Welcome to Criticker: Home of insanely accurate recommendations!

'Beauty and the Beast' is the adaptation of a story by Madame de Villeneuve. Published anonymously in 1740, it paints a portrait of Belle, a young girl full of joy who falls in love with The Beast, a cursed creature in search of love and redemption. In 1760, a condensed children's version was published, and it was from this version that Jean Cocteau and then Walt Disney drew their famous adaptations. Overshadowed, the original version has never been adapted for the screen. Until now. (TMDb)

A lonely Japanese woman becomes convinced that a satchel of money buried and lost in a fictional film, is in fact, real. With a crudely drawn treasure map and limited preparation, she escapes her structured life in Tokyo and embarks on a foolhardy quest across the frozen tundra of Minnesota in search of her mythical fortune. (Sundance)

Paired up by a dating program that puts an expiration date on all relationships, Frank and Amy soon begin to question the system's logic.

A story about the astonishing things that happen when despair turns to hope among the residents of this small village in Nazi-occupied Poland. (Columbia Tristar)

Inspired by the French phenomenon of 'single-class' schools, this film charts the life of a small one-class village school over the course of one academic year, and takes a warm and serene look at primary education in the French heartlands. (New Yorker Films)

A prequel to Tremors (1990), this movie tells us about the town of Rejection and how they defended it against the worm monsters. (imdb)

When two girls move to the country to be near their ailing mother, they have adventures with the wonderous forest spirits who live nearby (imdb)

Ballet star Pete "Petrov" Peters arranges to cross the Atlantic aboard the same ship as the dancer he's fallen for but barely knows... (imdb)

Expanded from a one-character play by Evelyne de la Chenelière's, set in a Montreal elementary school, this beautifully crafted character study speaks of loss and death, innocence and guilt, imposture and honesty, in an eloquent and complex, yet simple and fluid manner. (tiff.net)

Tomek, originally from a small town, has come to Warsaw to study law. He is financially supported by a successful couple, and attracted to their daughter, Gabi, but when he is caught plagiarising an essay, he is expelled from university and forced to look for other ways to survive.