GGI The Hague Movie Club
by ggithehague | created - 3 months ago | updated - 1 week ago | PublicThe Girl Gone International The Hague Movie Club was started by Anna C. in October 2019 and has been kept in motion (pun intended) by different GGI Event Hosts since. These are all the movies we've watched and discussed!
❝Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.❞ - Pedro Almodovar
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❝The aim of this GGI Movie Club is to watch a movie together in the cinema and discuss it afterwards. The idea is to bring our vision and understanding of the movie and discuss how this understanding varies from culture to culture. It is a good opportunity to spend time in a sociable and creative way!❞ - Anna C.
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1. Wicked Little Letters (2023)
R | 100 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
When people in Littlehampton--including conservative local Edith--begin to receive letters full of hilarious profanities, rowdy Irish migrant Rose is charged with the crime. Suspecting that something is amiss, the town's women investigate.
Director: Thea Sharrock | Stars: Jessie Buckley, Olivia Colman, Timothy Spall, Gemma Jones
Votes: 10,437
15.04.2024 @ Pathé Buitenhof GGI score: 8.8 ⭐️ GGI tagline: “Next level swearing bringing a post-war revolution of foxy *ss women together when lying goes to f-ing far”
2. Banel & Adama (2023)
87 min | Drama
A young couple in Senegal must contend with the disapproval of their remote village.
Director: Ramata-Toulaye Sy | Stars: Khady Mane, Mamadou Diallo, Binta Racine Sy, Moussa Sow
Votes: 402
16.03.2024 @ Filmhuis Den Haag GGI score: 7.7 ⭐️ GGI tagline: “Drowning in the sand: digging into a dreamy, dry obsession of a resilient girl's inflexible stubbornness impacting all relationships”
3. The Color Purple (2023)
PG-13 | 141 min | Drama, Musical
A woman faces many hardships in her life, but ultimately finds extraordinary strength and hope in the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood.
Director: Blitz Bazawule | Stars: Fantasia Barrino, Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Brooks, Colman Domingo
Votes: 15,480
04.02.2024 @ Pathé Buitenhof GGI score: 7.3 ⭐️ GGI tagline: “Unexpected colourful rendition of harsh reality, female empowerment starts in sisterhood and all trauma seems overcome when the women get to wear the (purple) pants”
4. The Virgin Suicides (1999)
R | 97 min | Drama, Romance
A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents in suburban Detroit in the mid 1970s.
Director: Sofia Coppola | Stars: Kirsten Dunst, Josh Hartnett, James Woods, Kathleen Turner
Votes: 169,187 | Gross: $4.86M
23.01.2024 @ Filmhuis Den Haag GGI score: 7.4 ⭐️ GGI tagline: “Timeless beautifully portrayed ominous suffocating family tragedy: how not to parent”
5. The Miracle Club (2023)
PG-13 | 90 min | Comedy, Drama
There's just one dream for the women of Ballygar to taste freedom: to win a pilgrimage to the sacred French town of Lourdes.
Director: Thaddeus O'Sullivan | Stars: Maggie Smith, Laura Linney, Kathy Bates, Agnes O'Casey
Votes: 4,448
11.12.2023 @ Pathé Buitenhof GGI score: 5.4 ⭐️ GGI tagline: “Compressed forgiveness: small town miracles just passing by”
6. Women Do Cry (2021)
107 min | Drama
A family full of women in a society where "gender" is not a familiar word.
Directors: Vesela Kazakova, Mina Mileva | Stars: Maria Bakalova, Vesela Kazakova, Iossif Surchadzhiev, Bilyana Kazakova
Votes: 358
26.11.2023 @ Eastern Neighbours Film Festival, Filmhuis Den Haag GGI score: 6.7 ⭐️ GGI tagline: “Uncovering your power in trauma and instability: finding your autonomy & matriarchal voice in (still) a men's world”
7. Past Lives (2023)
PG-13 | 105 min | Drama, Romance
Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrested apart after Nora's family emigrates from South Korea. Twenty years later, they are reunited for one fateful week as they confront notions of love and destiny.
