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Barbie(2023)

PG-13
| 1h 54min | Comedy, Adventure, Fantasy
3.6/5 (with 2,985 votes)

Barbie and Ken are having the time of their lives in the colorful and seemingly perfect world of Barbie Land. However, when they get a chance to go to the real world, they soon discover the joys and perils of living among humans.

X(2022)

R
| 1h 45min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
3.4/5 (with 905 votes)

In 1979, a group of young filmmakers set out to make an adult film in rural Texas, but when their reclusive, elderly hosts catch them in the act, the cast find themselves fighting for their lives. Hilarity ensues.

Drive(2011)

R
| 1h 40min | Drama, Thriller, Crime
3.8/5 (with 5,915 votes)

Driver is a skilled Hollywood stuntman who moonlights as a getaway driver for criminals. Though he projects an icy exterior, lately he's been warming up to a pretty neighbor named Irene and her young son, Benicio. When Irene's husband gets out of jail, he enlists Driver's help in a million-dollar heist. The job goes horribly wrong, and Driver must risk his life to protect Irene and Benicio from the vengeful masterminds behind the robbery.

Beau Is Afraid(2023)

R
| 3h 6min | Comedy, Adventure, Fantasy
3.4/5 (with 378 votes)

A paranoid man embarks on an epic odyssey to get home to his mother.

Groundhog Day(1993)

PG
| 1h 41min | Romance / Love, Fantasy, Drama, Comedy
3.8/5 (with 3,678 votes)

A narcissistic TV weatherman, along with his attractive-but-distant producer, and his mawkish cameraman, is sent to report on Groundhog Day in the small town of Punxsutawney, where he finds himself repeating the same day over and over.

Stalker(1979)

NR
| 2h 42min | Science Fiction, Drama
4.1/5 (with 874 votes)

Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the normal laws of physics are victim to frequent anomalies. A stalker guides two men into the Zone, specifically to an area in which deep-seated desires are granted.

The Thirteenth Floor(1999)

3.5/5 (with 544 votes)

Los Angeles. A wealthy man, known as Mr. Fuller, discovers a shocking secret about the world he lives in. Fearing for his life, he leaves a desperate message for a friend of his in the most unexpected place.

Never Let Me Go(2010)

3.5/5 (with 1,003 votes)

As children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy spend their childhood at an idyllic and secluded English boarding school. As they grow into adults, they must come to terms with the complexity and strength of their love for one another while also preparing for the haunting reality awaiting them.

I'm Thinking of Ending Things(2020)

R
| 2h 15min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 805 votes)

Nothing is as it seems when a woman experiencing misgivings about her new boyfriend joins him on a road trip to meet his parents at their remote farm.

Sorcerer(1977)

PG
| 2h 2min | Adventure, Thriller
3.7/5 (with 200 votes)

Four men from different parts of the globe, all hiding from their pasts in the same remote South American town, agree to risk their lives transporting several cases of dynamite (which is so old that it is dripping unstable nitroglycerin) across dangerous jungle terrain.

BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths(2022)

R
| 2h 54min | Comedy, Drama
3.6/5 (with 71 votes)

A renowned Mexican journalist and documentary filmmaker living in Los Angeles, after being named the recipient of a prestigious international award, is compelled to return to his native country, unaware that this simple trip will push him to an existential limit.

Louder Than Bombs(2015)

R
| 1h 49min | Drama
3.2/5 (with 139 votes)

Three years after his wife, acclaimed photographer Isabelle Reed, dies in a car crash, Gene keeps everyday life going with his shy teenage son, Conrad. A planned exhibition of Isabelle’s photographs prompts Gene's older son, Jonah, to return to the house he grew up in - and for the first time in a very long time, the father and the two brothers are living under the same roof.

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Synecdoche, New York(2008)

R
| 2h 4min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 598 votes)

A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play.

Anomalisa(2015)

3.6/5 (with 758 votes)

An inspirational speaker becomes reinvigorated after meeting a lively woman who shakes up his mundane existence.

I ♥ Huckabees(2004)

R
| 1h 46min | Comedy, Romance / Love
3.1/5 (with 270 votes)

A husband-and-wife team play detective, but not in the traditional sense. Instead, the happy duo helps others solve their existential issues, the kind that keep you up at night, wondering what it all means.

Rotting in the Sun(2023)

NR
| 1h 49min | Comedy, Mystery
3.6/5 (with 15 votes)

A filmmaker facing an existential crisis goes on a vacation to a Mexican gay nudist beach, where he meets a social media celebrity who convinces him to collaborate with him on his new TV show. But one disappears and another embarks on a wild journey through Mexico City to find him.

