Magnificent Life, A
In 1955, 60-year-old Marcel Pagnol is a well-known and acclaimed playwright and filmmaker. When the editor-in-chief of ELLE magazine commissions a weekly column about Pagnol's childhood, he sees this as a great opportunity to go back to his artistic roots: writing. Realizing his memory is failing him and deeply affected by the disappointing results of his last two plays, Pagnol starts doubting his ability to pursue his work. That is until Little Marcel - the young boy he used to be - appears to him as if by magic. Together, they will explore Marcel Pagnol's incredible life and bring back to life his most cherished encounters and memories...
Year: 2025
Language: French
Genre: Animation, Biography
Blue Moon
On the evening of March 31, 1943, legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart confronts his shattered self-confidence in Sardi’s bar as his former collaborator Richard Rodgers celebrates the opening night of his ground-breaking hit musical “Oklahoma!”.
Year: 2025
Language: English
Becoming Led Zeppelin
Becoming Led Zeppelin explores the origins of this iconic group and their meteoric rise in just one year against all the odds.
Powered by awe-inspiring, psychedelic, never-before-seen footage, performances, and music, Bernard MacMahon’s experiential cinematic odyssey explores Led Zeppelin’s creative, musical, and personal origin story. The film is told in Led Zeppelin’s own words and is the first officially sanctioned film on the group.
Year: 2025
Language: English
Genre: Music & Live Performance, Documentary
Eleanor the Great
In "Eleanor The Great", June Squibb brings to vivid life the witty and proudly troublesome 94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein, who after a devastating loss, tells a tale that takes on a dangerous life of its own. Scarlett Johansson’s directorial debut is a comically poignant exploration of how the stories we hear become the stories we tell.
Year: 2025
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Jane Austen Wrecked My Life
Agathe (Camille Rutherford) is a hopelessly clumsy yet charming young woman who works in the legendary Shakespeare & Co. bookshop in Paris. While she dreams of being a successful writer and of experiencing love akin to a Jane Austen novel, she finds herself desperately single and plagued by writers block. When her best friend (Pablo Pauly) gets her invited to the Jane Austen Writers' Residency in England, she finally has her Jane Austen moment…and is caught in a very unexpected romantic triangle.
Year: 2025
Language: English & French
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
Based on Alexandra Fuller’s memoir of the same name, DON'T LET'S GO TO THE DOGS TONIGHT captures the childhood of 8-year-old Bobo on her family farm in Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) at the end of the Zimbabwean War for independence in 1980. Conflicted by her love for people on opposing sides, she tries to make sense of her life in a magical way. Through her eight-year-old gaze we witness Rhodesia’s final days, the family’s unbreakable bond with Africa, and the deep scars that war leaves on survivors.
Year: 2025
Language: English, Shona
Genre: Drama
Penguin Lessons, The
Inspired by the true story of a disillusioned Englishman who went to work in a school in Argentina in 1976. Expecting an easy ride, Tom discovers a divided nation and a class of unteachable students. However, after he rescues a penguin from an oil-slicked beach, his life is turned upside-down.
Year: 2025
Language: English, Spanish
On Swift Horses
Muriel and her husband Lee are beginning a bright new life in California when he returns from the Korean War. But their newfound stability is upended by the arrival of Lee’s charismatic brother, Julius, a wayward gambler with a secret past. A dangerous love triangle quickly forms.
Year: 2025
Language: English
Into The Deep
Divers searching for sunken treasure witness the murder of drug dealers by modern-day pirates, but a killer great white is determined not to let any of them escape its waters.
Year: 2025
Language: English
Genre: Action
Endless Cookie
Through a series of vignettes - some tragic, some funny, all a little bizarre - this animated feature documentary explores the complex bond between two half brothers, one Indigenous, one white, spanning bustling 1980s Toronto to the present day isolated First Nations community of Shamattawa.
Year: 2025
Language: English and Cree
Genre: Documentary, Animation
Finalement
Dans un monde de plus en plus fou, Lino, qui a décidé de tout plaquer, va se rendre compte que finalement : tout ce qui nous arrive, c’est pour notre bien !
Year: 2025
Language: Français
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy, Musical
Friend, The
Based on the bestselling novel, writer and teacher Iris (Naomi Watts) finds her comfortable, solitary New York life thrown into disarray after her closest friend and mentor (Bill Murray) bequeaths her Apollo, his 150lb Great Dane.
Year: 2025
Language: English
Paul
Sujet à la dépression et à l’anxiété sociale, Paul a trouvé refuge dans la servitude de femmes qui l’accueillent pour exécuter des ménages. En exposant ses routines doucement excentriques sur les réseaux sociaux, il combat la solitude et avance un jour à la fois.
Year: 2025
Language: English & French
Genre: Documentary
Private Life, A
The renowned psychiatrist Lilian Steiner (Jodie Foster) mounts a private investigation into the death of one of her patients, whom she is convinced has been murdered.
Year: 2025
Language: French
Unidentified
Sparked by the discovery of the lifeless body of a teenage girl in the desert; When no one claims the body, Noelle Al Saffan, a newly divorced, true crime aficionado who recently lost a child of her own, gets obsessively involved. Despite a ticking clock that seemingly guarantees the girl’s senseless death will be discarded as a cold case, Noelle is determined to identify the body and uncover the truth. She slowly unravels a mystery entangled within a traditional society in transition, where women are learning to create more space for themselves and to take control of their own destinies.
Year: 2025
Language: Arabic
Genre: Drama
East of Wall
EAST OF WALL is an authentic portrait of female resilience in the 'New West' inspired and played by the women and girls who live it. Set in the Badlands of South Dakota, Tabatha, a young, rebellious rancher, who rescues and resells horses, must make hard decisions to deal with her fractured family, financial uncertainty, and unresolved grief, all while providing refuge for a group of wayward neighborhood teens.
Year: 2025
Language: English
Oh, Hi!
Iris (Molly Gordon) has met her perfect guy, Isaac (Logan Lerman), and is enjoying their first romantic getaway together — what could go wrong? This clever and charmingly odd dark comedy takes on the highs and lows of modern dating and the ways it makes us all a little crazy.
Year: 2025
Language: English
Merrily We Roll Along
Spanning three decades, Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s Merrily We Roll Along charts the turbulent relationship between composer Franklin Shepard and his two lifelong friends — writer Mary and lyricist & playwright Charley. Originally produced on Broadway in 1981, then becoming an inventive cult-classic ahead of its time, Merrily We Roll Along features some of Stephen Sondheim’s most celebrated and personal songs.
Year: 2025
Language: English
Bang
Once a killer, now the mark." Bang (Jack Kesy), one of the most feared hitmen, questions his violent life after a near-death experience. Seeing a future beyond bloodshed, he wants out—but his crime boss won’t let go without a fight.
Year: 2025
Language: English
Genre: Action
President's Cake, The
While people across 1990s Iraq struggle to survive the war and food shortages, the President requires each school in the country to prepare a cake to celebrate his birthday. Despite her efforts to avoid getting picked, 9-year-old Lamia is chosen among her classmates. The young girl must now use her wits and imagination to gather ingredients and prepare the mandatory cake in THE PRESIDENT’S CAKE.
Year: 2025
Language: Arabic, English
Genre: Drama
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Argentina, 1983. With the country’s military dictatorship waging a brutal war against its political opponents, prisoners Valentín and Molina find themselves thrown together in a cramped cell. Initially at odds, they begin to bond as Molina narrates the story of his favorite movie, “Kiss of the Spider Woman.” From Bill Condon, the Academy Award®-winning writer-director of Gods and Monsters, Chicago, Dreamgirls and Beauty and the Beast, comes a visionary new interpretation of the literary and cultural landmark.
Year: 2025
Language: English & Spanish
Longing
Daniel, a wealthy New York bachelor (Richard Gere), is forced to evaluate his life choices when he discovers that a Canadian ex-girlfriend (Suzanne Clément) had given birth to a son after they split up 20 years ago.
Year: 2024
Language: English
Deaner '89
Hard-luck metalhead Dean Murdoch (Paul Spence) reveals how he finally made it, taking us back to the '80s – when being a hockey jock was a badge of honour, Jazzercise was a national movement, seatbelts were optional, and teachers were as drunk as their students.
Year: 2024
Language: English
Genre: Action, Comedy
Red Right Hand
Cash (Orlando Bloom) is trying to live an honest and quiet life taking care of his recently orphaned niece Savannah (Chapel Oaks) in the Appalachian town of Odim County. When the sadistic kingpin Big Cat, (Andie MacDowell) who runs the town, forces him back into her services, Cash learns he’s capable of anything – even killing – to protect the town and the only family he has left. As the journey gets harder, Cash is drawn into a nightmare that blurs the lines between good and evil.
Year: 2024
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Action
Apprentice, The
The Apprentice is a dive into the underbelly of the American empire. It charts a young Donald Trump's ascent to power through a Faustian deal with the influential right-wing lawyer and political fixer Roy Cohn.
Year: 2024
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Biography
Kneecap
When fate brings Belfast schoolteacher JJ into the orbit of self-confessed ‘low life scum’ Naoise & Liam Og, the needle drops on a hip hop act like no other.
Rapping in their native Irish language, KNEECAP fast become the unlikely figureheads of a Civil Rights movement to save their mother tongue. In this fiercely original sex, drugs and hip-hop biopic KNEECAP play themselves, laying down a global rallying cry for the defense of native cultures.
Year: 2024
Language: English, Irish
Room Next Door, The
Ingrid (Julianne Moore) and Martha (Tilda Swinton) were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. Ingrid went on to become an autofiction novelist while Martha became a war reporter, and they were separated by the circumstances of life. After years of being out of touch, they meet again in an extreme but strangely sweet situation.
Year: 2024
Language: English
Between the Temples
A cantor (Jason Schwartzman) in a crisis of faith finds his world turned upside down when his grade school music teacher (Carol Kane) re-enters his life as his new adult Bat Mitzvah student.
Year: 2024
Language: English
Cash Out
Thrust into his brother’s botched bank robbery, a heist mastermind (John Travolta) stumbles into his biggest score yet…but can he escape alive?
Year: 2024
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Action
Outlaws, The
Helmed by the directorial duo of Joey Palmroos and Austen Paul, The Outlaws plunges viewers into a world where a group of renegades, off the back of completing a successful heist, awaken to the shocking discovery that their every drop of their precious loot has vanished. Suspicion and tension rise amongst the group of five as the outlaws scramble to uncover the traitor among them, setting the stage for intense confrontations and high-stakes drama.
Year: 2024
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Action, Western
Betrayal
Three brothers return to the remote woodland where they killed their abusive father only to discover his shallow grave is now empty, forcing them to question one another's loyalty with devastating consequences as fear and paranoia set in.
Year: 2024
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
Mafia Wars
An ex-con gets released early from prison only to be forced into an undercover unit of six men and on his first day the other five are all killed. Now he must go face-to-face with the men who he was tasked to spy on, not knowing if they know who he really is.
Year: 2024
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Action
Stoic, The
It follows a group of mercenary leaders in a country retreat after pulling off a raid on a drugs gang. Things take a turn for the worse after they raise the attentions of 'The Stoic', a man from an ancient clan of smugglers.
Year: 2024
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
Outrun, The
After living life on the edge in London, Rona (Saoirse Ronan) attempts to come to terms with her troubled past. She returns to the wild beauty of Scotland’s Orkney Islands — where she grew up — hoping to heal. Adapted from the bestselling memoir by Amy Liptrot.
Year: 2024
Language: English
I'm Still Here
BRAZIL, 1971 - Brazil faces the tightening grip of a military dictatorship. Eunice Paiva, a mother of five children, is forced to reinvent herself after her family suffers a violent and arbitrary act by the government. Based on Marcelo Rubens Paiva's biographical book, the film tells the true story that helped reconstruct an important part of Brazil’s hidden history.
Year: 2024
Language: Portuguese
Return, The
After 20 years away, Odysseus (Fiennes) washes up on the shores of Ithaca, haggard and unrecognizable. The King has returned from the Trojan War, but much has changed in his kingdom. His beloved wife Penelope (Binoche) is a prisoner in her own home, hounded by suitors vying to be king.
Year: 2024
Language: English
Hard Truths
Legendary filmmaker Mike Leigh reunites with actress Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Oscar nominee for Leigh’s SECRETS & LIES) for his latest — a tough but compassionate and intimate film about family life that marks his return to a contemporary setting.
Year: 2024
Language: English
Whiteout
This harsh thriller film opens with an armed raid on the Russian offices of an international corporation. Brutally kidnapped & taken hostage, some workers end up in a labor camp in the middle of nowhere. Two hardened inmates, Kurt and Anthony (Douglas Nyback and Joel Labelle), save Henry (James McDougall) from the lecherous grip of another inmate and his henchman. Henry finds himself in a position to help his new associates escape, igniting a chaotic prison break that engulfs the men and the other prisoners. Those who make it out alive will face several days of deadly terrain and grueling obstacles in their journey for survival.
Year: 2024
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Action
Everyone is Going to Die
An entrepreneur is attempting to reconnect with his daughter on her Birthday. The party is interrupted and they are taken hostage by two masked female robbers who appear to have real problems with the Patriarchy.
Year: 2024
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Memoir of a Snail
Grace Pudel (voiced by Sarah Snook) is a lonely misfit with an affinity for collecting ornamental snails and an intense love for books. At a young age, when Grace is separated from her twin brother Gilbert (Kodi Smit-McPhee), she falls into a spiral of anxiety and angst. Despite a continued series of hardships, inspiration and hope emerge when she strikes up an enduring friendship with an elderly eccentric woman named Pinky (Jacki Weaver), who is full of grit and lust for life.
From Academy Award-winning animation writer and director Adam Elliot, "Memoir of a Snail" is a poignant, heartfelt, hilarious chronicle of the life of an outsider finding her confidence and silver linings amongst the clutter of everyday life.
Year: 2024
Language: English
Genre: Animation
His Father's Son
A determined aspiring chef, Amir struggles to carve out a path for himself and gratify the expectations of his parents, Farhad and Arezou – while his younger brother, Mahyar, appears to cruise through life effortlessly. When Amir’s parents receive news that a family friend from Iran has died and left his inheritance solely to Mahyar, the unexpected bequest triggers a chain of revelations that reshape the brothers’ dynamic and unravel truths about the family’s hidden past.
Year: 2024
Language: English and Farsi
Genre: Drama
Parthenope
Parthenope, born in the sea of Naples in 1950, searches for happiness over the long summers of her youth, falling in love with her home city and its many memorable characters. From Academy Award-winning filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino comes a monumental and deeply romantic story of a lifetime.
Year: 2024
Language: Italian, English
Laws Of Man
At the dawn of the Cold War, two U.S. marshals pursue a wanted murderer in the deserts of Nevada.
Year: 2024
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Crime, Action
Last Showgirl, The
The Last Showgirl, a poignant film of resilience, rhinestones and feathers, stars Pamela Anderson as Shelly, a glamorous showgirl who must plan for her future when her show abruptly closes after a 30-year run. Directed by Gia Coppola, The Last Showgirl co-stars Oscar®, SAG® Award and Golden Globe® winner Jamie Lee Curtis as Shelly’s best friend, who brings her own unique interpretation and brilliance to the story, Dave Bautista, Brenda Song, Kiernan Shipka and Billie Lourd.
Year: 2024
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Aberdeen
ABERDEEN is a raw, authentic drama interwoven with pockets of humor that shines a light on the indomitable Aberdeen, a middle-aged Indigenous climate change refugee who has been forced from her home due to flooding. As she begrudgingly adjusts to big-city life, Aberdeen must face the inter-generational cycle of trauma that has been tearing her family apart for 5 generations in order to protect her grandchildren.
Year: 2024
Language: English, Ojibway
L'attachement
Sandra, quinquagénaire farouchement indépendante, partage soudainement et malgré elle l’intimité de son voisin de palier et de ses deux enfants. Contre toute attente, elle s’attache peu à peu à cette famille d’adoption.
Year: 2024
Language: French
Genre: Drama
Last Spark of Hope, The
A woman tries to cope with loneliness in a post-apocalyptic reality, but a conflict arises between her and her only companion, a robot equipped with artificial intelligence.
Year: 2024
Language: Polish
Genre: Drama, Action, Sci-Fi
Resurrection Road
An elite squad of six Black soldiers, led by ex-slave Barabbas, have been sent on a suicide mission; to infiltrate a Confederate fort deep in the Arkansas woods and blow up its long-range guns, altering the course of the war.
Year: 2024
In Vitro
On a struggling cattle farm some years in the future, a woman discovers the unsettling consequences of her husband's animal breeding technology.
Year: 2024
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Sci-Fi
40 Acres
Hailey Freeman (Danielle Deadwyler) and her family are the last descendants of African American farmers who settled in rural Canada after the first Civil War. In a famine-decimated near future, they now struggle to safeguard their farm against those hell-bent on taking their 40 ACRES.
Year: 2024
Language: English and Cree
Can I Get a Witness?
It's the future and we’ve solved all the world’s problems: mitigated climate change, eradicated poverty, achieved trans-species equality. There’s just one catch… humans have to end life at 50 and teenage artists have to document it. It’s Kiah’s first day on the job.
Year: 2024
Language: English
Birds Who Fear Death, The
Two brothers, disinherited and desperate for cash, journey into the Canadian wilds to find themselves,
their people and their fortune.
Year: 2024
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Wicked Little Letters
A 1920s English seaside town bears witness to a farcical and occasionally sinister scandal in this riotous mystery comedy. Based on a stranger than fiction true story, WICKED LITTLE LETTERS follows two neighbours: deeply conservative local Edith Swan (Olivia Colman) and rowdy Irish migrant Rose Gooding (Jessie Buckley). When Edith and fellow residents begin to receive wicked letters full of unintentionally hilarious profanities, foul-mouthed Rose is charged with the crime. The anonymous letters prompt a national uproar, and a trial ensues. However, as the town’s women - led by Police Officer Gladys Moss (Anjana Vasan) - begin to investigate the crime themselves, they suspect that something is amiss, and Rose may not be the culprit after all.
Year: 2024
Language: English
Movie Man, The
An eccentric entrepreneur looks back on his life’s work ––owning and operating an idiosyncratic multiplex cinema in the forest of Northern Ontario.
Year: 2024
Language: English
Taste of Things, The
France, 1885. The talented cook Eugenie has worked for the preeminent gourmet Dodin for the last two decades. Their mutual admiration turns into a romance, and gives rise to dishes, one more delicious than the next, that confound even the world’s most illustrious chefs. But Eugenie is fond of her freedom and has never wanted to marry Dodin, so he decides to do something he has never done before: cook for her.
Year: 2023
Language: French
Genre: Drama
Promised Land, The
In 1755, the impoverished Captain Ludvig Kahlen sets out to conquer the harsh, uninhabitable Danish heath with a seemingly impossible goal: to build a colony in the name of the King, in exchange for a royal title. The heath meant certain death – a godforsaken place haunted by ravenous wolves, highwaymen, and a brutal and unforgiving nature. The sole ruler of the area, the merciless Frederik de Schinkel, believes this land belongs to him and does everything in his power to drive the captain away.
Year: 2023
Language: Danish
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Action
Memory
Sylvia (Jessica Chastain) is a social worker who leads a simple and structured life. This is blown open when Saul (Peter Sarsgaard) follows her home from their high school reunion. Their surprise encounter will profoundly impact both of them as they open the door to the past.
Year: 2023
Language: English
Food, Inc. 2
In Food, Inc. 2, the sequel to the 2008 Oscar®-nominated and Emmy®-award winning documentary, Food, Inc., filmmakers Robert Kenner and Melissa Robledo reunite with investigative authors Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma) and Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation) to take a fresh look at our efficient yet vulnerable food system.
Year: 2023
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Escape
Best friends Carla and Tamsin, embark on a serene island vacation seeking relaxation and adventure. Their idyllic getaway takes an ominous turn when a ruthless criminal gang kidnaps them. As the gang soon discovers, they have gravely underestimated the strength and determination of these two women. What was meant to be an easy score becomes a high-stakes game of survival, as Carla and Tamsin turn the tables on their captors, transforming a vacation nightmare into a gripping tale of empowerment, resilience, and unexpected retribution.
Year: 2023
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Action
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End of the Rope
When a family mysteriously disappears, the local sheriff struggles to keep order in a town set on vengeance. Based on the true story of the infamous Charles Bannon case.
Year: 2023
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Crime, Action, Mystery, Western
Duchess
Follows a tough, working-class, petty criminal who morphs into an anti-heroine to be reckoned with in a murky underworld, in the treacherous world of diamond smuggling.
Year: 2023
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Action
Daaaaaali!
A French journalist meets the iconic surrealist artist Salvador Dalí on several occasions for a documentary project that never came to be.
Year: 2023
Language: French
Genre: Comedy
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Sunray: Fallen Soldier
A war veteran calls on friends from his past to hunt down those responsible for the death of his daughter. Along the way, he learns more about himself than he anticipated as a violent crime syndicate unravels in his wake.
Year: 2023
Language: English
Genre: Action
Joan Baez I Am A Noise
Facing the end of a 60-year musical career, legendary singer and activist Joan Baez takes an honest look back and a deep look inward as she tries to make sense of her large history-making life and reveals, for the first time, personal struggles she’s kept private, until now.
Year: 2023
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Immediate Family
IMMEDIATE FAMILY tracks the rise and collaborations of a group of legendary session musicians Danny Kortchmar, Leland Sklar, Russ Kunkel, and Waddy Wachtel through the 1970s and onward, chronicling their illustrious partnerships and their formidable record of hit-making.
Year: 2023
Language: English
Four Daughters
The life of Olfa, a Tunisian woman and mother of four daughters, oscillates between light and shadow. One day, her two eldest daughters disappear. To fill their absence, director Kaouther Ben Hania calls upon professional actors to re-enact the story of Olfa and her daughters.
Year: 2023
Language: Arabic
Genre: Drama, Documentary
Anselm
In "Anselm", Wim Wenders creates a portrait of Anselm Kiefer, one of the most innovative and important painters and sculptors of our time. Shot in 3D and
6K-resolution, the film presents a cinematic experience of the artist’s work which explores human existence and the cyclical nature of history, inspired
by literature, poetry, philosophy, science, mythology and religion.
Year: 2023
Language: German, English
Genre: Documentary
Close to You
Sam (Elliot Page) hasn’t been home since his transition. After four years in Toronto, he takes along-dreaded trip back to his hometown for his father’s birthday. Once there, he confronts unresolved wounds and reconnects with an old friend.
Year: 2023
Language: English
Which Brings Me to You
Two romantic burnouts, Jane and Will, are immediately drawn to each other at a mutual friend's wedding. After a disastrous hookup in the coatroom, the two spend the next 24 hours together, trading candid confessions of messy histories and heartbreak, on the off chance that this fling might be the real thing.
Year: 2023
Language: English
Genre: Romance, Comedy
In the Fire
A doctor (Amber Heard) from New York travels to a remote plantation in the 1890s to care for a disturbed boy who seems to have inexplicable abilities. She begins treating the child, but in doing so ignites a war of science versus religion with the local priest who believes the boy is possessed by the Devil and is the reason for all the village's woes. Directed by Conor Allyn (No Man’s Land), he co-wrote the film with Pascal Borno (Children of the Corn) and Silvio Muraglia (After the Wedding).
Year: 2023
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
Boudica: Queen Of War
After her family is slain and her land stolen, warrior queen Boudica (Olga Kurylenko) leads a fierce rebellion against the Roman Empire, inspiring her people to fight for freedom.
Year: 2023
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Action
Black Noise
Members of an elite security team deployed to rescue a VIP on an exclusive island.The rescue mission becomes a desperate attempt to survive, escape the island and elude the sinister presence that seeks to harm them.
Year: 2023
Language: English
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Portrait, The
After her husband is devastated by a tragic accident, a devoted wife obsesses over a mysterious portrait that resembles him as he was; but when it starts to terrorize her, she must decide if it's possessed or if she's losing her mind.
Year: 2023
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Mystery
Lord of Misrule
Directed by William Brent Bell (THE BOY, ORPHAN: FIRST KILL), LORD OF MISRULE follows Rebecca Holland (Tuppence Middleton), who has recently taken over as priest of a small town. When her young daughter Grace (Evie Templeton) goes missing at the local harvest festival, a desperate search begins. The closer they edge towards finding Grace, the more secrets emerge from the town’s dark past. Soon, Rebecca must decide just how much she is willing to sacrifice to rescue her daughter from the grip of evil.
Year: 2023
Language: English
The Delinquents
Buenos Aires bank employee Morán (Daniel Eliás) dreams up a scheme to liberate himself from corporate monotony: he’ll steal enough money to support a modest retirement, then confess and serve prison time while his co-worker holds on to the cash.
Soon under pressure by a company investigator, accomplice Román (Esteban Bigliardi) heads to a remote rural idyll to hide the funds. There, he encounters a mysterious woman who will transform his life forever.
Year: 2023
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama, Comedy
How to Have Sex
Three British teenage girls go on a rites-of-passage holiday, drinking, clubbing and hooking up in what should be the best summer of their lives. As they dance their way across the sun-drenched streets of Malia, they find themselves navigating the complexities of sex, consent and self-discovery. Captured with luminous visuals and a pitch-perfect soundtrack, Manning Walker’s directorial debut paints a painfully familiar portrait of young adulthood, and how first sexual experiences should – or shouldn’t – play out.
Year: 2023
Language: English
Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara
In 1858, in the Jewish quarter of Bologna, the Pope’s soldiers burst into the home of the Mortara family. By order of the cardinal, they have come to take Edgardo, their seven-year old son. The child had been secretly baptized by his nurse as a baby and the papal law is unquestionable: he must receive a Catholic education. Edgardo’s parents, distraught, will do anything to get their son back. Supported by public opinion and the international Jewish
community, the Mortaras’ struggle quickly take a political dimension. But the Church and the Pope will not agree to return the child, to consolidate an increasingly wavering power …
Year: 2023
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama
Animal Kingdom, The
In a world hit by a wave of mutations that are gradually transforming some humans into animals, François does everything he can to save his wife, who is affected by this mysterious condition. As some of the creatures disappear into a nearby forest, he embarks with Émile, their 16-year-old son, on a quest that will change their lives forever.
Year: 2023
Language: French
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Freud's Last Session
On the eve of the Second World War, two of the greatest minds on the twentieth century, C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud converge for their own personal battle over the existence of God. FREUD’S LAST SESSION interweaves the lives of Freud and Lewis, past, present, and through fantasy, bursting from the confines of Freud’s study on a dynamic journey.
Year: 2023
Language: English
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Last Resort
Tells the story of a former special forces soldier who becomes a one-man army when his wife and daughter are taken hostage during a bank robbery.
Year: 2023
Language: English
Genre: Action
Kokomo City
A raw depiction of the lives of four black trans sex workers in New York and Georgia as they confront the dichotomy between the black community and themselves.
Year: 2023
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
League, The
Directed by Sam Pollard (MLK/FBI) and executive produced by Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson (Oscar winning SUMMER OF SOUL), THE LEAGUE celebrates the dynamic journey of Negro League baseball's triumphs and challenges through the first half of the twentieth century.
Year: 2023
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Persian Version, The
Coming from two countries at odds with each other, Iranian-American Leila (Layla Mohammadi) strives to find balance and embrace her opposing cultures, while boldly challenging the labels society is so quick to project upon her. When her family reunites in New York City for her father’s heart transplant, Leila navigates her relationships from arms length in an effort to keep her “real” life separate from her family life.
Year: 2023
Language: English and Farsi
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Shayda
Shayda, a brave Iranian mother, finds refuge in an Australian women’s shelter with her six-year-old daughter. Over Persian New Year, they take solace in Nowruz rituals and new beginnings, but when her estranged husband re-enters their lives, Shayda’s path to freedom is jeopardized.
Year: 2023
Language: English and Farsi
Teachers' Lounge, The
Carla Nowak (LEONIE BENESCH), a dedicated sports and math teacher, starts her first job at a high school. She stands out among the new staff because of her idealism. When a series of thefts occur at the school and one of her students is suspected, she decides to get to the bottom of the matter on her own. Carla tries to mediate between outraged parents, opinionated colleagues and aggressive students, but is relentlessly confronted with the structures of the school system. The more desperately she tries to do everything right, the more the young teacher threatens to break.
Year: 2023
Language: German
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Shortcomings
Ben, a struggling filmmaker, lives in Berkeley, California, with his girlfriend, Miko, who works for a local Asian American film festival. When he’s not managing an arthouse movie theater as his day job, Ben spends his time obsessing over unavailable blonde women, watching Criterion Collection DVDs, and eating in diners with his best friend Alice, a queer grad student with a serial dating habit. When Miko moves to New York for an internship, Ben is left to his own devices, and begins to explore what he thinks he might want.
Year: 2023
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
Strange Way of Life
A man rides a horse across the desert that separates him from Bitter Creek. He comes to visit Sheriff Jake. Twenty-five years earlier, both the sheriff and Silva, the rancher who rides out to meet him, worked together as hired gunmen. Silva visits him with the excuse of reuniting with his friend from his youth, and they do indeed celebrate their meeting, but the next morning Sheriff Jake tells him that the reason for his trip is not to go down the memory lane of their old friendship....
Year: 2023
Language: English
Genre: GLBT, Drama, Western
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Shrapnel
A former Marine and his old war buddy face off against the Mexican cartel behind the disappearance of his daughter.
Year: 2023
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Action
Flood, The
A daring jail break during a dangerous Louisiana hurricane is interrupted by a horde of large hungry alligators.
Year: 2023
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Action
Island, The
When his brother is killed, LAPD officer Mark (Michael J. White) leaves the city to return to the island he grew up on. Seeking answers and ultimately vengeance, he soon finds himself in a bloody battle with the corrupt tycoon who's taken over the island paradise.
Year: 2023
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Action
Due Justice (fka Palido)
In the heart pounding thriller, DUE JUSTICE, former marine Max (Kellan Lutz) experiences a devastating loss when his beloved wife and daughter are brutally murdered in a cold blooded act of violence. Consumed by grief and driven by revenge, Max embarks on a relentless mission to hunt down those responsible.
Year: 2023
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Crime, Action
Operation Napoleon
A lawyer sucked into an international conspiracy after being accused of a murder she didn't commit. Only chance of survival lies in uncovering the secret of an old German World War II airplane, discovered on Iceland's largest glacier.
Year: 2023
Language: Icelandic
Genre: Thriller
Carlos (2023)
The immersive and intimately-crafted documentary CARLOS catapults us into rock icon Carlos Santana’s life and musical trajectory. Filmmaker Rudy Valdez bolsters this personal narrative with pulsating, never-before-seen footage — guided by Santana himself, and in his own words.
Year: 2023
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
They Shot the Piano Player
A New York music journalist goes on a quest to uncover the truth behind the mysterious disappearance of young Brazilian piano virtuoso Tenorio Jr.
A celebratory origin story of the world-renowned Latino musical movement Bossa Nova, "They Shot The Piano Player" captures a fleeting time bursting with creative freedom at a turning point in Latin American history in the 60s and 70s, just before the continent was engulfed by totalitarian regimes.
Year: 2023
Language: English, Spanish
Deliver Us
When a nun in a remote convent claims immaculate conception, the Vatican sends a team of priests
to investigate, concerned about an ancient prophecy that a woman will give birth to twin boys: one
the Messiah, the other the Anti-Christ.
Year: 2023
Language: English
Stones And Brian Jones, The
Featuring revealing interviews with all the main players and unseen archive released for the first time, "The Stones and Brian Jones" explores the creative musical genius of Jones, key to the success of the band, and uncovers how the founder of what became the greatest rock'n'roll band in the world was left behind in the shadows of history.
Year: 2023
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Mob Land
A sheriff tries to keep the peace when a desperate family man violently robs a pill mill with his brother-in-law, alerting an enforcer for the New Orleans mafia.
Year: 2023
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Crime, Action
Tripped Up
Four girlfriends take a chaotic road trip to a mind-blowing food festival.
Year: 2023
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
Beyond Utopia
A suspenseful look at the lengths people will go to gain freedom, BEYOND UTOPIA embeds with a courageous pastor as he works tirelessly to guide various individuals attempting to flee one of the most oppressive places on Earth: North Korea.
Year: 2023
Language: English/Korean
Genre: Documentary
Seeding, The
A man finds himself trapped in a desert canyon with a woman living off-grid who is captive to a pack of sadistic boys.
Year: 2023
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Ruthless
Harry (Dermot Mulroney) is a high school wrestling coach recovering from the loss of his daughter who was murdered in a brutal attack. When one of his students disappears under conditions eerily similar to his daughter's, Harry decides to finally take matters into his own hands to hunt down the men responsible for her kidnapping and will stop at nothing to rescue her from their human trafficking operation.
Year: 2023
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Action
Peasants, The
The Peasants tells the story of Jagna, a young woman determined to forge her own path within the confines of a late 19th century Polish village – a hotbed of gossip and on-going feuds, held together, rich and poor, by pride in their land, adherence to colourful traditions and deep-rooted patriarchy. When Jagna finds herself caught between the conflicting desires of the village’s richest farmer, his eldest son, and other leading men of the community, her resistance puts her on a tragic collision course with the community around her.
Year: 2023
Language: Polish
We Grown Now
In 1992 Chicago, as Michael Jordan solidifies himself as a champion, a story of two young legends in their own right begins. As wide-eyed and imaginative best friends Malik and Eric traverse the city, looking to escape the mundaneness of school and the hardships of growing up in public housing, their unbreakable bond is challenged when tragedy shakes their community just as they are learning to fly.
Year: 2023
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Hellhound
In the heart of Bangkok, a seasoned hitman on the cusp of retirement finds himself pulled back into the deadly world he’s yearning to leave behind. Reluctantly accepting a final assignment, he believes it to be a routine job. However, as the intricacies of the mission unravel, he is plunged into a whirlwind of intrigue, danger, and unexpected alliances, causing his last endeavor to spiral into a treacherous odyssey that challenges his skills, convictions, and the limits of his own morality.
Year: 2023
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Action
Bad Shepherd, The
When a group of friends go hunting and accidentally kill someone carrying a bag full of money, their friendships are put to the test when the bag's true owner comes looking.
Year: 2023
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
Elizabeth: A Portrait in Part(s)
A documentary on the life of Queen Elizabeth II, the longest-lived, longest reigning British monarch and longest serving female head of state in history.
Year: 2022
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
You Can Live Forever
When lesbian teen Jaime is sent to live in a Jehovah's Witness community, she falls hard for a devout Witness girl and the two embark on an intense affair with consequences that will reshape the rest of their lives.
Year: 2022
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Temps des secrets, Le
Marcel Pagnol embarks on his last summer vacation before high school and returns to his beloved hills in Provence. His summer of boyhood adventures becomes one of first loves and secrets.
Year: 2022
Language: Français
Genre: Children, Family
Phantom of the Open, The
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPEN follows Maurice Flitcroft (Mark Rylance), a dreamer and unrelenting optimist who managed to gain entry to The British Open Golf Championship Qualifying in 1976 and subsequently shot the worst round in Open history, becoming a folk hero in the process.
Year: 2022
Language: English
Genre: Sports, Drama, Comedy
Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song
HALLELUJAH: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song is a definitive exploration of singersongwriter Leonard Cohen as seen through the prism of his internationally renowned hymn, “Hallelujah.” This feature-length documentary weaves together three creative strands: The songwriter and his times; the song’s dramatic journey from record label reject to chart-topping hit; and moving testimonies from major recording artists for whom “Hallelujah” has become a personal touchstone. Approved for production by Leonard Cohen just before his 80th birthday in 2014, the film accesses a wealth of never-before-seen archival materials from the Cohen Trust including Cohen’s personal notebooks, journals and photographs, performance footage, and extremely rare audio recordings and interviews.
Year: 2022
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Agent Game
Year: 2022
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Action
Pure Grit
Pure Grit is both a thrilling tale of extreme bareback horse racing, and an intimate love story. Chronicling three years in the life of a young Native American bareback horse racer, her dogged determination, and the relationships that sustain her. Sharmaine dreams of becoming a champion. She is determined to ride and win. It's been a year since she's raced. A year since her sister was paralyzed in a catastrophic accident on the track. Sharmaine quit racing to care for her. In the remote Wyoming wilderness of the Wind River reservation, Sharmaine and her girlfriend Savannah begin to build a life for themselves. They hope for better. But the atmosphere at home soon turns toxic and the young lovers are forced to leave for the industrial Commerce City, Denver. The city brings freedom and opportunity, but also distractions and a strain on their fledgling relationship. When racing season starts up, Sharmaine and Savannah hit the road and put it all on the line. With a new horse from her city earnings, Sharmaine sees the potential for a fresh start. But life, like the race track, doesn't always go according to plan.
Year: 2022
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Simulant
A humanoid A.I.'s attempt to win over a widow's heart places it in the path of a government agent trying to stop the rise of machine consciousness.
Year: 2022
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Action, Sci-Fi
Notre Dame on Fire
A film relating from the inside the Notre-Dame de Paris fire of April 2019.
Year: 2022
Language: Français
Genre: Drama
So Much Tenderness
Having fled Colombia after her husband was murdered, an environmental lawyer rebuilds her life in Toronto with her tempestuous daughter, only to risk losing everything when her traumatic past re-surfaces.
Year: 2022
Language: English/Spanish
Genre: Drama
Living
LIVING is the story of an ordinary man, reduced by years of oppressive office routine to a shadow existence, who at the eleventh hour makes a supreme effort to turn his dull life into something wonderful. An English-language adaptation of the script of "Ikiru" (1952), set in London in the 1950s.
Year: 2022
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Deep in the Forest
"Deep in the Forest" is a thriller about a group of progressives who are forced to hide out at a remote ski lodge during a near-future civil war between the American Right and the American Left.
Year: 2022
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Action
Siege of Robin Hood
After the merciless Sheriff of Nottingham orders a brutal attack on his family, a young man named Robin swears bloody revenge on the men responsible, vowing to restore freedom to those trapped under the realm's oppressive rule.
Year: 2022
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Action
Framing Agnes
After discovering case files from a 1950s gender clinic, a cast of trans actors turn a talk show inside out to confront the legacy of a young trans woman forced to choose between honesty and access.
Year: 2022
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Bitterbrush
In the remote and rugged mountains of the American West, two young women contemplate the future as they work alone herding cattle.
Year: 2022
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Dreaming Walls: Inside The Chelsea Hotel
The end of a long upmarket renovation of the legendary Chelsea Hotel is partly longed for and partly dreaded by the artists who still live there. The film grants us access to their apartments and interweaves the past with the present.
Year: 2022
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Cryo
Year: 2022
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Sci-Fi
Altar Boy
A passive-natured teenager struggles to navigate the school year while trying to break free from the persona built around his religious upbringing.
Year: 2022
Language: English
Genre: Drama
My Old School
In 1993, 16-year-old Brandon Lee enrolled at Bearsden Academy, a secondary school in a well-to-do suburb of Glasgow, Scotland. What followed over the next two years became the stuff of legend.
Year: 2022
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Documentary
I Like Movies
Socially inept 17-year-old cinephile, Lawrence Kweller (Isaiah Lehtinen) gets a job at a video store, where he forms a complicated friendship with his older female manager.
Year: 2022
Language: English
Genre: Canadian, Drama, Comedy
I Love My Dad
Inspired by writer, director, and star James Morosini’s true life experience, I LOVE MY DAD follows Chuck (Patton Oswalt), a hopelessly estranged father who desperately wants to reconnect with his troubled son, Franklin (Morosini). Blocked on social media and concerned for his son’s life, Chuck impersonates a waitress online and starts checking in with Franklin. But things begin to spiral when Franklin falls for this imaginary girl (Claudia Sulewski) and wants nothing more than to meet her in person, as Chuck has inadvertently catfished his own son. A thrilling comedy with an unexpected twist, I LOVE MY DAD also stars Rachel Dratch, Lil Rel Howery, Amy Landecker and Ricky Velez.
Year: 2022
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
Therapy Dogs
The Class of 2019 at Cawthra Park Secondary School is gearing up for their senior year. Teen angst fills the hallways. Nervous students convene in classrooms. Hopeful romantics ask each other out for prom. Amidst these moments of self-discovery, friends Ethan and Justin set out to shoot a film under the pretense of being a yearbook project, recording pivotal moments and character portraits during this tumultuous stage of adolescence. No one at Cawthra Park seems to be prepared for what will come next in their rebellious filmmaking adventure.
Year: 2022
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Dig
A widowed father and his daughter whose house is up for demolition, are taken hostage by a dangerous couple, who won't stop until they retrieve what lies beneath the property.
Year: 2022
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Action
Smoking Causes Coughing
A group of vigilantes called the "tobacco-forces" is falling apart. To rebuild team spirit, their leader suggests that they meet for a week-long retreat, before returning to save the world.
