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Paterson
Jim Jarmusch · 2016
A week in the life of Paterson, a poet bus driver, and his wife Laura, a very creative artist, who live in Paterson, New Jersey, hometown of many famous poets and artists.
Jess + Moss
Clay Jeter · 2011
Jess, age 18, and Moss, age 12 are second cousins in the dark-fire tobacco fields of rural Western Kentucky. Without immediate families that they can relate to, and lacking friends their own age, they only have each other. Over the course of a summer they venture on a journey exploring deep secrets and hopes of a future while being confronted with fears of isolation, abandonment and an unknown tomorrow.
Cha Cha Real Smooth
Cooper Raiff · 2022
Fresh out of college and stuck at his New Jersey home without a clear path forward, 22-year-old Andrew begins working as a party starter for bar/bat mitzvahs—where he strikes up a unique friendship with a young mom and her teenage daughter.
Autumn Sonata
Ingmar Bergman · 1978
After a seven-year absence, Charlotte Andergast travels to Sweden to reunite with her daughter Eva. The pair have a troubled relationship: Charlotte sacrificed the responsibilities of motherhood for a career as a classical pianist. Over an emotional night, the pair reopen the wounds of the past. Charlotte gets another shock when she finds out that her mentally impaired daughter, Helena, is out of the asylum and living with Eva.
Autumn Sonata
Lim Wang-tae · 2017
It is said that time is equal to everyone but things are different to Suryeon who turns 30. She doesn't have much time to live. Her dad died from disease when she was young. She expects the same path.
Daughters
Angela Patton · 2024
Neste documentário emocionante sobre o poder curativo do amor, quatro meninas preparam uma apresentação de dança especial para reencontrar os pais, que estão presos.
August in the Water
Gakuryu Ishii · 1995
A teenage girl gains supernatural power after an accident and comes to understand her place in the universe.
The Mourning Forest
Naomi Kawase · 2007
A young woman working at a retirement home takes an elderly man living there on an excursion into the countryside, but the two wind up stranded in the titular forest.
My Life as a Dog
Lasse Hallström · 1985
A boy, obsessed with comparing himself with those less fortunate, experiences a different life at the home of his aunt and uncle in 1959 Sweden.
Mon oncle Antoine
Claude Jutra · 1971
Set in cold rural Quebec at Christmas time, we follow the coming of age of a young boy and the life of his family which owns the town's general store and undertaking business.
Sometimes I Think About Dying
Rachel Lambert · 2024
Fran likes to think about dying. It brings sensation to her quiet life. When she makes the new guy at work laugh, it leads to more: a date, a slice of pie, a conversation, a spark. The only thing standing in their way is Fran herself.
Café Lumière
Hou Hsiao-hsien · 2004
In a distinctly contemporary Tokyo that looks backwards to the city’s disappearing past, Yoko is a writer investigating the life of a modernist composer of the 1930s. She is pregnant by a man she does not want to marry and has found a kindred spirit in a used bookstore owner who aids her research.
for a good cry
Capernaum
Nadine Labaki · 2018
À l'intérieur d'un tribunal, Zain, un garçon de 12 ans, est présenté devant le juge. À la question : « Pourquoi attaquez-vous vos parents en justice ? », Zain lui répond : « Pour m'avoir donné la vie ». Capharnaüm retrace l'incroyable parcours de cet enfant en quête d'identité et qui se rebelle contre la vie qu'on cherche à lui imposer.
The Broken Circle Breakdown
Felix van Groeningen · 2012
The loss of their young daughter threatens to destroy the love and faith of two married musicians.
Awakenings
Penny Marshall · 1990
Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician, uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic victims of a rare disease. Leonard is the first patient to receive the controversial treatment. His awakening, filled with awe and enthusiasm, proves a rebirth for Sayer too, as the exuberant patient reveals life's simple but unutterably sweet pleasures to the introverted doctor.
Come and See
Elem Klimov · 1985
The invasion of a village in Byelorussia by German forces sends young Florya into the forest to join the weary Resistance fighters, against his family's wishes. There he meets a girl, Glasha, who accompanies him back to his village. On returning home, Florya finds his family and fellow peasants massacred. His continued survival amidst the brutal debris of war becomes increasingly nightmarish, a battle between despair and hope.
Biutiful
Alejandro González Iñárritu · 2010
This is a story of a man in free fall. On the road to redemption, darkness lights his way. Connected with the afterlife, Uxbal is a tragic hero and father of two who's sensing the danger of death. He struggles with a tainted reality and a fate that works against him in order to forgive, for love, and forever.
Miracle in Cell No. 7
Mehmet Ada Öztekin · 2019
Separated from his daughter, a father with an intellectual disability must prove his innocence when he is jailed for the death of a commander's child.
Life Is Beautiful
Roberto Benigni · 1997
A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life would come to an abrupt halt when his entire family is deported to a concentration camp during World War II. While locked up he tries to convince his son that the whole thing is just a game.
Short Term 12
Destin Daniel Cretton · 2013
Grace, a compassionate young supervisor at a foster care facility, helps at-risk teens. But when a new charge dredges up memories of her own troubled past, Grace's tough exterior begins eroding.
