Salvador (Puig Antich)
โ 6.9 ยท 2006 ยท 137m ยท Drama ยท History
The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's Fascist State in 1974.
More Like This
El brigadista
1978 ยท โ 6.8
The Castro revolution was just consolidating its power when, in 1961, over 100,000 students were sent from their schools into the countryside to teach the peasants there how to read. Coinciding with the Bay of Pigs invasion, in this docudrama, 15-year-old Mario (Salvador Wood) has come to a tiny village in the Zapata swamps and gradually wins the villagers over to his task. At the same time, he receives an education in the realities of rural life from the hard-working peasants.
More info โ
A River Runs Through It
1992 ยท โ 7
The Maclean brothers, Paul and Norman, live a relatively idyllic life in rural Montana, spending much of their time fly fishing. The sons of a minister, the boys eventually part company when Norman moves east to attend college, leaving his rebellious brother to find trouble back home. When Norman finally returns, the siblings resume their fishing outings, and assess where they've been and where they're going.
More info โ
The Celebration
1998 ยท โ 7.7
The family of a wealthy businessman gather to celebrate his 60th birthday. During the course of the party, his eldest son presents a speech that reveals a devastating secret that turns the night into a battle of truth and denial.
More info โ
Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams
2006 ยท โ 6.9
A woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the Balkan war.
More info โ
Insomnia
2002 ยท โ 7
Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.
More info โ
Brother
2000 ยท โ 7.1
A Japanese Yakuza gangster's deadly existence in his homeland gets him exiled to Los Angeles, where he is taken in by his little brother and his brother's gang.
More info โ
Magnolia
1999 ยท โ 7.7
On one random day in the San Fernando Valley, a dying father, a young wife, a male caretaker, a famous lost son, a police officer in love, a boy genius, an ex-boy genius, a game show host and an estranged daughter will each become part of a dazzling multiplicity of plots, but one story.
More info โ
Monsieur Ibrahim
2003 ยท โ 7
Paris, 1960s. Momo, a resolute and independent Jewish teenager who lives with his father, a sullen and depressed man, in a working-class neighborhood, develops a close friendship with Monsieur Ibrahim, an elderly Muslim who owns a small grocery store.
More info โ
Miller's Crossing
1990 ยท โ 7.4
Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the same woman.
More info โ
12 Angry Men
1957 ยท โ 8.6
The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open and shut case soon becomes a mini-drama of each of the jurors' prejudices and preconceptions about the trial, the accused, and each other.
More info โ
Chocolat
2000 ยท โ 7
In the winter of 1959, a single mother and her young daughter arrive in a rural French town, where they open an unusual chocolate shop that disrupts the moral fiber of the strictly Catholic townsfolk and mayor.
More info โ
Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead
1995 ยท โ 6.4
Five different criminals face imminent death after botching a job quite badly.
More info โ