All Recommendations

The Bamboo House of Dolls
5.1

The Bamboo House of Dolls

1973

A nurse in a Japanese women's POW camp during World War II masterminds an escapee.

Monkey Business
6.7

Monkey Business

1952

Research chemist Barnaby Fulton works on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. One of the labs chimps gets loose in the laboratory and mixes chemicals, but then pours the mix into the water cooler. When trying one of his own samples, washed down with water from the cooler, Fulton begins to act just like a twenty-year-old and believes his potion is working. Soon his wife and boss are also behaving like children.

Fantozzi Retires
6.1

Fantozzi Retires

1988

After thirty years in the big corporation, Ugo Fantozzi retires. Suddenly, he needs things to do in everyday life and he tries a number of activities: helping Pina shopping; babysitting grand-daughter Uga; a trip to Venice; learning golf. He then fakes documents to get a new job, but in the end he becomes a hypochondriac and doesn't even take a long-awaited chance with Miss Silvani.

Back to School
6.3

Back to School

1986

Self-made millionaire Thornton Melon decides to get a better education and enrolls at his son Jason's college. While Jason tries to fit in with his fellow students, Thornton struggles to gain his son's respect, giving way to hilarious antics.

The Comics
5.8

The Comics

1990

Two silent movie actors escape from their film. Forced to find a way to survive in the real world, they will only cause troubles to the people they will meet along the way.

Rooster Cogburn
6.4

Rooster Cogburn

1975

After a band of drunken thugs overruns a small Indian Nation town, killing Reverend Goodnight and raping the women folk, Eula Goodnight enlists the aid of US Marshal Cogburn to hunt them down and bring her father's killers to justice.

Leopardi
6.8

Leopardi

2014

In 19th-century Italy, Giacomo Leopardi channels his debilitating illness and isolation into poetry.

A Walk in Time
5.2

A Walk in Time

1996

While visiting Universal Studios in Hollywood along with their respective families, two Italian tourists get on a real time machine and got lost in time. Professor Mortimer effort to rescue them result in trips through various ages of ancient Italy.

Everybody's Fine
7.2

Everybody's Fine

1990

Matteo Scuro is a retired Sicilian bureaucrat, a widower with five children, all of whom live on the mainland and hold responsible jobs. He decides to surprise each with a visit and finds none as he imagined.

Fantozzi in Heaven
5.8

Fantozzi in Heaven

1993

One by one, with a sweet but inexorable rate, Ugo's colleagues, go to a better life. When Ugo is attending at one of the innumerable funerals, he and the priest remain involved in an accident. The doctor says that Ugo as only one week left to live

Up to His Ears
7.1

Up to His Ears

1965

A millionaire realizes he really wants to live after he has hired an assassin to kill him.

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
7.0

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House

1948

An advertising executive dreams of getting out of the city and building a perfect home in the country, only to find the transition fraught with problems.

Fantozzi to the Rescue
6.1

Fantozzi to the Rescue

1990

Fantozzi is now retired but continues to go to the office where it is held up as a fine example of employees intending to do career.

Persuasion
7.1

Persuasion

1995

Living with her snobby family on the brink of bankruptcy, Anne Elliot is an unconforming woman with modern sensibilities. When Frederick Wentworth – the dashing one she once sent away – crashes back into her life, Anne must choose between putting the past behind her or listening to her heart when it comes to second chances.

Made in Britain
7.0

Made in Britain

1983

After being sent to a detention centre, a teenage skinhead clashes with the social workers who want to conform him to the status quo.

Welcome to Dongmakgol
7.4

Welcome to Dongmakgol

2005

Based on the long running play by Jang Jin, the story is set in Korea during the Korean War in 1950. Soldiers from both the North and South, as well as an American pilot, find themselves in a secluded and naively idealistic village, its residents unaware of the outside world, including the war.

Cyberbully
6.0

Cyberbully

2011

A woman tries to help her teenage daughter when she becomes the victim of online bullying.

Wake in Fright
7.3

Wake in Fright

1971

A young schoolteacher descends into personal moral degradation after finding himself stranded in a brutal, menacing town in outback Australia.

In Paris
6.0

In Paris

2006

After a love affair ends badly, a young Parisian named Paul sinks into the same kind of deep depression that led his sister to kill herself. He moves back home with his father and aimless brother Jonathan but refuses to get out of bed.

The Draughtsman's Contract
7.1

The Draughtsman's Contract

1982

A young artist is commissioned by the wife of a wealthy landowner to make a series of drawings of the estate while her husband is away.