Directed by Sebastián Silva - With Jordan Firstman, Catalina Saavedra, Sebastián Silva

Light Sleeper(1992)

R
| 1h 43min | Drama, Crime
3.3/5 (with 52 votes)

A drug dealer with upscale clientele is having moral problems going about his daily deliveries. A reformed addict, he has never gotten over the wife that left him, and the couple that use him for deliveries worry about his mental well-being and his effectiveness at his job. Meanwhile someone is killing women in apparently drug-related incidents.

On the Silver Globe(1988)

3.9/5 (with 48 votes)

A small group of cosmic explorers, including a woman, leaves Earth to start a new civilization. They do not realize that within themselves they carry the end of their own dream. They die one by one, while their children revert to a primitive native culture, creating new myths and a new god.

Full Moon in Paris(1984)

1h 40min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 42 votes)

Louise is dissatisfied with her mundane life in a bleak Parisian new-town. She rents a pied-à-terre in the city so she can experience independence.

Damnation(1988)

1h 56min | Drama, Crime
3.8/5 (with 48 votes)

Karrer plods his way through life in quiet desperation. His environment is drab and rainy and muddy. Eaten up with solitude, his hopelessness would be incurable but for the existence of the Titanik Bar and its beautiful, haunting singer. But the lady is married and Karrer is determined to keep her husband away...

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead(1991)

PG
| 1h 57min | Comedy, Drama
3.5/5 (with 124 votes)

Two minor characters from the play "Hamlet" stumble around unaware of their scripted lives and unable to deviate from them.

The Man Who Sleeps(1974)

1h 17min | Drama
3.9/5 (with 48 votes)

A young student decides to have no more interaction with the world than is needed to minimally sustain life. His increasingly automaton-like behavior is coupled with a strange clarity of insight about the world around him.

The Death King(1990)

1h 20min | Horror, Drama
3.3/5 (with 33 votes)

Seven episodes, each taking place on a different day of the week, on the theme of suicide and violent death.

Directed by Jörg Buttgereit - With Hermann Kopp, Jörg Buttgereit, Michael Krause, Hermann Kopp, Jacques Palminger

Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 2(2014)

3.9/5 (with 34 votes)

Step back into the imaginative and frankly terrifying world of Becky & Joe with Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared. In this episode: Some things change over Time.

Out of Nature(2014)

1h 20min | Comedy, Drama
3.2/5 (with 13 votes)

Out of Nature is a journey inside Martins head. A family father in his 30s living in a small town of Norway. He feels alienated in his own life and longs to get away. Away from his job, away from his family, into the woods, up to the mountains. While spending a weekend alone on a hiking trip, he is forced to confront the way he lives his life. Out of Nature is an original, funny and tender film about how to take part in your own life as a husband, father and son.

Directed by Ole Giæver - With Ole Giæver

The Rye Horn(2023)

1h 45min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 2 votes)

Illa de Arousa, 1971. Maria is a woman who earns her living by seafood. She is also known on the island for helping other women in childbirth with special dedication and care. After an unexpected event, she is forced to flee and begins a dangerous journey that will make her fight for her survival. Seeking her freedom, Maria decides to cross the border by one of the smuggling routes between Galicia and Portugal.

Directed by Jaione Camborda - With Janet Novás

I Can No Longer Hear the Guitar(1991)

1h 38min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 9 votes)

For those who were young, living under the delusions of love and soft drugs in Paris, May 1968 - even if the guitar is still playing, they can't hear it any longer.

The Tragedy of Man(2011)

2h 40min | Animation, Drama, History
3.8/5 (with 7 votes)

Jankovics's adaptation of the eponymous play is divided into multiple parts, and depicts the creation and fall of Man throughout history.

Directed by Marcell Jankovics

Belle(1973)

1h 36min | Drama
3.1/5 (with 7 votes)

A married, middle-aged professor meets a mysterious woman in the woods and has an affair with her.

Desistfilm(1954)

7min | Drama
2.7/5 (with 17 votes)

Four young men and a young woman sit in boredom. She smokes while one strums a lute, one looks at a magazine, and two fiddle with string. The door opens and in comes a young man, cigarette between his lips, a swagger on his face. The young woman laughs. As the four young men continue disconnected activities, the other two become a couple. When the four realize something has changed, first they stare at the couple who have kissed and now are dancing slowly. The four run from the house in a kind of frenzy and return to stare. The power of sex has unnerved them.

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