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  1. Rush 2013

    Film

    In the 1970s, a rivalry propels race car drivers Niki Lauda and James Hunt to fame and glory — until a horrible accident threatens to end it all.

    The sides of Rush

    • Hunt against Lauda
    • A crash at the Nürburgring
    • The 1976 Formula One season

    Good for you if

    • you like racing scenes that put you in the car.
    • you like two rivals who need each other.
    • you like true sports stories.

    Bad for you if

    • you find burns and hospital scenes hard to watch. One crash is shown up close.
    • you'd rather skip James Hunt's many sex scenes, or you're watching with family.

    About: rivalry · risk · respect

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  2. Drivers, managers and team owners live life in the fast lane — both on and off the track — during each cutthroat season of Formula 1 racing.

    The sides of Formula 1: Drive to Survive

    • Ten Formula 1 teams over a whole season
    • Drivers and team bosses talking off the track
    • Crashes, rivalries and contract fights

    Good for you if

    • you like the speed of Formula 1 and the politics around it.
    • you like getting behind the garage doors and listening to the team radios of a real championship.
    • you care more about the drivers and bosses than about the cars.

    Bad for you if

    • eight seasons of one sport is too much for you.
    • you lose track with a big cast. Ten teams and twenty drivers take turns at the centre.

    About: ambition · rivalry · pressure

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  3. Senna 2010

    Documentary

    The remarkable story of Brazilian racing driver Ayrton Senna, charting his physical and spiritual achievements on the track and off, his quest for perfection, and the mythical status he has since attained, is the subject of Senna, a documentary feature that spans the racing legend's years as an F1 driver, from his opening season in 1984 to his untimely death a decade later.

    The sides of Senna

    • Ayrton Senna's Formula One years, 1984 to 1994
    • The rivalry with Alain Prost
    • Only archive footage, no talking heads on screen

    Good for you if

    • you like onboard laps in the rain at Monaco.
    • you like a life told entirely through real footage from the time.
    • you like a rivalry that turns into collisions on the track.

    Bad for you if

    • you'd rather skip politics. Much of it is the fight with the sport's rulers over penalties and points.

    About: ambition · rivalry · faith · death

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  4. Loosely based on the true-life tale of Ron Woodroof, a drug-taking, women-loving, homophobic man who in 1986 was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS and given thirty days to live.

    The sides of Dallas Buyers Club

    • A rodeo cowboy diagnosed with HIV
    • Smuggling medicine across borders
    • An unlikely partner

    Good for you if

    • you like actors transformed, body and soul.
    • you like true stories of people who fought the system.
    • you like a prejudiced man who changes.

    Bad for you if

    • illness and dying from AIDS are too heavy for you tonight.
    • you'd rather skip the blunt sex scenes, or you're watching with family.

    About: survival · prejudice · defiance

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  5. The untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson – brilliant African-American women working at NASA and serving as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history – the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit. The visionary trio crossed all gender and race lines to inspire generations to dream big.

    The sides of Hidden Figures

    • Three Black women at NASA
    • Maths that sends men to space
    • Running to a bathroom across campus

    Good for you if

    • you want an uplifting true story.
    • you like three friends who drive to work together and push each other on.
    • you like discovering people history forgot.

    Bad for you if

    • you don't like period films. It's 1961, down to the cars and the segregated bathrooms.
    • you don't care about the space race. Everything builds to putting John Glenn in orbit.

    About: racism · talent · courage

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  6. Band of Brothers 2001

    Series

    Drawn from interviews with survivors of Easy Company, as well as their journals and letters, Band of Brothers chronicles the experiences of these men from paratrooper training in Georgia through the end of the war. As an elite rifle company parachuting into Normandy early on D-Day morning, participants in the Battle of the Bulge, and witness to the horrors of war, the men of Easy knew extraordinary bravery and extraordinary fear - and became the stuff of legend. Based on Stephen E. Ambrose's acclaimed book of the same name.

    The sides of Band of Brothers

    • The paratroopers of Easy Company
    • A night jump over Normandy on D-Day
    • The Battle of the Bulge in winter

    Good for you if

    • you want a war story built from the real men's interviews and letters.
    • you like soldiers who become brothers, from training in Georgia to the end.
    • you want to follow one company from Normandy to Bastogne and the end of the war.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch men wounded and killed in combat.
    • you need some lightness, and the cold of Bastogne and the camps are too much for you.

    About: brotherhood · courage · war

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  7. The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.

    The sides of Schindler's List

    • A businessman who saves his workers
    • Black and white, and a red coat
    • A list that means life

    Good for you if

    • you like striking black and white images, and a little girl in a red coat you won't forget.
    • you like a villain who's frighteningly human.
    • you want to understand a true story from the inside.

