Hana Peoples
Women In Sports
Bend It Like Beckham
18-year-old Jess Bharma secretly joins a semi-pro soccer team in England, against her strict parent's wishes.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom, Germany, United States • 2002
- Director Gurinder Chadha
- Cast Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Anupam Kher, Shaheen Khan, Frank Harper
- Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Available on Hulu, Disney Plus, Showtime Apple TV Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Spectrum On Demand, AMC on Demand, The Roku Channel
Mary Kom
(मैरी कोम)
A chronicle of the life of Indian boxer 'Mary Kom' who went through several hardships before audaciously accomplishing her ultimate dream.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- India • 2014
- Director Omung Kumar
- Cast Priyanka Chopra, Darshan Kumaar, Shishir Sharma, Sunil Thapa, Robin Das, Zachary Coffin
- Genre Action, Drama, History
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube
Dangal
(दंगल)
A former wrestler raises a family of international wrestling champions in this inspiring biopic.
- India, United States • 2016
- Director Nitesh Tiwari
- Cast Aamir Khan, Fatima Sana Shaikh, Sanya Malhotra, Sakshi Tanwar, Aparshakti Khurana, Zaira Wasim
- Genre Action, Bollywood, Drama
- 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.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom • 2019
- Director Carol Dysinger
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Hoopla, Apple TV, Vudu, Amazon Video, Kanopy
Offside
(آفساید)
Since women are banned from attending men's sporting events in Iran, a group of female soccer fans disguise themselves as men to watch a match at Tehran's stadium.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran • 2006
- Director Jafar Panahi
- Cast Sima Mobarak-Shahi, Shayesteh Irani, Ayda Sadeqi, Golnaz Farmani, Mahnaz Zabihi
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube
Maiden
Director Alex Holmes chronicles the unprecedented journey of 24-year-old Tracy Edwards and the first all-female sailing crew to enter the nine-month Whitbread Round the World Race.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom • 2019
- Director Alex Holmes
- Cast Tracy Edwards
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Starz Apple TV Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Spectrum On Demand
Fair Play
In the 1980s, Anna, a Czech sprinter, starts training for the Olympics. After she collapses during training, she learns she is being given steroids and decides to stop using them until her mother helps the coaches give them to her.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany • 2014
- Director Andrea Sedláčková
- Cast Judit Bárdos, Anna Geislerová, Roman Luknár, Eva Josefíková, Michaela Pavlátová
- Genre Drama
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
Fighting with My Family
A comedy about a family that fights a little differently.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom, United States • 2019
- Director Stephen Merchant
- Cast Florence Pugh, Vince Vaughn, Lena Headey, Nick Frost, Dwayne Johnson, Jack Lowden
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, FilmBox+, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Microsoft Store, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
Perfect
(Parfaites)
Filmmaker Jérémie Battaglia follows the Canadian synchronized swimming team as it trains for the Rio 2016 Olympics.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Canada, Brazil, Puerto Rico • 2016
- Director Jérémie Battaglia
- Cast Meng Chen, Marie-Lou Morin
- Genre
- Available on Tubi TV
Water Lilies
(Naissance des pieuvres)
Marie joins the local pool’s synchronized swim team for a chance to get close to Floriane—the “bad girl” of the team.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- France • 2007
- Director Céline Sciamma
- Cast Pauline Acquart, Adèle Haenel, Louise Blachère, Warren Jacquin, Christel Baras, Marie Gili-Pierre
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Criterion Channel
Battle of the Sexes
The true story of the 1973 tennis match between World number one Billie Jean King and ex-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom, United States • 2017
- Director Valerie Faris
- Cast Emma Stone, Steve Carell, Andrea Riseborough, Sarah Silverman, Bill Pullman, Alan Cumming
- Genre Comedy, Drama, History
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Spectrum On Demand, AMC on Demand
Fast Girls
A street smart runner develops an intense rivalry with an equally ambitious wealthy young athlete.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom • 2012
- Director Regan Hall
- Cast Lily James, Lenora Crichlow, Noel Clarke, Bradley James, Rupert Graves, Phil Davis
- Genre Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Freevee, Plex
Win By Fall
(Schultersieg)
In this coming of age documentary, twelve year olds Janny, Lisa, Debby and Michelle leave their home for a sports school in the East German province to become wrestlers.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany, Bulgaria • 2017
- Director Anna Koch
- Cast
- Genre Documentary, Family
- Available on No streaming locations found.
