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The Green Mile(1999)

R
| 3h 9min | Fantasy, Drama, Crime
4.3/5 (with 8,075 votes)

A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses the mysterious power to heal people's ailments. When the cell block's head guard, Paul Edgecomb, recognizes Coffey's miraculous gift, he tries desperately to help stave off the condemned man's execution.

Pan's Labyrinth(2006)

1h 58min | Fantasy, Drama, War
3.9/5 (with 4,773 votes)

Living with her tyrannical stepfather in a new home with her pregnant mother, 10-year-old Ofelia feels alone until she explores a decaying labyrinth guarded by a mysterious faun who claims to know her destiny. If she wishes to return to her real father, Ofelia must complete three terrifying tasks.

The Shape of Water(2017)

R
| 2h 3min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 5,607 votes)

An other-worldly story, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962, where a mute janitor working at a lab falls in love with an amphibious man being held captive there and devises a plan to help him escape.

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)(2014)

R
| 2h | Drama, Comedy
3.7/5 (with 5,918 votes)

A fading actor best known for his portrayal of a popular superhero attempts to mount a comeback by appearing in a Broadway play. As opening night approaches, his attempts to become more altruistic, rebuild his career, and reconnect with friends and family prove more difficult than expected.

Cinema Paradiso(1988)

PG
| 2h 4min | Drama, Romance / Love
4.2/5 (with 1,845 votes)

A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.

Big(1988)

3.6/5 (with 1,557 votes)

When a young boy makes a wish at a carnival machine to be big—he wakes up the following morning to find that it has been granted and his body has grown older overnight. But he is still the same 13-year-old boy inside. Now he must learn how to cope with the unfamiliar world of grown-ups including getting a job and having his first romantic encounter with a woman.

Midnight in Paris(2011)

PG-13
| 1h 34min | Fantasy, Comedy, Romance / Love
3.8/5 (with 3,314 votes)

A romantic comedy about a family traveling to the French capital for business. The party includes a young engaged couple forced to confront the illusion that a life different from their own is better.

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.

Big Fish(2003)

2h 5min | Adventure, Fantasy, Drama
3.9/5 (with 3,224 votes)

Throughout his life Edward Bloom has always been a man of big appetites, enormous passions and tall tales. In his later years, he remains a huge mystery to his son, William. Now, to get to know the real man, Will begins piecing together a true picture of his father from flashbacks of his amazing adventures.

A Little Princess(1995)

G
| 1h 37min | Drama, Kids & Family, Fantasy
3.8/5 (with 433 votes)

When her father enlists to fight for the British in WWI, young Sara Crewe goes to New York to attend the same boarding school her late mother attended. She soon clashes with the severe headmistress, Miss Minchin, who attempts to stifle Sara's creativity and sense of self- worth.

Like Water for Chocolate(1992)

R
| 1h 45min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 198 votes)

Tita is passionately in love with Pedro, but her controlling mother forbids her from marrying him. When Pedro marries her sister, Tita throws herself into her cooking and discovers she can transfer her emotions through the food she prepares, infecting all who eat it with her intense heartbreak.

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou(2004)

R
| 1h 59min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
3.6/5 (with 1,233 votes)

Renowned oceanographer Steve Zissou has sworn vengeance upon the rare shark that devoured a member of his crew. In addition to his regular team, he is joined on his boat by Ned, a man who believes Zissou to be his father, and Jane, a journalist pregnant by a married man. They travel the sea, all too often running into pirates and, perhaps more traumatically, various figures from Zissou's past, including his estranged wife, Eleanor.

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Ruby Sparks(2012)

3.6/5 (with 707 votes)

Calvin is a young novelist who achieved phenomenal success early in his career but is now struggling with his writing – as well as his romantic life. Finally, he makes a breakthrough and creates a character named Ruby who inspires him. When Calvin finds Ruby, in the flesh, sitting on his couch about a week later, he is completely flabbergasted that his words have turned into a living, breathing person.

Petite Maman(2021)

PG
| 1h 12min | Drama, Fantasy, Kids & Family
3.6/5 (with 155 votes)

Nelly has just lost her grandmother and is helping her parents clean out her mother's childhood home. She explores the house and the surrounding woods. One day she meets a girl her same age building a treehouse.

Directed by Céline Sciamma - With Nina Meurisse, Margot Abascal, Stéphane Varupenne

Pleasantville(1998)

PG-13
| 2h 4min | Fantasy, Comedy, Drama
3.6/5 (with 730 votes)

Geeky teenager David and his popular twin sister, Jennifer, get sucked into the black-and-white world of a 1950s TV sitcom called "Pleasantville," and find a world where everything is peachy keen all the time. But when Jennifer's modern attitude disrupts Pleasantville's peaceful but boring routine, she literally brings color into its life.

