Fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit 451 2018

5.42

In an oppressive future, a 'fireman' whose duty is to destroy all books begins to question his task.

2018

7 Prisoners

7 Prisoners 2021

7.05

An impoverished teen seeking to escape the clutches of a human trafficker must weigh living up to his moral code against his struggle to survive.

2021

The White Tiger

The White Tiger 2021

6.96

An ambitious Indian driver uses his wit and cunning to escape from poverty and rise to the top. An epic journey based on the New York Times bestseller.

2021

Chop Shop

Chop Shop 2008

6.67

Alejandro, a tough and ambitious Latino street orphan on the verge of adolescence, lives and works in an auto-body repair shop in a sprawling junkyard on the outskirts of Queens, New York. In this chaotic world of adults, young Alejandro struggles to make a better life for himself and his 16-year-old sister, Isamar.

2008

Goodbye Solo

Goodbye Solo 2009

6.90

A man planning to commit suicide hires a taxi driver to take him to his jumping-off point.

2009

Man Push Cart

Man Push Cart 2006

6.85

Every night while the city sleeps, Ahmad, a former Pakistani rock star turned immigrant, drags his heavy cart along the streets of New York. And every morning, he sells coffee and donuts to a city he cannot call his own. One day, however, the pattern of this harsh existence is broken by a glimmer of hope for a better life.

2006

Plastic Bag

Plastic Bag 2009

7.50

A plastic bag, thrown out in the trash, attempts to find his way back to his owner and along the way discovers the world.

2009

Luzzu

Luzzu 2021

6.90

Jesmark, a struggling fisherman on the island of Malta, is forced to turn his back on generations of tradition and risk everything by entering the world of black market fishing to provide for his girlfriend and newborn baby.

2021

2nd Chance

2nd Chance 2022

6.80

In 1969, bankrupt pizzeria owner Richard Davis invented the modern-day bulletproof vest. To prove that it worked, he shot himself — point-blank — 192 times.

2022

Amnesty

Amnesty 1970

1

Set in Australia, Danny, an undocumented immigrant who cleans houses, realizes that he has information about the murder of one of his employers. Over the course of one tense summer day, Danny plays a cat-and-mouse game with the man he suspects to be the murderer.

1970

Blood Kin

Blood Kin 2018

5.00

Reflections from Red Oak, Texas where a teenage son murdered his father.

2018

If Dreams Were Lightning

If Dreams Were Lightning 2023

1

Ramin Bahrani explores a precarious community ill-equipped to handle catastrophe, and in so doing captures the human cost of inequality, a moral failure in the richest nation in the world.

2023