Year: 2022
Language: French
Genre: Comedy
One Fine Morning
Sandra (Lea Seydoux) is a widowed young mother raising her daughter on her own, while also caring for her sick father (Pascal Greggory). She’s dealing with the loss of the relationship she once had with her father, while she and her mother and sister fight to get him the care he requires. At the same time, Sandra reconnects with Clément (Melvil Poupaud), a friend she hasn’t seen in a while and, although he’s married, their friendship soon blossoms into a passionate affair.
Year: 2022
Language: English, French, German
Genre: Drama, Romance
Ernest And Celestine: A Trip To Gibberitia
Ernest and Celestine are travelling back to Ernest’s country, Gibberitia, to fix his broken violin. This exotic land is home to the best musicians on earth and music constantly fills the air with joy. However, upon arriving, our two heroes discover that all forms of music have been banned there for many years - and for them, a life without music is unthinkable. Along with their friends and a mysterious masked outlaw, Ernest and Celestine must try their best to bring music and happiness back to the land of bears.
Year: 2022
Language: Français
Genre: Adventure, Family, Animation
November (2022)
5 days into the heart of the French anti-terrorism services during the hunt for suspects after the 13/11/2015 attacks in Paris.
Year: 2022
Language: Français
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime, Action
Hunted
Year: 2022
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Action
Supercell
A teenage boy runs away to follow his fathers footsteps, legendary storm chaser Bill Brody.
Year: 2022
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Thriller, Action
Turn Every Page - The Adventures Of Robert Caro And Robert Gottlieb
Turn Every Page explores the remarkable fifty-year relationship between two literary legends, writer Robert Caro and his longtime editor Robert Gottlieb. Now 86, Caro is working to complete the final volume of his masterwork, The Years of Lyndon Johnson; Gottlieb, 91, waits to edit it. The task of finishing their life’s work looms before them. With humor and insight, this unique double portrait reveals the work habits, peculiarities and professional joys of these two ferocious intellects at the culmination of a journey that has consumed both their lives and impacted generations of politicians, activists, writers, and readers.
Year: 2022
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Carmen
Benjamin Millepied’s CARMEN is a gritty modern day tale, with a majestic score by Nicholas Britell, and dream-like dance sequences that evoke magic realism. The story follows a young and fiercely independent woman who is forced to flee her home in the Mexican desert following the brutal murder of her mother, another strong and mysterious woman. Carmen survives a terrifying and dangerous illegal border crossing into the US, only to be confronted by a lawless volunteer border guard who cold-bloodedly murders two other immigrants in her group. When the border guard and his patrol partner, Aidan—a Marine with PTSD—become embroiled in a deadly standoff, Carmen and Aidan are forced to escape together.
Year: 2022
Language: Spanish & English
Genre: Drama, Musical
Next Exit
Two strangers decide to partake in a controversial medical procedure which allows people to commit painless suicide following the scientific discovery that an afterlife does exist…
Year: 2022
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi
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There There
A lover's doubt in the cold light of morning leads a chain of uneasy intimacies--counselors, disruptors, peacemakers and fire-starters--every one looking to have a little faith rewarded.
Year: 2022
Language: English
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752 Is Not a Number
Toronto dentist Hamed Esmaeilion is determined to uncover the truth behind the missile attacks that downed Ukrainian Flight PS752 shortly after its takeoff from Tehran on January 8, 2020, killing all 176 on board, including Hamed’s wife and nine-year-old daughter.
Year: 2022
Language: English and Farsi
Genre: Documentary
Hunt
After a high-ranking North Korean official requests asylum, KCIA Foreign Unit chief Park Pyong-ho (LEE Jung Jae) and Domestic Unit chief Kim Jung-do (JUNG Woo Sung) are tasked with uncovering a North Korean spy, known as Donglim, who is deeply embedded within their agency. When the spy begins leaking top secret intel that could jeopardize national security, the two units are each assigned to investigate each other. In this tense situation where if they cannot find the mole, they may be accused themselves, Pyong-ho and Jung-do slowly start to uncover the truth. In the end, they must deal with an unthinkable plot to assassinate the South Korean president...
Year: 2022
Language: Korean
Genre: Thriller, Action
Blue Jean
In BLUE JEAN, it’s England,1988, and Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government is about to pass a law stigmatizing gays and lesbians, forcing Jean
(Rosy McEwen) a gym teacher, to live a double life. As pressure mounts from all sides, the arrival of a new student catalyzes a crisis that will challenge Jean to her core.
Year: 2022
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Repeater
Find. Kill. Repeat. For hit man Smith (Paul Sidhu), these are the only words to live by. But a botched job in Colombia forces him to take a high-stakes open contract arranged by his handler, Mann (Corbin Bernsen). Smith's latest target? The hacker-activist Rousseau (Nick Moran), who has run afoul of corrupt corporations and powerful men like Silver (James Faulkner), the boss of a criminal empire. In the border towns of Mexico, Smith confronts local gangs, competing contract killers Botha (Gary Daniels) and Sykes (Kristanna Loken), and a crisis of conscience with deadly consequences.
Year: 2022
Language: English
Genre: Action
Heart of A Champion
A heartwarming family film starring Casper Van Dien, Edward Furlong, and YaYa Gosselin. A 14-year-old coping with the divorce of her parents, a new school, and typical teenage growing pains finds purpose and pride in a lost horse she cares for and trains for a state competition.
Year: 2022
Language: English
Genre: Family
Sanctuary
A wickedly dark comedy follows dominatrix, Rebecca (Emmy Award® nominee
Margaret Qualley), and her wealthy client, Hal (Christopher Abbott),
as they engage in a high stakes role playing game for power and control.
In the wake of inheriting his father’s hotel chain, Hal attempts to end his long and
secret relationship with Rebecca. A battle of wills ensues over the course of
one incredibly fraught night, with both Rebecca and Hal struggling to
keep the upper hand as the power dynamics swing wildly back and forth.
Year: 2022
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Transfusion
A former Special Forces operative is thrust into the criminal underworld in a bid to prevent his only son from being taken from him.
Year: 2022
Language: English
Genre: Action
Siege, The
International assassin Walker is compromised during a mission and sent to a reassignment center for a new identity. During his stay at the facility, a ruthless assault team storms the compound searching for someone their boss has lost. Walker begrudgingly falls in with skilled hitwoman Elda and her mysterious ward Juliet in order to survive the night.
Year: 2022
Language: English
Genre: Action
Daliland
In 1973, a young gallery assistant goes on a wild adventure behind the scenes as he helps the aging genius Salvador Dali prepare for a big show in New York.
Year: 2022
Language: English
Genre: History, Drama, Biography
L'immensita
The story of love between Clara and her children, set in Rome in the '70s.
Year: 2022
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama, Foreign
Baby Ruby
The tightly scripted world of a vlogger and influencer unravels after she becomes a mother, in noted playwright Bess Wohl's feature debut.
Year: 2022
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Drama
It Ain't Over
An intimate portrait of a misunderstood American icon, this emotional and uplifting documentary about Yogi Berra takes us beyond the caricatures and "Yogisms," and into the heart of a sports legend whose unparalleled accomplishments on the baseball diamond were often overshadowed by his off-the-field persona.
Year: 2022
Language: English
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Old Way, The
An old gunslinger and his daughter must face the consequences of his past, when the son of a man he murdered years ago arrives to take his revenge.
Year: 2022
Language: English
Genre: Action, Western
Night Train
A single mom struggling to make ends meet as a Hollywood teamster evades capture by a ruthless FBI Agent while running black market medical supplies in her legendary souped-up pickup truck.
Year: 2022
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Action
Moving On
Two old friends reconnect at a funeral and decide to get revenge on the widower who messed with them decades before.
Year: 2022
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Compassionate Spy, A
A gripping real-life espionage thriller about controversial Manhattan Project physicist Ted Hall, who infamously provided classified nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union, told through the perspective of his loving wife Joan, who protected his secret for decades.
Year: 2022
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
My Neighbor Adolf
South America, 1960. A lonely and grumpy Holocaust survivor is convinced that his new neighbor is none other than Adolf Hitler. Not being taken seriously, he starts an independent investigation to prove his claim.
Year: 2022
Language: English, German, Spanish, Yiddish, Hebrew
June Zero
Set during the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann, architect of the mass murder of the Jews during World War II, and based on true accounts, it tells its story from the intertwined perspectives of three largely unrelated figures: Eichmann’s Jewish Moroccan prison guard; an Israeli police investigator for the prosecution and a Holocaust survivor; and a 13-year-old Jewish Libyan immigrant.
Year: 2022
Language: Hebrew / Arabic
Genre: History, Drama
What's Love Got to do with It
How do you find lasting love in today's world? For documentary-maker and dating app addict Zoe (Lily James), swiping right has only delivered an endless stream of Mr. Wrongs to her eccentric mother Cath's (Emma Thompson) dismay. For Zoe's childhood friend and neighbor Kaz (Shazad Latif), the answer is to follow his parents' example and opt for an arranged (or "assisted") marriage to a bright and beautiful bride from Pakistan. As Zoe films his hopeful journey from London to Lahore to marry a stranger chosen by his parents, she begins to wonder if she might have something to learn from a profoundly different approach to finding love.
Year: 2022
Language: English
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Dark Asset
A charming guy attempts to pick up a woman in a bar by spinning a tale involving spies, implanted microchips and the dangerous military scientist hunting him.
Year: 2022
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Action
Julia
JULIA will tell the story of the legendary cookbook author and television superstar who changed the way Americans think about food, television, and even about women. Using never-before-seen archival footage, personal photos, first-person narratives, and cutting-edge, mouth-watering food cinematography, the film will trace Julia Child's surprising path, from her struggles to create and publish the revolutionary Mastering the Art of French Cooking (1961) which has sold more than 2.5 million copies to date, to her empowering story of a woman who found fame in her 50s, and her calling as an unlikely television sensation.
Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Documentary, Biography
A Glitch in the Matrix
What if we are living in a simulation, and the world as we know it is not real? To tackle this mind-bending idea, acclaimed filmmaker Rodney Asher (ROOM 237, THE NIGHTMARE) uses a noted speech from Philip K. Dick to dive down the rabbit hole of science, philosophy, and conspiracy theory. Leaving no stone unturned in exploring the unprovable, the film uses contemporary cultural touchstones like THE MATRIX, interviews with real people shrouded in digital avatars, and a wide array of voices, expert and amateur alike. If simulation theory is not science fiction but fact, and life is a video game being played by some unknowable entity, then who are we, really? A GLITCH IN THE MATRIX attempts to find out.
Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Hands that Bind
A farm hand struggles to establish roots for his family in a world that is increasingly unfamiliar and, as a darkness settles over the land and mysterious occurrences begin, his paranoia and desperation escalate.
Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama
All My Puny Sorrows
Based on the international best-selling novel by Miriam Toews, ALL MY PUNY SORROWS unexpectedly infuses wry humour into this heart-wrenching story of two loving sisters: one a gifted pianist (Sarah Gadon) obsessed with ending her life, the other a struggling writer (Alison Pill) who, in wrestling with this decision, makes profound discoveries about herself.
Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Prisoners of the Ghostland
In the treacherous frontier city of Samurai Town, a ruthless bank robber (Nicolas Cage) is sprung from jail by wealthy warlord The Governor (Bill Moseley), whose adopted granddaughter Bernice (Sofia Boutella) has gone missing. The Governor offers the prisoner his freedom in exchange for retrieving the runaway. Strapped into a leather suit that will self-destruct within five days, the bandit sets off on a journey to find the young woman—and his own path to redemption.
Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Action
Lost Leonardo, The
THE LOST LEONARDO is the inside story behind the Salvator Mundi, the most expensive painting ever sold at $450 million. From the moment the painting is bought for $1175 at a shady New Orleans auction house, and the restorer discovers masterful Renaissance brushstrokes under the heavy varnish of its cheap restoration, the Salvator Mundi’s fate is determined by an insatiable quest for fame, money and power. As its price soars, so do questions about its authenticity: is this painting really by Leonardo da Vinci?
Year: 2021
Language: English, French
Genre: Documentary
Mothering Sunday
A maid living in post-World War I England secretly plans to meet with the man she loves before he leaves to marry another woman.
Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Salvatore, Shoemaker of Dreams
In the early 20th century, impoverished teenage Italian cobbler Salvatore Ferragamo sailed from Naples to America to seek a better life. He settled in Southern California, and became Hollywood's go-to shoemaker during the silent era. In 1927, he returned to Italy and founded in Florence his namesake luxury brand. This feature-length documentary recounts his adventures.
Year: 2021
Language: Italian, English
Genre: Documentary
12 Mighty Orphans
12 MIGHTY ORPHANS tells the true story of the Mighty Mites, the football team of a Fort Worth orphanage who, during the Great Depression, went from playing without shoes—or even a football—to playing for the Texas state championships. Over the course of their winning season these underdogs and their resilient spirit became an inspiration to their city, state, and an entire nation in need of a rebound, even catching the attention of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The architect of their success was Rusty Russell, a legendary high school coach who shocked his colleagues by giving up a privileged position so he could teach and coach at an orphanage. Few knew Rusty's secret: that he himself was an orphan. Recognizing that his scrawny players couldn't beat the other teams with brawn, Rusty developed innovative strategies that would come to define modern football.
Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Sports, Drama, Family
Jockey
An aging jockey (Clifton Collins Jr.), hopes to win one last title for his longtime trainer (Molly Parker), who has acquired what appears to be a championship horse. But the years – and injuries – have taken a toll on his body, throwing into question his ability to continue his lifelong passion. And the arrival of a young rookie rider (Moises Arias), who claims to be his son, and whom he takes under his wing, further complicates the path to fulfilling his dream.
Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Cryptozoo
Cryptozookeepers try to capture a Baku, a dream-eating hybrid creature of legend, and start wondering if they should display these beasts or keep them hidden and unknown.
Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Fantasy, Animation
They Who Surround Us
A Ukrainian farmer living in Alberta loses his wife in a tragic accident. Guilt and grief send him into an emotional spiral where mysterious and inexplicable events force him to relive traumatic incidents from his childhood in Ukraine.
Year: 2021
Language: English
Censor
After viewing a strangely familiar video nasty, Enid, a film censor, sets out to solve the past mystery of her sister's disappearance, embarking on a quest that dissolves the line between fiction and reality.
Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Horror
First Date
Conned into buying a shady ‘65 Chrysler, Mike’s first date with the girl-next-door, Kelsey, implodes as he finds himself targeted by criminals, cops, and a crazy cat lady. A night fueled by desire, bullets and burning rubber makes any other first date seem like a walk in the park.
Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Comedy
Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn
Emi, a school teacher, finds her career and reputation under threat after a personal sex tape is leaked on the Internet. Forced to meet the parents demanding her dismissal, Emi refuses to surrender to their pressure.
Year: 2021
Language: Romanian
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Parallel Mothers
Two women, Janis and Ana, coincide in a hospital room where they are going to give birth. Both are single and became pregnant by accident. Janis, middle-aged, doesn’t regret it and she is exultant. The other, Ana, an adolescent, is scared, repentant and traumatized. Janis tries to encourage her while they move like sleepwalkers along the hospital corridors. The few words they exchange in these hours will create a very close link between the two, which by chance develops and complicates, and changes their lives in a decisive way.
Year: 2021
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama
Twist
A Modern take on the classic tale of Oliver Twist.
Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Action
Colony, The
Set in the distant future, a female astronaut, shipwrecked on the long-decimated Earth, must decide the fate of the wasteland's remaining populace.
Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Sci-Fi
Blood Conscious
A vacationing family turns the tables on a mass shooter who claims to be fighting demonic forces.
Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Drama
False Positive
As if getting pregnant weren't complicated enough, Lucy sets out to uncover the unsettling truth about her fertility doctor.
Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Mystery
Boiling Point
Enter the relentless pressure of a restaurant kitchen as a head chef wrangles his team on the busiest day of the year.
Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama
I'm Your Man
In order to obtain research funds for her studies, a scientist accepts an offer to participate in an extraordinary experiment: for three weeks, she is to live with a humanoid robot, created to make her happy.
Year: 2021
Language: German, English
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Ninjababy
When Rakel (23), finds out she’s six months pregnant after a not-so-romantic one-night stand, her world changes. Her boyfriend, who’s not the father, is kind of ok with her having a baby. But Rakel is absolutely not ready to be a mother. Since abortion is no longer an option, adoption is the only answer. That’s when Ninjababy, an animated character who insists on making Rakel’s everyday life a living hell, turns up. He climbs out from her note book, jumps into her tea cup, and keeps reminding her what a terrible person she is.
Year: 2021
Language: Norwegian
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Only the Animals
Following the disappearance of glamourous housewife Evelyne Ducat (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi) in the French highlands, the lives of five people inextricably linked to Evelyne are brought together to devastating effect as the local police investigate the case. Elegantly structured and darkly funny, Dominik Moll’s seamy thriller reveals the secret connections of a lonely farmer, an unfaithful husband and wife, a lovelorn waitress and an African con artist to expose a world of greed, lust, betrayal, desperation and murder spanning the wintery French highlands to the sun kissed streets of Sierra Leone. With his finest cast to date, including an astonishing performance by Denis Ménochet (Inglorious Bastards), ONLY THE ANIMALS finds Dominik Moll at the height of his filmmaking powers as he masterfully exposes the secret connections that lie at the underbelly of Evelyne’s disappearance.
Year: 2021
Language: Français
Genre: Drama
Gagarine
Youri, 16, has lived all his life in Gagarine Cité, a vast red brick housing project on the outskirts of Paris. From the heights of his apartment, he dreams of
becoming an astronaut. But when plans to demolish his community’s home are leaked, Youri joins the resistance. With his friends Diana and Houssam, he
embarks on a mission to save Gagarine, transforming the estate into his own “starship” – before it disappears into space forever.
Year: 2021
Language: French
Genre: Drama
Mayday
Ana is transported to a dreamlike and dangerous land where she joins an army of girls engaged in a never-ending war along a rugged coast. Though she finds strength in this exhilarating world, she comes to realize that she's not the killer they want her to be.
Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Fantasy, Drama
Jazz Fest: A New Orleans Story
Celebrating the music, food, and arts and crafts of all of Louisiana since 1970, The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, also known as Jazz Fest, is an essential showcase of the rich heritage of the region, and hundreds of thousands attend the event each year. Local music heroes are joined on 14 stages by some of the most important figures in entertainment, highlighting the connections between Louisiana culture and the world.
Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Learn to Swim
After a tragic event, Dezi (Thomas Antony Olajide), a Toronto jazz musician, flees in an attempt to rebuild his life, only to find himself haunted by his grief and truths of his past.
Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Burning Sea, The
On Christmas Eve 1969, the Norwegian government announces something that will change Norway forever: One of the world's largest offshore oil discoveries is a fact, and Ekofisk becomes the start of an unprecedented financial adventure. 50 years of experience has given us many answers, but we might have yet to fully understand the consequences of our operations at sea. Will the adventure last or have we created one of the largest mass destruction weapons in the world?
Year: 2021
Language: Norwegian
Genre: Adventure, Drama
American Night
A neo-noir set in the New York City's corrupt contemporary art world where the art dealer John Kaplan and the ruthless head of New York's mafia, Michael Rubino, fight for money, art, power and love.
Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Action
Last Man Down
John Wood left the pieces of a broken civilisation behind, to go back to his roots in the woodland, after a virus pandemic struck the world.
Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Action
American Sicario
Follows the story of a high-ranking Mexican-American lieutenant of the Feliz Cartel who was the first known American Sicario.
Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Action
Compartment No. 6
A young Finnish woman escapes an enigmatic love affair in Moscow by boarding a train to the arctic port of Murmansk. Forced to share the long ride and a tiny sleeping car with a larger than life Russian miner, the unexpected encounter leads the occupants of Compartment No. 6 to face major truths about human connection.
Year: 2021
Language: Russian, Finnish Saami
Genre: Drama
Red Rocket
Finding himself down and out in Los Angeles, ex porn star Mikey Saber decides to crawl back to his hometown of Texas City, Texas, where his estranged wife and mother-in-law are living. Just as this dysfunctional family seems to be making things work, Mikey meets a young woman named Strawberry working the cash register at a local doughnut shop.
Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Catch the Fair One
A former champion boxer embarks on the fight of her life when she goes in search of her missing sister.
Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
Agnes
Rumors of demonic possession at a religious convent prompts a church investigation into the strange goings-on among its nuns. A disaffected priest and his neophyte are confronted with temptation, bloodshed and a crisis of faith.
Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Drama
Barbaque
Year: 2021
Language: French
Genre: Horror, Comedy
You Are Not My Mother
In a North Dublin housing estate Char's mother goes missing. When she returns Char is determined to uncover the truth of her disappearance and unearth the dark secrets of her family.
Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Drama
Italian Studies
A writer loses her memory. Adrift in NYC, she connects with a group of teenagers - in conversations both real and imagined - and searches for a way home.
Year: 2021
Language: English & French
Genre: Drama
Wildhood
A rebellious two-spirit teenager runs away from home to find his birth mother and reclaim his Mi'kmaw heritage.
Year: 2021
Language: English, Mi'kmaq
Genre: Drama
Girl on the Mountain, The
When a reclusive backwoodsman finds a mute little girl wandering alone in the forest, he must protect her from the evil forces determined to end her life.
Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Thriller, Drama
Warhunt
In Warhunt, when Ruthless Major Johnson (Rourke) sends out a squad of his bravest soldiers (Rathbone, Knepper) on a dangerous rescue mission after the violent crash of a World War 2 cargo plane, they are soon attacked by a powerful, supernatural force. Fighting for their sanity and struggling to survive profound horrors, they must uncover the shocking truth behind the force before the Nazis, and remove all evidence that it ever existed, even at the cost of their own lives.
Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Action
Legend of la Llorona, The
While vacationing in Mexico, a couple discovers their son's disappearance is tied to a supernatural curse.
Year: 2021
Language: English, Spanish
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Requin, The
A couple on a romantic getaway find themselves stranded at sea when a tropical storm sweeps away their villa. In order to survive, they are forced to fight the elements, while sharks circle below.
Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
Here Before
A taut and sophisticated psychological thriller set in Northern Ireland.
Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
Hyperions, The
Professor Ruckus Mandelbaum invents the Titan badge, a dazzling new device that gives humans superpowers but also creates a rift between the empowered.
Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Action
So Cold the River
A documentary filmmaker's research on a town's mysterious benefactor unearths an unexplained evil while staying at a local resort.
Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Ultrasound
After his car breaks down, Glen spends one hell of an odd night with a married couple, setting into motion a chain of events that alter their lives plus those of several random strangers.
Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi
Indemnity
Theo Abrams is an ex-Cape Town fireman suffering from severe Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, unable to return to work due to the psychological trauma sustained during a failed rescue mission. An increasingly frustrated and volatile Theo's world is rocked when one morning, he wakes up next to his wife's murdered corpse with no recollection of what transpired and all evidence suggesting that he's killed her. When the police label him as the prime suspect, Theo goes on the run, and is soon being hunted by Deputy Chief of Police, Alan Shard, a notoriously ruthless soldier of the law, who is hell-bent on catching Theo as one last act of service before he officially retires. However, when an unknown third party is thrown into the mix, Theo discovers an alarming connection between the sinister forces hunting him in an attempt to silence him permanently for a reason he can't comprehend; and a recent investigation his wife was conducting into a global armament contractor. When connecting the dots becomes a matter of life and death, Theo becomes embroiled in a desperate fight for survival and must figure out who really murdered his wife before a terrifying conspiracy changes the course of a nation forever.
Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Action
Bull
Bull mysteriously returns home after a 10 year absence to seek revenge on those who double crossed him all those years ago.
Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
Hostile Territory
In post-civil war America, when a Union soldier is presumed dead, his children are mistakenly sent away on the orphan train. This is a wild-west story of people uniting for the greater good, and children forced to grow up quickly.
Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Western
Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, The
Creatively unfulfilled and facing financial ruin, the fictionalized version of Cage must accept a $1 million offer to attend the birthday of a dangerous superfan (Pedro Pascal). Things take a wildly unexpected turn when Cage is recruited by a CIA operative (Tiffany Haddish) and forced to live up to his own legend, channeling his most iconic and beloved on-screen characters in order to save himself and his loved ones. With a career built for this very moment, the seminal award-winning actor must take on the role of a lifetime: Nick Cage.
Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
Diabolik
The dark and romantic story of the first meeting between master thief Diabolik and Eva Kant, set in the fictional state of Clerville in the late 1960s. Inspector Ginko is on the hunt for the criminal, trying to stop his evil plans.
Year: 2021
Language: Italian
Genre: Crime, Action
How to Please a Woman
When her all-male house-cleaning business gets out of control, a mature woman must embrace her own sexuality, if she is to make a new life for herself.
Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
Good Boss, The
Awaiting a visit by a committee that could give his company an award for excellence, the owner of an industrial scales manufacturing business tries to resolve any problems from his workers in enough time.
Year: 2021
Language: Spanish
Genre: Comedy
Shepherd
Eric Black is lost after the mysterious death of his adulterous wife. Running from his past to a new job as a Shepherd, he finds himself trapped alone on a majestic, weather-beaten island with an ominous secret. One mans spiraling madness meets a vengeful supernatural force. What starts as the perfect wind-swept escape becomes a race to save his sanity and his life
Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Piggy
During the sweltering summertime of rural Spain, Sara carries an extra load of teenage agony due to the perpetual bullying from her peers. She’s also an outsider at home—her parents and little brother just don’t understand her—so, feelings internalized, she’s often found buried in her headphones, drowning out her surroundings. One day, Sara’s usual solo dip at the local pool is disrupted by the presence of a mysterious stranger in the water and an exceptionally grueling bout of abuse at the hands of three girls. But, in a strange twist of fate, along the way home Sara witnesses her bloodied tormentors being kidnapped in the back of the stranger’s van.
Year: 2021
Language: Spanish
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Drama
Return of Tanya Tucker - Featuring Brandi Carlile, The
Decades after Tanya Tucker slipped from the spotlight, music star Brandi Carlile takes it upon herself to write an entire album for her hero based on Tanya's extraordinary life, spurring the greatest comeback in country music history.
Year: 2021
Language: English
Take the Night
When a resentful brother organizes a prank kidnapping, he unwittingly hires career criminals who have plans of their own.
Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
My Favorite Girlfriend
My Favorite Girlfriend is a sparkling, romantic comedy with a unique twist, starring Tyler Johnson (“Sons of Thunder”) and Bonnie Piesse (“Obi-Wan Kenobi”) from writer/director Amanda Raymond (You Are My Home). It’s complicated for new couple Conrad and Molly. He’s a handsome, aspiring chef who leads a perfectly structured life. She’s a cute, bubbly social media influencer prone to spontaneity. The attraction is immediate for the mismatched duo and everything is going great until Southern charmer “Vanessa” shows up. Followed by bad-ass rocker “Silk”, and more. The woman of Conrad’s dreams is actually several of them. Molly has multiple personalities which can switch in a heartbeat. Is he cheating on Molly if he has sex with “Silk?” And can he choose a favorite when he loves them all?
Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Runner, The
After being busted for drug possession, Aiden, a troubled Teenager is forced by the cops to go undercover and risk his life to bring down a dangerous drug king pin.
Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
Return to Seoul
After an impulsive travel decision to visit friends, Freddie, 25, returns to South Korea for the first time, where she was born before being adopted and raised in France. Freddie suddenly finds herself embarking on (an unexpected) journey in a country she knows so little about, taking her life in new and unexpected directions.
Year: 2021
Language: Korean
Genre: Drama
Fire of Love
Katia and Maurice Krafft loved two things — each other
and volcanoes. For two decades, the daring French volcanologist couple roamed the planet, chasing eruptions and documenting their discoveries. Ultimately, they lost their lives in a 1991 volcanic explosion, leaving a legacy that forever enriched our knowledge of the natural world.
Director Sara Dosa and the filmmaking team fashion a lyrical celebration of the intrepid scientists’ spirit of adventure, drawing from the Kraffts’ spectacular archive. FIRE OF LOVE tells a story of primordial creation and destruction, following two bold explorers as they venture into the unknown, all for the sake of love.
Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
American Murderer
American Murderer is based on the true story of Jason Derek Brown - a charismatic con man turned party king who bankrolls his luxurious lifestyle through a series of scams. When his funds run low and his past catches up with him, he plots his most elaborate scheme yet and, in the process, becomes the FBI's most unlikely - and elusive - top ten fugitive.
Year: 2021
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime
Ambush, The
When three soldiers are ambushed in hostile territory, their commander leads a daring mission to rescue them. From the director of TAKEN.
Year: 2021
Language: Arabic
Genre: War, Action
Death of a Ladies' Man
Inspired by the work of Leonard Cohen, and set to some of his most beloved music, Death of a Ladies' Man tells the story of a carousing college professor whose life takes a series of unimaginable turns, and all the old stories are given a new twist, when he begins to have surreal hallucinations and learns he may not be long for this world.
Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Drama
My Salinger Year
In New York City in the late ‘90s, Joanna (Margaret Qualley) is a young aspiring writer who lands a day job at J.D. Salinger’s literary agency. While her eccentric, old-fashioned boss Margaret (Sigourney Weaver) assigns her to answer Salinger’s voluminous fan mail, Joanna struggles to find her own voice.
Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Pompéi
Victor and his little brother scrape by through the thieving of artifacts as part of a community of vagrant children.
Victor et son petit frère Jimmy survivent dans un environnement où la misère sentimentale semble éternelle. L’arrivée de Billie et son romantisme fou ébranlent les croyances de chacun…
Year: 2020
Language: French
Genre: Drama
Percy
Based on events from a 1998 lawsuit, PERCY follows small-town farmer Percy Schmeiser, who challenges a major conglomerate when the company’s genetically modified (GMO) canola is discovered in the 70-year-old farmer’s crops. As he speaks out against the company’s business practices, he realizes he is representing thousands of other disenfranchised farmers around the world fighting the same battle. Suddenly, he becomes an unsuspecting folk hero in a desperate war to protect farmers’ rights and the world’s food supply against what they see as corporate greed.
Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Biography
Ride Like a Girl
The incredible true story of Michelle Payne, who overcame impossible odds and became one of the first female jockey champions in the world.
Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Sports, Drama, Family, Biography
Lie Exposed
When recovering alcoholic Melanie (Leslie Hope) learns devastating news, she leaves her husband (Bruce Greenwood) in Toronto and heads to Los Angeles for a bender. In LA she meets a mysterious tintype photographer (Jeff Kober) and agrees to pose for him at his downtown studio. Upon her return to Canada, freshly sober Melanie and husband Frank stage a surprise art show for their friends. The exhibition of the tintype photos ignites passionate, provocative, incendiary and disparate discussions amongst the group, none of whom know Melanie is the subject of this intimate and provocative work.
Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Falling
John (Viggo Mortensen) lives with his partner, Eric (Terry Chen), and their daughter, Monica (Gabby Velis), in California, far from the traditional rural life he left behind years ago. His father, Willis (Lance Henriksen), a headstrong man from a bygone era, lives alone on the isolated farm where John grew up. Willis’s mind is declining, so John brings him west, hoping he and his sister, Sarah (Laura Linney), can help their father find a home closer to them. Their best intentions ultimately run up against Willis’s angry refusal to change his way of life in any way.
In his directorial debut, Mortensen explores the fractures and contrasts of a contemporary family. Willis’s abrasive nature, by turns caustic and funny, is aggravated by memory loss, bringing past and present into conflict. As father and son finally confront events that have torn them apart, including their differing recollections of John’s mother, Gwen (Hannah Gross), we embark on a journey from darkness to light, from rage and resentment to acceptance and hard-won grace.
Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: GLBT, Drama
We Summon the Darkness
A night of fun and youthful debauchery between three best friends and a group of aspiring musicians takes a deadly turn.
Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Comedy
Whistlers, The
A policeman intent on freeing a crooked businessman from prison on Gomera, an island in the Canaries. However, he must first learn the difficult local dialect, a language which includes hissing and spitting.
Year: 2020
Language: Romanian
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime, Comedy
Climb, The
Kyle and Mike are best friends who share a close bond - until Mike sleeps with Kyle's fiancée. The Climb is about a tumultuous but enduring relationship between two men across many years of laughter, heartbreak and rage. It is also the story of real-life best friends who turn their profound connection into a rich, humane and frequently uproarious film about the boundaries (or lack thereof) in all close friendships.
Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Slash/Back
In a remote Arctic community, a group of Inuit girls fight off an alien invasion, all while trying to make it to the coolest party in town.
Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Horror
Burnt Orange Heresy, The
An ambitious art critic steals a rare painting and becomes consumed by his own greed as the operation spins out of control, in Giuseppe Capotondi's (The Double Hour) thriller based on Charles Willeford's noir novel and starring Elizabeth Debicki, Donald Sutherland, Claes Bang, and Mick Jagger.
Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
Beans
Inspired by true events, BEANS is about a Mohawk girl on the cusp of adolescence who must grow up fast and become her own kind of warrior during the armed stand-off known as the 1990 Oka Crisis.
Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Guns Akimbo
An ordinary guy gets guns bolted to his hands, and finds himself forced to fight a gladiator-like battle for a dark website that publicly streams the violent proceedings.
Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Action, Comedy
Best Sellers
A cranky, retired author reluctantly embarks on a final book tour to help out a young publisher.
Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Collective
Director Alexander Nanau follows a crack team of investigators at the Romanian newspaper Gazeta Sporturilor as they try to uncover a vast health-care fraud that enriched moguls and politicians — and led to the deaths of innocent citizens.
Year: 2020
Language: Romanian
Genre: Documentary
Cave Rescue
Based on the true nail-biting mission that captivated the world... An international team of elite divers is mobilized to rescue a boys soccer team trapped in a cave by rising floodwaters.
Year: 2020
Language: Chinese
Genre: Adventure, Thriller, Action
Australian Dream, The
The Australian Dream uses the remarkable and inspirational story of AFL legend and passionate advocate for Indigenous causes, Adam Goodes, as the prism through which to tell a deeper and more powerful story about race, identity and belonging.
Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Two of Us
Pensioners Nina (Barbara Sukowa) and Madeleine (Martine Chevallier) have hidden their deep and passionate love for many decades. From the point of view of those surrounding them, including Madeleine's meddling daughter (Léa Drucker), they are simply two neighbours sharing a hallway during their sunset years. In reality, this landing is a bridge between two worlds: one belonging to a widowed, doting grandmother, the other to a free-spirited, fiercely independent woman who longs to spend her life with the person she loves. Clandestinely, Nina and Madeleine share a tender life, moving freely between their apartments until, one day, an unexpected event closes the portal. In this new reality, their secret cannot remain hidden if they are to stay together — and their unconditional love is put to the test.
Year: 2020
Language: French
Genre: Drama
Six Minutes to Midnight
Summer 1939. Influential families in Nazi Germany have sent their daughters to a finishing school in an English seaside town to learn the language and be ambassadors for a future looking National Socialist. A teacher there sees what is coming and is trying to raise the alarm. But the authorities believe he is the problem.
Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Burden
When a museum celebrating the Ku Klux Klan opens in a South Carolina town, the idealistic Reverend Kennedy strives to keep the peace even as he urges the group's Grand Dragon to disavow his racist past.
Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Truffle Hunters, The
Deep in the forests of Northern Italy resides the prized white Alba truffle. Desired by the wealthiest patrons in the world, it remains a pungent but rarified mystery. It cannot be cultivated or found, even by the most resourceful of modern excavators. The only souls on Earth who know how to dig it up are a tiny circle of canines and their silver-haired human companions—Italian elders with walking sticks and devilish senses of humor—who only scour for the truffle at night so as not to leave any clues for others.
Still, this small enclave of hunters induces a feverish buying market that spans the globe. With unprecedented access to the elusive truffle hunters, filmmakers Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw (The Last Race, 2018 Sundance Film Festival) follow this maddening cycle from the forest floor to the pristine restaurant plate. With a wily and absurdist flare, The Truffle Hunters captures a precarious ritual constantly threatened by greed and outside influences but still somehow protected by those clever, tight-lipped few who know how to unearth the magic within nature.
Year: 2020
Language: Italian
Genre: Documentary
Shadow of Violence, The (fka Calm With Horses)
The enforcer for an Irish criminal family is torn between his loyalty to his bosses and his increasingly complex personal life. Starring Barry Keoghan.
Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime
Occupation: Rainfall
Two years into an intergalactic invasion of earth, survivors in Sydney, Australia, fight back in a desperate ground war. As casualties mount by the day, the resistance and their unexpected allies, uncover a plot that could see the war come to a decisive end. With the Alien invaders hell-bent on making earth their new home, the race is on to save mankind.
Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Action
Fight, The
When a migrant mother is separated from her child, when a transgender soldier is at risk to lose his career, when reproductive rights and basic voting rights are under attack — five unsung heroes take legal action to protect our freedoms.
THE FIGHT is an inspiring, emotional look at four pivotal cases and the lawyers on the front lines of relentless attacks on civil liberties. Directors Elyse Steinberg, Josh Kriegman, and Eli Despres capture the rollercoaster ride of the thrill and defeat in these deeply human battles.
Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Nine Days
A reclusive man conducts a series of interviews with human souls for a chance to be born.
Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Fantasy, Drama
Assassins
The puzzling murder of Kim Jong Un’s brother in an Malaysian airport sparks a captivating investigation. At the center of the story, two women are on trial. Who are they? Fierce assassins or pawns in a twisted game? The story goes far beyond the headlines, probing further into each woman’s upbringing, one in rural Indonesia and one in Vietnam. ASSASSINS questions every angle of this case, from human trafficking to high-level political espionage to the inner dynamics of the North Korean dynasty.
Year: 2020
Language: Korean
Genre: Documentary
I Am Greta
The story of teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg is told through compelling, never-before-seen footage in this intimate documentary from Swedish director Nathan Grossman. Starting with her one-person school strike for climate action outside the Swedish Parliament, Grossman follows Greta—a shy student with Asperger’s—in her rise to prominence and her galvanizing global impact as she sparks school strikes around the world. The film culminates with her extraordinary wind-powered voyage across the Atlantic Ocean to speak at the UN Climate Action Summit in New York City.
Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Amulet
An ex-soldier, living homeless in London, is offered a place to stay at a decaying house inhabited by a young woman and her dying mother. As he starts to fall for her, he cannot ignore his suspicion that something sinister is going on.
Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Horror
Death of Me
A husband and wife on a remote South Pacific island holiday awaken one morning with a hangover and no recollection of what transpired. When playing back a video of the previous night, they see they participated in a local ritual that somehow ends with him murdering her.
Year: 2020
Language: English
Alone
Set in the Pacific Northwest wilderness, the film follows recently widowed Jessica who, fleeing the city in a desperate attempt to cope, is kidnapped and locked away in a mysterious man’s cabin. Her escape from the clutches of this murderous captor land her in the heart of the untamed wilderness, with only her wits to rely on for survival as her pursuer closes in.
Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
Stray
This beautiful film from director Elizabeth Lo brings us into the world of Zeytin, a stray dog living life on the streets of Istanbul. Deceptively simple and wonderfully touching, Stray is a tour-de-force of documentary filmmaking. Lo shows us the fragile world through Zeytin’s eyes, taking the audience to seemingly impossible places, all while staying quite literally grounded. Just when you think you have settled into the rhythm of the film, the brilliance of Lo’s vision becomes clear. The camera begins to focus not just on Zeytin and her ragtag bunch of fellow strays; we are also introduced to the revealing parallels of the young Syrian refugees that inhabit the same streets as these dogs.
Year: 2020
Language: Turkish, English
Genre: Documentary
The Tunnel
When a truck crashes inside a tunnel, people on their way home for Christmas are brutally trapped in a deadly fire. With a blizzard raging outside, and the first responders struggling to get to the accident, it’s every man for himself.
Year: 2020
Language: Norwegian
Genre: Thriller
398 Days: Hostage
The story of Danish photographer Daniel Rye, who was captured by ISIS in Syria in 2013 and held hostage for 398 days.
Year: 2020
Language: Danish
Genre: Drama
Breaking Surface
A winter diving trip in Norway turns into a desperate race against time for two sisters when one of them becomes trapped on the bottom of the ocean by falling rocks.
Year: 2020
Language: Swedish
Genre: Thriller
Mortal
A young man must discover the origins of his God-like powers before he is captured by the authorities.
Year: 2020
Language: Norwegian
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Action
Hidden Life of Trees, The
When Peter Wohlleben published his book "The Hidden Life of Trees" in 2015, he quickly entered bestseller lists. The forester wrote vividly about his experience that trees are able to communicate with each other, a thesis explored here.
Year: 2020
Language: German
Genre: Documentary
Boys vs. Girls
It’s the summer of 1990, and Camp Kindlewood is forced to go co-ed for the first time in its 77 year history, sparking a prank-filled battle of the sexes.
Year: 2020
Language: English
12 Hour Shift
Over the course of a twelve-hour shift, a nurse and a group of black market organ-traders attempt a heist that could lead to their demise. Co-starring David Arquette and Mick Foley.
Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Comedy
John Lewis: Good Trouble
Using interviews and rare archival footage, JOHN LEWIS: GOOD TROUBLE chronicles Lewis’ 60-plus years of social activism and legislative action on civil rights, voting rights, gun control, health-care reform and immigration. Using present-day interviews with Lewis, now 80 years old, Porter explores his childhood experiences, his inspiring family and his fateful meeting with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1957. In addition to her interviews with Lewis and his family, Porter’s primarily cinéma verité film also includes interviews with political leaders, Congressional colleagues, and other people who figure prominently in his life.
Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Ottolenghi and the Cakes of Versailles
Documenting the collaboration between world renowned chef Yotam Ottolenghi (Jerusalem, Plenty) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, this feature film follows five visionary pastry makers as they endeavor to construct an extravagant food gala based on the art exhibit "Visitors to Versailles." Exploring the relationship between modern-day social media and the open court of the French Monarchy, the film studies the alarmingly cyclical intersection between food, culture, and history.
Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Another Round
There's a theory that we should be born with a small amount of alcohol in our blood, and that modest inebriation opens our minds to the world around us, diminishing our problems and increasing our creativity. Heartened by that theory, Martin and three of his friends, all weary high school teachers, embark on an experiment to maintain a constant level of intoxication throughout the workday. If Churchill won WW2 in a heavy daze of alcohol, who knows what a few drops might do for them and their students? Initial results are positive, and the teachers' little project turns into a genuine academic study. Both their classes and their results continue to improve, and the group feels alive again! As the units are knocked back, some of the participants see further improvement and others go off the rails. It becomes increasingly clear that while alcohol may have fueled great results in world history, some bold acts carry consequences.
Year: 2020
Language: Danish
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Love, Weddings & Other Disasters
In this multi-story rom-com, Oscar-winner Jeremy Irons and Maggie Grace are perfectionist wedding planners, even though their own relationships are far from perfect. Also starring Oscar-winner Diane Keaton.
Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Delete History
In a provincial suburb, three neighbours are overtaken by new technologies and social media. There's Marie, who could be about to lose the respect of her son because of a sex tape; Bertrand's daughter, a victim of online bullying; and Christine whose Uber ratings are refusing to take off. With the help of small-time crooks and a genuine hacker, they resolve to fight the mighty windmills of contemporary life: the Big Tech companies. Maybe their battle is screwed from the beginning - but you never know...
Year: 2020
Language: Français
Genre: Comedy
Zappa
With unfettered access to the Zappa family trust and all archival footage, ZAPPA explores the private life behind the mammoth musical career that never shied away from the political turbulence of its time. Alex Winter’s assembly features appearances by Frank’s widow Gail Zappa and several of Frank’s musical collaborators including Mike Keneally, Ian Underwood, Steve Vai, Pamela Des Barres, Bunk Gardner, David Harrington, Scott Thunes, Ruth Underwood, Ray White and others.
Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Don't Tell a Soul
When Matt (Fionn Whitehead) convinces his younger brother Joey (Jack Dylan Grazer) to rob a house to pay for their sick mother Carol’s (Mena Suvari) medical bills, security guard Hamby (Rainn Wilson) falls in a well chasing them. Now Hamby must match wits with these two teenagers, as Joey’s conscience gets the best of him wanting to help out Hamby, and Matt becomes increasingly aggressive, fearful they will be caught. As the tension rises, so does the violence, and as Joey tries to do what’s best for his family, these two brothers will come head to head, as Hamby tries to outsmart them both.
Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
Wrong Turn
A hiking expedition in the Appalachian Trail goes horribly wrong when it is confronted by "The Foundation", a community of people who have lived in the mountains for hundreds of years.
Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Horror
I Carry You With Me
Academy-Award® nominee Heidi Ewing's luminous, moving debut as a narrative filmmaker, follows a tender romance spanning decades. Starting in provincial Mexico and continuing as first Iván, then Gerardo, journey towards sharing a life together in New York City, I CARRY YOU WITH ME is an intimate love story, as well as a soulful rumination on family, sacrifice, regret, and ultimately, hope.
Year: 2020
Language: Spanish & English
Genre: GLBT, Drama
Ip Man: Kung Fu Master
Ip Man’s promising career as a policeman is threatened when he’s framed for murder and targeted by the mob.
Year: 2020
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Action
Escape from Auschwitz
After capturing Kazimierz Piechowski at the Hungarian border, he is sent to Auschwitz where he is forced to move corpses from the gas chambers to the crematorium.
Year: 2020
Language: Czech with English subtitles
Supernova
Sam (Academy Award winner Colin Firth) and Tusker (Academy Award nominee Stanley Tucci) are traveling across England in their old RV to visit friends, family and places from their past. Since Tusker was diagnosed with dementia two years ago, their time together is the most important thing they have.
Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance
Derek DelGaudio's In & of Itself
Storyteller and Conceptual Artist Derek DelGaudio attempts to understand the illusory nature of identity and answer the deceptively simple question 'Who am I?'
Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show
In February 1968, Johnny Carson gave up his chair to legendary singer, actor and activist Harry Belafonte, who would become the first Black American to host a late night TV show for a whole week.
Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Enforcement
For unclear reasons, a young immigrant taken into police custody has fallen into a coma. Meanwhile, two police officers are on routine patrol in a notorious Copenhagen ghetto area. When the news of the youngster’s death gets out, all hell breaks loose and the two edgy (anti)heroes have to fight tooth and claw for a way out. A sharp-edged adventure of life-and-death urgency that delivers an acute social commentary, without resorting to simpleminded blame games or clean-cut definitions.
Year: 2020
Language: Danish
Genre: Crime, Action
Bring Me a Dream
On the run for murder, Avery Quinn bursts into Alpha Omega Pi house looking for help. Desperate to prove her innocence and her sanity, she holds a handful of people hostage and forces them into the reality of her ongoing nightmare. As a last resort, she summons the legendary Sandman and from that point on, all of the unfortunate souls inside have two choices: Face their worst nightmares...or...face the Sandman
Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Horror
Toll, The
A socially awkward driver and a weary passenger try to make it to their destination while being haunted by a supernatural force.
Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
Vagrant
Frank - a homeless alcoholic - lives a fruitless existence. All that begins to change when he finds a puppy that was left to die in a garbage bin.
Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Delicieux
France, 1789, just before the Revolution. With the help of a surprising young woman, a chef who has been sacked by his master finds the strength to free himself from his position as a servant and opens the first restaurant.
Year: 2020
Language: French
Genre: Drama
Bandar Band
Manijeh Hekmat's music-infused twist on a road movie follows a band's day-long journey across a flooded landscape to Tehran.
Year: 2020
Language: Persian
Genre: Drama
American Traitor: The Trial Of Axis Sally
An American woman named Mildred Gillars broadcast Nazi propaganda during World War II. She was dubbed Axis Sally by the American GIs who simultaneously loved and hated her. The story plunges the viewer into the dark underbelly of the Third Reich's hate-filled propaganda machine, Sally's eventual capture, and subsequent trial for treason in Washington D.C. after the war.
Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Sun Children
12-year-old Ali and his three friends. Together they work hard to survive and support their families. In a turn of events that seems miraculous, Ali is entrusted to find hidden treasure underground.
Year: 2020
Language: Persian
Genre: GLBT, Drama
Riders of Justice
RIDERS OF JUSTICE follows recently-deployed Markus, who is forced to return home to his care for his teenage daughter after his wife is killed in a tragic train accident. But when a survivor of the wrecked train surfaces claiming foul play, Markus begins to suspect his wife was murdered and embarks on a mission to find those responsible.
Year: 2020
Language: Danish
Genre: Thriller, Action, Comedy
Held
In HELD, Emma (Jill Awbrey) and Henry's (Bart Johnson) marriage is losing its spark. In an effort to reconnect, they vacation to a remote high-end rental, complete with automated smart house features and integrated security. However, after suspecting a nighttime intruder they decide to flee, only to become forcibly trapped inside by the automated security system. Emitting from the house, an unknown 'Voice' watches their every move through an array of hidden cameras, revealing an intimate and unsettling knowledge of their relationship. While the situation grows increasingly brutal, Emma and Henry must work together to uncover the truth and find a way out before it's too late.
Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Initiation
Whiton University unravels the night a star-athlete is murdered, kicking off a spree of social media slayings that force students to uncover the truth behind the school's hidden secrets and the horrifying meaning of an exclamation point.
Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Crime
Human Voice, The
A woman watches time passing next to the suitcases of her ex-lover (who is supposed to come pick them up, but never arrives) and a restless dog who doesn’t understand that his master has abandoned him.
Year: 2020
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama
Swan Song
SWAN SONG follows retired hairdresser and local bar performer icon Pat Pitsenbarger (Kier) who has given up on life from the confines of his small-town Sandusky, Ohio nursing home. But when Pat gets word that a former client's dying wish was for him to style her final hairdo, he sets out on an epic journey across Sandusky to confront the ghosts of his past - and collect the beauty supplies necessary for the job. SWAN SONG is a comical and bittersweet journey about rediscovering oneself, and looking gorgeous while doing so.
Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Apples
Amidst a worldwide pandemic that causes sudden amnesia, middle-aged Aris finds himself enrolled in a recovery program designed to help unclaimed patients build new identities.
Year: 2020
Language: Greek
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Memories of My Father
The story about a Colombian writer's father. His father was an University md professor who promoted tolerance and human rights in his country. Writer exposes his feelings related to his lovely father and he describes his family story and all drama related with the killing of his father. It is a moving film based on a book with the same title. It is a sample of violence related events to political Colombia's social life during last three decades.
Year: 2020
Language: Spanish, English dub
Genre: Drama
Persian Lessons
Occupied France, 1942. Gilles (Nahuel Pérez Biscayart) is arrested by SS soldiers alongside
other Jews and sent to a camp in Germany. He narrowly avoids sudden execution by
swearing to the guards that he is not Jewish, but Persian.
This lie temporarily saves him, but Gilles gets assigned a life-or-death mission: to teach
Farsi to Head of Camp Koch (Lars Eidinger), who dreams of opening a restaurant in Iran
once the war is over.
Year: 2020
Language: German, French, English
Genre: War, Drama
Together
A husband and wife are forced to re-evaluate themselves and their relationship through the reality of the lockdown in London.
Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Drama
End of Us, The
After a savage breakup, two exes must continue living together when California issues its stay-at-home order for COVID-19. Now they'll try to move on without moving out.
Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Humans, The
Erik Blake has gathered three generations of his Pennsylvania family to celebrate Thanksgiving at his daughter’s apartment in lower Manhattan. As darkness falls outside and eerie things start to go bump in the night, the group’s deepest fears are laid bare. The piercingly funny and haunting debut film from writer-director Stephen Karam, adapted from his Tony Award-winning play, The Humans explores the hidden dread of a family and the love that binds them together.
Year: 2020
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Goalie
The life of a professional hockey player was not always a glamorous one. For legendary goaltender Terry Sawchuk, each save means one more gash to his unmasked face and one more drink to numb the pain. Even with a wife and seven children at home, he is haunted by the void left from his childhood which he tried to fill with cheering crowds. Sawchuk traveled across the country racking up 103 shutouts and 400 stitches to his face, proving that this is a man who lives, breathes, and dies a goalie.
Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Sports, Drama, Biography
Trading Paint
John Travolta, Shania Twain and Michael Madsen star in this thrilling race car actioner about a father-and-son driving duo and their nemesis.
Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Action
Berlin, I Love You
An omnibus of ten stories set in the German capital, this is the latest installment in the Cities Of Love franchise (Paris, je t’aime/New York, I Love You/Rio, Eu Te Amo), featuring a star-studded cast including Keira Knightley, Helen Mirren and Luke Wilson.
Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance
Breaking Habits
Cheated and betrayed by her bigamist husband of 17 years, once high-flying corporate exec Christine Meeusen fled penniless with her young children as
her American dream began to unravel.
Determined to fend for her family, she discovered the lucrative business of cannabis farming and met her calling as founder of medicinal-marijuana empire
Sisters of the Valley. Shedding her former life, Christine became Sister Kate — on a mission to provide her medicinal products to those in need.
Fighting off the county sheriff, and protecting her crop from deadly black market thieves, BREAKING HABITS is a story of rebellion, hope and revival.
This is Sister Kate’s journey to becoming the head of a fast growing enterprise and a voice for the unheard.
Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Body at Brighton Rock
Wendy, a part time summer employee at a mountainous state park, takes on a rough trail
assignment at the end of the season, trying to prove to her friends that she’s capable enough to do
the job. When she takes a wrong turn and ends up deep in the backcountry, she stumbles upon
what might be a potential crime scene. Stuck with no communication after losing her radio and
with orders to guard the site, Wendy must fight the urge to run and do the harder job of staying
put — spending the night deep in the wilderness, facing down her worst fears and proving to
everyone - including herself - that she’s made of stronger stuff than they think she is.
Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Drama
Come to Daddy
Norval’s (Elijah Wood) life has been, to put it lightly, difficult. Currently living home with his mother, the troubled young man is coming off alcohol-related struggles. So when he receives an unexpected letter from his estranged father requesting a visit, Norval catches a bus up to his dad’s secluded and scenic waterfront home. Maybe reconnecting with his father will give Norval the emotional fulfillment he’s been lacking. Before long, though, he notices something off about his dad, an uneasy feeling triggered by inappropriate comments and a possible over-dependence on booze. Norval quickly realizes that his hope of father/son bonding is doomed. Instead of a family reunion, he finds himself in waking nightmare.
Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Comedy
Unthinkable, The
TV, internet and telephone networks are down amidst a mysterious attack, and before anyone realizes what’s behind the collapse, a series of unexplained events begin to take place.
Year: 2019
Language: Swedish
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Action
Never Grow Old
When outlaws take over a peaceful American frontier town, an undertaker thrives until his family comes under threat and the death toll rises. Starring John Cusack.
Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Action, Western
Haunting of Sharon Tate, The
26-year-old pregnant Hollywood actress Sharon Tate (Hilary Duff) becomes plagued by visions of her imminent death at the hands of the Manson Family.
Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Drama
Hail Satan?
A shocking and hilarious look at the quick rise and influence of the controversial, outsider religious group known as The Satanic Temple.
Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Ailo's Journey
Ailo's Journey is an uplifting story of a newborn Arctic reindeer’s first year of life, warmed by an endless mother’s love as she watches over his adventures with other creatures. Narrated by Donald Sutherland.
Year: 2019
Language: French
Genre: Adventure, Environment, Children, Documentary, Family
Vita & Virginia
VITA & VIRGINIA is the true story of the passionate relationship between literary trailblazer Virginia Woolf
Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance, Biography
Brink, The
When Steve Bannon left his position as White House chief strategist less than a week after the Charlottesville "Unite the Right" rally in August 2017, he was already a notorious figure in Trump’s inner circle, and for bringing a far-right ideology into the highest echelons of American politics. Unconstrained by an official post — though some say he still has a direct line to the White House — he became free to peddle influence as a perceived kingmaker, turning his controversial brand of nationalism into a global movement. THE BRINK follows Bannon through the 2018 mid-term elections in the United States, shedding light on his efforts to mobilize and unify far-right parties in order to win seats in the May 2019 European Parliamentary elections. To maintain his power and influence, the former Goldman Sachs banker and media investor reinvents himself — as he has many times before — this time as the self-appointed leader of a global populist movement. Keen manipulator of the press and gifted self-promoter, Bannon continues to draw headlines and protests wherever he goes, feeding the powerful myth on which his survival relies.
Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Domino
In a world wracked by terror and suspicion, a police officer seeks justice for his partner’s murder by a mysterious man. Directed by Brian De Palma, starring Guy Pearce and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau.
Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Crime
Ask Dr. Ruth
The incredible life of Dr. Ruth Westheimer, a Holocaust survivor who became America's most famous sex therapist.
Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
There Are No Fakes
A painting by an iconic Native artist leads the rock star who buys it into the tragic, brutal world of an art forgery ring in Canada's far north.
Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Photograph
A struggling Mumbai street photographer pressured to marry by his grandmother convinces a shy stranger to pose as his fiancée during a family visit. Despite vast cultural differences, the pair develops a surprising connection that challenges their worldviews in a wistful and funny romance from Ritesh Batra (The Lunchbox). Starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Sanya Malhotra.
Year: 2019
Language: Hindi, English
Genre: Drama, Romance
Souvenir, The
A young film student in the early 80s becomes romantically involved with a complicated and untrustworthy man.
Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance, Mystery
Cold Case Hammarskjöld
The mysterious death of a former United Nations Secretary-General is dug up decades later, uncovering an unbelievable crime far worse than anyone could have ever imagined.
Year: 2019
Language: English & French
Genre: Crime, Documentary
Bottom of the Ninth, The
After serving 17 years in prison for a violent crime, a former baseball player returns to his Bronx neighborhood. Starring Sofía Vergara, Joe Manganiello and Burt Young.
Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Sports, Drama
Where's My Roy Cohn?
Roy Cohn personified the dark arts of American politics, turning empty vessels into dangerous demagogues - from Joseph McCarthy to his final project, Donald J. Trump. This thriller-like exposé connects the dots, revealing how a deeply troubled master manipulator shaped our current American nightmare.
Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
David Crosby: Remember My Name
Meet David Crosby in this portrait of a man with everything but an easy retirement on his mind.
Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Music & Live Performance, Documentary, Biography
Pavarotti
Featuring never-before-seen footage, concert performances and intimate interviews, Academy Award winning filmmaker Ron Howard examines the life and career of famed opera tenor Luciano Pavarotti.
Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Music & Live Performance, Documentary, Biography
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
This artful and intimate meditation on the legendary story- teller examines her life, her works and the powerful themes she has confronted throughout her literary career.
Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Dead Water
When a relaxing getaway turns deadly, a former Marine must risk his life once again to save his wife and best friend from a modern-day pirate.
Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
Mike Wallace is Here
A look at the career of '60 Minutes' newsman, Mike Wallace.
Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Pain and Glory
Pain and Glory tells of a series of reencounters experienced by Salvador Mallo, a film director in his physical decline. Some of them in the flesh, others remembered: his childhood in the 60s, when he emigrated with his parents to a village in Valencia in search of prosperity, the first desire, his first adult love in the Madrid of the 80s, the pain of the breakup of that love while it was still alive and intense, writing as the only therapy to forget the unforgettable, the early discovery of cinema, and the void, the infinite void that creates the incapacity to keep on making films. Pain and Glory talks about creation, about the difficulty of separating it from one’s own life and about the passions that give it meaning and hope. In recovering his past, Salvador finds the urgent need to recount it, and in that need he also finds his salvation.
Year: 2019
Language: Spanish
Genre: World Cinema, Drama
Cunningham
The iconic Merce Cunningham and the last generation of his dance company is stunningly profiled in Alla Kovgan's documentary, through recreations of his landmark works and archival footage of Cunningham, John Cage, and Robert Rauschenberg.
Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Music & Live Performance, Documentary, Biography
Tone-Deaf
In this suspenseful and hilarious thriller, a woman rents a country house from a mysterious widower who struggles to hide his psychopathic tendencies.
Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Comedy
American Dreamer
A rideshare driver who makes extra cash chauffeuring a drug dealer finds himself in a serious financial bind and decides to kidnap the dealer's child. Starring Jim Gaffigan.
Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Crime
Mob Town
Local trooper Ed Croswell (David Arquette) foils a mafia summit in rural New York and exposes the mob’s brutal tactics to the wider world.
Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Crime
Danger Close
On a rubber plantation in August 1966, 108 young and inexperienced soldiers fight for their lives against 2500 Vietnamese forces.
Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: War, Action
After The Wedding
Seeking funds for her orphanage in India, Isabelle travels to New York to meet Theresa, a wealthy benefactor. An invitation to attend a wedding ignites a series of events in which the past collides with the present as mysteries unravel.
Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Vivarium
A young couple looking for the perfect home find themselves trapped in a mysterious labyrinth-like neighborhood of identical houses.
Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi
Mister America
From the hilarious minds of comedians Tim Heidecker and Gregg Turkington, the duo behind ON CINEMA, comes a political satire involving a murder charge, e-cigarettes, an EDM festival, and a campaign to unseat the San Bernardino District Attorney.
Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
I See You
In this nail-biting thriller starring Helen Hunt, strange occurrences plague a small-town detective and his family, as he investigates the disappearance of a young boy.
Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Rogue Warfare
In this shoot ‘em up actioner, a group of military operatives from around the world join forces to fight an elite underground terrorist network.
Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Action
Frankie
Three generations grappling with a life-changing experience during one day of a vacation in Sintra, Portugal, a historic town known for its dense gardens and fairy-tale villas and palaces.
Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Drama
I Am Vengeance
An ex-soldier-turned-mercenary sets out to take down those responsible for the murder of his best friend and a sinister conspiracy.
Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Action
Easy Land
Jasna, a Serbian architect and mother, wants to create a better future for her daughter Nina, but her mental illness proves to be a problem in their relationship.
Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Traitor, The
The real life of Tommaso Buscetta the so called "boss of the two worlds", first mafia informant in Sicily 1980's.
Year: 2019
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama, Crime, Biography
Jay & Silent Bob Reboot
The stoner icons who first hit the screen 25 years ago in CLERKS are back! When Jay and Silent Bob discover that Hollywood is rebooting an old movie based on them, the clueless duo embark on another cross-country mission to stop it all over again!
Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
Wrinkles the Clown
Forget Pennywise… Your worst nightmare’s come to life in this bonkers documentary about Florida’s infamous freaky clown who became an internet sensation when hired by parents to terrorize their naughty children.
Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Documentary, Comedy
Raise Hell: The Life & Times Of Molly Ivins
A passionate documentary on Molly Ivins, Pulitzer Prize-nominated political journalist, best-selling author, and Bill of Rights warrior, who took no prisoners, leaving both sides of the aisle laughing.
Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Scandalous
Sex! Gossip! Scandal! A wild and probing look at the most infamous tabloid in US history, the National Enquirer, and how it has fed our obsessions with the rich, famous and powerful by pumping out salacious, shocking stories, while stretching the limits of journalism and blurring the lines between truth and fiction.
Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Little Joe
A genetically engineered plant species scatters its seeds, causing uncanny changes in human beings, in this Cannes award-winning sci-fi.
Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi
Greed
Michael Winterbottom skewers the fast-fashion industry in this scathing farce about the grotesque inequality between a retail billionaire (Steve Coogan) and the female garment workers who toil on his trendy clothing line.
Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Kill Team, The
A young American soldier in Afghanistan is disturbed by his commanding officer’s behaviour, and is faced with a violent and dangerous moral dilemma. Starring Alexander Skarsgard and Nat Wolff.
Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: War, Thriller, Action
In Fabric
In this haunting ghost story starring GAME OF THRONES' Gwendoline Christie, a cursed dress passes from person to person… with devastating consequences.
Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Comedy
Cave, The
Deep beneath the surface in the Syrian province of Ghouta, a group of female doctors have established an underground field hospital. Under the supervision of paediatrician Dr. Amani and her staff of doctors and nurses, hope is restored for some of the thousands of children and civilian victims of the ruthless Syrian civil war.
Year: 2019
Language: Arabic
Genre: Documentary
Great War, The
During the last days of World War I, a group of soldiers are sent behind enemy lines to rescue a lost platoon.
Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: War, Action
Last Vermeer, The
While Joseph Piller (Bang), a Dutch Jew, was fighting in the Resistance during the Second World War, the witty, debonair aesthete, Han van Meegeren (Pearce) was hosting hedonistic soirées and selling Dutch art treasures to Hermann Goring and other top Nazis. Following the war, Piller becomes an investigator assigned the task of identifying and redistributing stolen art, resulting in the flamboyant van Meegeren being accused of collaboration — a crime punishable by death. But, despite mounting evidence, Piller, with the aid of his assistant (Krieps), becomes increasingly convinced of Han's innocence and finds himself in the unlikely position of fighting to save his life.
Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Slay the Dragon
A secretive, high-tech gerrymandering initiative launched 10 years ago threatens to undermine our democracy. Slay the Dragon follows everyday people as they fight to make their votes matter.
Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Human Factor, The
With unprecedented access to the foremost American negotiators, THE HUMAN FACTOR is the behind-the-scenes story from the last 25 years, of how the United States came within reach of pulling off the impossible - securing peace between Israel and its neighbors. Today, the need to learn from past mistakes couldn't be more urgent.
Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Silencing, The
A reformed hunter living in isolation on a wildlife sanctuary becomes involved in a deadly game of cat and mouse when he and the local Sheriff set out to track a vicious killer who may have kidnapped his daughter years ago.
Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Crime, Action
Crazy About You
Dumped by his girlfriend and sponsored by media scoundrel Brian King, desolate Jake walks all-but-naked up Western Australia's coast for charity, in the hope his gesture will win back Jasmine, until he meets mesmerizing backpacker Valerie.
Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Giant Little Ones (GLO)
Franky Winter (Josh Wiggins) and Ballas Kohl (Darren Mann) have been best friends since childhood. They are high school royalty: handsome, stars of the swim team and popular with girls. They live a perfect teenage life – until the night of Franky's epic 17th birthday party, when Franky and Ballas are involved in an unexpected incident that changes their lives forever. Giant Little Ones is a heartfelt and intimate coming-of-age story about friendship, self-discovery and the power of love without labels.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Drama
0r1g1n Unkn0wn
After the first manned mission to Mars ends in a deadly crash, an investigation uncovers a mysterious object under the surface that threatens the future of earth as we know it.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi
Higher Power
From the producer of the Transformers and G.I. Joe franchises, comes a new sci-fi movie with mind-blowing special effects that follows an ‘everyman’ who wakes up to discover he’s been given god-like powers that are controlled by a maniacal scientist.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Action, Sci-Fi
God's Not Dead: A Light in Darkness
The third installment in the GOD'S NOT DEAD film series. Pastor Dave responds to the unimaginable tragedy of having his church, located on the grounds of the local university, burned down.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Quake, The
In this pulse-pounding race-against-time disaster thriller, a family tries to survive a major earthquake. Sequel to THE WAVE.
Year: 2018
Language: Norwegian
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Action
Before We Vanish
Three aliens travel to Earth on a reconnaissance mission in preparation for a mass invasion. Having taken possession of human bodies, the visitors rob their hosts of the very essence of their being - all sense of good, evil, property, family, belonging - leaving psychological and spiritual devastation in their wake.
Year: 2018
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Lemonade
Mara, a young Romanian woman, has just moved to the US with Dragos, her 9-year-old son, marrying Daniel, an American she has met only a few months ago. The film follows her through a series of revealing encounters during one day, from her problems of babysitting, her unplanned and uncomfortable meeting with a U.S. immigration official, to dealing with the police about her son she had to leave in a motel room and the bank issue for a loan with her husband.
Year: 2018
Language: Romanian
Genre: Drama
How to Talk to Girls at Parties
When a beautiful and rebellious alien teenager (Elle Fanning) meets a wannabe human punk-rocker, they embark on an adventure through the punk scene of 1970s London.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Romance, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Samson
After losing the love of his life to a cruel Philistine prince, a young Hebrew with Supernatural strength defends his people, sacrificing everything to avenge his love, his people, and his God.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Action
In the Fade
Katja's life collapses after the death of her husband and son in a bomb attack. After a time of mourning and injustice, Katja seeks revenge.
Year: 2018
Language: German / Greek
Genre: Drama, Crime
Final Year, The
A sweeping, insiders’ account of President Barack Obama’s foreign policy team during their final year as they set out to define their legacy, promote diplomacy and react to the unexpected rise of Donald Trump. Featuring unprecedented access inside the White House, the State Department, and the machinery of American power.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
All the Devil's Men
A bounty hunter is forced to go on a manhunt for a disavowed CIA operative, which leads him to a deadly battle with a former military comrade and his private army.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Action
Occupation
A small group of town residents have to band together after a devastating alien ground invasion. As they struggle to survive, they realize they must stay one step ahead of their attackers, and work together for a chance to strike back.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Black Water
A deep cover operative awakens to find himself imprisoned in a CIA black site on a submarine.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Action
Mercy, The
The nail-biting true story of an amateur sailor’s solo attempt to sail the globe. Starring Colin Firth and Rachel Weisz.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Biography
An Ordinary Man
A fugitive war criminal forms a relationship with his only connection to the outside world - his maid - setting them both on a collision course with the past.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: War, Thriller, Drama
Under the Tree
UNDER THE TREE follows a man who is accused of adultery and forced to move in with his parents. While he fights for custody of his four-year-old daughter, he is gradually sucked into a dispute between his parents and their neighbors over an old and beautiful tree. What starts as a typical spat between suburban neighbors unexpectedly and violently reached a boiling point, soon spiraling out of control.
Year: 2018
Language: Icelandic
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Escape of Prisoner 614
Two inept, small-town Sheriff's Deputies catch an escaped prisoner that they believe was wrongly convicted.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Comedy
Final Score
When a packed sports stadium is seized by a group of heavily armed terrorists, an ex-soldier must use all his military skills to save the unknowing crowd.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Action
Kayak to Klemtu
14-year-old Ella is determined to travel the length of the Inside Passage, along the shores of the Great Bear Rainforest by kayak in order to testify against a proposed pipeline that would see oil tanker traffic through her beloved homeland waters. She's prepared to handle all of the challenges the wildlife, the weather, the water, and her gear have to offer up. The most challenging of all is that she has to bring her dysfunctional family with her. Her neurotic aunt, her cranky uncle, her wayward cousin, and the memory of her late uncle all come along for the ride to make it a fun and amazing adventure. From Tla'Amin to Klemtu, BC, this family navigates their blend of cultures and desires, while their spirits honour the coast as a place for each of us to call home and protect.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Canadian, Drama, Family
Mara
As a criminal psychologist digs into the mystery of an ancient demon who kills people in their sleep, she experiences the same petrifying symptoms as all previous victims and races to save herself before she dares to fall asleep again.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Crime
RBG
A look at the life and work of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Three Identical Strangers
A jaw-dropping, stranger-than-fiction tale of three long-lost identical brothers who are joyously reunited, only to discover an unimaginable secret about their pasts.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Speed Kills
John Travolta stars in this action-packed true story of an ‘80s speedboat champion and multimillionaire caught between the mob and the law.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Crime, Action
Skate Kitchen
In the first narrative feature from The Wolfpack director Crystal Moselle, Camille, an introverted teenage skateboarder (newcomer Rachelle Vinberg) from Long Island, meets and befriends an all-girl, New York City-based skateboarding crew called Skate Kitchen. She falls in with the in-crowd, has a falling-out with her mother, and falls for a mysterious skateboarder guy (Jaden Smith), but a relationship with him proves to be trickier to navigate than a kickflip.
Writer/director Crystal Moselle immersed herself in the lives of the skater girls and worked closely with them, resulting in the film's authenticity, which combines poetic, atmospheric filmmaking and hypnotic skating sequences. SKATE KITCHEN precisely captures the experience of women in male-dominated spaces and tells a story of a girl who learns the importance of camaraderie and self-discovery.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Boundaries
Single mom Laura (Farmiga), along with her awkward 14 year-old son Henry (MacDougall) is forced to drive Jack (Plummer), her estranged, care-free pot dealing father across country after he's kicked out of yet another nursing home. The road trip veers off course when Jack decides to make a couple 'stops' and Henry asks to see his ne'er-do-well dad Leonard (Cannavale), completely upending Laura's attempt to hold her family together and ultimately forcing her to finally see her father for the man he really is.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Puzzle
Agnes, taken for granted as a suburban mother, discovers a passion for solving jigsaw puzzles which unexpectedly draws her into a new world - where her life unfolds in ways she could never have imagined.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Bad Reputation
A music documentary that dives into the life and career of the first female punk rocker, Joan Jett.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Guilty, The
A dispatch duty police officer enters a thrilling race against time when he answers an emergency call from a kidnapped woman.
Year: 2018
Language: Danish
Genre: Thriller
Status Update
After being uprooted by his parents' separation and unable to fit into his new hometown, Kyle Moore (Ross Lynch) stumbles upon a magical app that causes his social media updates to come true.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Fantasy, Romance, Comedy
Siberia
When an American diamond trader's Russian partner goes missing, he journeys to Siberia to find him. Starring Keanu Reeves.
Year: 2018
Language: English, Russian
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime, Action, Romance
Lizzie
Oppressed, independent-minded Lizzie Borden experiences a sexual awakening when a pretty new maid is hired and the two develop an intimate relationship. But Lizzie explodes in rage and violence when her domineering parents try to control her desires. A psychological thriller based on the infamous 1892 murders of the Borden family.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime, Mystery, Biography
Anthropocene: The Human Epoch
A cinematic meditation on humanity’s massive reengineering of the planet, ANTHROPOCENE: The Human Epoch is a four years in the making feature documentary film from the multiple-award winning team of Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier, and Edward Burtynsky. Narrated by Alicia Vikander.
Year: 2018
Language: English, Russian, Italian, German, Mandarin, Cantonese, with English Subtitles
Genre: Documentary
Never Look Away
German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR-regime.
Year: 2018
Language: German
Genre: History, Thriller, Drama
Quest of Alain Ducasse, The
With 23 restaurants worldwide and 18 Michelin stars, Alain Ducasse fearlessly continues creating trendy new places, building schools, writing books and launching major projects.
Year: 2018
Language: French
Genre: Documentary
Under the Silver Lake
From the dazzling imagination that brought you It Follows comes a delirious neo-noir fever dream about one man's search for the truth behind the mysterious crimes, murders, and disappearances in his East L.A. neighborhood.
Sam (Andrew Garfield) is a disenchanted 33-year-old who discovers a mysterious woman, Sarah (Riley Keough), frolicking in his apartment’s swimming pool. When she vanishes, Sam embarks on a surreal quest across Los Angeles to decode the secret behind her disappearance, leading him into the murkiest depths of mystery, scandal, and conspiracy in the City of Angels.
From writer-director David Robert Mitchell comes a sprawling, playful and unexpected mystery-comedy detective thriller about the Dream Factory and its denizens—dog killers, aspiring actors, glitter-pop groups, nightlife personalities, It girls, memorabilia hoarders, masked seductresses, homeless gurus, reclusive songwriters, sex workers, wealthy socialites, topless neighbors, and the shadowy billionaires floating above (and underneath) it all. Mining a noir tradition extending from Kiss Me Deadly and The Long Goodbye to Chinatown and Mulholland Drive, Mitchell uses the topography of Los Angeles as a backdrop for a deeper exploration into the hidden meaning and secret codes buried within the things we love.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime, Mystery
American Chaos
For six months before the election, director Jim Stern traveled red states asking about Donald Trump's appeal, and why voters were untroubled by things he had said and done. What he learned was a lesson in the central differences dividing America and the cultural divide that is tearing apart our democracy today.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Happy Prince, The
The last days of legendary poet, playwright and novelist, Oscar Wilde. Starring Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Emily Watson and Tom Wilkinson.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Biography
Shoplifters
After one of their shoplifting sessions, Osamu and his son come across a little girl in the freezing cold. At first reluctant to shelter the girl, Osamu’s wife agrees to take care of her after learning of the hardships she faces. Although the family is poor, barely making enough money to survive through petty crime, they seem to live happily together until an unforeseen incident reveals hidden secrets, testing the bonds that unite them...
Year: 2018
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama, Crime
Support The Girls
The general manager at a highway-side ''sports bar with curves" has her incurable optimism and faith, in her girls, her customers, and herself, tested over the course of a long, strange day.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
Summer of 84
In the summer of 1984, four teens suspect that their neighbor, a police officer, might be the serial killer being featured on the local news.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Drama, Mystery
Changing Saddles
A city teen decides to spend her summer at her family-owned horse ranch in a small southern town, and care for her sick mother.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Family
Capernaum
A politically-charged fable, featuring mostly non-professional actors, about a child who launches a lawsuit against his parents.
Year: 2018
Language: Arabic
Genre: Drama
Love, Gilda
In her own words, comedienne Gilda Radner looks back and reflects on her life and career. Weaving together recently discovered audiotapes, interviews with her friends, rare home movies and diaries read by modern day comediennes (including Amy Poehler), LOVE Gilda offers a unique window into the honest and whimsical world of a beloved performer whose greatest role was sharing her story.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
What Keeps You Alive
On the eve of their one-year wedding anniversary, Jules and Jackie become embroiled in a merciless fight for their lives when they find themselves pitted against the most unexpected of adversaries: each other.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Dogman
Marcello, a small and gentle dog groomer, finds himself involved in a dangerous relationship of subjugation with Simone, a former violent boxer who terrorizes the entire neighborhood. In an effort to reaffirm his dignity, Marcello will submit to an unexpected act of vengeance.
Year: 2018
Language: Italian
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime
The House That Jack Built
The story follows Jack, a highly intelligent serial killer over the course of 12 years and depicts the murders that truly develop Jack as a serial killer.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Drama
Woman At War
Halla is a committed undercover eco-terrorist trying to save Iceland’s natural landscapes from industrialist destruction, but when a long-desired child becomes available for adoption, she must choose between the greater good and her own dreams.
Year: 2018
Language: Icelandic
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Cold War
A passionate love story between two people of different backgrounds and temperaments, who are fatefully mismatched, set against the background of the Cold War in the 1950s in Poland, Berlin, Yugoslavia and Paris.
Year: 2018
Language: Polish, German, Yiddish, Ukrainian
Genre: War, Drama, Romance
Viking Destiny
In this battle-packed actioner, an exiled Viking princess builds an army in an attempt to win back her rightful throne.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Action
Becoming Astrid
A coming-of-age story depicting the early years of the beloved Swedish author of 'Pippi Longstocking', who defies the conventions of the time and builds a life and career as a single mother.
Year: 2018
Language: Swedish
Genre: History, Drama, Biography
Galveston
A hitman (Ben Foster) returns to his hometown where he rescues a young prostitute (Elle Fanning) and plans to exact revenge on the man who set him up. From the writer of "True Detective".
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime, Action
Free Solo
The documentarian duo behind 2015’s acclaimed Meru return to high altitudes, this time as renowned rock climber Alex Honnold attempts to do what no climber has done before: ascend free solo — without safety ropes — up the 3,000-foot cliff of El Capitan in California's Yosemite National Park.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Sunset
1913, Budapest, in the heart of Europe. The young
Irisz Leiter arrives in the Hungarian capital with
high hopes to work as a milliner at the legendary
hat store that belonged to her late parents. She is
nonetheless sent away by the new owner, Oszkár Brill.
While preparations are under way at the Leiter hat store,
to host guests of uttermost importance, a man abruptly
comes to Irisz, looking for a certain Kálmán Leiter.
Refusing to leave the city, the young woman follows
Kálmán’s tracks, her only link to a lost past. Her
quest brings her through the dark streets of Budapest,
where only the Leiter hat store shines, into the
turmoil of a civilization on the eve of its downfall.
Year: 2018
Language: Hungarian
Genre: Drama, Mystery
White Crow, The
A young man of just 22, dressed in a black beret and a dark narrow suit, is on an airplane flying from St Petersburg to Paris. It is 1961 and Rudolf Nureyev, not yet the imperious figure of legend, is a member of the world-renowned Kirov Ballet Company, travelling for the first time outside the Soviet Union. Parisian life delights Nureyev and the young dancer is eager to consume all the culture, art and music the dazzling city has to offer. But the KGB officers who watch his every move become increasingly suspicious of his behavior and his friendship with the young Parisienne Clara Saint. When they finally confront Nureyev with a shocking demand, he is forced to make a heart-breaking decision, one that may change the course of his life forever and put his family and friends in terrible danger. From Nureyev’s poverty-stricken childhood in the Soviet city of Ufa, to his blossoming as a student dancer in Leningrad, to his arrival at the epicentre of western culture in Paris in the early 1960s and a nail-biting stand-off at the Le Bourget airport, “THE WHITE CROW” is the true story of an incredible journey by a unique artist who transformed the world of ballet forever.
Year: 2018
Language: Russian, English
Genre: Drama, Biography
Science Fair
Nine high school students from disparate corners of the globe navigate rivalries, setbacks, and hormones on their quest to win the international science fair. Only one can be named "Best in Fair."
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Tyrel
A black man attends an otherwise all-white weekend of drunken bro debauchery at a cabin in the Catskills.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Divide and Conquer: The Story Of Roger Ailes
Alexis Bloom charts the rise and fall of the late Republican Party booster and controversial Fox News mogul who went down in flames amid multiple sexual harassment allegations.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Border
When a border guard with a sixth sense for identifying smugglers encounters the first person she cannot prove is guilty, she is forced to confront terrifying revelations about herself and humankind.
Year: 2018
Language: Swedish
Genre: Thriller, Fantasy, Romance
Wind, The
In this sinister western-horror mash-up, a woman moves to the American frontier to settle it with her husband, ,but an evil presence soon makes itself know and infects her.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Western
Ruben Brandt, Collector
Ruben Brandt, a famous psychotherapist, is forced to steal 13 paintings from the world's
renowned museums and private collections to prevent his suffering from terrible nightmares he
has as a result of subliminal messaging he received as a child. Accompanied by his four patients,
he and his band of thieves strike regularly and with great success: the Louvre, Tate, Uffizi,
Hermitage, the Museum of Modern Art.
"The Collector" quickly becomes the most wanted criminal in the world. Gangsters and
headhunters chase him around the world while the reward for his capture keeps rising, approaching
a hundred million dollars. A cartel of insurance companies entrusts Mike Kowalski, a private
detective and leading expert on art theft, to solve the "Collector Case."
