Something the Lord Made

8.0

2004

110 mins

TV MovieDrama

A dramatization of the relationship between heart surgery pioneers Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.

The Fall

Year : 2008Rating : ⭐ 7.6

In a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, an injured stuntman begins to tell a fellow patient, a little girl with a broken arm, a fantastic story about 5 mythical heroes. Thanks to his fractured state of mind and her vivid imagination, the line between fiction and reality starts to blur as the tale advances.

The Killing of a Sacred Deer

Year : 2017Rating : ⭐ 7.0

Dr. Steven Murphy is a renowned cardiovascular surgeon who presides over a spotless household with his wife and two children. Lurking at the margins of his idyllic suburban existence is Martin, a fatherless teen who insinuates himself into the doctor's life in gradually unsettling ways.

The Shawshank Redemption

Year : 1994Rating : ⭐ 8.7

Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope.

Brave the Dark

Year : 2025Rating : ⭐ 6.7

When Mr. Deen discovers one of his students has been living out of his car and thrown into jail, he decides to bail him out. Determined to curb Nate’s self-destructive behavior, Deen quickly discovers a host of dark secrets slowly tearing Nate apart. What began as a good deed becomes a desperate fight to save Nate from his own demons. As Nate spirals deeper into despair, Deen must decide how far he’s willing to go to save a kid on the brink of losing everything—even himself.

Nickel Boys

Year : 2024Rating : ⭐ 6.6

Chronicles the powerful friendship between two young Black teenagers navigating the harrowing trials of reform school together in Florida.

Hardball

Year : 2001Rating : ⭐ 6.5

An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of getting a loan from a friend.

Mean Streets

Year : 1973Rating : ⭐ 7.0

A small-time hood must choose from among love, friendship and the chance to rise within the mob.

Valentino

Year : 1977Rating : ⭐ 5.8

The untimely death of silent screen star Rudolph Valentino prompts the many women in his past to reminisce about his troubled rise to superstardom.

Mikey and Nicky

Year : 1976Rating : ⭐ 6.9

Nick is desperate, holed up in a cheap hotel, suffering from an ulcer and convinced that a local mob boss wants him killed. Terrified, he calls Mikey, his friend since childhood and a fellow gangster. So begins a long night…

The Air I Breathe

Year : 2007Rating : ⭐ 6.3

A gambler’s bet spiraling into chaos, a gangster's prophetic visions, a pop star’s dark entanglement, a doctor’s desperate race against time to rescue his beloved... Four interconnected stories reveal life unfolding through four emotional pillars — joy, passion, grief, and love.

Marshall

Year : 2017Rating : ⭐ 7.3

Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, battles through one of his career-defining cases.

The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain

Year : 2021Rating : ⭐ 7.3

Based on the true story of the events that led to the death of Kenneth Chamberlain Sr., an elderly African American veteran with bipolar disorder, who was killed during a conflict with police officers who were dispatched to check on him.

Blood Work

Year : 2002Rating : ⭐ 6.2

Still recovering from a heart transplant, a retired FBI profiler returns to service when his own blood analysis offers clues to the identity of a serial killer.

Stuart: A Life Backwards

Year : 2007Rating : ⭐ 7.4

Story about the remarkable friendship between a reclusive writer and illustrator and a chaotic homeless man, whom he gets to know during a campaign to release two charity workers from prison.

The Smashing Machine

Year : 2025Rating : ⭐ 6.4

In the late 1990s, up-and-coming mixed martial artist Mark Kerr aspires to become the greatest fighter in the world. However, he must also battle his opioid dependence and a volatile relationship with his girlfriend Dawn.

Cardboard Boxer

Year : 2016Rating : ⭐ 6.5

Gentle and broken, a homeless man fights others on video for money but soon finds comfort in an unlikely friend and the lost diary of a young girl.

Nightmare Alley

Year : 2021Rating : ⭐ 6.9

An ambitious carnival man with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female psychologist who is even more dangerous than he is.

Being the Ricardos

Year : 2021Rating : ⭐ 6.5

Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz face a crisis that could end their careers and another that could end their marriage.

Introducing Dorothy Dandridge

Year : 1999Rating : ⭐ 6.4

An acclaimed stage performer, Dorothy still struggled with the challenge of her color, in a time that wouldn't let some stars in by the front door. Yet against the odds she beat out many more famous rivals for the role of "Carmen Jones", becoming the first black woman ever nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award. Marriages and affairs would break her heart, but her heart was strong. Seductive and easily seduced, she was born to be a star - with all the glory and all the pain of being loved, abused, cheated, glorified, undermined and undefeated. Here was a woman who wouldn't wait in the wings. Halle Berry stars as Dorothy Dandrige.

I Am Elizabeth Smart

Year : 2017Rating : ⭐ 6.8

The story of Elizabeth Smart's kidnapping and captivity, as told from her perspective.