The Beach

The Beach

2000 · 119 min · EN · R · 6.5 (4,718 votes)
Dir. Danny Boyle · Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Virginie Ledoyen, Guillaume Canet, Tilda Swinton, Staffan Kihlbom, Paterson Joseph · Music Angelo Badalamenti

Somewhere on this planet it must exist.

DramaAdventureRomanceThriller

Twenty-something Richard travels to Thailand and finds himself in possession of a strange map. Rumours state that it leads to a solitary beach paradise, a tropical bliss - excited and intrigued, he sets out to find it.

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An intoxicating journey into a sun-drenched, secret paradise that slowly reveals its darker undercurrents. It feels like a dream you desperately want to believe in, even as it becomes increasingly unsettling and hallucinatory, questioning the very nature of utopia and human desire.

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