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Viridiana 1961

8.1 /10

Viridiana is preparing to start her life as a nun when she is sent, somewhat unwillingly, to visit her aging uncle, Don Jaime. He supports her; but the two have met only once. Jaime thinks Viridiana resembles his dead wife. Viridiana has secretly despised this man all her life and finds her worst fears proven when Jaime grows determined to seduce his pure niece. Viridiana becomes undone as her uncle upends the plans she had made to join the convent.

Run Time: 90 Min . MMPA: 18 . Release: May 17, 1961

Director: Director: Luis Buuel,

Stars: Silvia Pinal, Francisco Rabal, Fernando Rey, Jos Calvo, Margarita Lozano,

Catherine Called Birdy 2022

6.5 /10

A teenage girl in Medieval England navigates life and tries to avoid the arranged marriages her father maps out for her.

Run Time: 108 Min . MMPA: 12 . Release: Sep 23, 2022

Director: Director: Lena Dunham,

Stars: Bella Ramsey, Billie Piper, Andrew Scott, Joe Alwyn, DeanCharles Chapman,

Hatred 2016

7.6 /10

Summer of 1939. Zosia is a young Polish girl who is deeply in love with Ukrainian Petro. Their great love will be put to the test when her father decides to marry her to a wealthy widower Skiba. Right after wedding she is left alone because her husband is drafted to the Polish army for the war with Germany. Meanwhile, tensions grow due to Jews, Poles, and Ukrainians living side by side.

Run Time: 150 Min . MMPA: 18 . Release: Oct 07, 2016

Director: Director: Wojciech Smarzowski,

Stars: Michalina abacz, Arkadiusz Jakubik, Adrian Zaremba, Lech Dyblik, Jacek Braciak,

Dangerous Beauty 1998

7.1 /10

Veronica is brilliant, gifted and beautiful, but the handsome aristocrat she loves, Marco Venier, cannot marry her because she is penniless and of questionable family. So Veronica's mother, Paola, teaches her to become a courtesan, one of the exotic companions favored by the richest and most powerful Venetian men. Veronica courageously uses her charms to change destiny -- and to give herself a chance at true love.

Run Time: 111 Min . MMPA: 17 . Release: Feb 20, 1998

Director: Director: Marshall Herskovitz,

Stars: Catherine McCormack, Rufus Sewell, Oliver Platt, Fred Ward, Naomi Watts,

Mustang 2015

7.6 /10

In a Turkish village, five orphaned sisters live under strict rule while members of their family prepare their arranged marriages.

Run Time: 97 Min . MMPA: 14 . Release: Jun 17, 2015

Director: Director: Deniz Gamze Ergven,

Stars: Gne Nezihe ensoy, Doa Zeynep Doulu, Elit can, Tuba Sungurolu, Ilayda Akdoan,

Colette 2018

6.7 /10

After marrying a successful Parisian writer known commonly as Willy, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette is transplanted from her childhood home in rural France to the intellectual and artistic splendor of Paris. Soon after, Willy convinces Colette to ghostwrite for him. She pens a semi-autobiographical novel about a witty and brazen country girl named Claudine, sparking a bestseller and a cultural sensation. After its success, Colette and Willy become the talk of Paris and their adventures inspire additional Claudine novels.

Run Time: 112 Min . MMPA: 16 . Release: Sep 21, 2018

Director: Director: Wash Westmoreland,

Stars: Keira Knightley, Dominic West, Denise Gough, Fiona Shaw, Robert Pugh,

Pride & Prejudice 2005

7.8 /10

A story of love and life among the landed English gentry during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is a gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife and five daughters, but if he dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met, so the family's future happiness and security is dependent on the daughters making good marriages.

Run Time: 127 Min . MMPA: 11 . Release: Sep 16, 2005

Director: Director: Joe Wright,

Stars: Keira Knightley, Matthew Macfadyen, Brenda Blethyn, Donald Sutherland, Judi Dench,

The Nun 1967

7.5 /10

In eighteenth-century France, a girl is forced against her will to take vows as a nun. Three mothers superior treat her in radically different ways, ranging from maternal concern, to sadistic persecution, to lesbian desire.

Run Time: 140 Min . MMPA: 18 . Release: Jul 26, 1967

Director: Director: Jacques Rivette,

Stars: Anna Karina, Liselotte Pulver, Micheline Presle, Francine Berg, Francisco Rabal,

The Last Duel 2021

7.4 /10

King Charles VI declares that Knight Jean de Carrouges settle his dispute with his squire, Jacques Le Gris, by challenging him to a duel.

Run Time: 153 Min . MMPA: 17 . Release: Oct 13, 2021

Director: Director: Ridley Scott,

Stars: Matt Damon, Adam Driver, Jodie Comer, Harriet Walter, Ben Affleck,

Benedetta 2021

6.8 /10

A 17th-century nun becomes entangled in a forbidden lesbian affair with a novice. But it is Benedetta's shocking religious visions that threaten to shake the Church to its core.

Run Time: 131 Min . MMPA: 17 . Release: Jul 09, 2021

Director: Director: Paul Verhoeven,

Stars: Virginie Efira, Charlotte Rampling, Daphne Patakia, Lambert Wilson, Olivier Rabourdin,

Death on the Nile 2022

6.3 /10

Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot boards a glamorous river steamer with enough champagne to fill the Nile. But his Egyptian vacation turns into a thrilling search for a murderer when a picture-perfect couple’s idyllic honeymoon is tragically cut short.

Run Time: 127 Min . MMPA: 13 . Release: Feb 09, 2022

Director: Director: Kenneth Branagh,

Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Gal Gadot, Armie Hammer, Emma Mackey, Tom Bateman,