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Ghostbusters: Afterlife(2021)

PG-13
| 2h 4min | Fantasy, Comedy, Adventure
3.7/5 (with 1,997 votes)

When a single mom and her two kids arrive in a small town, they begin to discover their connection to the original Ghostbusters and the secret legacy their grandfather left behind.

Parasite(2019)

R
| 2h 13min | Comedy, Thriller, Drama
4.3/5 (with 7,857 votes)

All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.

Directed by Bong Joon-ho - With Song Kang-ho, Lee Sun-kyun, Cho Yeo-jeong, Jang Hye-jin, Choi Woo-shik, Park So-dam, ...

City of God(2002)

2h 10min | Drama, Crime
4.2/5 (with 3,184 votes)

In the slums of Rio, two kids' paths diverge as one struggles to become a photographer and the other a kingpin.

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind(2019)

4.0/5 (with 699 votes)

Against all the odds, a thirteen year old boy in Malawi invents an unconventional way to save his family and village from famine.

Shoplifters(2018)

R
| 2h 1min | Drama, Kids & Family
3.9/5 (with 866 votes)

After one of their shoplifting sessions, Osamu and his son come across a little girl in the freezing cold. At first reluctant to shelter the girl, Osamu’s wife agrees to take care of her after learning of the hardships she faces. Although the family is poor, barely making enough money to survive through petty crime, they seem to live happily together until an unforeseen incident reveals hidden secrets, testing the bonds that unite them.

Capernaum(2018)

2h 6min | Drama
4.1/5 (with 716 votes)

Zain, a 12-year-old boy scrambling to survive on the streets of Beirut, sues his parents for having brought him into such an unjust world, where being a refugee with no documents means that your rights can easily be denied.

Directed by Nadine Labaki - With Nadine Labaki, Zain Al Rafeea, Yordanos Shiferaw

They Live(1988)

R
| 1h 34min | Science Fiction, Action
3.7/5 (with 1,265 votes)

Nada, a wanderer without meaning in his life, discovers a pair of sunglasses capable of showing the world the way it truly is. As he walks the streets of Los Angeles, Nada notices that both the media and the government are comprised of subliminal messages meant to keep the population subdued, and that most of the social elite are skull-faced aliens bent on world domination. With this shocking discovery, Nada fights to free humanity from the mind-controlling aliens.

Bicycle Thieves(1948)

1h 29min | Drama
4.1/5 (with 1,032 votes)

Unemployed Antonio is elated when he finally finds work hanging posters around war-torn Rome. However on his first day, his bicycle—essential to his work—gets stolen. His job is doomed unless he can find the thief. With the help of his son, Antonio combs the city, becoming desperate for justice.

Winter's Bone(2010)

R
| 1h 41min | Drama, Mystery
3.4/5 (with 769 votes)

After discovering her father put their house up for his bail bond and then disappeared, 17-year-old Ree Dolly must confront the local criminal underworld and the harsh Ozark wilderness in order to to track down her father and save her family.

Rob Roy(1995)

R
| 2h 19min | Adventure, History, Drama, Action, War
3.4/5 (with 265 votes)

In the highlands of Scotland in the 1700s, Rob Roy tries to lead his small town to a better future, by borrowing money from the local nobility to buy cattle to herd to market. When the money is stolen, Rob is forced into a Robin Hood lifestyle to defend his family and honour.

Black '47(2018)

R
| 1h 40min | Drama, Western
3.3/5 (with 128 votes)

In 1847, when Ireland is in the grip of the Great Famine that has ravaged the country for two long years, Feeney, a hardened Irish Ranger who has been fighting for the British Army abroad, returns home to reunite with his estranged family, only to discover the cruelest reality, a black land where death reigns.

High and Low(1963)

2h 22min | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
4.2/5 (with 359 votes)

A shoe company executive who has mortgaged everything he has becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped and is conflicted over whether he should pay the ransom.

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Queen of Katwe(2016)

PG
| 2h 4min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 188 votes)

A young girl overcomes her disadvantaged upbringing in the slums of Uganda to become a Chess master.

Directed by Mira Nair - With Lupita Nyong'o, David Oyelowo, Madina Nalwanga, Ntare Mwine, Maurice Kirya, Charity Rose Pimer, ...

Trash(2014)

R
| 1h 52min | Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.6/5 (with 273 votes)

Set in Brazil, three kids who make a discovery in a garbage dump soon find themselves running from the cops and trying to right a terrible wrong.

Happy as Lazzaro(2018)

2h 5min | Drama, Fantasy
3.7/5 (with 287 votes)

Purehearted teen Lazzaro is content living as a sharecropper in rural Italy, but an unlikely friendship with the marquise’s son will change his world.

Directed by Alice Rohrwacher - With Adriano Tardiolo, Nicoletta Braschi, Alba Rohrwacher, Sergi López, Tommaso Ragno, Luca Chikovani, ...

Dodes'ka-den(1970)

2h 20min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 52 votes)

This film follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the outskirts of Tokyo. Yet as desperate as their circumstances are, each of them—the homeless father and son envisioning their dream house; the young woman abused by her uncle; the boy who imagines himself a trolley conductor—finds reasons to carry on.

