Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
2023 · TMDB 7.1/10 · 1,127 votes
Ruby Gillman, a sweet and awkward high school student, discovers she's a direct descendant of the warrior kraken queens. 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 2026-08-05 · 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.
Resident Evil: Death Island
2023 · TMDB 7.3/10 · 1,127 votes
In San Francisco, Jill Valentine is dealing with a zombie outbreak and a new T-Virus, Leon Kennedy is on the trail of a kidnapped DARPA scientist, and Claire Redfield is investigating a monstrous fish that is killing whales in the bay. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
Cure
1997 · TMDB 7.5/10 · 833 votes
A frustrated detective deals with the case of several gruesome murders committed by people who have no recollection of what they've done. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
Lawless
2012 · TMDB 7.1/10 · 3,380 votes
In 1931, the Bondurant brothers of Franklin County, Virginia, run a multipurpose backwoods establishment that hides their true business — bootlegging. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
I Want to Eat Your Pancreas
2018 · TMDB 8.2/10 · 1,813 votes
After his classmate and crush is diagnosed with a pancreatic disease, an average high schooler sets out to make the most of her final days. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
21 Grams
2003 · TMDB 7.3/10 · 3,443 votes
Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré; Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife and mother of two girls; and Jack Jordan, a born-again ex-con, are brought together by a terrible accident that changes their lives. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
Blue Is the Warmest Color
2013 · TMDB 7.1/10 · 4,894 votes
Adèle's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire, to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
Marriage Story
2019 · TMDB 7.7/10 · 7,484 votes
A stage director and an actress struggle through a grueling, coast-to-coast divorce that pushes them to their personal extremes. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
Traffic
2000 · TMDB 7.1/10 · 2,460 votes
An exploration of the United States of America's war on drugs from multiple perspectives. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
Dawn of the Dead
1978 · TMDB 7.5/10 · 2,338 votes
During an ever-growing epidemic of zombies that have risen from the dead, two Philadelphia SWAT team members, a traffic reporter, and his television-executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
Babel
2006 · TMDB 7.2/10 · 4,122 votes
Tragedy strikes a married couple vacationing in the Moroccan desert, which jumpstarts an interlocking story involving four different families. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
Every Day
2018 · TMDB 7.2/10 · 2,305 votes
16-year old Rhiannon falls in love with a mysterious spirit named “A” that inhabits a different body every day. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
The Transformers: The Movie
1986 · TMDB 7.1/10 · 611 votes
The Autobots must stop a colossal planet-consuming robot who goes after the Autobot Matrix of Leadership. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
Dallas Buyers Club
2013 · TMDB 7.9/10 · 9,171 votes
Loosely based on the true-life tale of Ron Woodroof, a drug-taking, women-loving, homophobic man who in 1986 was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS and given thirty days to live. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
2007 · TMDB 7.1/10 · 2,822 votes
Outlaw Jesse James is rumored to be the 'fastest gun in the West'. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
The Lincoln Lawyer
2011 · TMDB 7.2/10 · 3,701 votes
Mick Haller is a charismatic defense attorney who does business out of his Lincoln Continental sedan. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
Braindead
1992 · TMDB 7.4/10 · 1,881 votes
When a Sumatran rat-monkey bites Lionel Cosgrove's mother, she's transformed into a zombie and begins killing (and transforming) the entire town while Lionel races to keep things under control. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
The Name of the Rose
1986 · TMDB 7.5/10 · 3,354 votes
14th-century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young novice arrive at a conference to find that several monks have been murdered under mysterious circumstances. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
Richard Jewell
2019 · TMDB 7.4/10 · 2,762 votes
Richard Jewell thinks quick, works fast, and saves hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives after a domestic terrorist plants several pipe bombs and they explode during a concert, only to be falsely suspected of the crime by sloppy FBI work and sensational media coverage. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
The Promised Land
2023 · TMDB 7.7/10 · 605 votes
Denmark, 1755. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.