This movie by far should have won Best Film of 2016. As a matter of fact, it's one of the best films ever made. It was runner-up for cinematography and should have won that too. It is the true story of two Jesuit priests bringing the message of the Son of God coming to this planet, as Jesus, to Japan in the 17th century. The film shows the deep level of faith of the Japanese had who accepted the truth of the mission of the Christ and what they sacrificed and lost to become "Christians." It ...
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This is a true story during apartheid about a white South African couple who birth a black baby daughter due to genetic heritage in the family. Even though she is black, her father (with influence) has the government designate her as white. She has problems identifying with the white race and eventually marries a black man, but her struggle of living in two worlds is what the story is about; Sophie Okonedo.

This is a very well-made film that has both the ethnocentric wonderful qualities of a neighborhood in Philadelphia combined with the mental health issues in two people's lives, who come together and find each other through their own struggles in life. Basically, many starseed are labeled bipolar and other psychological disorders because they can't deal with modern society and the evil in it. They can't play the game of compromise and narrow-mindedness and parental control. Breaking free of ...
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The son of a wealthy Senator falls in love with a black young woman. The son is actually raised by an Afro-American butler who is more of a father to him than his biological father. The story has many magic moments between African-Americans and the integrity that they have while enduring racism and being looked down upon, during the early years of the Vietnam War and the Civil Right Movement of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The whole family can watch this film; Clifton Davis, Stacey Dash.

This is a film that should win the Academy Award for Best Picture–definitely for cinematography and script. It's a spiritual movie. It's a sacred movie. And it even has a few sex scenes that will delight your lust. I don't think any American director alive–that we know about–could make a film like this. The ones that we know about, we know about them because they make the commercial sex and violence films and wouldn't have an inkling what a spiritual film would be. The ...
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Bill Murray does an excellent job as a crusty character who likes to drink, gamble, and swear. A lot is discovered about the other side of this man in the movie in which he babysits a young boy who he takes to the race track and bar and introduces him to a lady of the night, played by Naomi Watts, who you would believe is truly a Russian. Her accent was great. The movie has many touching moments and great messages, and with the exception of one sex scene it could have been for younger ...
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This was the great World War II battle that took hundreds of thousands of lives. This particular film deals mostly with a taking of a building, held by 5 Russian men, by the Nazis. One of the Russian men falls in love with a woman hiding in the building, who is also Russian, and she becomes pregnant by him. The man dies, and the woman and child go on to live somewhat of a normal life. A German officer falls in love with another Russian girl, who in turn loves him back, and her love for him ...
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