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Crime, Animation
Maiden
The story of Tracy Edwards, a 24-year-old cook on charter boats, who became the skipper of the first ever all-female crew to enter the Whitbread Round the World Race in 1989.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Sports, Documentary
All Is True
The final days in the life of the greatest playwright of all time, William Shakespeare. Starring Kenneth Branagh, Judi Dench and Ian McKellen.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: History, Drama, Biography
Aniara
A spaceship carrying settlers to Mars collides with an asteroid, knocking it off course. Slowly, the passengers realize they’ll never make it to their destination, or back to Earth…
Year: 2018
Language: Swedish
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Red Joan
The story of Joan Stanley, who was exposed as the KGB's longest-serving British spy.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: History, Thriller, Drama, Biography
King of Thieves
Michael Caine stars in the incredible true story of the biggest and most daring diamond heist in British history.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Crime, Comedy
Vanishing, The
Gerard Butler stars in this true crime psychological thriller about three lighthouse keepers locked in a tense battle for survival.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
Aquarela
AQUARELA takes audiences on a deeply cinematic journey through the transformative beauty and raw power of water. Captured at a rare 96 frames-per-second, the film is a visceral wake-up call that humans are no match for the sheer force and capricious will of Earth’s most precious element. From the precarious frozen waters of Russia’s Lake Baikal to Miami in the throes of Hurricane Irma to Venezuela’s mighty Angel Falls, water is AQUARELA’s main character, with director Victor Kossakovsky capturing her many personalities in startling cinematic clarity.
Year: 2018
Language: Russian, English
Genre: Environment, Documentary
Black '47
An Irish mercenary fighting for the British Army abandons his post to seek revenge on those responsible for the death of his family, in this action-packed war thriller. Starring Hugo Weaving, Barry Keoghan, Jim Broadbent, James Frecheville and Stephen Rea.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Action
Peterloo
The epic recreation of the 1819 Peterloo Massacre, where British forces attacked a peaceful pro-democracy rally in Manchester. Directed by 7-time Oscar nominee, Mike Leigh.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: History, War, Drama
Vigilante, A
In this thrilling crime mystery, a vigilante (Olivia Wilde) helps victims escape their domestic abuser.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime, Mystery
Boat, The
A lone fisherman encounters an abandoned sailboat, soon finding himself caught in a fight for survival against an unknown enemy.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
Public, The
When the homeless occupy a city library to escape freezing temperatures, it triggers an extreme reaction by local authorities and media. Starring Alec Baldwin, Emilio Estevez and Taylor Schilling.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Dead Trigger
In the near future, a deadly virus has turned millions into bloodthirsty zombies. Unable to stop the virus, the government recruits an elite team to combat the zombie menace. Starring Dolph Lundgren.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Action, Sci-Fi
The Command (FKA Hostile Waters FKA Kursk)
In this nail-biting action-thriller, sailors fight for survival on a sinking submarine while their families desperately battle political obstacles and impossible odds to save them.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: History, Thriller, Drama, Action
Nightingale, The
From the writer and director of The Babadook. A young Irish convict chases a British officer through the wilderness, bent on revenge for a terrible act of violence committed against her family.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Action, Western
Grizzlies, The
Inuit youth in a small community gain a powerful sense of pride through the sport of lacrosse, in this true-story account of tenacity, renewal, and inspiring resilience.
Year: 2018
Language: English, Inuktitut
Genre: Sports, Drama, Biography
Happy End
Isabelle Huppert stars in this drama about a well-off French family living in a bourgeois bubble in northern France, oblivious to the human misery unfolding in migrant camps a few miles from their home.
Year: 2017
Language: French, English
Genre: Drama
Black Site Delta
A group of military prisoners must fight off a terrorist attack on their prison which, unbeknownst to them, is a cover for a secret drone control facility.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Action
Menashe
Performed entirely in Yiddish, a language not used in cinema for many decades, MENASHE follows a kind, hapless grocery store clerk as he struggles to make ends meet and responsibly parent his young son, Rieven. But in the wake of his wife Leah’s death, tradition prohibits Menashe from raising his son alone, so Rieven’s strict uncle adopts him, leaving Menashe heartbroken. Meanwhile, though Menashe seems to bungle every challenge in his path, his rabbi grants him one special week with Rieven before Leah’s memorial and a chance to prove himself a suitable man of faith and fatherhood.
Year: 2017
Language: Yiddish
Genre: Drama
Case For Christ, The
Based on the true story of an award-winning investigative journalist -- and avowed atheist -- who applies his well-honed journalistic and legal skills to disprove the newfound Christian faith of his wife... with unexpected, life-altering results.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Biography
Revolt
An action-packed sci-fi thriller about humankind’s last stand against a cataclysmic alien invasion. Set in the war-ravaged African countryside, an American soldier and a French foreign aid worker team up to survive the alien onslaught. As they journey through the battlefield in search of refuge, their bond will be tested when the soldier discovers his true identity.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Beach Rats
Frankie, an aimless teenager on the outer edges of Brooklyn, is having a miserable summer. With his father dying and his mother wanting him to find a girlfriend, Frankie escapes by causing trouble with his delinquent friends and flirting with older men online. As his chatting and webcamming intensify, Frankie simultaneously enters into a cautious relationship with a young woman. Inevitably, Frankie’s struggle to reconcile his competing desires lead to irreparable consequences.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Resurrection of Gavin Stone, The
A struggling actor is forced to do community service at a local church and pretends to be Christian so he can land the part of Jesus in their annual Passion Play, only to discover that the most important role of his life is far from Hollywood.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Family
Call Me By Your Name
CALL ME BY YOUR NAME, the new film by Luca Guadagnino, is a sensual and transcendent tale of first love, based on the acclaimed novel by André Aciman. It’s the summer of 1983 in the north of Italy, and Elio Perlman (Timothée Chalamet), a precocious 17- year-old American-Italian boy, spends his days in his family’s 17th century villa transcribing and playing classical music, reading, and flirting with his friend Marzia (Esther Garrel). Elio enjoys a close relationship with his father (Michael Stuhlbarg), an eminent professor specializing in Greco-Roman culture, and his mother Annella (Amira Casar), a translator, who favor him with the fruits of high culture in a setting that overflows with natural delights. While Elio’s sophistication and intellectual gifts suggest he is already a fully-fledged adult, there is much that yet remains innocent and unformed about him, particularly about matters of the heart. One day, Oliver (Armie Hammer), a charming American scholar working on his doctorate, arrives as the annual summer intern tasked with helping Elio’s father. Amid the sun-drenched splendor of the setting, Elio and Oliver discover the heady beauty of awakening desire over the course of a summer that will alter their lives forever.
Year: 2017
Language: English, French
Genre: Drama, Romance
Novitiate
Spanning over a decade from the early 1950s through to the mid-60s, NOVITIATE is about a young girl's first experience with love. In this case, her first love is God. Raised by a vehemently non-religious, single mother in rural Tennessee, a scholarship to Catholic school soon finds Cathleen drawn into all the mystery and romanticism of a life devoted to the worship and servitude of God. With the dawn of the Vatican II era, radical changes in the Church are threating the course of nuns’ lives. Cathleen finds herself struggling with issues of faith, sexuality, and the changing administration. As she progresses from the postulant to the novitiate stage of training, she finds her faith repeatedly confronted and challenged by the harsh, often inhumane realities of being a servant of God.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Fantastic Woman, A
A transgender singer faces scorn and discrimination after the sudden death of her older boyfriend.
Year: 2017
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama
Brigsby Bear
Brigsby Bear Adventures is a children's TV show produced for an audience of one: James. When the show abruptly ends, James's life changes forever, and he sets out to finish the story...
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Blind
A novelist (Alec Baldwin), blinded in a car crash which killed his wife, embarks on an affair with the neglected wife (Demi Moore) of an indicted businessman.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance
Wilde Wedding, The
While preparing for her wedding to husband number four (Patrick Stewart), a retired film star (Glenn Close) invites husband number one (John Malkovich) and their collective families to a summer weekend in the country.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
Ghost Story, A
With A Ghost Story, acclaimed director David Lowery (Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, Pete’s Dragon) returns with a singular exploration of legacy, loss, and the essential human longing for meaning and connection. Recently deceased, a white-sheeted ghost (Academy Award-winner Casey Affleck) returns to his suburban home to console his bereft wife (Academy Award-nominee Rooney Mara), only to find that in his spectral state he has become unstuck in time, forced to watch passively as the life he knew and the woman he loves slowly slip away. Increasingly unmoored, the ghost embarks on a cosmic journey through memory and history, confronting life’s ineffable questions and the enormity of existence. An unforgettable meditation on love and grief, A Ghost Story emerges ecstatic and surreal—a wholly-unique experience that lingers long after the credits roll.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Fantasy, Drama, Romance
It Comes At Night
Imagine the end of the world. Now imagine something worse. Award-winning filmmaker Trey Edward Shults follows his breakout debut KRISHA with the psychological horror-thriller IT COMES AT NIGHT, centering on a teenaged boy (Kelvin Harrison, Jr.) as he grapples with mounting terrors — external and otherwise — in the aftermath of an unnamed cataclysm. Secure within a desolate home with his vigilant, protective and heavily armed parents (Joel Edgerton and Carmen Ejogo), 17-year-old Travis navigates fear, grief and paranoia amid scarce resources as a desperate young couple (Christopher Abbott and Riley Keough), with their own child, seeks refuge in his family home. Despite the best intentions of both families, panic and mistrust boil over as the horrors of the outside world creep ever closer. But they are nothing compared to the horrors within, where Travis discovers that his father’s commitment to protecting the family may cost him his soul.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Mystery
6 Days
In 1980, armed gunmen stormed the Iranian Embassy in London, England, taking everyone hostage. After 6 days, a group of highly trained SAS soldiers launched an epic raid to end the standoff.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: History, Thriller, Drama, Action
Churchill
Tensions mount for the beleaguered British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (Brian Cox) in the days leading up to infamous Allied D-Day landings in Normandy, France in June, 1944. Fearful of repeating his deadly mistakes from World War I in the Battle of Gallipoli, exhausted by years of war, plagued by depression and obsessed with his historical destiny, Churchill is reluctant to embark on the large-scale campaign, one that the entire war effort hinges upon. Clashing with his Allied political opponents U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower (John Slattery) and British Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery (Julian Wadham), the troubled Churchill receives support and devotion from his wife, the brilliant and unflappable Clementine Churchill (Miranda Richardson). With her strength and shrewdness, “Clemmie” halts Winston’s physical, mental spiritual collapse and inspires him on to greatness.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: History, War, Drama, Biography
Borg vs. McEnroe
The story of the tennis rivalry between the placid Björn Borg and the volatile John McEnroe, culminating in their encounter at the 1980 Wimbledon Championships men's final.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Sports, Drama, Biography
Racer And The Jailbird, The
Set against the background of a brutal crime gang in Brussels, a tragic love story between Gigi, a high-flying gangster, and Bibi, a young racing driver with very upper-class roots.
Year: 2017
Language: French
Genre: Drama, Crime
Ingrid Goes West
Following a series of self-inflicted setbacks, young Ingrid Thorburn (Aubrey Plaza) escapes a humdrum existence by moving out West to befriend her Instagram obsession and LA socialite Taylor Sloane (Elizabeth Olsen). After a quick bond is forged between these unlikeliest of friends, the façade begins to crack in both women's lives — with comically malicious results.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Marjorie Prime
Eighty-six-year-old Marjorie spends her final, ailing days with a computerized version of her deceased husband. With the intent to recount their life together, Marjorie's "Prime" relies on the information from her and her kin to develop a more complex understanding of his history. As their interactions deepen, the family begins to develop ever diverging recounts of their lives, drawn into the chance to reconstruct the often painful past. Built around exceptional performances from a veteran cast, MARJORIE PRIME shines a light on an often-obscured corner in the world of artificial intelligence and its interactions with mortality. Bringing us robustly into the future, Michael Almaryeda's poetic film forces us to face the question - If we had the opportunity, how would we choose to rebuild the past, and what would we decide to forget?
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Mystery
Hunter's Prayer, The
Lucas, (Sam Worthington), a solitary assassin, is hired to kill a young woman, Ella, (Odeya Rush) but when he can’t bring himself to pull the trigger, the plan falls apart, setting in motion a twisted game of cat and mouse. Now both are marked for death and forced to form an uneasy alliance. Relentlessly pursued across Europe, Their only hope for survival is to expose those responsible for brutally murdering her family and bring them to justice.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Action
Lovers, The
Debra Winger and Tracy Letts play a long-married, dispassionate couple who are both in the midst of serious affairs. But on the brink of calling it quits, a spark between them suddenly reignites, leading them into an impulsive romance.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
Kill Switch
A pilot battles to save his family and the planet after an experiment for unlimited energy goes wrong.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Action, Sci-Fi
Gracefield Incident, The
A video game developer embeds a camera into his prosthetic eye, which inadvertently captures a terrifying battle against extraterrestrials.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Action, Sci-Fi, Mystery
Small Town Crime
An alcoholic ex-cop (John Hawkes) seeks justice for the murder of a teen prostitute in this gritty crime-noir. Also starring Octavia Spencer and Robert Forster.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
Little Hours, The
Medieval nuns Alessandra (Alison Brie), Fernanda (Aubrey Plaza), and Ginevra (Kate Micucci) lead a simple life in their convent. Their days are spent chafing at monastic routine, spying on one another, and berating the estate’s day laborer. After a particularly vicious insult session drives the peasant away, Father Tommasso (John C. Reilly) brings on new hired hand Massetto (Dave Franco), a virile young servant forced into hiding by his angry lord. Introduced to the sisters as a deaf-mute to discourage temptation, Massetto struggles to maintain his cover as the repressed nunnery erupts in a whirlwind of pansexual horniness, substance abuse, and wicked revelry.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Armed Response
When a team of highly trained operatives becomes trapped inside an isolated military compound, they begin to experience strange and horrific phenomena as they hunt down what killed the previous team.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller
7 Sisters
Seven identical sisters (all portrayed by Noomi Rapace) live a hide-and-seek existence in an overpopulated future world that has limited families to one child.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Sci-Fi
Gun Shy
An aging rock star (Antonio Banderas) is forced to navigate deadly jungles and ruthless bandits to rescue his super-model wife (Olga Kurylenko) from kidnappers.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Action
Take Every Wave
TAKE EVERY WAVE tracks the remarkable life and legendary career of big wave surfer Laird Hamilton. Much admired by the public, though often disdained or ignored by the surf industry itself, Laird is a unique sports icon — an athlete who has refused to compete professionally yet has dominated big wave surfing as no other figure in history has ever done. Laird's biographical story is told against the backdrop of a winter surf season on Kauai, where El Niño storm systems threaten to bring the biggest surf in decades. Mixing never-before-seen archival footage, with contemporary verité scenes shot in Southern California, Bermuda and Kauai, TAKE EVERY WAVE weaves the past and present into an intimate and compelling portrait of a superstar athlete at the top of his game. Threaded throughout is a revealing, deeply personal interview with Laird as well conversations with the family members, friends, collaborators and detractors who know him best. Take Every Wave provides an intimate, uncompromising look at a lifetime devoted to riding giant surf—and the price an athlete pays for greatness.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Sports, Documentary
Loving Vincent
On July 27, 1890, a gaunt figure stumbled down a drowsy high street at twilight in the small French country town of Auvers. The man was carrying nothing; his hands clasped to a fresh bullet wound leaking blood from his belly. This was Vincent van Gogh, then a little known artist; now the most famous artist in the world. His tragic death has long been known, what has remained a mystery is how and why he came to be shot. LOVING VINCENT tells that story.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Animation, Mystery, Biography
Adam at the Wedding
Still reeling from his break-up with his college sweetheart Allison (Cobie Smulders), Adam (Justin Long) is devastated when she invites him to her wedding.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Killing Gunther
A group of assassins decide to kill Gunther (Arnold Schwarzenegger), the world's greatest hit-man, but their plan turns into a series of fumbled encounters as Gunther seems to always be one step ahead.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Action, Comedy
Singularity
In 2020, a super-computer attacks mankind. Ninety-seven years later, a teenage boy, lost in a world run by machines, meets a female survivor searching for the last human stronghold. Starring John Cusack.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Sci-Fi
Only Living Boy in New York, The
Thomas Webb (Callum Turner), the son of a publisher and an artistic wife, has just graduated from college and is trying to find his place in the world. Moving from his parents' Upper West Side apartment to the Lower East Side, he befriends his neighbor W.F. (Jeff Bridges), a shambling alcoholic writer who dispenses worldly wisdom alongside healthy shots of whiskey. Thomas's world begins to shift when he discovers his long-married father (Pierce Brosnan) is having an affair with a seductive younger woman (Kate Beckinsale). Determined to break up the relationship, Thomas ends up sleeping with his father's mistress, launching a chain of events that will change everything he thinks he knows about himself and his family.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Mark Felt - The Man Who Brought Down the White House
MARK FELT - THE MAN WHO BROUGHT DOWN THE WHITE HOUSE centers on “Deep Throat”, the pseudonym given to the notorious whistleblower for one of the greatest scandals of all time, Watergate. The true identity of the secret informant remained a mystery and source of much public curiosity and speculation for more than 30 years. That is until, in 2005, special agent Mark Felt shockingly revealed himself as the tipster. This unbelievable true story chronicles the personal and professional life of the brilliant and uncompromising Felt, who risked and ultimately sacrificed everything – his family, his career, his freedom – in the name of justice.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: History, Thriller, Drama, Biography
Meditation Park
Mina Shum directs an all-star cast — including Cheng Pei Pei, Sandra Oh, Tzi Ma, and Don McKellar — in her latest feature, about a devoted wife and mother who is forced to reassess her reverence for her husband after she finds another woman’s undergarment in his laundry.
Year: 2017
Language: English, Cantonese
Genre: Drama
Tribes of Palos Verdes, The
When the situation at her idyllic Palos Verdes home turns volatile, young Medina attempts to surf her way to happiness. Starring Jennifer Garner and Alicia Silverstone.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Walking Out
An estranged father and son are forced to rely on one another to survive an unforgiving wilderness in this riveting story of survival.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Thriller, Drama, Mystery
Question of Faith, A
When tragedy strikes three families, their destiny forces them on a converging path to discover God's love, grace and mercy as the challenges of their fate could also resurrect their beliefs.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Rebel in the Rye
The world of legendary writer J. D. Salinger is brought vividly to life in this revealing look at the experiences that shaped one of the most renowned, controversial, and enigmatic authors of our time. Set amidst the colorful backdrop of mid-20th century New York City, REBEL IN THE RYE follows a young Salinger (Nicholas Hoult) as he struggles to find his voice, pursues a love affair with famed socialite Oona O'Neill (Zoey Deutch), and fights on the frontlines of World War II. It’s these experiences that will inform the creation of his masterpiece, The Catcher in the Rye, bringing him overnight fame (and notoriety) and leading him to withdraw from the public eye for the rest of his life. Co-starring Kevin Spacey and Sarah Paulson, REBEL IN THE RYE offers a tantalizing window into the life and times of a little-understood genius who broke the rules and redefined American literature.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Biography
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
Based on Peter Turner’s memoir, the film follows the playful but passionate relationship between Turner (Jamie Bell) and the eccentric Academy Award®-winning actress Gloria Grahame (Annette Bening) in 1978 Liverpool. What starts as a vibrant affair between a legendary femme fatale and her young lover quickly grows into a deeper relationship, with Turner being the person Gloria turns to for comfort. Their passion and lust for life is tested to the limits by events beyond their control.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance, Biography
Final Portrait
FINAL PORTRAIT is the story of the touching and offbeat friendship between American writer and art-lover James Lord and Alberto Giacometti, as seen through Lord’s eyes and revealing unique insight into the beauty, frustration, profundity and sometimes the chaos of the artistic process. Set in 1964, while on a short trip to Paris, Lord is asked by his friend, Giacometti, to sit for a portrait. The process, promises Giacometti, will take only a few days and so Lord agrees — ultimately wondering “how much longer can it go on like this?”
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Biography
Loveless
Zhenya and Boris are going through a vicious divorce marked by resentment, frustration and recriminations. Already embarking on new lives, each with a new partner, they are impatient to start again, to turn the page – even if it means threatening to abandon their 12-year-old son Alexey. Until, after witnessing one of their fights, Alexey disappears…
Year: 2017
Language: Russian
Genre: Drama
Rider, The
After suffering a near fatal head injury, a young cowboy undertakes a search for new identity and what it means to be a man in the heartland of America.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Drama
High Fantasy
Four young South African friends on a camping trip on an isolated farm wake up to discover they’ve all swapped bodies. As they navigate a labyrinth of so-called Rainbow Nation politics, they capture their bizarre predicament in selfie videos - with hilarious and tragic results.
Year: 2017
Genre: Drama
Hangman
A homicide detective (Al Pacino) teams up with a criminal profiler to catch a serial killer whose crimes are inspired by the children's game Hangman.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Crime, Mystery
Foxtrot
Michael and Dafna are devastated when army officials show up at their home to announce the death of their son Jonathan. While his sedated wife rests, Michael spirals into a whirlwind of anger only to experience one of life's unfathomable twists, which rival the surreal military experiences of his son.
Year: 2017
Language: Hebrew
Genre: Drama
Wonder Wheel
WONDER WHEEL tells the story of four characters whose lives intertwine amid the hustle and bustle of the Coney Island amusement park in the 1950s: Ginny (Kate Winslet), an emotionally volatile former actress now working as a waitress in a clam house; Humpty (Jim Belushi), Ginny's rough-hewn carousel operator husband; Mickey (Justin Timberlake), a handsome young lifeguard who dreams of becoming a playwright; and Carolina (Juno Temple), Humpty's long-estranged daughter, who is now hiding out from gangsters at her father's apartment. Cinematographer Vittorio Storaro captures a tale of passion, violence, and betrayal that plays out against the picturesque tableau of 1950s Coney Island.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Wife, The
Based on the novel by the bestselling author Meg Wolitzer, THE WIFE interweaves the midcentury story of a couple’s youthful passion and ambition with a portrait of a marriage, thirty-plus years later—a lifetime’s shared compromises, secrets, betrayals, and genuine, mutual love.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Drama
China Hustle, The
In 2008, Wall Street brought the economy to the brink of collapse with a shell game based on bankrupt mortgages… Nine years later, the stock market is sky high again, and the game has gone global. There are no good guys in this story, but there are a few people—a ragtag band of short sellers—who are sick of being lied to. THE CHINA HUSTLE follows their story through Wall Street, China and your retirement savings to uncover the biggest heist you’ve never heard of.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Disobedience
Sebastián Lelio (A Fantastic Woman, Gloria) directs Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams in this adaptation of Naomi Alderman’s novel about a woman who returns to her Orthodox Jewish community after the death of her rabbi father and stirs up controversy when she shows an interest in an old childhood friend.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance
Forgiven, The
After the end of Apartheid, Archbishop Desmond Tutu meets with a brutal murderer seeking redemption.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Seagull, The
THE SEAGULL is the heartbreaking and funny story of friends and lovers, all of whom are in love with the wrong person. The movie is timely in its depiction of the tragic consequences of narcissism, particularly on young dreams and romantic love. Based on the Play by Anton Chekhov
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Marvin
A young man runs away from his family to become an actor.
Year: 2017
Language: French
Genre: Drama
Marrowbone
Four siblings seek refuge in an old home after the death of their mother, only to discover that the house has another, more sinister, inhabitant.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Drama
Revenge
When a millionaire brings his sexy mistress to his annual hunting trip with his buddies, things get out of hand, and soon the men become the hunted.
Year: 2017
Language: English & French
Genre: Thriller, Action
Let The Sunshine In
Juliette Binoche delivers a luminous performance in the deliciously witty, sensuously romantic new film from acclaimed director Claire Denis (White Material). Isabelle (Binoche) is a divorced Parisian painter searching for another shot at love, but refusing to settle for the parade of all-too-flawed men who drift in and out of her life. There’s a caddish banker (Xavier Beauvois) who, like many of her lovers, happens to be married; a handsome actor (Nicolas Duvauchelle) who’s working through his own hang-ups; and a sensitive fellow artist (Alex Descas) who’s skittish about commitment. What reads like a standard romantic comedy premise is transformed, in the hands of master filmmaker Denis, into something altogether deeper, more poignant, and perceptive about the profound mysteries of love.
Year: 2017
Language: French
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy
Retaliation
A victim of childhood sexual abuse confronts the horrors of his past.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Mobile Homes
In forgotten towns along the American border, a young mother drifts from one motel to the next with her intoxicating boyfriend and her 8-year-old son. The makeshift family scrapes by, living one hustle at a time, until the discovery of a mobile home community offers an alternative life.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Big Time
Big Time follows Danish architect Bjarke Ingels over a period of 5 years while he is struggling to complete his largest projects yet, the New York skyscraper called W57 and World Trade Center 2, projects that will change the skyline of Manhattan. According to The Wall Street Journal he has ‘rapidly become one of the design world’s biggest stars’. An intimate insight into the life of a genius innovative mind and his struggle to maintain his own persona while making the world a better place to live.
Year: 2017
Language: English, Danish
Genre: Documentary
Desierto
A deranged, rifle-toting vigilante chases a group of illegal immigrants through the treacherous U.S.-Mexican border.
Year: 2017
Language: English, Spanish
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Tale, The
A woman filming a documentary on childhood rape victims starts to question the nature of her childhood relationship with her riding instructor and running coach.
Director: Jennifer Fox
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Handmaiden, The
A Korean woman is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, but secretly she is involved in a conman's plot to defraud her.
Year: 2016
Language: Korean
Genre: Drama, Romance
Trust, The
Two dirty cops (Nicolas Cage, Elijah Wood) team up to break into a mysterious vault. Once they find out what’s inside, it’s too late to turn back.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime
I Am Wrath
When the police are unable to catch his wife’s brutal killers, a former black-ops agent (John Travolta) takes justice into his own hands.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Crime, Action
Cell
Samuel L. Jackson and John Cusack star in Stephen King's apocalyptic thriller about a mysterious signal that reprograms the minds of cellphone users around the globe.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Action, Sci-Fi
Kill Command
An elite squad of marines are sent to a remote island to train with the soldiers of the future: intelligent machines with a devastating capacity to kill. But the exercise soon takes a terrifying turn when the machines become sentient, leaving the soldiers in a desperate fight for survival.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Action, Sci-Fi
Love & Friendship
In this delightfully hilarious Jane Austen adaptation, Kate Beckinsale stars as the seductive and manipulative Lady Susan, who uses devious tactics to win the heart of the eligible Reginald De Courcy.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy
We Are X
X Japan was formed by childhood friends, Yoshiki and Toshi, who ignited a musical revolution in Japan during the late 80’s with their melodic metal and flamboyant fashion. With more than 30 million albums sold worldwide, X is the most successful rock band in Japanese history. However, their success never translated to the West, despite influencing many popular American bands. In the fall of 1997, at the height of their success, X broke up - devastating millions of fans and leaving enigmatic leader Yoshiki to battle physical and spiritual demons in a solitary campaign to bring their music to the world. Almost twenty years after the tragedy-fueled split, the band prepares to reunite for a show at the legendary Madison Square Garden while struggling to reconcile a haunted past with the insatiable thirst for perfection that has made them legendary. WE ARE X is the story of the most influential band in the world that you’ve never heard of…yet.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Mostly Sunny
There is no one else in the world like Sunny Leone. An adult film star of Sikh heritage, Sunny is attempting to cross over into mainstream Bollywood. Her life is the subject of much controversy in a conservative Indian culture where pornography is illegal. Curiosity about her life and career makes an enhanced eBook the ideal digital media extension to complement the feature documentary.
Year: 2016
Language: English/Hindi
Genre: Documentary
Café Society
Café Society is Woody Allen's star-studded retro comedy about a young New Yorker who moves to Hollywood and falls for the secretary of his powerful uncle, an agent to the stars.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy
Gleason
When NFL player Steve Gleason was diagnosed with ALS at 34, they gave him no more than 5 years to live. Steve embarked on a courageous journey to fight the illness, recording a video journal along the way for his newborn son.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Weiner
After disappearing from the public eye following his 2011 sex scandal, politician Anthony Weiner attempts a comeback by running for mayor of New York - until a new scandal derails his campaign.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Innocents, The (Agnus Dei)
In 1945 Poland, a young French Red Cross doctor who is sent to assist the survivors of the German camps discovers several nuns in advanced states of pregnancy during a visit to a nearby convent.
Year: 2016
Language: French
Genre: History, Drama
Alien Arrival
An interstellar Jekyll and Hyde, Arrowhead tells a tale of survival set amongst the distant stars. Kye is a prisoner of war caught between two armies, neither of whose ideology he believes in. When offered an opportunity for freedom, Kye sets out on one last rescue mission only to become stranded when his ship crash lands. Kye soon realises that the deadliest creature on the desert moon is himself.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Action, Sci-Fi
Wiener-Dog
In this riotous comedy, an adorable dachshund puppy finds itself shuffled from one oddball owner to the next, including two couples, a veterinary nurse (Greta Gerwig), a screenwriter (Danny DeVito) and a cranky old woman (Ellen Burstyn).
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Window Horses
Rosie, a young poet, travels to a poetry festival in Iran and discovers her own voice while opening herself to those of others in this whimsical, animated coming-of-ager.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Animation
Skiptrace
A Hong Kong cop (Jackie Chan) pursues a notorious crime lord with the help of a brash American gambler (Johnny Knoxville) in this action comedy from the director of Cliffhanger and Die Hard 2.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Action, Comedy
Where is Rocky II?
In 1979, American artist Ed Ruscha allegedly made a fake rock out of resin and hid it among real ones somewhere in California's vast Mojave Desert. Named Rocky II after the Sylvester Stallone film, the work is never spoken about publicly nor is it listed in any catalogue of Ruscha's work. Obsessed with this mystery piece, Academy Award winning screenwriter Pierre Bismuth sets out to find it in his directorial debut. Probing and inventive, this thoroughly original art quest blends documentary and fiction, and is as enigmatic as the mystery it seeks.
WHERE IS ROCKY II? features High Fidelity and Gross Pointe Black screenwriter DV De Vincentis, Sherlock Holmes and Invictus writer Anthony Peckham, and Mike White of School Of Rock fame, alongside art world luminaries such as Los Angeles County Museum of Art director Michael Govan, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art director Philippe Vergne, philanthropist and collector Eli Broad, and Hammer Museum chief curator Connie Butler.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Infiltrator, The
Federal agent Robert Mazur (Bryan Cranston) goes undercover on a high-stakes mission to infiltrate the criminal network of Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar. Based on the incredible true story.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Crime, Biography
Manchester by the Sea
A critically acclaimed drama about a man who must face his painful past when he returns to his Massachusetts hometown after the sudden death of his brother. Starring Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams and Kyle Chandler.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Ordinary World
The story follows former punk rocker Perry (Billie Joe Armstrong) who is ten years into his band's "indefinite hiatus" and is struggling with his adjustment to the real world (which includes working in his family's hardware store). When Perry's hotshot attorney wife and precocious young daughter forget his 40th birthday, his brother takes pity and gives him the money to throw a huge rockstar blowout in a fancy New York hotel. At the party, Perry's punk past clashes hilariously with his middle-aged reality as he encounters crazy former bandmates and an old-flame-turned-manager, who offers him a chance to revive his stalled career.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Music & Live Performance, Drama, Comedy
Paris Can Wait
Eleanor Coppola's feature film directorial and screenwriting debut at the age of 81 stars Academy Award® nominee Diane Lane as a Hollywood producer's wife who unexpectedly takes a trip through France, which reawakens her sense of self and her joie de vivre. Anne (Lane) is at a crossroads in her life. Long married to a successfully driven but inattentive movie producer (Alec Baldwin), she finds herself taking a car trip from Cannes to Paris with a business associate of her husband (Arnaud Viard). What should be a seven-hour drive turns into a journey of discovery involving mouthwatering meals, spectacular wines, and picturesque sights.
Year: 2016
Language: English & French
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy
Comedian, The
De Niro plays a comic icon who has seen better days. Despite his efforts to reinvent himself, the audience only wants to know him as the former television character he once played. He’s a strain on his younger brother and his wife and is being forced to serve out a sentence doing community service for accosting an audience member. While there, he finds inspiration by meeting the daughter of a sleazy Florida real estate mogul.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
Colossal
After Gloria (Anne Hathaway) loses her job and is kicked out of her boyfriend’s apartment, she leaves her life in New York and move back to her hometown. When news reports surface that a giant creature is destroying Seoul, Korea, Gloria gradually comes to the realization that she is somehow connected to this far-off phenomenon. As events begin to spin out of control, Gloria must determine why her seemingly insignificant existence has such a colossal effect on the fate of the world.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Catfight
A reunion between two former college friends (Sandra Oh, Anne Heche) sparks a no-holds-barred war of attrition, in this outrageously madcap black comedy.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
I Am Not Your Negro
Raoul Peck’s Oscar-nominated I Am Not Your Negro is a radical, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America. Using James Baldwin’s original words and flood of rich archival material, this incendiary film is a sobering reminder of how far we've yet to go.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Last Face, The
A passionate and poignant story of two lovers brought together—and brutally torn apart—by violent conflict in a war-torn country. Starring Academy Award® winners Charlize Theron and Javier Bardem.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Assignment, The
This jaw-droppingly audacious revenge thriller from the great Walter Hill (The Warriors, 48 Hours) stars Michelle Rodriguez as a lowlife killer put through full male-to-female gender reassignment surgery by a score-settling surgeon (Sigourney Weaver).
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Action
Bad Batch, The
THE BAD BATCH follows Arlen (Suki Waterhouse) after she's left in a Texas wasteland fenced off from civilization. While trying to navigate the unforgiving landscape, Arlen is captured by a savage band of cannibals led by the mysterious Miami Man (Jason Momoa). With her life on the line, she makes her way to The Dream (Keanu Reeves). As she adjusts to life in 'The Bad Batch' Arlen discovers that being good or bad mostly depends on who's standing next to you.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller
B-Side, The: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography
Portrait photographer Elsa Dorfman found her medium in 1980: the larger-than-life Polaroid Land 20x24 camera. For the next thirty-five years she captured the “surfaces” of those who visited her Cambridge, Massachusetts studio: families, Beat poets, rock stars, and Harvard notables. As pictures begin to fade and her retirement looms, Dorfman gives Errol Morris an inside tour of her backyard archive.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Risk
The Academy Award-winning director of Citizenfour turns her camera on WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange, offering an intimate portrait of the cypherpunk underground in an era of ever-increasing surveillance and secrecy.
Year: 2016
Language: English/Arabic
Genre: Documentary
Wakefield
A successful suburban lawyer withdraws from his life and hides-out in the loft of his garage, where he secretly watches his family move on without him.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Red Dog: True Blue
An iconic Australian story of family, friendship and adventure, between a young boy and a scrappy one-of-a-kind dog that would grow up to become an Australian legend.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy, Family
Dark Crimes
Jim Carrey stars as a detective investigating the murder of a slain businessman.. Based on the 2008 article "True Crimes - A Postmodern Murder Mystery" by David Grann.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime
Windmill, The
Jennifer is an Australian girl on the run from her past who washes up in Amsterdam. In a desperate attempt to stay one step ahead of the authorities, she joins a coach-load of tourists embarking on a tour of Holland's world famous windmills. When the bus breaks down in the middle of nowhere, she and the other tourists are forced to seek shelter in a disused shed beside a sinister windmill where, legend has it, a Devil-worshiping miller once ground the bones of locals instead of grain. As members of the group start to disappear, Jennifer learns that they all have something in common - a shared secret that seems to mark them all for doom.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Drama
First Monday in May, The
Every spring, New York City is home to the biggest night in fashion: The Met Gala. The First Monday in May takes you behind the scenes of this ultra-exclusive affair, where the world’s top designers and celebrities come together to showcase fashion as fine art.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Julieta
Spanish maestro Pedro Almodóvar adapts three stories from Canadian Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro for this time-tripping tale about the relationship and eventual rupture between a teacher and her beloved daughter.
Director: Pedro Almodovar
Year: 2016
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama, Romance
Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words
This documentary explores the life and career of avant-garde musician Frank Zappa entirely via archival footage of the man, including interviews and concert performances.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Music & Live Performance, Documentary, Biography
Tempest Storm
Tempest Storm is a feature documentary that follows the controversial life story of America's greatest exotic dancer, who at 87 years old is preparing for her final and most important act: to repair her broken relationship with her daughter Patricia, who she walked away from fifty years ago.
Director: Nimisha Mukerji
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
I'm Not Ashamed
The inspiring and powerful true story and journal entries of Rachel Joy Scott - the first student killed in the Columbine high school shooting in 1999.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Biography
God's Not Dead 2
A high-school teacher's response to a student's question about Jesus lands her in big trouble, leading to an epic court case that could cost her the career she loves and expel God from the classroom - and the public square - once and for all.
Director: Harold Cronk
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Unless
An accomplished writer and translator, Reta Winters (Catherine Keener) is dumbfounded after the recent actions of her eldest daughter, Norah (Hannah Gross). For no clear reason, Norah has dropped out of university to spend her days panhandling on the sidewalk outside of Toronto landmark Honest Ed’s. She holds a cardboard sign with only one word: “Goodness”.
Director: Alan Gilsenan
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Call Up, The
A group of hardcore gamers are invited to test a state-of-the-art virtual reality warzone, but things turn sinister when the stakes are raised to fatal.
Director: Charles Barker
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Personal Shopper
Kristen Stewart reunites with director Olivier Assayas (Clouds of Sils Maria) for this artful ghost story about a young woman trying to reconnect with the spirit of her departed brother.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Drama, Mystery
Equity
In this financial thriller, a senior investment banker (Anna Gunn) is threatened by a financial scandal and must untangle a web of corruption.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Elle
A high-powered businesswoman's brutal sexual assault elicits both erotic fantasies and dreams of revenge.
Year: 2016
Language: French
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime
Toni Erdmann
A practical joking father tries to reconnect with his hard working daughter by creating an outrageous alter ego and posing as her CEO's life coach.
Year: 2016
Language: German, English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Whole Truth, The
Keanu Reeves and Renée Zellweger star in this thriller about a defense attorney (Reeves) who fights to get his teenage client acquitted of murdering his wealthy father.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama
USS Indianapolis
After delivering key components for the atomic weapons that would end WWII, the crew of the USS Indianapolis face a harrowing nightmare as their ship goes down in the shark infested Philippine Sea. Based on a true story.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: War, Action
Before I Wake
A young couple adopt an orphaned child whose dreams - and nightmares - become reality as he sleeps.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Drama
Hillsong
This inspiring film chronicles the spectacular rise of the Christian band, Hillsong UNITED, to a worldwide recording and concert sensation.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Music & Live Performance, Documentary, Family
Eagle Huntress, The
A 13-year-old girl trains to become the first female in twelve generations of her family to become an eagle hunter. Narrated by Star Wars’ Daisy Ridley.
Year: 2016
Language: Kazakh
Genre: Adventure, Documentary, Family
Rehearsal, The
Stanley, a naïve 1st year drama school student, meets Isolde, 15, whose sister has been caught having sex with her tennis coach. Jolted into a precocious sexual awakening, Isolde initiates a relationship - a first for both of them.
Everything changes when Stanley’s drama group hits on the tennis scandal as fertile material for their end of year devised show. Stanley soon finds himself in morally tricky territory as his growing intimacy with Isolde provides secrets that feed his status in the group. Soon the boundaries between private and public, fact and fantasy, real and performed begin to dissolve…
THE REHEARSAL is a darkly comic, razor-sharp look at adolescence, sexual awakening and the tricky process of becoming who we are.
Director: Alison Maclean
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Maudie
MAUDIE, based on a true story, is an unlikely romance in which the reclusive Everett Lewis (Ethan Hawke) hires a fragile yet determined woman named Maudie (Sally Hawkins) to be his housekeeper. Maudie, bright-eyed but hunched with crippled hands, yearns to be independent, to live away from her protective family and she also yearns, passionately, to create art. Unexpectedly, Everett finds himself falling in love. MAUDIE charts Everett's efforts to protect himself from being hurt, Maudie's deep and abiding love for this difficult man and her surprising rise to fame as a folk painter.
Director: Aisling Walsh
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance, Biography
Paterson
A week in the life of Paterson (Adam Driver), a city bus driver in Paterson, NJ, as he balances the demands of his working-class job with his passion for poetry and the creative yearnings of his stay-at-home wife Laura (Golshifteh Farahani). Jim Jarmusch wrote and directed this meditative, slice-of-life dramedy.
Year: 2016
Language: English, Italian
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy
I, Daniel Blake
A 59-year-old carpenter recovering from a heart attack befriends a single mother and her two kids as they battle the impersonal, bureaucratic forces of the benefits system in order to receive Employment and Support Allowance. British master Ken Loach won his second Palme d’Or at Cannes for this timely drama with equal amounts of humor, warmth and despair.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Vincent N Roxxy
When Vincent saves Roxxy from a violent assailant, they unexpectedly fall in love. But when a sadistic gangster from their past shows up, their brief solace is shattered.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime
Black Code
Toronto-based documentary filmmaker and cinematographer Nicholas De Pencier (Four Wings and a Prayer, Watermark) examines the complex global impact that the internet has had on matters of free speech, privacy and activism.
