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Me Before You(2016)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 50min | Drama, Romance / Love
4.0/5 (with 5,448 votes)

A small town girl is caught between dead-end jobs. A high-profile, successful man becomes wheelchair bound following an accident. The man decides his life is not worth living until the girl is hired for six months to be his new caretaker. Worlds apart and trapped together by circumstance, the two get off to a rocky start. But the girl becomes determined to prove to the man that life is worth living and as they embark on a series of adventures together, each finds their world changing in ways neither of them could begin to imagine.

Directed by Thea Sharrock - With Emilia Clarke, Sam Claflin, Jenna Coleman, Matthew Lewis, Steve Peacocke, Charles Dance, ...
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The Shining(1980)

FSK: 16+ years
| 2h 24min | Horror, Thriller
4.1/5 (with 7,965 votes)

Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.

Directed by Stanley Kubrick - With Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers, Barry Nelson, Philip Stone, ...
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I Confess(1953)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 35min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.6/5 (with 170 votes)

Unable, due to the seal of the confessional, to be forthcoming with information that would serve to clear himself during a murder investigation, a priest becomes the prime suspect.

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock - With Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter, Karl Malden, Brian Aherne, O. E. Hasse, Dolly Haas, ...

Sleep Tight(2011)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 37min | Thriller, Horror
3.5/5 (with 452 votes)

César, an unhappy concierge, maintains a peculiar relationship with the very diverse inhabitants of the upper-class apartment building where he works in Barcelona.

Directed by Jaume Balagueró - With Luis Tosar, Marta Etura, Alberto San Juan, Petra Martínez, Carlos Lasarte, Manel Dueso i Almirall, ...
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Poetry(2010)

2h 19min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 126 votes)

Grandmother Mi Ja works part-time as a caretaker, and struggles to raise a teen grandson by herself. Despite her tough situation, she speaks softly, dresses fashionably, and approaches the world with child-like curiosity. Enrolling in a poetry class, she endeavors to capture life in verse form, but her simple dream of completing a poem is stalled by the early signs of Alzheimer's disease and the heavy financial and emotional burden of her grandson's shocking wrongdoing.

Directed by Lee Chang-dong - With Yoon Jeong-hee, Kim Yong-taik

Burnt Offerings(1976)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 56min | Horror, Thriller, Mystery
3.3/5 (with 98 votes)

A couple and their 12-year-old son move into a giant house for the summer. Things start acting strange almost immediately. It seems that every time someone gets hurt on the grounds, the beat-up house seems to repair itself.

Directed by Dan Curtis - With Karen Black, Oliver Reed, Burgess Meredith, Eileen Heckart, Lee Montgomery, Bette Davis, ...

Subspecies(1991)

1h 23min | Horror, Fantasy
2.7/5 (with 42 votes)

Three students get caught in the struggle between a good vampire and his evil brother in the Transylvanian mountains.

Directed by Ted Nicolaou - With Angus Scrimm, Anders Hove, Irina Movilă, Michelle McBride, Adrian Vîlcu, Ion Besoiu, ...

Darby O'Gill and the Little People(1959)

1h 33min | Adventure, Kids & Family, Fantasy, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 61 votes)

A wily old codger matches wits with the King of the Leprechauns and helps play matchmaker for his daughter and the strapping lad who has replaced him as caretaker.

Directed by Robert Stevenson - With Albert Sharpe, Janet Munro, Sean Connery, Jimmy O'Dea, Estelle Winwood, Kieron Moore, ...

El Portero(1950)

1h 53min | Comedy
3.8/5 (with 18 votes)

Cantinflas works as a porter, who writes letters and speeches in his old writing machine to earn an extra money, despite the fact that he still goes to school. The sentimental issues come when Cantinflas falls in love of his pretty neighborhood (Silvia Pinal), who is handicapped and unable to walk. The thing wont be easy, because a young military man also has feelings for the girl. But the porter wants to see her happy, and he will become a sort of Cyrano De Bergerac, writing love letters to her signed by the young soldier. His plan is simple: to win money in the horse races in order to pay the operation which will make her walk again.

Directed by Miguel M. Delgado - With Cantinflas, Silvia Pinal, Carlos Martínez Baena, Óscar Pulido, Fernando Casanova, José Baviera, ...

Reaper(2014)

1h 30min | Science Fiction, Crime, Horror
2.9/5 (with 27 votes)

Criminals and a beautiful but cunning hitchhiker must battle a supernatural force known as the Reaper.

Directed by Wen-Han Shih - With Danny Trejo

Snowmen(2010)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 25min | Comedy, Drama, Kids & Family
3.1/5 (with 15 votes)

Three young friends find adventure and purpose in their attempts to set a Guinness World Record. Set in a wintry mountain town, the unpopular trio pursues fame through a series of schemes and stunts that eventually imperil their own lives. Along the way, they conquer schoolyard bullies, unite their community and discover that while fame is fleeting, true friendship lasts forever.

Directed by Robert Kirbyson - With Bobby Coleman, Josh Flitter, Ray Liotta, Beverley Mitchell, Bobb'e J. Thompson, Christopher Lloyd, ...
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Losing Chase(1996)

1h 38min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.0/5 (with 11 votes)

An intimate and turbulent relationship develops between Chase, a woman recovering from a nervous breakdown and Elizabeth, the caretaker employed to look after her.

