for them. Not content to leave well enough alone, Marty lets his curiosity get the better of him and makes his escape—with the help of some prodigious penguins—to explore the world.
Historical Drama
Shōgun
Justin Marks, Rachel Kondo · 2024
In Japan in the year 1600, at the dawn of a century-defining civil war, Lord Yoshii Toranaga is fighting for his life as his enemies on the Council of Regents unite against him, when a mysterious European ship is found marooned in a nearby fishing village.
Oppenheimer
Christopher Nolan · 2023
The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.
Slice of Life
Skip and Loafer
2023
¡Esta chica de campo está lista para la gran ciudad! Bueno, al menos ella pensaba que lo era. El sueño de Mitsumi es asistir a una escuela prestigiosa y hacer del mundo un lugar mejor. Pero cuando finalmente llega a Tokio, resulta que no está exactamente preparada para la vida en la ciudad. Afortunadamente, se encuentra con Shima, un dulce y apuesto compañero de clase que se convierte en su primer amigo. ¿Podrá hacerlo en Tokio con Shima a su lado?
Uncategorized
Days of Heaven
Terrence Malick · 1978
In 1916, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle with his girlfriend and little sister to work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer.
Citizen Kane
Orson Welles · 1941
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.
Babylon
Damien Chazelle · 2022
A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, tracing the rise and fall of multiple characters in an era of unbridled decadence and depravity during Hollywood's transition from silent films to sound films in the late 1920s.
