V for Vendetta is a 2006 dystopian political thriller film directed by James McTeigue and written by the Wachowskis; based on the 1988 DC/Vertigo Comics limited series of the same name by Alan Moore and David Lloyd; Set in an alternative future where a Nordic supremacist and neo-fascist totalitarian regime has subjugated the United Kingdom; the film centers [...]
Children of Heaven (Persian: بچههای آسمان Bačče-hâ-ye âsemân) is a 1997 Iranian family drama film, written and directed by Majid Majidi. It deals with a brother and sister and their adventures over a lost pair of shoes; It was nominated for the [...]
Capernaum is a 2018 Lebanese drama film directed by Nadine Labaki and produced by Khaled Mouzanar; The screenplay was written by Labaki; Jihad Hojaily and Michelle Keserwany from a story by Labaki; Hojaily; Keserwany; Georges Khabbaz and Khaled Mouzanar; The film [...]
A Clockwork Orange is a 1971 dystopian crime film adapted, produced, and directed by Stanley Kubrick, based on Anthony Burgess's novel A Clockwork Orange. It employs disturbing, violent images to comment on psychiatry, juvenile delinquency, youth gangs, and other social, political, and economic subjects [...]
North by Northwest is a 1959 American thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason. The screenplay was by Ernest Lehman, who wanted to write "the Hitchcock picture to end all Hitchcock pictures". North by Northwest is a tale [...]
Dangal (transl. 'Wrestling competition') is a 2016 Indian Hindi-language sports film, directed by Nitesh Tiwari and produced by Aamir Khan, under his studio Aamir Khan Productions with UTV Motion Pictures and Walt Disney Pictures India. Loosely based on the Phogat family, Aamir Khan stars as Mahavir Singh Phogat, a pehlwani amateur wrestler who [...]
Requiem for a Dream is a 2000 American psychological drama film directed by Darren Aronofsky and starring Ellen Burstyn; Jared Leto; Jennifer Connelly; and Marlon Wayans; The film is based on the novel of the same name by Hubert Selby Jr., with whom Aronofsky wrote the screenplay. The film depicts [...]
American History X is a 1998 American social drama film directed by Tony Kaye, and written by David McKenna; It stars Edward Norton and Edward Furlong; also featuring Fairuza Balk, Stacy Keach, Elliott Gould, Avery Brooks, Ethan Suplee and Beverly D'Angelo; The film was released in the United States on October 30, 1998, distributed by New [...]
Seven (stylized as SE7EN) is a 1995 American crime thriller film directed by David Fincher and written by Andrew Kevin Walker; It stars Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kevin Spacey and John C. McGinley. The film tells the story of David Mills, a detective who partners [...]
Léon: The Professional, titled Leon in the UK and Australia (and originally titled The Professional in the US), is a 1994 English-language French action thriller film written and directed by Luc Besson. It stars Jean Reno, Gary Oldman, and Natalie Portman (in her film debut). [...]
