Telescope Recommends
It's Only the End of the World
(Juste la fin du monde)
A man returns home after 12 years to tell his family that he is dying.
- ✭ ✭
- Canada, France • 2016
- Director Xavier Dolan
- Cast Nathalie Baye, Vincent Cassel, Marion Cotillard, Léa Seydoux, Gaspard Ulliel, Antoine Desrochers
- Genre Drama
- Available on The Roku Channel
Vivre Sa Vie
(Vivre sa vie: film en douze tableaux)
A young Parisian woman’s existential crisis — and eventual turn to sex work.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France • 1962
- Director Jean-Luc Godard
- Cast Anna Karina, Sady Rebbot, André S. Labarthe, Guylaine Schlumberger, Gérard Hoffman, Monique Messine
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Kanopy
The Settlers
(המתנחלים)
The history of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and their growth.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Germany, Israel • 2016
- Director Shimon Dotan
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, YouTube, Tubi TV, Kanopy, Hoopla
La Dolce Vita
(La dolce vita)
A paprazzo's search for love and happiness through booze and sex.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy, France • 1960
- Director Federico Fellini
- Cast Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Anouk Aimée, Yvonne Furneaux, Magali Noël, Alain Cuny
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on Plex, Plex Channel
I Am Not Your Negro
A study of race in America then and now, inspired by James Baldwin's unpublished writings.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Switzerland, France, Belgium • 2017
- Director Raoul Peck
- Cast Samuel L. Jackson, James Baldwin, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Medgar Evers, Ray Charles
- Genre Documentary, History
- Available on Hulu, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, FlixFling, Crackle, Tubi TV, VUDU Free, DistroTV, Kanopy, Hoopla
Through the Olive Trees
(زیر درختان زیتون)
Art doesn't always imitate life...even when you want it to.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran, France • 1994
- Director Abbas Kiarostami
- Cast Mohamad Ali Keshavarz, Farhad Kheradmand, Zarifeh Shiva, Hossein Rezai, Tahereh Ladanian, Hocine Redai
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
Nostalgia for the Light
(Nostalgia de la luz)
Where do we come from?
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Germany, Chile • 2010
- Director Patricio Guzmán
- Cast Gaspar Galaz, Lautaro Núñez, Luís Henríquez, Miguel, Victor Gonzalez, Vicky Saaveda
- Genre Documentary
- Available on OVID, Apple TV, Amazon Video, Kanopy, Hoopla
Microbe and Gasoline
(Microbe et Gasoil)
Hand-made traveling house? Check. Epic road trip plans? Check. Quirky best friends? Check, check, and check.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France • 2015
- Director Michel Gondry
- Cast Audrey Tautou, Sacha Bourdo, Fabio Zenoni, Laurent Poitrenaux, Étienne Charry
- Genre Comedy
- Available on fuboTV, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Crackle, Tubi TV, Freevee, Hoopla, Plex, Plex Channel
The World
(世界)
Employees experience alienation at a Beijing theme park filled with recreations of famous monuments.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- China, Japan, France • 2004
- Director Jia Zhangke
- Cast Zhao Tao, Cheng Taishen, Jue Jing, Jiang Zhongwei, Yi-qun Wang, Wang Hongwei
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
Chocolat
A Frenchwoman returns to Cameroon, where she remembers growing up during colonialism.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, West Germany, Cameroon • 1988
- Director Claire Denis
- Cast Isaach De Bankolé, Giulia Boschi, François Cluzet, Jean-Claude Adelin, Mireille Perrier, Laurent Arnal
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
Ran
(乱)
The Greatest Shakespeare Film
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan, France • 1985
- Director Akira Kurosawa
- Cast Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu, Daisuke Ryû, Mieko Harada, Yoshiko Miyazaki
- Genre Action, Drama, History
- Available on Amazon Video, AMC on Demand, Kanopy
No
In 1988, Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet calls a plebiscite on his presidency under international political pressure.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Chile, France, Mexico • 2012