Beasts of the Southern Wild(2012)

PG-13
| 1h 33min | Drama, Fantasy
3.4/5 (with 470 votes)

Hushpuppy, an intrepid six-year-old girl, lives with her father, Wink in 'the Bathtub', a southern Delta community at the edge of the world. Wink’s tough love prepares her for the unraveling of the universe—for a time when he’s no longer there to protect her. When Wink contracts a mysterious illness, nature flies out of whack—temperatures rise, and the ice caps melt, unleashing an army of prehistoric creatures called aurochs. With the waters rising, the aurochs coming, and Wink’s health fading, Hushpuppy goes in search of her lost mother.

Whale Rider(2003)

PG-13
| 1h 41min | Drama, Kids & Family
3.6/5 (with 162 votes)

On the east coast of New Zealand, the Whangara people believe their presence there dates back a thousand years or more to a single ancestor, Paikea, who escaped death when his canoe capsized by riding to shore on the back of a whale. From then on, Whangara chiefs, always the first-born, always male, have been considered Paikea's direct descendants. Pai, an 11-year-old girl in a patriarchal New Zealand tribe, believes she is destined to be the new chief. But her grandfather Koro is bound by tradition to pick a male leader. Pai loves Koro more than anyone in the world, but she must fight him and a thousand years of tradition to fulfill her destiny.

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.

The One I Love(2014)

R
| 1h 31min | Romance / Love, Comedy, Drama
3.5/5 (with 298 votes)

On the brink of separation, Ethan and Sophie escape to a beautiful vacation house for a weekend getaway in an attempt to save their marriage. What begins as a romantic and fun retreat soon becomes surreal, when an unexpected discovery forces the two to examine themselves, their relationship, and their future.

Toto the Hero(1991)

1h 31min | Drama, Comedy, Fantasy
3.6/5 (with 44 votes)

80-year-old Thomas recounts his childhood and middle age through a series of flashbacks and dream sequences. Thomas believes he’s been taken away from a better life at birth; following a hospital fire, he vividly recalls being swapped with another new-born, and subsequently grows up in a poorer neighbouring household.

The Science of Sleep(2006)

R
| 1h 45min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
3.6/5 (with 322 votes)

A man entranced by his dreams and imagination is lovestruck with a French woman and feels he can show her his world.

Miracle in Milan(1951)

1h 40min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
3.6/5 (with 90 votes)

Once upon a time an old woman discovers a baby in her cabbage patch. She brings up the child and, when she dies, the boy, Toto, enters an orphanage. Toto leaves the orphanage a happy young man, and looks for work in post-war Milan. He ends up with the homeless and organizes them to build a shanty town in a vacant lot. The squatters discover oil in the land and Toto sees a vision of the old woman who gives him a magic dove that will grant him anything he wishes.

Lawn Dogs(1997)

R
| 1h 41min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 40 votes)

In the affluent, gated community of Camelot Gardens, bored wives indiscriminately sleep around while their unwitting husbands try desperately to climb the social ladder. Trent, a 21-year-old outsider who mows the neighborhood lawns, quietly observes the infidelities and hypocrisies of this overly privileged society. When Devon, a 10-year-old daughter from one family, forges a friendship with Trent, things suddenly get very complicated.

Undertow(2009)

1h 40min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.7/5 (with 55 votes)

A married fisherman struggles to reconcile his devotion to his male lover within his town's rigid traditions.

Directed by Javier Fuentes-León - With Manolo Cardona, Cristian Mercado, Tatiana Astengo, Haydeé Cáceres, Emilram Cossío, Cindy Díaz, ...

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...

Electrick Children(2012)

R
| 1h 36min | Drama
3.2/5 (with 52 votes)

Rachel is a rambunctious girl from a polygamist colony in southern Utah. On Rachel’s 15th birthday, she finds a forbidden cassette tape. Having never seen anything like it before, Rachel plays the cassette tape, and finds glorious rock & roll thereupon. Weeks later, Rachel realizes a miracle has occurred - and the cassette tape must have something to do with it. She leaves her family and runs away to the closest city: Las Vegas. There she searches for the singer of the band on the cassette tape.

Directed by Rebecca Thomas - With Julia Garner

The Future(2011)

R
| 1h 31min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance / Love
3.0/5 (with 42 votes)

When a couple decides to adopt a stray cat their perspective on life changes radically, literally altering the course of time and space and testing their faith in each other and themselves.

The Taste of Tea(2004)

2h 23min | Comedy, Drama
3.7/5 (with 56 votes)

A spell of time in the life of a family in rural Tochigi prefecture. Yoshiko is not an ordinary housewife, instead working on an animated film project. Uncle Ayano is looking to get his head together after living in Tokyo. Meanwhile, Sachiko is concerned with why she seems to be followed by a giant version of herself.

Lovers of the Arctic Circle(1998)

R
| 1h 52min | Drama, Mystery, Romance / Love
3.7/5 (with 106 votes)

Otto and Ana are kids when they meet each other. Their names are palindromes. They meet by chance, people are related by chance. A story of circular lives, with circular names, and a circular place (Círculo polar) where the day never ends in the midnight sun. There are things that never end, and Love is one of them.

The Nasty Girl(1990)

1h 32min | Comedy, Drama
3.2/5 (with 13 votes)

When a young woman investigates her town's Nazi past, the community turns against her.

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