Extravagance (1930)

'Living' dives into many themes that we can all understand regardless of our cultural backgrounds. We can see this through the shared similarities between 'Ikiru' and 'Living'.

Stand and Deliver is an inspirational classic from 1988 starring Edward James Olmos as Jaime Escalante, and his class of rag tag students in East Los Angeles. It’s the story of how a new teacher shows a motley group of students in the inner city with backgrounds as gang members, dishwashers, and mechanics — the power of self-determination. He teaches the teenagers to believe in themselves through algebra and calculus.

It's chock full of dream-come-true moments for Spidey fans, but its lack of substance reeks of a self-indulgence that is rare even in fan fiction

"Hustlers" returns power to groups that are traditionally deprived of it: women, the working class, and sex workers.

A trouble-making teenager spends the summer working at a Southern California beach learning about responsibility.

"Marriage Story" is a narrow-minded and heavy-handed attempt to examine the complexity of human relationships.