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Avatar(2009)

PG-13
| 2h 42min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Science Fiction
3.8/5 (with 15,012 votes)

In the 22nd century, a paraplegic Marine is dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission, but becomes torn between following orders and protecting an alien civilization.

The Way of the Dragon(1972)

R
| 1h 40min | Action, Crime
3.7/5 (with 471 votes)

Tang Lung arrives in Rome to help his cousins in the restaurant business. They are being pressured to sell their property to the syndicate, who will stop at nothing to get what they want. When Tang arrives he poses a new threat to the syndicate, and they are unable to defeat him. The syndicate boss hires the best Japanese and European martial artists to fight Tang, but he easily finishes them off.

Directed by Bruce Lee - With Nora Miao, Chuck Norris, Hwang In-shik, Robert Wall, Paul Wei Ping-ao, Bruce Lee, ...

Dances with Wolves(1990)

PG-13
| 3h 1min | Adventure, Drama, Western
3.9/5 (with 1,830 votes)

Wounded Civil War soldier, John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to his dream post, a remote junction on the Western frontier, and soon makes unlikely friends with the local Sioux tribe.

The Dictator(2012)

R
| 1h 23min | Comedy
3.1/5 (with 2,663 votes)

The heroic story of a dictator who risks his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed.

Lost in Translation(2003)

R
| 1h 42min | Drama, Romance / Love, Comedy
3.7/5 (with 3,223 votes)

Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial -- find an odd solace and pensive freedom to be real in each other's company, away from their lives in America.

What a Girl Wants(2003)

3.1/5 (with 760 votes)

An American girl, Daphne, heads to Europe in search of the father she's never met. But instead of finding a British version of her bohemian mother, she learns the love of her mom's life is an uptight politician. The only problem now is that her long-lost dad is engaged to a fiercely territorial social climber with a daughter who makes Daphne's life miserable.

Crocodile Dundee(1986)

PG-13
| 1h 37min | Adventure, Comedy
3.2/5 (with 810 votes)

When a New York reporter plucks crocodile hunter Dundee from the Australian Outback for a visit to the Big Apple, it's a clash of cultures and a recipe for good-natured comedy as naïve Dundee negotiates the concrete jungle. Dundee proves that his instincts are quite useful in the city and adeptly handles everything from wily muggers to high-society snoots without breaking a sweat.

Fools Rush In(1997)

PG-13
| 1h 49min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
3.2/5 (with 231 votes)

After a one night stand with Alex, Isabel realizes that she is pregnant and they decide to get married. However, along with the marriage comes compromise of one's own cultural traditions.

The Beautician and the Beast(1997)

PG
| 1h 45min | Comedy, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 153 votes)

The story follows the misadventures of a New York City beautician who is mistakenly hired as the school teacher for the children of the president of a small Eastern European country.

The Piano(1993)

R
| 1h 56min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.7/5 (with 632 votes)

After a long voyage from Scotland, pianist Ada McGrath and her young daughter, Flora, are left with all their belongings, including a piano, on a New Zealand beach. Ada, who has been mute since childhood, has been sold into marriage to a local man named Alisdair Stewart. Making little attempt to warm up to Alisdair, Ada soon becomes intrigued by his Maori-friendly acquaintance, George Baines, leading to tense, life-altering conflicts.

Subway(1985)

1h 44min | Action, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 183 votes)

Fred, a raffish safe blower, takes refuge in the Paris Metro after being chased by the henchmen of a shady businessman from whom he has just stolen some documents. While hiding out in the back rooms and conduits of the Metro, Fred encounters a subterranean society of eccentric characters and petty criminals.

Turistas(2006)

R
| 1h 33min | Horror, Thriller
2.7/5 (with 360 votes)

A group of young backpackers' vacation turns sour when a bus accident leaves them marooned in a remote Brazilian rural area that holds an ominous secret.

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Bend It Like Beckham(2002)

PG-13
| 1h 52min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
3.2/5 (with 835 votes)

Jess Bhamra, the daughter of a strict Indian couple in London, is not permitted to play organized soccer, even though she is 18. When Jess is playing for fun one day, her impressive skills are seen by Jules Paxton, who then convinces Jess to play for her semi-pro team. Jess uses elaborate excuses to hide her matches from her family while also dealing with her romantic feelings for her coach, Joe.

A Hard Day's Night(1964)

G
| 1h 28min | Music, Comedy
3.7/5 (with 304 votes)

Capturing John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr in their electrifying element, 'A Hard Day's Night' is a wildly irreverent journey through this pastiche of a day in the life of The Beatles during 1964. The band have to use all their guile and wit to avoid the pursuing fans and press to reach their scheduled television performance, in spite of Paul's troublemaking grandfather and Ringo's arrest.

Brother(2000)

R
| 1h 54min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.6/5 (with 179 votes)

A Japanese Yakuza gangster’s deadly existence in his homeland gets him exiled to Los Angeles, where he is taken in by his little brother and his brother’s gang.

La Cage aux Folles(1978)

R
| 1h 32min | Comedy
3.4/5 (with 169 votes)

Two gay men living in St. Tropez have their lives turned upside down when the son of one of the men announces he is getting married. They try to conceal their lifestyle and their ownership of the transvestite club downstairs when the fiancée and her parents come for dinner.

The Cabbage Soup(1981)

3.2/5 (with 372 votes)

Two buddy farmers are visited by aliens who like their domestic cabbage soup.

