Nina Gallagher
Nina is a Master’s student in Film and Television at Boston University. In her free time, she enjoys attending sports games, spending time with her family and pets, and laughing at reality tv with her friends.
Spotlight: Road Trip
Y Tu Mamá También
(Y tu mamá también)
Two teenage boys and an older woman embark on a road trip and learn about life — and each other.
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- Mexico • 2001
- Director Alfonso Cuarón
- Cast Maribel Verdú, Gael García Bernal, Diego Luna, Diana Bracho, Verónica Langer, María Aura
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Hulu
Vagabond
(Sans toit ni loi)
A young woman's desire for freedom leads to her demise.
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- France • 1985
- Director Agnès Varda
- Cast Sandrine Bonnaire, Macha Méril, Stéphane Freiss, Setti Ramdane, Yahiaoui Assouna, Yolande Moreau
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
Kings of the Road
(Im Lauf der Zeit)
Two men find themselves bonding as they travel the border of East and West Germany.
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- West Germany • 1976
- Director Wim Wenders
- Cast Rüdiger Vogler, Hanns Zischler, Lisa Kreuzer, Rudolf Schündler, Marquard Bohm, Hans Dieter Trayer
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube
Wild Strawberries
(Smultronstället)
A retired doctor reflects on his life during a long road trip to receive an honorary degree.
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- Sweden • 1957
- Director Ingmar Bergman
- Cast Victor Sjöström, Bibi Andersson, Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Björnstrand, Jullan Kindahl, Gunnar Sjöberg
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Amazon Video, Kanopy
Güeros
Being young and not being a revolutionary is a contradiction.
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- Mexico • 2015
- Director Alonso Ruizpalacios
- Cast Tenoch Huerta, Leonardo Ortizgris, Sebastián Aguirre, Ilse Salas, Sophie Alexander-Katz
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, YouTube, Pluto TV, Kanopy
Touki Bouki
(Touki-Bouki)
Tired of poverty, two Senegalese men steal money and clothing, then book passage to France to begin new lives.
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- Senegal • 1973
- Director Djibril Diop Mambéty
- Cast Magaye Niang, Myriam Niang, Christoph Colomb, Mustapha Ture, Aminata Fall
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel
Thursday Till Sunday
(De jueves a domingo)
A Chilean teenager realizes her parents might be separating on a short family vacation.
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- Chile, Netherlands • 2012
- Director Dominga Sotomayor
- Cast Santi Ahumada, Emiliano Freifeld, Francisco Pérez-Bannen, Paola Giannini, Axel Dupré, Jorge Becker
- Genre Drama
- Available on MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel, OVID, Hoopla
Il Sorpasso
(Il sorpasso)
Two very different men take a road trip around Italy and learn more about each other's lives and perspectives.
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- Italy • 1962
- Director Dino Risi
- Cast Vittorio Gassman, Catherine Spaak, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Claudio Gora, Luciana Angiolillo, Linda Sini
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Amazon Video
American Honey
A teenage girl with nothing to lose joins a traveling magazine sales crew.
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- United Kingdom, United States • 2016
- Director Andrea Arnold
- Cast Sasha Lane, Shia LaBeouf, Riley Keough, McCaul Lombardi, Arielle Holmes, Crystal Ice
- Genre Drama
- Available on Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Kanopy
Drive My Car
(ドライブ・マイ・カー)
A car ride across Japan leads to an unlikely connection between a widowed stage director and his introverted young driver.
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- Japan • 2021
- Director Ryusuke Hamaguchi
- Cast Hidetoshi Nishijima, Toko Miura, Masaki Okada, Reika Kirishima, Park Yu-rim, Jin Dae-yeon
- Genre Drama
- Available on Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video
The Kind Words
(Ha'milim ha'tovot)
Three brothers take a trip to discover their late mother's greatest secret.
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- Israel, Canada • 2015
- Director Shemi Zarhin
- Cast Roy Assaf, Rotem Zissman-Cohen, Assaf Ben-Shimon, Sasson Gabai
- Genre Drama
- Available on Chai Flicks, Strand Releasing Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy
Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures
(Cinema, Aspirinas e Urubus)
An aspirin salesman and a rural Brazilian meet in the middle of Northeastern Brazil in 1942.