La petite reine
After testing positive for steroids, a Canadian cycling star must reveal the truth to herself and the cycling world at large.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Canada • 2014
- Director Alexis Durand-Brault
- Cast Laurence Leboeuf, Patrice Robitaille, Denis Bouchard, Josée Deschênes, Mélanie Pilon
- Genre Drama
- Available on The Roku Channel
Over the Limit
An elite Russian rhythmic gymnast pushes herself to extremes in an attempt to win a gold medal at the Olympic Games.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Poland, Germany, Finland • 2018
- Director Marta Prus
- Cast Margarita Mamun
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Hoopla, Film Movement Plus, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy
Hana's Recommendations
Bend It Like Beckham
18-year-old Jess Bharma secretly joins a semi-pro soccer team in England, against her strict parent's wishes.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom, Germany, United States • 2002
- Director Gurinder Chadha
- Cast Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Anupam Kher, Shaheen Khan, Frank Harper
- Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Available on Hulu, Disney Plus, Showtime Apple TV Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Spectrum On Demand, AMC on Demand, The Roku Channel
Still Walking
(歩いても 歩いても)
Twelve years after their beloved eldest son, Junpei, drowned while saving a stranger's life, Kyohei and Toshiko welcome their surviving children home for a family reunion.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 2008
- Director Hirokazu Kore-eda
- Cast Hiroshi Abe, Kirin Kiki, Yui Natsukawa, Yoshio Harada, You, Kazuya Takahashi
- Genre Drama, Family
- Available on Criterion Channel, AMC+ Amazon Channel, IFC Films Unlimited Apple TV Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, YouTube
Victoria
A Spanish woman newly relocated to Berlin meets a group of mysterious men at a club and decides to follow them on their dangerous escapade in this film shot in one continuous take.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany • 2015
- Director Sebastian Schipper
- Cast Laia Costa, Frederick Lau, Franz Rogowski, Burak Yigit, Max Mauff
- Genre Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
- Available on Showtime Apple TV Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy
Black Girl
(La Noire de...)
Senegalese woman goes to work for a family in France, only to be blindsided by her new employers' racism and brutality.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Senegal, France • 1966
- Director Ousmane Sembène
- Cast Mbissine Thérèse Diop, Anne-Marie Jelinek, Robert Fontaine, Momar Nar Sene, Toto Bissainthe, Sophie Leclerc
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Plex
And Then We Danced
(და ჩვენ ვიცეკვეთ)
A dancer on the brink of adulthood falls unwillingly in love with his greatest rival.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Sweden, Georgia • 2019
- Director Levan Akin
- Cast Levan Gelbakhiani, Bachi Valishvili, Ana Javakishvili, Giorgi Tsereteli, Tamar Bukhnikashvili, Anano Makharadze
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Hoopla, OVID, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Kanopy, Plex, Reveel
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
(Portrait de la jeune fille en feu)
Marianne, a painter, is commissioned to do the wedding portrait of Héloïse, a young woman who has just left the convent.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France • 2019
- Director Céline Sciamma
- Cast Noémie Merlant, Adèle Haenel, Luàna Bajrami, Valeria Golino, Christel Baras, Armande Boulanger
- Genre Drama, History, Romance
- Available on Hulu, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, YouTube, Kanopy
Happy Hour
(ハッピーアワー)
Jun, Akari, Sakurako, and Fumi truly believe that they can confide in each other, until Jun confesses that she's seeking a divorce from her husband and the news upsets the other three.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 2018
- Director Ryūsuke Hamaguchi
- Cast Hiromi Demura, Shoko Fukunaga, Yuichiro Ito, Rira Kawamura, Hazuki Kikuchi
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Paths of the Soul
(གངས་རིན་པོ་ཆེ)
A journey into humanity and faith.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- China • 2015
- Director Zhang Yang
- Cast Yang Pei, Nyima Zadui, Tsewang Dolkar, Tsring Chodron, Seba Jiangcuo
- Genre Adventure, Drama, Documentary
- Available on OVID, Amazon Video
I'm No Longer Here
(Ya no estoy aqui)
A teenage immigrant struggles with the death of his brother and feelings of isolation and loneliness in his new surroundings.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Mexico, United States • 2019
- Director Fernando Frias
- Cast Juan Daniel Garcia Treviño, Bianca Coral Puernte Valenzuela, Xueming Angelina Chen, Luis Leonardo Zapata, Yesica Avigail Silvia Rios
- Genre Drama
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads
Boy
In a small New Zealand town, an 11-year-old named Boy, explores adolescence with his vivid imagination and reunites with his estranged father.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- New Zealand • 2010
- Director Taika Waititi
- Cast James Rolleston, Te Aho Aho Eketone-Whitu, Taika Waititi, Moerangi Tihore, Cherilee Martin, RickyLee Waipuka-Russell
- Genre Drama, Comedy
- Available on Hoopla, Showtime Apple TV Channel, Apple TV, Vudu, Kanopy
Kedi
This documentary looks at the thousands of free-roaming cats in Istanbul, Turkey, showing the city through their perspective.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Turkey, United States • 2017
- Director Ceyda Torun
- Cast Bengu, Deniz, Duman, Gamsiz, Aslan Parcasi, Psikopat
- Genre Documentary
- Available on YouTube Premium, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Redbox, Kanopy
Force Majeure
(Turist)
A family drama in the midst of a natural disaster.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Sweden, France, Norway • 2014
- Director Ruben Östlund
- Cast Johannes Bah Kuhnke, Lisa Loven Kongsli, Clara Wettergren, Vincent Wettergren, Kristofer Hivju, Fanni Metelius
- Genre Drama
- Available on MUBI, Hulu, MUBI Amazon Channel, Hoopla, Peacock, Showtime Apple TV Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, FlixFling, The Roku Channel, Kanopy, Plex
Ousmane Sembène
Black Girl
(La Noire de...)
