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The Taste of Things 2023

7.4 /10

The story of Eugenie, an esteemed cook, and Dodin - the fine gourmet chef she has been working for over the last 20 years.

Run Time: . MMPA: 13 . Release: Nov 08, 2023

Director: Director: Anh Hung Tran,

Stars: Juliette Binoche, Benoît Magimel, Emmanuel Salinger,

The Boy and the Heron 2023

7.5 /10

In the wake of his mother's death and his father's remarriage, a headstrong boy named Mahito ventures into a dreamlike world shared by both the living and the dead.

Run Time: . MMPA: 10 . Release: Jul 14, 2023

Director: Director: Hayao Miyazaki,

Stars: Soma Santoki, Masaki Suda, Kô Shibasaki,

When one of her students is suspected of theft, teacher Carla Nowak decides to get to the bottom of the matter. Caught between her ideals and the school system, the consequences of her actions threaten to break her.

Run Time: . MMPA: 13 . Release: May 04, 2023

Director: Director: Ilker Çatak,

Stars: Leonie Benesch, Anne-Kathrin Gummich, Rafael Stachowiak,

Hit Man 2024

7.3 /10

A mild-mannered professor moonlighting as a fake hit man in police stings ignites a chain reaction of trouble when he falls for a potential client.

Run Time: . MMPA: 15 . Release: May 16, 2024

Director: Director: Richard Linklater,

Stars: Glen Powell, Adria Arjona, Austin Amelio, Retta, Sanjay Rao,

Challengers 2024

7.6 /10

Tennis player turned coach Tashi has taken her husband, Art, and transformed him into a world-famous Grand Slam champion. To jolt him out of his recent losing streak, she signs him up for a "Challenger" event — close to the lowest level of pro tournament — where he finds himself standing across the net from his former best friend and Tashi's former boyfriend.

Run Time: . MMPA: 15 . Release: Apr 18, 2024

Director: Director: Luca Guadagnino,

Stars: Zendaya, Mike Faist, Josh OConnor, Darnell Appling, Bryan Doo,

Godzilla Minus One 2023

8.2 /10

Postwar Japan is at its lowest point when a new crisis emerges in the form of a giant monster, baptized in the horrific power of the atomic bomb.

Run Time: . MMPA: 11 . Release: Nov 03, 2023

Director: Director: Takashi Yamazaki,

Stars: Ryûnosuke Kamiki, Minami Hamabe, Yuki Yamada, Munetaka Aoki, Hidetaka Yoshioka,

Bad Education 2004

7.4 /10

Two children, Ignacio and Enrique, know love, the movies and fear in a religious school at the beginning of the 1960s. Father Manolo, director of the school and its professor of literature, is witness to and part of these discoveries. The three are followed through the next few decades, their reunion marking life and death.

Run Time: . MMPA: 18 . Release: Mar 19, 2004

Director: Director: Pedro Almodvar,

Stars: Gael Garca Bernal, Fele Martnez, Daniel Gimnez Cacho, Llus Homar, Francisco Maestre,

Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell 2023

6.7 /10

After a Vietnamese woman dies in a traffic accident in Saigon, her brother-in-law and her young son transport her body back to the former’s hometown in rural Vietnam, where they plan to give her a funeral.

Run Time: . MMPA: 13 . Release: Aug 11, 2023

Director: Director: Pham Thien An,

Stars: Le Phong Vu, Nguyen Thinh, Nguyen Thi Truc Quynh, Vu Ngoc Manh, Dylan Besseau,

The Mother and the Whore 1973

7.8 /10

Aimless young Alexandre juggles his relationships with his girlfriend, Marie, and a casual lover named Veronika. Marie becomes increasingly jealous of Alexandre's fling with Veronika and as the trio continues their unsustainable affair, the emotional stakes get higher, leading to conflict and unhappiness.

Run Time: . MMPA: 18 . Release: May 01, 1973

Director: Director: Jean Eustache,

Stars: Bernadette Lafont, JeanPierre Laud, Franoise Lebrun, Isabelle Weingarten, Jacques Renard,

All of Us Strangers 2023

7.8 /10

One night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam has a chance encounter with a mysterious neighbor Harry, which punctures the rhythm of his everyday life. As a relationship develops between them, Adam is preoccupied with memories of the past and finds himself drawn back to the suburban town where he grew up, and the childhood home where his parents appear to be living, just as they were on the day they died, 30 years before.

Run Time: . MMPA: 15 . Release: Dec 22, 2023

Director: Director: Andrew Haigh,

Stars: Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Jamie Bell, Claire Foy, Carter John Grout,

Poor Things 2023

8.3 /10

Brought back to life by an unorthodox scientist, a young woman runs off with a debauched lawyer on a whirlwind adventure across the continents. Free from the prejudices of her times, she grows steadfast in her purpose to stand for equality and liberation.

Run Time: 141 min . MMPA: 17 . Release: Dec 07, 2023

Director: Director: Yorgos Lanthimos,

Stars: Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe, Ramy Youssef, Jerrod Carmichael,