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- Brazil • 2005
- Director Marcelo Gomes
- Cast João Miguel, Peter Ketnath, Madalena Accioly, Jeane Alves, Veronica Cavalcanti, Jorge Clésio
- Genre Drama
- Available on Amazon Video
Hit the Road
(جاده خاکی)
A family bonds on a road trip through northwestern Iran.
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- Iran • 2022
- Director Panah Panahi
- Cast Hassan Madjooni, Pantea Panahiha, Rayan Sarlak, Amin Simiar, Masoud Tosifyan
- Genre Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy, Hoopla
Golden Lions and Hidden Gems
Manon
A World War II French freedom fighter falls under a devious woman's spell.
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- France • 1949
- Director Henri-Georges Clouzot
- Cast Serge Reggiani, Michel Auclair, Cécile Aubry, Andrex, Raymond Souplex, André Valmy
- Genre Adventure, Drama, Thriller
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube
The Rickshaw Man
(無法松の一生)
A poor but optimistic rickshaw driver becomes a surrogate father to the young son of a widow.
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- Japan • 1958
- Director Hiroshi Inagaki
- Cast Toshiro Mifune, Hideko Takamine, Hiroshi Akutagawa, Chōko Iida, Chishū Ryū, Haruo Tanaka
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
Family Diary
(Cronaca familiare)
Two brothers from practically different worlds.
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- Italy • 1962
- Director Valerio Zurlini
- Cast Marcello Mastroianni, Jacques Perrin, Salvo Randone, Valeria Ciangottini, Sylvie, Marco Guglielmi
- Genre Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube
General Della Rovere
(Il generale Della Rovere)
He's only pretending to be a hero... right?
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- Italy, France • 1959
- Director Roberto Rossellini
- Cast Vittorio De Sica, Hannes Messemer, Vittorio Caprioli, Nando Angelini, Herbert Fischer
- Genre War, Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Kanopy
From Afar
(Desde allá)
A wealthy, middle-aged man gets involved with a young, reckless gang member.
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- Venezuela, Mexico • 2016
- Director Lorenzo Vigas
- Cast Alfredo Castro, Luis Silva, Jericó Montilla, Catherina Cardozo, Marcos Moreno
- Genre Drama
- Available on Strand Releasing Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy
Lebanon
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- Israel, France, Germany • 2009
- Director Samuel Maoz
- Cast Oshri Cohen, Michael Moshonov, Yoav Donat, Itay Tiran, Zohar Strauss
- Genre Drama, War
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube
Not One Less
(一个都不能少)
A 13 year-old substitute teacher in the Chinese countryside goes looking for one of her lost pupils in the city.
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- China • 1999
- Director Zhang Yimou
- Cast Wei Minzhi, Zhang Huike, Tian Zhenda, Gao Enman, Sun Zhimei, Feng Yuying
- Genre Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video
The Story of Qiu Ju
(秋菊打官司)
When her husband is injured by a village elder, a peasant woman travels far and wide seeking justice.
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- China, Hong Kong • 1992
- Director Zhang Yimou
- Cast Gong Li, Peiqi Liu, Liuchun Yang, Lei Kesheng, Ge Zhijun
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on Plex, Plex Channel
Marianne and Juliane
(Die bleierne Zeit)
Two sisters, one a journalist and one a terrorist, fight for women’s civil rights in very different ways.
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- West Germany • 1981
- Director Margarethe von Trotta
- Cast Jutta Lampe, Barbara Sukowa, Julia Biedermann, Ina Robinski, Rüdiger Vogler, Doris Schade
- Genre Drama
- Available on Kanopy
Hands over the City
(Le mani sulla città)
Corruption. Passion. Outrage.
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- Italy, France • 1963
- Director Francesco Rosi
- Cast Rod Steiger, Salvo Randone, Guido Alberti, Marcello Cannavale, Dante Di Pinto, Alberto Conocchia
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
The Woman Who Left
(Ang Babaeng Humayo)
There'll be no comfort for the wicked.
