February's Top 30 Films

February's Top 30 Films

Check out the top 30 films most watched and well-liked on OVID last month!

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February's Top 30 Films
  • Emergent City

    Movie

    Residents of Sunset Park, Brooklyn face rising rents, a legacy of environmental racism and the loss of the industrial jobs that once sustained their community. When a global developer purchases a massive industrial complex on the waterfront and lays plans for an “innovation district,” a battle er...

  • The Heirloom

    Movie

    A desperate filmmaker is seized by inspiration when he and his girlfriend adopt a traumatized rescue dog. This sets off a riotous chain of new challenges on how to deal with this addition to the household. The couple each pursue their own deepheld individual questions surrounding trust, purpose a...

  • Wuthering Heights

    Directed by Andrea Arnold • Drama • With Kaya Scodelario, James Howson • 2010 • 129 minutes

    Andrea Arnold's WUTHERING HEIGHTS is an excitingly fresh and distinct take on the classic novel by Emily Brontë. An epic love story that spans childhood well into the young adult years, the film follows H...

  • A World Apart

    Movie

    Directed by Riccardo Milani • Drama • With Antonio Albanese, Virginia Raffaele • 2025 • 114 minutes

    Set against the breathtaking backdrop of the Abruzzo National Park, A WORLD APART follows veteran teacher Michele Cortese as he begins an unexpected chapter in his life.
    Arriving during a snowstor...

  • The Temple Woods Gang

    Directed by Rabah Ameur-Zaimeche • Drama • With Régis Laroche, Philippe Petit, Marie Loustalot • 113 minutes

    A gang of small-time criminals in a working-class French suburb stage a daring heist against a mysterious Saudi Prince.

    “One of the most fascinating and consistently surprising auteurs t...

  • Sherman's March (Ross McElwee)

    Directed by Ross McElwee • Documentary • 1986 • 155 minutes

    When First Run released Ross McElwee's Sundance Award winning Sherman's March in 1986, it went on to become one of the largest grossing documentaries ever. Audiences and critics alike fell in love with McElwee's "quirky, funny and fasci...

  • A Cinderella Season: The Lady Vols Fight Back

    Directed by Jon Alpert, Maryann De Leo • Documentary • 1998 • 77 minutes

    In March 1996, the University of Tennessee women's basketball team completed a 32-4 dream season to win its fourth NCAA championship in nine years, creating high expectations for the next season. Combining on-court action a...

  • The Trouble with Jessica

    Directed by Matt Winn • Drama • With Alan Tudyk, Shirley Henderson, Rufus Sewell • 2025 • 89 minutes

    Married couple Sarah (Shirley Henderson) and Tom (Alan Tudyk) are in terrible financial trouble. On the brink of losing everything, they’ve managed to find a buyer for their stylish London home. ...

  • The Forgotten Occupation: Jim Crow Goes to Haiti

    Movie

    What happens when the oppressor becomes your salvation? Through a letter to his grandfather, a Haitian filmmaker revisits the U.S. occupation of Haiti, unraveling the paradox of a man who longed for American rule and a nation scarred by it. Blending intimate memory with sweeping history, the film...

  • Other People's Children

    Movie

    When dedicated high school teacher Rachel (Virginie Efira) falls in love with Ali (Roschdy Zem), it’s not long before she also falls for his 4-year-old daughter Leila. The adolescent giddiness of Rachel and Ali’s late night rendezvous and secret sleepovers evolves into the familiar warmth of fami...

  • My Letter to the World

    Directed by Solon Papadopoulos • Documentary • With Cynthia Nixon • 2018 • 80 minutes

    Emily Dickinson has spent the 130 years since her death unfairly pigeonholed as the strange recluse in white. My Letter To The World is an in-depth exploration of her life and work, filmed in her hometown of Am...

  • My Sailor, My Love

    Directed by Klaus Härö • Drama • With James Cosmo, Catherine Walker • 2023 • 103 minutes

    Howard (James Cosmo) is a widowed sailor living alone on the coast of Ireland and struggling to care for himself. His daughter, Grace (Catherine Walker), hires Annie (Bríd Brennan) to help out around the hou...

