Here are a few English-filled movies and TV shows that you might like! We polled our staff to find some recent favorites and old classics.
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Popular American TV Shows
The Office
“A mockumentary on a group of typical office workers, where the workday consists of ego clashes, inappropriate behavior, and tedium.”
Ozark
“A financial advisor drags his family from Chicago to the Missouri Ozarks, where he must launder money to appease a drug boss.”
Parks & Recreation
“The absurd antics of an Indiana town’s public officials as they pursue sundry projects to make their city a better place.“
Breaking Bad
“A high school chemistry teacher diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer turns to manufacturing and selling methamphetamine in order to secure his family’s future.”
American Movies – Fan Favorites
The Matrix (1999)
“A computer hacker learns from mysterious rebels about the true nature of his reality and his role in the war against its controllers.”
The Breakfast Club (1985)
“Five high school students meet in Saturday detention and discover how they have a lot more in common than they thought.”
Star Wars: Episode IV (1977)
“Luke Skywalker joins forces with a Jedi Knight, a cocky pilot, a Wookiee and two droids to save the galaxy from the Empire’s world-destroying battle station, while also attempting to rescue Princess Leia from the mysterious Darth Vader.”
Dead Poet’s Society (1989)
“English teacher John Keating inspires his students to look at poetry with a different perspective of authentic knowledge and feelings.”
Inception (2010)
“A thief who steals corporate secrets through the use of dream-sharing technology is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of a C.E.O.”
Good Will Hunting (1997)
“Will Hunting, a janitor at M.I.T., has a gift for mathematics, but needs help from a psychologist to find direction in his life.”
Die Hard (1988)
“An NYPD officer tries to save his wife and several others taken hostage by German terrorists during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles.”
Remember the Titans (2000)
“The true story of a newly appointed African-American coach and his high school team on their first season as a racially integrated unit.”
The Godfather (1972)
“The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.”
Watch with an Accent – American South
The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019)
“Zak runs away from his care home to make his dream of becoming a wrestler come true.”
Selma (2014)
“A chronicle of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965.”
Forrest Gump (1994)
“The presidencies of Kennedy and Johnson, the events of Vietnam, Watergate and other historical events unfold through the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75, whose only desire is to be reunited with his childhood sweetheart.”
Family Friendly American Movies
Tangled (2010)
“The magically long-haired Rapunzel has spent her entire life in a tower, but now that a runaway thief has stumbled upon her, she is about to discover the world for the first time, and who she really is.”
The Lego Movie (2014)
“An ordinary LEGO construction worker, thought to be the prophesied as “special”, is recruited to join a quest to stop an evil tyrant from gluing the LEGO universe into eternal stasis.”
The Sandlot (1993)
“In the summer of 1962, a new kid in town is taken under the wing of a young baseball prodigy and his rowdy team, resulting in many adventures.”
Watch with an Accent – British Films
Pride & Prejudice (2005)
“Sparks fly when spirited Elizabeth Bennet meets single, rich, and proud Mr. Darcy. But Mr. Darcy reluctantly finds himself falling in love with a woman beneath his class.”
Harry Potter (2001)
“An orphaned boy enrolls in a school of wizardry, where he learns the truth about himself, his family and the terrible evil that haunts the magical world.”
The King’s Speech (2010)
“The story of King George VI, his impromptu ascension to the throne of the British Empire in 1936, and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch overcome his stammer.”
Award-Winning American Films
The Social Network (2010)
“As Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg creates the social networking site that would become known as Facebook, he is sued by the twins who claimed he stole their idea, and by the co-founder who was later squeezed out of the business.”
Call Me By Your Name (2017)
“In 1980s Italy, romance blossoms between a seventeen-year-old student and the older man hired as his father’s research assistant.”
Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
“After a stint in a mental institution, former teacher Pat Solitano moves back in with his parents and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife. Things get more challenging when Pat meets Tiffany, a mysterious girl with problems of her own.”
Moonlight (2016)
“A young African-American man grapples with his identity and sexuality while experiencing the everyday struggles of childhood, adolescence, and burgeoning adulthood.”
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