Every film we recommend, filterable by streaming service, genre, mood, rating and year. Each one cleared 7/10 on IMDb and 70% on Rotten Tomatoes before one of our curators watched it and vouched for it.
Rohan Kanawade's debut turns his own father's easy acceptance into a love story between two men during a ten-day mourning…
A grieving widow and a telepathic aquarium octopus solve a mystery. It should be unbearable. Instead, Sally Field makes it…
An ad exec who skipped his colonoscopy films his own terminal cancer with humor intact. A documentary about death that's…
Ildikó Enyedi follows a single ginkgo tree across three eras while the humans around it fall in and out of…
A tense chamber drama about the weather forecast that decided D-Day. All talk and barometric readings, no beaches, and it…
A young piano tuner with freakish hearing gets pulled into cracking safes. A well-made adult crime picture that trusts its…
Matt Johnson's guerrilla comedy about two friends trying to book a gig, now with a time-travel plot. Silly, sweet, and…
Sophy Romvari's debut is a camcorder-soaked memory film about a Hungarian family finding its feet on Vancouver Island. Gorgeous 90s…
A washed-up Medellín poet latches onto a talented teenage girl as his second chance. One of the funniest, saddest films…
Dir. Mascha Schilinski
Previous depictions of provincial living tend to paint the pastoral experience as idyllic, simple, and much more innocent compared to…
Dir. Reema Kagti
Based on the life of a real small town filmmaker, this coming-of-age film is a familiar underdog story. After their…
Dir. Colin Hanks
John Candy: I Like Me takes a somewhat standard approach in remembering the titular comedian. The film pulls out old…
Dir. Mariska Hargitay
Unlike the other documentaries depicting “Hollywood’s smartest dumb blonde”, My Mom Jayne takes on a different approach to Jayne Mansfield.…
Dir. Andrew Jarecki & Charlotte Kaufman
Depicting the horrifying cycle of abuse in the state’s prison system, The Alabama Solution is tough to watch. It was…
Dir. Paolo Sorrentino
In his last few months as president, Mariano de Santis has a few loose ends to tie up. This includes…
Dir. Ahmad Hassunah & Ahmed Al Danaf
From Ground Zero doesn’t have the most number of shorts within an anthology film, though it comes pretty close with…
Dir. Tracie Laymon
With the anonymity of the internet, it’s hard to trust that the stranger on the other side would be a…
Dir. Sam Raimi
Warning: this film is incredibly gory, terribly gruesome, and horrendously disgusting. We urge you to go in without any food.…
Dir. Eva Victor
In Sorry, Baby, an unspeakable act of cruelty disrupts Agnes’ ambitious rise to the top. Despite being a literature professor,…
Dir. Roshan Sethi
Sure, many of the tropes in this feel-good romcom would be familiar. Naveen, a shy Indian doctor, loves Jay, a…
Dir. James Sweeney
Twinless starts off something like one of those quirky indies in the 2010s about awkwardly navigating grief and sharing that…
Dir. Jafar Panahi
You can probably predict from the title that an accident starts this thriller but what happens after is totally unexpected.…
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. Hikari
Since the 1990s, Japan has offered the service of pretending to be one’s family, friend, or lover. Rental Family isn’t…
Dir. Harry Lighton
Given the other depictions of BDSM on film, we weren’t sure how Pillion would turn out. Much more so with…
Dir. Francis Lawrence
The dystopian survival thriller isn’t concerned about the reasons behind its death marathon, only giving a short speech about a…
Dir. Christopher Leone
Code 3 is a comedy about a crazy night out, though the craziness doesn’t stem from drunkenness, drugs, or bad…
Dir. Carmen Emmi
The strength of Plainclothes is the way it captures a memory. Fitting, for a film primarily set on New Year’s…
Dir. Boris Lojkine
What is Souleymane’s Story? Right off the bat, that’s what everyone asks from Souleymane. It’s what his fellow immigrant asks,…
Dir. James Griffiths
What would you do when you win the lottery? Most people would travel, buy a home, spend it on all…
Dir. Craig Brewer
Song Sung Blue gets its name from a Neil Diamond song, but rather than depict his life in a regular…
Dir. Junichi Yasuda
Usually, time travellers journey back to the past. This indie comedy takes the other path instead, with one samurai travelling…
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