Recommendations with above 7 on IMDb and 70% on Rotten Tomatoes, and the streaming services that have them.
Dir. David Cronenberg
As a woman, it’s risky enough to trust a male gynecologist, but to have him seduce, manipulate, and experiment on…
Dir. Andy Tennant
Stitching the Cinderella plot with the French Renaissance and modern day sensibilities, Ever After isn’t exactly committed to historical accuracy…
Dir. James Marsh
Man on Wire is a true technical masterpiece. You can almost feel the director telling the cameraman what angle to…
Dir. James Ivory
In this romantic drama, James Ivory adapts E.M. Forster’s novel Maurice. Set in the early 20th century, Maurice Hall befriends…
I Am Not Your Negro director Raoul Peck examines the history of colonisation in this four-part miniseries, interweaving his own…
Dir. Nobuhiko Obayashi
Visiting a relative can feel strange, because especially when the loved one you share is gone, the visit will inevitably…
Dir. Robin Hardy
The Wicker Man follows Seargant Neil Howie (Edward Woodward) as he investigates the mysterious disapperance of a girl in a…
Dir. Molly Gordon & Nick Lieberman
You don’t have to be a theater kid to enjoy this feel-good mockumentary set in a summer camp for junior…
Dir. Boots Riley
In the year of the Netflix TV Show Maniac, another absurdist title stole critics’ hearts. Sorry to Bother You is…
Dir. Sam Raimi
A Simple Plan, directed by Sam Raimi (The Evil Dead, Spider-Man) is a psychological thriller that follows two brothers and…
Dir. Ari Aster
You may have heard about this 2019 critic-favorite from clips like this one of a kid running to flee the…
Dir. Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris
Calvin Weir-Fields (Paul Dano), a young and promising novelist imagines and writes about his idea of a perfect female companion. Somehow,…
Dir. Lasse Hallström
The Cider House Rules is the 1999 adaptation of John Irving’s best-selling novel, about a young man named Homer Wells…
Dir. Frank Oz & Jim Henson
The Dark Crystal is a fantasy film that follows Jen (Stephen Garlick), who is tasked to save his people by…
Dir. Christopher Nolan
This movie will first confuse your perception of the narrative with a feud involving the two magicians (played by Hugh…
Dir. Stephen Chbosky
This coming-of-age story based on the bestseller by the same name starts fun but veers towards darker territory. It’s about…
Undead Unluck is such a strange anime with such a strange duo. Named after their respective powers, the undead Andy…
Dir. Abel Ferrara
Bad Lieutenant is no misnomer: Harvey Keitel’s policeman really is one of NYPD’s worst. Already corrupt, abrasive, and abusive at…
Dir. Pablo Larraín
The title of this chamber drama doesn’t refer to the nightclub, but rather the unfortunate company these Catholic priests are…
Dir. Mark Romanek
A dark and sophisticated slow-burning drama, Never Let Me Go is adapted from the highly acclaimed novel of the same name by Japanese-born British author…
Dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho
From 1964-1985, Brazil was under a military dictatorship. If you’re looking for films about this period of time, you can…
Dir. Lawrence Kasdan
For skeptics of the western, Silverado might be too overstuffed with storylines that feel more appropriate for a series than…
Dir. Philip Kaufman
The Marquis de Sade garnered a reputation for his infamously explicit works, so it’s no surprise that his life story…
Dir. John Sayles
All kinds of lines — those separating good and bad, past and present, and even international borders — are blurred…
Dir. George Clooney
A slow-burning US political drama, The Ides of March is a character-driven film with great performances from Ryan Gosling, Philip Seymour Hoffman and George Clooney (who…
Dir. Sam Feder
Disclosure is a patient and articulate study of the ways movies have physically conditioned us to respond to certain expressions…
Dir. Terrence Malick
Two young lovers go on a violent spree and run away together with zero care for anything else outside of…
Dir. Female director & Penny Marshall
At the onset of World War II, with most adult males serving in the army, baseball owners came up with…
Starting off as the 24th(!) overall season of this long-running TV franchise at the time of its release, The Walking…
Dir. Jim Henson
Labyrinth is a fantasy film starring a young Jennifer Connelly as Sarah Williams, a teenager who wishes her infant brother…
Dir. Jane Campion
Plenty of films celebrate this popular instrument, but rarely have we seen it in a story like The Piano. For…
Dir. Sean Mathias
In this day and age, it thankfully has become less risky to come out as gay, due to the struggle…
Dir. Shunji Iwai
In About Lily Chou-Chou, two school teens, Yūichi (Hayato Ichihara) and Shūsuke (Shugo Oshinari), start out as friends who are…
Dir. Maïwenn
Why do we cling to the people that we love, but who clearly don’t treat us well? It’s a common…
Dir. Lee Daniels
Precious is the devastating story of how teen student Precious (Gabourey Sidibe), a victim of every kind of abuse possible,…
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