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The Decalogue
(Dekalog)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Poland, West Germany • 1989
• Creator Krzysztof Kieślowski
• Cast Artur Barciś
• Genre Drama
• Available on Sling TV

A mini-series based on the Ten Commandments set in 1980s Poland.

 

Three Colors: Red
(Trois couleurs : Rouge)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Switzerland, France, Poland • 1994
• Director Krzysztof Kieślowski
• Cast Irène Jacob, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean-Pierre Lorit, Frédérique Feder
• Genre Drama, Mystery, Romance
• Available on iTunes, Amazon, Criterion, HBO Max

Valentine is outraged that an ex-judge in her neighborhood taps phone calls, but their debates lead to a strange bond.

 

Lawrence of Arabia

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• United Kingdom • 1962
• Director David Lean
• Cast Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins
• Genre Adventure, Drama, History, War
• Available on Redbox, IMDb TV, VUDU, Google Play, YouTube, AMC, DIRECTV, FandangoNOW, iTunes, Amazon, FuboTV

A Mighty Motion Picture Of Action And Adventure!

 

Fanny & Alexander
(Fanny och Alexander)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Sweden, France, West Germany • 1982
• Director Ingmar Bergman
• Cast Bertil Guve, Pernilla Allwin, Allan Edwall, Ewa Fröling
• Genre Fantasy, Drama, Mystery
• Available on Kanopy, Amazon, DIRECTV, Criterion, HBO Max, iTunes

In the wake of their father's death, siblings Fanny and Alexander must adjust to their new life and new home.

 

The Conformist
(Il conformista)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Italy, France, West Germany • 1970
• Director Bernardo Bertolucci
• Cast Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli, Gastone Moschin, Dominique Sanda
• Genre Drama
• Available on Google Play, IndieFlix, Mubi, Amazon, VUDU, Kanopy, YouTube

A facist is ordered to assassinate his former professor, a political dissident exiled in Paris.

 

The Leopard
(Il gattopardo)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Italy, France • 1963
• Director Luchino Visconti
• Cast Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, Claudia Cardinale, Paolo Stoppa
• Genre Drama
• Available on iTunes, FandangoNOW, Amazon, DIRECTV, VUDU, Google Play, YouTube

Luchino Visconti's enduring romantic adventure, set amidst the social changes of Italian unification.

 

Au Hasard Balthazar
(Au hasard Balthazar)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• France, Sweden • 1966
• Director Robert Bresson
• Cast Anne Wiazemsky, Walter Green, François Lafarge, Jean-Claude Guilbert
• Genre Drama
• Available on iTunes, Kanopy, Criterion, Amazon

The donkey Balthazar lives through many owners, kind and cruel, in the French countryside.

 

Journey to Italy
(Viaggio in Italia)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Italy, France • 1954
• Director Roberto Rossellini
• Cast Ingrid Bergman, George Sanders, Jackie Frost, Maria Mauban
• Genre Drama, Romance
• Available on HBO Max, iTunes, Amazon, Kanopy, Criterion

A bored English couple must face the cracks in their marriage on a trip to Italy.

 

Shoah

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• France, United Kingdom • 1985
• Director Claude Lanzmann
• Cast Simon Srebnik, Michael Podchlebnik, Motke Zaidl, Claude Lanzmann
• Genre Documentary, History
• Available on No streaming locations found.

Claude Lanzmann's Holocaust documentary reveals the horrors of the Nazi genocide and exposes the persistence of anti-Semitism in Europe.

 

Army of Shadows
(L'Armée des ombres)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• France, Italy • 1969
• Director Jean-Pierre Melville
• Cast Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Simone Signoret
• Genre War, Drama
• Available on iTunes, YouTube, Google Play, VUDU, Amazon

Betrayal. Loyalty. Collaboration. Resistance.

 

Seven Samurai
(七人の侍)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Japan • 1954
• Director Akira Kurosawa
• Cast Toshirō Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Yoshio Inaba, Seiji Miyaguchi
• Genre Action, Drama
• Available on Amazon, HBO Max, iTunes, VUDU, Google Play, YouTube, Criterion

The Mighty Warriors Who Became the Seven National Heroes of a Small Town

 

Metropolis

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Germany • 1927
• Director Fritz Lang
• Cast Gustav Fröhlich, Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, Rudolf Klein-Rogge
• Genre Drama, Science Fiction
• Available on Fandor, Kanopy, FlixFling, Criterion, FandangoNOW, Mubi, Amazon, The Roku Channel, YouTube, Hoopla, iTunes, Google Play

There can be no understanding between the hands and the brain unless the heart acts as mediator.

