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Collateral Beauty(2016)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 37min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 2,545 votes)

Retreating from life after a tragedy, a man questions the universe by writing to Love, Time and Death. Receiving unexpected answers, he begins to see how these things interlock and how even loss can reveal moments of meaning and beauty.

127 Hours(2010)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 34min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 3,458 votes)

The true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston's remarkable adventure to save himself after a fallen boulder crashes on his arm and traps him in an isolated canyon in Utah.

Downfall(2004)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 36min | Drama, History, War
3.9/5 (with 1,696 votes)

In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking from the west. In Berlin, capital of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler proclaims that Germany will still achieve victory and orders his generals and advisers to fight to the last man. When the end finally does come, and Hitler lies dead by his own hand, what is left of his military must find a way to end the killing that is the Battle of Berlin, and lay down their arms in surrender.

Lilya 4-ever(2002)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 49min | Crime, Drama
3.8/5 (with 236 votes)

Lilja lives in poverty and dreams of a better life. Her mother moves to the United States and abandons her to her aunt, who neglects her. Lilja hangs out with her friends, Natasha and Volodya, who is suicidal. Desperate for money, she starts working as a prostitute, and later meets Andrei. He offers her a good job in Sweden, but when Lilja arrives her life quickly enters a downward spiral.

Hope Floats(1998)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 54min | Romance / Love, Drama, Comedy
3.2/5 (with 183 votes)

Birdee Pruitt has been humiliated on live television by her best friend, Connie, who's been sleeping with Birdee's husband, Bill. Birdee tries starting over with her daughter, Bernice, by returning to her small Texas hometown, but she's faced with petty old acquaintances who are thrilled to see Birdee unhappy -- except for her friend Justin. As he helps Birdee get back on her feet, love begins to blossom.

NiNoKuni(2019)

3.3/5 (with 106 votes)

Adapted from the video game series of the same name, NiNoKuni follows high school peers Yuu and Haru who must travel between two separate yet parallel worlds to help save their childhood friend, Kotona, whose life is in danger. In this magical quest complicated by love, the three teens will be tasked with making the ultimate choice.

Directed by Yoshiyuki Momose

Dead Man Walking(1995)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 2min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 572 votes)

A death row inmate turns for spiritual guidance to a local nun in the days leading up to his scheduled execution for the murders of a young couple.

Threads(1984)

3.8/5 (with 112 votes)

Documentary style account of a nuclear holocaust and its effect on the working class city of Sheffield, England; and the eventual long run effects of nuclear war on civilization.

A Mighty Heart(2007)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 40min | Drama, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 139 votes)

Based on Mariane Pearl's account of the terrifying and unforgettable story of her husband, Wall Street Journal reporter Danny Pearl's life and death.

Street of Shame(1956)

1h 27min | Drama
3.9/5 (with 52 votes)

The personal tales of various sex workers who occupy a Japanese brothel.

Clip(2012)

FSK: 18+ years
| 1h 40min | Drama
2.7/5 (with 53 votes)

Jasna, a beautiful teenager, leads a crude life in post-war Serbia. She goes on a spree of sex, drugs and partying until she finds love and tenderness in a harsh environment.

Cassandra's Dream(2007)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 48min | Crime, Drama
3.1/5 (with 337 votes)

The tale of two brothers with serious financial woes. When a third party proposes they turn to crime, things go bad and the two become enemies.

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Kolya(1996)

1h 45min | Music, Drama, Comedy
3.7/5 (with 68 votes)

After a fictitious marriage with a Russian emigrant, Cellisten Louka, a Czech man, must suddenly take responsibility for her son. However, it’s not long before the communication barrier is broken between the two new family members.

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.

The Life of Oharu(1952)

2h 16min | Drama
4.0/5 (with 73 votes)

Follows a woman's fight and survival amid the vicissitudes of life and the cruelty of the society.

Umberto D.(1952)

1h 31min | Drama
3.9/5 (with 288 votes)

When elderly pensioner Umberto Domenico Ferrari returns to his boarding house from a protest calling for a hike in old-age pensions, his landlady demands her 15,000-lire rent by the end of the month or he and his small dog will be turned out onto the street. Unable to get the money in time, Umberto fakes illness to get sent to a hospital, giving his beloved dog to the landlady's pregnant and abandoned maid for temporary safekeeping.

Directed by Vittorio De Sica - With Carlo Battisti, Maria Pia Casilio, Lina Gennari, Memmo Carotenuto, Lamberto Maggiorani, Riccardo Ferri, ...

The Assassination of Richard Nixon(2004)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 35min | Drama, History, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 122 votes)

It’s 1974 and Sam Bicke has lost everything. His wife leaves him with his three kids, his boss fires him, his brother turns away from him, and the bank won’t give him any money to start anew. He tries to find someone to blame for his misfortunes and comes up with the President of the United States who he plans to murder.