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
Kurt Kuenne · 2008
Poco después de que su amigo Andrew Bagby fuese asesinado por su ex-novia Shirley Turner, el cineasta Kurt Kuenne descubre que Turner está embarazada de Bagby. Kuenne decide crear un documental celebrando la vida de Bagby, con la idea de que sirva para que su hijo pueda conocer quién fué su padre. Viajando a través de los Estados Unidos, Kuenne entrevista a todo aquel que alguna vez conoció a su amigo, antes de que su memoria se desvanezca. Entre tanto, al enterarse de que Turner ha volado a Canadá, los padres de Bagby dejan todo atrás para irse a Canadá a luchar por la custodia de su nieto, Zachary. Sin embargo, durante la producción, el gobierno canadiense decide liberar a Turner, la asesina de Bagby, y darle la custodia de Zachary.
Hachi: A Dog's Tale
Lasse Hallström · 2009
A drama based on the true story of a college professor's bond with the abandoned dog he takes into his home.
A Bride for Rip Van Winkle: Serial Edition
Shunji Iwai · 2016
A woman hires actors and strangers to pretend to be her friends and family at her wedding.
Nobody Knows
Hirokazu Kore-eda · 2004
In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning.
CODA
Siân Heder · 2021
As a CODA (Child of Deaf Adults), Ruby is the only hearing person in her deaf family. When the family's fishing business is threatened, Ruby finds herself torn between pursuing her love of music and her fear of abandoning her parents.
Our Friend
Gabriela Cowperthwaite · 2019
After learning that his terminally ill wife has six months to live, a man welcomes the support of his best friend who moves into their home to help out.
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Dead Poets Society
Peter Weir · 1989
At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention and seize the potential of every day, courting the disdain of the stern headmaster.
Empire of the Sun
Steven Spielberg · 1987
Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured with an American sailor, who looks out for him while they are in the camp together. Even though he is separated from his parents and in a hostile environment, Jamie maintains his dignity and youthful spirit, providing a beacon of hope for the others held captive with him.
Grave of the Fireflies
高畑勲 · 1988 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Verano de 1945. La aviación estadounidense somete las ciudades japonesas a continuos ataques aéreos. En uno de ellos, una incursión con bombas incendiarias convierte la ciudad de Kōbe en un infierno humeante, para los dos protagonistas (Seita, de 14 años, y su hermanita Setsuko, de 5). El joven Seita y su pequeña hermana Setsuko son hijos de un oficial de la marina japonesa. Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, ambos viven con su madre, pero un día, tras un bombardeo, ellos se retrasan y no consiguen llegar al búnker donde ella los espera.
A Monster Calls
J. A. Bayona · 2016
Connor es un joven de 12 años que, tras la separación de sus padres, se convierte en el hombre de la casa y el encargado de llevar las riendas del hogar. Con su joven madre enferma de cáncer, el pequeño intentará superar todos sus miedos y fobias con la ayuda de un monstruo. Fantasía, cuentos de hadas e historias imaginarias del pequeño se verán las caras no sólo con la realidad, sino con su fría y calculadora abuela... Con este nuevo trabajo J.A. Bayona cerrará una trilogía sobre las relaciones madre-hijo, que inició con "El orfanato" y continuó con "Lo imposible".
Marrowbone
Sergio G. Sánchez · 2017
A young man and his three younger siblings are plagued by a sinister presence in the sprawling manor in which they live.
Moonlight
Barry Jenkins · 2016
Uma história de ligações humanas e auto-descoberta, o relato da vida de um jovem afro-americano desde a sua infância até à idade adulta, acompanhando a sua luta por encontrar um lugar no mundo à medida que cresce num bairro empobrecido de Miami. O filme é um retrato vital da vida contemporânea da comunidade afro-americana ao mesmo tempo que é uma meditação intensamente pessoal sobre identidade e uma obra revolucionária que reflecte com grande compaixão e verdades universais.
Atonement
Joe Wright · 2007
As a 13-year-old, fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Lasse Hallström · 1993
Gilbert és un jove que viu a Endora, Iowa, una població de poc més de mil habitants. Viu amb la seva mare, que pesa més de dos-cents quilos, amb els seus germans l'Arny, l'Amy i l'Ellen. Els millors amics de Gilbert és en Tucker, que es deleix pels batuts, i Bobby, fill del propietari de la funerària. Gilbert treballa en una vella botiga de queviures i té una aventura amb una dona casada, el marit de la qual vol vendre-li una assegurança de vida. Un bon dia s'instal·len al poble la Becky, una noia de Michigan, i la seva àvia, una vella professora. La vida de Gilbert canviarà després de conèixer la Becky.
Little Miss Sunshine
Jonathan Dayton · 2006
A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant.
Hachiko
Seijirō Kōyama · 1987
The tragic, true story about Hachikō, an Akita dog who was loyal to his master, Professor Ueno, even after Ueno's death.
Minari
Lee Isaac Chung · 2021
A Korean American family moves to an Arkansas farm in search of its own American dream. Amidst the challenges of this new life in the strange and rugged Ozarks, they discover the undeniable resilience of family and what really makes a home.
Eternity
David Freyne · 2025
In an afterlife where souls have one week to decide where to spend eternity, Joan is faced with the impossible choice between the man she spent her life with and her first love, who died young and has waited decades for her to arrive.
