Films

3.8

309 reviews

Conversations with Friends

Lenny Abrahamson2022Romance, Drama

The team behind “Normal People” adapts Sally Rooney’s first novel, about Frances and Bobbi, who were a couple before they were best friends. When a well-known writer and her husband take an interest in both of them, one of the two goes on keeping what she really wants to herself. — Frances is in her twenties, studying in Dublin alongside Bobbi, who is both her best friend and her ex-girlfriend. In the evenings the two of them perform Frances’s poems at slam nights, and at one of them they meet Melissa, a writer, and her husband Nick, an actor. Soon the tension between Frances and Nick is impossible to miss.

4.3

41 reviews

The Anatomy of a Moment

Alberto Rodríguez2025Drama, Thriller, History

A gripping political thriller revisiting the moment Spain's young democracy came closest to collapse. Starring Álvaro Morte (Money Heist), the series chronicles the failed coup that almost plunged the country back into military rule. — Beginning with the attempted coup of 23 February 1981, the series reconstructs one of the defining moments in modern Spanish history. When Lieutenant Colonel Antonio Tejero storms Parliament with armed Civil Guards, only three men refuse to take cover: Prime Minister Adolfo Suárez, Communist leader Santiago Carrillo, and General Manuel Gutiérrez Mellado. Through their stories and those of the coup's architects the series vividly recreates the dramatic events that reshaped Spain.

4.3

285 reviews

The North Water

Andrew Haigh2021Mystery, Period Piece, Drama

No series had ever filmed as far north as this one, deep in the Arctic, where Andrew Haigh (“All of Us Strangers”) sends Jack O’Connell aboard a whaler as its disgraced doctor, with Colin Farrell hunting from the same deck. Nobody on that ship is going to come out of the voyage well. — In Hull in 1859, Patrick Sumner, an army surgeon dismissed in disgrace, signs on as doctor aboard a whaler heading for the Arctic ice. Among the crew is the harpooner Henry Drax, a man with no conscience at all. The captain, meanwhile, is carrying orders that nobody else on board knows about.