Director: Celine Song | Stars: Greta Lee, Teo Yoo, John Magaro, Moon Seung-ah
Votes: 114,605
25.10.2023 @ Filmhuis Den Haag GGI score: 8.1 ⭐️ GGI tagline: “What if: unattainable love bubble over space, cultures and time”
8. Golda (2023)
PG-13 | 100 min | Biography, Drama, History
Focuses on the intensely dramatic and high-stakes responsibilities and decisions that Golda Meir, also known as the 'Iron Lady of Israel,' faced during the Yom Kippur War.
Director: Guy Nattiv | Stars: Helen Mirren, Zed Josef, Henry Goodman, Olivia Brody
Votes: 11,827
25.09.2023 @ Pathé Buitenhof GGI score: 7.6 ⭐️ GGI tagline: “When smoke settles we see an emphatic female leader: one-sided story told well.”
9. Barbie (I) (2023)
PG-13 | 114 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Barbie and Ken are having the time of their lives in the colorful and seemingly perfect world of Barbie Land. However, when they get a chance to go to the real world, they soon discover the joys and perils of living among humans.
Director: Greta Gerwig | Stars: Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, Issa Rae, Kate McKinnon
Votes: 535,664 | Gross: $636.24M
10.08.2023 @ Pathé Buitenhof GGI score: 7.8 ⭐️ GGI tagline: “Ruth's dream: Barbie realising she's more than (k)enough.”
10. The Girl from Tomorrow (2022)
97 min | Drama
A young woman in rural Italy of the 1960's is violently forced into marriage and fights for justice.
Director: Marta Savina | Stars: Claudia Gusmano, Fabrizio Ferracane, Francesco Colella, Manuela Ventura
Votes: 344
04.07.2023 @ Filmhuis Den Haag GGI score: 7.0 ⭐️ GGI tagline: “Silent drama in religious Sicilian village: 1 girl causing huge waves in the Italian law system”
11. The Little Mermaid (I) (2023)
PG | 135 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
A young mermaid makes a deal with a sea witch to trade her beautiful voice for human legs so she can discover the world above water and impress a prince.
Director: Rob Marshall | Stars: Halle Bailey, Jonah Hauer-King, Melissa McCarthy, Javier Bardem
Votes: 155,883 | Gross: $298.17M
14.06.2023 @ Pathé Spuimarkt GGI score: 7.5 ⭐️ GGI tagline: “2.0 version of childhood fantasy”
12. What Happened to the Wolf? (2021)
134 min | Drama, Romance
Two desperately ill women find solace in each other's company. They journey towards the fabled "sea of clouds" before dying, not knowing destiny has a twist in this eternal puzzle called life.
Director: Na Gyi | Stars: Paing Phyo Thu, Eaindra Kyaw Zin, Lwin Moe, Kyaw Htet Aung
Votes: 66
13.05.2023 @ CinemAsia on tour, Filmhuis Den Haag GGI score: 6.7 ⭐️ GGI tagline: “Live slow, die fast - a cheerful roadtrip in slow loving bubble”
13. Alice, Darling (2022)
R | 89 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
A young woman trapped in an abusive relationship becomes the unwitting participant in an intervention staged by her two closest friends.
Director: Mary Nighy | Stars: Anna Kendrick, Kaniehtiio Horn, Charlie Carrick, Wunmi Mosaku
Votes: 10,128
04.04.2023 @ Pathé Buitenhof GGI score: 8.0 ⭐️ GGI tagline: “Resurrection: friends matter when drowning in silence”
14. Nasrin (2020)
Not Rated | 92 min | Documentary
An immersive portrait of one of the world's most courageous human rights activists and political prisoners, Nasrin Sotoudeh, and of Iran's remarkably resilient women's rights movement.
