You'd think that in the case of kidnapping your beloved ones will be there for you, they will turn the world upside down to pay the ransom, devote their last penny, liquidate their savings, beg for loans just to get back your precious body from the hands of unscrupulous criminals. In reality, however, your comeback might be less than awaited and the situation can open your eyes widely and show you who really cares and who doesn't give a shit. A story of an unwanted wife and a couple of kidnappers who became a case of tongue-in-cheek Stockholm syndrome. Ruthless People.
Remember Romeo and Juliet, who tried to love each other despite opposing families? Recall Tristan and Isolde, who fell for each other despite knight's word and wife's promise to another man? We love forbidden love, as love is hard to find. It disappears somewhere in the pursuit of money, career, and material things. It deceives you, pushes you into life scenarios you are not ready for, it makes you compromise your dreams, wishes, and ideals. It's a dream that turns into the nightmare of money division, calling names, grudges, irreconcilable differences and alimony. It leaves you heartbroken to teach you that you can love again. At times, two lost and hurt souls find each other at the crossroads and there is nothing which holds them back. Freedom, crime, and a journey of no return for contemporary young lovers with beautiful Sweden in the background. Enjoy.
Do you always picture yourself as the good guy? Are you here for justice, peace, the well-being of the poorest? Are you a savior like Batman, Robin Hood and Harry Potter, willing to die for others in the endless battle of good and evil? Or maybe one day you wake up not entirely sure on which side of the spectrum you are? Lost love, mystery and a great parody of American hypocrisy and pursuit of fame and publicity. Horns, maybe in truth you are the incarnation of evil. Enjoy.
It's apparently never too late to meet a genuine friend who will take you from the group of fake and pretentious people and add some rays of sunlight to your gloomy monotonous days. You can be separated by everything: age, background, culture, religion, and diet, but there is something that pulls you to each other like a firm grasp of the mother's hand. In times when true friendship is rare and hard to find, it's nice to watch something uplifting. A queen and her friend, and a whole lot of monarchy's highlights and paradoxes. Victoria & Abdul.
Any regrets? That career path that you didn't choose, that trip that you didn't go to when you were still young and full of energy, that parachute jump that you were too afraid to try. We all have things that we didn't do, experiences that we opted out of doing due to various reasons: responsibility, family problems, the lack of money, and bad timing. Unfortunately, we longer tend to remember things that we didn't do than those that we did add to our list of accomplishments. Imagine that you are struck by a disease which will soon terminate your life. What can you do before you finally part with your earthly form? Will it be a modest reminiscence of lost loves or a mindblowing adventure to experience all that there is to experience? Just get inspired. The Bucket List.
There are families which cultivate the love and passion for a vocation. Families of lawyers, doctors, actors, artists. Growing up in such a family always erases the lines between private and public life. You don't know if you're at work or if work absorbed your life, love, sex and the upbringing of your children to the extent of madness. You buy a little guitar for a football fan, you plan your children's education years in advance even though they barely can read and write, you take Cartoon Network obsessed youngsters to art galleries, and you disapprove other lifestyles, limiting any potential choices. Imagine a family which was so deep in its ways that it didn't notice the immediate danger and took fascination for a mortal threat. Medically disturbing, The Killing of a Sacred Deer. Enjoy.
Some easily get married and equally easily get divorced. Others last in a happy relationship for a lifetime, not needing any written document, official ceremony, change of surname, a white dress, and a suit. For some it's the validation of the life spent together and pride of numerous anniversaries celebrated among family and friends. For others, this is still something unreachable, illegal and condemned, even though they love and are loved in return. As many people as many lifestyles. But soon everybody (even permanent losers of the game of love) is bitten by the bug of love and desire, and there's time to do something about it. Funny and heart-warming, Four Weddings and a Funeral.
Can you put together the whole story from the bits and pieces of information that you are given to observe? Can you solve the mystery of a missing woman even though you can barely trust your own senses? Can you truly believe the ones you love or do you love the ideal of them sitting undisturbed in your head, sometimes so far away from the reality? And, can three so different women, with three different motherhood experiences, fall victim to one sinful mind of a man? An interesting outtake on women in general and one mystery to solve. The Girl on the Train.
Behind the walls or remote monasteries lived people who were distinguished by their intelligence and education. They followed different rules than the majority of the dark world, they knew truths inaccessible to others. But behind the curtain of religious devotion, they hid their sins and corrupt minds, committing carnal deeds and making use of those whose power they held in their hands. Behind the walls of remote monasteries, convents, and chapels there are still scandals and crimes just waiting to be discovered. Would you like to take part in a criminal investigation run by two monks and discover truths hidden by the facade of God's devotion? The Name of the Rose.
One way is to finish your education boasting a proud graduation diploma, smiling from the photograph, equipped with a pricey gift from your parents. One way is to find a respected, well-paid job and contribute something to the society by working from nine to five and paying taxes. This is one way for millions of people. There are other ways, which don't involve money, tight ties which connect you to a system of interconnected vessels: banks, offices, governments, borders, and shops. Very few choose another way: that of freedom, uninhibited dreams, but also fear and danger of the unknown. There are individuals willing to leave everything behind: family, rules, schools, and prospects to gain a different education and push themselves into the wild. One man's life story and a shift of perspective for us all.
When we are on the verge of adulthood, they delude us that dreams are there to come true, that our plans, hopes, and wishes will be fulfilled no matter what. We jump on the bandwagon of adulthood wishing for something better, different and happier than was offered to our parents. Then we find ourselves among rules impossible to overcome, we repeat the same patterns: men stuck in boring jobs to support the family, women stranded between nappies and spatulas to balance work, home, and life. No one told us that dreams and ambitions die on the way to the rubbish bin and dishwasher. No one told us about the frustrations of adulthood, failed expectations, lack of prospects, fear, insecurity, and helplessness. But no one told us that it's too late to learn. One unhappy marriage, which is to say what would happen if Rose had really saved Jack on this floating door raft. Revolutionary Road.
