Drama
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A Separation (2011)
جدایی نادر از سیمین
★ 8.9 10 ratings
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)
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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)
Kubo and the Two Strings
★ 7.9 14 ratings
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)
Possession
★ 8.0 27 ratings
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)
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Bob Martin / Susan Coyne … actor: Paul Gross / Seán Cullen …
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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Night and Fog in Japan (1960)
日本の夜と霧
★ 7.6 5 ratings
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.
To watch Nov. 22, 2025
"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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Come and See (1985)
Иди и смотри
★ 8.4 11 ratings
Elem Germanovich Klimov actor: Aleksei Kravchenko / 奥尔加·米罗诺娃 …
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.
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Nov. 19, 2025
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