Director: Jeff Kaufman | Stars: Olivia Colman, Ann Curry, Shirin Ebadi, Narges Hosseini
Votes: 126
10.03.2023 @ TransitieCinema, Het Koorenhuis GGI score: 8.7 ⭐️ GGI tagline: “Intense and inspiring insights in daily activist familylife: powerful woman not giving up on a selfless unfair fight in extremities”
15. Women Talking (2022)
PG-13 | 104 min | Drama
Do nothing, stay and fight, or leave. In 2010, the women of an isolated religious community grapple with reconciling a brutal reality with their faith.
Director: Sarah Polley | Stars: Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Frances McDormand
Votes: 41,958
19.02.2023 @ Pathé Buitenhof GGI score: 8.2 ⭐️ GGI tagline: “Intellectual engaging barn discussion: politely showing women regaining the critical believe in themselves, empowering one another whilst holding space”
16. Concerned Citizen (2022)
Not Rated | 82 min | Comedy, Drama
Centers around Ben, a politically liberal, gay man who tries to improve his neighborhood in the slums of south Tel Aviv by planting a tree on his street.
Director: Idan Haguel | Stars: Shlomi Bertonov, Ariel Wolf, Lena Fraifeld, Uriah Jablonowsky
Votes: 416
16.01.2023 @ Filmhuis Den Haag GGI score: 6.9 ⭐️ GGI tagline: “Shallow, out-of-touch citizen with good intentions, until it becomes too close to home”
17. Sisterhood (2021)
90 min | Drama
The friendship of two adolescent girls is threatened the moment they have to face the dire repercussions of their manipulative behaviour.
Director: Dina Duma | Stars: Antonija Belazelkoska, Mia Giraud, Marija Jancevska, Hanis Bagashov
Votes: 591
27.11.2022 @ Eastern Neighbours Film Festival, Filmhuis Den Haag
18. Eternal Spring (2022)
86 min | Documentary, Animation
Falun Gong practitioners were persecuted in China, they tried to tell the truth but they were kidnapped, some Falun Gong practitioners died.
Director: Jason Loftus | Stars: Henry Guo, Shi Jian, Yu Feng, Tan Junfeng
Votes: 1,697 | Gross: $0.09M
09.10.2022 @ Movies That Matter on Tour, Filmhuis Den Haag
19. Where the Crawdads Sing (2022)
PG-13 | 125 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A woman who raised herself in the marshes of the Deep South becomes a suspect in the murder of a man with whom she was once involved.
Director: Olivia Newman | Stars: Daisy Edgar-Jones, Taylor John Smith, Harris Dickinson, David Strathairn
Votes: 121,212 | Gross: $90.23M
18.08.2022 @ Pathé Buitenhof - crossover with GGI The Hague Book Club
20. Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
R | 139 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A middle-aged Chinese immigrant is swept up into an insane adventure in which she alone can save existence by exploring other universes and connecting with the lives she could have led.
Directors: Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert | Stars: Michelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ke Huy Quan
Votes: 532,839 | Gross: $72.86M
24.07.2022 @ Pathé Buitenhof
21. The Art of Loving: Story of Michalina Wislocka (2017)
121 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
Michalina Wislocka, the most famous and recognized sexologist of communist Poland, fights for the right to publish her book, which will change the sex life of Polish people forever.
Director: Maria Sadowska | Stars: Piotr Adamczyk, Magdalena Boczarska, Karolina Gruszka, Tomasz Kot
Votes: 4,232
22.06.2022 @ Café Emma (watch on Netflix)
22. Licorice Pizza (2021)
R | 133 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The story of Alana Kane and Gary Valentine growing up, running around and going through the treacherous navigation of first love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973.
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson | Stars: Alana Haim, Cooper Hoffman, Sean Penn, Tom Waits
Votes: 140,263
27.03.2022 @ Pathé Buitenhof
23. Don't Look Up (2021)
R | 138 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Two low-level astronomers must go on a giant media tour to warn humankind of an approaching comet that will destroy planet Earth.
Director: Adam McKay | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett
Votes: 601,645
21.02.2022 @ Murphy’s Law (watch on Netflix)
24. The Lost Daughter (2021)
R | 121 min | Drama
A woman's beach vacation takes a dark turn when she begins to confront the troubles of her past.
