From Germany I think “Das Leben der Anderen” (2006) about a Stasi Officer is a gripping movie.
And “Die Welle” (2008) touches on an important subject that a lot of people today seem to have forgotten about. Many schools in Germany show this one, or the older version, in class.
Just don’t watch “Funny Games”, unless you want to hate yourself for that decision.
Canada 🇨🇦 Fubar:
And the sequel:
Both are free to watch on YouTube.
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Apollo 13 and A League of Their Own.
The former is about the real Apollo 13 disaster and it’s a very accessible movie about how NASA did everything in their power to save the lives of three astronauts as they struggle to survive the aftermath of an explosion aboard their moonbound shuttle. Teamwork, tension, engineering; what’s not to love?
The latter is a retelling of the development of the All American Girl’s Professional Baseball League that was put together in the 1940s as men were sent to WWII, and it follows the women who played and one team’s season. There’re few things more American than baseball or WWII movies, and I just love the framing of it: it starts off in a museum decades later and is bookended by it at the end. The scenes with the old women who played who look back at themselves making history are touching.
