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  1. The Revenant 2015

    Film

    In the 1820s, a frontiersman, Hugh Glass, sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him for dead after a bear mauling.

    The sides of The Revenant

    • A man left for dead in the snow
    • A bear attack you feel in your bones
    • Revenge across a frozen wilderness

    Good for you if

    • you like real landscapes filmed in natural light.
    • you like watching someone stay alive against everything.
    • you like the American frontier of the 1820s, fur trappers and all.

    Bad for you if

    • a bear mauling and raw wounds are too much for you.
    • you want a story told in words. There are few.
    • two and a half hours of struggle is too long for you.

    About: survival · revenge · nature

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  2. As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fourth trapped behind enemy lines. Ranger captain John Miller and seven men are tasked with penetrating German-held territory and bringing the boy home.

    The sides of Saving Private Ryan

    • The Normandy landing
    • Eight men looking for one
    • A bridge to hold

    Good for you if

    • you want to feel what a battle is really like.
    • you like Tom Hanks as a captain whose hand won't stop shaking.
    • you like a battle you feel in your seat. The landing on Omaha Beach opens the film.

    Bad for you if

    • very graphic battle wounds are too much for you.
    • nearly three hours is too much for one evening.

    About: duty · sacrifice · brotherhood

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  3. The Last Duel 2021

    Film

    King Charles VI declares that Knight Jean de Carrouges settle his dispute with his squire, Jacques Le Gris, by challenging him to a duel.

    The sides of The Last Duel

    • A knight and a squire, old friends turned enemies
    • One crime told three times
    • A duel to the death in medieval Paris

    Good for you if

    • you like a real 14th century trial in mud, steel and castles.
    • you want a brutal duel on horseback and on foot.
    • you want Jodie Comer as Marguerite, holding her ground against a court of men.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch a rape on screen. Here you see it twice, from two points of view.
    • two and a half hours is too much for you.

    About: honor · truth · women's voices

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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.

    The sides of The Godfather Part II

    • A son ruling the family business
    • A young father building it in old New York
    • A brother's betrayal

    Good for you if

    • you like a long, patient tragedy.
    • you like two great performances in two eras.
    • you like a dark family saga that offers no comfort.

    Bad for you if

    • over three hours is too long for one evening.

    About: family · power · loneliness

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  7. Gladiator 2000

    Film

    After the death of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, his devious son takes power and demotes Maximus, one of Rome's most capable generals who Marcus preferred. Eventually, Maximus is forced to become a gladiator and battle to the death against other men for the amusement of paying audiences.

    The sides of Gladiator

    • A general sold into slavery
    • Fights in the arena
    • An emperor who fears him

    Good for you if

    • you want ancient Rome brought back to life.
    • you like a hero driven by honour and a promise to his family.
    • you like brutal sword fights in the arena.

    Bad for you if

    • bloody battles and arena deaths ruin it for you.
    • two and a half hours is too long for your evening.

    About: revenge · honour · power

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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 1883 2021

    Series

    Follow the Dutton family as they embark on a journey west through the Great Plains toward the last bastion of untamed America. A stark retelling of Western expansion, and an intense study of one family fleeing poverty to seek a better future in America’s promised land — Montana.

    The sides of 1883

    • The Dutton family crossing the Great Plains
    • Sam Elliott as a grieving wagon master
    • Elsa Dutton narrating the journey

    Good for you if

    • you like Isabel May as Elsa, carrying the story in her voiceover.
    • you like the wagon trails of the 1880s shown in all their hardship.
    • you like settlers facing rivers, bandits and disease.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't stand brutal deaths on screen.
    • you can't take grief and loss episode after episode.

    About: hope · loss · freedom · family

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  11. When oil is discovered in 1920s Oklahoma under Osage Nation land, the Osage people are murdered one by one—until the FBI steps in to unravel the mystery.

    The sides of Killers of the Flower Moon

    • Osage families murdered for their oil money
    • A marriage built on poison
    • 1920s Oklahoma

    Good for you if

    • you want to know the true story of the Osage murders.
    • you like 1920s Oklahoma, rich with oil and greed.
    • you can't look away from Lily Gladstone as Mollie.

    Bad for you if

    • three and a half hours is too much for you.
    • you need momentum, not a slow tightening noose.

    About: greed · betrayal · injustice

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  12. 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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  13. Generation War 2013

    Series

    Career-soldier Wilhelm, his pacifist younger brother Friedhelm, and their friends Charlotte, Viktor and Greta say farewell in the summer of 1941 in Berlin, with the promise to meet again after the war.

