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1. Coco. 2017 1h 45m PG. 8.4 (599K) Rate. 81 Metascore. Aspiring musician Miguel, confronted with his family's ancestral ban on music, enters the Land of the Dead to find his great-great-grandfather, a legendary singer. Director Lee Unkrich Adrian Molina Stars Anthony Gonzalez Gael García Bernal Benjamin Bratt. 2. Lost in Translation. 2003 1h 42m R
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- Parasite. Parasite is a South Korean comedy/thriller released in 2019. A poor family wants to worm their way inside the house and lives of a wealthy family, so they devise a plan to adopt new identities to earn employment with the family.
- Moonlight. Moonlight is a coming-of-age film that highlights the struggles of a young Black boy questioning his sexuality. The film has three parts, focused on his childhood, teenage years, and adulthood.
- Barbie. Barbie was released in the summer of 2023 and already has made waves in the film industry. Margot Robbie starred in the titular role and Ryan Gosling starred as Ken.
- The Social Network. In 2009, author Ben Mezrich wrote a book called The Accidental Billionaires that covered how Facebook was founded. Just one year later, a biopic based on the book was released, received international praise, and was slotted as number two in Rolling Stone’s 50 Best Movies of the 2010s.
- 10 'The Farewell'
- 9 'The Yakuza'
- 8 'The Wedding Banquet'
- 7 'Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence'
- 6 'Black Panther'
- 5 'Pushing Hands'
- 4 'Red Sun'
- 3 'Turning Red'
- 2 'In The Loop'
- 1 'Minari'
The Farewell is a gentle yet very sad movie that offers small bursts of comedy within the drama. It centers on a Chinese family who learns the family's eldest member - the protagonist's grandmother - has a terminal illness, yet decides to keep the news from her, and create a staged wedding to give the family members one last chance to say goodbye.....
The simply titled The Yakuza is likely the best yakuza film made by a non-Japanese director. It follows an American man who travels to Japan to find a friend's kidnaped daughter, but soon encounters members of the yakuza, who are the main organized crime family in Japan (sort of comparable to how Italy and the US have the mafia). While most culture...
The first three feature films from Ang Lee were fairly grounded dramas that often dealt with characters who have differing points of view. The Wedding Banquetis a clear example, in this regard, as it focuses on a Taiwanese-American man living in New York City who keeps his same-sex partner a secret from his traditionalist Taiwanese parents. RELATED...
Even if it's not his most well-known movie, Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence undeniably contains David Bowie's best performance. In it, he plays a British soldier who disrupts the way of life in a prisoner-of-war camp run by Japanese soldiers during the Second World War. Despite the two sides not shown being in active warfare with each other, the Brit...
Even if one side of the cultural conflict in the first Black Panther heralds from a fictional nation - Wakanda - it's still a movie that depicts ideologies caused by different backgrounds clashing. The film's protagonist, T’Challa, and antagonist, Killmonger, likely wouldn't be opposed if they'd grown up together, but their differing pasts cause th...
Two years before The Wedding Banquet, Ang Lee explored similar themes of cultural conflict with a very different story. 1991's Pushing Handscenters on a widower who leaves Beijing to come and live in America with his son's family. The widower doesn't speak English and doesn't understand American culture. His daughter-in-law doesn't speak Mandarin a...
French superstar Alain Delon is best known for starring in stylish French crime thrillers, but that wasn't the only type of movie he appeared in. Red Sunstands out as an anomaly in his career, as it's a fairly wild action/adventure movie that aims to merge a Western with a samurai film. RELATED: The King of Cool: Great Movies Starring French Icon A...
You can often rely on Pixar movies to deal with fairly mature topics whilst remaining family-friendly. Turning Redis a good example of this, as it presents a less intense - but still impactful - look at a culture clashing, showing how a young Chinese girl raised in America butts heads with her more traditional mother, and the values held by much of...
In the Loop shows that cultural clashes don't always have to occur between two groups who speak a different language. It also shows that it's possible to ridicule both sides and mine their arguments for comedy gold, which is what this profane, dark, clever, and very funny political satire does. The UK Prime Minister and the US President both seem t...
Minaritakes an interesting approach to two cultures clashing. The main characters belong to a family of South Korean immigrants living in the US, with the parents feeling more at odds with the culture than their two young kids, who seem to adapt to the American way of life surprisingly fast. It's not so much that there's conflict between the parent...
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- Lost in Translation (2003) What it’s about: Bob Harris is a middle-aged movie star who crosses paths in Tokyo with a young Yale Philosophy student Charlotte.
- Coco (2017) What it’s about: Miguel is a talented guitar player who has to hide his talent because of his family’s long tradition where music is not allowed.
- Dances with Wolves (1990) What it’s about: Kevin Costner plays Lt. John Dunbar, who is proclaimed a war hero after accidentally leads Union troops to a victory during the Civil War.
- Slumdog Millionaire. What it’s about: Jamal Malik, an 18-year-old orphan, is just one question away from winning a huge sum on the Indian version of “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.”
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Cultural movies. Refine See titles to watch instantly, titles you haven't rated, etc. 98 titles. 1. The Namesake (2006) PG-13 | 122 min | Drama. 7.5. Rate. 82 Metascore. American-born Gogol, the son of Indian immigrants, wants to fit in among his fellow New Yorkers, despite his family's unwillingness to let go of their traditional ways.
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Dec 5, 2019 · Here are the most culturally influential movies of the past decade. American Sniper. At first thought, America Sniper might seem like an odd choice for this list, but its impact is undeniable.