 

Pan's Labyrinth
(El laberinto del fauno)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Spain, Mexico, USA • 2006
• Director Guillermo del Toro
• Cast Ivana Baquero, Maribel Verdú, Sergi López, Doug Jones
• Genre Fantasy, Drama, War
• Available on DIRECTV, VUDU, Google Play, YouTube, AMC, FandangoNOW, iTunes, Amazon, Netflix, Redbox

What happens when make-believe believes it's real?

 

Pépé le Moko

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• France • 1937
• Director Julien Duvivier
• Cast Jean Gabin, Mireille Balin, Gabriel Gabrio, Lucas Gridoux
• Genre Crime, Romance, Drama
• Available on Criterion, iTunes, HBO Max

A wanted criminal risks his safety for love while hiding out in Algiers.

 

The Third Man

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• United Kingdom • 1949
• Director Carol Reed
• Cast Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard
• Genre Thriller, Mystery
• Available on YouTube, IndieFlix, FandangoNOW, VUDU, Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, AMC, Redbox

Hunted by men ... Sought by WOMEN!

 

Rififi
(Du rififi chez les hommes)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• France • 1955
• Director Jules Dassin
• Cast Jean Servais, Carl Möhner, Robert Manuel, Jules Dassin
• Genre Drama, Action, Crime
• Available on No streaming locations found.

After four jewel thieves execute a perfect heist, they learn the hard part is getting away with it.

 

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
(4 luni, 3 săptămîni și 2 zile)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Romania, Belgium • 2007
• Director Cristian Mungiu
• Cast Anamaria Marinca, Laura Vasiliu, Vlad Ivanov, Alexandru Potocean
• Genre Drama
• Available on VUDU, Amazon, Criterion, iTunes

At what moment do we begin to live?

 

My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Ireland, United Kingdom • 1989
• Director Jim Sheridan
• Cast Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker, Alison Whelan, Declan Croghan
• Genre Drama
• Available on Google Play, DIRECTV, HBO GO, HBO Max, iTunes, YouTube, VUDU, Amazon, Hoopla

A film about life, laughter, and the occasional miracle.

 

Dragon Inn
(龍門客棧)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Taiwan, Hong Kong • 1967
• Director King Hu
• Cast Shih Chun, Pai Ying, Polly Shang-Kuan Ling-Feng, Miao Tien
• Genre Action, Adventure
• Available on iTunes, Google Play, YouTube, Realeyz, Criterion

A eunuch's murderous plans are confounded by rebels who are intent on protecting the innocent.

 

Le Petit Soldat
(Le petit soldat)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• France • 1963
• Director Jean-Luc Godard
• Cast Michel Subor, Anna Karina, Henri-Jacques Huet, Paul Beauvais
• Genre Drama, War
• Available on Criterion

Split between love and his country, Bruno, a French deserter during the Algerian war, is forced to prove his loyalty.

 

Spirited Away
(千と千尋の神隠し)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Japan • 2001
• Director Hayao Miyazaki
• Cast Rumi Hiiragi, Miyu Irino, Mari Natsuki, Bunta Sugawara
• Genre Animation, Family, Fantasy
• Available on VUDU, Amazon, iTunes, Google Play, YouTube, HBO Max

A ten-year-old girl must save her parents from hostile spirits.

 

Ran
(乱)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Japan, France • 1985
• Director Akira Kurosawa
• Cast Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu, Daisuke Ryû
• Genre Action, Drama, History
• Available on Google Play, YouTube, VUDU, DIRECTV, Redbox, Amazon, iTunes

The Greatest Shakespeare Film

 

Roma

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Mexico, USA • 2018
• Director Alfonso Cuarón
• Cast Yalitza Aparicio, Marina de Tavira, Diego Cortina Autrey, Carlos Peralta
• Genre Drama
• Available on Netflix

A meditative portrait of a domestic worker's journey through adversity in turbulent 1970s Mexico City.

 

A Hard Day's Night

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• United Kingdom • 1964
• Director Richard Lester
• Cast John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr
• Genre Comedy, Music
• Available on iTunes, Google Play, Kanopy, YouTube, Criterion, Amazon, DIRECTV, HBO Max, FuboTV, VUDU

The Beatles, starring in their first full-length, hilarious, action-packed film!

 

Days of Being Wild
(阿飛正傳)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Hong Kong • 1990
• Director Wong Kar-wai
• Cast Andy Lau, Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Jacky Cheung
• Genre Crime, Drama, Romance
• Available on No streaming locations found.

A young heartbreaker struggles with commitment while searching for his biological mother's identity.

