November's Top 30 Films
Check out the top 30 films most watched and well-liked on OVID last month!
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MovieCareless Crime
Movie
Inspired by a real-life tragedy, the infamous Cinema Rex fire in 1978 that triggered the Iranian Revolution, Iranian independent director Shahram Mokri's mind-bending mystery leapfrogs between past and present, fact and fiction to create an unforgettable picture of Time not as a straight line, bu...
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Woo Who? May Wilson
Directed by Amalie R. Rothschild • Documentary • With May Wilson, Meredith Monk • 1969 • 34 minutes
When her husband informs her, after 40 years of marriage, that his future plans no longer include her, May Wilson, age 60, former "wife-mother-housekeeper-cook" and a grandmother, moves to New Yor...
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MovieUnderworld Beauty
Movie
Retrieving the diamonds he stashed before his arrest, thief Miyamoto hopes to help his old partner Mihara, crippled during the heist. Their former boss, crime lord Oyane, offers to mediate with a foreign buyer, but secretly wants the stones for himself.
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Rabble Rousers: Frances Goldin and the Fight for Cooper Square
Directed by Kelly Anderson, Kathryn Barnier, Ryan Joseph • Documentary • With Frances Goldin, Tito Delgado • 2022 • 82 minutes
In 1959 New York City announced a “slum clearance plan” by Robert Moses that would displace 2,400 working class and immigrant families, and dozens of businesses, from th...
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MovieFelidae
Movie
Directed by Michael Schaack • Animation • With Helge Schneider, Frank Röth • 1994 • 82 minutes
A combination feline detective story, Gothic mystery and occult horror, the German animated feature FELIDAE follows cat protagonist Francis and his grizzled, one-eyed companion Blaubart as they unravel...
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Bamako (Abderrahmane Sissako)
Directed by Abderrahmane Sissako • Drama • With Danny Glover, Aïssa Maïga, Tiécoura Traoré • 2006 • 117 minutes
An extraordinary trial is taking place in a residential courtyard in Bamako, the capital city of Mali. African citizens have taken proceedings against such international financial inst...
