Skin

Movie · 6.4 / 10 · 24 Jul 2009 · English

Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.

Iron Jawed Angels

Movie · 6.8 / 10 · 16 Jan 2004 · English

Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote.

Fatima

Movie · 7.2 / 10 · 13 Aug 2020 · English

In 1917, outside the parish of Fátima, Portugal, a 10-year-old girl and her two younger cousins witness multiple visitations of the Virgin Mary, who tells them that only prayer and suffering will bring an end to World War I. As secularist government officials and Church leaders try to force the children to recant their story, word of the sighting spreads across the country, inspiring religious pilgrims to flock to the site in hopes of witnessing a miracle..

Mansfield Park

Movie · 6.1 / 10 · 18 Mar 2007 · English

Fanny Price is sent to live with her wealthy relatives, the Bertrams, where she is treated poorly by most except her cousin Edmund. Her life is complicated by the arrival of the worldly Mary and Henry Crawford

Normal

Movie · 6.7 / 10 · 21 Jan 2003 · English

A Midwestern husband and father announces his plan to have a sex change operation.

TalhotBlond

Movie · 6.3 / 10 · 23 Jun 2012 · English

Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately leads to the murder of an innocent man.

Farming

Movie · 6.2 / 10 · 8 Sept 2018 · English

Based on the writer/director's childhood, FARMING tells the story of a young Nigerian boy, 'farmed out' by his parents to a white British family in the hope of a better future. Instead, he becomes the feared leader of a white skinhead gang.

Little Lord Fauntleroy

Movie · 7.3 / 10 · 1 Dec 1980 · English

Young Cedric Errol and his widowed mother live in genteel poverty in 1880s Brooklyn after the death of his father. Cedric's grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, has long ago disowned his son for marrying an American. But after the death of the Earl's remaining son, he decides to accept Cedric as his heir.

Girl in the Box

Movie · 6.7 / 10 · 10 Sept 2016 · English

The true story of 20-year-old Colleen Stan, a hitchhiking woman abducted by a young couple and held captive for seven years, during which time she's tortured and forced to live as a slave to her captors.

Holy Lands

Movie · 6.1 / 10 · 16 Jan 2019 · English

When lapsed Jew and former cardiologist Harry suddenly decides to spend his retirement as a pig farmer in Nazareth, Israel, the move deeply shocks his family and his new neighbours. Back in New York, Harry’s ex-wife Monica is trying to manage the lives of their adult children, Annabelle and David, as well as her own.

Reading Lolita in Tehran

Movie · 7.3 / 10 · 21 Nov 2024 · English

The screen adaptation of Azar Nafisi’s memoir tells the true story of a literature professor in revolutionary Iran who, amidst censorship and religious extremism, gathers seven of her most dedicated female students to immerse themselves in banned literary classics.

The Girl in the Book

Movie · 5.8 / 10 · 13 Jun 2015 · English

The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.