Senegalese woman goes to work for a family in France, only to be blindsided by her new employers' racism and brutality.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Senegal, France • 1966
- Director Ousmane Sembène
- Cast Mbissine Thérèse Diop, Anne-Marie Jelinek, Robert Fontaine, Momar Nar Sene, Toto Bissainthe, Sophie Leclerc
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Plex
Moolaadé
A woman goes against the tradition of her village.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Senegal, Burkina Faso, Morocco • 2004
- Director Ousmane Sembène
- Cast Fatoumata Coulibaly, Maimouna Hélène Diarra, Salimata Traoré, Dominique Zeïda, Rasmané Ouédraogo, Joseph Traoré
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Faat Kiné
A mother challenges her society's gender roles in her struggle against a predetermined destiny.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Senegal • 2001
- Director Ousmane Sembène
- Cast Venus Seye, Mame Ndoumbé Diop, Ndiagne Dia, Mariama Balde, Awa Sene Sarr
- Genre Drama
- Available on Kanopy
Xala
A corrupt Senegalese official marries a third wife only to find himself cursed with impotence, searching desperately for a cure.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Senegal • 1975
- Director Ousmane Sembène
- Cast Thierno Leye, Myriam Niang, Seune Samb, Fatim Diagne, Younouss Seye
- Genre Comedy
- Available on Criterion Channel
Reflecting Disability In Film
Margarita with a Straw
A college student with cerebral palsy seeks her independence by spending a semester abroad in New York City.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- India • 2015
- Director Shonali Bose
- Cast Kalki Koechlin, Revathi, Sayani Gupta, William Moseley, Hussain Dalal
- Genre Bollywood, Drama, Family
- Available on The Roku Channel, Kanopy
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
(Le scaphandre et le papillon)
The true story of a man who suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body except for his left eye.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, United States • 2007
- Director Julian Schnabel
- Cast Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josée Croze, Anne Consigny, Patrick Chesnais, Niels Arestrup
- Genre Drama
- Available on Hoopla, Showtime Apple TV Channel, Paramount Plus Apple TV Channel , Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube
Poetry
(시)
A Korean grandmother enrolls in a poetry class, where she finds solace amid the chaos of her personal life.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Korea • 2010
- Director Lee Chang-dong
- Cast Yoon Jeong-hee, Lee Da-wit, Kim Hee-ra, Ahn Nae-sang, Kim Yong-taek, Park Myung-shin
- Genre Drama
- Available on Kanopy
The Colour of Paradise
(رنگ خدا)
How far will a widowed father go to deny his blind son in order to find a new wife?
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran • 1999
- Director Majid Majidi
- Cast Hossein Mahjoub, Mohsen Ramezani, Salameh Feyzi, Farahnaz Safari, Elham Sharifi, Behzad Rafi
- Genre Drama, Family
- Available on Vudu
Beanpole
(Дылда)
A war movie about what happens after battle.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Russia • 2019
- Director Kantemir Balagov
- Cast Viktoriya Miroshnichenko, Vasilisa Perelygina, Konstantin Balakirev, Kseniya Kutepova, Olga Dragunova, Andrey Bykov
- Genre Drama
- Available on Hoopla, OVID, Showtime Apple TV Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy
Dancer in the Dark
A Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, uses her love of musicals to escape her life's troubles.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Denmark, Germany, Netherlands • 2000
- Director Lars Von Trier
- Cast Björk, Catherine Deneuve, David Morse, Peter Stormare, Joel Grey, Cara Seymour
- Genre Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube
My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
The true story of an Irishman born with cerebral palsy who learns to use his left foot to paint and write.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Ireland, United Kingdom • 1989
- Director Jim Sheridan
- Cast Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker, Alison Whelan, Declan Croghan, Eanna MacLiam
- Genre Drama
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, MGM Plus, fuboTV, Paramount Plus, Paramount+ Amazon Channel, MGM Plus Amazon Channel, Paramount+ Roku Premium Channel, Showtime Apple TV Channel, Paramount Plus Apple TV Channel , Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, AMC on Demand, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
One More Time with Feelings
(Isa Pa, with Feelings)
In the first feature length Filipino film to feature Filipino Sign Language, two strangers, Mara and Gali fall in love when they discover they are neighbors.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Philippines • 2019
- Director Prime Cruz
- Cast Maine Mendoza, Carlo Aquino, Lotlot De Leon, Cris Villanueva, Nikki Valdez, Vangie Labalan
- Genre Romance, Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Amazon Video
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, Pluto TV
Oasis
(오아시스)
Have you really loved someone?
