Drama
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High Hopes (1989) NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
High Hopes
director: Mike Leigh actor: Phil Davis / Ruth Sheen …
other title: Belle speranze / Grandes Ambições …
Working-class couple Shirley and Cyril are in conflict over whether they should have children, their problems with 'yuppies' moving into the neighbourhood and outpricing them, and the advent of Cyril's ageing mother's seventieth birthday.
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The Warriors (1979) NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Warriors
director: Walter Hill actor: Michael Beck / James Remar …
other title: I guerrieri della notte / Krigerne …
Prominent gang leader Cyrus calls a meeting of New York's gangs to set aside their turf wars and take over the city. At the meeting, a rival leader kills Cyrus, but a Coney Island gang called the Warriors is wrongly blamed for Cyrus' death. Before you know it, the cops and every gangbanger in town is hot on the Warriors' trail.
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Miami Blues (1990) ReviewDB IMDb TMDB
Miami Blues
director: George Armitage actor: Alec Baldwin / Jennifer Jason Leigh …
other title: 迈阿密特别行动 / Balada de Miami …
After Junior is released from prison, he plans on starting a new life in Miami. But when he kills a man in the airport, he flees the scene and finds Susie, a mild-mannered prostitute searching for stability. The two opposites become romantically involved, and Junior steals a badge and gun from a veteran detective. Using the officer's identity, Junior embarks on a crime spree and convinces Susie that he is the perfect man.
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A Christmas Story (1983) TMDB
A Christmas Story
director: Bob Clark actor: Melinda Dillon / Darren McGavin …
other title: Una storia di Natale / En Julehistorie …
The comic mishaps and adventures of a young boy named Ralph, trying to convince his parents, teachers, and Santa that a Red Ryder B.B. gun really is the perfect Christmas gift for the 1940s.
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Stuntman (2024) TMDB IMDb
武替道
director: Herbert Leung / Albert Leung actor: Terrance Lau Chun-Him / Stephen Tung Wai …
other title: 武替道
A washed-up action choreographer, struggling to find his way in a changing industry, risks everything to stage an epic comeback, and attempts to repair the relationship with his estranged daughter before it's too late.
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A Separation (2011) IMDb WikiData NeoDB Douban TMDB
جدایی نادر از سیمین
8.7 (7 ratings) director: Asghar Farhadi actor: Leila Hatami / Payman Maadi …
other title: Nader and Simin, a Separation / Jodaeiye Nader az Simin …
A married couple are faced with a difficult decision - to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer’s disease.
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Eclipse (1977) TMDB IMDb
Eclipse
director: Simon Perry actor: Tom Conti / Gay Hamilton …
A bereaved brother is troubled by memories of his twin who died at sea. Having returned to his childhood home, a Christmas celebration with his brother’s widow and her son goes horribly awry, as dark secrets and sibling rivalries return to haunt them - before the past can be laid to rest.
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Kubo and the Two Strings (2016) TMDB IMDb NeoDB Douban WikiData
Kubo and the Two Strings
7.8 (6 ratings) director: Travis Knight actor: Art Parkinson / Charlize Theron …
other title: Kubo e la spada magica / Kubo - Den Modige Samurai …
Kubo mesmerizes the people in his village with his magical gift for spinning wild tales with origami. When he accidentally summons an evil spirit seeking vengeance, Kubo is forced to go on a quest to solve the mystery of his fallen samurai father and his mystical weaponry, as well as discover his own magical powers.
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Possession (1981) NeoDB TMDB Douban IMDb
Possession
7.5 (13 ratings) director: Andrzej Żuławski actor: Isabelle Adjani / Sam Neill …
other title: Possessão / La posesión
A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and bizarre incidents that indicate something more than a possessed love affair.
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Slings & Arrows (2003) WikiData TMDB IMDb
Slings & Arrows
director: Bob Martin / Susan Coyne … actor: Paul Gross / Stephen Ouimette …
other title: Slings and Arrows
This darkly comic Canadian series follows the fortunes of a dysfunctional Shakespearean theatre troupe at the fictional New Burbage Festival, exposing the high drama, scorching battles, and artistic miracles that happen behind the scenes.
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Dark Habits (1983) NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Entre tinieblas
director: Pedro Almodóvar actor: Cristina Sánchez Pascual / Will More …
other title: L'indiscreto fascino del peccato / Negros Hábitos …
After her drug pusher boyfriend overdoses on heroin, a cabaret singer finds refuge from the authorities in a convent for fallen women.
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Fail Safe (1964) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Fail Safe
director: Sidney Lumet actor: Henry Fonda / Walter Matthau …
other title: A prova di errore / Fejl-sikker …
Because of a technical defect an American bomber team mistakenly orders the destruction of Moscow. The President of the United States has but little time to prevent an atomic catastrophe from occurring.
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Ikiru (1952) NeoDB TMDB Douban IMDb Melon Log WikiData
生きる
7.4 (5 ratings) director: Akira Kurosawa actor: Takashi Shimura / Haruo Tanaka …
other title: Vivere / At leve …
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.
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Night and Fog in Japan (1960) NeoDB TMDB Douban WikiData IMDb
日本の夜と霧
director: Nagisa Ōshima actor: Miyuki Kuwano / Fumio Watanabe …
other title: Notte e nebbia in Giappone / Nacht und Nebel über Japan …
Long takes and a highly theatrical visual approach combine to form a tense and confrontational look at the decline of a socialist student activists' movement in Japan.
Nov. 22, 2025 to watch "A film about the failure of left-wing anti-imperialists. '16 years later, nothing much had changed,' to quote a more recent one on the same theme... Highly theatrical and innovative." 4/5
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Japan 1960s Drama
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New Wave (2025) NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
New Wave
5.8 (8 ratings) director: Richard Linklater actor: Guillaume Marbeck / Zoey Deutch …
other title: Nouvelle Vague
After writing for Cahiers du cinéma, young Godard decides making films is the best film criticism. He gets Beauregard to fund a low-budget feature, creating a treatment with Truffaut about a gangster couple.
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Come and See (1985) NeoDB Douban IMDb TMDB
Иди и смотри
8.4 (5 ratings) director: Elem Klimov actor: Aleksei Kravchenko / Olga Mironova …
other title: Va' e vedi / Gå og Se …
The invasion of a village in Byelorussia by German forces sends young Florya into the forest to join the weary Resistance fighters, against his family's wishes. There he meets a girl, Glasha, who accompanies him back to his village. On returning home, Florya finds his family and fellow peasants massacred. His continued survival amidst the brutal debris of war becomes increasingly nightmarish, a battle between despair and hope.
Nov. 19, 2025 watched
Wrenching tale of a boy during the Nazi invasion of the USSR and the horrors he witnesses. Based on tales of survivors brought to the screen by director Elem Klimov after a years-long battle with Soviet censors in his last film, and especially scary now that fascism is on the rise again.

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War Tragedy USSR 1980s Drama