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- Philippines • 2017
- Director Lav Diaz
- Cast Charo Santos-Concio, John Lloyd Cruz, Michael De Mesa, Nonie Buencamino, Shamaine Buencamino
- Genre Drama
- Available on Kino Film Collection, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy
Before the Rain
(Пред дождот)
Three interconnected stories of love under the threat of civil war in Macedonia and London.
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- United Kingdom, France, North Macedonia • 1994
- Director Milcho Manchevski
- Cast Katrin Cartlidge, Rade Šerbedžija, Grégoire Colin, Labina Mitevska, Phyllida Law, Silvija Stojanovska
- Genre Drama, War
- Available on Criterion Channel
Short Films, Longstanding Impact
Neighbours
Two neighbors come to blows over a flower that straddles the property line.
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- Canada • 1952
- Director Norman McLaren
- Cast Grant Munro, Jean Paul Ladouceur
- Genre Animation, Comedy
- Available on OVID, Filmzie, Kanopy
The White Helmets
To save a life is to save all of humanity.
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- United Kingdom • 2016
- Director Orlando von Einsiedel
- Cast Khalid Farah, Mohammed Farah, Abu Omar, Raed Saleh
- Genre Documentary, War
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads
Marguerite
An elderly woman develops a connection with her home nurse and is encouraged to confront her long-repressed feelings.
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- Canada • 2017
- Director Marianne Farley
- Cast Béatrice Picard, Sandrine Bisson
- Genre Drama
- Available on Apple TV
La Jetée
The story of a post-nuclear war experiment with time travel, constructed almost entirely from still photos.
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- France • 1962
- Director Chris Marker
- Cast Jean Négroni, Hélène Chatelain, Davos Hanich, Jacques Ledoux, André Heinrich, Jacques Branchu
- Genre Romance, Science Fiction
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Amazon Video
Night and Fog
(Nuit et brouillard)
Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.
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- France • 1955
- Director Alain Resnais
- Cast Michel Bouquet, Reinhard Heydrich, Heinrich Himmler, Adolf Hitler, Julius Streicher
- Genre Documentary, History, War
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Amazon Video
The House Is Black
(خانه سیاه است)
A look at life and suffering in a leper colony with a focus on the beauty of creation.
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- Iran • 1963
- Director Forugh Farrokhzad
- Cast Forugh Farrokhzad, Ebrahim Golestan, Hossein Mansouri
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Criterion Channel
Song of Love
(Un chant d'amour)
Two prisoners in complete isolation, separated by the thick brick walls, and desperately in need of human contact, devise a most unusual kind of communication.
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- France • 1950
- Director Jean Genet
- Cast Lucien Sénémaud, Bravo, André Reybaz, Jean Genet, Java, Coco Le Martiniquais
- Genre Romance, Fantasy
- Available on Kanopy
Wasp
A short film about a singer mother and her four children.
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- United Kingdom • 2003
- Director Andrea Arnold
- Cast Natalie Press, Danny Dyer, Jodie Mitchell, Molly Griffiths, Kaitlyn Raynor, Danny Daley
- Genre Drama
- Available on MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel
Reluctantly Queer
The troubled life of a queer Ghanaian man struggling to keep a relationship with his mother.
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- Ghana, United States • 2016
- Director Akosua Adoma Owusu
- Cast Kwame Edwin Otu
- Genre
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl)
The story of young Afghan girls learning to read, write and skateboard in Kabul.
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- United Kingdom • 2019
- Director Carol Dysinger
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Apple TV, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Kanopy
Sitara: Let Girls Dream
(Sitara - Let Girls Dream)
A young girl longs to be a pilot against her families wishes.
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- Pakistan, United States • 2019
- Director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
- Cast
- Genre Animation, Drama
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads
Talking Heads
(Gadające głowy)
Acclaimed director Krzysztof Kieślowski poses a few simple questions to people of all ages across Poland.
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- Poland • 1980
- Director Krzysztof Kieślowski
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Criterion Channel