The Nostalgic Files
Movies that take you back to simpler times.
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Kaguya-sama: Love Is War -The First Kiss That Never Ends-
2022·Dir. Mamoru Hatakeyama·96 min·★ 8.5After pining for one another and plotting for so long, Kaguya Shinomiya and Miyuki Shirogane finally have their climactic first kiss. However, they struggle to define their relationship. After all, how much of their true selves have they really shown to one another?
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Your Name.
2016·Dir. Makoto Shinkai·106 min·★ 8.4High schoolers Mitsuha and Taki are complete strangers living separate lives. But one night, they suddenly switch places. Mitsuha wakes up in Taki’s body, and he in hers. This bizarre occurrence continues to happen randomly, and the two must adjust their lives around each other.
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I Swear
2025·Dir. Kirk Jones·121 min·★ 8.4Diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome at 15, John Davidson navigates his way against the odds through troubled teenage years and into adulthood, finding inspiration in the kindness of others to discover his true purpose in life.
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Joker
2019·Dir. Todd Phillips·122 min·★ 8.3During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.
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Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dreaming Girl
2019·Dir. Soichi Masui·90 min·★ 8.3In Fujisawa, Sakuta Azusagawa is in his second year of high school. Blissful days with his girlfriend and upperclassman, Mai Sakurajima, are interrupted by the appearance of his first crush, Shoko Makinohara.
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A Silent Voice: The Movie
2016·Dir. Naoko Yamada·129 min·★ 8.2Shouya Ishida starts bullying the new girl in class, Shouko Nishimiya, because she is deaf. But as the teasing continues, the rest of the class starts to turn on Shouya for his lack of compassion. When they leave elementary school, Shouko and Shouya do not speak to each other again... until an older, wiser Shouya, tormented by his past behaviour, decides he must see Shouko once more. He wants to atone for his sins, but is it already too late...?
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Klaus
2019·Dir. Sergio Pablos·97 min·★ 8.2A selfish postman and a reclusive toymaker form an unlikely friendship, delivering joy to a cold, dark town that desperately needs it.
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I Want to Eat Your Pancreas
2018·Dir. Shinichiro Ushijima·108 min·★ 8.1After his classmate and crush is diagnosed with a pancreatic disease, an average high schooler sets out to make the most of her final days.
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CODA
2021·Dir. Sian Heder·112 min·★ 8.0As a CODA (Child of Deaf Adults), Ruby is the only hearing person in her deaf family. When the family's fishing business is threatened, Ruby finds herself torn between pursuing her love of music and her fear of abandoning her parents.
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All That's Left of You
2025·Dir. Cherien Dabis·146 min·★ 7.9In the Occupied West Bank in Palestine of the 1980s, a Palestinian teenager is swept into a protest that changes the course of his family's life. Reeling from its aftermath, his mother, Hanan, shares the story that led them to that fateful moment. Spanning seven decades, this epic drama traces the hopes and heartaches of one uprooted family, revealing not only the scars of ethnic cleansing, but the unbreakable spirit of survival.
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Young Hearts
2024·Dir. Anthony Schatteman·99 min·★ 7.914-year-old Elias increasingly feels like an outsider in his village. When he meets his new neighbour of the same age, Alexander, Elias is confronted with his burgeoning sexuality.
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How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies
2024·Dir. Pat Boonnitipat·126 min·★ 7.9M, a university dropout low on money and luck, volunteers to take care of his terminally ill grandmother, in the hope of pocketing an inheritance.
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Jojo Rabbit
2019·Dir. Taika Waititi·108 min·★ 7.9Jojo, a lonely German boy during World War II has his world shaken when he learns that his single mother is hiding a Jewish girl in their home. Influenced by a buffoonish imaginary version of Adolf Hitler, he begins to question his beliefs and confront the conflict between propaganda and his own humanity.
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A Taxi Driver
2017·Dir. Jang Hoon·138 min·★ 7.9May, 1980. Man-seob is a taxi driver in Seoul who lives from hand to mouth, raising his young daughter alone. One day, he hears that there is a foreigner who will pay big money for a drive down to Gwangju city. Not knowing that he’s a German journalist with a hidden agenda, Man-seob takes the job.
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The Holdovers
2023·Dir. Alexander Payne·133 min·★ 7.9A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them — a damaged, brainy troublemaker — and with the school’s head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam.
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Bohemian Rhapsody
2018·Dir. Bryan Singer·135 min·★ 7.9Singer Freddie Mercury, guitarist Brian May, drummer Roger Taylor and bass guitarist John Deacon take the music world by storm when they form the rock 'n' roll band Queen in 1970. Hit songs become instant classics. When Mercury's increasingly wild lifestyle starts to spiral out of control, Queen soon faces its greatest challenge yet – finding a way to keep the band together amid the success and excess.
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HAIKYU!! The Dumpster Battle
2024·Dir. Susumu Mitsunaka·84 min·★ 7.8Shoyo Hinata joins Karasuno High's volleyball club to be like his idol, a former Karasuno player known as the 'Little Giant'. But Hinata soon learns that he must team up with his middle school nemesis, Tobio Kageyama. Their clashing styles form a surprising weapon, but can their newfound teamwork defeat their rival Nekoma High in the highly anticipated 'Dumpster Battle', the long awaited ultimate showdown between two opposing underdog teams?
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Monster
2023·Dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda·125 min·★ 7.8After an outburst at school involving her son, a concerned single mother demands answers, triggering a sequence of deepening suspicion and turmoil.
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Call Me by Your Name
2017·Dir. Luca Guadagnino·132 min·★ 7.8In the summer of 1983, a 17-year-old Elio spends his days in his family's villa in Italy. One day Oliver, a graduate student, arrives to assist Elio's father, a professor of Greco-Roman culture. Soon, Elio and Oliver discover a summer that will alter their lives forever.