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Korea • 2002
- Director Lee Chang-dong
- Cast Sol Kyung-gu, Moon So-ri, Ahn Nae-sang, Ryoo Seung-wan, Son Byung Ho, Chu Kwi-jung
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Rust and Bone
(De rouille et d'os)
Catastrophe Is A Means For Growth.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Belgium • 2012
- Director Jacques Audiard
- Cast Marion Cotillard, Matthias Schoenaerts, Bouli Lanners, Céline Sallette, Corinne Masiero, Mourad Frarema
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube
The Way He Looks
(Hoje Eu Quero Voltar Sozinho)
Not every love happens at first sight.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Brazil • 2014
- Director Daniel Ribeiro
- Cast Ghilherme Lobo, Fábio Audi, Tess Amorim, Lúcia Romano, Eucir de Souza, Selma Egrei
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy
Non-streaming, non US SIFF award winners
The Winter
(El invierno)
After years of working on a Patagonia ranch, an old Foreman is forced to retire and a younger man takes his place. This change forces both men to figure out how they will survive the upcoming winter.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Argentina • 2016
- Director Emiliano Torres
- Cast Alejandro Sieveking, Cristian Salguero, Adrián Fondari, Pablo Cedrón, Mara Bestelli
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Invader
(L'Envahisseur)
An African immigrant living illegally in Belgium is desperate to find his own sense of belonging.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Belgium • 2011
- Director Nicolas Provost
- Cast Isaka Sawadogo, Stefania Rocca, John Flanders, Dieudonné Kabongo, Serge Riaboukine, Tibo Vandenborre
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Rust
(Ferrugem)
A pair of teens become friendly through an exchange of photos through social media, but things take an unexpected turn.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Brazil • 2018
- Director Aly Muritiba
- Cast Tifanny Dopke, Clarissa Kiste, Duda Azevedo, Enrique Díaz, Giovanni De Lorenzi, Pedro Inoue
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Everything Is Fine
(Tout est parfait)
When a suburban teen discovers that his friends have committed suicide, he must come to terms with the aftermath on his own journey.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Canada • 2008
- Director Yves Christian Fournier
- Cast Maxime Dumontier, Chloé Bourgeois, Normand D'Amour, Maxime Bessette, Sébastien Bergeron-Carranza, Jean-Noël Raymond-Jetté
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Boundaries
(Pays)
A newly elected member of the Canadian parliament tries to balance family life and negotiations between a Canadian politician and the president of a country whose natural resources are being exploited.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Canada • 2016
- Director Chloé Robichaud
- Cast Emily VanCamp, Macha Grenon, Nathalie Doummar, Serge Houde, Rémy Girard, Alexandre Landry
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Dead Pigs
(海上浮城)
A pig farmer, a busboy, a salon owner, an expat architect and a jaded rich girl cross paths as thousands of dead pigs float down the Yangtze River toward Shanghai.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- China, United States • 2018
- Director Cathy Yan
- Cast Vivian Wu, Haoyu Yang, Meng Li, Mason Lee, David Rysdahl, Zazie Beetz
- Genre Comedy, Drama, Family
- Available on Hoopla, Film Movement Plus, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy
The Extraordinary Journey of Celeste García
(El viaje extraordinario de Celeste García)
Follows a kindly Havana-based planetarium worker who accepts a very special invitation from her neighbor, an extraterrestrial.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Cuba, Germany • 2018
- Director Arturo Infante
- Cast María Isabel Díaz, Omar Franco, Néstor Jiménez
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube
Five Star Existence
(Den trådlösa världen)
Director Sonja Lindén's personal and sensitive quest to the core of the modern information society where technology and human beings get more and more entwined.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Finland, Sweden • 2011
- Director Sonja Lindén
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Rosie
Rosie is an imaginative young girl with hopes and romantic fantasies trying to forge her way in a world that does not always understand her.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Belgium • 1998
- Director Patrice Toye