Directed by Kevin Bacon - With Helen Mirren, Kyra Sedgwick, Beau Bridges
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Where’s Poppa?(1970)

1h 22min | Comedy
3.2/5 (with 16 votes)

When New York attorney Gordon Hocheiser meets Louise Callan, the girl of his dreams, he schemes to eliminate his aging, senile mother, even though he promised his late father that he'd always take care of her. He fears that his batty mom's eccentricities will shortly lead to Louise's departure.

Directed by Carl Reiner - With George Segal, Ruth Gordon, Ron Leibman, Trish Van Devere, Vincent Gardenia, Tom Atkins, ...

Natholi Oru Cheriya Meenalla(2013)

1h 58min | Drama
2.9/5 (with 5 votes)

Preman (Fahad fazil)is the caretaker of a flat at Cochin. Everyone in the flat calls him 'Natholi'. He faces some unfortunate events in the flat and begins to write a story with the same characters in his real life and plays with their lives in his story. The film revolves around the story of the conflict between Preman and the character he creates. He has lost his control over the character he creates and the movie plots ahead with the interaction between them.

Directed by V. K. Prakash - With Fahadh Faasil, Kamalinee Mukherjee, Rima Kallingal, P. Balachandran, Shanta Meena Bhaskar

My Wonderful Wanda(2021)

FSK: 0+ years
| 1h 50min | Comedy, Drama
3.0/5 (with 4 votes)

The Polish woman Wanda, 35, looks after Joseph, 70, in his family villa by the lake. She is there for him around the clock and also helps his wife Elsa, 75. The youngest son Gregi, 28, likes her very much. The work is poorly paid, but Wanda needs the money for her own family in Poland. Since everyone lives under one roof, Wanda gets an intimate view of their family life. So intimate that Wanda unexpectedly becomes pregnant.

Directed by Bettina Oberli - With Agnieszka Grochowska
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The Spider Woman Strikes Back(1946)

59min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 5 votes)

A young girl goes to work as a live-in caretaker for a spooky old woman. She doesn't know that every night, the woman drains some blood from her to feed her strange plant.

Directed by Arthur Lubin - With Gale Sondergaard, Brenda Joyce, Milburn Stone, Hobart Cavanaugh, Guy Wilkerson, Kirby Grant, ...

Jennifer(1953)

1h 13min | Thriller, Mystery
3.0/5 (with 4 votes)

A young woman is hired to take care of an eerie old mansion, where she finds herself entangled with an enigmatic murderer.

Directed by Joel Newton - With Ida Lupino, Howard Duff

The Emeryville Experiments(2016)

1h 23min | Horror, Thriller
1.8/5 (with 10 votes)

When their car crashes, 4 college kids seek help in Emeryville - a dilapidated village. New comers discover that place was once a ground for clinical experiments gone awry and plot an escape. They find themselves hunted by crazies.

The Suffering(2016)

1h 44min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
2.6/5 (with 9 votes)

A man fights for his sanity when he finds himself trapped on a rural farm inhabited by sinister beings overseen by a mysterious caretaker.

The Manual(2017)

29min | Science Fiction
2.8/5 (with 9 votes)

In a dystopian future, the last human is raised by a machine. He struggles with the loneliness of no human interaction and questions the teachings of a mysterious religious 'Manual' which the machine claims is holy.

Dignity Keeper(2022)

9min | Drama

When mobile nurse Esma finds one of her patients dead, the strictly timed schedule of her day is thrown off balance. Between professional ethics and family obligations, she is faced with a difficult decision.

Where Evil Lives(1991)

1h 32min | Horror
1.7/5 (with 2 votes)

A gripping tale of horror, murder, and revenge unfolds as Jack Devlin (Claude Akins in his final screen appearance), caretaker of the Spencer House State, reveals an unforgettable history of zombies, vampires, and witches to a prospective buyer. The chilling stories grow more horrifying and even Jack's visitor is stunned by the final fate at this house where evil lives.

Trans-Siberian Orchestra: The Ghosts of Christmas Eve(1999)

46min | Fantasy, TV Movie, Music, Kids & Family
4.5/5 (with 3 votes)

Enchanting holiday tale of a young runaway who has broken into an old movie palace, looking for shelter on a snow-filled Christmas Eve. Closed for decades, the building is filled with countless discarded artifacts from the past. The girl is discovered by the old caretaker, who uses the ghosts and spirits that inhabit this long-abandoned world to turn her life around.

Directed by Hart Perry

Kinka(2021)

15min | Drama

Two strangers, Doroty, a domestic employee from Central America aged around 45, and Mari, an elderly woman who is hard of hearing, are forced to spend the lockdown together to prevent the spread of coronavirus.

Daisy Belle(2018)

11min | Fantasy, Science Fiction
3.7/5 (with 2 votes)

A robot named "Oono" cares for his owner while mysterious creatures lurk in the strange world outside.

Directed by William Wall

Alice Cares(2015)

1h 20min | Documentary

In order to meet future care demands for elderly who are lonely and suffering from dementia, carebot Alice has been developed. Can a robot build a human relationship with someone and thus replace a person of flesh and blood? The three women, all getting on in years, who are visited by her in Alice Cares actually become pretty fond of the robot girl. Carebot Alice leaves the laboratory to visit Mrs. Remkes, Mrs. Schellekens-Blanke and Mrs. van Wittmarschen, each in their own house. The three women are getting on in age and are therefore exceptionally suited for the services of Alice, who has been developed by SELEMCA. This is a research group which tries to discover, with the help of community nurses and family, how 'sociobot' Alice should talk and react to stem the effects of loneliness on older women. The outcome of the experiment is surprising for all involved.

Directed by Sander Burger