    Bad for you if

    • the Holocaust on screen is too much for you tonight.
    • over three hours is too long for one evening.
    • black and white puts you off.

    About: humanity · courage · evil

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  8. In 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programmer Mark Zuckerberg begins work on a new concept that eventually turns into the global social network known as Facebook. Six years later, Mark is one of the youngest billionaires ever, but his unprecedented success leads to both personal and legal complications when he ends up on the receiving end of two lawsuits, one involving his former friend.

    The sides of The Social Network

    • A website born in a dorm room
    • Friends suing each other
    • Fast, cutting dialogue

    Good for you if

    • you like people talking fast and cutting each other down.
    • you like a brilliant, cold founder who loses his friends.
    • you like true stories about how the world changed.

    Bad for you if

    • you want things to move. It's all meetings and depositions.
    • you need a lead you can like. Mark cuts his only friend out of the company.

    About: ambition · friendship · betrayal

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  9. The King's Speech tells the story of the man who became King George VI, the father of Queen Elizabeth II. After his brother abdicates, George ('Bertie') reluctantly assumes the throne. Plagued by a dreaded stutter and considered unfit to be king, Bertie engages the help of an unorthodox speech therapist named Lionel Logue. Through a set of unexpected techniques, and as a result of an unlikely friendship, Bertie is able to find his voice and boldly lead the country into war.

    The sides of The King's Speech

    • A king who can't speak in public
    • An unusual speech therapist
    • A war speech on the radio

    Good for you if

    • you like a quiet, powerful lead performance.
    • you want a gentle film about a stammering king and the teacher who won't give up on him.
    • you like a friendship told through conversations.

    Bad for you if

    • you want something to happen. It's conversations.
    • you can't get into royal period dramas. It's palaces, corgis and 1930s London.

    About: courage · friendship · duty

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  10. The Pacific 2010

    Series

    Track the intertwined real-life stories of three U.S. Marines – Robert Leckie, John Basilone, and Eugene Sledge – across the vast canvas of the Pacific Theater during World War II. A companion piece to the 2001 miniseries Band of Brothers.

    The sides of The Pacific

    • Three real Marines in the Pacific war
    • Guadalcanal, Peleliu, Iwo Jima and Okinawa
    • Coming home after the fighting

    Good for you if

    • you want the true stories of Leckie, Basilone and Sledge.
    • you want to understand the war against Japan island by island.
    • you like battle scenes on the scale of a film.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch combat deaths filmed up close.
    • the toll of war on real men's minds is too much for you.

    About: war · brotherhood · trauma

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  11. The Irishman 2019

    Film

    Pennsylvania, 1956. Frank Sheeran, a war veteran of Irish origin who works as a truck driver, accidentally meets mobster Russell Bufalino. Once Frank becomes his trusted man, Bufalino sends him to Chicago with the task of helping Jimmy Hoffa, a powerful union leader related to organized crime, with whom Frank will maintain a close friendship for nearly twenty years.

    The sides of The Irishman

    • A hitman looking back from a nursing home
    • Jimmy Hoffa
    • Decades of the mob

    Good for you if

    • you like a slow, reflective gangster story.
    • you like legends acting together one last time.
    • you like an ending about loneliness and regret.

    Bad for you if

    • three and a half hours is far too long for you.
    • you want a fast gangster film.

    About: loyalty · ageing · regret

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  12. Haikyu!! 2014

    Anime

    Inspired by a small-statured pro volleyball player, Hinata creates a volleyball team in his last year of middle school. Unfortunately the team is matched up against the "King of the Court" Tobio Kageyama’s team in their first tournament and inevitably lose. After the crushing defeat, Hinata vows to surpass Kageyama After entering high school, Hinata joins the volleyball team only to find that Tobio has also joined.

    The sides of Haikyu!!

    • A short boy who wants to jump higher than everyone
    • A genius setter who was too cold for his old team
    • A high school volleyball club trying to fly again

    Good for you if

    • you like volleyball matches where every rally and every serve counts.
    • you like two rivals who become the quickest attack on the court.
    • you like a single set stretched over a whole episode.

    Bad for you if

    • you don't watch anime.
    • four seasons of volleyball tournaments is too much for you.

    About: teamwork · rivalry · ambition

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  13. Oppenheimer 2023

    Film

    The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.

    The sides of Oppenheimer

    • The man who built the bomb
    • A secret town in the desert
    • A hearing that decides his fate

    Good for you if

    • you like a lead performance carried by the eyes.
    • you like rooms full of brilliant people arguing.
    • you want to feel the first test in your chest.

    Bad for you if

    • three hours of talking is too much for one evening.
    • you want action. It's mostly meetings and hearings.
    • you want a story told in order. It jumps between periods.

