Movie recommendations for a fun-filled weekend

Happy as Lazzaro (2018)

The film follows the friendship between Lazzaro, a good-hearted man who works as a farmer, and Tancredi, a young man, as they navigate a web of mysterious plans and lies.

The Seventh Seal (1957)

A knight returning to Sweden after the Crusades seeks answers about life, death, and the existence of God while playing chess against the Grim Reaper during the Black Death.

Force Majeure (2014)

For a Swedish family on vacation in the Alps, everything is exactly as they wished. However, an avalanche occurs while they are having lunch at a restaurant with a mountain view. While the mother, Ebba, tries to protect her two children at all costs, the father, Tomas, saving his own life deeply shakes the family.

Corsage (2022)

The film, which presents a fictionalized account of a year in the life of Empress Elisabeth of Austria, begins on Christmas Eve in 1877, when Elisabeth, once idolized for her beauty, turns 40 and is officially considered an old woman; she begins to struggle to maintain her public image.

Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets (2000)

Summary: A group of street children leave their gang and face retaliation from the gang leader. After one of the children is killed, the others try to find the resources needed to give their friend a proper funeral.

One Fine Morning (2022)

A young woman whose father suffers from a neurodegenerative disease lives with her eight-year-old daughter. While trying to find a good nursing home, she encounters someone new, even though she is not ready to start a relationship.

Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)

Summary: A polite fox cannot resist returning to his ways of raiding farms, and must subsequently help his community survive the farmers' retaliation.

Son of Babylon (2009)

A stubborn young boy follows his equally stubborn grandmother on a journey across Iraq, determined to discover the fate of Ahmed's missing son, his father who never returned from the war.

Unbreakable (2000)

Written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan, Unbreakable follows David Dunn, a security guard who survives a train crash without a scratch. Shortly after, Dunn meets Elijah Price, a comic book store owner who proposes an intriguing idea. What if superheroes actually exist?

The Case of the Naves Brothers (1967)

Summary: Innocent brothers are falsely accused of a crime by corrupt and violent police officers and are forced to face the injustices of the Brazilian penal system.