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'Spring Awakening: Those You've Known' on HBO Max, "The Takedown" on Netflix and more movies to watch.

This four-part debut feature from the Ukrainian writer-director Natalya Volorzhbit is an uneven but well-realized adaptation of her 2017 stage play.

In director Leyla Bouzid's "A Tale of Love and Desire," an Algerian student in Paris struggles with sexual repression and his cultural identity.

A documentary five years in the making, <a href="https://www.missinginbrookscounty.com/" target="_blank">“Missing in Brooks County,”</a> shows the stark reality of an ongoing crisis of migrants dying in the unforgiving terrain around a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint.

Since it appears we’ll all have to watch the pandemic-bedeviled 2021 Tokyo Olympics from our homes — even the fans in Tokyo — why not mix in some Olympic cinema with your at-all-hours sports viewing, and specifically a tale from the last time Tokyo hosted, no less? The offbeat, mixed-style documentary “The Witches of the Orient” from French filmmaker Julian Faraut recounts the remarkable success of Japan’s formidable women’s volleyball team, a late-’50s/early-’60s serving-bloc...

As if they had been written yesterday, the revolutionary words of Helen Keller speak to the prevalent ills of crushing capitalism and the dehumanization it breeds. “Her Socialist Smile,” writer-director John Gianvito’s experimental biopic of one of the most influential women of the 20th century, revives them for modern examination. While Keller’s voice, hard-fought and from her own chest, bookends this filmic essay, the piece largely consists of text in white lettering over black: lo...

Early in the Tunisian supernatural thriller “Dachra,” three journalism students consult their instructor about a documentary assignment and receive specific instructions: Be original, engage the audience and avoid politics. So inevitably, they end up hauling their equipment to a spooky remote village, where they’re bedeviled by what appears to be a cult of cannibalistic witch worshipers. Sure, they’re in danger of being eaten. But at least they never mention the revolution. “Dachra�...

A gay New York journalist reassesses his life while vacationing in Tel Aviv in Eytan Fox's lovely and wistful drama 'Sublet.'

The D’Innocenzo Brothers' 'Bad Tales' is a dark domestic drama set in an Italian suburb

Both personal and self-indulgent, "Moby Doc" mirrors Richard Melville Hall's career trajectory of ups and downs.