Lights in the Dusk(2006)

1h 18min | Crime, Drama
3.3/5 (with 49 votes)

Koistinen is a sad sack, a man without affect or friends. He's a night-watchman in Helsinki with ideas of starting his own business, but nothing to go with those intentions. He sometimes talks a bit with a woman who runs a snack trailer near his work. Out of the blue, a young sophisticated blonde woman attaches herself to Koistinen. He thinks of her as his girlfriend, he takes her on her rounds.

The House of Mirth(2000)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 20min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.3/5 (with 31 votes)

A woman risks losing her chance of happiness with the only man she has ever loved.

Ghosts(2005)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 25min | Drama
3.2/5 (with 11 votes)

Nina, an end-of-teenage orphan with mental problems, starts a new job as a garden cleaner when she meets Toni. They fell in love with each other, but soon Toni starts betraying Nina. In the meantime, Francoise is picked up at a psychic department of a Berlin hospital by her husband, Pierre. After seeing Nina, Francoise believes that she has found her kidnapped daughter Marie, but neither Toni nor Pierre believe her. Nina is unsure about what to think...

The Iceman Cometh(1973)

3h 59min | Drama
3.1/5 (with 12 votes)

Set in 1912, inside a dive bar named The Last Chance Saloon, its destitute patrons eagerly await the arrival of Hickey, who arrives annually and props everyone up with free drinks and spirited stories of his travels. However, when Hickey does show up this year, it is with a message of temperance and an exhortation to give up hopeless dreams and face reality.

Shakedown(1950)

1h 20min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 8 votes)

Jack Early is a photographer who will stop at nothing to climb his way to the very top of the success ladder. On the strength of his sheer tenacity, he gets a job with a major newspaper, and it's not long before he's made a name for himself by charming a notorious crime boss, Nick Palmer, into allowing himself to be photographed. Palmer takes him under his wing, but Early decides to bite the hand that feeds him and sets Palmer and another crime boss, Colton, against one another.

The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne(1987)

1h 56min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.3/5 (with 11 votes)

A penniless middle-aged spinster scrapes by giving piano lessons in the Dublin of the 1950s. She makes a sad last bid for love with a fellow resident of her rundown boarding house, who imagines she has the money to bankroll the business he hopes to open.

Man Push Cart(2006)

1h 27min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 16 votes)

Every night while the city sleeps, Ahmad, a former Pakistani rock star turned immigrant, drags his heavy cart along the streets of New York. And every morning, he sells coffee and donuts to a city he cannot call his own. One day, however, the pattern of this harsh existence is broken by a glimmer of hope for a better life.

Directed by Ramin Bahrani

Toy Gun(2018)

1h 30min | Comedy, Action, Crime
2.8/5 (with 3 votes)

Ruggero, a meek young man, impulsively robs a bank to prove to his ex-wife that he is courageous and masculine. A police investigation engulfs everyone except our unassuming hero who is completely ignored. Through a set of hilarious coincidences, he gets away with the robbery, while corrupt bank officials take the fall for what looks like an inside job.

Inside(2006)

1h 39min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
2.2/5 (with 8 votes)

Alex has a disturbing hobby of following strangers...until one night he gets caught. Instead of calling the police, the couple--fascinated by Alex's resemblance to their dead son--asks him to stay, and Alex finds himself trapped in a horrifying existence of desperation, despair, and insanity.

Berlin is in Germany(2001)

1h 37min | Comedy, Drama
2.7/5 (with 6 votes)

When Martin, a former GDR citizen, is released from jail, he lately becomes confronted with the consequences of the German re-unification.

Despair(2010)

4min | Drama
3.1/5 (with 8 votes)

After a phone call ends in despair, a young woman faces a fatal decision.

Desperate Characters(1971)

1h 37min | Drama
2.4/5 (with 2 votes)

Sophie and Otto Bentwood are a middle-aged, middle class, childless Brooklyn Heights couple trapped in a loveless marriage. He is an attorney, she a translator of books. Their existence is affected not only by their disintegrating relationship but by the threats of urban crime and vandalism that surround them everywhere they turn, leaving them feeling paranoid, scared, and desperately helpless.

Directed by Frank D. Gilroy - With Shirley MacLaine, Kenneth Mars, Carol Kane, Michael Higgins, Robert Bauer, Michael D. Higgins, ...

Black Tar Heroin: The Dark End of the Street(2000)

1h 15min | Documentary
3.4/5 (with 11 votes)

The film follows a simple structure, and shows the drug-related degradation of five youths (Jake, Tracey, Jessica, Alice, Oreo) during the course of three years. The film depicts drug-related crimes and diseases: prostitution, male prostitution, AIDS, and lethal overdoses.

Directed by Steven Okazaki
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