Director: Maggie Gyllenhaal | Stars: Olivia Colman, Jessie Buckley, Dakota Johnson, Ed Harris
Votes: 75,102
28.01.2022 @ ZOOM (watch on Netflix)
25. The French Dispatch (2021)
R | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A love letter to journalists set in an outpost of an American newspaper in a fictional twentieth century French city that brings to life a collection of stories published in "The French Dispatch Magazine".
Director: Wes Anderson | Stars: Benicio Del Toro, Adrien Brody, Tilda Swinton, Léa Seydoux
Votes: 150,577
20.11.2021 @ Pathé Buitenhof
26. Here We Are (2020)
94 min | Drama
Aharon raises autistic son Uri in isolation. Facing possibility of Uri living in specialized home, Aharon runs away with Uri on road trip, unwilling for separation from his son.
Director: Nir Bergman | Stars: Shai Avivi, Noam Imber, Smadi Wolfman, Efrat Ben-Zur
Votes: 551
10.10.2021 @ Movies That Matter on Tour, Concordia CC/Filmhuis Den Haag
27. The Macaluso Sisters (2020)
89 min | Drama
Maria, Pinuccia, Lia, Katia and Antonella are five sisters who live in an apartment in Palermo. When Antonella accidentally dies, the sisters' relationships are turned upside down for the rest of their lives.
Director: Emma Dante | Stars: Alissa Maria Orlando, Susanna Piraino, Anita Pomario, Eleonora De Luca
Votes: 1,567
19.08.2021 @ Expat Night, Pathé Buitenhof
28. Seaspiracy (2021)
TV-14 | 89 min | Documentary, Adventure
Passionate about ocean life, a filmmaker sets out to document the harm that humans do to marine species - and uncovers alarming global corruption.
Director: Ali Tabrizi | Stars: Ali Tabrizi, Richard O'Barry, Lucy Tabrizi, Lori Marino
Votes: 34,132
08.06.2021 @ ZOOM (watch on Netflix)
29. The Post (2017)
PG-13 | 116 min | Biography, Drama, History
A cover-up spanning four U.S. Presidents pushes the country's first female newspaper publisher and her editor to join an unprecedented battle between press and government.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Sarah Paulson, Bob Odenkirk
Votes: 162,257 | Gross: $81.90M
17.05.2021 @ ZOOM (watch on Netflix)
30. I Lost My Body (2019)
16+ | 81 min | Animation, Drama, Fantasy
A story of Naoufel, a young man who is in love with Gabrielle. In another part of town, a severed hand escapes from a dissection lab, determined to find its body again.
Director: Jérémy Clapin | Stars: Hakim Faris, Victoire Du Bois, Patrick d'Assumçao, Alfonso Arfi
Votes: 36,612
17.05.2021 @ ZOOM (watch on Netflix)
31. The Forty-Year-Old Version (2020)
R | 123 min | Comedy, Drama
Radha is a down-on-her-luck NY playwright, who is desperate for a breakthrough before 40. Reinventing herself as rapper RadhaMUSPrime, she vacillates between the worlds of Hip Hop and theater in order to find her true voice.
Director: Radha Blank | Stars: Radha Blank, Peter Kim, Oswin Benjamin, Imani Lewis
Votes: 5,519
24.03.2021 @ ZOOM (watch on Netflix)
32. Pieces of a Woman (2020)
R | 126 min | Drama
When a young mother's home birth ends in unfathomable tragedy, she begins a year-long odyssey of mourning that fractures relationships with loved ones in this deeply personal story of a woman learning to live alongside her loss.
Director: Kornél Mundruczó | Stars: Vanessa Kirby, Shia LaBeouf, Ellen Burstyn, Iliza Shlesinger
Votes: 56,248
15.02.2021 @ ZOOM (watch on Netflix)
33. The Two Popes (2019)
PG-13 | 125 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
Behind Vatican walls, the conservative Pope Benedict XVI and the liberal future Pope Francis must find common ground to forge a new path for the Catholic Church.
