Pennywise: Unity (1995)

As an Indian lesbian living in the United Kingdom, the cards are stacked against Geetika from the start.

The film reminds us to remember the people who had the courage and dignity that had made the world better, even when the memory was absent.

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.

Some moments of the series are intense and ends on a cliff-hanger that will have you yearning for a second season.

In Saudi Arabia, a little girl (Wadjda) is told she can't have a bike because she's a girl. Wadjda struggles to obtain a bicycle to race her friend, Abdullah, due to the gender inequality and cultural norms of Saudi Arabia.