She Said

Movie · 7.2 / 10 · 17 Nov 2022 · English

New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor break one of the most important stories in a generation — a story that helped launch the #MeToo movement and shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood.

To Kill a Mockingbird

Movie · 8.0 / 10 · 20 Dec 1962 · English

Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their time with their friend Dill and spying on their reclusive and mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley. When Atticus, their widowed father and a respected lawyer, defends a black man named Tom Robinson against fabricated rape charges, the trial and tangent events expose the children to evils of racism and stereotyping.

Big Eyes

Movie · 7.0 / 10 · 24 Dec 2014 · English

In the late 1950s and early '60s, artist Walter Keane achieves unbelievable fame and success with portraits of saucer-eyed waifs. However, no one realizes that his wife, Margaret, is the real painter behind the brush. Although Margaret is horrified to learn that Walter is passing off her work as his own, she is too meek to protest too loudly. It isn't until the Keanes' marriage comes to an end and a lawsuit follows that the truth finally comes to light.

Women Talking

Movie · 6.8 / 10 · 23 Dec 2022 · English

A group of women in an isolated religious colony struggle to reconcile their faith with a series of sexual assaults committed by the colony's men.

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.

The Social Network

Movie · 7.4 / 10 · 1 Oct 2010 · English

In 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programmer Mark Zuckerberg begins work on a new concept that eventually turns into the global social network known as Facebook. Six years later, Mark is one of the youngest billionaires ever, but his unprecedented success leads to both personal and legal complications when he ends up on the receiving end of two lawsuits, one involving his former friend.

Erin Brockovich

Movie · 7.4 / 10 · 17 Mar 2000 · English

A twice-divorced mother of three who sees an injustice, takes on the bad guy and wins -- with a little help from her push-up bra. Erin goes to work for an attorney and comes across medical records describing illnesses clustered in one nearby town. She starts investigating and soon exposes a monumental cover-up.

The Hurricane

Movie · 7.4 / 10 · 17 Sept 1999 · English

The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.

Wildlife

Movie · 6.6 / 10 · 23 Sept 2018 · English

14-year-old Joe is the only child of Jeanette and Jerry — a housewife and a golf pro — in a small town in 1960s Montana. Nearby, an uncontrolled forest fire rages close to the Canadian border, and when Jerry loses his job (and his sense of purpose) he decides to join the cause of fighting the fire, leaving his wife and son to fend for themselves.

Doubt

Movie · 7.2 / 10 · 12 Dec 2008 · English

In 1964 Bronx, two Catholic school nuns question the new priest's ambiguous relationship with a troubled African-American student.

Joy

Movie · 6.9 / 10 · 15 Nov 2024 · English

A young nurse, a visionary scientist and an innovative surgeon face opposition from the church, state, media and medical establishment, in their pursuit of the world’s first ‘test tube baby’, Louise Joy Brown.

Johnny Belinda

Movie · 6.8 / 10 · 14 Sept 1948 · English

A small-town doctor helps a deaf-mute farm girl learn to communicate.