Movie Time #67: Boyhood (2014)

▶️ Today’s film is a drama and it’s a little bit special. It took 11 years to make because the director wanted to show the main character growing up without choosing different actors. The plot is decidedly random as the film provides a deeper glimpse (=quick look) into American society.

🔤 Subtitles provided.

👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #drama #american_films

Movie Time #68: The Founder (2016)

▶️ Today’s film is a drama about the humble beginnings of fast food giant (=huge figure) McDonald’s and how one man managed to turn it from an ordinary place into today’s multi-billion dollar business. It’s a film about the American Dream, a man’s relentless (=persistent, not giving up) pursuit of (=search for) success and the essence (=innermost quality) of capitalism.

🔤 Subtitles provided.

👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #drama #american_films

Movie Time #69: Interstellar (2014)

▶️ Today’s film is an Oscar-winning science-fiction epic (=large-scale film production) that teaches you a thing or two (=a few things) about astrophysics. Leave your little world behind you and embark (=start a journey, esp. by ship) on an exciting mission to save mankind, diving into the depths of dark and cold space.

🔤 Subtitles provided.

👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #drama #american_films

Movie Time #71: Catch Me If You Can (2002)

▶️ Today’s film is a true story of a master con artist (=impostor, sb who tricks people) who successfully poses (=acts) as a pilot, doctor and lawyer. Watch how he manages to escape arrest every time. Best acting by Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks.

🔤 Subtitles provided.

👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #drama #comedy #american_films

Movie Time #72: Forgotten (2017)

▶️ Today’s film is a thriller from 🇰🇷South Korea about a man who doesn’t quite know his past and takes the viewer through a series of shocking surprises. Watch till the end!

🔤 English subtitles provided.

👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #drama #international_films

Movie Time #73: Tanna (2015)

▶️ Today’s film is based on a true forbidden love story from the small Pacific island nation of 🇻🇺Vanuatu in a co-production with 🇦🇺Australia. Plunge (=fall suddenly and deeply) into another world as you experience this epic (=very impressive) struggle between love marriage and arranged marriage.

🔤 English subtitles provided.

👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #drama #international_films

Movie Time #74: The Hunt (2012)

▶️ Today’s film is a psychological drama from 🇩🇰Denmark about a man who works in childcare and is wrongly accused of paedophelia (=sexual attraction to children). Watch how he becomes an outcast (=sb who is kicked out from society) and how hard it is to get rehabilitated (=be regarded as good again after being regarded as bad).

🔤 English subtitles provided.

👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #drama #european_films

Movie Time #76: Beyond The Blackboard (2011)

▶️ Today’s film is a drama about a young teacher at a school for homeless children in America. It is based on a true story. Watch how this hero teacher manages to bring out the good in her students.

🔤 Subtitles provided.

👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #drama #american_films

Movie Time #77: Life of Pi (2012)

▶️ Here’s an Oscar-winning, epic (=long exciting story) adventure film about a young Indian man surviving a shipwreck (=a ship that has sunk) on a lifeboat with a tiger.

🔤 Subtitles provided.

👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #drama #international_films

Movie Time #78: My Life Without Me (2003)

▶️ This film is set in the 🇺🇸US but actually a 🇨🇦Canadian-🇪🇸Spanish co-production. It tells the true story of a young mother who is terminally ill (=soon dying from a disease) but doesn’t tell her family about it. Watch how she cleverly plans everything for the time after her death.

🔤 Subtitles provided.

👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #drama #international_films #american_films

Movie Time #81: The Ron Clark Story (2006)

▶️ Today’s movie is about a teacher who leaves his comfortable small town job to go where students need him more: New York City. Watch how he manages to inspire some really hopeless students. Based on a true story.

🔤 Subtitles provided.

👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #drama

Movie Time #82: Love, Rosie (2014)

▶️ Today’s movie is a 🇬🇧British romantic comedy-drama about a young lady who finds true love but not exactly the shortest way to it. Watch how long and how many failures it can take to succeed.

🔤 Subtitles provided.

👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #comedy #drama #british_films

Movie Time #83: Minari (2020)

▶️ Today’s movie is an Oscar-winning drama about a Korean immigrant family in 1980s America. See their very modest lives and how, against all odds (=unlikely), they try to make a living (=earn enough money to live) from a piece of land.

🔤 Subtitles provided.

👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #drama #international_films #american_films

Movie Time #84: I Am Sam (2001)

▶️ Today’s movie is a drama about an intellectually (=mentally) disabled single father (=a man raising his child alone without the mother) who fights to keep his daughter. Watch how he forges an unlikely and comical bond (forge a bond =start being connected emotionally) with his lawyer.

🔤 Subtitles provided.

👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #drama #comedy #american_films