Director: Nick De Pencier
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer
Norman Oppenheimer (Gere) only wants to matter. Living a lonely life in the shadow of power and money, he uses any angle or connection to put himself in a position of significance. He is an opportunist, just not a very good one. Until he finally bets on the right horse by buying a pair of expensive shoes for Micha Eshel (Ashkenazi), a lowly Israeli politician. When Micha becomes Prime Minister, Norman finds himself in the center of a geopolitical drama beyond anything he could have imagined. Using his small-time skills, Norman tries to solve a growingly complex puzzle with big-time implications. This everyman’s journey is filled with the comedy, drama, and tragedy of a man propelled out of anonymity yet ultimately too small to ever be valued.
Year: 2016
Language: English, Hebrew
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Race to Win
When a greedy rancher threatens to seize their horse farm, a young woman must find the strength to face her fears and compete in the horse race of her life, or her family will lose everything.
Director: Teddy Smith
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Family
Forbidden Room, The
A submarine crew, a feared pack of forest bandits, a famous surgeon and a battalion of child soldier all get more than they bargained for as the wend their way toward progressive ideas on life and love.
Director: Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Mystery
3 Coeurs
One night in a French provincial city, Marc meets Sylvie after missing his train back to Paris. They wander through the streets until morning, talking about everything except themselves, in rare, almost choreographed, harmony. Marc takes the first train back, and sets a date with Sylvie in Paris, a few days later. They know nothing about each other, but this is much more than a game. It's the way it has to be. Sylvie keeps the date. Misfortune befalls Marc, and he cannot. He searches for her and ends up finding someone else. Sophie. He does not know that she is Sylvie's sister. Marc and Sylvie meet again. Their unparalleled harmony still exists... but it is too late...
Year: 2015
Language: French
Genre: Drama
Spare Parts
Spare Parts is a true life story about four underdog students who beat the odds and build a robot with little more than a dream. With no experience, 800 bucks and used car parts, this rag tag team goes up against the country's reigning robotics champion, MIT. On their journey, they learn not only how to build a robot - they learn to build a bond that will last a lifetime.
Director: Sean McNamara
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Natasha
A forbidden romance develops between a 16-year-old Russian Jewish immigrant and his 14-year-old cousin-by-marriage - a girl from Moscow with a scandolous past.
Director: David Bezmozgis
Year: 2015
Language: Russian, English
Genre: Drama
Amy
A once-in-a-generation talent, Amy Winehouse became an international sensation with her unforgettable voice and intimate lyrics. But with her meteoric rise to fame came invasive media attention that, coupled with her troubled relationships and addictions, led her into a cycle of self-destruction. Featuring extensive unseen archival footage and previously unheard tracks, this strikingly beautiful film invites audiences to remember and celebrate Amy as a brilliant artist rather than the tabloid fodder she sadly became.
Director: Asif Kapadia
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Music & Live Performance, Documentary, Biography
Diamond Tongues
Edith dreams of being a successful actress but just can't seem to make things happen. When she can't figure out what she's doing wrong, she begins to do everything wrong.
Director: Pavan Moondi, Brian Robertson
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Brooklyn
BROOKLYN tells the profoundly moving story of Eilis Lacey (Saoirse Ronan), a young Irish immigrant navigating her way through 1950s Brooklyn. Lured by the promise of America, Eilis departs Ireland and the comfort of her mother's home for the shores of New York City. The initial shackles of homesickness quickly diminish as a fresh romance sweeps Eilis into the intoxicating charm of love. But soon, her new vivacity is disrupted by her past, and Eilis must choose between two countries and the lives that exist within.
Director: John Crowley
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance
Autrui
On a bitingly cold winter night, Lucie, an introvert young woman, offers shelter to Eloi, a homeless man on the verge of freezing to death in the streets. This charitable gesture will entwine the two of them in a complex relationship and help them to find fresh hope, each in their own way.
Director: Micheline Lanctôt
Year: 2015
Language: French
Genre: Drama
Florida
At over 80, Claude Lherminier has lost none of his charm and presence. He has decided to visit his youngest daughter, Alice, who is married to an American and living in Miami. Soon we've rewound several weeks to follow the events leading up to Claude's trip. Claude has two daughters, Alice and Carole. Carole, the eldest, is the single mother of a 20-year old son. Things are not easy for her, whether in the workplace or sentimentally. In addition, she is the one who has to take care of her father, who has lately been having trouble with his memory. It's hard to say just how advanced Claude's condition really is. Often he plays up his forgetfulness and uses it to tyrannize the people around him. At other times he seems truly lost, confusing faces, places and even his age. That discrepancy, as comical or as droll as it may sometimes be, gradually becomes the cause of his friends and relations' distress.
Director: Philippe Le Guay
Year: 2015
Language: French
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Unbranded
On an epic 3,000-mile journey from Mexico to Canada, four young cowboys riding wild mustangs embark on the adventure of a lifetime. With exquisite cinematography of breathtaking terrain from the Grand Canyon to Yellowstone, Unbranded celebrates the worth of these magnificent creatures while exposing the issues that threaten their very existence.
Director: Phillip Baribeau
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Meru
After suffering dramatic set backs in their lives, three close friends, who are among the world's best professional climbers, battle their complicated pasts, inner demons and nature's harshest elements in an attempt to climb the Shark's Fin on Mount Meru, considered the ultimate prize in the exclusive high stakes game of Himalayan big wall climbing.
Director: Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Victoria
Victoria, a young Spanish woman, dances through the Berlin scene with abandon. She meets four mates outside a club who introduce themselves as Sonne, Boxer, Blinker and Fuß. They quickly get chatting. Sonne and Victoria take a fancy to each other and slip away from the group at the first opportunity. But their tender flirting is rudely interrupted by the others because, for these pals, the night is far from over. To settle an old debt they have to pull off a dodgy deal. And because one of them is too drunk, they decide that Victoria, of all people, should take over the role of driver. What began as a game suddenly becomes deadly serious.
Director: Sebastian Schipper
Year: 2015
Language: German/Turkish/English
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime
Every Thing Will Be Fine
EVERY THING WILL BE FINE, based on an original script by the Norwegian Bjørn Olaf Johannessen, tells the story of Tomas (James Franco), a writer who loses control of his life after a car accident. Even though he is not directly at fault, his relationship with his girlfriend breaks down because of this event and his life and work suddenly set off in a completely new direction. The film follows Tomas over a period of 12 years and tells an intimate story of guilt and the search for forgiveness.
Director: Wim Wenders
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Drama
(Dis)Honesty
From ticket-fixing in our police departments to test-score scandals in our schools, from our elected leaders' extra-marital affairs to financial schemes undermining our economy, dishonesty seems to be a ubiquitous part of the news. But it's not just true in the headlines - we ALL cheat.
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Man Up
When Nancy is mistaken for Jack's blind date under the clock at Waterloo Station, she decides to take fate into her own hands and just go with it. What could possibly go wrong? Man Up is an honest, heartwarming romantic comedy about taking chances and rolling with the consequences. One night, two people, on a first date like no other...
Director: Ben Palmer
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Romance, Comedy
MI-5
Based on the BAFTA-winning hit TV series that has sold to more than 60 countries worldwide. When charismatic terrorist Adam Qasim (Elyes Gabel) escapes from MI5 custody during a high profile handover, the legendary Harry Pearce (Peter Firth), Head of Counter-terrorism, is blamed. Disgraced and forced to resign, no-one's surprised when Harry disappears one night off a bridge into the Thames...
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Thriller, Drama, Action
400 Days
In preparation for a journey into deep space, four astronauts are sent on a simulated mission that lasts 400 days. But when they emerge from the ship, they realize it may not have been a simulation after all…
Director: Matt Osterman
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Sci-Fi, Mystery
Angry Indian Goddesses
ANGRY INDIAN GODDESSES is India's first female buddy movie with a fresh, realistic portrait of women in India today. Frieda, a fashion-commercial photographer trying to find her own art, gathers her closest girlfriends from all over India to travel to Goa for a surprise announcement: she's getting married! Thus begins an impromptu bachelorette party that lasts for a full week-a riotous roller-coaster ride in a sumptuous setting. Through the fun and frenzy, heartbreak and heartache, passion and obsession, youth and innocence, secrets tumble out, tensions emerge, bonds are formed and emotions run high. Soon events will take a more serious turn, but for the moment these women are determined to seize the day.
Director: Pan Nalin
Year: 2015
Language: Hindi
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Viva
Jesus is a hairdresser for a troupe of drag performers in Havana, but dreams of being a performer. When he finally gets his chance to be on stage, a stranger emerges from the crowd and punches him in the face. The stranger is his father Angel, a former boxer, who has been absent from his life for 15 years. As father and son clash over their opposing expectations of each other, Viva becomes a love story as the men struggle to understand one another and become a family again.
Director: Paddy Breathnach
Year: 2015
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama
Beeba Boys
Deepa Mehta mixes guns, bhangra beats, bespoke suits, cocaine and betrayal in BEEBA BOYS: an adrenaline-charged portrait of an Indo-Canadian gang war, depicting an exciting and violent clash of culture and crime. Gang leader Jeet Johar (Randeep Hooda) and his young, loyal, and brutal crew dress like peacocks, love attention and openly compete with an old-style Indo crime syndicate to take over the Vancouver underground drug and gun industries. Blood is spilled, hearts are broken and family bonds are shattered as the Beeba Boys (the "nice boys") will do anything to be seen and to be feared, in a white world. BEEBA BOYS is a modern gangster film by an internationally celebrated female director; a movie where stereotypes are intentionally challenged and which takes us deep inside this Indo-Canadian underworld - a specific culture that no crime movie has explored before.
Director: Deepa Mehta
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime
Faith of Our Fathers
With the Vietnam War raging in 1969, two young fathers report for duty. A man of great faith and a doubtful cynic. A quarter-century later, their sons, Wayne and John Paul, meet as strangers.
Guided by handwritten letters from their fathers from the battlefield, they embark on an unforgettable journey to The Wall-the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. Along the way, they discover the devastation of war cannot break the love of a father for his son. FAITH OF OUR FATHERS: a story of fatherhood; a journey of brotherhood.
Director: Carey Scott
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Standoff
A 12-year-old girl witnesses a murder and is chased by the assassin to an isolated farmhouse occupied by a suicidal man holding a shotgun with a single shell. A tense standoff ensues over the next 24 hours as the two desperate men fight for the little girl’s life and engage in physical and psychological warfare.
Director: Adam Alleca
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Boy and the Beast, The
"The Boy and the Beast" is a coming-of-age tale about Kyuta, a lonely Japanese boy living in Shibuya and Kumatetsu, a lonesome beast inhabiting Jutengai, an imaginary world. One day, Kyuta forays into the imaginary world and, as he's looking for his way back, meets Kumatetsu who becomes his guide and friend. That chance encounter leads them to many adventures filled with fantasy and action.
Director: Mamoru Hosoda
Year: 2015
Language: Japanese
Genre: Adventure, Action, Animation
Woodlawn
A gifted high school football player must learn to embrace his talent while battling racial tensions on and off the field in Woodlawn, a moving and inspirational new film based on a remarkable true story. Starring Academy Award® winner Jon Voight as college football coaching legend Paul "Bear" Bryant, and Sean Astin (Lord of the Rings).
Director: Andrew Erwin, Jon Erwin
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Avril et le Monde Truqué
In an alternate history where Napoleon's heirs rule France, scientists and scholars have gone missing for years, leaving behind a world deprived of their technological innovations. In this land powered by coal and steam, young April searches for her missing scientist parents.
Year: 2015
Language: French
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Animation
Neon
NEON celebrates the beauty, colour and vibrant history of the neon sign from an International perspective as we face a world where it will soon be lost and superceded by L.E.D. signage. Neon is 100 years old and the craft and construction has changed very little, making neon one the greenest forms of light ever produced and an amazing and enduring force of colour and light in the visual landscapes of our lives.
Director: Lawrence Johnston
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Phoenix Incident
A group of men find themselves caught in the middle of a war between alien forces and the military in this sci-fi thriller from legendary gaming director Keith Arem (Call of Duty).
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Sci-Fi
Oddball
An eccentric chicken farmer, with the help of his granddaughter, trains his mischievous dog Oddball to protect a penguin sanctuary from fox attacks in an attempt to reunite his family and save their seaside town.
Director: Stuart McDonald
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Family
Sunday Horse, A
After a near-fatal accident, a determined young rider (Nikki Reed) defies all odds to chase her dreams of competing in a national horse-jumping championship. Inspired by a true story.
Director: Vic Armstrong
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Sports, Drama, Family
Wave, The
In this pulse-pounding thriller, a geologist tries to prevent a tsunami from destroying a popular tourist destination. With less than 10 minutes to react, it becomes a race against time in order to save as many as possible, including his own family.
Director: Roar Uthaug
Year: 2015
Language: Norwegian
Genre: Adventure, Thriller, Drama, Action
Adderall Diaries, The
Based on the bestselling memoir by Stephen Elliott, The Adderall Diaries is the story of an author (James Franco) paralyzed by writer's block and an escalating drug dependency who is sucked down the rabbit hole of a high-profile murder case. As Elliott becomes increasingly obsessed with the trial, his own nightmarish childhood memories resurface, particularly of his cruel and distant father (Ed Harris). But when his estranged father returns with his own story to tell, fact and fiction become blurred in an amphetamine-induced haze.
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Action
z
Jake (Theo Taplitz) is a quiet, sensitive middle schooler with dreams of being an artist. He meets the affably brash Tony (Michael Barbieri) at his grandfather’s funeral, and the unlikely pair soon hit it off. The budding friendship is put at risk, however, when a rent dispute between Jake’s parents, Brian and Kathy (Greg Kinnear and Jennifer Ehle), and Tony’s mother, Leonor (Paulina Garcia), threatens to become contentious.
Year: 2015
Genre: Drama
Colonia
A young woman (Emma Watson) embarks on a desperate journey to rescue her boyfriend from a mysterious and dangerous cult.
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: History, Thriller, Drama, Romance
Emelie
After their regular babysitter Maggie can’t make it, the Thompson family turns to her friend Anna to supervise their children while the parents go out to celebrate their anniversary. At first Anna seems like a dream come true to the kids, allowing them to eat extra cookies and play with things that are usually off-limits, but as her behavior becomes increasingly odd, the kids soon find out that her intentions are dark and twisted, and she is not who she seems to be.
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Other Half, The
A psychological drama that centers on a passionate love affair between a self-destructive drifter and a bi-polar woman.
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance
Blackcoat's Daughter, The
Stranded at their Catholic prep school over winter break, two young girls fall into the terrifying grasp of an unseen evil force. Meanwhile, a mysterious hospital escapee (Emma Roberts), charts a course towards the school.
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Survivalist, The
In a kill-or-be-killed post-apocalyptic future ravaged by starvation, a lone survivalist is threatened by two women claiming to seek food and shelter.
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Sci-Fi
Do You Believe?
A dozen different souls—all moving in different directions, all longing for something more. As their lives unexpectedly intersect, they each are about to discover there is power in the Cross of Christ … even if they don't believe it. Yet.
When a local pastor is shaken to the core by the visible faith of an old street-corner preacher, he is reminded that true belief always requires action. His response ignites a faith-fueled journey that powerfully impacts everyone it touches in ways that only God could orchestrate.
Director: Jonathan M. Gunn
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Where to Invade Next
Where to Invade Next is an expansive, rib-tickling, and subversive comedy in which Moore, playing the role of "invader", visits a host of nations to learn how the U.S. could improve its own prospects. The creator of Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling for Columbine is back with this hilarious and eye-opening call to arms. Turns out the solutions to America's most entrenched problems already exist in the world - they're just waiting to be co-opted.
Director: Michael Moore
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Miles Ahead
MILES AHEAD is a wildly entertaining and moving exploration of one of 20th century music's creative geniuses, Miles Davis, featuring a career-defining performance by Oscar nominee Don Cheadle in the title role. Working from a script he co-wrote with Steven Baigelman, Cheadle's bravura directorial debut is not a conventional biopic but rather a unique, no-holds-barred portrait of a singular artist in crisis.
Director: Don Cheadle
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Music & Live Performance, Drama, Biography
Diary of a Teenage Girl, The
Like most teenage girls, Minnie Goetze (Bel Powley) is longing for love, acceptance and a sense of purpose in the world. Minnie begins a complex love affair with her mother's (Kristen Wiig) boyfriend, "the handsomest man in the world," Monroe Rutherford (Alexander Skarsgård). What follows is a sharp, funny and provocative account of one girl's sexual and artistic awakening, without judgment.
Director: Marielle Heller
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy
Lace Crater
After a bizarre sexual encounter with a ghost, a twenty-something woman (Lindsay Burdge) begins experiencing inexplicable changes in her body.
Director: Harrison Atkins
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Drama, Romance, Comedy, Mystery
Nailed!
A romantic comedy about a naïve small town waitress (Biel) who gets a nail accidentally lodged in her head causing unpredictable and erratic behavior that leads her to Washington, DC, where sparks fly when she meets a clueless young Congressman (Gyllenhaal) who takes up her cause and searches for the courage to save her.
Director: David O. Russell
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Meddler, The
Susan Sarandon delivers one of her most richly satisfying performances in this insightful and winning comedy-drama about an incessantly doting mother who, after her husband passes away, follows her daughter (Rose Byrne) to Los Angeles and makes an unexpected connection.
Director: Lorene Scafaria
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy
Son of Saul
October 1944, Auschwitz-Birkenau. Saul Ausländer is a Hungarian member of the Sonderkommando, the group of Jewish prisoners isolated from the camp and forced to assist the Nazis in the machinery of large-scale extermination. While working in one of the crematoriums, Saul discovers the corpse of a boy he takes for his son. As the Sonderkommando plans a rebellion, Saul decides to carry out an impossible task: save the child's body from the flames, find a rabbi to recite the mourner's Kaddish and offer the boy a proper burial.
Director: László Nemes
Year: 2015
Language: Hungarian
Genre: History, Thriller, Drama
Maggie's Plan
A young woman whose determination to have a child involves her in a love triangle with an unhappy academic and his eccentric critical-theorist wife.
Director: Rebecca Miller
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy
Grandma
Elle Reid (Lily Tomlin) has just gotten through breaking up with her girlfriend when her granddaughter Sage (Julia Garner) unexpectedly shows up needing $600 before sundown. Temporarily broke, Grandma Elle and Sage spend the day trying to get their hands on the cash as their unannounced visits to old friends and flames end up rattling skeletons and digging up secrets.
Director: Paul Weitz
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
Gridlocked
Former SWAT leader David Hendrix and hard-partying movie star Brody Walker must cut their ride-along short when a police training facility is attacked by a team of mercenaries.
Director: Allan Ungar
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Action
Bronze, The
In 2004, Hope Ann Greggory became an American hero after winning the bronze medal for the women's gymnastics team. Today, she's still living in her small hometown, washed-up and embittered. Stuck in the past, Hope must reassess her life when a promising young gymnast threatens her local celebrity status.
Director: Bryan Buckley
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Sports, Drama, Comedy
Lady in the Van, The
A big screen adaptation of writer Alan Bennett's iconic and celebrated memoir, directed by long-standing Bennett collaborator Nicholas Hytner. The film tells the true story of the relationship between Alan Bennett and the singular Miss Shepherd, a woman of uncertain origins who 'temporarily' parked her van in Bennett's London driveway and proceeded to live there for 15 years. Their unique story is funny, poignant and life-affirming.
Director: Nicholas Hytner
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Biography
Land of Mine
In this based-on-fact war drama, a group of German POWs are put to work by the Allies, defusing their own landmines on the west coast of Denmark in the immediate aftermath of World War II.
Director: Martin Nadvliet
Year: 2015
Language: Danish, German
Genre: History, War, Drama
Irrational Man
When a burned-out, brilliant professor - one who believes in lessons from life rather than textbooks - takes a job at a small college, everyone there is abuzz. He becomes involved with a teacher as well as a precocious student, but it takes a dramatic, existential act to turn his life around and make him see the world through a much rosier and more positive perspective.
Director: Woody Allen
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Infinitely Polar Bear
Mark Ruffalo and Zoe Saldana star in this comedic drama about a manic-depressive Harvard dropout struggling to care for his two daughters as his estranged wife attends graduate school in New York City.
Director: Maya Forbes
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
13 Minutes
A carpenter from Königsbronn in Swabia, Georg Elser was a man who could have changed world history and saved millions of human lives. If only he had had 13 more minutes. With 13 more minutes, the bomb he had personally assembled would have torn apart Adolf Hitler and his henchmen. But this was not to be, and on 8 November 1939, Hitler left the scene of the attempted assassination earlier than expected - leaving Elser to fail catastrophically.
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel
Year: 2015
Language: German
Genre: War, Drama, Biography
I Saw The Light
The story of the country-western singer Hank Williams, who in his brief life created one of the greatest bodies of work in American music. The film chronicles his rise to fame and its tragic effect on his health and personal life.
Director: Marc Abraham
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Music & Live Performance, Drama, Biography
Coming Home
Lu and Feng are a devoted couple forced to separate when Lu is arrested and sent to a labor camp as a political prisoner during the Cultural Revolution. He finally returns home only to find that his beloved wife no longer remembers him.
Director: Zhang Yimou
Year: 2014
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Drama, Romance
Gemma Bovery
Gemma Arterton stars in this amusing and sexy modern-day re-working of Flaubert’s 19th century novel, Madame Bovary. Having moved to a rustic farm with her older husband, Gemma (Arterton) soon tires of their ‘simpler’ life and finds distraction in a torrid affair with a handsome young aristocrat. Meanwhile, Martin, a local baker and lover of literature, becomes besotted with Gemma, but also fears she may suffer the same fate as the heroine in his favourite novel.
Director: Anne Fontaine
Year: 2014
Language: French, English
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy
Wild Tales
A story about love deception, the return of the past, a tragedy, or even the violence contained in an everyday detail, appear themselves to push them towards the abyss, into the undeniable pleasure of losing control.
Director: Damián Szifron
Year: 2014
Language: Spanish
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Comedy
Winter Sleep
Aydin, a former actor, runs a small hotel in central Anatolia with his young wife Nihal with whom he has a stormy relationship and his sister Necla who is suffering from her recent divorce. In winter as the snow begins to fall, the hotel turns into a shelter but also an inescapable place that fuels their animosities...
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Year: 2014
Language: Turkish
Genre: Drama
New Girlfriend, The
A young woman makes a surprising discovery about the husband of her late best friend.
Director: François Ozon
Year: 2014
Language: French
Genre: Drama
Deux jours, une nuit (Two Days, One Night)
Sandra has only one weekend to visit her colleagues and - with the help of her husband - convince them to sacrifice their bonuses so she can keep her job.
Director: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Year: 2014
Language: French
Genre: Drama
It Follows
For 19-year-old Jay, fall should be about school, boys and weekends at the lake. Yet, after a seemingly innocent sexual encounter she suddenly finds herself plagued by nightmarish visions; she can't shake the sensation that someone, or something, is following her. As the threat closes in, Jay and her friends must somehow escape the horrors that are only a few steps behind.
Director: David Robert Mitchell
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Seymour: An Introduction
Meet Seymour Bernstein: a beloved pianist, teacher and true inspiration who shares eye-opening insights from an amazing life. Ethan Hawke helms this poignant guide to life.
Director: Ethan Hawke
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Boychoir
A recently orphaned 12 year old boy is sent to a musical boarding school by an anonymous donor – no-one expected this rebellious loner to achieve the standards required to join the Boychoir – a choral band of brothers who travel the world and maintain the school’s famed status.
Director: François Girard
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Family
Life Partners
Life Partners tells the comedic tale of two lifelong best friends, Paige and Sasha. The two are polar opposites who turn to each other for all of life's up and downs. All is fine until Paige meets Tim, a young and charming doctor. As the relationship heats up, Paige and Sasha must learn how to work Tim into their friendship.
Director: Susanna Fogel
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy
Son of a Gun
While locked up for a minor offence, 19-year-old JR (Brenton Thwaites) becomes apprentice to the enigmatic Brendan Lynch (Ewan McGregor), a calculating crime boss with connections both inside and out. After helping Lynch and his crew orchestrate a daring prison escape, JR is invited to join in on their next job – a high stakes heist that promises to deliver millions. But as they plan the heist, JR begins to suspect he is being played and soon finds himself on a collision course with his mentor, in a very dangerous game.
Director: Julius Avery
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Crime, Action, Family
Salt of the Earth
Co-directed by master filmmaker Wim Wenders (Pina), The Salt of the Earth takes us on a stunning visual odyssey as we see the world through the eyes of one of the greatest image-makers of the last century - world-renowned photographer Sebastião Salgado. Having captured some of the major events of our recent history, Salgado is now embarking on the discovery of pristine territories and grandiose landscapes as tribute to the planet's beauty.
Director: Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado
Year: 2014
Language: English, French, Portuguese
Genre: Documentary
5 to 7
20-something aspiring writer Brian enters into a passionate love affair with a glamorous French woman. The catch? She's married, and can only meet him for brief trysts in fancy Manhattan hotels. Co-starring Frank Langella, Glenn Close, and Olivia Thirlby, this sexy romantic romp captures the giddy thrill of being young and in love.
Director: Victor Levin
Year: 2014
Language: English, French
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy
Time Lapse
Three friends discover a mysterious machine that takes pictures 24hrs into the future. When they start to use it for personal gain, the machine takes over their lives and controls their future, with devastating results.
Director: Bradley King
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Sci-Fi
Extinction
Deep in the Amazon jungle a research team lead by Professor Howson (Ben Loyd Holmes - Skyfall) strive to protect vulnerable and endangered species, but when their guide Carlos (Ernesto Cantu - World War Z) abandons them, they begin to realize they are in the hunting ground of an apex predator.
Director: Adam Spinks
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller, Action, Sci-Fi
5 Flights Up
5 Flights Up is set over a weekend where a couple must decide whether or not to sell their Brooklyn walk up of 40 years. The story takes a comedic turn when the dynamic couple have to contend with eccentric open house guests, their pushy realtor niece, and the health of their beloved family dog - all while navigating a New York on edge from what turns out to be an media-generated terror threat.
Director: Richard Loncraine
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Aloft
ALOFT tells the story of a struggling mother, Nana Kunning (Jennifer Connelly) and her evolution into a renowned artist and healer. When a young journalist (Mélanie Laurent) tracks down her son Ivan (Cillian Murphy) 20 years after Nana abandoned him, she sets in motion an encounter between the two at the very edge of the earth that will bring the very meaning of their lives into question, and force them to contemplate living life to its fullest, despite the distance between them and the uncertainties littering their paths.
Healing will bring warmth, even in the coldest place on earth.
Director: Claudia Llosa
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama
American Heist
James (Hayden Christensen) owes his life to his older brother Frankie (Adrien Brody) after Frankie took the rap for a crime they both committed. After Frankie serves his time, he convinces James to join him in an ill-fated bank robbery in the hopes that one last job will change both their lives.
Director: Sarik Andreasyan
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Thriller, Drama, Crime, Action
Preggoland
When 35-year-old Ruth ruins a baby shower with her juvenile antics, her old high school cronies-who are all mothers now-promptly de-friend her. But when she is later mistakenly thought to be ‘with child’ she is inexplicably welcomed back into the group. Although she initially tries to come clean, the many perks of pregnancy are far too seductive to ignore. Preggoland is a comedy about our societal obsession with babies and the lengths we’ll go to be part of a club.
Director: Jacob Tierney
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Rançon de la gloire, La
Eddy, recently out of prison, needs money to support his family. With the death of Charlie Chaplin announced on television, Eddy decides to steal his casket, and demand ransom from the deceased actor’s family.
Director: Xavier Beauvois
Year: 2014
Language: French, English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Robot Overlords
Following an alien invasion, Earth’s inhabitants are forbidden from leaving their homes while their new Robot Overlords carry out their mysterious research. But when a band of adoptive siblings find a way to override their implants, a quest begins to find a missing father, even if it means defying an empire.
Director: Jon Wright
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Action, Sci-Fi
Time Out of Mind
Director: Oren Moverman
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama
What We Have
Haunted by his life on stage in France, Maurice Lesmers seeks refuge in a remote town in Northern Canada where he discovers there is little outlet for his gay appetite for anonymous one-night stands. To make ends meet, Maurice takes a job tutoring French to 15-year old Allan, a shy student struggling at school, and auditions for the local theatre company’s French production of Molière’s The Miser. When he lands the leading role, Maurice is surprisingly drawn to the company’s handsome manager, Michael. But their relationship is endangered when Maurice gets caught up in Allan’s adolescent world and risks everything to protect his young student from a relentless bully and the hardships of coming out.
Director: Maxime Desmons
Year: 2014
Language: French, English
Genre: Drama
Narcopolis
In 2022, the manufacture and consumption of drugs has been legalised. Drecks are an elite unit created by an over-stretched police force to keep the black market dealers off the streets and the licensed drug companies rich. When dreck and former addict Frank Grieves is called to investigate an unidentifiable corpse, he makes a connection to the biggest and most powerful drug producer of them all: The Ambro Company. But Ambro have friends in high places and as his corrupt superiors turn on him, Grieves finds himself cut loose by the law and separated from the people he loves. The only way to clear his name is to find the identity of the dead body and its connection to Ambro. But not even Grieves is ready for what the future has in store.
Director: Justin Trefgarne
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Sci-Fi, Mystery
When Animals Dream
16-year old Marie lives on a small island with her seriously ill mother and her father, who takes care of the family. But suddenly mysterious deaths happen and Marie can feel something strange happening to her body.
Director: Jonas Alexander Arnby
Year: 2014
Language: Danish
Genre: Horror, Drama, Mystery
Manglehorn
Left heartbroken by the woman he loved and lost many years ago, AJ Manglehorn (Al Pacino), a small-town locksmith, tries to start his life over again with the help of a new friend (Holly Hunter).
Director: David Gordon Green
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Snowman
From childhood, Kevin Fogolin dreamed of living and working in the mountains. After breaking the shackles of small-town expectations, his dream comes crashing down in a helicopter avalanche bombing mission gone horribly wrong. In the aftermath, Kevin and his childhood friend, freeskiing icon Mike Douglas, are forced to confront the risks and rewards of following their passion for the mountains. Set in British Columbia's rugged Coast Mountain Range, SNOWMAN is a familiar tale of dreaming big and a life where the greatest risk is not daring to dream at all.
Director: Mike Douglas, Anthony Bonello
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Action, Documentary
Don't Tell Me The Boy Was Mad
In the 80s, Aram, a young man from Marseille of Armenian origin, blows up the Turkish ambassador's car in Paris. Gilles Tessier, a young cyclist who was passing at that moment, is seriously injured. Aram, on the run, joins the Armenian Liberation Army in Beirut, the hotbed of international revolution in those years. Gilles is trying to understand when Anouch, Aram's mother, arrives in his hospital room to beg his forgiveness. She admits that her son planted the bomb. Aram clashes with his comrades in Beirut and decides to meet his victim to make him his spokesman...
Director: Robert Guédiguian
Year: 2014
Language: French
Genre: Drama
Early Winter
David, 45, works long nights as a night guard in a retirement home. He dotes on his children, plies his wife with latest model gadgets and cars, and keeps the wheels of his life turning with painkillers and antidepressants. But when he catches her with a lover, his life spirals out of control, bringing him to the brink of insanity, gaunt and alone, but free, maybe, for the first time in his adult life.
Director: Michael Rowe
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Lobster, The
A love story set in the near future where single people, according to the rules of The City, are arrested and transferred to The Hotel. There they are obliged to find a matching mate in 45 days. If they fail, they are transformed into an animal of their choosing and released into The Woods. A desperate Man escapes from The Hotel to The Woods where The Loners live and falls in love, although it is against their rules.
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy
Creative Control
In a near-future Brooklyn, David is an overworked, tech-addicted advertising executive working on a high profile campaign for a new generation of Augmented Reality glasses. Envious of his best friend Wim's charmed life and obsessed with his entrancing girlfriend Sophie, David uses the glasses to develop a life-like avatar of her; but he isn't prepared for what happens when the line between reality and virtual reality begins to blur.
Director: Benjamin Dickenson
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Dheepan
Winner of the Palme D’Or at Cannes. An improvised "family" flees civil war in Sri Lanka only to end up in another violent conflict in Parisian slums.
Director: Jacques Audiard
Year: 2014
Language: French, Tamil
Genre: Drama, Crime
Fall
Father Sam Ryan, (Michael Murphy), an aging Roman Catholic Priest living contentedly at a Niagara Falls parish, receives a letter forcing his complacent life into a downward spiral. The letter, from "Christopher," confronts him about an incident that happened 40 years ago. Father Sam was a young, charismatic priest, serving a remote, Northern Ontario parish. Christopher was a 14-year-old adolescent, whom Sam mentored. The letter asks Father Sam for the truth: what did take place all those years ago? Were lines blurred or crossed? What choices were made?
Director: Terrance Odette
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Un été en Provence
Lea, Adrian, and their little brother Theo go on holiday in Provence with their estranged grandfather, whom they have never met because of a family quarrel. It is not the holiday they dreamed of, especially since their parents have just announced that they are splitting up. But despite the initial disappointment and the inevitable clash of generations, over the course of their turbulent summer, both generations will be transformed by the other.
Director: Roselyne Bosch
Year: 2014
Language: French
Genre: Drama, Romance
Merchants of Doubt
Documentarian Robert Kenner (Food, Inc.) investigates the shadowy world of professional skeptics, whose services are bought and paid for by corporations, think tanks and other special interests to cast doubt and delay public and governmental action on climate change.
Director: Robert Kenner, Maya Anand
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
By the Gun
Nick Tortano is an ambitious criminal from the streets of Boston whose life spirals out of control once he joins the mafia. When he comes head-to-head with the ‘Boss’ (Harvey Keitel), Nick’s girlfriend, family, and friends’ lives are placed in danger. To protect himself and the ones he loves, Nick is forced to gun down anyone that stands in his way.
Director: James Mottern
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime
Foxcatcher
Based on true events, FOXCATCHER tells the dark and fascinating story of the unlikely and ultimately tragic relationship between an eccentric multi-millionaire and two champion wrestlers. FOXCATCHER is a rich and moving story of brotherly love, misguided loyalty and the corruption and emotional bankruptcy that can accompany great power and wealth. As with Academy Award nominee Bennett Miller's previous feature films, CAPOTE and MONEYBALL, he explores large themes in society through his complex character portraits of real people.
Director: Bennett Miller
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Sports, Drama, Biography
Elsa & Fred
"Elsa and Fred" is the story of two people who, at the end of the road, discover that it's never too late to love and make dreams come true.
Director: Michael Radfort
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy
Red Army
From Oscar® nominated and Emmy award winning filmmakers, RED ARMY is a feature documentary about the Soviet Union and the most successful dynasty in sports history: the Red Army hockey team. Told from the perspective of its captain Slava Fetisov, the story portrays his transformation from national hero to political enemy. From the USSR to Russia, the film examines how sport mirrors social and cultural movements and parallels the rise and fall of the Red Army team with the Soviet Union.
RED ARMY is an inspiring story about the Cold War played out on the ice rink, and a man who stood up to a powerful system and paved the way for change for generations of Russians.
Director: Gabe Polsky
Year: 2014
Language: English, Russian
Genre: History, Documentary, Biography
Princess Grace
Nicole Kidman stars as legendary Hollywood actress-turned-princess Grace Kelly in this lavish biographical drama from acclaimed director Olivier Dahan. Six years after leaving Hollywood to become Princess of Monaco, Grace, now a mother of two, considers a comeback in the movies against her husband's wishes. But with political strife threatening war in her country, Grace must choose once and for all between her life as a film star and her role as princess.
Director: Olivier Dahan
Year: 2014
Language: English, French
Genre: Drama, Romance, Biography
Ritournelle, La
Brigitte and Xavier have a good life. Their farm exploitation prospers and their children have left home to live on their own…A man of few words, Xavier spends most of his time taking care of the cattle.
A sophisticated dreamer, Brigitte keeps hoping for something else, something more... To escape the monotony of her everyday life, she decides to go on a solo, whirl-wind weekend in Paris. And the French capital does indeed offer freedom and adventure…
Director: Marc Fitoussi
Year: 2014
Language: French
Genre: Comedy
Lambert & Stamp
In the crazy, chaotic gospel of chance that is LAMBERT & STAMP, aspiring filmmakers Chris Stamp and Kit Lambert set out to find a subject for their underground movie, one that will reflect the way it feels to be young and dissatisfied in postwar London. This brilliant, but unlikely, partnership of two men from vastly different backgrounds was inspired by the burgeoning youth culture of the early 1960s. Lambert and Stamp searched for months and finally found in a band called the High Numbers a rebellious restlessness that was just what they were looking for. Abandoning their plans to make a film, they instead decided to mentor and manage this group, which evolved into the iconic band known as the Who. The result was rock 'n' roll history.
Director: James D. Cooper
Year: 2014
Language: English, French, German
Genre: History, Documentary, Biography
Vacances du Petit Nicolas, Les
It's the end of the school year. The long-awaited holidays have finally arrived. Little Nicolas, his parents and Mémé hit the road heading for the sea, and move into the Beau-Rivage Hotel. At the beach, Nicolas wastes little time making new friends: there's Blaise, who isn't on holiday because he lives here; Fructueux, who eats anything, all the time... Even fish... raw. There's Djodjo, who talks funny because he's English, Crépin the constant crybaby and Côme, who always wants to be right and is really, really annoying. Nicolas also gets to know Isabelle, a little girl who follows him everywhere, wide-eyed. "How sweet, those two. I hear wedding bells in the future," laugh the grown-ups. Nicolas panics! Luckily his pals are there to help him... and to cause trouble. Between the beach, the hotel and the forest, with his friends, his family, the beach attendant and the swimming coach, Nicolas is really going to enjoy a holiday to remember.
Director: Laurent Tirard
Year: 2014
Language: French
Genre: Comedy, Family
Long Way Down, A
A Long Way Down is a funny and charming comedy starring Pierce Brosnan, Toni Collette, Aaron Paul, Imogen Poots and Sam Neill. On New Year’s Eve, four strangers meet atop a London skyscraper, each looking for a way out. Instead, these perfect strangers make a pact to stay together until Valentine’s Day, sparking a media frenzy as they help one another find the beauty in being alive. Based on the novel by acclaimed writer Nick Hornby (About a Boy, Fever Pitch).
Director: Pascal Chaumeil
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Labyrinth of Lies
Frankfurt 1958: nobody wants to look back to the time of the National Socialist regime. Young prosecuting attorney Johann Radmann comes across some documents that help to initiate the trial against some members of the SS who served in Auschwitz. But both the horrors of the past and the hostility against his work bring Johann to the point of meltdown. It is nearly impossible for him to find his way through this maze; everybody seems to have been involved or guilty.
Director: Giulio Ricciarelli
Year: 2014
Language: German
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Love Is Strange
Ben and George take advantage of New York's new marriage laws and tie the knot after being together for 39 years. Unfortunately, the Catholic school where George teaches does not approve and they reluctantly fire him, forcing the couple to split up and stay with friends while they sell their apartment and look for cheaper housing. George crashes with two gay police officers, while Ben, who's a painter, bunks with his nephew's family in Brooklyn -- a temporary situation that weighs heavily on all involved.
Director: Ira Sachs
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance
Little Accidents
When a mining disaster tears at the fabric of an Appalachian coal-mining town, the lives of three very different inhabitants become inexplicably tangled in a web of secrets. Amos Jenkins, the sole survivor of the tragedy, unwillingly becomes a focal point of the resulting investigation. As tensions rise over who to blame for the deadly mishap, the teenage son of a top executive at the coal mine goes missing. Diane, the boy's mother, grows emotionally estranged from her husband Bill as they search in vain for their child. Turning to the local church for support, Diane not only finds a comforting friend in Amos, but also meets one of her son's classmates, Owen Briggs, whom she learns was present at the time of his disappearance.
Director: Sara Colangelo
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Heartbeat
Justine, paralyzed by stage fright, gave up a far fetched dream of becoming a singer songwriter and tucked her heart away, ignoring what it was desperately trying to tell her: that in order to live, it needs to beat. Now accustomed to avoiding what makes her heart beat, Justine is stuck. She lives in a mausoleum - the house she inherited from her grandmother; writes uninspired copy for a data management company and lies to her best friend, Lorna, about continuing to sleep with her ex, Ben. After Ben leaves town, putting an end to their late night trysts, Justine, depressed and unfulfilled, picks up her dusty guitar and finally faces the music - her music - and her heart begins to beat again. Heartbeat mixes Justine’s live-action story about facing her greatest fear with an animated fable about the joy of her beating heart.
