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The Godfather Part II(1974)

FSK: 16+ years
| 3h 22min | Drama, Crime
4.3/5 (with 5,728 votes)

In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.

25th Hour(2002)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 15min | Crime, Drama
3.7/5 (with 1,027 votes)

In New York City in the days following the events of 9/11, Monty Brogan is a convicted drug dealer about to start a seven-year prison sentence, and his final hours of freedom are devoted to hanging out with his closest buddies and trying to prepare his girlfriend for his extended absence.

Aftersun(2022)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 36min | Drama
3.9/5 (with 469 votes)

Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories real and imagined fill the gaps between miniDV footage as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn't.

Directed by Charlotte Wells - With Paul Mescal, Celia Rowlson-Hall, Frankie Corio, Brooklyn Toulson

5 Centimeters Per Second(2007)

FSK: 0+ years
| 1h 3min | Animation, Drama, Kids & Family, Romance / Love
3.7/5 (with 864 votes)

Three moments in Takaki's life: his relationship with Akari and their forced separation; his friendship with Kanae, who is secretly in love with him; the demands and disappointments of adulthood, an unhappy life in a cold city.

Directed by Makoto Shinkai

2046(2004)

3.6/5 (with 398 votes)

Women enter and exit a science fiction author's life over the course of a few years after the author loses the woman he considers his one true love.

The Wiz(1978)

3.0/5 (with 113 votes)

Dorothy Gale, a shy kindergarten teacher, is swept away to the magic land of Oz where she embarks on a quest to return home.

My Blueberry Nights(2007)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 35min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.2/5 (with 333 votes)

Elizabeth has just been through a particularly nasty breakup, and now she's ready to leave her friends and memories behind as she chases her dreams across the country. In order to support herself on her journey, Elizabeth picks up a series of waitress jobs along the way. As Elizabeth crosses paths with a series of lost souls whose yearnings are even greater than her own, their emotional turmoil ultimately helps her gain a greater understanding of her own problems...

The Beekeeper(1987)

2h 2min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 23 votes)

Feeling himself an outsider in contemporary Greece, a schoolteacher Spyros leaves his job and family to return to his hometown, where he intends to take up the occupation of his ancestors as a beekeeper. Over the course of his road trip he visits the sites and friends of his childhood, hoping to gather the pollen of his past, but instead meets and becomes obsessed with a young hitchhiker who represents the empty hedonism of the present.

The Fire Within(1963)

1h 48min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 82 votes)

Although his alcoholism has been treated, Alain still feels he is deeply unwell and does not feel he can leave the detoxification clinic once and for all. His wife, living in New York, continues to pay for his treatment, but no longer contacts him directly. He intends to commit suicide, but first takes a ride to Paris to catch up with old friends.

Lonesome Jim(2005)

3.2/5 (with 33 votes)

After failing to find success as a writer in New York City, Jim slinks back to his family's home in the Midwest to lick his wounds. But his visit is quickly complicated when his angst spreads to his brother, Tim, who promptly decides to drive his car straight into a tree. Under the shadow of his sibling's injurious actions, Jim strikes up an unlikely friendship with Anika, whose centered small-town wisdom gradually rubs off on him.

The Death of Mr. Lazarescu(2005)

2h 30min | Comedy, Drama
3.6/5 (with 73 votes)

Mr. Lazarescu is a retired Romanian engineer, spending his time in the company of his cats and booze. When he starts feeling unusually ill, he first seeks painkillers from his neighbors. It soon becomes apparent that Lazarescu is indeed sick, and an ambulance arrives with a nurse who has a few ideas about what could be the problem. However, a major traffic accident and poor organization leaves little room in Romanian hospitals for the fading Lazarescu.

I Want You(1998)

3.0/5 (with 18 votes)

A young boy and his sister are drawn into one man's obsessive pursuit of his former lover.

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Mera Naam Joker(1970)

3h 44min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.8/5 (with 23 votes)

Raju faces many hurdles and disappointments in matters of the heart throughout his life. But as a clown in a circus, he tries to make his audience laugh at the cost of his own sorrows. Along the way, Raju loves and loses, but must always keep a smile on his face because, in the words of his circus manager, "The show must go on.".

