Jar City

3.9

Beatriz

A child is witness to an assault on a monk by the gang of Lorenzo the Fifth. The monk escapes and takes refuge in the estate of Doña Carlota, a countess who lives with her son Juan and daughter Beatriz. Basilisa, the maid, conjures the devil to free her son from an irreversible illness, but to do so the evil must be transmitted to an innocent soul, and for that she chooses Beatriz. The child begins to be the victim of a possession, for which everyone blames the monk.

1976-12-06 | es

5.0

My Name Is Shadow

Doctor Beiral, torn apart by the internal struggle between his social persona and the dark instincts that torment him, manages to use his investigations to give life to the monster that he has long held within him.

1996-04-30 | es

6.6

Black '47

In 1847, when Ireland is in the grip of the Great Famine that has ravaged the country for two long years, Feeney, a hardened Irish Ranger who has been fighting for the British Army abroad, returns home to reunite with his estranged family, only to discover the cruelest reality, a black land where death reigns.

2018-09-05 | en

7.3

Birds of Passage

During the marijuana bonanza, a violent decade that saw the origins of drug trafficking in Colombia, Rapayet and his indigenous family get involved in a war to control the business that ends up destroying their lives and their culture.

2018-08-02 | es

7.5

East of Eden

In the Salinas Valley in and around World War I, Cal Trask feels he must compete against overwhelming odds with his brother for the love of their father. Cal is frustrated at every turn, from his reaction to the war, how to get ahead in business and in life, and how to relate to his estranged mother.

1955-04-10 | en

7.9

Rebecca

Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died mysteriously several years earlier. The young wife must come to grips with the terrible secret of her handsome, cold husband, Max De Winter. She must also deal with the jealous, obsessed Mrs. Danvers, the housekeeper, who will not accept her as the mistress of the house.

1940-03-23 | en

7.4

Boys Don't Cry

A young transgender man explores his gender identity and searches for love in rural Nebraska.

1999-09-02 | en

7.0

Swipe, Match, Murder: The Disappearance of Grace Millane

The story of the murder of British backpacker Grace Millane and how her killer was caught.

2023-10-11 | en

8.0

Secret Fruit

The story revolves around a pair of teens who meet during difficult times and wind up falling in love.

2017-07-07 | zh

7.1

The Painted Bird

After losing his parents, a young Jewish boy wanders Eastern Europe, seeking refuge during World War II.

2019-09-12 | cs

6.8

The Prince and the Pauper

Two boys – the prince Edward and the pauper Tom – are born on the same day. Years later, when young teenage Tom sneaks into the palace garden, he meets the prince. They change clothes with one another before the guards discover them and throw out the prince thinking he's the urchin. No one believes them when they try to tell the truth about which is which. Soon after, the old king dies and the prince will inherit the throne.

1937-04-30 | en

5.8

Wisconsin Death Trip

Inspired by the book of the same name, film-maker James Marsh relays a tale of tragedy, murder and mayhem that erupted behind the respectable facade of Black River Falls, Wisconsin in the 19th century.

1999-09-05 | en

6.8

Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer

British documentarian Nick Broomfield creates a follow-up piece to his 1992 documentary of the serial killer Aileen Wuornos, a highway prostitute who was convicted of killing six men in Florida between 1989 and 1990. Interviewing an increasingly mentally unstable Wuornos, Broomfield captures the distorted mind of a murderer whom the state of Florida deems of sound mind -- and therefore fit to execute. Throughout the film, Broomfield includes footage of his testimony at Wuornos' trial.

2003-09-09 | en

4.6

Impulse

An American realtor living in England is dissatisfied with what he believes to be his humdrum life. One weekend while his wife is out of town, he gives a ride to a woman he sees stranded on the road. One thing leads to another, and he soon finds himself enmeshed in a plot involving a diamond robbery, gangsters and murder.

1954-01-01 | en

5.7

True Crime

Mary Giordano is a bright, intelligent student who goes to a catholic school. She also has an addiction to mystery novels and detective magazines, which inspire her to do her own detective work. When she starts snooping around on the case of a murderer of teenage girls, it gets her in hot water with her mentor Detective Jerry Gunn. But it also starts a team up with police cadet Tony Campbell. The two work together to find the murderer. But the closer Mary gets to solving the murder, the more danger she puts herself in of being the next victim.

1995-08-01 | en

7.6

Cross My Heart

12-years-old Manon promises her younger brother, Mimi, that they will stay together, despite their difficult family circumstances and the ominous signs of being put into foster care. During the height of Quebec's FLQ Crisis in 1970, they stage their own rebellion by kidnapping an elderly woman and hiding her in the country, aided by their two cousins.

2017-09-22 | fr

6.7

The House of the Bories

Julien, a renowned geologist, lives with his wife Isabelle and their two children in a country house. But his sullen, uncompromising attitude leaves tensions high. The arrival of Carl-Stephane, a young German student, brings a breath of fresh air and lightness to the household.

1970-08-28 | fr

6.8

Fanchon, the Cricket

A young wild girl, Fanchon, lives in a forest with her eccentric grandmother who is suspected by the villagers of being a witch. The unkempt Fanchon suffers from her grandmother's sorceress reputation. One day the girl rescues a boy from drowning and they fall in love, but Fanchon won't agree to marry him unless his father asks her. A year later the boy has fallen very ill and it is only the presence of the enchanting Fanchon that helps to restore his health.

1915-05-10 | en

8.1

Full Metal Jacket

A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.

1987-06-26 | en

7.9

Downfall

In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking from the west. In Berlin, capital of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler proclaims that Germany will still achieve victory and orders his generals and advisers to fight to the last man. When the end finally does come, and Hitler lies dead by his own hand, what is left of his military must find a way to end the killing that is the Battle of Berlin, and lay down their arms in surrender.

2004-09-16 | de

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Ingvar E. Sigurðsson

Ágústa Eva Erlendsdóttir

Björn Hlynur Haraldsson

Ólafía Hrönn Jónsdóttir

Atli Rafn Sigurðsson

Kristbjörg Kjeld

Þorsteinn Gunnarsson

Theodór Júlíusson

Þórunn Magnea Magnúsdóttir

Guðmunda Elíasdóttir

Walter Grímsson

Magnús Ragnarsson

Rafnhildur Rósa Atladótir

Jón Sigurbjörnsson

Valdimar Örn Flygenring

Thor Tulinius

Ása Hlín Svavarsdóttir

Eyvindur Erlendsson

Elma Lísa Gunnarsdóttir

Erlendur Eiríksson

Kristinn Ágúst Friðfinnsson

Kári Stefánsson

Þórhallur Gunnarsson

Sigurður Már Ólafsson

Hjalti Gunnarsson

Jón Viðar Arnþórsson

Guðrún Birna Gísladóttir

Bjarni Geir Patric Alfreðsson

Katrín Óskarsson

Rósa Olafsdóttir

Osk Gudmundóottir

Þórarinn Óskar Þórarinsson

Úlfur Ísfeld Rögnvaldsson

Sólon Ísfeld Rögnvaldsson

Sverrir Einarsson

Bryndís Valbjarnardóttir

Valgerður Backman

Guðlaug Hermannsdóttir

Lárus Björn Svavarsson

Rafnhildur Rósa Atladóttir