The Dead (1987)

History
2014
Movie

Jimmy's Hall

6.7
2014

In Depression-era Ireland, Jimmy Gralton returns home after ten years of exile in America. Seeing the levels of poverty and oppression, his inner activist reawakens and he looks to reopen the dance hall that led to his deportation.

Genre : History

6.1

Drama
2012
Movie

Won't Back Down

6.1
2012

Jamie Fitzpatrick and Nona Alberts are two women from opposites sides of the social and economic track, but they have one thing in common: a mission to fix their community's broken school and ensure a bright future for their children. The two women refuse to let any obstacles stand in their way as they battle a bureaucracy that's hopelessly mired in traditional thinking, and they seek to re-energize a faculty that has lost its passion for teaching.

7.5

Drama
1945
Movie

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

7.5
1945

In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's alcoholism. We come to know these people well through big and little troubles: Aunt Sissy's scandalous succession of "husbands"; the removal of the one tree visible from their tenement; and young Francie's desire to transfer to a better school...if irresponsible Papa can get his act together.

7.1

Drama
2013
Movie

What Maisie Knew

7.1
2013

In New York City, a young girl is caught in the middle of her parents' bitter custody battle.

6.5

Drama
2015
Movie

Hungry Hearts

6.5
2015

The relationship of a couple who meet by chance in New York City is put to the test when they encounter a life or death circumstance.

7.3

Drama
1972
Movie

The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds

7.3
1972

Middle-aged widow Beatrice Hunsdorfer and her daughters Ruth and Matilda are struggling to survive in a society they barely understand. Beatrice dreams of opening an elegant tea room but does not have the wherewithal to achieve her lofty goal. Epileptic Ruth is a rebellious adolescent, while shy but highly intelligent and idealistic Matilda seeks solace in her pets and school projects, including one designed to show how small amounts of radium affect marigolds.

6.4

Drama
2009
Movie

Skin

6.4
2009

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

7.2

Drama
2020
Movie

Fatima

7.2
2020

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..

7.4

Drama
2015
Movie

An Inspector Calls

7.4
2015

Northern England, 1912. The dinner of a wealthy family is interrupted by Inspector Goole, who only announces that a young woman has committed suicide. Then, he simply asks everyone present, one by one, if they knew her.

6.5

Drama
2014
Movie

Starving in Suburbia

6.5
2014

When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site founder, ButterflyAna. By the time Hannah's family realizes what is happening and get Hannah the help she needs, the disease has fully taken hold and Hannah is refusing to eat. Will this family be able to exorcise the demon of anorexia from their lives?

Drama
2019
Movie

Adopt a Highway

6.7
2019

Russ Millings has just been released from prison after serving 21 years for a 3rd strike conviction for possessing an ounce of marijuana. As he tries to adapt to a world he doesn’t recognize – including trying to learn how to use the internet – he finds an abandoned baby in a dumpster behind the fast food restaurant where he works as a dishwasher. Unsure of what to do, and caught between impulses of kindness and panic, Russ soon realizes this could be his chance at redemption.

7.3

Drama
2025
Movie

Train Dreams

7.3
2025

A logger leads a life of quiet grace as he experiences love and loss during an era of monumental change in early 20th-century America.

5.9

Drama
2013
Movie

The Truth About Emanuel

5.9
2013

A troubled young woman becomes obsessed with her mysterious new neighbor, who bears a striking resemblance to the girl's dead mother.

6.1

Crime
2009
Movie

Five Minutes of Heaven

6.1
2009

The story of former Ulster Volunteer Force member Alistair Little. Twenty-five years after Little killed Joe Griffin's brother, the media arrange an auspicious meeting between the two.

Genre : Crime

6.4

Drama
2002
Movie

Evelyn

6.4
2002

Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment, and the fact that there is no woman in the house to care for the children—Evelyn, Dermot and Maurice—make it clear to the authorities this is an untenable situation. The Catholic Church and the Irish courts decide to put the Doyle children into Church-run orphanages.

5.8

Drama
2015
Movie

The Girl in the Book

5.8
2015

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

Drama
2024
Movie

Small Things Like These

6.7
2024

In 1985, while working as a coal merchant to support his family, Bill Furlong discovers disturbing secrets kept by the local convent and uncovers truths of his own; forcing him to confront his past and the complicit silence of a small Irish town controlled by the Catholic Church.

Drama
2023
Movie

The Last Rifleman

6.7
2023

A WWII veteran escapes his care home in Northern Ireland and embarks on an arduous but inspirational journey to France to attend the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings, finding the courage to face the ghosts of his past.