Films like The Last Emperor
A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; his exploitation by the invading Japanese, and...
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Waiting for the Barbarians
Film · 2020 · also drama and historyAt an isolated frontier outpost, a colonial magistrate suffers a crisis of conscience when an army colonel arrives looking to interrogate the locals about an impending up...
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The Railway Man
Film · 2013 · also drama and historyA victim from World War II's "Death Railway" sets out to find those responsible for his torture. A true story.
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Girl, Interrupted
Film · 1999 · also dramaSet in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Al...
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To Write Love on Her Arms
Film · 2015 · also dramaThe story follows 19-year-old Renee who has always loved fairy tales: the idea of a princess, a hero and a happily ever after. But Renee’s life is that of a darker tale:...
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Neverwas
Film · 2005 · also dramaZach Riley is a psychiatrist, who leaves a job at a prestigious university, to take up a job at the privately run mental institution, Millwood. What he doesn't reveal at...
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Shanghai
Film · 2010 · also dramaAn American man returns to a corrupt, Japanese-occupied Shanghai four months before Pearl Harbor and discovers his friend has been killed. While he unravels the mysteries...
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I Smile Back
Film · 2015 · also dramaLaney is an attractive, intelligent suburban wife and devoted mother of two adorable children. She has the perfect husband who plays basketball with the kids in the drive...
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The Crush
Film · 1993 · also dramaA precocious and obsessive teenager develops a crush on a naive writer with harrowing consequences.
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The Professor and the Madman
Film · 2019 · also drama and historyProfessor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the mid 19th century, and receives over 10,000 entries from a...
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Experimenter
Film · 2015 · also drama and historyYale University, 1961. Stanley Milgram designs a psychology experiment that still resonates to this day, in which people think they’re delivering painful electric shocks...
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