June's Top 30 Films
Check out the top 30 films most watched and well-liked on OVID last month!
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L'immensita (w/ Penélope Cruz)
Directed by Emanuele Crialese • Drama • With Penélope Cruz, Luana Giuliani • 2023 • 97 minutes
Clara (Penélope Cruz) and her emotionally distant husband Felice (Vincenzo Amato) relocate to Rome to raise a family. Even though the paint is fresh, and the appliances are new, the crushing expectatio...
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E.1027 – Eileen Gray and the House By the Sea
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Directed by Beatrice Minger • Documentary • 2024 • 90 minutes
In 1929, Irish designer Eileen Gray created E.1027 on the sun-soaked Côte d'Azur – a bold and hidden gem of avant-garde architecture. This striking house was meant to be a personal refuge.
But when the legendary architect Le Corbusie...
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MovieThe Flats
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In his tower-block apartment in New Lodge, Joe reenacts memories from his childhood amidst the “Troubles“. In this Catholic area of Belfast, the number of deaths was tragically significant. Joe is joined by neighbors Jolene, Sean, Angie, and others, all willingly participating in this process of ...
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MovieWith Peter Bradley
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When filmmaker Alex Rappoport met then-79-year-old abstract artist Peter Bradley in early 2020, Bradley hadn't sold many paintings or had a major show in over four decades - yet he still painted every day in a shipping-container studio heated by a wood stove, no matter what the weather. Over time...
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Maborosi (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda • Drama • With Makiko Esumi, Tadanobu Asano • 1995 • 110 minutes
One of the finest films of Japanese cinema, Hirokazu Kore-eda’s first feature film Maborosi is a story of love, loss, and ultimately, regeneration.
Haunted by the mysterious loss of her grandmother m...
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MovieUnder the Flags, the Sun
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In 1989, the fall of Alfredo Stroessner’s 35-year dictatorship in Paraguay marked the end of one of the world’s longest authoritarian regimes, but also the abandonment of the audiovisual archives that had cemented its power. This footage, crafted to shape a national identity and celebrate the reg...
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MovieThe Mohican
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Joseph (Alexis Manenti) is the last shepherd on the island still grazing his goats on clifftop pastures overlooking the sea. But his land—passed down through generations—is coveted by the mafia and the forces of unchecked greed.
When a group of menacing strangers arrives at his door to pressure ...
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12 Days
Directed by Raymond Depardon • Documentary • 2017 • 87 minutes
Every year in France, 92,000 people are placed under psychiatric care without their consent. 12 DAYS focuses on those who have been involuntarily remanded to a mental hospital, and more specifically documents the hearings that, accor...
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Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989
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Directed by Göran Hugo Olsson • Documentary • 2025 • 206 minutes
Television broadcasting debuted in Sweden in 1957. And Swedish public broadcaster SVT began covering Israel and Palestine almost from day one.
In ISRAEL PALESTINE ON SWEDISH TV 1958-1989, filmmaker Göran Hugo Olsson (The Black Pow...
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Dangerous Games
Directed by Ann Shin • Documentary • 2025 • 79 minutes
After Katie is assaulted by a predator in Roblox—a virtual world with 78 million daily users—she teams up with Alex and Janae to expose what’s really happening in the metaverse. Their investigation uncovers disturbing truths: explicit games,...
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Running for the Mountains
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Directed by Julie Eisenberg and Babette Hogan • Documentary • 2024 • 76 minutes
Running for the Mountains uncovers a story of dirty money and dirty politics – one that affects the entire nation. This entertaining and informative documentary exports the most valuable commodity coming out of Appal...
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MovieOnly the River Flows
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Directed by Wei Shujun • Drama • With Zhu Yilong • 2023 • 112 minutes
When a woman’s body is discovered on the banks of a river near a small town in southern China, it’s up to police investigator Ma Zhe (Zhu Yilong), working out of an abandoned cinema, to find the killer—but what at first appear...
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The Cinema Within
Directed by Chad Freidrichs • Documentary • 2025 • 93 minutes
From the director of The Pruitt-Igoe Myth comes a documentary about the psychology of film editing.
Why do film cuts work? Why do people around the world – even children – so effortlessly understand them? In real life we don't instan...
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MovieIn The Dust Of The Stars
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A delirious early 1970s space opera produced by the East German state-run studio DEFA and directed by Gottfried Kolditz, the insanely groovy IN THE DUST OF THE STARS (1976) features a nonstop underground disco where partygoers spritz hallucinogenic mouth-spray, scantily clad super-models voguing ...
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MoviePrague Nights
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Directed by Miloš Makovec, Evald Schorm, Jiří Brdečka • Drama • 1969 • 100 minutes
The long-lost Sixties Czech occult horror anthology film Prague Nights is filled with magic, giant golems and satanic visitors. In the vein of horror anthologies like Bava’s Black Sabbath, this long-unseen gem is ...
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Biocentrics
Directed by Fernanda Heinz Figueiredo, Ataliba Benaim • Documentary • 2022 • 109 minutes
How would you reinvent some part of your world using nature as a model?
In BIOCENTRICS, this and other provocations are answered through the eyes and voice of biologist Janine Benyus. Traveling to different...
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Aida's Secrets
Directed by Alon Schwarz, Shaul Schwarz • Documentary • 2017 • 95 minutes
In this moving documentary, the discovery of records from WWII sparks a family’s quest for answers as two brothers separated as babies reunite with each other and their elderly mother, who hid more from them than just each...
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Anxious in Beirut
Directed by Zakaria Jaber • Documentary • 2023 • 93 minutes
This documentary serves as Zakaria Jaber’s personal diary, capturing moments of revolution, destruction, and protest in Lebanon. Living with constant anxiety, Zakaria narrates his own life as a series of unfortunate events prevents him ...
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Dhuin
Directed by Achal Mishra • Drama • With Abhinav Jha, Bijay Kumar Sah, Prashant Rana • 2022 • 51 minutes
DHUIN is a stunning, novella-length portrait of a 25-year old street theatre actor (Abhinav Jha, in a breakout performance) who is desperate to leave his rural hometown of Darbhanga for Mumbai...
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Quiet Voices in a Noisy World: The Struggle for Change in Jasper, Texas
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Perhaps no town has experienced the racial divide in America as much as Jasper, Texas. The lynching of James Byrd Jr. in 1998 revealed the deep division between the Black community and their white counterparts. The legacy of slavery runs deep in Jasper; most Blacks have a clear kinship to their s...
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Unwelcomed
Directed by Amílcar Infante, Sebastián González M • Documentary • 2025 • 81 minutes
At the end of 2021, sparked by an unprecedented influx of migrants from Venezuela, Chile experienced a remarkably violent anti-immigrant protest. The last decade’s economic collapse has driven close to 8 million ...
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The Providers
Directed by Anna Moot-Levin, Laura Green • Documentary • 2019 • 82 minutes
Set against the backdrop of the physician shortage and opioid epidemic in rural America, THE PROVIDERS follows three healthcare providers in northern New Mexico. They work at El Centro, a group of safety-net clinics that ...
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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...
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Keep the Lights On (Ira Sachs)
Directed by Ira Sachs • Drama • With Thure Lindhardt, Zachary Booth; Julianne Nicholson • 2012 • 106 minutes
Keep the Lights On chronicles an emotionally and sexually charged journey of two men in New York City through love, friendship, and addiction. Documentary filmmaker Erik (Thure Lindhardt)...
