The Celebration
1998 · TMDB 7.7/10 · 1,288 votes
The family of a wealthy businessman gather to celebrate his 60th birthday. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
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What to Watch This Weekend Movies
This SceneIt list helps you quickly choose engaging favorites worth making time for this weekend. Results are selected for the United States and balance audience response with practical watchability.
Updated 2026-08-07 · Ratings from TMDB
How we chose these titles
We rank eligible titles using TMDB audience ratings, vote confidence, relevance to the theme, and current popularity. Ratings can change as new votes are added.
Five Easy Pieces
1970 · TMDB 7.1/10 · 606 votes
Robert Dupea spends his days doing various odd jobs, drinking and womanizing until an encounter with his sister makes him revisit his past. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
Army of Shadows
1969 · TMDB 7.9/10 · 762 votes
Betrayed by an informant, Philippe Gerbier finds himself trapped in a torturous Nazi prison camp. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
Broken Embraces
2009 · TMDB 7.1/10 · 723 votes
Harry Caine, a blind writer, reaches this moment in time when he has to heal his wounds from 14 years back. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
Rust and Bone
2012 · TMDB 7.2/10 · 1,472 votes
Put in charge of his young son, Ali leaves Belgium for Antibes to live with his sister and her husband as a family. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
The Circus
1928 · TMDB 7.9/10 · 906 votes
Charlie, a wandering tramp, becomes a circus handyman - soon the star of the show - and falls in love with the circus owner's stepdaughter. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
Superman: Red Son
2020 · TMDB 7.1/10 · 907 votes
Set in the thick of the Cold War, Red Son introduces us to a Superman who landed in the USSR during the 1950s and grows up to become a Soviet symbol that fights for the preservation of Stalin’s brand of communism. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
Jean de Florette
1986 · TMDB 7.7/10 · 620 votes
In a rural French village, an old man and his only remaining relative cast their covetous eyes on an adjoining vacant property. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
La Strada
1954 · TMDB 7.9/10 · 1,182 votes
When Gelsomina, a naïve young woman, is purchased from her impoverished mother by brutish circus strongman Zampanò to be his wife and partner, she loyally endures her husband's coldness and abuse as they travel the Italian countryside performing together. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
Nappily Ever After
2018 · TMDB 7.2/10 · 833 votes
After an accident at the hair salon, Violet realizes she's not living life to the fullest. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
2020 · TMDB 7.1/10 · 595 votes
A pair of teenage girls in rural Pennsylvania travel to New York City to seek out medical help after an unintended pregnancy. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
Stranger Than Paradise
1984 · TMDB 7.2/10 · 613 votes
New York layabout Willie forms an unexpected bond with his young Hungarian cousin Eva when she pays him a surprise visit. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
Facing the Giants
2006 · TMDB 7.6/10 · 502 votes
A losing coach with an underdog football team faces their giants of fear and failure on and off the field to surprising results. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
22 July
2018 · TMDB 7.1/10 · 1,279 votes
On 22 July 2011, neo-Nazi terrorist Anders Behring Breivik murdered 77 young people attending a Labour Party Youth Camp on Utøya Island outside of Oslo. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
The 36th Chamber of Shaolin
1978 · TMDB 7.5/10 · 506 votes
During the Qing Dynasty, a fishmonger is killed by the reigning Manchu government for supporting the anti-government movement; his son manages to escape to Shaolin Temple, where he plans to learn its secretive brand of martial arts to seek revenge. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
The Incredible Shrinking Man
1957 · TMDB 7.5/10 · 575 votes
A dangerous combination of radiation and insecticide causes the unfortunate Scott Carey to shrink, slowly but surely, until he is only a few inches tall. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
The Innocents
1961 · TMDB 7.5/10 · 681 votes
In a mid-19th century Essex country house, a young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted by ghosts and that the children are being possessed. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
We Are the Nobles
2013 · TMDB 8.0/10 · 546 votes
Tells the "riches to rags" story of the Nobles, three upper-class twenty-somethings that appear to have no limits to their checkbooks, and no direction in their lives. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
The Hand of God
2021 · TMDB 7.5/10 · 1,791 votes
In 1980s Naples, an awkward teen struggling to find his place experiences heartbreak and liberation after he's inadvertently saved from a freak accident by football legend Diego Maradona. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
1970 · TMDB 7.1/10 · 846 votes
An American writer living in Rome witnesses an attempted murder that is connected to an ongoing killing spree in the city and conducts his own investigation, despite him and his girlfriend being targeted by the killer. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.