- Director Pablo Larraín
- Cast Gael García Bernal, Alfredo Castro, Néstor Cantillana, Luis Gnecco, Antonia Zegers, Jaime Vadell
- Genre Drama, History
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube
Tomboy
When a young girl moves to a new neighborhood with her family, she assumes a new identity as a boy.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France • 2011
- Director Céline Sciamma
- Cast Zoé Héran, Malonn Lévana, Jeanne Disson, Sophie Cattani, Mathieu Demy, Rayan Boubekri
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Microsoft Store
Machuca
Two schoolboys observe a political coup in their native Chile.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Chile, Spain, United Kingdom • 2004
- Director Andrés Wood
- Cast Matías Quer, Ariel Mateluna, Aline Küppenheim, Ernesto Malbran, Federico Luppi, Manuela Martelli
- Genre Drama
- Available on Fandor, Kanopy
Black Souls
(Anime nere)
There is only one way to end bad blood.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy, France • 2014
- Director Francesco Munzi
- Cast Marco Leonardi, Peppino Mazzotta, Fabrizio Ferracane, Barbora Bobuľová, Anna Ferruzzo, Giuseppe Fumo
- Genre Crime, Drama
- Available on Amazon Video
Apprentice
A young correctional officer must face past trauma and ethical challenges as he bonds with the prison's chief executioner.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Singapore, Germany, France • 2016
- Director Boo Junfeng
- Cast Fir Rahman, Wan Hanafi Su, Mastura Ahmad, Boon Pin Koh, Nickson Cheng
- Genre Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, Freevee, Kanopy, Hoopla, Plex, Plex Channel
Attack the Block
Inner City vs. Outer Space
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom, France • 2011
- Director Joe Cornish
- Cast Jodie Whittaker, John Boyega, Luke Treadaway, Nick Frost, Terry Notary, Selom Awadzi
- Genre Action, Comedy, Science Fiction
- Available on Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, AMC on Demand
Bergman Island
Art imitates life and life imitates art.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France • 2021
- Director Mia Hansen-Løve
- Cast Tim Roth, Vicky Krieps, Mia Wasikowska, Anders Danielsen Lie, Wouter Hendrickx, Gabe Klinger
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on MUBI, Hulu, Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube
Under the Sun of Satan
(Sous le soleil de Satan)
Satan tempts Father Dossignan, who is trying to save the soul of a young girl who killed one of her lovers.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- France • 1987
- Director Maurice Pialat
- Cast Gérard Depardieu, Sandrine Bonnaire, Maurice Pialat, Brigitte Legendre
- Genre Drama
- Available on Fandor Amazon Channel, Cohen Media Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy
The Sacrifice
(Offret)
To avert the end of the world, Alexander promises God that he'll give up everything he values in life, including his beloved son.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Sweden, France, United Kingdom • 1986
- Director Andrei Tarkovsky
- Cast Erland Josephson, Susan Fleetwood, Allan Edwall, Guðrún Gísladóttir, Sven Wollter, Valérie Mairesse
- Genre Drama
- Available on Klassiki, Kino Film Collection, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy, Hoopla
The Wild Boys
(Les garçons sauvages)
Five children on the island of La Réunion commit a savage crime. As punishment, a sea captain takes them to a supernatural island.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- France • 2018
- Director Bertrand Mandico
- Cast Pauline Lorillard, Vimala Pons, Diane Rouxel, Anaël Snoek, Mathilde Warnier, Sam Louwyck
- Genre Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery, Drama
- Available on Fandor Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, Kanopy
Vortex
The final days of an elderly couples suffering from dementia.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France • 2022
- Director Gaspar Noé
- Cast Françoise Lebrun, Dario Argento, Alex Lutz, Jean-Pierre Bouyxou, Loup 'Vuk' Brankovic
- Genre Drama
- Available on MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Kanopy, Hoopla