- Cast Aranka Coppens, Dirk Roofthooft, Sara De Roo, Joost Wynant, Frank Vercruyssen
- Genre
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Satin Rouge
A lonely widow gets involved with her daughter's lover and befriends a belly dancer in a cabaret.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Tunisia • 2002
- Director Raja Amari
- Cast Hiam Abbass, Hend El Fahem, Maher Kamoun, Monia Hichri, Faouzia Badr, Nadra Lamloum
- Genre Drama, Music
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Wild Side
A transgender woman who survives by prostituting herself in Paris, returns – with her two male lovers in town – to her family home in the countryside to look after her dying mother.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Belgium, United Kingdom • 2004
- Director Sébastien Lifshitz
- Cast Stéphanie Michelini, Yasmine Belmadi, Edouard Nikitine, Josiane Stoléru
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Other Bank
(გაღმა ნაპირი)
A young boy and his mother flee their hometown amidst a civil war in the contested region of Abkhazia.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Georgia, Kazakhstan • 2009
- Director Giorgi Ovashvili
- Cast Tedo Bekhauri, Tamar Meskhi, Archil Tabukashvili, Temo Goginava, Lia Abuladze, Leila Khokhosadze
- Genre Drama
- Available on Amazon Video
Little Angel
(Engelchen)
A lonely German woman living in Berlin falls in love with a Polish mechanic and finds herself in the middle of a complex love triangle.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany • 1997
- Director Helke Misselwitz
- Cast Susanne Lothar, Cezary Pazura, Sophie Rois, Ben Becker, Ulrich Mühe, Christine Harbort
- Genre Drama, Family
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
(La revolución no será televisada)
Two documentary filmmakers follow the aftermath of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's removal from his presidency in 2002.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Ireland, Netherlands, United States • 2003
- Director Donnacha O'Briain
- Cast Hugo Chávez
- Genre Documentary
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Harmony Lessons
(Уроки гармонии)
A bullied teenager in rural Kazakhstan seeks revenge on his bully.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Kazakhstan, Germany, France • 2013
- Director Emir Baigazin
- Cast Timur Aidarbekov, Aslan Anarbayev, Mukhtar Andassov
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Based on a True Story
A documentary on John Wojtowicz and Salvatore Naturile's attempt to rob a bank in Flatbrush, NY, which was later made into a movie in 1975.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Netherlands • 2006
- Director Walter Stokman
- Cast Walter Stokman, John Wojtowicz
- Genre Documentary
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Cross My Heart and Hope to Die
(Ti kniver i hjertet)
A young teenager in 1960s Olslo struggles to find his belonging to his local community until he meets a new older friend.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Norway • 1994
- Director Marius Holst
- Cast Martin Dahl Garfalk, Trond Halbo, Jan Devo Kornstad, Kjersti Holmen, Ingar Helge Gimle, Bjørn Floberg
- Genre Drama, Family
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Reverse
(Rewers)
A story about women, set in the present and in 1950s Warsaw.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Poland • 2009
- Director Borys Lankosz
- Cast Agata Buzek, Krystyna Janda, Marcin Dorociński, Anna Polony, Adam Woronowicz
- Genre Comedy, Drama, Thriller, Romance
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Mutants
(Os Mutantes)
A group of Lisbon teenagers attempt to navigate and survive within their city while entering into adulthood.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Portugal, France • 1998
- Director Teresa Villaverde
- Cast Ana Moreira, Alexandre Pinto, Nelson Varela, Teresa Roby, António Capelo, Paulo Pereira
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
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Two men and a woman happen to meet in a bar. We learn from their conversations both the intriguing and banal details of their lives. But is anyone really telling the truth?
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Russia, Netherlands • 2004
- Director Ilya Khrzhanovsky
- Cast Yuri Laguta, Konstantin Murzenko, Sergey Shnurov, Marina Vovchenko, Shavkat Abdusalamov, Anatoli Adoskin
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Black Ice
(Gololyod)
A man and a woman lose sight of the meaning of life because of their own inability to see others and to see love.
