Director:

The Shawshank Redemption

(1994) 

Two imprisoned men bond over a number of years, finding solace and eventual redemption through acts of common decency 

Cast Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton

Director Frank Darabont

City of God (2002)

Two boys growing up in a violent neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro take different paths: one becomes a photographer, the other a drug dealer.

Cast Alexandre Rodrigues, Matheus Nachtergaele, Leandro Firmino 

Directors Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund 

Empire of the Sun 

It  is a 1987 American coming of age war film based on J. G. Ballard's semi-autobiographical novel of the same name.A young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation during World War II.

Cast  Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson 

Director  Steven Spielberg 

Scent of a Woman (1992) 

A prep school student needing money agrees to "babysit" a blind man, but the job is not at all what he anticipated.

Cast  Al Pacino, Chris O'Donnell, James Rebhorn 

Director:

 Martin Brest  

Aftershock (2010)

The epic story of a family separated as a result of the Great Tangshan Earthquake of 1976.

Cast Daoming Chen, Chen Li, Yi Lu

Director:

 Xiaogang Feng

The Pianist (2002)

A Polish Jewish musician struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto of World War II.

cast 

• Adrien Brody as Władysław Szpilman
• Thomas Kretschmann as Captain Wilm Hosenfeld
• Frank Finlay as Father Szpilman
• Maureen Lipman as Mother Szpilman
• Emilia Fox as Dorota
• Ed Stoppard as Henryk
• Julia Rayner as Regina
• Jessica Kate Meyer as Halina
• Ronan Vibert as Andrzej Bogucki
• Ruth Platt as Janina Bogucki
• Michał Żebrowski as Jurek
• Roy Smiles as Itzhak Heller
• Richard Ridings as Mr. Lipa
• Daniel Caltagirone as Majorek
• Valentine Pelka as Dorota's Husband
• Zbigniew Zamachowski as Customer with Coins

Director Roman Polanski

A Walk to Remember (2002)

The story of two North Carolina teens, Landon Carter and Jamie Sullivan, who are thrown together after Landon gets into trouble and is made to do community service.

Casts  Mandy Moore, Shane West, Peter Coyote

Director:

 Adam Shankman

The Lark Farm (2007)

A stirring and stunning story of an aristocratic family who is unexpectedly swept into the ravages of World War I and a forbidden passion that may be the family's only hope.

Cast  Paz Vega, Moritz Bleibtreu, Alessandro Preziosi 

Directors:

 Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani

A Beautiful Mind (2001)

After a brilliant but asocial mathematician accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn for the nightmarish.

Cast  Russell Crowe, Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly

Director:

 Ron Howard

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