Rocco and His Brothers
(Rocco e i suoi fratelli)
DARING in its realism. STUNNING in its impact. BREATHTAKING in its scope.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy, France • 1960
- Director Luchino Visconti
- Cast Alain Delon, Renato Salvatori, Annie Girardot, Katina Paxinou, Alessandra Panaro, Spiros Focás
- Genre Crime, Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, OVID, Metrograph, Kino Film Collection, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy
Foxtrot
(פוֹקְסטְרוֹט)
After Michael and Daphna receive terrible news about their soldier son, they experience one of life's unfathomable twists.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Israel, Switzerland, Germany • 2017
- Director Samuel Maoz
- Cast Lior Ashkenazi, Sarah Adler, Yonaton Shiray, Shira Haas, Yehuda Almagor, Karin Ugowski
- Genre Drama
- Available on Starz Apple TV Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube, Fandango At Home
Fort Buchanan
Four seasons to tell the fluctuating moods and mores of a small community that shares its daily chores and life experiences in the military base of Fort Buchanan.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Tunisia • 2014
- Director Benjamin Crotty
- Cast Andy Gillet, Iliana Zabeth, David Baïot, Mati Diop, Luc Chessel
- Genre Romance, Comedy, Drama
- Available on Fandor Amazon Channel, Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Amazon Video, Kanopy, Hoopla
Cinema Paradiso
(Nuovo Cinema Paradiso)
A celebration of youth, friendship, and the everlasting magic of the movies.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy, France • 1988
- Director Giuseppe Tornatore
- Cast Philippe Noiret, Jacques Perrin, Marco Leonardi, Salvatore Cascio, Agnese Nano, Antonella Attili
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Paramount Plus, Paramount+ Roku Premium Channel, Paramount Plus Apple TV Channel , Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
MI6 calls espionage veteran agent George Smiley out of his forced retirement to uncover a Soviet mole during the Cold War.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, United Kingdom, Germany • 2011
- Director Tomas Alfredson
- Cast Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, Mark Strong, Ciarán Hinds, Benedict Cumberbatch
- Genre Drama, Thriller, Mystery
- Available on Starz Apple TV Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Spectrum On Demand
The Piano
A pianist who has been sold into marriage begins a new life with her daughter by her side.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- New Zealand, Australia, France • 1993
- Director Jane Campion
- Cast Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, Anna Paquin, Cliff Curtis, Kerry Walker
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Apple TV, AMC on Demand
Pride & Prejudice
Elizabeth Bennet will marry for love, no matter what the consequences.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, United Kingdom, United States • 2005
- Director Joe Wright
- Cast Keira Knightley, Matthew Macfadyen, Rosamund Pike, Simon Woods, Donald Sutherland, Brenda Blethyn
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Starz, Starz Roku Premium Channel, Starz Amazon Channel, Starz Apple TV Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Spectrum On Demand, AMC on Demand
Luxury Car
(Jiang cheng xia ri)
A man travels to Wuhan to find his missing son and learns more than he anticipated about the big city.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, China • 2006
- Director Wang Chao
- Cast Tian Yuan, Youcai Wu, He Huang, Yiqing Li
- Genre Action, Drama, Family
- Available on Amazon Video
After Lucia
(Después de Lucía)
After a video of her having sex goes viral, Alejandra becomes the target of bullying from her schoolmates.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Mexico, France • 2012
- Director Michel Franco
- Cast Tessa Ía, Hernán Mendoza, Gonzalo Vega Sisto, Tamara Yazbek Bernal, Paco Rueda, Paloma Cervantes
- Genre Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube
The Stolen Children
(Il ladro di bambini)
A young police officer befriends two children while escorting them to an orphanage.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy, France, Switzerland • 1992