Director: Fernando Meirelles | Stars: Jonathan Pryce, Anthony Hopkins, Juan Minujín, Luis Gnecco
Votes: 132,975
14.01.2021 @ ZOOM (watch on Netflix)
34. Little Women (1994)
PG | 115 min | Drama, Family, Romance
The March sisters live and grow in post-Civil War America.
Director: Gillian Armstrong | Stars: Susan Sarandon, Winona Ryder, Kirsten Dunst, Claire Danes
Votes: 63,581 | Gross: $50.08M
22.12.2020 @ ZOOM (watch on Netflix)
35. Downfall (2004)
R | 156 min | Biography, Drama, History
Traudl Junge, the final secretary for Adolf Hitler, tells of the Nazi dictator's final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII.
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel | Stars: Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Ulrich Matthes, Juliane Köhler
Votes: 375,198 | Gross: $5.51M
12.11.2020 @ ZOOM (watch on Netflix)
36. Gone Girl (2014)
R | 149 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.
Director: David Fincher | Stars: Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris, Tyler Perry
Votes: 1,067,244 | Gross: $167.77M
03.09.2020 @ Home Food & Drinks (watch on Netflix)
37. Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
R | 117 min | Biography, Drama
In 1985 Dallas, electrician and hustler Ron Woodroof works around the system to help AIDS patients get the medication they need after he is diagnosed with the disease.
Director: Jean-Marc Vallée | Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, Jared Leto, Steve Zahn
Votes: 519,262 | Gross: $27.30M
19.08.2020 @ ZOOM (watch via free trial period on Cinetree)
38. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)
R | 119 min | Comedy, Drama
A washed-up superhero actor attempts to revive his fading career by writing, directing, and starring in a Broadway production.
Director: Alejandro G. Iñárritu | Stars: Michael Keaton, Zach Galifianakis, Edward Norton, Andrea Riseborough
Votes: 666,527 | Gross: $42.34M
25.06.2020 @ ZOOM (watch on Netflix)
39. My Happy Family (2017)
120 min | Drama
In a patriarchal society, an ordinary Georgian family lives with three generations under one roof. All are shocked when 52-year-old Manana decides to move out of her parents' home and live ... See full summary »
Directors: Nana Ekvtimishvili, Simon Groß | Stars: Ia Shugliashvili, Merab Ninidze, Berta Khapava, Tsisia Kumsishvili
Votes: 4,219
11.06.2020 @ ZOOM (watch on Netflix)
40. Even After Death (2020)
55 min | Documentary
A portrait made by refugees that survived the Mediterranean crossing, also showing forensic experts dealing with the difficulties of identification of bodies and showing need for a global recognised system of human rights even after death.
Directors: Said Reza Adib, Douglas F. Herman
29.05.2020 @ ZOOM (watch free online screening of Movies That Matters via Pakhuis De Zwijger https://dezwijger.nl/programma/even-after-death)
41. A Hidden Life (2019)
PG-13 | 174 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The Austrian Franz Jägerstätter, a conscientious objector, refuses to fight for the Nazis in World War II.
Director: Terrence Malick | Stars: August Diehl, Valerie Pachner, Maria Simon, Karin Neuhäuser
Votes: 28,162
16.02.2020 @ Pathé Buitenhof
42. Marriage Story (2019)
R | 137 min | Drama, Romance
Noah Baumbach's incisive and compassionate look at a marriage breaking up and a family staying together.
Director: Noah Baumbach | Stars: Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson, Julia Greer, Azhy Robertson
Votes: 346,341 | Gross: $2.00M
01.12.2019 @ Filmhuis Den Haag
43. The Mercy of the Jungle (2018)
91 min | Crime, Drama, War
The Mercy of the jungle is a road movie that deals with wars in Congo through the eyes of two lost soldiers in the jungle by showcasing their struggle, weakness and hope.
Director: Joël Karekezi | Stars: Abby Mukiibi Nkaaga, Cédrick Mbongo Mbulu, Nsereko Mazinga Henry, Ibrahim Ahmed
Votes: 298
19.10.2019 @ iAfrica Film Festival, Filmhuis Den Haag
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