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 #70: Welcome to the Sticks (2008)

▶️ Today’s film is a 🇫🇷French comedy about a man from sunny Southern France who has to move to the North of France where it always rains, where people eat bad food, speak a strange dialect and are unsophisticated (=simple, not clever). Watch how he slowly accepts his fate and falls in love with the place.

🔤 Subtitles provided.

👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #comedy #european_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 #75: Ghosted (2023)

▶️ Fasten your seatbelt and enjoy this fast-paced romantic action comedy about a farmer who falls in love with a spy.

🔤 Subtitles provided.

👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #action #comedy #american_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 #79: Human (2015)

▶️ Here’s a cinematic (=about movies) collection of fascinating and touching interviews with people from pretty much every country on earth. It's another masterpiece from French filmmaker Yann Arthus-Bertrand, just as the movie Home. Watch it and feel what it means to be human.

🔤 Subtitles provided.

👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #documentary #international_films

Movie Time #80: Suck Me Shakespeer (2013)

▶️ Today’s movie is a 🇩🇪German comedy about a school full of troublesome teenagers. Watch how a criminal teacher-by-accident gives the kids just what they need.

🔤 Subtitles provided.

🗣 Do you speak German? Then watch this movie with German subtitles.

👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #comedy #european_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

Movie Time #85: The Great Debaters (2007)

▶️ Today’s movie is a drama set in 1930s Texas where a teacher and social justice activist leads his students to take on (=challenge, compete with) Harvard University in a nationwide debate contest. Watch how these Afro-American students struggle in their racist society but finally show what they are capable of.

🔤 Subtitles provided.

👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #drama #american_films