    About: guilt · power · science

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  14. A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to begin a life-changing professional career.

    The sides of The Pursuit of Happyness

    • A father and son with nowhere to sleep
    • An unpaid internship
    • A Rubik's cube in a taxi

    Good for you if

    • you like a story of struggle with a moving end.
    • you like a real father and son on screen together.
    • you like a sincere story about never giving up.

    Bad for you if

    • homelessness with a child is too hard for you tonight.
    • you want to laugh with Will Smith. Here he plays it straight, down to a night in a subway bathroom.

    About: perseverance · fatherhood · poverty

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  15. The Crown 2016

    Series

    The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny. The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street – and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.

    The sides of The Crown

    • Elizabeth II from her young reign to old age
    • Weekly meetings with her Prime Ministers
    • A royal family torn between duty and love

    Good for you if

    • you like the second half of the 20th century seen from inside Buckingham Palace.
    • you like a family drama where a sister, a husband and children all come second to the Crown.
    • you like who really decides things between the palace and Downing Street.

    Bad for you if

    • you need momentum, and many episodes are quiet conversations in palace rooms.
    • six seasons of royal life is too much for you.

    About: duty · family · the monarchy

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  16. Los Angeles, 1969. TV star Rick Dalton, a struggling actor specializing in westerns, and stuntman Cliff Booth, his best friend, try to survive in a constantly changing movie industry. Dalton is the neighbor of the young and promising actress and model Sharon Tate, who has just married the prestigious Polish director Roman Polanski…

    The sides of Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

    • A fading TV actor and his stunt double
    • Los Angeles in 1969
    • A day in the life, and a night that changes

    Good for you if

    • you like hanging out with characters more than following a plot.
    • you like actors talking in cars and on sets.
    • you love the music, cars and cinemas of 1969.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't laugh when people get hurt, and Tarantino plays Cliff's fights for comedy.
    • a very violent last scene would spoil it for you.

    About: fame · friendship · nostalgia

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  17. The Pianist 2002

    Film

    The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.

    The sides of The Pianist

    • A pianist hiding in Warsaw
    • Years alone in empty flats
    • Music for an enemy officer

    Good for you if

    • you like a quiet performance of pure survival.
    • you like a true story that stays with you.
    • you like watching someone hold on through everything.

    Bad for you if

    • the Holocaust shown in detail is too much tonight.
    • two and a half hours is too long for your evening.

    About: survival · art · humanity

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  18. Into the Wild 2007

    Film

    After graduating from Emory University in 1992, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account to charity, and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness.

    The sides of Into the Wild

    • A graduate who gives everything away
    • A road trip across America
    • An abandoned bus in Alaska

    Good for you if

    • you like wide landscapes and life in the wild.
    • you like a young man searching for meaning.
    • you like the true story of a graduate who gave away his savings and hitchhiked to Alaska.

    Bad for you if

    • two and a half hours is too long for your evening.
    • you can't watch parents suffering. His family waits two years with no word from him.

    About: freedom · family · nature

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  19. Sully 2016

    Film

    On 15 January 2009, the world witnessed the 'Miracle on the Hudson' when Captain 'Sully' Sullenberger glided his disabled plane onto the Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 souls aboard. However, even as Sully was being heralded by the public and the media for his unprecedented feat of aviation skill, an investigation was unfolding that threatened to destroy his reputation and career.

    The sides of Sully

    • A plane landed on the Hudson
    • 208 seconds
    • An investigation that questions the pilot

    Good for you if

    • you like a true story of a hero who did his job.
    • you like the question of whether the landing was the right call, argued out in hearings.
    • you like Tom Hanks as a quiet man who starts to doubt himself after the landing.

    Bad for you if

    • you're scared of flying. The landing is replayed several times, and Sully dreams of crashes.
    • you want a disaster film full of action. The landing takes minutes, the rest is hearings, hotel rooms and phone calls.

    About: duty · doubt · expertise

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  20. The Last Dance 2020

    Documentary

    A 10-part documentary chronicling the untold story of Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls dynasty with rare, never-before-seen footage and sound from the 1997-98 championship season – plus over 100 interviews with famous figures and basketball’s biggest names.

    The sides of The Last Dance

    • The Chicago Bulls' 1997-98 season
    • Michael Jordan watching old clips on a tablet
    • Rare footage from inside the locker room

    Good for you if

    • you like basketball games replayed with the players telling you what they felt.
    • you want Jordan, Pippen, Rodman and Phil Jackson in their own words.
    • you like the 1990s NBA, from the Bad Boys Pistons to the sixth title.

    Bad for you if

    • ten episodes on one team is too much for you.
    • a hundred interviews and a whole roster to keep track of lose you.

    About: winning · competition · fame

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