 

Gravity

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• United Kingdom, USA • 2013
• Director Alfonso Cuarón
• Cast Sandra Bullock, George Clooney, Ed Harris, Orto Ignatiussen
• Genre Science Fiction, Thriller, Drama
• Available on iTunes, VUDU, AMC, FandangoNOW, FuboTV, Google Play, YouTube, Amazon, DIRECTV, IndieFlix, Redbox

No one will hear you, nothing will hold you down...

 

Virunga

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• United Kingdom, Congo • 2014
• Director Orlando von Einsiedel
• Cast André Bauma, Emmanuel de Merode, Mélanie Gouby, Rodrigue Mugaruka Katembo
• Genre Documentary, War
• Available on Netflix

Conservation is war.

 

A Separation
(جدایی نادر از سیمین)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Iran, France • 2011
• Director Asghar Farhadi
• Cast Leila Hatami, Payman Maadi, Shahab Hosseini, Sareh Bayat
• Genre Drama
• Available on VUDU, Amazon, Criterion, DIRECTV, iTunes, YouTube, Google Play, FandangoNOW

Ugly truth, sweet lies.

 

I Am Not Your Negro

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Switzerland, France, Belgium • 2017
• Director Raoul Peck
• Cast Samuel L. Jackson, James Baldwin, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King
• Genre Documentary
• Available on Amazon, FlixFling, FandangoNOW, Tubi, iTunes, Kanopy, Netflix, The Roku Channel, VUDU, YouTube, DIRECTV, Magnolia Selects, Google Play, Redbox, Hulu, Hoopla

A study of race in America then and now, inspired by James Baldwin's unpublished writings.

 

The Battle of Algiers
(La battaglia di Algeri)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Algeria, Italy • 1966
• Director Gillo Pontecorvo
• Cast Brahim Hadjadj, Jean Martin, Yacef Saadi, Ugo Paletti
• Genre Drama, War, History
• Available on Amazon, Kanopy, YouTube, Google Play, Criterion, iTunes, HBO Max

The revolt that stirred the world!

 

Carol

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• United Kingdom, USA • 2015
• Director Todd Haynes
• Cast Rooney Mara, Cate Blanchett, Kyle Chandler, Sarah Paulson
• Genre Romance, Drama
• Available on AMC, Hoopla, Tubi, Amazon, DIRECTV, Redbox, FandangoNOW, iTunes, FlixFling, VUDU

Some people change your life forever.

 

L'Argent

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• France, Switzerland • 1983
• Director Robert Bresson
• Cast Christian Patey, Vincent Risterucci, Sylvie Van den Elsen, Michel Briguet
• Genre Crime, Drama, Thriller
• Available on VUDU, Criterion, Amazon, HBO Max

One man's crime is another man's pitfall.

 

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• New Zealand, USA • 2003
• Director Peter Jackson
• Cast Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin
• Genre Adventure, Fantasy, Action
• Available on iTunes, VUDU, Amazon, DIRECTV, Redbox, FandangoNOW, YouTube, Google Play, AMC, HBO Max

As dark forces threaten, a king re-forms a broken fellowship and a quest is undergone.

 

Amour

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Austria, France, Germany • 2012
• Director Michael Haneke
• Cast Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert, William Shimell
• Genre Drama, Romance
• Available on No streaming locations found.

Love never ends.

 

Faces Places
(Visages, villages)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• France • 2017
• Director Agnès Varda, JR
• Cast Agnès Varda, JR
• Genre Documentary
• Available on Microsoft Movies & TV, YouTube, Google Play, iTunes, Amazon, Kanopy

A creative odd-couple takes an extraordinary road trip.

 

Elevator to the Gallows
(Ascenseur pour l'échafaud)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• France • 1958
• Director Louis Malle
• Cast Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly, Yori Bertin
• Genre Crime, Drama, Thriller
• Available on DIRECTV, iTunes, Criterion, Amazon, HBO Max, FuboTV, TCM

Frantic for life and love - frantic for excitement

 

Carlos / Le prix du Chacal

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• France, Germany • 2010
• Director Daniel LeConte
• Cast Alexander Scheer, Nora von Waldstätten
• Genre Drama, Crime, War & Politics, Reality
• Available on Google Play, Amazon, YouTube, Criterion, iTunes

The man who hijacked the world.

 

Dunkirk

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• United Kingdom, Netherlands, France • 2017
• Director Christopher Nolan
• Cast Fionn Whitehead, Tom Glynn-Carney, Aneurin Barnard, Jack Lowden
• Genre War, Action, Drama
• Available on Google Play, AMC, Redbox, VUDU, iTunes, FandangoNOW, YouTube, Amazon, DIRECTV

Hope is a weapon, survival is a victory.

