The Holdovers (
2023) | IMDb:
0
A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them — a damaged, brainy troublemaker — and with the school’s head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam.
Starring:
Paul Giamatti
,
Dominic Sessa
,
Da'Vine Joy Randolph
,
Carrie Preston
,
Brady Hepner
,
Gillian Vigman
Queen of Hearts (
2019) | IMDb:
7.1
Anne, a brilliant and dedicated advocacy lawyer specialising in society’s most vulnerable, children and young adults, lives what appears to be the picture-perfect life with her doctor-husband, Peter, and their twin daughters. When her estranged teenage stepson, Gustav, moves in with them, Anne’s escalating desire leads her down a dangerous rabbit hole which, once exposed, unleashes a sequence of events destined to destroy her world.
Starring:
Trine Dyrholm
,
Gustav Lindh
,
Magnus Krepper
,
Liv Esmår Dannemann
,
Silja Esmår Dannemann
,
Stine Gyldenkerne
Directed by:
May el-Toukhy
Manderlay (
2005) | IMDb:
7.2
In 1933, after leaving Dogville, Grace Margaret Mulligan sees a slave being punished at a cotton farm called Manderlay. Officially, slavery is illegal and Grace stands up against the farmers. She stays with some gangsters in Manderlay and tries to influence the situation. But when harvest time comes, Grace sees the social and economic reality of Manderlay.
Starring:
Bryce Dallas Howard
,
Isaach De Bankolé
,
Danny Glover
,
Willem Dafoe
,
Michaël Abiteboul
,
Lauren Bacall
Dogville (
2003) | IMDb:
8
When beautiful young Grace arrives in the isolated township of Dogville, the small community agrees to hide her from a gang of ruthless gangsters, and, in return, Grace agrees to do odd jobs for the townspeople.
Starring:
Nicole Kidman
,
Harriet Andersson
,
Lauren Bacall
,
Jean-Marc Barr
,
Paul Bettany
,
Blair Brown