Fireflies(2018)

1h 28min | Drama
2.9/5 (with 12 votes)

Ramin flees from persecution in Iran and ends up living in the limbo of exile, far from everything he knows, in the tropical port town of Veracruz, Mexico. There his nostalgia and melancholy are confronted with new friendships, while he starts to rediscover his own desires.

Directed by Bani Khoshnoudi - With Arash Marandi, Flor Edwarda Gurrola, Luis Alberti

Gorillaz: Reject False Icons(2019)

1h 35min | Documentary, Music
3.9/5 (with 25 votes)

Focused on the life of the band and their collaborators over the 3 vital years in which they developed critically acclaimed albums, 'Humanz' and 'The Now Now', and undertook their most ambitious world tour to date.

Ode to Nothing(2018)

1h 32min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 4 votes)

Sonya, an old maid is about to give up on herself until one day, she meets a corpse in her family's embalming business that changes her life.

You're Sleeping Nicole(2014)

1h 33min | Comedy, Drama
3.3/5 (with 19 votes)

Making the most of the family home while her parents are away, 22-year-old Nicole is enjoying a peaceful summer with her best friend Véronique. But when Nicole’s older brother shows up with his band to record an album, the girls’ friendship is put to the test.

Prom Night(2020)

1.8/5 (with 1 vote)

Three best friends ditch their high school prom dance. The night that follows unravels their hidden and suppressed desires which cast a glimpse of the emotional bewilderment of a whole generation.

Autumn Almanac(1984)

1h 59min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 15 votes)

In this dense setting, the inhabitants of a large, claustrophobic apartment reveal their darkest secrets, fears, obsessions and hostilities.

Spring Night, Summer Night(1967)

1h 22min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 14 votes)

Carl and Jessie are half siblings who feel trapped by the existential and economic pressures of living in the small mining town of Canaan, Ohio. Their shared rebellion soon takes on the form of an illicit love affair depicted in interwoven sequences of lusty poeticism and ethnographic vérité. When Jessie becomes pregnant, the tension between the couple’s youthful vitality and the dire realities of rural society leads to consequences both despairing and hopeful.

Ploy(2007)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 45min | Drama
3.1/5 (with 17 votes)

A husband and wife are locked inside a single hotel room with a stranger named Ploy. Subtle suspicions build up to jealousy as the young woman triggers devastating consequences for the couple.

My Prostitute Love(1968)

1h 29min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.9/5 (with 19 votes)

Halil goes to a club with his friends and meets Sabiha, a prostitute, and they fall in love. Two lovers want to escape their past and live together. However, Sabiha knows little about Halil's life, and she has to face some facts.

Directed by Omer Lutfi Akad - With Türkan Şoray

Giulia Doesn't Date at Night(2009)

1h 45min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.3/5 (with 16 votes)

Guido, an acclaimed author, leads an idyllic life with his beautiful wife and teenage daughter. But despite his seemingly perfect existence, Guido's restless search for inspiration leads him into the arms of Giulia, a charming and mysterious swim instructor, who is hiding a secret from her past.

Velvet(2018)

15min | Drama
2.8/5 (with 3 votes)

Ale and her best friend Rubén, witness the brief sighting of a comet. She hangs on to the moment.

The Godfather Saga(1977)

7h 14min | Drama, Crime
4.5/5 (with 1 vote)

The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather: Part II (1974) were re-edited together in chronological order with additional footage added.

Stories from the Chestnut Woods(2019)

1h 21min | Drama, Fantasy, History
2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

In the mid-20th century, in a forested valley between Italy and Yugoslavia, a stingy widower befriends a young woman and helps her depart across the ocean to find there a better life. A chance encounter gives rise to a dreamy parable on loss, loneliness and the power of imagination.

Directed by Gregor Božič

Saudade(2022)

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A Luz Crua da Realidade(2017)

11min | Drama
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

- No description / details available yet. -

Waking Up at 2 AM(2021)

2min | Drama

A camera test that gains a new meaning with context.

Then I Was Lost(2023)

1h 27min | Drama
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A feature-length road trip drama, set on the iconic London canals. We are narrated an unlikely story mixing reality with hints of British folklore. Vincent (Alex Scrivens) is a lone mechanic boater on the canals who’s grieving from the death of his wife. Nursing his wounds with alcohol. One morning he stumbles back to his boat only to find a girl, Samantha (Olivia Griffiths). She’s going up the canal to find her mum, so they travel together, slowly finding a common purpose.

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