- ✭ ✭
- Russia • 2003
- Director Mikhail Brashinsky
- Cast
- Genre
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Country of the Deaf
(Страна глухих)
The unusual relationship between two women, one of them a deaf-mute dancer and the other on the run from the mafia.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Russia, France • 1998
- Director Valeriy Todorovskiy
- Cast Chulpan Khamatova, Dina Korzun, Maksim Sukhanov, Nikita Tyunin, Aleksandr Yatsko, Sergey Yushkevich
- Genre Comedy, Crime, Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Host & Guest
(방문자)
A cynical, divorced intellectual has a bizarre life-changing (and life-saving) encounter with a stoic evangelist, who turns out to have his own problems.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Korea • 2006
- Director Shin Dong-il
- Cast Kang Ji-hwan, Kim Jae-rok
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
House of Hummingbird
(벌새)
Seoul, 1994. Fourteen-year-old Eunhee struggles to navigate the treacherous waters of adolescence, until the arrival of a sympathetic new teacher.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Korea • 2019
- Director Kim Bo-ra
- Cast Park Ji-hu, Kim Sae-byuk, Jeong In-gi, Lee Seung-yeon, Park Soo-yeon, Son Sang-yeon
- Genre Drama
- Available on Fandor Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Pluto TV, AsianCrush, Freevee, Cineverse, Kanopy, Plex
Gitmo
(Gitmo: The New Rules of War)
A documentary on conditions at the U.S. Guantanamo Bay prison.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Sweden • 2005
- Director Erik Gandini, Tariq Saleh
- Cast
- Genre
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Together
(Tillsammans)
Elisabeth leaves her abusive husband to join her brother’s leftist commune in Stockholm.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Sweden, Denmark, Italy • 2000
- Director Lukas Moodysson
- Cast Lisa Lindgren, Michael Nyqvist, Emma Samuelsson, Sam Kessel, Gustaf Hammarsten, Anja Lundqvist
- Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Available on AMC+ Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Amazon Video
Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus
A captivating and compelling road trip through the creative spirit of the the South of the USA
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom • 2003
- Director Andrew Douglas
- Cast David Johansen, Harry Crews, David Eugene Edwards, Johnny Dowd, The Handsome Family
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Dogwoof On Demand
The Game of Their Lives
A BBC documentary producer is given unprecedented access in North Korea to chronicle the story of the famed 1966 World Cup team from the North that advanced to the quarterfinals.
- ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom • 2002
- Director Daniel Gordon
- Cast Daniel Gordon, Paul Nicholson, Pak Doo-ik, Giovanni Rivera, Eusébio
- Genre Documentary
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Hammers Over the Anvil
An aristocratic Englishwoman, an Australian horseman and a young boy on a journey towards the exciting but forbidden world of adults.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Australia • 1994
- Director Ann Turner
- Cast Russell Crowe, Charlotte Rampling, Alexander Outhread, Frankie J. Holden, Jake Frost, Alethea McGrath
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Boundaries of the Heart
An Australian rodeo rider revisits a tiny town to propose to a hotel owner's 40-ish daughter.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Australia • 1988
- Director Lex Marinos
- Cast Wendy Hughes, John Hargreaves, Norman Kaye, Max Cullen
- Genre Drama
- Available on Tubi TV
Kiss of the Spider Woman
In a South American prison, a gay man imprisoned for immoral behavior and a political prisoner come to understand and respect one another.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Brazil, United States • 1985
- Director Hector Babenco
- Cast William Hurt, Raúl Juliá, Sônia Braga, José Lewgoy, Miriam Pires, Milton Gonçalves
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Bye Bye Blues
During WWII, a woman returns home to her Canadian town after she and her military husband are split by the Japanese invasion of Hong Kong.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Canada • 1989
- Director Anne Wheeler
- Cast Michael Ontkean, Rebecca Jenkins, Chad Krowchuk, Jyoti Dhembre, Sumant Mastaher, Tom Alter
- Genre Drama, Music, Romance
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Jesus of Montreal
(Jésus de Montréal)
A group of actors putting on an interpretive Passion Play in Montreal begin to experience a meshing of their characters and their private lives.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Canada, France • 1989
- Director Denys Arcand
- Cast Lothaire Bluteau, Catherine Wilkening, Johanne-Marie Tremblay, Rémy Girard, Robert Lepage, Gilles Pelletier
- Genre Drama
- Available on Fandor Amazon Channel, IndieFlix, Spamflix, Kanopy
Between Sea and Land
(La ciénaga)
A man yearns to go into the ocean across the street from his house, but suffers from a degenerative muscular disease that prevents him from doing so.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Colombia • 2016
- Director Carlos del Castillo
- Cast Jorge Cao, Manolo Cruz, Vicky Hernández, Viviana Serna, Mile Vergara
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Sons of Denmark
(Danmarks Sønner)
The story of an anti-immigrant, ultra-nationalist political party in Denmark and the radical underground organization trying to stop it.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Denmark • 2019
- Director Ulaa Salim
- Cast Zaki Youssef, Mohammed Ismail Mohammed, Rasmus Bjerg, Imad Abul-Foul, Olaf Johannessen, Shirin Habib Shukr
- Genre Thriller, Drama
- Available on Film Movement Plus, Kanopy
The Kingdom
(Riget)
The Kingdom follows a number of characters, both staff and patients, as they encounter bizarre phenomena, both human and supernatural inside a Copenhagen hospital.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Denmark, Italy, Germany • 1994
- Director Morten Arnfred
- Cast Ernst-Hugo Järegård, Laura Christensen, Baard Owe, Kirsten Rolffes, Holger Juul Hansen, Søren Pilmark
- Genre Horror, Mystery
- Available on MUBI
Venus Beauty Institute
(Vénus beauté (institut))
Welcome to the Venus Beauty Institute where love, innocence and sex are a sight to behold.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- France • 1999
- Director Tonie Marshall
- Cast Nathalie Baye, Bulle Ogier, Audrey Tautou, Mathilde Seigner, Samuel Le Bihan, Jacques Bonnaffé
- Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Available on No streaming locations found.
