Top rated gradually transforming movies on Criterion Channel

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1 Joyland (2022)

As a patriarchal family yearns for the birth of a son to continue their family line, their youngest son secretly joins an erotic dance theatre and falls for its transgender starlet.

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2022-11-18 | Drama / Romance

Cast

Ali Junejo, Rasti Farooq

Rating

rating icon 7.7
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    casual
  2. Ranked #1 for
    social issue
  3. Ranked #2 for
    topical issue

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Joyland trailer
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2 The Blue Caftan (2023)

Halim has been married to Mina for a long time, with whom he runs a traditional caftan store in the medina (old town) of Salé, Morocco. The couple has always lived with Halim's secret – his homosexuality – about which he has learned to keep quiet. However, Mina's illness and the arrival of a young apprentice upsets this balance. United in their love, each will help the other face his fears.

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2023-02-10 | Drama / Romance

Cast

Lubna Azabal, Saleh Bakri

Rating

rating icon 7.223
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    young and handsome
  2. Ranked #1 for
    directing with craftmanship
  3. Ranked #1 for
    antsy

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3 Neptune Frost (2022)

In the hilltops of Burundi, a group of escaped coltan miners form an anti-colonialist computer hacker collective. From their camp in an otherworldly e-waste dump, they attempt a takeover of the authoritarian regime exploiting the region's natural resources – and its people. When an intersex runaway and an escaped coltan miner find each other through cosmic forces, their connection sparks glitches within the greater divine circuitry.

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2022-06-03 | Drama / Science Fiction

Cast

Cheryl Isheja, Bertrand Ninteretse

Rating

rating icon 6.522
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    ambient
  2. Ranked #3 for
    oneiric
  3. Ranked #4 for
    cinematic spectacle

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4 The Lives of Others (2006)

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.

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2006-03-23 | Drama / Thriller

Cast

Martina Gedeck, Ulrich Mühe

Rating

rating icon 8.024
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #44 for
    orwellian
  2. Ranked #115 for
    masterpiece
  3. Ranked #222 for
    good

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The Lives of Others trailer
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5 A Prophet (2009)

Sentenced to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena is alone in the world and can neither read nor write. On his arrival at the prison, he seems younger and more brittle than the others detained there. At once he falls under the sway of a group of Corsicans who enforce their rule in the prison. As the 'missions' go by, he toughens himself and wins the confidence of the Corsican group.

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2009-08-26 | Crime / Drama

Cast

Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup

Rating

rating icon 7.589
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #30 for
    like Scarface
  2. Ranked #42 for
    masterpiece
  3. Ranked #58 for
    hard-nosed

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6 Hunger (2008)

The story of Bobby Sands, the IRA member who led the 1981 hunger strike during The Troubles in which Irish Republican prisoners tried to win political status.

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2008-05-15 | Drama / History

Cast

Michael Fassbender, Stuart Graham

Rating

rating icon 7.248
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #13 for
    tour de force
  2. Ranked #25 for
    reverse shot
  3. Ranked #137 for
    characters existing in real life

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Hunger trailer
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7 Mountains May Depart (2015)

The life of Tao, and those close to her, is explored in three different time periods: 1999, 2014, and 2025.

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2015-10-30 | Romance / Drama

Cast

Zhao Tao, Zhang Yi

Rating

rating icon 6.902
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #185 for
    reverse shot
  2. Ranked #215 for
    blue-collar
  3. Ranked #293 for
    tortured genius

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8 After Yang (2022)

When his young daughter's beloved companion — an android named Yang — malfunctions, Jake searches for a way to repair him. In the process, Jake discovers the life that has been passing in front of him, reconnecting with his wife and daughter across a distance he didn't know was there.

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2022-03-04 | Science Fiction / Drama

Cast

Colin Farrell, Jodie Turner-Smith

Rating

rating icon 6.424
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    for contemplation
  2. Ranked #1 for
    futuristic vision
  3. Ranked #1 for
    introspective

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After Yang trailer
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9 Boyhood (2014)

The film tells a story of a divorced couple trying to raise their young son. The story follows the boy for twelve years, from first grade at age 6 through 12th grade at age 17-18, and examines his relationship with his parents as he grows.

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2014-06-05 | Drama

Cast

Ellar Coltrane, Patricia Arquette

Rating

rating icon 7.506
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #21 for
    extraordinary
  2. Ranked #37 for
    masterpiece
  3. Ranked #100 for
    critically acclaimed

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Boyhood trailer
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10 Il Buco (2021)

In August 1961, speleologists from Italy’s booming North arrive on a Calabrian plateau where time stands still. The intruders discover one of the world’s deepest caves, the Bifurto Abyss, under the gaze of an old shepherd, the only witness of the pristine territory.

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2021-09-22 | Drama

Cast

Claudia Candusso, Paolo Cossi

Rating

rating icon 6.2
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    less impressive
  2. Ranked #1 for
    cinematic gem
  3. Ranked #3 for
    lack of talent

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Il Buco trailer
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