Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman
★ 6.4 · 1947 · 103m · Drama
A nightclub singer uses alcohol in excess to sooth her painful life.
More Like This
The Widowhood of Karolina Žašler
1976 · ★ 5.6
As she tries to cope with the changes in Yugoslav rural life brought about by increasing modernization, the Widow Karolina wishes she had become a mother. As difficult as things are for her, they are nonetheless much more difficult for her more-conservative and less-thoughtful neighbors.
More info →
Remy & Arletta
2023 · ★ 5
Remy attempts to balance her relationship with her alcoholic mother and her longtime best friend, Arletta. While Remy leans on her best friend as a coping mechanism, she learns that their co-dependent friendship is more than she realized.
More info →
Central Station
1998 · ★ 8.1
An emotional journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew.
More info →
Together
2000 · ★ 7
Elisabeth leaves her abusive and drunken husband Rolf, and goes to live with her brother, Göran. The year is 1975 and Göran lives in a commune called Together. Living in this leftist commune Elisabeth learns that the world can be viewed from different perspectives.
More info →
The Last Samurai
2003 · ★ 7.6
Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and the honorable principles that rule them. Pressed to destroy the samurai's way of life in the name of modernization and open trade, Algren decides to become an ultimate warrior himself and to fight for their right to exist.
More info →
Blade Runner
1982 · ★ 7.9
In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth seeking their creator for a way to extend their short life spans.
More info →
The Beach Bum
2019 · ★ 5.7
An irreverent comedy about the misadventures of Moondog, a rebellious stoner and lovable rogue who lives large.
More info →
Noi the Albino
2003 · ★ 7
17 year old Nói drifts through life on a remote fjord in Iceland. In winter, the fjord is cut off from the outside world, surrounded by ominous mountains and buried under a shroud of snow. Nói dreams of escaping from this white-walled prison with Íris, a city girl who works in a local gas station. But his clumsy attempts at escape spiral out of control.
More info →
The Long Goodbye
1973 · ★ 7.4
In 1970s Hollywood, Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his wife.
More info →
Day for Night
1973 · ★ 7.8
A committed filmmaker struggles to complete his latest project while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.
More info →
Policewoman
2000 · ★ 6.8
A young police woman is faced with the difficulties between her responsibilities at work and her personal responsibilities.
More info →
Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl
1919 · ★ 6.9
The love story of an abused English girl and a Chinese Buddhist in a time when London was a brutal and harsh place to live.
More info →