IP5: The Island of Pachyderms
(IP5 : l'île aux pachydermes)
Two young men find themselves on an unexpected adventure when they steal a car that is occupied by an older man who's been sleeping in the backseat.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- France • 1992
- Director Jean-Jacques Beineix
- Cast Yves Montand, Olivier Martinez, Géraldine Pailhas, Sekkou Sall, Colette Renard, Sotigui Kouyaté
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
My Mother's Castle
(Le château de ma mère)
My Mother's Castle (Le chateau de ma mere) is a sequel and companion piece to My Father's Glory (La Gloire de Mon Pere), both based on the childhood recollections of Marcel Pagnol.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France • 1990
- Director Yves Robert
- Cast Julien Ciamaca, Philippe Caubère, Nathalie Roussel, Victorien Delamare, Didier Pain, Thérèse Liotard
- Genre Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, YouTube
The Hedgehog
(Le hérisson)
Paloma is a serious and highly articulate but deeply bored 11-year-old who has decided to kill herself on her 12th birthday.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Italy • 2009
- Director Mona Achache
- Cast Josiane Balasko, Garance Le Guillermic, Togo Igawa, Anne Brochet, Ariane Ascaride, Wladimir Yordanoff
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Power Of Evil
(Le pouvoir du mal)
The wife of an arms dealer appears unhappy, but in truth, she's just as cynical and self-serving as her capitalist man.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, West Germany, Italy • 1985
- Director Krzysztof Zanussi
- Cast Vittorio Gassman, Marie-Christine Barrault, Benjamin Völz, Hans Marquardt, Erika Wackernagel, Eugeniusz Priwieziencew
- Genre Drama, Mystery
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Experiment
(Das Experiment)
As part of a psychological research project, twenty recruits will be divided up into prisoners and guards, in a controlled penitentiary-like environment.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany • 2001
- Director Oliver Hirschbiegel
- Cast Moritz Bleibtreu, Christian Berkel, Oliver Stokowski, Wotan Wilke Möhring, Stephan Szasz, Polat Dal
- Genre Drama, Thriller
- Available on No streaming locations found.
All About Me
(Der Junge muss an die frische Luft)
A biopic about Hape Kerkeling, one of Germany’s most beloved comedians.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany • 2018
- Director Caroline Link
- Cast Julius Weckauf, Sönke Möhring, Diana Amft, Joachim Król, Elena Uhlig, Maren Kroymann
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl
(Die Macht der Bilder: Leni Riefenstahl)
This documentary recounts the life and work of one of most famous, and yet reviled, German film directors in history, Leni Riefenstahl.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, United Kingdom, Germany • 1993
- Director Ray Müller
- Cast Leni Riefenstahl, Walter Frentz, Horst Kettner, Ray Müller, Luis Trenker
- Genre Documentary
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Martha and I
(Martha et moi)
In pre World War II, Prague, a young Jewish teen is sent to live with his doctor Uncle and his new wife.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Germany, Austria • 1990
- Director Jiří Weiss
- Cast Marianne Sägebrecht, Michel Piccoli, Klaus Grünberg, Michael Kausch, Václav Chalupa
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Comrades: Almost a Love Story
(甜蜜蜜)
A young man arrives in Hong Kong from mainland China, hoping to earn money to send back to his girlfriend but ends up falling in love with another woman.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Hong Kong • 1996
- Director Peter Chan
- Cast Leon Lai, Maggie Cheung, Kristy Yang, Christopher Doyle, Eric Tsang, Joe Cheung
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Innocent Voices
(Voces inocentes)
A young boy, in an effort to have a normal childhood in 1980's El Salvador, is caught up in a dramatic fight for his life as he desperately tries to avoid the war which is raging all around him
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Mexico, United States, Puerto Rico • 2004
- Director Luis Mandoki
- Cast Carlos Padilla, Xuna Primus, Leonor Varela, José María Yazpik, Gustavo Muñoz, Ofelia Medina
- Genre Drama, War
- Available on VIX
The Best of Youth
(La meglio gioventú)
Spanning four decades, from the chaotic 1960s to 2003, director Marco Tullio Giordana's passionate epic 'La Meglio Gioventu' follows two Italian brothers through some of the most tumultuous events of recent Italian history.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy • 2003
- Director Marco Tullio Giordana
- Cast Luigi Lo Cascio, Alessio Boni, Adriana Asti, Sonia Bergamasco, Fabrizio Gifuni, Maya Sansa
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Vudu, Amazon Video
The Fourth Man
(De vierde man)
An alcoholic writer begins having visions apparently warning him of impending danger.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Netherlands • 1983
- Director Paul Verhoeven
- Cast Jeroen Krabbé, Renée Soutendijk, Thom Hoffman, Dolf de Vries, Geert de Jong, Hans Veerman
- Genre Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Iris