- Director Gianni Amelio
- Cast Enrico Lo Verso, Valentina Scalici, Giuseppe Ieracitano, Marina Golovine, Florence Darel, Vitalba Andrea
- Genre Drama
- Available on Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube
One Fine Morning
(Un beau matin)
Old friends find each other in the most unexpected of circumstances.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France • 2022
- Director Mia Hansen-Løve
- Cast Léa Seydoux, Pascal Greggory, Melvil Poupaud, Nicole Garcia, Camille Leban Martins, Elsa Guedj
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Spectrum On Demand
Stray Dogs
(郊遊)
A father and his children wander the margins of modern day Taipei, and spend their nights sleeping in abandoned buildings.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Taiwan, France • 2014
- Director Tsai Ming-liang
- Cast Lee Kang-Sheng, Lu Yi-Ching, Chen Shiang-Chyi, Chao-rong Chen, Yang Kuei-Mei
- Genre Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, YouTube, Kanopy
Grand Illusion
(La Grande Illusion)
During WWI, a group of French prisoners of war grapple with their class differences as they plot their escape.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France • 1937
- Director Jean Renoir
- Cast Jean Gabin, Dita Parlo, Pierre Fresnay, Erich von Stroheim, Georges Péclet
- Genre Drama, History, War
- Available on Kanopy
The Princess of Montpensier
(La Princesse de Montpensier)
Love. Conflict. Betrayal.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Germany • 2010
- Director Bertrand Tavernier
- Cast Mélanie Thierry, Lambert Wilson, Gaspard Ulliel, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Raphaël Personnaz, Michel Vuillermoz
- Genre Action, Drama, History, Romance
- Available on AMC+ Amazon Channel, IFC Films Unlimited Apple TV Channel, Apple TV, Amazon Video
Song of the Sea
Ben helps his mute sister find her voice in a world of Celtic mythology.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Ireland, Denmark, Belgium • 2014
- Director Tomm Moore
- Cast Brendan Gleeson, Fionnula Flanagan, David Rawle, Pat Shortt, Jon Kenny, Lisa Hannigan
- Genre Family, Animation, Fantasy
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube
Hissein Habré, A Chadian Tragedy
(Hissein Habré, une tragédie tchadienne)
Victims of the brutal Hissein Habré Regime in Senegal bring their Head of State to trial.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Chad, Senegal, France • 2016
- Director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
- Cast Hissène Habré
- Genre Documentary
- Available on OVID
Intimacy
A failed musician follows his lover, unbeknownst to her, after one of their illicit meetings.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, United Kingdom, Germany • 2001
- Director Patrice Chéreau
- Cast Mark Rylance, Kerry Fox, Timothy Spall, Alastair Galbraith, Marianne Faithfull, Susannah Harker
- Genre Romance, Drama
- Available on Kanopy
The Motorcycle Diaries
(Diarios de motocicleta)
Before he changed the world, the world changed him.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Argentina, United States, Chile • 2004
- Director Walter Salles
- Cast Gael García Bernal, Rodrigo de la Serna, Mercedes Morán, Mía Maestro, Jean Pierre Noher
- Genre Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube
The Mission
One will trust in the power of prayer. One will believe in the might of the sword.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom, France • 1986
- Director Roland Joffé
- Cast Robert De Niro, Jeremy Irons, Ray McAnally, Aidan Quinn, Liam Neeson, Cherie Lunghi
- Genre Adventure, Drama, Action, History
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube
Turtles Can Fly
(لاکپشتها هم پرواز میکنند)
In 2003 at the Iraqi-Turkish border, Kurdish refugees await invasion by American soldiers.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran, France, Iraq • 2005
- Director Bahman Ghobadi
- Cast Soran Ebrahim, Avaz Latif, Saddam Hossein Feysal, Hiresh Feysal Rahman, Abdol Rahman Karim, Ajil Zibari
- Genre Drama
- Available on AMC+, AMC+ Amazon Channel, AMC Plus Apple TV Channel , IFC Films Unlimited Apple TV Channel, Amazon Video
Arabian Nights
(Il fiore delle Mille e una notte)
An erotic revisiting of an ancient anthology.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy, France • 1974
