Spotlight
Wondering which films to watch? Spotlight presents thematically grouped, must see films, hand-picked by Fandor's curators.
Based on the Book
Literary adaptations have forever provoked us to debate: Book or movie? In this collection, we bring the written word to the screen so you can decide for yourself! These movies are all based on literature, including a Shakespearean tragedy (HAMLET), a work from Charles Dickens (NICHOLAS NICKLEBY), a play about the life of poet T.S. Eliot (TOM & VIV), a classic by Emily Brontë (WUTHERING HEIGHTS), and a few novels by contemporary literary icons Jack Kerouac (BIG SUR) and Haruki Murakami (NORWEGIAN WOOD). Plus a saga so successful in Europe (THE MILLENNIUM TRILOGY) that we needed an American version (THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO), and many more!
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Selected Films
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A Shock to the System
A middle-aged advertising executive loses his long-awaited promotion to a younger man. In frustration, he accidentally pushes a panhandler in front of a subway train... and gets away with the death. Realizing that committing murder might be a little easier than he previously...Watch Movie
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Man of the Crowd
Juvenal is a train conductor for the metro in Belo Horizonte. Margo controls train traffic. Both live in a state of deep solitude – each in their own way. This film is a reflection on different forms of loneliness and friendship in an overcrowded Brazilian urban environment.Watch Movie
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The Man with the Golden Arm
Otto Preminger extracts a powerful performance from Frank Sinatra as Frankie Machine, a former drug addicted card dealer just out of detox and trying to establish a new career as a jazz drummer. Back in his old neighborhood Frankie finds it difficult to stay clean faced with...Watch Movie
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Mademoiselle Chambon
A love story that has bewitched audiences and critics worldwide, MADEMOISELLE CHAMBON delicately captures the initial stirrings of romance. Vincent Lindon plays Jean, a burly and happily married housing contractor. One fateful afternoon, he picks up his son (Arthur Le Houérou)...Watch Movie
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Robinson Crusoe
The year is 1659. There is a shipwreck and the sole survivor, Robinson Crusoe, is washed ashore on a deserted tropical island. Suddenly faced with a hostile and unknown wilderness, he carves out a life for himself with his bare hands. Remarkably, he learns how to survive the maddening absence of...Watch Movie
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The Tree
The exquisite Charlotte Gainsbourg stars in French filmmaker Julie Bertuccelli’s achingly beautiful follow-up to her sleeper hit SINCE OTAR LEFT. The Closing Night film at Cannes in 2010, THE TREE is a mystical drama of loss and rebirth in the Australian countryside. Not since classic 1970s works...Watch Movie
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Lady Chatterley
Robbed of intimacy by her blueblood husband's war injuries, Constance Chatterley longs for the emotional fulfillment and physical passion that her marriage lacks. When she espies the gamekeeper Parkin (Jean-Louis Coullo'ch) unselfconsciously bathing, stripped to the waist amidst the beauty of...Watch Movie
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The Dry Valley
DRY VALLEY is the first full feature film by Alexandra Strelyanaya. The film is based on the famous novel written by Nobel Prize laureate Ivan Bunin. This story unites the destinies of the landowners and their servants, and is considered to be one of the most complete portraits of the Russian...Watch Movie