A female veterinarian moves to the country side to start her own practice. She encounters a lot a skeptical villagers.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Netherlands • 1987
- Director Mady Saks
- Cast Monique van de Ven, Roger Van Hool, Titus Tiel Groenestege, Tom Jansen, Elsje Scherjon, Marja Habraken
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Assault
(De Aanslag)
At the end of WW II the Dutch resistance kills a German officer in front of the house of a Dutch family. Years after the war, the young boy who witnessed the killing runs into the members of the resistance who committed the killing.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Netherlands • 1986
- Director Fons Rademakers
- Cast Derek de Lint, Marc van Uchelen, Monique van de Ven, John Kraaykamp, Christian Golusda
- Genre Drama, History
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Salvador (Puig Antich)
The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's Fascist State in 1974.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Spain, United Kingdom • 2006
- Director Manuel Huerga
- Cast Daniel Brühl, Tristán Ulloa, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Leonor Watling, Ingrid Rubio, Celso Bugallo
- Genre Drama, History
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Paper Birds
(Pájaros de papel)
In post Spanish Civil War Spain, two artists travel around Spain with their arts company and see the horrors left by the war.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Spain • 2010
- Director Emilio Aragón
- Cast Imanol Arias, Lluís Homar, Roger Príncep, Carmen Machi, Fernando Cayo, Diego Martín
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Simple Simon
(I rymden finns inga känslor)
Simon has Asperger's syndrome and doesn't like changes in his life.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Sweden • 2010
- Director Andreas Öhman
- Cast Bill Skarsgård, Martin Wallström, Cecilia Forss, Sofie Hamilton, Susanne Thorson, Kristoffer Berglund
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Prick Up Your Ears
Stephen Frears directs this biographical drama focusing on controversial British playwright Joe Orton.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom • 1987
- Director Stephen Frears
- Cast Gary Oldman, Alfred Molina, Vanessa Redgrave, Frances Barber, Lindsay Duncan, Julie Walters
- Genre Drama
- Available on ScreenPix Apple TV Channel, Pluto TV
Close My Eyes
There are some relationships so taboo they're irresistible.After some years of tension, Richard begins a sexual relationship with his sister Natalie. Now married, the relationship proves dangerously obsessional.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom • 1991
- Director Stephen Poliakoff
- Cast Alan Rickman, Clive Owen, Saskia Reeves, Karl Johnson, Lesley Sharp, Kate Gartside
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Truly Madly Deeply
Nina is totally heartbroken at the death of her boyfriend Jamie, but is even more unprepared for his return as a ghost.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom • 1990
- Director Anthony Minghella
- Cast Juliet Stevenson, Alan Rickman, Michael Maloney, Bill Paterson, Christopher Rozycki, David Ryall
- Genre Fantasy, Drama, Comedy, Science Fiction, Romance
- Available on Amazon Video
Wilde
The story of Oscar Wilde, genius, poet, playwright and the First Modern Man.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom, Japan, Germany • 1997
- Director Brian Gilbert
- Cast Stephen Fry, Jude Law, Vanessa Redgrave, Jennifer Ehle, Gemma Jones, Judy Parfitt
- Genre Drama, History
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, Vudu, Amazon Video, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Tubi TV, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
Drowning by Numbers
An ironic black comedy of love and death that takes place an a lyrically beautiful landscape.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom, Netherlands • 1988
- Director Peter Greenaway
- Cast Joan Plowright, Juliet Stevenson, Joely Richardson, Bernard Hill, Jason Edwards, Bryan Pringle
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on Fandor Amazon Channel, FlixFling, Night Flight Plus, Midnight Pulp, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV
Yes
She is a scientist. He is a Lebanese doctor. They meet at a banquet and fall into a carefree, passionate relationship.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom, United States • 2005
- Director Sally Potter
- Cast Joan Allen, Simon Abkarian, Sam Neill, Shirley Henderson, Stephanie Leonidas, Sheila Hancock
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Cell 211
(Celda 211)
The story of two men on different sides of a prison riot -- the inmate leading the rebellion and the young guard trapped in the revolt, who poses as a prisoner in a desperate attempt to survive the ordeal.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Spain, France • 2009
- Director Daniel Monzón
- Cast Luis Tosar, Alberto Ammann, Antonio Resines, Carlos Bardem, Félix Cubero, Marta Etura
- Genre Action, Thriller, Drama
- Available on AMC+, AMC+ Amazon Channel, IFC Films Unlimited Apple TV Channel