Director: Andrea Dorfman
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Canadian, Drama, Romance, Comedy
Our Little Sister
Three sisters - Sachi, Yoshino and Chika - live together in a large house in the city of Kamakura. When their father - absent from the family home for the last 15 years - dies, they travel to the countryside for his funeral, and meet their shy teenage half-sister. Bonding quickly with the orphaned Suzu, they invite her to live with them. Suzu eagerly agrees, and a new life of joyful discovery begins for the four siblings...
Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Year: 2014
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama
Boyhood
Filmed over 12 years with the same cast, Richard Linklater's BOYHOOD is a groundbreaking story of growing up as seen through the eyes of a child named Mason (a breakthrough performance by Ellar Coltrane), who literally grows up on screen before our eyes. Starring Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette as Mason's parents and newcomer Lorelei Linklater as his sister Samantha, BOYHOOD charts the rocky terrain of childhood like no other film has before. Snapshots of adolescence from road trips and family dinners to birthdays and graduations and all the moments in between become transcendent, set to a soundtrack spanning the years from Coldplay's Yellow to Arcade Fire's Deep Blue. BOYHOOD is both a nostalgic time capsule of the recent past and an ode to growing up and parenting. It's impossible to watch Mason and his family without thinking about our own journey.
Director: Richard Linklater
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Diplomatie
August 25th, 1944. The Allies enter Paris. Warsaw has been destroyed three weeks earlier by the Germans.
Shortly before dawn, Dietrich von Choltitz (Niels Arestrup), German military governor of Paris, prepares to execute Adolph Hitler’s orders to blow up the French capital. Bridges and monuments are all rigged to explode.
And yet, Paris is not destroyed. For what reasons did von Choltitz refuse to carry out the Fuhrer’s commands, despite his boundless loyalty to the Third Reich?
Was it Raoul Nordling (André Dussollier), Swedish consul-general to Paris, who made the General change his mind?
Director: Volker Schlöndorff
Year: 2014
Language: French
Genre: War, Drama
Hard Drive
Hard Drive is the story of one young man’s unexpected plunge into adulthood–from youthful restlessness to the uplifting joy of first love.
Director: William D. MacGillivray
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Action, Romance
I Put a Hit on You
A brokenhearted woman teams up with her ex-boyfriend to try and stop the hitman she accidentally hired to kill him.
Director: Dane Clark, Linsey Stewart
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Romance, Comedy
Testament of Youth
Testament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classic testimony of that war from a woman's point of view. A searing journey from youthful hopes and dreams to the edge of despair and back again, it's a film about young love, the futility of war and how to make sense of the darkest times.
Director: James Kent
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: History, Drama, Biography
Jimmy's Hall
In 1921 Jimmy opened a dance hall, where he encouraged young Irish men and women not only to dance, but to discuss the cultural oppression and poverty of the time. However, Jimmy's past as a leader of the Revolutionary Workers' Group, a predecessor of the Communist Party of Ireland, sparked protests against Jimmy running a hall where he was influencing young people.
Director: Ken Loach
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: History, Drama, Biography
V/H/S Viral
A police chase after a deranged ice cream truck has captivated the attention of the greater Los Angeles area. Dozens of fame-obsessed teens flock to the streets with their video cameras and camera phones, hell-bent on capturing the next viral video. But there is something far more sinister occurring in the streets of L.A. than a simple police chase. A resounding effect is created onto all those obsessed with capturing salacious footage for no other purpose than to amuse or titillate. Soon the discovery becomes that they themselves are the stars of the next video, one where they face their own death.
Director: Justin Benson, Gregg Bishop, Todd Lincoln, Aaron Moorhead, Marcel Sarmiento, Nacho Vigalondo
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Whiplash
Andrew Neyman is a 19-year-old drummer, dreaming of greatness but unsure if his dream will ever come true. He attends a cutthroat music conservatory and practices at all hours of the day, but he's haunted by the failed writing career of his father and wonders if he has what it takes to leave a mark. Then he meets Terence Fletcher, a larger-than-life music instructor with a very particular teaching style. Under Fletcher's ruthless direction, Andrew begins to pursue perfection at any cost – even his humanity.
Director: Damien Chazelle
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Music & Live Performance, Drama
Anniversary, The
On the morning of their 20th wedding anniversary, Teresa's husband Sam goes for a run and keeps on running. Teresa carries on with the dinner celebrations figuring he'll show up eventually. As the evening unfolds we realize Sam ran away a year ago and Teresa's tenacity is holding onto his return. Their teenage son, Nicky, gives the party a bit of magic as he spikes the food with some hallucinogenics causing a wide variety of effects on the dinner guests. After a lot of laughter, tears and awkward embraces, Teresa realizes the truth about Sam's departure and what it means to say I Love You.
Director: Valerie Buhagiar
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Astérix - Le Domaine des dieux
Julius Caesar unveils his latest plan to get rid of those indomitable Gauls once and for all. As his army has not been able to crush "the last pocket of resistance", he decides to try a stealth invasion: civilization delivered to the village gates! He builds a new Rome? The Land of the Gods? around Asterix's village, pressuring the Gauls to assimilate or vanish. Despite Asterix and Obelix's plans to stop the construction work, the buildings quickly rise and the Roman citizens start to peacefully invade their surroundings, bringing chaos to Asterix's village. Could this finally mean victory for Caesar?
Director: Alexandre Astier, Louis Clichy
Year: 2014
Language: French
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Animation
Homesman, The
Mary Bee Cuddy, 31, lives a solitary existence in a God-fearing mid-western town. She is designated by members of her church to take back East three women who have lost their minds. On the way from Nebraska to Iowa, where those women will at last find refuge, Mary Bee saves the life of Briggs, a claim-jumper and outlaw. He agrees to help in her mission through snowstorms and perilous encounters with settlers, Indians and the harshness of the Frontier territory.
Director: Tommy Lee Jones
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Western
Leviathan
In a Russian coastal town, Kolya is forced to fight the corrupt mayor when he is told that his house will be demolished. He recruits a lawyer friend to help, but the man's arrival brings further misfortune for Kolya and his family.
Director: Andreï Zviaguintsev
Year: 2014
Language: Russian
Genre: Drama, Crime
Dark Horse SPC
Set in a former mining village in Wales, Dark Horse is the inspirational true story of a group of friends from a working men's club who decide to take on the elite 'sport of kings' and breed themselves a racehorse. Their young foal, raised on nearby waste-land, grows into an unlikely champion, beating the finest thoroughbreds in the country, before suffering a near fatal accident. Nursed back to health by the love of his owners - for whom he's become a source of inspiration and hope - he makes a remarkable recovery, returning to the track for a heart-stopping comeback.
Director: Louise Osmond
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Documentary
Wedding Guest, The
When Jay (Scott Speedman), a charming ladies man, meets Daisy (Evan Rachel Wood), a free-spirited but sheltered woman, he’s not looking for love. Instead, he needs a convincing date to take to his estranged brother's wedding so he can trick his family into believing that he's finally straightened out his life. What starts out as a simple deception turns into a wild road trip.
Director: Andrew Fleming
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy
Crème de la crème, La
Three sophomore business students take their professors theories and apply the business model to their social lives and those of others, hiring beautiful women to act as their dates in order to inflate their popularity. Soon enough, their concept takes off like a rocket, but at a cost.
Director: Kim Chapiron
Year: 2014
Language: French
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Mr. Turner
MR. TURNER explores the last quarter century of the great if eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851). Profoundly affected by the death of his father, loved by a housekeeper he takes for granted and occasionally exploits sexually, he forms a close relationship with a seaside landlady with whom he eventually lives incognito in Chelsea, where he dies. Throughout this, he travels, paints, stays with the country aristocracy, visits brothels, is a popular if anarchic member of the Royal Academy of Arts, has himself strapped to the mast of a ship so that he can paint a snowstorm, and is both celebrated and reviled by the public and by royalty.
Director: Mike Leigh
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: History, Drama, Biography
Land Ho!
A pair of ex-brothers-in-law set off to Iceland in an attempt to reclaim their youth through Reykjavík nightclubs, trendy spas, and rugged campsites. This bawdy adventure is a throwback to 1980s road comedies, as well as a candid exploration of aging, loneliness, and friendship.
Director: Martha Stephens, Aaron Katz
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Still Alice
Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a devastating diagnosis, Alice and her family find their bonds tested.
Director: Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama
That Sugar Film
An expectant father undertakes a perilous/delicious mission to see what the hidden sugars in seemingly healthy products can do to both his body and brain chemistry in this eye-opening new documentary that must be seen to be believed.
Director: Damon Gameau
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Saint Laurent
The life of acclaimed fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent during the peak of his career, from 1967 to 1976.
Director: Bertrand Bonello
Year: 2014
Language: French
Genre: Drama, Romance, Biography
Violette
Violette Leduc, an illegitimate child born in the early 20th century, poor and unloved, meets Simone de Beauvoir in the post-war years, in St-Germain-des-Prés. An intense lifelong relation starts between the two women, based on the freedom to write for Violette, and, for Simone, on the conviction that the fate of an outstanding writer is in her hands.
Director: Martin Provost
Year: 2013
Language: French
Genre: Drama, Romance, Biography
I'm So Excited!
Described as "a light, very light comedy", the film, written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar, is set almost entirely on an aeroplane and is about intimate relationships of lovers.
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Year: 2013
Language: Spanish
Genre: Comedy
Nymph()maniac
Nymph()maniac is the wild and poetic story of a woman's journey from birth to the age of 50 as told by the main character, the self-diagnosed nymphomaniac, Joe (Charlotte Gainsbourg). On a cold winter's evening the old, charming bachelor, Seligman (Stellan Skarsgård), finds Joe beaten up in an alley. He brings her home to his flat where he cares for her wounds while asking her about her life. He listens intently as Joe over the next 8 chapters recounts the lushy branched-out and multifaceted story of her life, rich in associations and interjecting incidents.
Director: Lars von Trier
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Young & Beautiful
Acclaimed director François Ozon (Swimming Pool, 8 Women) helms this erotic tale of sexual awakening. After losing her virginity, 17-year-old budding beauty Isabelle (Marine Vacth) takes up a secret life as a call girl, meeting her older gentlemen clients for sleazy hotel room trysts. Throughout, she remains curiously aloof, showing little interest in the encounters themselves or the money she makes, while Ozon slyly refrains from offering easy answers. As the enigmatic Isabelle, Marine Vacth is magnetic, delivering a star-making breakout performance in this sleek and sexy coming-of-age drama.
Director: Francois Ozon
Year: 2013
Language: French
Genre: Drama
Beaux Jours, Les
Bright Days Ahead is a sophisticated and sexy story about a married woman tumbling into an affair with a much younger man. French cinema icon Fanny Ardant stars in this absorbing story about erotic reawakening and the renewal of one's sense of self.
Director: Marion Vernoux
Year: 2013
Language: French
Genre: Drama, Romance
Fanny (La Trilogie Marseillaise)
Fanny loves Marius and is expecting his child, but he has set off on a 5-year journey at sea without knowing about the baby. For the sake of the baby's future, Fanny agrees to marry a prosperous shopkeeper. Meanwhile, Marius has finally realized his profound love for Fanny but his father convinces him to stay out of her life for the sake of the child's future and the honor of the family.
Director: Daniel Auteuil
Year: 2013
Language: French
Genre: Drama
Henri
After the death of his wife, restaurant-owner Henri is urged by his daughter and friends to leave the restaurant open, catering to the new patrons from the neighbourhood hospital for the mentally handicapped. It is here that Rosette, beautiful, young, and a little odd (although her mental difficulties are only mild), comes into Henri's life.
Director: Yolande Moreau
Year: 2013
Language: French
Genre: Drama
4 Soldats
During a Civil war, four soldiers aged 15 to 21 meet and bond. Trapped in an adults' war that they neither understand nor want any part of, Mateo, Dominique, Big Max and Kevin save themselves by creating a kind of family, making their home in a cabin by a pond. Slowly, each of them finds his place. The family grows with the arrival of young Gabriel, who must be trained to their ways. The narrator, Dominique, immerses us in this beautiful, poignant, fleeting story.
Director: Robert Morin
Year: 2013
Language: French
Genre: Drama, Action, Sci-Fi
Elle s'en va
Bettie (Catherine Deneuve) suddenly finds herself abandoned by her lover and facing the loss of the family restaurant. What begins as a drive around the block turns into a road trip filled with chance encounters, the rekindling of Bettie's relationship with her daughter, and a new bond with her grandson.
Director: Emmanuelle Bercot
Year: 2013
Language: French
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian
Jimmy Picard, a Native American Blackfoot who fought in France during WWII, is admitted to Topeka Military Hospital in Kansas - an institution specializing in mental illness. Although he does not suffer any psychological causes for his painful symptoms, he is diagnosed as schizophrenic. Nevertheless, the hospital management decides to seek the opinion of Georges Devereux, a French anthropologist, psychoanalyst and specialist in Native American culture.
Director: Arnaud Desplechin
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Armstrong Lie, The
Lance Armstrong was considered one of the greatest sports figures of all time and put competitive cycling into the global spotlight, by beating cancer and winning the Tour de France seven times. That success earned him an immense fortune and worldwide fame. His was also one of the most influential and inspiring sports stories of recent memory and became a pop culture phenomenon, thanks to his Livestrong initiative. Beginning in 2009, documentarian Alex Gibney followed Armstrong for four years chronicling his return to cycling after retirement, as he tried to win his eighth title. Unexpectedly, Gibney was also there in 2012 when Armstrong admitted to doping, following a federal criminal investigation, public accusations of doping by his ex-teammates, and an investigation by the US Anti-Doping Agency, that led USADA's CEO, Travis Tygart, to conclude that Armstrong's team had run "the most sophisticated, professionalized and successful doping program that sport has ever seen."
Director: Alex Gibney
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Watermark
Watermark is a feature documentary film that brings together diverse stories from around the globe about our relationship with water: how we are drawn to it, what we learn from it, how we use it and the consequences of that use. We see massive floating abalone farms off China’s Fujian coast and the construction site of the biggest arch dam in the world – the Xiluodu, six times the size of the Hoover. We visit the barren desert delta where the mighty Colorado River no longer reaches the ocean, and the water-intensive leather tanneries of Dhaka.
Director: Jennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Environment, Documentary
Inside Llewyn Davis
From legendary directors Joel & Ethan Coen (Fargo, No Country for Old Men, True Grit), Inside Llewyn Davis follows a week in the life of a brilliant but troubled folk singer struggling to make it as a musician in 1960s New York. Featuring a stellar ensemble cast that includes Oscar Isaac, Justin Timberlake, Carey Mulligan, John Goodman and Garrett Hedlund—and brimming with unforgettable music produced by T Bone Burnett—Inside Llewyn Davis is “a great film by two American masters.” (Variety)
Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Music & Live Performance, Drama
Lunchbox, The
Middle class housewife Ila is trying once again to add some spice to her marriage, this time through her cooking. She desperately hopes that this new recipe will finally arouse some kind of reaction from her neglectful husband. She prepares a special lunchbox to be delivered to him at work, but, unbeknownst to her, it is mistakenly delivered to another office worker, Saajan, a lonely man on the verge of retirement. Curious about the lack of reaction from her husband, Ila puts a little note in the following day’s lunchbox, in the hopes of getting to the bottom of the mystery. This begins a series of lunchbox notes between Saajan and Ila, and the mere comfort of communicating with a stranger anonymously soon evolves into an unexpected friendship. Gradually, their notes become little confessions about their loneliness, memories, regrets, fears, and even small joys. They each discover a new sense of self and find an anchor to hold on to in the big city of Mumbai that so often crushes hopes
Director: Ritesh Batra
Year: 2013
Language: Hindi, English
Genre: Drama, Romance
The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box
When his parents vanish and his younger brother is kidnapped, a brave 17-year-old boy must do everything he can to find them. Following a trail of clues that lead to the darkly majestic Prince Regent Hotel, he discovers a hidden realm of monsters, deadly secrets and a long-lost artifact that grants limitless wealth – but also devastating supernatural power. With the fate of the world, and his family at stake, he will risk everything to unravel the Curse of the Midas Box!
Director: Jonathan Newman
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Action, Family
These Final Hours
It's the last day on earth, twelve hours before a cataclysmic event will end life as we know it. James makes his way across a lawless and chaotic city to the party to end all parties. Along the way, he somewhat reluctantly saves the life of a little girl named Rose who is desperately searching for her father. Stuck with the unexpected burden of responsibility, James is forced to come to terms with what really matters in life as the final hours tick away.
Director: Zak Hilditch
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Austenland
“AUSTENLAND” is a romantic comedy about 30-something, single Jane Hayes (Keri Russell), a seemingly normal young woman with a secret: her obsession with all things Jane Austen. But when she decides to spend her life savings on a trip to an English resort catering to Austen–crazed women, Jane’s fantasies of meeting the perfect Regency–era gentleman suddenly become more real than she ever could have imagined. Based on the novel by Shannon Hale (who also co-wrote the script), the film was written and directed by Jerusha Hess (writer, Napoleon Dynamite) and produced by Stephenie Meyer’s Fickle Fish Films.
Director: Jerusha Hess
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Like Father, Like Son
Ryota has earned everything he has by his hard work, and believes nothing can stop him from pursuing his perfect life as a winner. Then one day, he and his wife, Midori, get an unexpected phone call from the hospital. Their 6-year-old son, Keita, is not their son - the hospital gave them the wrong baby.
Ryota is forced to make a life-changing decision, to choose between nature and nurture. Seeing Midori's devotion to Keita even after learning his origin, and communicating with the rough yet caring family that has raised his natural son for the last six years, Ryota also starts to question himself: has he really been a 'father' all these years… The moving story of a man who finally faces himself when he encounters an unexpected wall for the first time in his life.
Director: Hirokazu Kore-Eda
Year: 2013
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama
Blue Jasmine
After everything in her life falls to pieces, including her marriage to wealthy businessman Hal (Alec Baldwin), elegant New York socialite Jasmine (Cate Blanchett) moves into her sister Ginger’s (Sally Hawkins) modest apartment in San Francisco to try to pull herself back together again.
Director: Woody Allen
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Diego Star
A serious accident occurs onboard the Diego Star, a dilapidated Russian cargo ship. Traoré, a mechanic from the Ivory Coast, is unfairly blamed for it. The ship is towed to the nearest shipyard for repairs. In the interim, crewmembers find shelter with the inhabitants of the small local village. Far from everyone he loves and knows, Traoré is engulfed by the Quebec winter.
Director: Frédérick Pelletier
Year: 2013
Language: French, English
Genre: Drama
Bethlehem
"Bethlehem" tells the story of the complex relationship between an Israeli Secret Service officer and his teenage Palestinian informant. Shuttling back and forth between conflicting points of view, the films is a raw portrayal of characters torn apart by competing loyalties and impossible moral dilemmas, giving an unparalleled glimpse into the dark and fascinating world of human intelligence.
Director: Yuval Adler
Year: 2013
Language: Hebrew, Arabic
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Attila Marcel
Paul is in his thirties and lives in a Paris apartment with his aunts, a pair of elderly aristocrats who have raised him since the age of two, and who dream of him becoming a piano virtuoso. His life boils down to a daily routine spent at the grand piano in the salon, and his aunts' dance classes where he works as an accompanist. Cut off from the outside world, Paul has grown old without ever having lived. That is, until the day he meets Madame Proust, a neighbor who lives on the fourth floor. This eccentric lady knows how to make a herbal infusion which, when combined with music, can stir the most repressed of memories. Thanks to her, Paul will discover the secret of his own past, and find the key to finally unlock his life.
Director: Sylvain Chomet
Year: 2013
Language: French
Genre: Comedy
Jodorowsky's Dune
In 1975, Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky, whose films EL TOPO and THE HOLY MOUNTAIN launched and ultimately defined the midnight movie phenomenon, began work on his most ambitious project yet. Starring his own 12 year old son Brontis alongside
Orson Welles, Mick Jagger, David Carradine and Salvador Dali, featuring music by Pink Floyd and art by some of the most provocative talents of the era, including HR Giger and Jean ‘Moebius’ Giraud, Jodorowsky’s adaptation of Frank Herbert’s classic sci-fi novel DUNE was poised to change cinema forever.
Director: Frank Pavich
Year: 2013
Language: English, French, German
Genre: Documentary
Uvanga
Uvanga is the story of a 13 year-old boy looking for himself in a world that gave him life, but it is a world that he does not know. The boy and his mother make a two-week visit north so that he can connect with his deceased father’s family. Their emotions will follow unexpected trajectories, paralleled by the disorienting High Arctic summer and its twenty-four hours of sunlight.
Director: Marie-Hélène Cousineau, Madeline Piujuq Ivalu
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Né quelque part
A 26 year-old law student, Farid, must go to his parents’ homeland Algeria under his ill father’s instructions, to try and save the family home from demolition. Having no interest in the culture or country, Farid is slowly won over by the many characters, including his swindler cousin. After a riotous night of partying, his cousin steals all his documents, escaping to France. Now Farid is stuck in Algeria, trying to find a way back to France, where his father’s condition has worsened.
Director: Mohamed Hamidi
Year: 2013
Language: French, Arabic
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy
Tracks
From director John Curran (The Painted Veil, We Don't Live Here Anymore) comes TRACKS, which tells the remarkable true story of Robyn Davidson (Mia Wasikowska), a young woman who leaves her life in the city to make a solo trek through almost 2,000 miles of sprawling Australian desert. Accompanied by only her dog and four unpredictable camels, she sets off on a life-changing journey of self-discovery. Along the way, she meets National Geographic photographer Rick Smolan (Adam Driver) who begins to photograph her voyage. The film, adapted from Davidson's own memoirs, was produced by Emile Sherman and Iain Canning (The King's Speech, Shame).
Director: John Curran
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Action, Biography
Salauds, Les (Bastards)
Supertanker captain Marco Silvestri is called back urgently to Paris. His sister Sandra is desperate - her husband has committed suicide, the family business has gone under, her daughter is spiralling downwards. Sandra holds powerful businessman Edouard Laporte responsible. Marco moves into the building where Laporte has installed his mistress and her son. But he hasn't planned for Sandra's secrets, which muddy the waters...
Director: Claire Denis
Year: 2013
Language: French, English
Genre: Drama, Romance
9 Mois Ferme
Ariane Felder's pregnant. It's quite surprising because the young judge is a very straight-laced hardened bachelorette. It all gets even more surprising when a paternal test reveals that the child's father is none other than Bob, a criminal charged for a frightful assault. Ariane, who remembers nothing, tries to understand what on earth happened and what she should be expecting.
Director: Albert Dupontel
Year: 2013
Language: French
Genre: Comedy
Only Lovers Left Alive
Set against the romantic desolation of Detroit and Tangier, an underground musician, deeply depressed by the direction of human activities, reunites with his resilient and enigmatic lover. Their love story has already endured several centuries at least, but their debauched idyll is soon disrupted by her wild and uncontrollable younger sister. Can these wise but fragile outsiders continue to survive as the modern world collapses around them?
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Drama, Romance, Comedy
Fading Gigolo
In this hilarious sex comedy, Woody Allen stars as Murray, a cash-strapped guy who "pimps" his shy friend Fioravante (John Turturro) out as a male escort to pay the bills. As business begins to boom, Fioravante finds an unexpected connection with one of his clients, while Murray soon discovers that the life of a pimp is not so easy. Also starring Sharon Stone, Sofia Vergara, and Liev Schreiber.
Director: John Turturro
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
Empire of Dirt
Going home was never an option for single mother Lena Mahikan (Cara Gee). But when her 13-year-old, Peeka (Shay Eyre) overdoses in the streets of Toronto, she is forced to return home to her estranged mother and face a life-long legacy of shame and resentment. Empire of Dirt is a story about second chances and summoning the power of family to soothe the pain of cyclical damage.
Director: Peter Stebbings
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Which Way is the Front Line from Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington
Shortly after the release of his documentary Restrepo, photographer Tim Hetherington was killed in Libya. Colleague and filmmaker Sebastian Junger traces Hetherington's work across the world's battlefields to reveal how he transcended the boundaries of image-making to become a luminary in his profession.
Director: Sebastian Junger
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Witching and Bitching
An absurd, racy comedy starring a group of desperate thieves who rob a Cash-for-Gold shop in Madrid's Puerta del Sol and make a crazy dash for Disneyland with one of the heister's sons in tow. But on the border with France, they fall into the hands of Basque witches who apply themselves diligently to the ancient customs of their craft and bringing the men down a peg or two.
Director: Álex de la Iglesia
Year: 2013
Language: Spanish
Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Action, Comedy
Great Beauty, The
In this Oscar-nominated comedy, journalist Jep Gambardella (Toni Servillo, Il divo and Gomorrah) charms and seduces his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome as a permanent fixture in the city's literary and social circles. However, when his sixty-fifth birthday coincides with a shock from the past, Jep finds himself unexpectedly taking stock of his life, turning his cutting wit on himself and his contemporaries, and looking past the extravagant nightclubs, parties, and cafés to find Rome in all its glory: a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.
Director: Paolo Sorrentino
Year: 2013
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Very Good Girls
Dakota Fanning and Elizabeth Olsen star in this story of two lifelong best friends both determined to lose their virginity as a rite of passage into the adult world. When they fall in love with the same boy, their quest threatens to tear their relationship apart.
Director: Naomi Foner
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance
Notebook, The
In a village on the Hungarian border, two young brothers grow up during wartime with their cruel grandmother and must learn every trick of evil to survive in the absurd world of adults. Adaptation of the bestseller by Agota Kristof "Le Grand cahier".
Director: János Szász
Year: 2013
Language: Hungarian
Genre: War, Drama
Before Midnight
We meet Celine and Jesse nine years after their last rendezvous. Almost two decades have passed since their first encounter on a train bound for Vienna, and we now find them in their early forties in Greece. Before the clock strikes midnight, we will again become part of their story.
Director: Richard Linklater
Year: 2013
Language: English, Greek
Genre: Drama, Romance
Boule et Bill
A film adaptation of the comic series created by Jean Rogan in 1959. It relates the adventures of seven-year-old boy Boule and his dog Bill, a Cocker Spaniel, as well as that of Boule's mother and father and Caroline the turtle.
Director: Alexandre Charlot, Franck Magnier
Year: 2013
Language: French
Genre: Comedy, Family
Cutie and the Boxer
Once a rising star in the '70's New York art scene, 80-year-old "boxing" painter Ushio Shinohara is prepping for his latest show, hoping to reinvigorate his career. His wife and de facto assistant, Noriko, seeks her own recognition through her "Cutie" illustrations, which depict their chaotic 40-year marriage. Cutie and the Boxer captures two lives united by a dedication to art-making for a touching meditation on the eternal themes of love and sacrifice.
Director: Zachary Heinzerling
Year: 2013
Language: English, Japanese
Genre: Documentary
Past, The
Following a four year separation, Ahmad returns to Paris from Tehran at his French wife Marie's request, in order to finalize their divorce. During his brief stay, Ahmad discovers the conflicting nature of Marie's relationship with her daughter Lucie. Ahmad's efforts to improve this relationship soon unveil a secret from their past.
Director: Asghar Farhadi
Year: 2013
Language: French
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Marius (La Trilogie Marseillaise)
The story takes place in the Old Port of Marseille, in the Bar de la Marine run by César and his son Marius. Marius dreams of embarking on one of the ships that sail past the bar, heading off to distant horizons.
Fanny, a pretty young woman who sells shellfish outside the bar, has been secretly in love with Marius since childhood. Without admitting it, Marius has always loved Fanny back.
When Marius is due to leave on a exploration vessel, Fanny tries to keep him back by revealing her love for him. She succeeds in fanning his jealousy by provoking a fight between Marius and the sea captain Panisse, an old friend of César's, who, despite being much older than Fanny, is enamored with her.
Director: Daniel Auteuil
Year: 2013
Language: French
Genre: Drama
Animal Project, The
Leo (Aaron Poole) is a mid-30s widower, single parent, and struggling acting teacher. His relationship with his teenage son (Jacob Switzer) is rocky, and he's dissatisfied with his everyday life. So, after he has an unusual and inspiring dream, he decides to shake things up by having the group of actors he teaches do something called "The Animal Project" -- whereby they will all don furry mascot suits and become 'animals' in the real world.
It's a long, rainy night, and not everything goes as planned. But in the process of opening themselves up to the unknown, each participant in The Animal Project not only learns something about themselves, but also has the chance to grow a little bit.
Director: Ingrid Veninger
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy
Magic in the Moonlight
Magic in the Moonlight is a romantic comedy about an Englishman brought in to help unmask a possible swindle. Personal and professional complications ensue. The film is set in the south of France in the 1920s against a backdrop of wealthy mansions, the Côte d’Azur, jazz joints and fashionable spots for the wealthy of the Jazz Age.
Director: Woody Allen
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy
Afterparty
On the night of his brother's wedding, best man Charlie (Graham Coffeng) gets the old gang back together for a fun-filled, post reception after party, at the newlyweds' home, where he has been staying for several weeks. Unsure of how to proceed with his own troubled marriage, Charlie reunites "the fellas" fifteen years after high school, in hopes that revisiting the past will help him find clarity for the future. What he finds, however, is that while his friends have all taken different paths, they are all faced with similar conundrums that comes with being in one's thirties.
Director: Michelle Ouellet
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Drama
L'amour est un crime parfait
The new film by Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu (To Paint or Make Love), 4th adaptation of a novel by Philippe Djian (Betty Blue, Blue Hell, Unforgivable)
Director: Arnaud Larrieu, Jean-Marie Larrieu
Year: 2013
Language: French
Genre: Thriller, Drama
VHS-2
From the innovative minds that brought you last year’s V/H/S comes V/H/S/2, an all-new anthology of dread, madness, and gore. Searching for a missing student, two private investigators break into his abandoned house and find a collection of mysterious VHS tapes. In viewing the horrific contents of each cassette, they realize there may be terrifying motives behind the student’s disappearance.
Director: Simon Barrett, Jason Eisener, Gareth Evans, Gregg Hale, Eduardo Sanchez, Timo Tjahjanto, Adam Wingward
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of Inside Llewyn Davis
This documentary about a concert that was held at Town Hall in New York City celebrates the music from the film Inside Llewyn Davis. It follows the musicians from rehearsal to performance and includes a roster of over twenty artists including Patti Smith, Jack White, Marcus Mumford and Joan Baez.
Director: Christopher Wilcha
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Tim's Vermeer
Tim Jenison, a Texas based inventor, attempts to solve one of the greatest mysteries in all art: How did 17th century Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer ("Girl with a Pearl Earring") manage to paint so photo-realistically -- 150 years before the invention of photography? The epic research project Jenison embarks on to test his theory is as extraordinary as what he discovers.
Spanning a decade, Jenison's adventure takes him to Delft, Holland, where Vermeer painted his masterpieces; on a pilgrimage to the North coast of Yorkshire to meet artist David Hockney; and eventually even to Buckingham Palace, to see the Queen's Vermeer.
Director: Teller
Year: 2013
Language: Dutch, English
Genre: Documentary
Under the Skin (2013)
From visionary director Jonathan Glazer (SEXY BEAST, BIRTH) comes a stunning career transformation, a masterpiece of existential science fiction that journeys to the heart of what it means to be human, extraterrestrial - or something in between. A voluptuous woman of unknown origin (Scarlett Johansson) combs the highways in search of isolated or forsaken men, luring a succession of lost souls into an otherworldly lair. They are seduced, stripped of their humanity, and never heard from again.
Based on the novel by Michael Faber, this film examines human experience from the perspective of an unforgettable heroine who grows too comfortable in her borrowed skin, until she is abducted into humanity with devastating results.
Director: Jonathan Glazer
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Sci-Fi
Khumba
An all-star voice cast brings to life this epic adventure of a one-of-a-kind zebra named Khumba who is born with only half his stripes. After being rejected by his superstitious herd, Khumba embarks on a daring quest to find a legendary waterhole rumored to grant zebras their missing stripes. But when he discovers a villainous leopard on his trail, he must find the courage and self-acceptance to save all the animals of the Great Karoo.
Director: Anthony Silverston
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Family, Animation
Marque des Anges, La
A choir master is found mysteriously murdered in a Paris church with his eardrums blown out and no witnesses. Investigating is homicide Police Commander Lional Kasdan (Gérard Depardieu), just-retired but desperate to come back to action. Kasdan teams with a short-tempered younger cop, Interpol Captain Frank Salek, who believes the murder is connected to a secret organization that he’s been tracking. Together they work to crack the case, leading to a dark secret from the Captain’s past.
Director: Sylvain White
Year: 2013
Language: French
Genre: Thriller
Au Bonheur des Ogres
While his mother is off on one romantic adventure or another, Benjamin, professional scapegoat and oldest son, is responsible for his horde of siblings. But when strange incidents happen wherever he goes, police and colleagues begin to eye him suspiciously. It soon becomes a matter of life and death to find out what is going on and who is so interested in ruining his life.
Director: Nicolas Bary
Year: 2013
Language: French
Genre: Comedy
Zero Theorem, The
From visionary director Terry Gilliam (12 Monkeys, Brazil) comes a new sci-fi spectacle starring two-time Oscar-winner Christoph Waltz as Qohen, a computer genius on the verge of a great discovery. Under constant surveillance by a shadowy figure known as “Management” (Matt Damon), Qohen is tasked with deciphering the seemingly unsolvable Zero Theorem, a mathematical formula that could unlock the meaning to everything. But his work is soon interrupted by a mysterious and sexy woman whose sudden presence may point to a greater conspiracy against him…
Director: Terry Gilliam
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Fantasy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Invisible Woman, The
Nelly (Felicity Jones), a happily-married mother and schoolteacher, is haunted by her past. Her memories, provoked by remorse and guilt, take us back in time to follow the story of her relationship with Charles Dickens (Ralph Fiennes) with whom she discovered an exciting but fragile complicity.
Dickens – famous, controlling and emotionally isolated within his success – falls for Nelly, who comes from a family of actors. The theatre is a vital arena for Dickens – a brilliant amateur actor – a man more emotionally coherent on the page or on stage, than in life. As Nelly becomes the focus of Dickens’ passion and his muse, for both of them secrecy is the price, and for Nelly a life of “invisibility”.
Director: Ralph Fiennes
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: History, Drama, Romance, Biography
Grande Boucle, La
Francois is a Tour de France fanatic. When he gets fired by his boss and his wife leaves, he decides the best way to deal with the emotion of it all is to ride the Tour just days ahead of the pros. As rumours of his adventure spreads he is soon joined by others, who are inspired by his challenge.
Director: Laurent Tuel
Year: 2013
Language: French
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Molière à Bicyclette
A TV heartthrob embarks on a journey with a clear mission in mind: to convince his old friend and once great actor to return to the stage in the lead of Molière's The Misanthrope. But for three years this friend has lived in solitude, avoiding the pressures of the limelight. Can he be coaxed out of retirement or will his misanthropic ways get the better of him?
Director: Philippe Le Guay
Year: 2012
Language: French, Italian
Genre: Drama, Comedy
No
In 1988, Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet, due to international pressure, is forced to call a plebiscite on his presidency. The country will vote Yes or NO to Pinochet extending his rule for another eight years. Opposition leaders for the NO persuade a brash young advertising executive, Rene Saavedra to spearhead their campaign.
Against all odds, with scant resources and under scrutiny by the despot's minions, Saavedra and his team devise an audacious plan to win the election and set Chile free.
Director: Pablo Larraín
Year: 2012
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama
Rust and Bone
It all begins in the North of France.
Ali suddenly finds himself with a five year-old child on his hands. Sam is his son, but he hardly knows him. Homeless, penniless and friendless, Ali takes refuge with his sister in Antibes. There things improve immediately. She puts them up in her garage, she takes the child under her wing and the weather is glorious.
Ali first runs into Stephanie during a night club brawl. He drives her home and leaves her his phone number. He is poor, she is beautiful and self-assured, a princess: his complete opposite.
Stephanie trains killer whales at Marineland. When a performance ends in tragedy, a call in the night again brings them together.
When Ali sees her next, his princess is confined to a wheel chair: she has lost her legs and quite a few illusions. He simply helps her, with no compassion or pity. And she comes alive again.
Director: Jacques Audiard
Year: 2012
Language: French, English
Genre: Drama
Avant que mon Coeur Bascule
Sixteen-year-old Sarah, standing alongside a highway, pretends to be in trouble. Duped drivers pull over to help - and are robbed. Under the teen’s gaze, a man dies. Sarah’s life will never be the same again.
Director: Sébastien Rose
Year: 2012
Language: French
Genre: Canadian, Drama
Fill the Void
On the verge of her marriage, a young Orthodox Hassidic girl and her family are struck by tragedy when her older sister dies in childbirth -- and when her sister's husband is pressed to remarry and her mother makes a startling proposition, she is forced to choose between her obedience to her family and her heart's desire.
Director: Rama Burshtein
Year: 2012
Language: Hebrew
Genre: Drama, Romance
West of Memphis
West of Memphis is an examination of a failure of justice in Arkansas. The documentary tells the hitherto unknown story behind an extraordinary and desperate fight to bring the truth to light. Told and made by those who lived it, the filmmakers' unprecedented access to the inner workings of the defense, allows the film to show the investigation, research and appeals process in a way that has never been seen before; revealing shocking and disturbing new information about a case that still haunts the American South.
Director: Amy Berg
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Crime, Documentary
How to Survive a Plague
David France’s HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE tells an astounding story of activism and innovation – about AIDS survival, not death – which has been overlooked until this timely documentary. Culled from a massive trove of archival footage, the film is both epic and intimate, tracking a small group of people, most of them HIV-positive, in their nine-year-long battle to save their own lives. They end up saving 6,000,000.
Director: David France
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Under the Bed
Two years ago Neal knew there was something under his bed but no one believed him. When he burned down the family home trying to kill it he was sent to live with relatives. Now he’s back, but his little brother Paul is being terrorized by the same monster. With no support from their parents the two brothers must band together to get rid of the creature, and their nightmares, once and for all.
Director: Steven C. Miller
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Drama
Love is all you need
LOVE IS ALL YOU NEED is directed by Golden Globe (R) and Oscar (R) winning filmmaker Susanne Bier, written by Bier and Anders Thomas Jensen and starring Pierce Brosnan and Trine Dyrholm. Philip (Brosnan), an Englishman living in Denmark, is a lonely, middle-aged widower and estranged single father. Ida (Dyrholm) is a Danish hairdresser, recuperating from a long bout of illness, who's just been left by her husband for a younger woman, Thilde. The fates of these two bruised souls are about to intertwine, as they embark for a trip to Italy to attend the wedding of Patrick and Astrid, Philip's son and Ida's daughter. With warmth, affection and confidence, Susanne Bier has shaken a cocktail of love, loss, absurdity, humor, and delicately drawn characters that will leave only the hardest heart untouched. It is a film about the simple yet profound pains and joys of moving on - and forward - with your life.
Director: Susanne Bier
Year: 2012
Language: English, Danish
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy
Karakara
Pierre, a retired professor, ends up making a short, unsettling trip around Okinawa with Junko, a 40-year-old runaway wife. The confused intellectual would rather not get involved with this unlikely and unexpected lover but decides to follow his destiny, wherever it (or she) may take him.
Director: Claude Gagnon
Year: 2012
Language: Japanese, English
Genre: Drama
Summit, The
In August 2008, 18 mountain climbers reached the top of K2. Forty-eight hours later, 11 had died or simply vanished into thin air. With breathtaking cinematography and jaw dropping reenactments, The Summit is a thrilling attempt to solve the mystery of what happened on K2 that fateful day.
Director: Nick Ryan
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Something in the Air
Following his critical triumphs Summer Hours and Carlos, Olivier Assayas returns with his semi-autobiographical new feature Something in the Air. The film follows Gilles, a graduating high school student in Paris deeply involved in the counterculture of the time. While Gilles begins to realize that his interests lie more in the revolutions in music and art, he finds himself pulled into ever more dangerous political protests by the people around him.
Director: Olivier Assayas
Year: 2012
Language: French, English, Italian
Genre: Drama
Tower Block
When Jimmy is brutally murdered by two hooded figures, Becky, Kurtis, Neville and the other residents of the Serenity House tower block are witnesses to the killing but, fearing retribution, are too scared to give detectives any information and the police investigation is going nowhere. One year later, someone has decided to take justice into their own hands. Picked off one by one, the tenants of Serenity House are under threat from a mystery sniper who has set deadly traps throughout the building. Unsure of why they have been targeted, the group undertake daring attempts to escape the building.
Director: Ronnie Thompson, James Nunn
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
L'Homme qui Rit
A carnival boss (Gérard Depardieu) rescues two orphans in a winter storm - a beautiful, blind girl and a boy whose face is deformed by a scar that makes him look as though he's constantly laughing. They travel together for many years performing a show in which the boy is the star - people come from everywhere to see The Man Who Laughs. As he becomes famous and rich, he gradually grows distant from the only two people in the world who love him for what he is.