 

Maborosi
(幻の光)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Japan • 1995
• Director Hirokazu Kore-eda
• Cast 江角真纪子, Takashi Naitō, Tadanobu Asano, Gohki Kashiyama
• Genre Drama
• Available on No streaming locations found.

Years after her husband died Yumiko has remarried and all but moved on, still searching for whether or not he truly committed suicide.

 

45 Years

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• United Kingdom • 2015
• Director Andrew Haigh
• Cast Charlotte Rampling, Tom Courtenay, Geraldine James, Dolly Wells
• Genre Drama, Romance
• Available on VUDU, Criterion, iTunes, FandangoNOW, Redbox, Google Play, YouTube, Amazon

How well do we know those we love?

 

Mr. Turner

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• United Kingdom, France, Germany • 2014
• Director Mike Leigh
• Cast Timothy Spall, Dorothy Atkinson, Marion Bailey, Paul Jesson
• Genre History, Drama
• Available on YouTube, AMC, Redbox, FandangoNOW, iTunes, Google Play, Amazon, DIRECTV, VUDU

A singular Romantic painter discovers a new life and love.

 

Call Me by Your Name

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Italy, France, Brazil • 2017
• Director Luca Guadagnino
• Cast Timothée Chalamet, Armie Hammer, Michael Stuhlbarg, Amira Casar
• Genre Romance, Drama
• Available on Amazon, YouTube, AMC, DIRECTV, Redbox, VUDU, iTunes, Google Play, FandangoNOW

Is it better to speak or die?

 

La Dolce Vita
(La dolce vita)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Italy, France • 1960
• Director Federico Fellini
• Cast Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Anouk Aimée, Yvonne Furneaux
• Genre Comedy, Drama
• Available on No streaming locations found.

The world's most talked about movie today!

 

Shoah: Four Sisters
(Les quatre soeurs)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• France • 2018
• Director Claude Lanzmann
• Cast
• Genre Documentary
• Available on No streaming locations found.

 

Yi Yi
(一一)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Taiwan, Japan • 2000
• Director Edward Yang
• Cast Wu Nien-Jen, Elaine Jin, Issei Ogata, Kelly Lee
• Genre Drama, Romance
• Available on Criterion

Each member of a family in Taipei asks hard questions about life's meaning as they live through everyday quandaries.

 

Shoplifters
(万引き家族)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Japan • 2018
• Director Hirokazu Kore-eda
• Cast Lily Franky, Sakura Ando, Mayu Matsuoka, Jyo Kairi
• Genre Drama, Crime
• Available on Hoopla, FandangoNOW, iTunes, YouTube, DIRECTV, FlixFling, Redbox, Hulu, VUDU, Google Play, Amazon

Sometimes it's better to choose your own family.

 

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• United Kingdom • 1975
• Director Terry Jones
• Cast Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle
• Genre Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
• Available on Google Play, YouTube, Netflix, Amazon, FuboTV

A wacky take on the adventures of the legendary King Arthur.

 

They Shall Not Grow Old

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• United Kingdom, New Zealand • 2018
• Director Peter Jackson
• Cast
• Genre Documentary, History, War
• Available on Google Play, DIRECTV, FandangoNOW, Amazon, iTunes, AMC, YouTube, VUDU, HBO GO, HBO Max, Redbox

Wars aren't fought by countries or armies, they're fought by human beings.

 

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
(Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• France • 1972
• Director Luis Buñuel
• Cast Fernando Rey, Delphine Seyrig, Paul Frankeur, Bulle Ogier
• Genre Comedy
• Available on Google Play, YouTube, Amazon, Criterion

An upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.

 

The Servant

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• United Kingdom • 1963
• Director Joseph Losey
• Cast Dirk Bogarde, James Fox, Sarah Miles, Wendy Craig
• Genre Drama
• Available on Google Play, YouTube, VUDU, Amazon

The servant becomes the master.

 

Sherpa

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Australia, Nepal • 2015
• Director Jennifer Peedom
• Cast
• Genre Documentary
• Available on Google Play, YouTube, iTunes, Amazon

Some live to climb. They climb to live.

 

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
(卧虎藏龙)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Taiwan, Hong Kong, USA • 2000
• Director Ang Lee
• Cast Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi, Chang Chen
• Genre Adventure, Drama, Action, Romance
• Available on VUDU, iTunes, Amazon, Google Play, DIRECTV, YouTube, AMC, FlixFling, Redbox, FandangoNOW

In another time, in a distant place... an epic adventure is about to unfold.