THE Favourite, 2018

 The Favourite is a 2018 historical absurdist satirical dark dramatic comedy thriller film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos from a screenplay by Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara. A co-production between Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the United States, the film stars Olivia Colman, Emma Stone, and Rachel Weisz. Set in early 18th century Great Britain, it examines the relationship between cousins Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough and Abigail Hill as they vie to be court favourite of Queen Anne.

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In 1705 Great Britain is at war with France. Queen Anne is in poor health; she shows little interest in governing, preferring activities such as playing with her 17 rabbits, surrogates for the children she miscarried or who died in infancy. Her confidante, advisor, and furtive lover Sarah Churchill effectively rules the country through her influence over the Queen. Sarah's efforts to control Anne are undermined by Robert Harley, the Leader of the Opposition.

Abigail Hill, Sarah's impoverished younger cousin, arrives in search of employment. Her standing has been tainted by her father, who gambled her away in a game of whist. She is forced to do menial work as a scullery maid in the palace. After seeing the Queen's gout, Abigail forages for herbs for her. Sarah has Abigail whipped for entering the Queen's bedroom without permission but appoints her Lady of the Bedchamber after realising the herbs have helped the Queen. One night, Abigail witnesses Sarah and the Queen having sex. Harley asks Abigail to spy on Sarah and the Queen, hoping to circumvent Sarah's authority. Abigail refuses and tells Sarah, implying that she knows about their secret.

Abigail kindles a friendship with Anne that becomes sexual. Sarah finds out and unsuccessfully tries to remove her. Knowing she has gained a powerful enemy and desperate to be a lady again, Abigail reconsiders Harley's offer. She drugs Sarah's tea and Sarah awakens in a brothel. Anne, thinking Sarah has abandoned her, takes Abigail into her favour and allows her to marry Colonel Masham, thereby reinstating Abigail's noble standing as a Baroness. Abigail then helps Harley to influence the Queen's decisions about the war.

When Sarah returns, Abigail offers her a truce but is rejected. Sarah issues an ultimatum to Anne: change her stance on the war and send Abigail away or Sarah will disclose her correspondence with Anne that details their sexual relationship. Sarah, remorseful, burns the letters, but Anne nevertheless sends her away. Godolphin convinces Anne to mend her relationship with Sarah, persuading Sarah to send a letter that Anne eagerly awaits. When Abigail, who has been promoted to Keeper of the Privy Purse, presents "evidence" that Sarah had been embezzling money, Anne does not believe her. Sarah's letter arrives but is intercepted by Abigail, who burns it. Hurt that she did not receive the expected apology, Anne uses Abigail's claims about the embezzlement as an excuse to exile Sarah and her husband.

With Sarah gone and her position secure, Abigail begins to ignore Anne while indulging in society and openly having affairs. One day, she abuses one of Anne's rabbits. Anne, now very sick, sees what Abigail is doing, forces herself out of bed and angrily orders Abigail to kneel and massage her leg. She gradually pulls Abigail's hair as Abigail winces and begrudgingly massages her.

Rating: 10 Stars

Hanna, 2011

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Hanna is a 2011 action thriller film directed by Joe Wright. The film stars Saoirse Ronan as the title character, a girl raised in the wilderness of northern Finland by her father, an ex-CIA operative (Eric Bana), who trains her as an assassin. Cate Blanchett portrays a senior CIA agent who tries to track down and eliminate the girl and her father. The soundtrack was written by The Chemical Brothers.

Hanna was released in North America in April 2011 and in Europe in May 2011. It received positive reviews from critics with praise for the performances of Ronan and Blanchett as well as the action sequences and themes.

Rating: 10 Stars

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THE Trip, 2021

Eager to end their marriage by murdering each other, a husband and wife head to a remote cabin -- but soon find themselves facing an even bigger threat.

This couple went to their house in the woods to a rest time but her husband planned to kill her. Before they arrive there the house was invaded by three men that left the jail recently. The confusion to survive is big and interesting. Her husband lost his brave father. They managed to survive and made a movie of that. 

I could not find a trailer, but it's in the Netflix catalog. 

From the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the Original. ❤️👑

Rating: 10 Stars

Legends of the Fall, 1994 (Leaving Soon April 30)

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Legends of the Fall is a 1994 American Epic Western Drama film directed by Edward Zwick, and starring Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Aidan Quinn, Julia Ormond and Henry Thomas. Based on the 1979 novella of the same title by Jim Harrison, the film is about three brothers and their father living in the wilderness and plains of Montana in the early 20th century and how their lives are affected by nature, history, war, and love. The film's time frame spans nearly 50 years from the early 20th century; World War I through the Prohibition era, and ending with a brief scene set in 1963. The film was nominated for three Academy awards and won for Best Cinematography (John Toll). Both the film and book contain occasional Cornish language terms, the Ludlows being a Cornish immigrant family.

 A history of how love acts and loyalty. 

Rating: 10 Stars. 

The Girl in the Spider's Web, 2018

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The Girl in the Spider's Web is a 2018 action-thriller film directed by Fede Álvarez, who co-wrote with Jay Basu and Steven Knight, and based on the 2015 novel of the same name by David Lagercrantz, which in turn is based on characters in the Millennium book series by Stieg Larsson. The film acts as a soft-reboot/sequel to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. It stars Claire Foy in the role of Lisbeth Salander, and follows Salander as she battles against a mysterious notorious organization, the Spiders, who seek world dominance. Sverrir Gudnason, Lakeith Stanfield, Sylvia Hoeks, and Stephen Merchant also appear in the film.