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Little Women
2019·Dir. Greta Gerwig·135 min·★ 7.8Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.
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Past Lives
2023·Dir. Celine Song·106 min·★ 7.8After decades apart, childhood friends Nora and Hae Sung are reunited in New York for one fateful weekend as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life.
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Latin Blood – The Ballad of Ney Matogrosso
2025·Dir. Esmir Filho·130 min·★ 7.8From a repressive childhood to artistic revolution, Ney Matogrosso transforms Brazil's stages — and himself — through music, creativity and inner fire.
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Memoir of a Snail
2024·Dir. Adam Elliot·94 min·★ 7.8Forcibly separated from her twin brother when they are orphaned, a melancholic misfit learns how to find confidence within herself amid the clutter of misfortunes and everyday life.
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Rascal Does Not Dream of a Knapsack Kid
2023·Dir. Soichi Masui·75 min·★ 7.8Finally, the day of Mai's high school graduation has arrived. While Sakuta eagerly waits for his girlfriend, an elementary schooler who looks exactly like her appears before him. Suspicious, and for all the wrong reasons... Meanwhile, Sakuta and Kaede's father suddenly calls, saying that their mother wants to see her daughter. She was hospitalized because Kaede's condition had been too much for her to bear, so what could she possibly want now?
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Drawing Closer
2024·Dir. Takahiro Miki·119 min·★ 7.7With only a year left to live, 17-year-old Akito finds new meaning in life by bringing joy to a terminally ill girl who has just six months remaining.
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Aftersun
2022·Dir. Charlotte Wells·101 min·★ 7.6Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories fill the gaps between camcorder footages as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the troubled man she didn't.
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Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
2019·Dir. Quentin Tarantino·162 min·★ 7.6Los Angeles, 1969. TV star Rick Dalton, a struggling actor specializing in westerns, and stuntman Cliff Booth, his best friend, try to survive in a constantly changing movie industry. Dalton is the neighbor of the young and promising actress and model Sharon Tate, who has just married the prestigious Polish director Roman Polanski…
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100 METERS
2025·Dir. Kenji Iwaisawa·107 min·★ 7.6A gifted runner trains a determined but unskilled classmate, unaware he's creating a rival who will challenge him on the track for years to come.
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Big World
2024·Dir. Yang Lina·131 min·★ 7.6Liu Chunhe, suffering from cerebral palsy, bravely breaks through the shackles of body and mind to realize the dream stage for his grandmother, while trying to find the coordinates of his own life. After experiencing a summer transformation, he finally embarked on a new journey.
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Nimona
2023·Dir. Nick Bruno·99 min·★ 7.5A knight framed for a tragic crime teams with a scrappy, shape-shifting teen to prove his innocence.
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Waves
2019·Dir. Trey Edward Shults·136 min·★ 7.5A controlling father’s attempts to ensure that his two children succeed in high school backfire after his son experiences a career-ending sports injury. Their familial bonds are eventually placed under severe strain by an unexpected tragedy.
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The Iron Claw
2023·Dir. Sean Durkin·132 min·★ 7.5The true story of the inseparable Von Erich brothers, who made history in the intensely competitive world of professional wrestling in the early 1980s. Through tragedy and triumph, under the shadow of their domineering father and coach, the brothers seek larger-than-life immortality on the biggest stage in sports.
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The Fabelmans
2022·Dir. Steven Spielberg·151 min·★ 7.5Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a shattering family secret and explores how the power of films can help him see the truth.
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Weathering with You
2019·Dir. Makoto Shinkai·112 min·★ 7.5The summer of his high school freshman year, Hodaka runs away from his remote island home to Tokyo, and quickly finds himself pushed to his financial and personal limits. The weather is unusually gloomy and rainy every day, as if taking its cue from his life. After many days of solitude, he finally finds work as a freelance writer for a mysterious occult magazine. Then, one day, Hodaka meets Hina on a busy street corner. This bright and strong-willed girl possesses a strange and wonderful ability: the power to stop the rain and clear the sky.
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Even If This Love Disappears Tonight
2025·Dir. Kim Hye-young·106 min·★ 7.5A high school girl wakes up each day with no memory of yesterday. When she agrees to date a shy classmate, can their love grow with every new beginning?
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Better Man
2024·Dir. Michael Gracey·135 min·★ 7.5Follow Robbie Williams' journey from childhood, to being the youngest member of chart-topping boyband Take That, through to his unparalleled achievements as a record-breaking solo artist – all the while confronting the challenges that stratospheric fame and success can bring.
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Love, Simon
2018·Dir. Greg Berlanti·110 min·★ 7.5Everyone deserves a great love story, but for 17-year-old Simon Spier, it's a little more complicated. He hasn't told his family or friends that he's gay, and he doesn't know the identity of the anonymous classmate that he's fallen for online.
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The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie
2022·Dir. Masato Jimbo·136 min·★ 7.4When five lovely young girls who hate studying hire part-time tutor Futaro, he guides not only their education but also their hearts. Time spent has brought them all closer, with feelings growing within the girls and Futaro. As they finish their third year of high school and their last school festival approaches, they set their sights on what’s next. Is there a future with one of them and Futaro?
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Luca
2021·Dir. Enrico Casarosa·95 min·★ 7.4Luca and his best friend Alberto experience an unforgettable summer on the Italian Riviera. But all the fun is threatened by a deeply-held secret: they are sea monsters from another world just below the water’s surface.
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Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms
2018·Dir. Mari Okada·115 min·★ 7.4Fleeing the war, the immortal Machia, graced with eternal youth, finds a baby abandoned in the forest and decides to raise it as her own child, sparking a moving story between a mortal and a being who does not age.
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