Director: Jean-Pierre Améris
Year: 2012
Language: French
Genre: Drama
Wadjda
WADJDA is a 10-year-old girl living in a suburb of Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. After a fight with her friend Abdullah, a neighborhood boy she shouldn't be playing with, Wadjda sees a beautiful green bicycle for sale. She wants the bicycle desperately so that she can beat Abdullah in a race. But Wadjda's mother won't allow it, fearing repercussions from a society that sees bicycles as dangerous to a girl's virtue. So Wadjda decides to try and raise the money herself.
Director: Haifaa Al-Mansour
Year: 2012
Language: Arabic
Genre: Drama
Waiting for Lightning
WAITING FOR LIGHTNING is the story of Danny Way, a young boy from a broken home in Vista, CA, whose passion for skateboarding would one day bring him and his creation, a ramp of prodigious and dangerous proportions, across many cultural and ideological boundaries to attempt the impossible: jump China's Great Wall on a skateboard. It's a film about how much abuse the body can sustain, how deep you have to dig to survive the betrayals of family, and how high and far dreams can fly
Director: Jacob Rosenberg
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Sports, Documentary
Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie
An all new feature film from the twisted minds of cult comedy heroes Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim (“Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job”)! Tim and Eric are given a billion dollars to make a movie, but squander every dime… and the sinister Schlaaang corporation is pissed. Their lives at stake, the guys skip town in search of a way to pay the money back. When they happen upon a chance to rehabilitate a bankrupt mall full of vagrants, bizarre stores and a man-eating wolf that stalks the food court, they see dollar signs—a billion of them. Featuring cameos from Awesome Show regulars and some of the biggest names in comedy today!
Director: Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
Still Mine
Based on true events and laced with wry humour, STILL MINE is a heartfelt love story about an 89-year-old New Brunswicker (James Cromwell) who comes up against the system when he sets out to build a more suitable house for his wife (Geneviève Bujold) whose memory is starting to go. Although Craig Morrison is using the same methods his father, a shipbuilder, taught him, times have changed. Craig quickly gets on the wrong side of an overzealous government inspector, who finds just about everything unacceptable, including the unstamped wood Craig has milled from his own trees. As Irene becomes increasingly ill – and amidst a series of stop-work orders – Craig races to finish the house. Hauled into court and facing jail, Craig takes a final stance.
Director: Michael McGowan
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Canadian, Drama
Everybody Has A Plan
In this gritty thriller, Viggo Mortensen (The Lord of the Rings, The Road, Eastern Promises) stars as a successful doctor who conspires to escape his life by assuming the identity of his identical twin brother, a dying criminal. However, his plan backfires when he’s plunged into the sordid depths of his brother’s backwater village, a deadly place where unsettled scores soon embroil him in a desperate fight for survival.
Director: Ana Piterbarg
Year: 2012
Language: Spanish
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime
Human Scale, The
50% of the world's population lives in urban areas. By 2050 this will increase to 80%. Why do modern cities repel human interaction and ignore humans’ needs for inclusion and intimacy? For 40 years, Danish architect and professor Jan Gehl has studied human behavior in cities, and in this fascinating and illuminating film, he outlines how our approach to urban architecture can and should change.
Director: Andreas Dalsgaard
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview
Shot in 1995 for “Triumph of the Nerds,” a PBS documentary series, most of this hour-long interview by Robert X. Cringely was, until now, presumed lost. Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview offers rare and intriguing insights into the mind of the late Apple chief executive and high-tech visionary.
Director: Paul Sen
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Blood Pressure
Nicole, 41, is a pharmacist with a husband and two teenage kids, who is at a point in her life when she is asking if ‘this is it,’ or whether there’s something more. One day she gets a letter from an anonymous Observer who knows her daily habits, and her potential, intimately. He has a plan for her, if she is interested. The letter contains a green card that she should place in her window, if she wishes to pursue the mysterious relationship. If not, she should throw the letter away, and she will never hear from the Observer again. After a few days of internal debate, she puts the card in the window and begins a long relationship with the elusive Observer, who puts her on a program that starts by changing her life, but ultimately threatens everything that has meaning for her.
Director: Sean Garrity
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Canadian, Drama
Amour
Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with her family. One day, Anne has an attack. The couple's bond of love is severely tested.
Director: Michael Haneke
Year: 2012
Language: French, English
Genre: Drama, Romance
Midnight's Children
“Born in the hour of India’s freedom. Handcuffed to history”
MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN is an epic film from Oscar-nominated director Deepa Mehta, based on the Booker Prize winning novel by Salman Rushdie.
At the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, as India proclaims independence from Great Britain, two newborn babies are switched by a nurse in a Bombay hospital. Saleem Sinai, the illegitimate son of a poor Hindu woman, and Shiva, the offspring of wealthy Muslims, are fated to live the destiny meant for each other. Their lives become mysteriously intertwined and are inextricably linked to India’s whirlwind journey of triumphs and disasters. From the unlikely romance of Saleem’s grandparents to the birth of his own son, MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN is a journey at once sweeping in scope and yet intimate in tone. Hopeful, comic and magical – the film conjures images and characters as rich and unforgettable as India herself.
Director: Deepa Mehta
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Canadian, Drama
To Rome With Love
TO ROME WITH LOVE is a story about a number of people in Italy, some American, some Italian, some residents, some visitors, and the romances and adventures and predicaments they get into. Starring Woody Allen, Alec Baldwin, Roberto Benigni, Penélope Cruz, Judy Davis, Jesse Eisenberg, Greta Gerwig and Ellen Page.
Director: Woody Allen
Year: 2012
Language: English, Italian
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Struck by Lightning
Chris Colfer (“Glee”) stars as Carson Phillips, a small-town high-school senior with big-league ambitions and no one who believes in him. Desperate to escape his hometown and make it big in New York City, Carson, along with his new best friend (Rebel Wilson, Pitch Perfect, Bridesmaids), devises a scheme to blackmail the jocks and cheerleaders into writing for his literary magazine. Also starring Christina Hendricks ("Mad Men"), Allison Janney (Juno, "The West Wing"), Sarah Hyland ("Modern Family"), Angela Kinsey ("The Office") and Dermot Mulroney (My Best Friend's Wedding).
Director: Brian Dannelly
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
In No Particular Order
In No Particular Order gives us a glance into Sarah’s life as she messily navigates her way through her late twenties, following a path of meaningless encounters, hangovers, and unmet expectations. Under constant pressure from her newlywed sister to take some responsibility for her life, and after an obsession with a married man and a reconnection with an old fling, Sarah is forced to re- explore her self destructive ideas surrounding commitment and relationships, and confront the effects of her choices on her and those around her.
Director: Kristine Cofsky
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Thanks for Sharing
From Academy Award®-nominated screenwriter Stuart Blumberg (The Kids Are All Right), Thanks for Sharing is a sharply comic and deeply moving look at a new kind of modern family, as a group of friends in recovery learns to face life together with heart, humour and humility. Academy Award-nominee Mark Ruffalo, Academy Award-winner Tim Robbins and Broadway star Josh Gad (“The Book of Mormon”) anchor a stellar ensemble that includes Academy Award-winner Gwyneth Paltrow, and pop star Alecia “Pink” Moore in her first film role.
Director: Stuart Blumberg
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Smashed
Kate and Charlie are a young married couple whose bond is built on a mutual love of music, laughter and drinking...especially the drinking. When Kate's drinking leads her to dangerous places and her job as a school teacher is put into jeopardy, she decides to join AA and get sober. With the help of her friend and sponsor Jenny, and the vice principal at her school, the awkward, but well intentioned, Mr. Davies, Kate takes steps toward improving her health and life. Sobriety isn't as easy as Kate had anticipated. Her new lifestyle brings to the surface a troubling relationship with her mother, facing the lies she's told her employer and calls into question whether or not her relationship with Charlie is built on love or is just boozy diversion from adulthood.
Director: James Ponsoldt
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Drama
What Maisie Knew
Starring Academy Award-nominee Julianne Moore (The Kids Are All Right), Steve Coogan (Ruby Sparks) and Alexander Skarsgård (True Blood), What Maisie Knew is the touching story of Maisie, a captivating six-year-old girl searching for grace in the midst of her parents' separation. Maisie navigates this ever-widening turmoil with a child’s innocence and generosity of spirit, and eventually finds love in the most unlikely of places.
Director: Scott McGehee, David Siegel
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Searching for Sugar Man
In the late ‘60s, two celebrated producers, who were struck by his soulful melodies and prophetic lyrics, discovered a musician in a Detroit bar. They recorded an album that they believed was going to secure his reputation as one of the greatest recording artists of his generation. In fact, the album bombed and the singer disappeared into obscurity amid rumors of a gruesome on-stage suicide. But a bootleg recording found its way into apartheid South Africa and, over the next two decades, it became a phenomenon. Two South African fans then set out to find out what really happened to their hero. Their investigation led them to a story more extraordinary than any of the existing myths about the artist known as Rodriguez.
SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN is a film about hope, inspiration and the resonating power of music.
Director: Malik Bendjelloul
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Music & Live Performance, Documentary, Biography
Margarita
Behind the facade of a beautiful urban home, a combination of complacency and bad investments has left power couple Ben and Gail disconnected, resentful and just about broke. When the cash-strapped yuppies fire their teen-aged daughter's lesbian Mexican nanny, Margarita, they set off a chain of events that lead to her deportation.
Director: Dominique Cardona, Laurie Colbert
Year: 2012
Language: English, Spanish
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Vous n'avez encore rien vu
From beyond the grave, celebrated playwright Antoine d’Anthac gathers together all his friends who have appeared over the years in his play "Eurydice". These actors watch a recording of the work performed by a young acting company, La Compagnie de la Colombe. Do love, life, death and love after death still have any place on a theater stage? It’s up to them to decide. And the surprises have only just begun.
Director: Alain Resnais
Year: 2012
Language: French
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Picture Day
Forced to repeat her senior year of high school, Claire’s (Maslany) reputation is sliding from bad-ass to bad joke. Armed with an acid tongue and shielded by ever-present headphones, Claire locks onto the only student clueless to her sordid rep: Henry (Van Wyck), a nerdy freshman she used to babysit. At night, Claire escapes to raucous concerts where she catches the eye of 33-year–old Jim (McCarthy, frontman of The ElastoCitizens), a would–be rock star who feeds on young fans’ adoration. Jim leads her into an intoxicating world of hard-partying musicians, while at school, Claire takes Henry under her wing. She reinvents her dorky friend as the mysterious rebel, throwing Henry’s life into hilarious turmoil. As Claire dances across the surface of these relationships, she eventually learns hard lessons about the difference between sex, intimacy, and friendship.
Director: Kate Miles Melville
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
For No Good Reason
Johnny Depp pays a visit to Ralph Steadman, the renowned artist and the last of the original Gonzo visionaries who worked alongside Hunter S. Thompson.
Director: Charlie Paul
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: History, Documentary, Biography
Rebelle
Rebelle is a brutal yet poetic snapshot of life as one of Africa's child soldiers, following a young girl who is kidnapped from her village by a group of rebel fighters. Forced to gun down members of her family and enemy soldiers, she takes solace in fellow soldier Magician, a young albino with whom she escapes and starts a new life.
Director: Kim Nguyen
Year: 2012
Language: French
Genre: Canadian, Drama
Thérèse Desqueyroux
In the late Claude Miller's exquisite adaptation of this classic novel, Audrey Tautou (Amélie) stars as Thérèse, a provincial housewife in 1920s France, suffocating in her arranged marriage to a boorish landowner. When her best friend falls madly in love, Thérèse sees first-hand the awesome power of passionate love and what is missing in her own life. Yearning to break free from the fate imposed upon her, she resorts to extreme measures in a desperate bid for freedom.
Director: Claude Miller
Year: 2012
Language: French
Genre: Drama
Gatekeepers, The
Ninety hours of interviews with six former heads of Shin Bet (Israel’s top security agency) are condensed into a thought provoking, informative, and insightful documentary that examines Israel’s counterterrorism operations. The visually captivating documentary sheds light on the decision making process of these men as well as the morally ambiguous world in which they functioned; all within Israel’s political climate and historical context.
Director: Dror Moreh
Year: 2012
Language: Hebrew, English
Genre: History, War, Documentary
Cornouaille
When Odile visits her family home on the coast of Brittany for the first time since she was a young girl, she is immediately confronted by tragic memories of her father’s accidental death. Faced with ghosts from her past and unsettled by new encounters, Odile slowly loses her grip on reality. Is the house haunted or are her memories playing tricks on her? Once a rational, independent woman, Odile experiences a shift that will change her life forever.
Director: Anne Le Ny
Year: 2012
Language: French
Genre: Drama
End of Time, The
Working at the limits of what can easily be expressed, filmmaker Peter Mettler takes on the elusive subject of time, and once again turns his camera to filming the unfilmmable.
From the particle accelerator in Switzerland, where scientists seek to probe regions of time we cannot see, to lava flows in Hawaii which have overwhelmed all but one home on the south side of Big Island; from the disintegration of inner city Detroit, to a Hindu funeral rite near the place of Buddha’s enlightenment, Mettler explores our perception of time. He dares to dream the movie of the future while also immersing us in the wonder of the everyday.
THE END OF TIME is, at once personal, rigorous and visionary. Peter Mettler has crafted a film as compelling and magnificent as its subject.
Director: Peter Mettler
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Superstar
Martin Kazinski is a humble worker. Just another face in the crowd. One morning, as normal, he takes the metro. But it's not a normal day. People are looking at him. A stranger asks for his autograph; another takes his picture. A third just wants to shake his hand. It must be a mistake, a hoax, some sort of joke. Soon, his name is all over the TV, the radio, the internet. Martin Kazinski – with no particular talent, no connections and no idea why – has suddenly become a celebrity. It's incomprehensible. But it's a fact. When he tries to find out why, his fame just grows. The more he questions it, disowns it, denies it – the more famous he becomes. Martin is trapped in a never-ending, ever-expanding media maelstrom. And the worst is yet to come.
Director: Xavier Giannoli
Year: 2012
Language: French
Genre: Drama
Stories We Tell
STORIES WE TELL is an inspired, genre-twisting film by Oscar®-nominated director Sarah Polley, and produced by Anita Lee for the NFB. Her playful investigation into the elusive truth buried within the contradictions of a family of storytellers paints a profound portrait of a complicated and deeply loving family.
Director: Sarah Polley
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Late Quartet, A
When the beloved cellist of a world-renowned string quartet receives a life changing diagnosis, the group's future suddenly hangs in the balance: suppressed emotions, competing egos, and uncontrollable passions threaten to derail years of friendship and collaboration. As they are about to play their 25th anniversary concert, quite possibly their last, only their intimate bond and the power of music can preserve their legacy.
Director: Yaron Zilberman
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Music & Live Performance, Drama
At Any Price
In the competitive world of modern agriculture, ambitious HENRY WHIPPLE (Dennis Quaid) wants his rebellious son DEAN (Zac Efron) to help expand his family’s farming empire. However, Dean has his sights set on becoming a professional race car driver. When a high-stakes investigation into their business is exposed, father and son are pushed into an unexpected crisis that threatens the family’s entire livelihood.
Director: Ramin Bahrani
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Sports, Drama
Celeste and Jesse Forever
CELESTE AND JESSE FOREVER is about two people who met in high school, married young and are growing apart. Now thirty, they decide to get divorced and attempt to stay best friends while pursuing other relationships. This plan is not as simple as they had imagined. Celeste -- imperious, successful and driven -- is convinced that divorcing the boyish Jesse is the right thing to do. Jesse passively accepts this transition into friendship, even though he still is in love with her. As the reality of their separation sets in, Celeste slowly and painfully realizes she has been cavalier about their relationship. But her timing with Jesse is less than fortuitous. While navigating the turbulent changes in their lives and in their hearts, these two learn that in order to truly love someone, you may have to let them go. The film is a humorous and honest examination of a broken heart and the long, hard road it takes to heal it.
Director: Lee Toland Krieger
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Higher Ground
Vera Farmiga's directorial debut, HIGHER GROUND, depicts the landscape of a tight-knit spiritual community thrown off-kilter when one of their own begins to question her faith. Inspired by screenwriter Carolyn S. Briggs' memoir, 'This Dark World', the film tells the story of a thoughtful woman's struggles with belief, love, and trust in human relationships as well as in God.
Director: Vera Farmiga
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Where Do We Go Now?
Set in a remote village where the church and the mosque stand side by side, Where Do We Go Now? follows the antics of the town’s women as they try to keep their men from starting a religious war. Women heartsick over sons, husbands and fathers lost to previous flare-ups unite to distract their men with clever ruses - from faking a miracle to hiring a troop of Ukrainian strippers. A heartfelt and charming follow-up feature to director Nadine Labaki’s widely successful Caramel.
Director: Nadine Labaki
Year: 2011
Language: Arabic, English, French
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest
BEATS, RHYMES & LIFE: THE TRAVELS OF A TRIBE CALLED QUEST is a documentary film directed by Michael Rapaport about one of the most influential and groundbreaking musical groups in hip-hop history. Having released five gold and platinum selling albums within eight years, A Tribe Called Quest has been one of the most commercially successful and artistically significant musical groups in recent history, and regarded as iconic pioneers of hip hop. The band's sudden break-up in 1998 shocked the industry and saddened the scores of fans, whose appetite for the group's innovative musical stylings never seems to diminish.
Director: Michael Rapaport
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Miss Bala
Laura dreams of becoming a beauty queen. But when she witnesses a gang hit in a nightclub, the mob rigs an upcoming pageant and she’s dragged into the world of drug cartels and corrupt cops. Acting as their mule, she is pressured into carrying cash across the border and being a sex-slave to the boss. Every act of resistance she makes – going to the police and warning intended targets – just gets her in deeper.
Director: Gerardo Naranjo
Year: 2011
Language: Spanish, English
Genre: World Cinema, Thriller, Drama, Crime, Action
Amy George
Thirteen-year-old Jessie wants to be an artist, but beleives that his mundane middle-class Toronto life has left him unprepared. After reading a book on what it takes to be a true artist, he sets out looking for risk, ecstasy, wildness and woman. Amy George is a microbudget independent drama about a time in a boy's life when he is at his least likeable.
Director: Yonah Lewis and Calvin Thomas
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Stella Days
Martin Sheen stars as a parish priest in mid-1950’s Ireland, caught in a dramatic struggle between faith and passion, and Rome and Hollywood. In an attempt to raise funds for his church and merge his passion for film with his faith, he opens a small cinema in his community - The Stella - provoking conflict with the Bishop and the parishioners.
Director: Thaddeus O'Sullivan
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Toutes Nos Envies
Claire has it all: a perfect husband, two adorable kids and a rewarding job as a judge. Celine, an impoverished acquaintance, is being sued by credit agencies and Claire gets involved in her case. When Claire is diagnosed with inoperable cancer, she refuses treatment and tells no one, hoping to spare her family and use her time left to fight for the working poor.
Director: Philippe Lioret
Year: 2011
Language: French
Genre: World Cinema, Drama
Source des femmes, La
In a remote, desert village the well is at the top of a treacherous mountain path, and the job of collecting the water is up to the women. After one fall and one miscarriage too many, young newly-wed Leila suggests going on a love strike, arguing that refusal to grant sexual favours is the only power the women truly have over their men.
Director: Radu Mihaileanu
Year: 2011
Language: Arabic
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Take Shelter
A working-class husband and father questions whether his terrifying dreams of an apocalyptic storm signal something real to come or the onset of an inherited mental illness he's feared his whole life. The film stars Michael Shannon (Boardwalk Empire), Jessica Chastain (The Tree of Life), Shea Whigham (Boardwalk Empire), Katy Mixon (Eastbound & Down), and Kathy Baker (Edward Scissorhands).
Director: Jeff Nichols
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Drama
Pour l'amour de Dieu
Montreal, 1959. In the classroom of Sister Cecilia, Leonie (aged 11) first met Father Malachy, a young Dominican father who has come to visit his school. It is love at first sight for this lonely and dreamy child who took refuge in religion to escape a mother who is emotional and too worried. But there is also love at first sight between Sister Cecilia and Father Malachy. Between human love and the love of God, which will prevail?
Director: Micheline Lanctôt
Year: 2011
Language: French
Genre: Canadian, Drama
Woman in the Fifth, The
Ethan Hawke and Kristin Scott Thomas star in THE WOMAN IN THE FIFTH, a psychological thriller, based on Douglas Kennedy's 2007 novel of the same name. American writer Tom Ricks (Hawke) comes to Paris,desperate to win back the love of his estranged wife and daughter. When things don’t go according to plan, Tom ends up living in a shady hotel and working as a night guard to make ends meet. Then a beautiful, mysterious stranger (Scott Thomas) walks into his life. Things start looking up. But their passionate relationship triggers a series of inexplicable events - as if an obscure power were taking control of his life. The film is written and directed by Polish-born, UK-based Pawel Pawlikowski, whose credits include the BAFTA award-winning features LAST RESORT and MY SUMMER OF LOVE.
Director: Pawel Pawlikowski
Year: 2011
Language: English, French
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Mystery
Footnote
FOOTNOTE is the tale of a great rivalry between a father and son. Eliezer and Uriel Shkolnik are both eccentric professors, who have dedicated their lives to their work in Talmudic Studies. The father, Eliezer, is a stubborn purist who fears the establishment and has never been recognized for his work. While his son, Uriel, is an up-and-coming star in the field, who appears to feed on accolades, endlessly seeking recognition.
FOOTNOTE is the story of insane academic competition, the dichotomy between admiration and envy for a role model, and the very complicated relationship between a father and son.
Director: Joseph Cedar
Year: 2011
Language: Hebrew
Genre: World Cinema, Drama
Terri
A young misfit learns a valuable life lesson from the last person he ever thought possible in this sensitive coming of age tale from director Azazel Jacobs (The Goodtimeskid, Momma's Man). After losing his parents at a young age, overweight Terri (Jacob Wysocki) was sent to live with his uncle. Life has never been easy for the embattled young boy, and as his uncle's health begins to deteriorate, Terri becomes the target of relentless teasing by his cruel classmates. When Terri's apathetic teachers fail to offer him any guidance, his intimidating vice principal, Mr. Fitzgerald (John C. Reilly), recognizes a student in need, and reaches out to him. Through that unlikely friendship, Terri discovers that outcasts needn't endure life alone, and that by banding together, they can accomplish great things.
Director: Azazel Jacobs
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Separation, A
Set in contemporary Iran, A SEPARATION is a compelling drama about the dissolution of a marriage. Simin wants to leave Iran with her husband Nader and daughter Termeh. Simin sues for divorce when Nader refuses to leave behind his Alzheimer-suffering father. Her request having failed, Simin returns to her parents' home, but Termeh decides to stay with Nader.
When Nader hires a young woman to assist with his father in his wife's absence, he hopes that his life will return to a normal state. However, when he discovers that the new maid has been lying to him, he realizes that there is more on the line than just his marriage.
Director: Asghar Farhadi
Year: 2011
Language: Persian
Genre: World Cinema, Drama
POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold
Boundary-pushing Oscar®-nominated filmmaker Morgan Spurlock explores the world of product placement, marketing and advertising in POM WONDERFUL PRESENTS: THE GREATEST MOVIE EVER SOLD, a film that was fully financed through product placement from various brands, all of which are integrated transparently into the film.
While using brands in film promotion is not new for Hollywood, it certainly is new territory for the documentary format. Spurlock exploits the phenomenon to new heights, with everything from branded pizza boxes and in-flight film promotions to branded-everything in-film.
With humor and insight, POM WONDERFUL PRESENTS: THE GREATEST MOVIE EVER SOLD unmasks the marketing process to bring audiences behind closed doors directly into the pitch meetings and marketing presentations which ultimately inform our everyday entertainment decisions.
Director: Morgan Spurlock
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Carnage
Set in contemporary Brooklyn, New York, CARNAGE centers on two pairs of parents, one of whose child has hurt the other at a public park, who meet to discuss the matter in a civilized manner. However, as the evening goes on, the parents become increasingly childish, resulting in the evening devolving into chaos.
Director: Roman Polanski
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Deep Blue Sea, The
Hester Collyer (Academy Award winner Rachel Weisz) leads a privileged life in 1950s London as the beautiful wife of high court judge Sir William Collyer (Simon Russell Beale). To the shock of those around her, she walks out on her marriage to move in with young ex-RAF pilot, Freddie Page (Tom Hiddleston), with whom she has fallen passionately in love.
Set in post-war Britain, this adaptation of Terence Rattigan's classic play, THE DEEP BLUE SEA is a study of forbidden love, suppressed desire, and the fear of loneliness - but is at heart a deeply moving love story.
Stuck between the devil and the deep blue sea, what - or whom - should Hester choose?
Director: Terence Davies
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance
Roméo Onze
Working at the family restaurant and living under his parents’ roof, Rami occupies a world meticulously controlled by his father. Intensely shy but curious about women, Rami escapes online and constructs an avatar called Roméo 11, a confident and successful businessman. Rami’s lies, both online and to his family, will soon catch up with him.
Director: Ivan Grbovic
Year: 2011
Language: French, Arabic
Genre: Canadian, Drama
Restless
RESTLESS recounts the romance between two teenagers, orphaned, funeral-crashing Enoch (Henry Hopper, son of Dennis), and Annabel (Mia Wasikowska). They meet at a funeral and bond over their mutual morbid obsession, which they have for opposite reasons: Enoch lost his mother and father in an automobile accident that, he claims, left him dead for three minutes before he bounced back, while Annabel has brain cancer, which will take her within a few months.
Director: Gus Van Sant
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Project Nim
From the Oscar-winning team behind MAN ON WIRE comes the story of Nim, the chimpanzee who in the 1970s became the focus of a landmark experiment which aimed to show that an ape could learn to communicate with language if raised and nurtured like a human child.
Following Nim's extraordinary journey through human society, and the enduring impact he makes on the people he meets along the way, the film is an unflinching and unsentimental biography of an animal we tried to make human. What we learn about his true nature - and indeed our own - is comic, revealing and profoundly unsettling.
Director: James Marsh
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Trishna
Based on Thomas Hardy's classic novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles, TRISHNA tells the story of one woman whose life is destroyed by a combination of love and circumstances. Set in contemporary Rajasthan, Trishna (Freida Pinto) meets a wealthy young British businessman Jay Singh (Riz Ahmed) who has come to India to work in his father's hotel business. After an accident destroys her father's Jeep, Trishna goes to work for Jay, and they fall in love. But despite their feelings for each other, they cannot escape the conflicting pressures of a rural society which is changing rapidly through industrialisation, urbanisation and, above all, education. Trishna's tragedy is that she is torn between the traditions of her family life and the dreams and ambitions that her education has given her
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Swell Season
In 2008, Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová captivated audiences and earned two Academy Awards for their musical collaboration in the film ONCE. As their fictional romance blurred with reality, they fell in love, recorded an album, and embarked on a world tour. Fueled by two years of exhilaration, performance, and psychological turmoil, THE SWELL SEASON is much more than a musicdocumentary. It is a volatile and intimate portrait of a romance that fractures in the face of life on the road and personal tragedy. As Glen and Markéta’s relationship unhinges, ultimately music prevails as their enduring connection.
Director: Nick August-Perna, Chris Dapkins and Carlo Mirabella-Davis
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Music & Live Performance, Documentary
X: Night of Vengeance
Holly is getting ready to kiss her life as a callgirl goodbye. She just needs to get through her last night on the job. Shay is a teenage runaway, broke and alone. She just needs to get through her first night as a hooker. But a twist of fate soon brings them together on a job that turns deadly, forcing them to flee for their lives through the sizzling twilight zone of sex-for-sale.
Director: Jon Hewitt
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime
Take this Waltz
When Margot (Michelle Williams), 28, meets Daniel (Luke Kirby), their chemistry is intense and immediate. But Margot suppresses her sudden attraction; she is happily married to Lou (Seth Rogen), a cookbook writer. When Margot learns that Daniel lives across the street from them, the certainty about her domestic life shatters. She and Daniel steal moments throughout the steaming Toronto summer, their eroticism heightened by their restraint. Swelteringly hot, bright and colorful like a bowl of fruit, TAKE THIS WALTZ leads us, laughing, through the familiar, but uncharted question of what long-term relationships do to love, sex, and our images of ourselves.
Director: Sarah Polley
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Turn Me On, Goddammit!
In this offbeat coming-of-age comedy, Alma is a small-town girl with a big imagination and an even bigger libido. Horny and looking for love, she has only her kindly phone sex operator to cure her boredom. After a titillating encounter with a school heartthrob, she gains the uncomfortable nickname “Dick Alma”, and that’s when her troubles begin. Winner of the Best Screenplay Award at the Tribeca Film festival, Turn Me On, Goddammit! perfectly balances candid sexual content with earnest teenage awkwardness.
Director: Jannicke Systad Jacobsen
Year: 2011
Language: Norwegian
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom, The
It's 1976 and Elizabeth is just your average suburban 11-year-old praying for adolescence to arrive when she discovers her whole life has been a lie. With only her imagination to guide her, Elizabeth runs away in search of her true identity. Her adoptive mother Marion is then forced to break out of the carefully constructed "truth" she's been clinging to and go after her daughter. This leads to a cathartic cross-country trek by a mother searching for a daughter who's searching for a mother - both of them really searching for themselves…. The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom is a poignant, sometimes funny, very female, coming of age story that explores the tension between creating identity and finding it within…
Director: Tara Johns
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Tomboy
Laure is 10 years old. Laure is a tomboy. Upon arriving in a new neighborhood, she lets Lisa and her crowd believe that she is a boy. Truth or dare? Dare.
Laure pretends to be 'Michael,' a boy like the others…different enough to get the attention of Lisa who falls in love with him. Laure takes advantage of her new identity as if the end of the summer would never reveal her unsettling secret.
Director: Céline Sciamma
Year: 2011
Language: French
Genre: Drama
Damsels in Distress
DAMSELS IN DISTRESS is a comedy about a trio of beautiful girls as they set out to revolutionize life at a grungy American university - the dynamic leader Violet Wister (Greta Gerwig), principled Rose (Megalyn Echikunwoke) and sexy Heather (Carrie MacLemore). They welcome transfer student Lily (Analeigh Tipton) into their group which seeks to help severely depressed students with a program of good hygiene and musical dance numbers. The girls become romantically entangled with a series of men - including smooth Charlie (Adam Brody), dreamboat Xavier (Hugo Becker) and the mad frat pack of Frank (Ryan Metcalf) and Thor (Billy Magnussen) - who threaten the girls' friendship and sanity.
Director: Whit Stillman
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy
Skin I Live In, The
Ever since his wife was burned in a car crash, Dr. Robert Ledgard, an eminent plastic surgeon, has been interested in creating a new skin with which he could have saved her. After twelve years, he manages to cultivate a skin that is a real shield against every assault.
In addition to years of study and experimentation, Robert needed a further three things: no scruples, an accomplice and a human guinea pig. Scruples were never a problem. Marilia, the woman who looked after him from the day he was born, is his most faithful accomplice. And as for the human guinea pig…
Director: Pedro Almodovar
Year: 2011
Language: Spanish
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Drama
Neil Young Journeys
This past May, Neil Young brought his solo tour to Toronto's Massey Hall, an iconic venue in the city of his birth. Jonathan Demme was on hand to capture the two nights, which highlighted new songs from the album Le Noise. In Neil Young Journeys, Demme intersperses Massey Hall concert footage with brief scenes from a road trip through Ontario.
Director: Jonathan Demme
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Music & Live Performance, Documentary
Midnight in Paris
This is a romantic comedy set in Paris about a family that goes there because of business, and two young people who are engaged to be married in the fall have experiences there that change their lives. It's about a young man's great love for a city, Paris, and the illusion people have that a life different from theirs would be much better. It stars Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Marion Cotillard, Kathy Bates, Carla Bruni among others.
Director: Woody Allen
Year: 2011
Language: English & French
Genre: Fantasy, Romance, Comedy
Tous les Soleils
Alessandro is a music teacher who shares his apartment with his 15-year-old daughter and his anarchist brother. His burn-out brother refuses to move out and his daughter constantly tries to evade her overbearing father. One day a beautiful young woman falls into Alessandro's life. Will he take his chances with her? And more importantly, will he manage to get the rest of his life together?
Director: Philippe Claudel
Year: 2011
Language: French, Italian
Genre: Comedy
In Darkness
IN DARKNESS tells the true story of Leopold Socha, a sewer worker and petty thief in Nazi-occupied Lvov, Poland. Stumbling upon a group of Jews in the sewers, he agrees to hide them for a price. What starts out as a straightforward business arrangement becomes something unexpected, as they all try to outwit certain death during 14 months of intense danger.
Director: Agnieszka Holland
Year: 2011
Language: Polish, German, Yiddish, Ukrainian
Genre: War, Drama
Marécages (Wetlands)
14-year-old Simon feels starkly out of place on his parents’ dairy farm. Life on the farm is demanding, but no matter how hard Simon tries, he cannot live up to his father’s expectations. Resentments simmer, so when a tragic accident hits close to home, the question of blame haunts the family and the possibility for forgiveness seems remote.
Director: Guy Édoin
Year: 2011
Language: French
Genre: Canadian, Drama
War Don Don
In the heart of Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, United Nations soldiers guard a heavily fortified building known as the 'special court'. Inside, Issa Sesay awaits his trial. Prosecutors argue that Sesay is a war criminal, guilty of crimes against humanity. His defenders insist that he is a reluctant fighter who protected civilians and played a crucial role in forging the peace.
Director: Rebecca Richman Cohen
Year: 2010
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Vie de chat, Une (A Cat in Paris)
Nominated for a Best Animated Feature Oscar®, A Cat in Paris is a delightful caper set in a shadowy, noir-tinged Paris. Nico is a cat burglar who flees across the rooftops with a rubbery grace. Zoe is a mute little girl whose mother works overtime on the police force. Dino is her pet cat who leads a double life. When Zoé follows Dino on one of his nocturnal jaunts, she falls into Nico's dangerous world where adventure and notorious gangsters await.
Director: Jean-Loup Felicioli, Alain Gagnol
Year: 2010
Language: French
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Comedy, Family, Animation
I Am Love
Academy Award® winner Tilda Swinton (Michael Clayton) stars in this gorgeously composed Italian drama as Emma: dutiful wife, loving mother, and the heart of an affluent Milanese family. While shifting control and internal strife threaten the future of the family business, Emma experiences a sexual and emotional awakening when she falls for her son's friend and business partner, a gifted chef named Antonio, sparking a passionate affair that will change the lives of her family forever.
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Year: 2010
Language: Italian, English
Genre: Drama, Romance
Uninhabited
A young couple arrives on a deserted coral island for a romantic camping holiday, only to discover that the island has a ghost seeking revenge for a past outrage. Soon, their dream holiday becomes their worst nightmare.
Director: Bill Bennett
Year: 2010
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Exit Through the Gift Shop
He transforms cityscapes around the world into brilliant works of street art. Some call him a genius--others, a criminal. Though his true identity remains a secret, graffiti artist Banksy has become one of pop culture's greatest icons. Exit Through the Gift Shop follows the attempts of an eccentric L.A. thrift shop owner to capture the ever-elusive Banksy at work--only to have the mischievous artist turn the camera back on him with hilarious results. Is it all real? Or could this be Banksy's greatest stunt yet?
Director: Banksy
Year: 2010
Language: English & French
Genre: Documentary
Tête en Friche, La (My Afternoons with Marguerite)
Academy Award®-nominee Gérard Depardieu stars in this heart-warming, feel-good story as Germain, a barely literate middle-aged man who faces constant ridicule from those around him. But his life takes a turn for the better when he meets Margueritte, an elderly woman with a passion for reading who introduces him to the beautiful world of French literature. With Margueritte’s warmth and guidance, Germain develops the maturity and confidence necessary to take control of his destiny, and live the life he’s always wanted.
Director: Jean Becker
Year: 2010
Language: French
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Inside Job
From Academy Award® nominated filmmaker, Charles Ferguson ("No End In Sight"), comes INSIDE JOB, the first film to expose the shocking truth behind the economic crisis of 2008. The global financial meltdown, at a cost of over $20 trillion, resulted in millions of people losing their homes and jobs. Through extensive research and interviews with major financial insiders, politicians and journalists, INSIDE JOB traces the rise of a rogue industry and unveils the corrosive relationships which have corrupted politics, regulation and academia. Narrated by Academy Award® winner Matt Damon, INSIDE JOB was made on location in the United States, Iceland, England, France, Singapore, and China.
Director: Charles Ferguson
Year: 2010
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Woman, A Gun and a Noodle Shop, A
A WOMAN, A GUN AND A NOODLE SHOP is a remake of the 1985 directorial debut of Joel and Ethan Coen, BLOOD SIMPLE. Transposing the Coen Brother's celebrated mix of dark humor and riveting suspense to China, the film is helmed by Zhang Yimou (director of THE RED SORGHUM, TO LIVE, HERO, HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS and other masterpieces), one of the most eminent directors of the "Fifth Generation". This black comedy thriller is an exposé of how intense desires can consume humanity, and the irony that life never submits to our calculation.
Director: Zhang Yimou
Year: 2010
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Comedy
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
Woody Allen's YOU WILL MEET A TALL DARK STRANGER follows a pair of married couples, Alfie (Anthony Hopkins) and Helena (Gemma Jones), and their daughter Sally (Naomi Watts) and husband Roy (Josh Brolin), as their passions, ambitions, and anxieties lead them into trouble and out of their minds. Despite these characters' attempts to dodge their problems with pipe dreams and impracticable plans, their efforts lead only to heartache, irrationality, and perilous hot water. Taking its title from the prediction fortune tellers use to beguile their marks, YOU WILL MEET A TALL DARK STRANGER, illustrates with wry humor how easy it is for our illusions to make fools of us all.
Director: Woody Allen
Year: 2010
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
Winter in Wartime
Nazi-occupied Holland, 1945. In a snow-covered village, thirteen-year-old Michiel (Martijn Lakemeier) is drawn into the Resistance when he aids a wounded British paratrooper. Michiel‘s boyish sense of defiance and adventure soon turns to danger and desperation, as Michiel is forced to act without knowing whom to trust among the adults and townspeople around him. Wartime's harsh reality encroaches on childhood innocence as Michiel confronts good and evil, courage and duplicity, and his own burden of responsibility.
Director: Martin Koolhoven
Year: 2010
Language: Dutch/German
Genre: Drama
Howl
James Franco stars as counter-culture revolutionary Allen Ginsberg, who recounts the road trips, love affairs and search for personal liberation that led to the most electrifying work of his career: the poem Howl. Meanwhile, in a San Francisco courtroom, Howl is on trial as prosecutor Ralph McIntosh (David Strathairn), defense attorney Jake Ehrlich (Jon Hamm), and a host of witnesses (Jeff Daniels, Mary-Louise Parker, Treat Williams) debate the artistic merits of the controversial poem, and whether or not it should be banned from publication.
Director: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
Year: 2010
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance, Biography
Teenage Paparazzo
When precocious 13-year-old paparazzo Austin Visschedyk snapped a photo of celebrity Adrian Grenier (HBO's Entourage), little did he know his life was about to change. Turning the tables on the juvenile paparazzo, Grenier stepped on the other side of the lens in an attempt to mentor a teenager obsessed with the lure of the Hollywood lifestyle. Grenier develops a meaningful relationship with his camera-clicking young friend as he attempts to reconcile their mutual exploitation. Indeed, Grenier puts himself on the line here, trying to make sense of his own recently acquired fame.
Director: Adrian Grenier
Year: 2010
Language: English & French
Genre: Documentary
Curling
Curling is a lyrical look at the unusual private life of a father and his daughter. Between his unremarkable jobs, Jean-François devotes most of his time to his 12-year-old daughter, Julyvonne, whom he obsessively protects from the outside world. Their simple existence in the remote countryside revolves around each other until a series of disturbing occurrences and secrets threatens to destroy the fragility of their relationship.
Director: Denis Côté
Year: 2010
Language: French
Genre: Drama
Modra
17-year-old Lina plans to visit her extended family in Modra, a small town in Slovakia, for a week during the summer holidays. After being dumped by her boyfriend, she spontaneously invites a cute boy from school named Leco to join her instead. Not long after their arrival, however, Lina and Leco discover that they have little in common. To make matters worse, Lina's family mistakenly assumes that romance is afoot.
Director: Ingrid Veninger
Year: 2010
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance
Mao's Last Dancer
Two-time Academy Award®-nominated director Bruce Beresford (Driving Miss Daisy) celebrates the inspirational true story of ballet dancer Li Cunxin in this stunning adaptation of Li’s best-selling autobiography. When granted the opportunity of a lifetime to train with the renowned Houston Ballet, eighteen-year-old Li leaves behind a life of poverty and oppression in Communist China to embark on a transformative journey to the West, where he soars to stardom—and meets the love of his life. But he soon learns that his quest for freedom must come at a price.
Director: Bruce Beresford
Year: 2010
Language: English, Mandarin
Genre: Music & Live Performance, Drama, Romance, Biography
Life, Above All
LIFE, ABOVE ALL is a emotional and universal drama about a young girl (stunningly performed by first-time-actress Khomotso Manyaka) who fights the fear and shame that have poisoned her community. The film captures the enduring strength of loyalty and a courage powered by the heart. Directed by South African filmmaker Oliver Schmitz (MAPANTSULA, PARIS JE T'AIME), it is based on the international award winning novel "CHANDA'S SECRETS" by Allan Stratton.