"Hacker Lisbeth Salander retrieves Firefall, a dangerous NSA computer programme. However, after mercenaries steal it from her, Lisbeth finds herself facing the underworld and Swedish law enforcement."

Lisbeth is a Fighter against the Organized Crime in Sweden. She is persecuted by the Count Dracula, that is also a Fighter and extremely dangerous since he cannot die. She tried to kill him but he injected her a Black content in the neck that can be his own blood. Now I don't know if she will be his servant. She managed to save a child and seems that her sister is also a Vampire, that was victim of abuse of their father for 16 years. It didn't show but because of her coldness, seems that she is one. 

WANTED!

XOXO! 👩🏽‍🤝‍👩🏼

THE Tearsmith, 2024 (Top 10 Netflix)

The Tearsmith (Italian: Fabbricante di lacrime) is a 2024 Italian teen romance film directed by Alessandro Genovesi, based on the novel of the same name by Erin Doom. It was released on Netflix on 4 April 2024.

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A young girl, Nica, is left orphaned after her parents die in a car accident. She is taken to the oppressive Sunnycreek Orphanage, nicknamed "Grave," where she befriends a girl named Adeline. Years later, Nica, now a teenager, is adopted by Anna and Norman Milligan. Before the three leave the orphanage, however, the Milligans take notice of Rigel, a moody teenager who is the pride and joy of the headmistress, Margaret. Although resistant to adoption in the past, Rigel allows the Milligans to adopt him. At their new home, Rigel is hostile towards Nica. Flashbacks reveal that, at Grave, all of the children except Rigel were physically and emotionally abused by Margaret.

On their first day of school, Nica befriends two girls named Billie and Miki, while Rigel gets into a fist fight with another student, Phelps. Later, the students participate in Garden Day, whereby each student gets a rose to give anonymously to another student. Billie receives a white rose, while Nica receives a black rose, signifying a tormented and obsessive love. Nica confronts Rigel about the rose and he denies giving it to her. A student named Lionel asks Nica out on a date, and Rigel looks on angrily, later getting into a fist fight with him. Nica admonishes Rigel for his behavior and he has a seizure, leaving Nica to care for him. The two share a romantic moment.

Flashbacks to the orphanage reveal that on one occasion that Nica was about to be punished by Margaret, Rigel cut his own hand to disrupt her. Adeline suspected that Rigel had feelings for Nica, and Rigel told her to keep this a secret.

Nica finds out that Miki is secretly in love with Billie, and urges her to confess her feelings. Lionel confronts Nica about avoiding his calls and tells her that he still has feelings for her, despite Rigel trying to intervene.

Adeline visits the Milligan home and tells Nica that she wants to press charges against Margaret, and she needs Nica's testimony to build a strong case. Nica declines, unable to face her own past. That night, Nica finds Rigel playing the piano, and the two are about to kiss when Lionel interrupts at the door. Lionel suspects that Nica and Rigel have feelings for one another, and tells her that people would not approve of their relationship. Nica returns to Rigel, but he tells her that he is too broken for her and that she deserves a normal family and boyfriend.

Rigel tells Anna that he is rejecting their adoption, and he packs up his belongings and leaves the house. Elsewhere, before their school dance, Miki confesses her feelings to Billie and Billie storms out of the room. At the dance, Lionel apologizes to Nica and they dance together. He brings her to the science classroom, where he attempts to sexually assault her. Rigel, having had second thoughts about missing the dance, intervenes and fights Lionel off. Nica and Rigel kiss and have sex in the classroom.

After leaving the dance, Nica and Rigel are confronted by a furious Lionel, who berates them and tries to run them over with his car. They escape him by jumping off a bridge into a river. Nica wakes up in the hospital where she is told that Rigel's body broke her fall and that he is in a coma, further complicated by the brain neuromas he suffers from. Nica wishes to see him, but he is now under the custody of Margaret, having rejected the Milligans' adoption. Margaret blames Nica for Rigel's coma and tells her that she will keep her away from him forever. Nica, now defiant, agrees to testify against Margaret. Afterward, with Margaret still in court, Nica rushes back to the hospital where Rigel finally wakes up from the coma.

Rating: 10 Stars

THE Society, 2019

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The Society is an American mystery teen drama television series created by Christopher Keyser, that was released via streaming on Netflix on May 10, 2019. It stars Kathryn Newton, Gideon Adlon, Sean Berdy, Natasha Liu Bordizzo, Jacques Colimon, Olivia DeJonge, Alex Fitzalan, Kristine Froseth, Jose Julian, Alexander MacNicoll, Toby Wallace and Rachel Keller. Although it was initially renewed for a second season, it was ultimately canceled after one season as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Society follows the story of a group of teenagers who must learn to run their own community after the rest of the population of their town (West Ham, Connecticut) disappears. The mystery begins when the students of the local high school return early from a canceled field trip and find that everyone else is gone. A dense forest appears surrounding the town; the outside world apparently no longer exists and cannot be contacted by telephone or Internet. The teenagers must come up with their own rules to survive with limited resources. 

The group of students of the Connecticut high school were kidnapped to a town that is exactly the same town they were living before with one difference, their parents disappeared. The town was completely empty. 

There they learn how to live together and after face the death of Cassandra, the first ruler, they create their own law. Allie, her sister start to rule and in the end her rivals take the power by force. 

One of the suspects is this bus driver below. 

In the end of the movie shows that they found a suitable land to cultivate and one of their parents reading Peter Pan for some children with their names in the wall, like they were dead. I believe they did this to their own good, to create a new society. 

Has some interesting topics to observe such as abusive relationships, how to start a democratic society, and the insurgence of Anarchy.