Spotlight
Wondering which films to watch? Spotlight presents thematically grouped, must see films, hand-picked by Fandor's curators.
De jueves a domingo
Low Fidelity
Old Joy
Between Us
Le Week-End
Marvin Seth and Stanley
Lying
The Underneath
In Our Nature
All the Light in the Sky
Weekend Escape
These characters can get out of town for a weekend escape, but can they really escape from their anxieties, truths, fears, families? Isolated in country houses, abroad, or in the company of those we love/hate the most, these films remind us that sometimes you need a vacation from a vacation.
Selected Films
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De jueves a domingo
It all begins on a Thursday when two children go on a holiday trip with their parents to the north of Chile. It all ends on a Sunday. Lucía and Manuel travel for the long weekend with their parents, Ana and Fernando. The couple has decided to break up but has previously...Watch Movie
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Lying
When a long weekend brings four women together in the countryside, each of them is forced to navigate the depths of social interaction as virtual strangers. How well do we really know the friends we make in adulthood? And in an age of lies, what can be made of a person who tells untruths so small...Watch Movie
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Marvin Seth and Stanley
The usually quarreling Greenstein brothers Seth and Stanley reluctantly agree to join their father, Marvin, for a weekend trip in rural Minnesota. Estranged from each other, the threesome of inept outdoorsmen rediscover repressed grudges as the weekend comically devolves into...Watch Movie
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Le Week-End
Academy Award®-winner Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan give exquisite performances as Nick and Meg, a long-married British couple revisiting Paris for the first time since their honeymoon in an attempt to rekindle their relationship. During a two-day escapade, diffident, wistful Nick and...Watch Movie
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Between Us
In this darkly comedic drama, two couples reunite over two incendiary evenings where anything can happen. Grace and Carlo are a newly married New York couple who visit their old friends Sharyl and Joel in their huge Midwestern home. Despite their wealth, the hosts are in a bitterly destructive...Watch Movie
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In Our Nature
When Brooklynite Seth takes his girlfriend Andie to his family's weekend house in upstate New York for a romantic getaway, they are unexpectedly joined by Seth's estranged father, Gil, and his new girlfriend, Vicky. The women negotiate emotional minefields to persuade father and son to share the...Watch Movie
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All the Light in the Sky
Jane Adams stars as an actress living in Malibu who faces harsh realities of the industry as her age exempts her from more and more acting opportunities. Amidst this career and life crisis enters the actress's niece, played by Sophia Takal, who arrives for a weekend stay and...Watch Movie