    The sides of Generation War

    • Five friends in Berlin in 1941
    • Two brothers on the Eastern Front
    • A promise to meet again after the war

    Good for you if

    • you want a war seen from the German side, on the Eastern Front.
    • you like following five friends as the war pulls them apart.
    • you can take a war story where nobody comes out clean.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't stand executions and battle scenes shown up close.
    • you can't face the persecution of Jews and massacres on screen.
    • you won't read subtitles for a German series.

    About: guilt · friendship · lost innocence · complicity

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  14. Lincoln 2012

    Film

    The revealing story of the 16th US President's tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the war, unite the country and abolish slavery. With the moral courage and fierce determination to succeed, his choices during this critical moment will change the fate of generations to come.

    The sides of Lincoln

    • Lincoln's last months in office
    • A vote in Congress to abolish slavery
    • Daniel Day-Lewis as Lincoln

    Good for you if

    • you like politics made of speeches, deals and backroom arguments.
    • you want to watch Daniel Day-Lewis become Lincoln.
    • you like the Civil War seen from inside the White House.

    Bad for you if

    • you need battles, not rooms full of men talking.
    • two and a half hours of votes and debates is too much for you.

    About: slavery · compromise · leadership

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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. Changeling 2008

    Film

    Los Angeles, 1928. When single mother Christine Collins leaves for work, her son vanishes without a trace. Five months later, the police reunite mother and son. But when Christine suspects that the boy returned to her isn't her child, her quest for truth exposes a world of corruption.

    The sides of Changeling

    • A mother whose son vanishes in 1928 Los Angeles
    • A boy returned by the police who is not hers
    • A woman locked in an asylum for insisting

    Good for you if

    • you want the true story of Christine Collins and her fight with the LAPD.
    • you can't look away from Angelina Jolie as a mother who will not give up.
    • you like 1920s Los Angeles, its streetcars and switchboards.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't take a missing child and the crimes behind it.
    • two hours and twenty minutes is too much for you.

    About: motherhood · corruption · truth

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  17. Five-part adaptation of Anne Frank's famous wartime diaries in which a young teenager and her family go into hiding from the Nazis in wartime Amsterdam.

    The sides of The Diary of Anne Frank

    • A teenage girl writing her diary
    • A family hiding from the Nazis in Amsterdam
    • Eight people sharing a secret annex

    Good for you if

    • you want to understand daily life in hiding during the war.
    • you want to hear Anne Frank's own words brought to the screen.
    • you can be moved by a girl full of life whose fate you know.

    Bad for you if

    • the Holocaust is too painful for you to watch.
    • you need momentum, and this stays inside a few small rooms.

    About: adolescence · fear · hope

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  18. Downfall 2004

    Film

    In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking from the west. In Berlin, capital of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler proclaims that Germany will still achieve victory and orders his generals and advisers to fight to the last man. When the end finally does come, and Hitler lies dead by his own hand, what is left of his military must find a way to end the killing that is the Battle of Berlin, and lay down their arms in surrender.

    The sides of Downfall

    • Hitler's last days in his Berlin bunker
    • His young secretary
    • Berlin falling to the Soviet army

    Good for you if

    • you want to see the last days of the Third Reich up close.
    • you can't look away from Bruno Ganz as Hitler.
    • you like the airless dread of a bunker while the city falls above.

    Bad for you if

    • you won't read subtitles for a German film.
    • you can't watch despair and suicides pile up in a bunker.

    About: denial · blind loyalty · defeat

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  19. When Patrizia Reggiani, an outsider from humble beginnings, marries into the Gucci family, her unbridled ambition begins to unravel the family legacy and triggers a reckless spiral of betrayal, decadence, revenge, and ultimately… murder.

    The sides of House of Gucci

    • An outsider marrying into the Gucci family
    • A fashion empire torn apart
    • A murder ordered by a wife

    Good for you if

    • you like true stories about a famous family and a real crime.
    • you like Lady Gaga as Patrizia Reggiani.
    • you like a family fighting over who owns a fashion house.

    Bad for you if

    • two hours and forty minutes is too much for you.
    • you'd rather not watch sex scenes with others in the room.

    About: ambition · betrayal · money

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  20. 1923 2022

    Series

    Follow a new generation of the Dutton family during the early twentieth century when pandemics, historic drought, the end of Prohibition and the Great Depression all plague the mountain west, and the Duttons who call it home.

    The sides of 1923

    • Jacob and Cara Dutton holding the Montana ranch
    • Spencer Dutton hunting in Africa
    • A Native girl at a Catholic boarding school

    Good for you if

    • you like the American West of drought, Prohibition and the Depression.
    • you like the Dutton family story before Yellowstone.
    • you can take a harsh, unforgiving frontier.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't stand brutal, bloody killings.
    • you can't watch the abuse of Native children at a boarding school.

    About: land · family · survival · colonization

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