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Good Will Hunting

Movie | United States | 12/05/1997 | Drama | Geniuses

8.3/10

97%

4,422

Rain Man

Movie | United States | 12/11/1988 | Drama | Geniuses

Selfish yuppie Charlie Babbitt's father left a fortune to his savant brother Raymond and a pittance to Charlie; they travel cross-country.

8.0/10

89%

975

Finding Forrester

Movie | United States | 12/21/2000 | Drama | Geniuses

Gus van Sant tells the story of a young African American man named Jamal who confronts his talents while living on the streets of the Bronx. He accidentally runs into an old writer named Forrester who discovers his passion for writing. With help from his new mentor Jamal receives a scholarship to a private school.

7.3/10

74%

134

Proof

Movie | United States | 09/05/2005 | Drama | Geniuses

Catherine is a woman in her late twenties who is strongly devoted to her father, Robert, a brilliant and well-known mathematician whose grip on reality is beginning to slip away. As Robert descends into madness, Catherine begins to wonder if she may have inherited her father’s mental illness along with his mathematical genius. When Robert’s work reveals a mathematical proof of potentially historic proportions, it sets off shock waves in more ways than one.

6.8/10

63%

Powder

Movie | United States | 10/27/1995 | Drama | Geniuses

Harassed by classmates who won't accept his shocking appearance, a shy young man known as \Powder\ struggles to fit in. But the cruel taunts stop when Powder displays a mysterious power that allows him to do incredible things. This phenomenon changes the lives of all those around him in ways they never could have imagined.

6.6/10

50%

Phenomenon

Movie | United States | 07/05/1996 | Drama | Geniuses

6.4/10

49%

Searching for Bobby Fischer

Movie | United States | 08/13/1993 | Drama | Geniuses

A prepubescent chess prodigy refuses to harden himself in order to become a champion like the famous but unlikable Bobby Fischer.

7.4/10

100%

578

The Other Sister

Movie | United States | 02/26/1999 | Drama | Geniuses

A mentally retarded girl proves herself to be every bit as capable as her \perfect\ sister when she moves into an apartment and begins going to college.

6.4/10

Little Man Tate

Movie | United States | 09/06/1991 | Drama | Geniuses

Dede is a sole parent trying to bring up her son Fred. When it is discovered that Fred is a genius, she is determined to ensure that Fred has all the opportunities that he needs, and that he is not taken advantage of by people who forget that his extremely powerful intellect is harboured in the body and emotions of a child.

6.6/10

73%

Philomena

Movie | United Kingdom | 11/27/2013 | Drama | Journalists

A woman searches for her adult son, who was taken away from her decades ago when she was forced to live in a convent.

7.6/10

91%

Life of Pi

Movie | United Kingdom | 11/21/2012 | Drama | Magical Realism

The story of an Indian boy named Pi, a zookeepers son who finds himself in the company of a hyena, zebra, orangutan, and a Bengal tiger after a shipwreck sets them adrift in the Pacific Ocean.

7.9/10

86%

1,098

A Serious Man

Movie | United Kingdom | 09/30/2009 | Drama | Dramedy

It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him. She has fallen in love with one of his more pompous acquaintances Sy Ableman.

7.0/10

89%

Only Lovers Left Alive

Movie | United Kingdom | 12/12/2013 | Drama | Vampires

After being around for centuries and now living in the modern age, vampire Adam is a rockstar that cannot grow accustomed to the new modern world with all of its new technology. While he lives in Detroit, his wife Eve lives in Tangier, flourishing in the new world. But when she senses Adam's depression with society, she gets on a plane and goes to see him. Shortly after Eve gets there, her little sister, Ava, shows up after 87 years and disrupts the couple's idyll reunion.

7.2/10

86%

174

Shame

Movie | United Kingdom | 12/02/2011 | Drama | sex

In New York City, Brandon's carefully cultivated private life which allows him to indulge his sexual addiction is disrupted when his sister Cissy arrives unannounced for an indefinite stay.

7.2/10

79%

433

Slumdog Millionaire

Movie | United Kingdom | 11/12/2008 | Drama | Bollywood

A teenager reflects on his life after being accused of cheating on the Indian version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire?.

8.0/10

91%

183

The Life of David Gale

Movie | United Kingdom | 02/21/2003 | Drama | Lawyers

A man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row.

7.5/10

19%

141

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

Movie | United Kingdom | 09/12/2008 | Drama | Holocaust

Set during World War II, a story seen through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a concentration camp, whose forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences.

7.7/10

2,032

Bronson

Movie | United Kingdom | 10/09/2008 | Drama | Prison

A young man who was sentenced to 7 years in prison for robbing a post office ends up spending 30 years in solitary confinement. During this time, his own personality is supplanted by his alter ego, Charles Bronson.

7.0/10

76%

Hooligans

Movie | United Kingdom | 09/09/2005 | Drama | Soccer

After being wrongfully expelled from Harvard University, American Matt Buckner flees to his sisters home in England. Once there, he is befriended by her charming and dangerous brother-in-law, Pete Dunham, and introduced to the underworld of British football hooliganism. Matt learns to stand his ground through a friendship that develops against the backdrop of this secret and often violent world. Green Street Hooligans is a story of loyalty, trust and the sometimes brutal consequences of living close to the edge.

7.5/10