12 Years a Slave

IMDB: 8.1/10

In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.

Hector and the Search for Happiness

IMDB: 6.9/10

A psychiatrist searches the globe to find the secret of happiness.

Les Misérables (1998)

IMDB: 7.4/10

Valjean, a former criminal, has atoned for his past and now finds himself in the midst of the French Revolution, avoiding a law-obsessed policeman hell-bent on capturing him.

Salyut-7

IMDB: 7.2/10

USSR, June 1985. Based on actual events. After contact with the Salyut 7 space station is lost, cosmonauts Vladimir Dzhanibekov and Viktor Savinykh dock with the empty, frozen craft, and bring her back to life.

The Green Mile

IMDB: 8.6/10

A death row guard learns that a gentle giant in his charge possesses a mysterious gift.

The Grand Budapest Hotel

IMDB: 8.1/10

A writer encounters the owner of an aging high-class hotel, who tells him of his early years serving as a lobby boy in the hotel's glorious years under an exceptional concierge.

Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

IMDB: 8.0/10

Young Blade Runner K's discovery of a long-buried secret leads him to track down former Blade Runner Rick Deckard, who's been missing for thirty years.

Murder on the Orient Express

IMDB: 6.5/10

When a murder occurs on the train on which he's travelling, celebrated detective Hercule Poirot is recruited to solve the case.