Thoughtful Movies

When the bizarre mass suicide of 54 high school girls throwing themselves in front of a subway train appears to instigate a string of suicides around...

In 1974, Chilean-French director Alejandro Jodorowsky embarked on the quixotic project of adapting Frank Herbert's influential novel Dune (1969) for...

Matthias is a master of pretense, from cultured boyfriend to perfect son or marital coach. He makes a career of being someone else. The real...

When his fiancée dumps him at the altar for her ex, a young man is left with no alternative but to go on his romantic honeymoon with his...

Feeling awkward and isolated, an imaginative and strong-willed teenage girl runs away from home with an older punk rock drifter.

The epic story of the first contact, encounter, approach, betrayal and, eventually, life-transcending friendship, between Karamakate, an Amazonian...

Three activists cobble together a kidnapping plot after they encounter a businessman in his home.

An aspiring painter meets eccentric locals and a fellow New Yorker while working on a barn in Norway.

Born into poverty in Panama, Cirilo McSween’s journey is one of defiance, resilience, and triumph over systemic barriers. Against the backdrop...

When their troubled brother’s car is found at the bottom of a lake, three siblings are forced back to their family home to bury the past, but...

In a story fueled by rhythm and blues, a young boy's life is shaped by love and the stories of a cast of characters in the boarding house where he...

Kintsugi is a 16th century process of mending broken shards of pottery. Visual artist Mako Fujimura and Kintsugi Maker Kunio Nakamura, invite us to...

Originally released in 2004, later re-released in 2006 on YouTube, Unforgotten tells the story of a man who's on the threshold of the afterlife, lost...

ALI, a Moroccan architect, is working in Dakar, Senegal. His wife Mariam, still in Casablanca, is expecting a baby. With the onset of COVID-19,...

Over the last three decades, science has been advancing our understanding of stress: how it impacts our bodies and how our social standing can make...

In a small Northern German town, a dishonourably discharged Afghanistan veteran is offered a job as a deliveryman by an alcoholic Turkish...

Czechoslovakia, 1942. Three brave Czech patriots risk everything to rid their country of its brutal Nazi leader, SS-General Reinhard Heydrich.

Maurice Hines -- actor, director, singer, and choreographer -- navigates the complications of show business while grieving the loss of his more...

This Canadian made comedy/drama, set in Hamilton, Ontario in 1954, is a sweet and - at times - goofy story that becomes increasingly poignant as the...

Five soap opera divas as they reunite to shoot the final Christmas episode of their long-running sudser. The producer, Alex and director Nell, who...