  • Bad Faith: Christian Nationalism's Unholy War on Democracy

    Directed by Stephen Ujlaki, Christopher Jacob Jones • Documentary • With Peter Coyote • 2024 • 89 minutes

    BAD FAITH explores the dangerous rise of Christian Nationalism in the United States. Part archival chronicle, part exposé, the film reveals the secretive political machinery that has relentl...

  • Final Vows

    Movie

    Final Vows chronicles the life of a cloistered order of nuns at Santa Rita Abbey, a Cistercian monastery in the high desert of Arizona. The nuns, who take a vow that binds them to remain in the community they entered for life, candidly share their joys and struggles. While each woman's journey is...

  • Six O Clock News

    Directed by Ross McElwee • Documentary • 1997 • 103 minutes

    McElwee pursues murder, mayhem and catastrophe the same way he pursued southern women in Sherman's March. Made after McElwee becomes a father and finds himself at home watching a lot more TV, he becomes obsessed with the nightly tales o...

  • Becoming Astrid

    Directed by Pernille Fischer Christensen • Drama • With Alba August • 2018 • 123 minutes

    Teenaged Astrid Lindgren (Alba August), who later went on to write the Pippi Longstocking series, leads a carefree life with her family in the forests and fields of rural Sweden. Restless and eager to break ...

  • Family Business

    Directed by Tom Cohen • Documentary • 1982 • 90 minutes

    Part of the acclaimed Middletown series.

    Howie Snyder is an archetype: a retired Marine colonel in his mid 40s, he is an American entrepreneur struggling to make his business succeed.

    Howie's Shakey's Pizza franchise in Muncie, Indiana em...

  • The Pearl Button

    Directed by Patricio Guzmán • Documentary • 2014 • 82 minutes

    The ocean contains the history of all humanity. The sea holds the voices of the Earth and those that come from outer space. Water receives impetus from the stars and transmits it to living creatures. Water, the longest border in Chile...

  • My Brooklyn

    Directed by Kelly Anderson • Documentary • With Jamel Shabazz, Craig Steven Wilder, Kelly Anderson • 2012 • 76 minutes

    My Brooklyn follows director Kelly Anderson's journey, as a Brooklyn gentrifier, to understand the forces reshaping her neighborhood. The film documents the redevelopment of Ful...

  • What Means Something

    Movie

    A portrait of the painter Rose Wylie. I met Rose quite a few years ago and we became good friends. I asked her if I could make a film about her and she agreed. The film, finally, is a meeting between two friends, made sporadically over a year. Much like when Rose begins a painting, making a filmi...

  • When Fall is Coming

    Movie

    After a tumultuous life in Paris, Michelle (Hélène Vincent) has retired to a quiet existence in Burgundy, tending her garden and attending services at her parish. The voracious hostility of her adult daughter Valérie (Ludivine Sagnier) remains Michelle’s great puzzlement: how can a child for whom...

  • The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived

    Directed by Heiny Srour • Documentary • 68 minutes

    In the late 60s, Dhofar rose up against the British-backed Sultanate of Oman, in a democratic, Leninist guerrilla movement. Srour and her team crossed 500 miles of desert and mountains by foot, under bombardment by the British Royal Air Force, t...

  • Love & Diane

    Directed by Jennifer Dworkin • Documentary • 2003 • 155 minutes

    Jennifer Dworkin’s groundbreaking documentary LOVE & DIANE presents a searingly honest and moving examination of poverty, welfare and drug rehabilitation in the United States today. Filmed in New York City over a five-year period, D...

  • The Campaign

    Directed by Christie Herring • Documentary • 2013 • 56 minutes

    What inspires everyday people to opt in for something larger than themselves? THE CAMPAIGN follows California's historic No-on-8 campaign to defend same-sex marriage through behind the scenes footage, interwoven with the national his...