Total Recall

Sci-Fi

Release Date and Country: 1990, United States

Director: Paul Verhoeven

Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rachel Ticotin, Sharon Stone...

Movie or TV Series Plot: Douglas Quaid, a construction worker, has a beautiful wife and would have a happy life if not for the nightmares that bring him to Mars. So one day, influenced by an advertisement, he goes to a compan...

We Bought a Zoo

Comedy

Release Date and Country: 2011, United States

Director: Cameron Crowe

Cast: Matt Damon, Scarlett Johansson, Thomas Haden Church...

Movie or TV Series Plot: Benjamin Mee (Matt Damon) is a Los Angeles newspaper columnist and occasional adventure fiction writer who, as a single father, faces the challenges of raising two children. Believing that a fresh sta...

Downton Abbey

Historical

Release Date and Country: 2010, United Kingdom

Director: Brian Percival, Brian Kelly, Ben Bolt

Cast: Hugh Bonneville, Jessica Brown Findlay, Laura Carmichael...

Night Train to Lisbon

Mystery

Release Date and Country: 2013, Germany, Portugal, Switzerland

Director: Bille August

Cast: Jeremy Irons, Jack Huston, Charlotte Rampling...

Movie or TV Series Plot: After rescuing a suicidal women who left a train ticket and a book written by a gifted philosopher, aging teacher Raimund Gregiorus embarks on a trip to Lisbon and searches for the connection between ...

A bigger splash

Drama

Release Date and Country: 2015, Italy, France

Director: Luca Guadagnino

Cast: Matthias Schoenaerts, Tilda Swinton, Ralph Fiennes...

Movie or TV Series Plot: Famous rock star Marianne (Tilda Swinton) is spending a quiet holiday on a sunny island in Italy with her partner Paul (Matthias Schoenaerts). The idyll is disrupted by the unexpected arrival of her o...

As Good as It Gets

Comedy/Drama

Release Date and Country: 1997, United States

Director: James L. Brooks

Cast: Helen Hunt, Jack Nicholson, Greg Kinnear...

Movie or TV Series Plot: Successful trashy romance writer Melvin Udall lives alone in his Manhattan apartment. With nothing else to do, he makes life difficult not only for his neighbors, but for everyone he meets. He is rude...

American History X

Drama/Action

Release Date and Country: 1998, United States

Director: Tony Kaye

Cast: Edward Norton, Edward Furlong, Beverly D'Angelo...

Movie or TV Series Plot: After the death of his father, who got killed by an Afro-American dealer, Derek, full of hatred and desire for revenge, joins a neo-Nazi group. Particularly intelligent and charismatic young man, he q...

Paterson

Drama

Release Date and Country: 2016, United States

Director: Jim Jarmusch

Cast: Adam Driver, Golshifteh Farahani, Kara Hayward...

Movie or TV Series Plot: Paterson (Adam Driver) is a bus driver in the eponymous town of Paterson. Every day for Paterson is seemingly the same as the one before: he drives the route of his line, watches the city pass by in f...

Truman Show

Comedy

Release Date and Country: 1997, United States

Director: Peter Weir

Cast: Jim Carrey, Laura Linney, Ed Harris...

Movie or TV Series Plot: The Truman Show explores the power of media and the increasingly blurred line between reality and its media or virtual image. Indeed, Truman Burbank is unaware until he is almost thirty years old that...

Jaws

Drama/Horror

Release Date and Country: 1975, United States

Director: Steven Spielberg

Cast: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Lorraine Gary...

Movie or TV Series Plot: The sleepy holiday town of Amity is frightened by a huge white shark that attacks bathing visitors. To prevent the town from losing its glory, the council first decides to keep the news secret. But wh...

Twelve Monkeys

Sci-Fi/Disaster

Release Date and Country: 1995, United States

Director: Terry Gilliam

Cast: Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, Brad Pitt...

Movie or TV Series Plot: In 1996, five billion people died of an unknown virus. One per cent of the poor survived and went underground, where they are living and looking for a way to prevent a global apocalypse. Humanity inve...

The Girl on the Train

Drama/Crime/Mystery

Release Date and Country: 2016, United States

Director: Tate Taylor

Cast: Emily Blunt, Haley Bennett, Rebecca Ferguson...

Movie or TV Series Plot: Rachel Watson takes the train every day past the house she used to live in with her ex-husband. Now he lives there with his new wife and they have a little girl together. Just a few houses away, she s...

The Accountant

Thriller/Drama/Action

Release Date and Country: 2016, United States

Director: Gavin O'Connor

Cast: Ben Affleck, Anna Kendrick, Jonathan Kimble Simmons...

Movie or TV Series Plot: Christian Wolff (Ben Affleck) is a mathematical genius who has a better relationship with numbers than with people. Under the guise of a small-town accounting firm, he works as a freelance accountant ...

Snowden

Drama

Release Date and Country: 2016, United States, France, Germany

Director: Oliver Stone

Cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley, Melissa Leo...

Movie or TV Series Plot: The whole world knows Edward Snowden: he is a typical whistleblower, or someone who reveals secret and confidential information. As an employee of the US National Security Agency (NSA), Snowden brough...

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Western

Release Date and Country: 1969, United States

Director: George Roy Hill

Cast: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross...

Movie or TV Series Plot: Butch and Sundance are bandits in their own right. Nothing is sacred to them, not even the famous Union Pacific Express. And to make them even more legendary, they decide to raid it twice. Little do t...

The Restaurant

Comedy

Release Date and Country: 1966, France

Director: Jacques Besnard

Cast: Louis de Funes, Bernard Blier, María-Rosa Rodriguez...

Movie or TV Series Plot: The Grand Restaurant is the most famous and expensive establishment in all of Paris, run with a firm hand by Mr. Septim. It's not only high officials and ministers who come here. But when the presiden...