Frozen River(2008)

R
| 1h 37min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 130 votes)

Ray Eddy, an upstate New York trailer mom, is lured into the world of illegal immigrant smuggling. Broke after her husband takes off with the down payment for their new doublewide, Ray reluctantly teams up with Lila, a smuggler, and the two begin making runs across the frozen St. Lawrence River carrying illegal Chinese and Pakistani immigrants in the trunk of Ray's Dodge Spirit.

Insiang(1976)

1h 35min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 24 votes)

A story about the life of a young girl living with her mother in the slums of Manila, which becomes unbearable when her mother's young boyfriend moves in with them.

Directed by Lino Brocka - With Hilda Koronel

Maria Full of Grace(2004)

R
| 1h 41min | Drama, Thriller, Crime
3.6/5 (with 165 votes)

A pregnant Colombian teenager becomes a drug mule to make some desperately needed money for her family.

Directed by Joshua Marston - With Catalina Sandino Moreno, Yenny Paola Vega, Wilson Guerrero, John Alex Toro, Monique Gabriela Curnen, Selenis Leyva, ...

Hansel & Gretel(2002)

PG
| 1h 29min | Comedy, Kids & Family, Fantasy
2.8/5 (with 18 votes)

Hansel and Gretel is a 2002 film adaptation of the Brothers Grimm children's story. It stars Jacob Smith and Taylor Momsen as the eponymous characters. It includes the Sandman, played by Howie Mandel and Sinbad as a raven.

Abang Adik(2023)

1h 55min | Drama, Kids & Family

Abang and Adi are undocumented orphans living in present-day Malaysia. While the older brother, a deaf mute, has resigned himself to a life of poverty, his younger sibling burns with indignation. A brutal accident upsets the fragile balance of their relationship.

Directed by Jin Ong

Burden(2020)

R
| 2h 9min | Drama
3.1/5 (with 28 votes)

Ku Klux Klansman Mike Burden opens the Redneck Shop and KKK museum in historic Laurens, SC. He subsequently falls in love with a single mother and, under her influence, quits the Klan and is taken in by an African American Reverend.

Hansel and Gretel(1988)

3.7/5 (with 24 votes)

Hansel and Gretel tells the tale of two young children driven from home by their scolding mother. Losing their way in the dark forest they stumble upon the cottage of a kindly old woman. But is this kindly old woman everything she seems...?

Land Without Bread(1933)

29min | Documentary
3.6/5 (with 62 votes)

An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extremadura, Spain, as it was in 1932. Insalubrity, misery and lack of opportunities provoke the emigration of young people and the solitude of those who remain in the desolation of one of the poorest and least developed Spanish regions at that time. (Silent short, voiced in 1937 and 1996.)

Metro Manila(2013)

1h 51min | Crime, Thriller, Drama, Action
3.7/5 (with 69 votes)

Looking for a brighter future in metropolitan Manila, Oscar Ramirez and his family leave their miserable life in the rice terraces of Banaue, in the northern Philippines. In the sweltering capital, where all kind of perils lurk in every corner, Oscar catches a lucky break when he is offered a steady work for an armored truck company and the senior officer Ong takes him under his wing.

Directed by Sean Ellis - With John Arcilla, Leon Miguel

Ma' Rosa(2016)

1h 50min | Drama
3.2/5 (with 9 votes)

Ma’ Rosa has four children. She owns a small convenience store in a poor section of Manila where everybody knows her. To make ends meet, Rosa and her husband, Nestor, resell small amounts of narcotics on the side. One day, they get arrested. Rosa’s children are ready to do anything to buy their parents’ freedom from the corrupt police.

Directed by Brillante Mendoza - With Jaclyn Jose

My Dear Brother(1973)

1h 32min | Drama
4.2/5 (with 29 votes)

Two poor men try to find a television as a last wish for the terminally ill brother of one of them.

Directed by Ertem Eğilmez - With Tarık Akan, Halit Akçatepe, Metin Akpınar, Adile Naşit, Kemal Sunal, Sıtkı Akçatepe, ...

Intrepido: A Lonely Hero(2013)

1h 44min | Comedy, Drama
3.2/5 (with 36 votes)

Meek middle-aged man Antonio Pane takes on every conceivable temporary job in order to feel useful and keep his dignity—until something shakes his inexhaustible optimism.

The Hour of the Furnaces(1968)

4h 20min | Documentary
3.3/5 (with 10 votes)

An impassioned three-part documentary of the liberation struggle waged throughout Latin America, using Argentina as a historical example of the imperialist exploitation of the continent. Part I: Neo-Colonialism and Violence is a historical, geographic, and economic analysis of Argentina. Part II: An Act For Liberation examines the ten-year reign of Juan Perón (1945-55) and the activities of the Peronist movement after his fall from power. Part III: Violence and Liberation studies the role of violence in the national liberation process and constitutes a call for action.

Barrio(1998)

1h 34min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 19 votes)

Bored 15-year-old school chums Rai Manu and Javi dream of sexual adventures and exotic resorts while the well-off population of Madrid flock to the beaches on a summer holiday. The youths hang around the concrete wasteland killing time by reading the sex classifieds and pushing their luck. They masturbate, thieve, fight with their families and get involved in a drug bust. Finally Rai, the most daring and restless of the trio - gets shot while trying to steal stereo gear from a car. Each adolescent faces a dreary home life but when they get together they enjoy each other's company to the full. The film is an engaging mixture of comedy drama and the pathos of life in a Madrid neighborhood.

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