American Factory(2019)

1h 50min | Documentary
3.6/5 (with 195 votes)

In post-industrial Ohio, a Chinese billionaire opens a new factory in the husk of an abandoned General Motors plant, hiring two thousand blue-collar Americans. Early days of hope and optimism give way to setbacks as high-tech China clashes with working-class America.

Directed by Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert - With Cao Dewang

Gung Ho(1986)

PG-13
| 1h 51min | Comedy, Drama
3.1/5 (with 82 votes)

When a western Pennsylvania auto plant is acquired by a Japanese company, brokering auto worker Hunt Stevenson faces the tricky challenge of mediating the assimilation of two clashing corporate cultures. At one end is the Japanese plant manager and the sycophant who is angling for his position. At the other, a number of disgruntled long-time union members struggle with the new exigencies of Japanese quality control.

2 Days in Paris(2007)

R
| 1h 36min | Comedy, Romance / Love
3.1/5 (with 162 votes)

Marion and Jack try to rekindle their relationship with a visit to Paris, home of Marion's parents — and several of her ex-boyfriends.

Hideous Kinky(1998)

R
| 1h 38min | Romance / Love, Drama
3.1/5 (with 38 votes)

In 1972, disenchanted about the dreary conventions of English life, 25-year-old Julia heads for Morocco with her daughters, six-year-old Lucy and precocious eight-year-old Bea.

Flodder(1986)

1h 51min | Comedy
3.2/5 (with 60 votes)

A low-class antisocial family ends up in a rich upper-class neighborhood and causes all sorts of trouble.

The Infidel(2010)

1h 45min | Comedy, Drama
3.1/5 (with 50 votes)

Based in a London suburb Mahmud Nasir lives with his wife, Saamiya, and two children, Rashid and Nabi. His son plans to marry Uzma, the step-daughter of Egyptian-born Arshad Al-Masri, a so-called 'Hate Cleric' from Waziristan, Pakistan. Mahmud, who is not exactly a devout Muslim, he drinks alcohol, and does not pray five times, but does agree that he will appease Arshad, without whose approval the marriage cannot take place. Shortly thereafter Mahmud, while going over his recently deceased mother's documents, will find out that he was adopted, his birth parents were Jewish, and his name is actually Solly Shimshillewitz.

Directed by Josh Appignanesi - With Omid Djalili

Love Meetings(1965)

1h 32min | Documentary
4.1/5 (with 116 votes)

Microphone in hand, Pier Paolo Pasolini asks Italians to talk about sex, apparently their least favorite subject: he asks children if they know where do babies come from, asks old and young women about gender equality, and asks both genders if a woman's virginity still matters, how do they view homosexuals, if sex and honor are related, if divorce should be legal, if they support the recent abolition of brothels, etc. He interviews workers, intellectuals, students, rural farmers, the bourgeoisie, and other different people, painting a vivid portrait of Italy in the years of the Economic Boom, suspended between modernity and tradition.

Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Vincenzo Cerami - With Camilla Cederna, Lello Bersani, Alberto Moravia, Oriana Fallaci, Adele Cambria, Cesare Musatti, ...

Mondo Cane(1962)

1h 45min | Documentary
3.2/5 (with 32 votes)

A documentary consisting of a series of travelogue vignettes providing glimpses into cultural practices throughout the world intended to shock or surprise, including an insect banquet and a memorable look at a practicing South Pacific cargo cult.

East Is East(1999)

R
| 1h 37min | Drama, Comedy
3.3/5 (with 89 votes)

In 1971 Salford fish-and-chip shop owner George Khan expects his family to follow his strict Pakistani Muslim ways. But his children, with an English mother and having been born and brought up in Britain, increasingly see themselves as British and start to reject their father's rules on dress, food, religion, and living in general.

Directed by Damien O'Donnell - With Om Puri, Linda Bassett, Jordan Routledge, Archie Panjabi, Chris Bisson, Jimi Mistry, ...

Kiss Me Before It Blows Up(2020)

2.8/5 (with 13 votes)

A subversive love story between clashing cultures and families, KISS ME BEFORE IT BLOWS UP is a romantic misadventure crossing all borders. When two generations of Israeli women fall for a German woman and an Palestinian man, chaos follows. What happens with lovers who don't fit but do belong together?

Pushing Hands(1991)

1h 45min | Comedy, Drama
3.5/5 (with 24 votes)

Mr. Chu is an elderly widower who teaches tai chi chuan in Beijing. He moves to America to live with his son's family, but finds the cultural adjustment difficult. Since his daughter-in-law is a white woman who does not speak Chinese, Mr. Chu's son, Alex, must mediate.

Directed by Ang Lee - With Sihung Lung

Family Commitments(2015)

3.4/5 (with 4 votes)

The happy gay couple David and Khaled would love to marry publicly - if there weren't Khaled's homophobic father Faisal, David's pseudo orthodox Jewish acting mother Lea and a possible paternity and gallery insolvency.

Home is where your heart is(2017)

1h 50min | Romance / Love, Drama
2.4/5 (with 5 votes)

Axel is Dutch Surinamese, but after 20 years of living in the Netherlands he has become 100% Dutch. He has married a Dutch girl, Victoria, and has never been back. When his free-spirited mother Gladys summons the family to her guesthouse in Surinam for Christmas and an important announcement, Axel, his wife and her sister Mirna reluctantly make the journey. They have barely arrived when the situation gets completely out of hand, with his brother Virgil winding him up and his daughter Wonnie, who is doing an internship in Paramaribo, admitting that she is pregnant...

Directed by Marc Waltman
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