Explained Movies

New York, winter 1981, Manhattan. Abel Morales (Oscar Isaac), a Latin American immigrant, runs a fuel trucking business. The business is developing quite actively, Abel is very ambitious and has big plans for the future. At the same time, he tries to conduct business as honestly as possible and does not accept the solution of […]

Rachel Chu (Constance Wu) is a Chinese-American: when she was young, her mother, along with Rachel, ran away from a scoundrel-husband from China to the United States. In the States, the girl received a good education and managed to become the youngest teacher of economics at New York University. Rachel is dating Nick Young (Henry Golding),

Bertrand (Mathieu Amalric) has been unable to find a job for two years and is in a protracted depression. He sits on the neck of his wife Claire (Marina Fois), swallows handfuls of antidepressants, spends days on the couch and plays Candy Crush. The older son hates him. The next interview with the personnel officer

Writer Joseph Castleman (Jonathan Pryce) won the Nobel Prize in Literature. He and his wife Joan (Glenn Close) find out about this early in the morning: a representative of the Nobel Committee took the trouble to personally tell the writer this news by phone. Joseph, Joan and their son David (Max Irons), who dreams of

Dane Christian (Klas Bang) works as art director of the Stockholm Museum of Contemporary Art X-Royal, located in the Royal Palace. He is divorced from his wife, has a luxurious apartment and drives a Tesla. Rich, beautifully dressed, and in general – a favorite of the public interested in contemporary art. A wealthy, elderly couple, trustees of

The series begins with Academician Valery Legasov (Jared Harris), who two years ago played a huge role in eliminating the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, recites little-known facts about the Chernobyl disaster into a voice recorder. Legasov hides the recorded cassettes in a secret place, from where they should be taken, after which he

For those viewers who have just connected to our program, we briefly recall the content of the two previous episodes. In the first series, the terrible killer John Wick, nicknamed Baba Yaga (Keanu Reeves), retired, having mowed down half of New York on the orders of the Russian crime boss Viggo Zigfridovich Tarasoff. When John Wick was

A classic string quartet that has been successfully touring all over the world for twenty-five years. The first violin and leader of the quartet is Daniel Lerner (Mark Ivanir). The person is tough and demanding. Second violin – Robert Gelbart (Philip Seymour Hoffman). A friable fat man, a mild-mannered and somewhat weak-willed man. His wife

We will talk about the plot of this very surprising film a little later, first I will tell you what kind of project this was. And the project had a difficult fate, where everything went a little differently as planned at the very beginning. Director Katherine Bigelow conceived this film – a couple of years

Arkansas police detective Wayne Hayes (Mahershala Ali) is a black Arkansas police detective serving with his white partner Roland West (Stephen Dorff) in 1980. They are both veterans of the Vietnam War. Nothing particularly interesting happens in the service, so Wayne and Roland sip beer and shoot pistols at the rats in the garbage while

Pietro Zinni (Edoardo Leo) is a professor of neuroscience at the university. He is also engaged in advanced scientific developments. Pietro is very hopeful that after defending his method of modeling organic molecules before the commission, he will receive indefinite funding – and then he can breathe easy. Pietro’s supervisor Professor Seta (Sergio Solli) assures