Angela's Ashes

IMDB: 7.3/10

An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed I.R.A. veteran father struggles with poverty, prejudice and alcoholism as the family endures harsh slum conditions.

Das Leben der Anderen

IMDB: 8.4/10

In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.

Billy Elliot

IMDB: 7.7/10

A talented young boy becomes torn between his unexpected love of dance and the disintegration of his family.

Letters from Iwo Jima

IMDB: 7.8/10

The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.

The Hurt Locker

IMDB: 7.5/10

During the Iraq War, a Sergeant recently assigned to an army bomb squad is put at odds with his squad mates due to his maverick way of handling his work.