My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)

My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)

[8] Gordon Warnecke and Daniel Day-Lewis star as young lovers trying to forge their own way in life by opening a successful laundromat in London. Warnecke's character rails against the old-world expectations of his Pakistani father and uncle (Roshan Seth and Saeed…
Baby Face (1933)

Baby Face (1933)

[8] Barbara Stanwyck stars as Lily Powers, the poor daughter of a speakeasy owner, who takes an old philosopher's advice to start using her feminine wiles (or 'lily power') to get ahead in life. After her nasty father dies in a distillery…
The Great Dictator (1940)

The Great Dictator (1940)

[8] There's something incredibly poetic about Charlie Chaplin, who built a career over the 1920s and 1930s as a silent screen star, finally opening his mouth in his first sound film, 1940's The Great Dictator. The decision wasn't an arbitrary one. Chaplin…
Forbidden (1932)

Forbidden (1932)

[8] Barbara Stanwyck plays a lonely librarian who falls in love with Adolph Menjou on a cruise, but her joy is short-lived in this tragic love story directed by Frank Capra. Stanwyck finds out her beau is already married (to an invalid,…
Apartment Zero (1988)

Apartment Zero (1988)

[8] Colin Firth and Hart Bochner star in this bold drama/thriller from writer/director Martin Donovan and co-screenwriter David Koepp (who teamed together a few years later on Death Becomes Her). Firth stars as a movie theater manager in Buenos Aires who welcomes…
Her (2013)

Her (2013)

[8] Joaquin Phoenix stars in writer/director Spike Jonze's sci-fi romance about a divorced man who falls in love with a computer operating system. Her takes place in a not-so-distant future in which society has become increasingly reliant on technology to fulfill our…
Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)

Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)

[8] A six-year-old girl lives on a small island called "The Bathtub" in Louisiana, where she lives in squalor with her dying, tough-love father until flooding drives them into their makeshift boat to find food and stable shelter. They band together with…
Eyes Without a Face (1960)

Eyes Without a Face (1960)

[8] A surgeon kidnaps young women and removes their faces in hopes of successfully transplanting one on his horribly disfigured daughter in Eyes Without a Face. Released the same season as Hitchcock's Psycho and years before Romero's Night of the Living Dead,…
Color Out of Space (2019)

Color Out of Space (2019)

[8] Cult director Richard Stanley (Hardware) delivers a dread-inducing adaptation H.P. Lovecraft's Color Out of Space. Nicolas Cage and Joely Richardson play a couple who have moved their teenage children (Madeleine Arthur and Brendan Meyer) out of the big city and into…
Hotel Rwanda (2004)

Hotel Rwanda (2004)

[8] Don Cheadle stars as Paul Rusesabagina in the true story of a Rwandan man who saved over a thousand lives by harboring refugees in his hotel during the Hutu slaughtering of the Tutsi in 1994. Hotel Rwanda takes about ten or…