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The Passion of the Christ
Mel Gibson · 2004
A graphic portrayal of the last twelve hours of Jesus of Nazareth's life.
The Great Dictator
Charlie Chaplin · 1940
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
Good Bye, Lenin!
Wolfgang Becker · 2003
Alex Kerner's mother was in a coma while the Berlin wall fell. When she wakes up he must try to keep her from learning what happened (as she was an avid communist supporter) to avoid shocking her which could lead to another heart attack.
Batman Begins
Christopher Nolan · 2005
Driven by tragedy, billionaire Bruce Wayne dedicates his life to uncovering and defeating the corruption that plagues his home, Gotham City. Unable to work within the system, he instead creates a new identity, a symbol of fear for the criminal underworld - The Batman.
Psycho
Alfred Hitchcock · 1960
When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.
Oldboy
Park Chan-wook · 2003
Sin tener idea de cómo llegó a ser encarcelado, drogado y torturado durante 15 años, un hombre desesperado busca vengarse de sus captores.
The Shining
Stanley Kubrick · 1980
Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Michel Gondry · 2004
Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realises that he still loves her, and may be too late to correct his mistake.
Se7en
David Fincher · 1995
Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the "seven deadly sins" in this dark and haunting film that takes viewers from the tortured remains of one victim to the next. The seasoned Det. Sommerset researches each sin in an effort to get inside the killer's mind, while his novice partner, Mills, scoffs at his efforts to unravel the case.
City of God
Fernando Meirelles · 2002
In the slums of Rio, two kids' paths diverge as one struggles to become a photographer and the other a kingpin.
Edward Scissorhands
Tim Burton · 1990
A small suburban town receives a visit from a castaway unfinished science experiment named Edward.
Taxi Driver
Martin Scorsese · 1976
A mentally unstable Vietnam War veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feed his urge for violent action.
Malcolm in the Middle
Linwood Boomer · 2000
Petit génie malgré lui, Malcolm vit dans une famille hors du commun. Le jeune surdoué n'hésite pas à se servir de son intelligence pour faire les 400 coups avec ses frères : Francis, l'aîné, envoyé dans une école militaire après une bêtise de trop, Reese, une brute pas très maligne, et Dewey, le petit dernier, souffre-douleur général. Les parents tentent tant bien que mal de canaliser l'énergie de ces petits démons. Si Lois est despotique et veut tout contrôler, Hal, en revanche, est irresponsable et ne pense qu'à s'amuser.
Rhapsody in August
Akira Kurosawa · 1991
The story centers on an elderly hibakusha, whose husband was one of 80,000 human beings killed in the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki, caring for her four grandchildren over the summer. She learns of a long-lost brother, Suzujiro, living in Hawaii who wants her to visit him before he dies.
The Truman Show
Peter Weir · 1998
Truman Burbank é um pacato vendedor de seguros que leva um vida simples com sua esposa Meryl Burbank. Porém algumas coisas ao seu redor fazem com que ele passe a estranhar sua cidade, seus supostos amigos e até sua mulher. Após conhecer a misteriosa Lauren, ele fica intrigado e acaba descobrindo que toda sua vida foi monitorada por câmeras e transmitida em rede nacional.
The Great Escape
John Sturges · 1963
The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder of the war. Undaunted, the prisoners plan one of the most ambitious escape attempts of World War II. Based on a true story.
The Godfather
Francis Ford Coppola · 1972
Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge.
Batman Begins
Christopher Nolan · 2005
Driven by tragedy, billionaire Bruce Wayne dedicates his life to uncovering and defeating the corruption that plagues his home, Gotham City. Unable to work within the system, he instead creates a new identity, a symbol of fear for the criminal underworld - The Batman.
Kill Bill: Vol. 1
Quentin Tarantino · 2003
An assassin is shot by her ruthless employer, Bill, and other members of their assassination circle – but she lives to plot her vengeance.
Black Swan
Darren Aronofsky · 2010
A journey through the psyche of a young ballerina whose starring role as the duplicitous swan queen turns out to be a part for which she becomes frighteningly perfect.
The Great Gatsby
Baz Luhrmann · 2013
An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Long Island-set novel, where Midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Soon enough, however, Carraway will see through the cracks of Gatsby's nouveau riche existence, where obsession, madness, and tragedy await.
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.
Fight Club
David Fincher · 1999
A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.
Amélie
Jean-Pierre Jeunet · 2001
Amélie Poulain (Audrey Tautou) es una joven camarera que vive en París y que tiene una imaginación desbordante. Un día, encuentra una caja con objetos antiguos que pertenecían al antiguo inquilino de su apartamento. Amélie decide devolver la caja a su dueño y ver su reacción. Al ver la felicidad que le provoca, Amélie se propone hacer felices a los demás con pequeños gestos. Así, ayuda a sus vecinos, a sus compañeros de trabajo y a su padre, mientras se divierte con sus ocurrencias. Pero en su búsqueda de la felicidad ajena, Amélie se olvida de la suya propia, hasta que conoce a Nino Quincampoix (Mathieu Kassovitz), un joven coleccionista de fotos que le roba el corazón.
Oppenheimer
Christopher Nolan · 2023
The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.
Casablanca
Michael Curtiz · 1943
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Lasse Hallström · 1993
Gilbert Grape is a small-town young man with a lot of responsibility. Chief among his concerns are his mother, who is so overweight that she can't leave the house, and his mentally impaired younger brother, Arnie, who has a knack for finding trouble. Settled into a job at a grocery store and an ongoing affair with local woman Betty Carver, Gilbert finally has his life shaken up by the free-spirited Becky.
Little Women
Greta Gerwig · 2019
Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.
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.
Good Will Hunting
Gus Van Sant · 1997
Will Hunting, un conserje del M.I.T., tiene un don para las matemáticas, pero necesita la ayuda de un psicólogo para encontrar el rumbo de su vida.
Pulp Fiction
Quentin Tarantino · 1994
A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that ingeniously trip back and forth in time.
Girl, Interrupted
James Mangold · 1999
Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line between normal and crazy. Susanna soon realizes how hard it is to get out once she has been committed, and she ultimately has to choose between the world of people who belong inside or the difficult world of reality outside.
Joker
Todd Phillips · 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.
The Wind That Shakes the Barley
Ken Loach · 2006
In 1920s Ireland young doctor Damien O'Donovan prepares to depart for a new job in a London hospital. As he says his goodbyes at a friend's farm, British Black and Tans arrive, and a young man is killed. Damien joins his brother Teddy in the Irish Republican Army, but political events are soon set in motion that tear the brothers apart.
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.
Land and Freedom
Ken Loach · 1995
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.
Peaky Blinders
Steven Knight · 2013
The Zone of Interest
Jonathan Glazer · 2023