Imagine that you live in a bubble of happiness. You don't have to work, you float on the flying carpet of luxury among designer goods, jewelry, parties and equally successful and wealthy friends. You share the fairy tale fate of Cinderella, who finally found her Godmother and Prince Charming with castle and gold. Quite unfortunately, nothing is given forever and you might soon be left with nothing. How to build your life anew after a traumatic experience and why going mad is actually an option? The hard lesson of life for every seemingly fortunate woman who had her rose-tinted glasses shattered to pieces. Blue Jasmine.
You know these suburban areas. Seemingly, they are a perfect place for cultivating family values, relaxing after a hard day at work in the city. There's a spot for a barbecue with friends, safe children games, there's a driveway for your car and a lawn to mow. It's a great place to make friends, to enjoy the space of your mortgaged house, to lead a happy and peaceful life among trees, bushes, and white fences. Unless you watched Desperate Housewives and the curtains of naivety were raised from your eyes soon enough. Who'd have thought that the suburbs could be the base for a failed murder plot, which twists and turns in a hilarious way? Real America with real people and real memories of racial segregation in the background. Highly entertaining, Suburbicon.
The only valuable things in life that we need are food, water, shelter, work, and healthcare. You don't need diamonds, fancy clothes, designer goods and cars. Trust me, you really don't. But why, even in the richest countries in the world, it's still easier to buy a designer bag than to pay for cancer treatment? Why it takes years to pay off your mortgage, to educate yourself and why does it cost so much to treat a disease? Only selected few have enough money to grant everybody the right to long and healthy life. Sicko, a documentary shedding some light on the healthcare system in the USA, proving that the richest countries in the world don't really have the best of both worlds. Food for thought and a trigger to the bullet for future reforms.
Best way to find a friend is to be sad, miserable and in despair. Then you know that friendship is real and yours is the one to trust. Your sexless soulmate doesn't want anything from you apart from these bits and pieces of misery to help him heal his own lost soul. But how to deal with your best friend's happiness when none of this happiness concerns you? How to survive the separation and deal with a loss of the closest and most trusted person in your life? How to build your own life if you're struck by loneliness and why are we so often betrayed by those we love the most? Bitter-sweet but true. Life Partners.
Don't you think that you work too much to buy too many unnecessary things? Don't you have a feeling that you waste your life on unimportant material possessions, failing at your relationships, life goals, and dreams? We all fall into the trap of consumerism once we start earning money. We earn more to spend more; not earning enough, we buy more than we can afford, flooding ourselves in debt. Is there any solution to stress and frustration? Does having less ultimately means having more? Two guys climbing the corporate career ladder experienced a moment of crisis to come up with a very tempting philosophy. What is really important in life and why does it cost so little? Minimalism: A Documentary About the Important Things. Enjoy.
Our brains are extraordinary. They allow us to remember images, sounds, smells, numbers, and bring back memories from years before. They make it possible for us to learn, speak, write, communicate, and survive. Their individual structure put us in categories of predispositions, making some of us science and maths-oriented, others: artists, soothing our senses; skillful parents and teachers, bringing up generations of the future; businessmen, creating jobs for millions; doctors, immune to the disgust of blood and guts, and engineers, building everything from nothing. Our minds made us survive millennia and push our civilization towards the better, healthier and stronger. For some, being a genius means failing at other aspects of life adjustments, as you cannot achieve anything without sacrifices. Temple Grandin, a woman who revolutionized the cattle industry, despite being a woman in a man-dominated world and in spite of suffering from autism. Enjoy.
It's difficult to have a healthy relationship with food when the tastiest treats are the most unhealthy. If you want to eat what you like the most, you're going to end up in fast food restaurants and binging on chocolate bars and soda. On the other hand, if you switch to clean eating, you might kill yourself from the 'healthy' amount of nutrients. But our relationship with food is far more complicated than that, it ranges from starvation and not eating enough to overeating and using various means to get rid of the excess e.g. vomiting and laxatives. Anorexia, bulimia, mortal obesity, stomach surgeries, fad diets, diet pills: we are the only species in the world which haven't managed our nutrition yet, even though we claim that we are the most intelligent. At times, food or the lack of it can lead you to a simple suicidal path towards death. A story about a complex problem of anorexia and psychological factors which have an influence on a person's life. Teaching empathy, To the Bone.
Imagine that you can take a trip to the future where everything you know is different from what you're used to. Imagine that the things available in your time are no longer available in another time, the work that you used to do is impossible, as there are different services required. What was free is now considered a luxury and what was taken for granted is hard to find. Times change, you no longer feel free and comfortable. The only thing that doesn't change is the fact that you are a human being and you are subjected to the same spurt of emotions. Despite the time, despite technology and change. A love story, which in the loveless surroundings of our offices, hard chairs of conference rooms, and cities crowded with anonymous individuals, can happen to us all. Enjoy.
It's difficult to achieve something when life from birth places obstacles before you, making it difficult to even stay alive. It's excruciating to run away from pathology which operates as a norm and is the only known reality to a child. Our parents build us in a way that we are not entirely aware of. Whether we have them or not, whether they are perfectionists or extremely neglectful, they leave an impact on our adult lives. Their fears become our targets to overcome, their insecurities push us to have a certain lifestyle, their deficits make us work harder for something we want but failed to have as children. But without them, we would be nothing at all. The Glass Castle. How strong do you have to be to stand such rough upbringing and why running away from it all may not be all it's cracked up to be?


