- Director Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Cast Ninetto Davoli, Franco Citti, Franco Merli, Tessa Bouché, Ines Pellegrini, Margareth Clémenti
- Genre Drama, Fantasy, Adventure, Comedy
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, MGM Plus, fuboTV, Epix Amazon Channel, MGM Plus Roku Premium Channel, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Fandango At Home, Tubi TV
The Day of the Jackal
French radicals hire an assassin named ‘The Jackal’ to assassinate Charles de Gaulle.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom, France • 1973
- Director Fred Zinnemann
- Cast Edward Fox, Terence Alexander, Michel Auclair, Alan Badel, Tony Britton, Denis Carey
- Genre Action, Thriller
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Spectrum On Demand
Non-Fiction
(Doubles vies)
Deaf to the desires of their wives, Alain and Léonard struggle to find their place in a society whose code they can no longer crack.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France • 2018
- Director Olivier Assayas
- Cast Guillaume Canet, Juliette Binoche, Vincent Macaigne, Nora Hamzawi, Christa Théret, Pascal Greggory
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel, AMC+, AMC+ Amazon Channel, AMC Plus Apple TV Channel , IFC Films Unlimited Apple TV Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube
Manon
A World War II French freedom fighter falls under a devious woman's spell.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- France • 1949
- Director Henri-Georges Clouzot
- Cast Serge Reggiani, Michel Auclair, Cécile Aubry, Andrex, Raymond Souplex, André Valmy
- Genre Adventure, Drama, Thriller
- Available on ARROW, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube
Almayer's Folly
(La Folie Almayer)
To want something for someone else is to want it for yourself.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Belgium, France • 2011
- Director Chantal Akerman
- Cast Stanislas Merhar, Marc Barbé, Aurora Marion, Zac Andrianasolo, Sakhna Oum, Solida Chan
- Genre Drama
- Available on OVID, Amazon Video
Silent Light
(Stellet Licht)
Johan is a Mennonite who, despite his guilt, is cheating on his wife.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Mexico, France, Netherlands • 2007
- Director Carlos Reygadas
- Cast Cornelio Wall, Miriam Toews, Maria Pankratz, Peter Wall, Jacobo Klassen, Elizabeth Fehr
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Fandango At Home, VUDU Free, Kanopy
All Is Forgiven
(Tout est pardonné)
A teenager finds out her long estranged father is living in the same city, and decides to see him again.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France • 2007
- Director Mia Hansen-Løve
- Cast Paul Blain, Marie-Christine Friedrich, Victoire Rousseau, Constance Rousseau, Carole Franck, Olivia Ross
- Genre Drama
- Available on Metrograph, Hoopla
Leviathan
The very waters that once inspired Moby Dick, this film captures the harsh, unforgiving world of fishermen in starkly haunting, yet beautiful detail.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, United Kingdom, United States • 2012
- Director Véréna Paravel
- Cast Declan Conneely, Johnny Gatcombe, Adrian Guillette, Brian Jannelle, Clyde Lee, Arthur Smith
- Genre Documentary
- Available on DocAlliance Films, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, YouTube, Kanopy
Eyes Without a Face
(Les Yeux sans visage)
A plastic surgeon goes to extreme lengths to give his disfigured daughter a new face.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Italy • 1960
- Director Georges Franju
- Cast Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, Juliette Mayniel, Alexandre Rignault, Béatrice Altariba, Charles Blavette
- Genre Drama, Horror, Thriller
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Amazon Video
Women Without Men
(Zanan-e bedun-e mardan)
The destinies of four women converge against the backdrop of the 1953 CIA-backed coup in Iran.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany, Austria, France • 2009
- Director Shoja Azari, Shirin Neshat
- Cast Shabnam Toloui, Pegah Ferydoni, Orsolya Tóth, Arita Shahrzad, Ahmad Hamed, Bijan Daneshmand
- Genre Drama
- Available on Kanopy, Hoopla