The match
The White Ribbon
2009Germany★ 7.5subtitled
An aged tailor recalls his life as the schoolteacher of a small village in Northern Germany that was struck by a series of strange events in the year leading up to WWI.
Close, not exact
Spotlight, but for the conversation it starts after
Nothing in the catalog nails this hook as hard as Spotlight does, but the films below come honestly close.
If you want a second one
Graduation
2016Romania★ 6.8subtitled
After his daughter is assaulted and left with an injury that may jeopardize her opportunity to study in the UK, a Romanian doctor decides to do whatever it takes to secure her future.
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The Motive
2017Mexico★ 6.2subtitled
Álvaro, a man obsessed with the idea of writing what he brands as “high literature,” manipulates the lives and feelings of the people around him to write about the consequences caused by his devious acts.
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Lady Vengeance
2005South Korea★ 7.5subtitled
Released after being wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for 13 years, a woman begins executing her elaborate plan of retribution.
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Human Capital
2013France★ 7.4subtitled
The destinies of two families are irrevocably tied together after a cyclist is hit off the road by a jeep in the night before Christmas Eve.
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Bad Education
2004Spain★ 7.4subtitled
When an old friend brings filmmaker Enrique Goded a semi-autobiographical script chronicling their adolescence, Enrique is forced to relive his youth spent at a Catholic boarding school.
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Il Divo
2008Italy★ 7.6subtitled
Italy, early '90s. Calm, clever and inscrutable, politician Giulio Andreotti has been synonymous with power for decades. He has survived everything: electoral battles, terrorist massacres, loss of friends, slanderous accusations; but now certain repentant mobsters implicate him in the crimes of Cosa Nostra.