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The Green Mile
8.6

The Green Mile

Dec. 10, 1999

The Green Mile

A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses the mysterious power to heal people’s ...
Zoology
6.4

Zoology

Nov. 24, 2016

Zoology

Natasha is a lonely, middle-aged admin employee at the zoo who still lives at home with her mother. One day her life is turned upside down when ...
Miracle in Milan
7.7

Miracle in Milan

Feb. 08, 1951

Miracle in Milan

Once upon a time an old woman discovers a baby in her cabbage patch. She brings up the child and, when she dies, the boy, Toto, enters an ...
Life of Pi
7.9

Life of Pi

Nov. 20, 2012

Life of Pi

The story of an Indian boy named Pi, a zookeeper’s son who finds himself in the company of a hyena, zebra, orangutan, and a Bengal tiger ...
Toto the Hero
7.6

Toto the Hero

May. 15, 1991

Toto the Hero

Thomas and Alfred were born around the same time; a fire in the nursery had nurses scrambling to save the newborns. Because he felt that he ...
Lovers of the Arctic Circle
7.7

Lovers of the Arctic Circle

Otto and Ana are kids when they meet each other. Their names are palindromes. They meet by chance, people are related by chance. A story of ...
The Taste of Tea
7.7

The Taste of Tea

Jul. 17, 2004

The Taste of Tea

A spell of time in the life of a family living in rural Tochigi prefecture, north of Tokyo. Though her husband is busy working at an office, ...
Undertow
7.7

Undertow

Sep. 23, 2009

Undertow

An unusual ghost story set on the Peruvian seaside; a married fisherman struggles to reconcile his devotion to his male lover within his ...
The Shape of Water
7.3

The Shape of Water

Dec. 01, 2017

The Shape of Water

An other-worldly story, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962, where a mute janitor working at a lab falls in love with an ...
Silent Sonata
6.9

Silent Sonata

Feb. 08, 2011

Silent Sonata

A man stays alone with his children in a half demolished house in the middle of a desolate field. His wife has just been killed by a grenade in a ...
Hypersomnia
5

Hypersomnia

Mar. 30, 2017

Hypersomnia

Milena is a rookie actress who aspires to get the leading role in a theater play. But in order to get it she will have to accept some disturbing ...
Magical River
6.9

Magical River

Jan. 25, 1946

Magical River

Leopold Kohák married a rich widow a long time ago and now he has nothing to do compared to his energetic wife. He’s growing old and ...
Damnation
7.8

Damnation

Oct. 20, 1988

Damnation

Karrer plods his way through life in quiet desperation. His environment is drab and rainy and muddy. Eaten up with solitude, his hopelessness ...
Bridgend
5.5

Bridgend

Jan. 22, 2015

Bridgend

Over a 5-year period in Bridgend in Wales, 79 people, many of them teenagers, committed suicide without leaving any clue as to why. This is the ...
Like Water for Chocolate
7.1

Like Water for Chocolate

Apr. 16, 1992

Like Water for Chocolate

Tita is passionately in love with Pedro, but her controlling mother forbids her from marrying him. When Pedro marries her sister, Tita throws ...
The Future
6.2

The Future

Jul. 29, 2011

The Future

When a couple decides to adopt a stray cat their perspective on life changes radically, literally altering the course of time and space and ...
Electrick Children
6.8

Electrick Children

Jul. 11, 2012

Electrick Children

ELECTRICK CHILD tells the story of Rachel, a rambunctious girl from a polygamist colony in southern Utah. On Rachel’s 15th birthday, she ...
Weep the Headless Madness of these Fields
6.6

Weep the Headless Madness of these Fields

A girl dies in a provincial summer house and is buried by her family. By night a wild dog unearths the corpse and takes it to the woods. Under ...
Pleasantville
7.5

Pleasantville

Sep. 17, 1998

Pleasantville

Geeky teenager David and his popular twin sister, Jennifer, get sucked into the black-and-white world of a 1950s TV sitcom called ...
The Science of Sleep
7.3

The Science of Sleep

Feb. 11, 2006

The Science of Sleep

A man entranced by his dreams and imagination is lovestruck with a French woman and feels he can show her his world. Release: The Science of ...