Director: Oliver Schmitz
Year: 2010
Language: Pedi
Genre: Drama
Sound of Mumbai, The
A group of children from the slums of Mumbai, India, are given a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to perform The Sound of Music with a classical orchestra. As they prepare for their magical moment in the spotlight, they hold immense hope that it could change their lives for the better. Director Sarah McCarthy crafts a heartwarming and uplifting story that celebrates not only the power of dreams, but a uniquely charming rendition of the Rodgers & Hammerstein favourite that's sure to change your association with it forever.
Director: Sarah McCarthy
Year: 2010
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
In A Better World
The latest film from Academy Award nominated director Susanne Bier (AFTER THE WEDDING, BROTHERS), IN A BETTER WORLD revolves around the lives of two Danish families who cross each other, and an extraordinary, but risky friendship comes into bud. But loneliness, frailty and sorrow lie in wait. Soon, friendship transforms into a dangerous alliance and a breathtaking pursuit in which life is at stake.
Director: Susanne Bier
Year: 2010
Language: Dutch
Genre: Drama
When We Leave
Umay flees an abusive marriage in Istanbul and joins her family in Berlin. But her parents are unsympathetic - social stigma causes them to side with their conservative neighbors and cast out their daughter for refusing to go back to her husband. When they try to send her son back to Turkey without her, Umay is forced to move to a women's shelter. She struggles to build a new life and retain contact with her family, but can't escape the consequences of her actions.
Director: Feo Aladag
Year: 2010
Language: German
Genre: Drama
Illusionist, the
THE ILLUSIONIST is a story about two paths that cross. An outdated, aging magician, forced to wander from country to country, city to city and station to station in search of a stage to perform his act meets a young girl at the start of her life's journey. Alice is a teenage girl with all her capacity for childish wonder still intact. She plays at being a woman without realizing the day to stop pretending is fast approaching. She doesn't know yet that she loves The Illusionist like she would a father; he already knows that he loves her as he would a daughter. Their destinies will collide, but nothing - not even magic or the power of illusion- can stop the voyage of discovery.
Director: Sylvain Chomet
Year: 2010
Language: French
Genre: Drama, Animation
Oliver Sherman
Feeling lost and disconnected, with no family of his own, veteran Sherman Oliver sets out to the countryside in search of the soldier who saved him back in the war. That man, Franklin Page, has long since moved on - to a wife, two children, and a reliable job in a quiet, rural town. Upon arriving, Sherman seems at first a harmless, if awkward, shell of a man. But as he inserts himself further into the Pages' lives, he reveals himself to be an angry, unstable individual prone to great jealousy and deep resentment. The stability Franklin worked so hard to establish is soon threatened, and the violence he believed he'd left behind in the war begins to re-emerge and cloud over both the household and the town itself.
Director: Ryan Redford
Year: 2010
Language: English
Genre: War, Thriller, Drama
Thieves by Law
They've appeared as menacing villains in some of Hollywood’s greatest crime thrillers. Now, meet the real godfathers of the Russian Mafia. Thieves by Law reveals shocking tales of murder, torture and extortion from three mobsters-turned-businessmen so cold-blooded they would have Tony Soprano begging for mercy. Covering everything from their strict codes of honour to the meaning behind those tattoos made so famous by Viggo Mortensen in Eastern Promises, these kingpins expose every last dark detail of the most feared crime syndicate in the world.
Director: Alexander Gentelev
Year: 2010
Language: Russian/Hebrew
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Lost Journey
Arriving in Toronto from Iran, 19-year-old Pedram Abasi embarks on a journey shared by millions of people every year, adapting to a new language and culture. His aunt and uncle take him in and are delighted by his progress, until he meets Nima and Chrissy, who introduce him to a world of all night raves, promiscuous sex, and taking Ecstasy till sunrise. Before long, his family begins to regret letting him live with them. With his education in peril and his life on a downward spiral, Pedram have to get his life back on track before all hope is lost.
Director: Ant Horasanli
Year: 2010
Language: English
Genre: Canadian, Drama
Jo pour Jonathan
In a world where ambition amounts to little more than a few material possessions, Thomas has everything that his younger brother Jo wants: a job, a car, and a hot girlfriend. When Jo fails his driving test he lies to his friends and steals his brother's car, but his increasing delinquency ultimately forces the brothers into a dangerous situation that takes both their lives on a turn.
Director: Maxime Giroux
Year: 2010
Language: French
Genre: Canadian, Drama
White Irish Drinkers
Scarred by years of savage abuse from their father, Danny and Brian dream of escaping working-class Brooklyn. They turn to petty crime, but Brian secretly fosters hopes of going to art school instead. A unique opportunity gives him the chance to finally realize his dreams, but Danny's reckless crimes threaten to ruin everything and tear the brothers apart.
Director: John Gray
Year: 2010
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Way, The
From director Emilio Estevez and starring Martin Sheen comes a modern-day odyssey – the soulful journey of a man rocked by personal crisis who sets off on an epic mountain trek, thinking he is utterly lost, only to keep bumping into surprise moments of community, companionship and inspiration that begin to steer his way. This spirited road-movie-on-foot crosses territory that is alternately comic, adventurous and keenly moving, even as it becomes an unforeseen gift from a son to his father.
Director: Emilio Estevez
Year: 2010
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Comedy
Village des Ombres, Le
On a weekend road trip, half of Emma's friends go missing – leaving her to wander a deserted village in search of them. But as she begins to uncover the town's sordid past, she experiences horrifying visions and finds a series of drawings that illustrates the disappearance of her friends. Even worse, Emma's discovery may foretell her own gruesome fate.
Director: Fouad Benhammou
Year: 2010
Language: French, German, Spanish
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Mystery
Score: A Hockey Musical
17-year-old Farley has the stick-handling skills to be the next Sidney Crosby—not that Farley has any idea who that is. His sheltered life consists of being homeschooled by his pacifist parents, hanging out with Eve, the beautiful girl next door, and playing shinny with the local rink rats. However, his idyllic world is turned upside down when he becomes an overnight success in a major hockey league, throwing him into a whirlwind of media hype and endorsement deals. Farley soon learns that there’s an ugly side to hockey fame, which not only threatens to compromise his values, but his relationship with Eve.
Director: Michael McGowan
Year: 2010
Language: English
Genre: Sports, Comedy, Musical
Get Low
For years, townsfolk have been terrified of the backwoods recluse known as Felix Bush (Duvall). People say he's done all manner of unspeakable things - that he's killed in cold blood; that he's in league with the Devil; that he has strange powers - and they avoid him like the plague. Then, one day, Felix rides to town with a shotgun and a wad of cash, saying he wants to buy a funeral. It's not your usual funeral for the dead Felix wants. On the contrary, he wants a "living funeral," in which anyone who ever had heard a story about him will come to tell it, while he takes it all in. Sensing a big payday in the offing, fast-talking funeral home owner Frank Quinn (Murray) enlists his gentlemanly young apprentice, Buddy Robinson (Black), to win over Felix's business. Buddy is no stranger to Felix's dark reputation, but what he discovers is that behind Felix's surreal plan lies a very real and long-held secret that must get out.
Director: Aaron Schneider
Year: 2010
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Transfer
A wealthy couple decides to pay for a new procedure that allows their minds to be transferred to younger, purchased bodies. But there's a catch: the host bodies wake up as themselves for four hours each night and have ideas and desires of their own.
Director: Damir Lukacevic
Year: 2010
Language: German, French, English
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Tree, The
After the sudden loss of her father, 8-year-old Simone shares a secret with her mother Dawn: her father whispers to her through the leaves of the magnificient tree by their house. Simone is convinced that he's come back to protect her family. Soon, Simone's three brothers and Dawn also take comfort in the reassuring tree. But the new bond between mother and daughter is threatened when Dawn starts dating George. Simone moves into the treehouse and refuses to come down. With branches infiltrating the house and roots destroying the foundations, the tree seems to be siding with Simone. Dawn refuses to let the tree take control of her family...
Director: Julie Bertuccelli
Year: 2010
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance
De Vrais Mensonges
Emilie (Audrey Tautou) puts her heart into running her busy hair salon in the sunny south of France. When she receives anonymous love letters, she decides to forward them to her heart-broken mother in the hopes of spicing up her love life. This leads to messy entanglements and a slew of misunderstandings when the secret admirer is revealed.
Director: Pierre Salvadori
Year: 2010
Language: French, English
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Another Year
A married couple who have managed to remain blissfully happy into their autumn years, are surrounded over the course of the four seasons of one average year by friends, colleagues, and family who all seem to suffer some degree of unhappiness.
Director: Mike Leigh
Year: 2010
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Tamara Drewe
Based on Posy Simmonds' beloved graphic novel of the same name (which was itself inspired by Thomas Hardy's classic Far From the Madding Crowd) this wittily modern take on the romantic English pastorale is a far cry from Hardy's Wessex. Tamara Drewe's present-day English countryside - stocked with pompous writers, rich weekenders, bourgeois bohemians, a horny rock star, and a great many Buff Orpington chickens and Belted Galloway cows - is a much funnier place. When Tamara Drewe sashays back to the bucolic village of her youth, life for the locals is thrown tail over teakettle. Tamara - once an ugly duckling - has been transformed into a devastating beauty (with help from plastic surgery). As infatuations, jealousies, love affairs and career ambitions collide among the inhabitants of the neighboring farmsteads, Tamara sets a contemporary comedy of manners into play using the oldest magic in the book - sex appeal.
Director: Stephen Frears
Year: 2010
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Viva Riva
Riva has just returned to his hometown of Kinshasa with a bootlegged fortune of hijacked petrol. With wads of cash and a good time on his mind, Riva is soon entranced by the beautiful nightclub siren Nora, the kept woman of a local gangster. Meanwhile, Riva's Angolan crime lord ex-boss relentlessly seeks the return of a certain stolen shipment of gasoline.
Director: Djo Munga
Year: 2010
Language: French, Lingala
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime
Womb
Young and shy Rebecca befriends Tommy while visiting her grandfather in a remote coastal area, but their profound fairy-tale romance comes to an end when Rebecca must follow her mother to faraway Tokyo. Twelve years later, Rebecca (Eva Green), now a young woman returns to settle in her late grandfather’s beach house. She seeks out childhood friend Tommy (Matt Smith)… their reunion is marked by a strong mutual attraction, but their passionate relationship is short-lived when Tommy is killed in a freak car accident. Devastated, Rebecca feels life cannot go on without Tommy, so she turns to the controversial “Department of Genetic Replication” for an option. Although wary of the potential repercussions, Tommy’s parents (Lesley Manville and Peter Wight) reluctantly agree to supply Rebecca with the necessary DNA sample for her to clone a new Tommy in her womb. Writer and director Benedek Fliegauf (Dealer) brings us this haunting and heartbreaking one-of-a-kind sci-fi love story.
Director: Benedek Fliegauf
Year: 2010
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Two Deaths of Quincas Wateryell, The
One morning, Quincas Wateryell doesn't wake up after another night of partying in sleazy bars and brothels. When the news reaches the family he despised, his funeral looks like being another humiliation for his daughter Vanda. All of Bahia's high society wants to honor the man she claims left to marry an Italian heiress. But first, with her husband and uncle, Vanda must watch over the corpse in Quincas' squalid hotel room, where his four best drinking buddies gather to give him the send-off he deserves. When the family members are asleep, they sneak Quincas out for one last phenomenal party. With Vanda and the police on their tail, Quincas and his buddies' offbeat rampage provokes chaos and unforeseen consequences...
Director: Sérgio Machado
Year: 2010
Genre: Comedy
Boy
It's 1984, and Michael Jackson is king-even in Waihau Bay, New Zealand. Here we meet Boy, an 11-year-old who lives on a farm with his gran, a goat, and his younger brother, Rocky (who thinks he has magic powers). Shortly after Gran leaves for a week, Boy's father, Alamein, appears out of the blue. Having imagined a heroic version of his father during his absence, Boy comes face to face with the real version-an incompetent hoodlum who has returned to find a bag of money he buried years before. This is where the goat enters. Inspired by his Oscar-nominated short, Two Cars, One Night, Taika Waititi offers a charming. funny, and earnest coming-of-age story where everybody has some coming of age to do-particularly Alamein (affably played by Waititi himself). Never short on humor, Waititi's story is ultimately about three boys (one grown) reconciling fantasy with reality.
Director: Taika Waititi
Year: 2010
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Venus Noire, La (Black Venus)
“Black Venus is the powerful true story of Saartjie Baartman, a South African woman who was brought to London by her master to be exploited as a sideshow attraction. Free and enslaved at the same time, the “Hottentot Venus” became an icon in the slums, eventually ending up in Paris as a sexual slave and the subject of dubious scientific study. Acclaimed director Abdellatif Kechiche (The Secret of the Grain) brings Baartman’s tragic yet unforgettable tale to life in this “supremely accomplished journey” (THE INDEPENDENT).”
Director: Abdellatif Kechiche
Year: 2010
Language: French, Afrikaans, English
Genre: History, Drama
Socalled Movie, The
With over 2.5 million YouTube hits for his music video "You Are Never Alone," Montreal-based musician, filmmaker, cartoonist and magician Josh Dolgin—aka Socalled—has set the creative world ablaze. His unique style blends cosmic visuals with his own mash-up of hip-hop, funk and traditional Jewish folk music. Director Garry Beitel takes viewers on a journey inside the mind of the man who has been dubbed "The Yiddish James Brown," exploring his art, life and everything in-between that makes him so damn fascinating.
Director: Garry Beitel
Year: 2010
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Wonderful World
In this moving dark comedy, Matthew Broderick plays Ben, a failed children's folk singer and less-than-extraordinary weekend dad. Ben gets pleasure from smoking weed and playing chess with his Senegalese roommate, Ibou. When Ibou suddenly falls ill, Ben's pessimistic worldview seems unequivocally confirmed. But when Ibou's sister takes his place in their apartment, what starts as an awkward living arrangement becomes something Ben did not expect...
Director: Joshua Goldin
Year: 2009
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance
Broken Embraces
Fourteen years ago, a writer lost his sight and his lover in a car accident, and is now reduced to his pseudonym, Harry Caine. He has completely erased his original identity. Harry lives thanks to the scripts he writes and to the help of her former and always faithful production manager, Judit Garcia, as well as of her son, Diego, who acts as his secretary, typist and guide. But, one night, Diego has an accident and Harry must look after him. In the long night of sitting up with the boy, he tells him of his past as if it was a story. A story portrayed by a photo of a couple of lovers embracing. A photo torn to pieces, resulting in broken embraces.
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Year: 2009
Language: Spanish with English subtitles
Genre: Drama
Women Without Men
Internationally-acclaimed visual artist Shirin Neshat sends shock waves through the world of cinema with her directorial debut, the stunning and provocative Women Without Men. Set against the backdrop of 1953 Iran, a pivotal period of civil unrest in which a British and American-backed coup subverted the country's democratically-elected government, the film weaves together the experiences of four different women, exploring the shocking, profound, and ultimately irreversible ways in which history and culture intertwine to impact their lives.
Director: Shirin Neshat, Shoja Azari
Year: 2009
Language: Persian/English
Genre: Drama
Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky
Paris, 1913. At the Theatre Des Champs-Elysées, Igor Stravinsky premieres his The Rite Of Spring. Coco Chanel attends the premiere and is mesmerized, but the revolutionary work is too modern, too radical: the enraged audience boos and jeers. A near riot ensues. Stravinsky is inconsolable. Seven years later, now rich, respected and successful, Coco Chanel meets Stravinsky again -- a penniless refugee living in exile in Paris after the Russian Revolution. The attraction between them is immediate and electric. Coco offers Stravinsky the use of her villa in Garches so that he will be able to work, and he moves in straight away, with his children and consumptive wife. And so a passionate, intense love affair between two creative giants begins...
Director: Jan Kounen
Year: 2009
Language: English/French/Russian
Genre: Drama
Education, An
Jenny is a bright young girl on the cusp of her 17th birthday who finds herself in a whirlwind romance with a much older David. Prior to meeting David, Jenny was trying to excel in her life by going to a prep school to get into Oxford. Once she sees the lifestyle David can provide, one she never imagined might so easily be hers, she is hooked and thoughts of Oxford go out the window. Then, when things are looking pretty good for Jenny with the dashing (yet a little too smooth) David, the truth hits her like a ton of bricks. Jenny goes from being a bright eyed school girl to a sophisticated young lady and then all the way back to questioning if she really knows who she is at all. Will David be the making of Jenny or her undoing?
Director: Lone Scherfig
Year: 2009
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Vision
Vision is the profoundly moving true story of famed 12th-century nun Hildegard von Bingen. Bingen was one of the most important, inspirational and visionary female leaders of the Medieval Age, responsible for ushering European women into the modern era of science and enlightenment. A highly gifted composer, philosopher and scientist, Bingen faced outrage from the church over her claims that she received visions from God.
Director: Margarethe von Trotta
Year: 2009
Language: German, Latin
Genre: History, Drama, Biography
Signes Vitaux, les
Simone, a beautiful university student in her sexual prime, engages in a torrid romance with a struggling musician. Her carefree world comes crashing down when she receives the news of her grandmother’s shocking death. Now, struggling with profound new questions, she seeks clarity by comforting dying patients in their final days. But her altruistic act soon becomes an obsession, causing a rift with her increasingly frustrated lover.
Director: Sophie Deraspe
Year: 2009
Language: French
Genre: Drama
Please Give
Kate (Catherine Keener) and Alex (Oliver Platt) and their teenage daughter Abby purchase the apartment next door in order to expand their two bedroom Manhattan apartment. Their only problem is the old cranky lady, Andra, living in it, and that they've got to wait for her to die. Andra is cared for by her sweet granddaughter Rebecca (Rebecca Hall) who has no life, and is blatantly rejected by her other highly cynical granddaughter, Mary (Amanda Peet). Simply waiting for Andra to die becomes complicated when the two families' lives intersect, resulting in a dramatic comedy about love, death, and liberal guilt from Nicole Holofcener (Friends With Money, Lovely and Amazing).
Director: Nicole Holofcener
Year: 2009
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Villa Amalia
After discovering that her husband of fifteen years is having an affair, an emotionally distraught concert pianist named Ann vows to cut all ties with her shattered life. She sells her apartment, empties her bank account, ditches her belongings and hits the road, venturing toward a brand new life in Villa Amalia, a serene Italian island where absolutely anything is possible.
Director: Benoît Jacquot
Year: 2009
Language: French, Italian
Genre: Drama
Tidal Wave
When a South Korean geologist discovers that seismic activity in the Sea of Japan could trigger a deadly megatsunami, his warnings go unheeded by government officials. The premonition soon proves true, though, as a towering 500-mile-an-hour wave charges toward a popular beachfront community called Haeundae, obliterating everything in its path.
Director: Je-gyun Yun
Year: 2009
Language: Korean
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Action
Under the Mountain
When teenage twins Rachel and Theo investigate the creepy old house next door, they discover the Wilberforces—shape-shifting creatures that lurk beneath Auckland's ring of extinct volcanoes. Guided by the mysterious Mr. Jones (Sam Neill), and with the help of their older cousin Ricky, the twins must rekindle the unique powers they once shared if they are to destroy this ancient evil...before it destroys them.
Director: Jonathan King
Year: 2009
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Thriller, Fantasy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Secret in their Eyes, The
With THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES, Argentinean writer-director-editor Juan Jose Campanella has created a multi-layered and poignant thriller interweaving the personal lives of a state prosecution investigator and a judge, with a manhunt spanning twenty-five years.
Recently retired criminal court investigator Benjamin (Ricardo Darin), decides to write a novel based on a twenty-five year old unresolved rape and murder case, which still haunts him. Sharing his plans with Irene (Soledad Villamil), the beautiful judge and former colleague he has secretly been in love with for years, Benjamin's initial involvement with the case is shown through flashbacks, as he sets out to identify the murderer. But Benjamin's search for the truth will put him at the center of a judicial nightmare, as the mystery of the heinous crime continues to unfold in the present, testing the limits of a man seeking justice and personal fulfillment at last.
Director: Juan José Campanella
Year: 2009
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama
Nuages sur la ville
Jean-Paul (Jean-Pierre Lefebvre) is a public servant, tired of toiling at his soul-destroying job. As a writer, he feels out of touch with the times and longs for inspiration. Touching on the many themes of modern malaise, director Simon Galiero delivers a biting portrayal of media obsession in the 21st century. Starring three of Quebec’s most notable filmmakers, Galiero highlights through ironic parable the difficulties facing the contemporary artist: the precarious nature of social status, the lost direction of art, and the heavy heart of cynicism.
Director: Simon Galiero
Year: 2009
Language: French
Genre: Drama
Vertige
Five friends venture into the mountains for an unforgettable climbing retreat. There's just one small problem: their intended trail has been closed due to safety issues. Stubborn and naïve, they brush past the warning signs and continue their ascent--a grave decision that leaves them clinging for survival at the mercy of faulty equipment and treacherous terrain. As they encounter a barrage of sinister traps, a terrifying reality sets in: someone is out there...someone who doesn't want them to leave alive...
Director: Abel Ferry
Year: 2009
Language: French
Genre: Adventure, Thriller, Action
Soul Power
In 1974, the most celebrated American R&B acts of the time came together with the most renowned musical groups in Africa for a 12-hour, three-night long concert held in Kinshasa, Zaire. The dream-child of Hugh Masekela and Stewart Levine, this music festival became a reality when they convinced boxing promoter Don King to combine the event with “The Rumble in the Jungle,” the epic fight between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman. SOUL POWER is a verité documentary about this legendary music festival (dubbed “Zaire ‘74”), and it depicts the experiences and performances of such musical luminaries as James Brown, BB King, Bill Withers, Celia Cruz, among a host of others. At the peak of their talents and the height of their careers, these artists were inspired by this return to their African roots, as well as the enthusiasm of the Zairian audience, to give the performances of their lives. SOUL POWER finally provides today’s audience the opportunity to experience this historic musical event.
Director: Jeffrey Levy-Hinte
Year: 2009
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Grown Up Movie Star
Ray, a disgraced NHL star who was once a hometown hero, returns to Newfoundland following a drug conviction, only to have his wife Lillian leave him for another man and the pursuit of stardom. Left with his precocious daughters, Ruby and Rose, Ray struggles to find his sexual identity, while teenage Ruby begins to spiral down a dark path that leads to a potentially dangerous romance with Ray's best friend, Stuart.
Director: Adriana Maggs
Year: 2009
Language: English
Genre: Drama
At Home by Myself... with You
Romy Scott is afraid of... well, just about everything. At the age of 30, she's sealed herself in her apartment, attempting to battle her phobias with the help of a few close acquiantances. When the kindly old lady across the hall -- Romy's greatest source of support -- passes on, her nomadic nephew shows up to occupy the empty space en route to his next adventure. The two initially clash, but a bond begins to form as the young man helps Romy conquer her fears one at a time. Romy is now left at a crossroads; the man she loves is, by nature, a man on the go.
Director: Kris Booth
Year: 2009
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
Cooking with Stella
When Canadian diplomat Maya (Lisa Ray) and her stay-at-home husband, Michael (Don McKellar), are relocated to exotic New Dehli, they inherit a household of Indian servants ruled by the sweet and charming Stella (Seema Biswas). An out-of-work chef back home, Michael implores Stella to impart her culinary wisdom and help him spice up his own repertoire. After some initial resistance, she agrees to mentor the wide-eyed westerner. As the two prepare a mouthwatering array of colourful and sumptuous cuisines, an unlikely bond begins to form. But Stella isn't who she appears to be. In fact, she's secretly cooking up a few schemes of her own...
Director: Dilip Mehta
Year: 2009
Language: English/Hindi
Genre: Drama, Comedy
It Might Get Loud
Rarely can a film penetrate the glamorous surface of rock legends. It Might Get Loud tells the personal stories, in their own words, of three generations of electric guitar virtuosos – The Edge (U2), Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin), and Jack White (The White Stripes). It reveals how each developed his unique sound and style of playing favorite instruments, guitars both found and invented. Concentrating on the artist’s musical rebellion, traveling with him to influential locations, provoking rare discussion as to how and why he writes and plays, this film lets you witness intimate moments and hear new music from each artist. The movie revolves around a day when Jimmy Page, Jack White, and The Edge first met and sat down together to share their stories, teach and play.
Director: Davis Guggenheim
Year: 2009
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Last Station,The
After almost fifty years of marriage, the Countess Sofya (Helen Mirren), Leo Tolstoy's (Christopher Plummer) devoted wife, passionate lover, muse and secretary (she's copied out War and Peace six times…by hand!), suddenly finds her entire world turned upside down. In the name of his newly created religion, the great Russian novelist has renounced his noble title, his property and even his family in favor of poverty, vegetarianism and even celibacy. After she's born him thirteen children!
Director: Michael Hoffman
Year: 2009
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Moon
Starring: Sam Rockwell and Kevin Spacey.
Sam Bell is nearing the end of his contract with Lunar. He's been a faithful employee for 3 long years. His home has been Selene, a moon base where he has spent his days alone, mining Helium 3. The precious gas holds the key to reversing the Earth's energy crisis. Isolated, determined and steadfast, Sam has followed the rulebook obediently and his time on the moon has been enlightening, but uneventful. The solitude has given him time to reflect on the mistakes of his past and work on his raging temper. But 2 weeks shy of his departure from Selene, Sam starts seeing things, hearing things and feeling strange. And when a routine extraction goes horribly wrong, he discovers that Lunar have their own plans for replacing him and the new recruit is eerily familiar. Before he can return to Earth, Sam has to confront himself and the discovery that the life he has created, may not be his own. It's more than his contract that is set to expire.
Director: Duncan Jones
Year: 2009
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Cairo Time
Juliette, a fashion magazine editor in her 50s, travels to Cairo to meet her husband, Mark, a UN official working in Gaza, for a three week vacation. When he is unavoidably delayed, he sends his friend Tareq, who had been his security officer for many years, to escort her throughout the beautiful and exotic city. The last thing anyone expects is that they will fall in love.
Director: Ruba Nadda
Year: 2009
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance
Prophet, A
Condemned to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena cannot read or write. Arriving at the jail entirely alone, he appears younger and more fragile than the other convicts. He is 19 years old. Cornered by the leader of the Corsican gang currently ruling the prison, he is given a number of "missions" to carry out, toughening him up and gaining the gang leader's confidence in the process. Malik is a fast learner and rises up the prison ranks, all the while secretly devising his own plans...
Director: Jacques Audiard
Year: 2009
Language: French
Genre: Drama
Spooner
Herman Spooner (Matthew Lillard) is a used car salesman who still lives at home with his parents. He meets the girl of his dreams, Rose (Nora Zehetner), but on their perfect date, she breaks the news that she is about to leave for the Philippines. How far will Spooner go to keep Rose in town and show her he really does know how to spoon?
Director: Drake Doremus
Year: 2009
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Act of God
From the award-winning director of "Manufactured Landscapes" comes "Act of God," a film that explores the paradox of being singled out by randomness and raises questions about chance, fate, and the meaning of life. Exploring seven stories from around the world, "Act of God" responds to these questions while keeping the sky and what comes out of it as a central visual metaphor. Paul Auster, the best-selling novelist who was struck as a teenager, anchors the film, along with improvisational musician Fred Frith, whose original compositions demonstrate the ubiquity of electricity in our bodies and in the universe.
Director: Jennifer Baichwal
Year: 2009
Language: English, French
Genre: Documentary
Love & Savagery
In 1968, Michael McCarthy travels from Newfoundland to Ireland to explore the Burren, a rich geological wonder. There he meets Cathleen, a beautiful woman who has devoted herself to God and the church from a young age. Michael falls hopelessly in love, and Cathleen finds herself torn between her faith and her newly discovered desires. As Michael pursues his beloved, his persistence stirs anger and violence in her small town. Ultimately, Cathleen must decide which love she is to follow...
Director: John N. Smith
Year: 2009
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance
Damned United, The
Starring: Michael Sheen, Timothy Spall, Colm Meaney, & Jim Broadbent
Set in 1960’s and 1970’s England, THE DAMNED UNITED tells the confrontational and darkly humorous story of Brian Clough’s doomed 44 day tenure as manager of the reigning champions of English football Leeds United. Previously managed by his bitter rival Don Revie, and on the back of their most successful period ever as a football club, Leeds was perceived by many to represent a new aggressive and cynical style of football - an anathema to the principled yet flamboyant Brian Clough, who had achieved astonishing success as manager of Hartlepool and Derby County building teams in his own vision with trusty lieutenant Peter Taylor. Taking the Leeds job without Taylor by his side, with a changing room full of what in his mind were still Don’s boys, would lead to an unheralded examination of Clough’s belligerence and brilliance over 44 days. This is that story. The story of The Damned United.
Director: Tom Hooper
Year: 2009
Language: English
Genre: Drama
White Ribbon
In a village in Protestant northern Germany, on the eve of World War I, the children of a church and school run by the village schoolteacher and their families experience a series of bizarre incidents that inexplicably assume the characteristics of a punishment ritual. Who could be responsible for such bizarre transgressions? Leonie Benesch, Josef Bierbichler, and Rainer Bock star in director Michael Haneke's Palm d'Or-winning period drama.
Director: Michael Haneke
Year: 2009
Language: German
Genre: Drama
We Live in Public
At the height of his $80-million dollar dot-com career, internet pioneer Josh Harris began hosting bizarre surveillance experiments, including "Quiet", an underground society linked by all-seeing cameras and quickly driven to chaos by Harris's militaristic rule. He then turned the cameras on himself, and his girlfriend, streaming their affair online in real-time until their inevitable break-up and Harris's own mental collapse. Over a cacophony of music and colorful graphics, Ondi Timoner (DiG!) chronicles the strange forays into voyeurism, exhibitionism, and mind control that led to Harris's terrific fall from disgrace when the dot-com bubble finally burst.
Director: Ondi Timoner
Year: 2009
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Waterlife - Cancelled
Waterlife follows the cascade of the Great Lakes from Lake Superior to the Atlantic Ocean, telling the story of the last huge supply of fresh water on Earth. Filled with fascinating characters and stunning imagery, Waterlife is a cinematic poem about the beauty of water and the dangers of taking it for granted. Narrated by Gord Downie, lead vocalist of The Tragically Hip and Waterkeeper’s Trustee of Lake Ontario. Featuring music by Sam Roberts, Sufjan Stevens, Sigur Ros, Robbie Robertson and Brian Eno.
Director: Kevin McMahon
Year: 2009
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Tales from the Golden Age
The last fifteen years of the Ceausescu communist regime were, without question, the worst in Romania's history. Not surprisingly, the Ceausescu propaganda machine shared a different opinion, referring to that period as "the golden age". By adapting the period's most popular myths, Golden Palm winner Cristian Mungiu (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days) recaptures the humorous spirit that kept Romanians alive during their darkest hour.
Director: Cristian Mungiu, Hanno Höfer, Razvan Marculescu, Constantin Popescu and Ioana Uricaru
Year: 2009
Language: Romanian
Genre: History, Drama, Comedy
Soul Kitchen
Gut-busting laughs are on the menu in Fatih Akin’s hilarious follow up to his critically acclaimed hits Head-On and The Edge of Heaven. When down-and-out restaurateur Zinos attempts to follow his recently relocated girlfriend to Shanghai, he leaves his troubled blue-collar restaurant, Soul Kitchen, in the hands of his shady ex-con brother—a disastrous decision that puts the restaurant’s future in jeopardy. But if the brothers can stop their bickering and pull it together, Soul Kitchen might have one last shot at survival…
Director: Fatih Akin
Year: 2009
Language: German / Greek
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Tetro
In Francis Ford Coppola's first original screenplay since 1974's "The Conversation," he tells a bittersweet tale of the secrets that haunt a highly creative family. Fresh-faced and na?e, 17-year-old Bennie arrives in Buenos Aires to search for his older brother, Tetro, a volatile and melancholy poet who has tried to leave his family behind. But their reunion is not what either expects, as the two brothers grapple with the unsettling experiences of their shared past.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Year: 2009
Language: English, Spanish
Genre: Drama
Ajami
Oscar-nominated for Best Foreign Language Film, Ajami unfolds as a piercing, raw and powerful crime drama set against the volatile backdrop of Israel's Ajami neighbourhood, a cultural melting pot riddled with conflict between Jews, Muslims and Christians. Spread across five harrowing chapters, the film weaves together the experiences of a cross-section of the city's inhabitants, exploring the tragic consequences of enemies living as neighbours as it races toward its heart-stopping conclusion.
Director: Scandar Copti, Yaron Shani
Year: 2009
Language: Hebrew / Arabic
Genre: Drama, Crime
Vanquisher
From the producers of the Ong Bak franchise comes an action-packed, martial arts thrill ride of epic proportions. After completing a covert mission and narrowly escaping an attempt on her life, a fearsome female CIA agent goes AWOL. Resurfacing in Bangkok two years later to investigate a murder, she finds herself forced to fight off operatives who've been ordered to take her out at all costs.
Director: Manop Udomdej
Year: 2009
Language: Thai
Genre: Thriller, Action
When Life Was Good
Brooklyn flies home to surprise her boyfriend on his birthday, but when she gets to his apartment, instead of waiting for him to return home from work, she removes all traces of her arrival and leaves. Brooklyn's friend Faith and her boyfriend Casey are working hard at not working on their relationship, so when Brooklyn decides she's going to "hide out" with Faith for the summer; everyone is happy to focus their attention on Brooklyn and her problems.
Director: Terry Miles
Year: 2008
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
One Week
When confronted with his mortality, Ben Tyler (Joshua Jackson) impulsively buys a vintage motorcycle and sets off on a road trip that starts in Toronto and ends up on Vancouver Island in the town of Tofino. Humourous, profound and extremely moving, One Week uses the great Canadian landscape as the backdrop to the story of a man and his life’s journey. In the search for himself, he finds out what makes this country, and his life, so beautiful.
Director: Michael McGowan
Year: 2008
Language: English & French
Genre: Adventure, Canadian, Drama
Nurse.Fighter.Boy
NURSE: JUDE is a single mother who descends from a long line of Jamaican caregivers.
FIGHTER: SILENCE is a ‘past his prime’ boxer who fights illegally to survive.
BOY: CIEL is a boy who delves into music, conjuring dreams for his mother.
During the last week of summer, a late-night brawl finds the fighter in the nurse's care causing their three fates
to be forever entwined.
Director: Charles Officer
Year: 2008
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Sugar
Sugar follows the story of Miguel Santos, a.k.a. Sugar, a Dominican pitcher from San Pedro De Macorís, struggling to make it to the big leagues and pull himself and his family out of poverty. Playing professionally at a baseball academy in the Dominican Republic, Miguel finally gets his break at age 19 when he advances to the United States’ minor league system; but when his play on the mound falters, he begins to question the single-mindedness of his life’s ambition.
Director: Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck
Year: 2008
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Baghead
While the Duplass Brothers were shooting their last feature film The Puffy Chair, a crew member raised the question “what’s the scariest thing you can think of?” Someone immediately said “a guy with a bag on his head staring into your window.” Some agreed, but some thought it was downright ridiculous and, if anything, funny (but definitely not scary). Thus, BAGHEAD was born, an attempt to take the absurdly low-concept idea of a “guy with a bag on his head” and make a funny, truthful, endearing film that, maybe, just maybe, was a little bit scary, too.
Director: Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass
Year: 2008
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
CJ7
From Stephen Chow, the director and star of Kung Fu Hustle, comes CJ7, a new comedy. Ti (Stephen Chow) is a poor father who works all day, everyday at a construction site to make sure his son Dicky Chow (Xu Jian) can attend an elite private school. Despite his father's good intentions, Dicky, with his dirty and tattered clothes and none of the "cool" toys stands out from his schoolmates like a sore thumb. Ti can't afford to buy Dicky any expensive toys and goes to the best place he knows to get new stuff for Dicky - the junk yard! While out "shopping" for a new toy for his son, Ti finds a mysterious orb and brings it home for Dicky to play with. To his surprise and disbelief, the orb reveals itself to Dicky as a bizarre "pet" with
extraordinary powers. Armed with his "CJ7" Dicky seizes this chance to overcome his poor background and shabby clothes and impress his fellow schoolmates for the first time in his life. But CJ7 has other ideas.
Director: Stephen Chow
Year: 2008
Language: Mandarin with English subtitles
Genre: World Cinema, Comedy
Redbelt
Set in the west-side of Los Angeles fight world, a world inhabited by bouncers, cagefighters, cops and special forces types, Redbelt, is the story of Mike Terry (Chewitel Ejiofor), a Jiu-Jitsu teacher who has avoided the prize fighting circuit, choosing instead to pursue an honorable life by operating a self-defense studio with a samurai’s code. Terry and his wife Sondra (Alicia Braga), struggle to keep the business running to make ends meet. An accident on a dark, rainy night at the Academy between an off duty officer (Max Martini) and a distraught lawyer (Emily Moritimer) puts in motion a series of events that will change Terry’s life dramatically introducing him to a world of promoters (Ricky Jay, Joe Mantegna) and movie star Chet Frank (Tim Allen). Faced with this, in order to pay off his debts and regain his honor, Terry must step into the ring for the first time of his life.
Director: David Mamet
Year: 2008
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Stoning of Soraya M., The
Based on Freidoune Sahebjam’s acclaimed international best-seller, Academy Award® nominee Shohreh Aghdashloo (“House of Sand and Fog”) stars in the heroic role of Zahra, an Iranian woman with a burning secret. When a journalist (Jim Caviezel, “The Passion Of The Christ” ) is stranded in her remote village, she takes a bold chance to reveal a truth that the villagers will stop at nothing to keep hidden. And so unfolds the remarkable story of Soraya, a woman whose cruel husband conspires against her by trumping up charges of infidelity, which carry a severe and unimaginable penalty. Based on a true story, this powerful tale of persecution becomes both a daring act of witness and a compelling parable about mob rule.
Director: Cyrus Nowrasteh
Year: 2008
Language: Persian/English
Genre: Drama
Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai
One person can make a difference! TAKING ROOT tells the dramatic story of Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Wangari Maathai whose simple act of planting trees grew into Kenya's "Greenbelt Movement" —a globally recognized movement for which this charismatic woman became an iconic inspiration. TAKING ROOT details how Maathai mobilized women to rally against deforestation, poverty, embedded economic interests, and government corruption ... becoming a national political force that helped to bring down Kenya's 24-year dictatorship. TAKING ROOT captures a world view in which nothing is perceived as impossible ...
Director: Alan Dater and Lisa Merton
Year: 2008
Language: English
Genre: Environment, Documentary
Frozen River
Courtney’s feature-length script is set in a real-life smuggling zone on a Native American reservation between New York State and Quebec where the lure of fast money presents a daily challenge to single moms who would otherwise be making minimum wage. Strapped for money and having been deserted by her husband, working class Ray (Melissa Leo), reluctantly teams up with Lila (Misty Upham), a widowed Mohawk Indian, to smuggle illegal immigrants across the frozen St. Lawrence River from Canada to the U.S. in the trunk of a Dodge Spirit. Both women swear each trip will be their last, but one final run across the river leads to a showdown with the law on all sides.
Director: Courtney Hunt
Year: 2008
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Tyson
Tyson is acclaimed indie director James Toback's stylistically inventive portrait of a mesmerizing Mike Tyson. Toback allows Tyson to reveal himself without inhibition and with eloquence and a pervasive vulnerability. Through a mixture of original interviews and archival footage and photographs, a startlingly complex, fully-rounded human being emerges. The film ranges
from Tyson’s earliest memories of growing up on the mean streets of Brooklyn through his entry into the world of boxing, to his rollercoaster ride in the funhouse of worldwide fame and fortunes won and lost. It is the story of a legendary and uniquely controversial international athletic icon, a figure conjuring radical questions of race and class. In its depiction of a man rising from the most debased circumstances to unlimited heights, destroyed by his own hubris, TYSON emerges as a modern day version of classic Greek tragedy.
Director: James Toback
Year: 2008
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Wackness, The
Its the summer of 1994, and the streets of New York are pulsing with hip hop and wafting with the sweet aroma of marijuana. The newly-inaugurated mayor, Rudolph Giuliani, is only beginning to implement his anti-fun initiatives against crimes like noisy portable radio, graffiti and public drunkenness.
The Wackness centers upon a troubled high school student named Luke Shapiro (Josh Peck)a teenage pot dealer who forms a friendship with Dr. Jeffrey Squires (Ben Kingsley), a psychiatrist and kindred lost soul. When the doctor proposes Luke trade him weed for therapy sessions, the two begin to explore both New York City and their own depression.
Propelled by an exuberant hip hop score, The Wackness captures the spell of 1994--a time of pagers, not cell phones; a time when Tupac and Biggie were alive but Kurt Cobain had just died. Funny and moving, The Wackness is an offbeat tale of two lost souls stumbling towards maturity.
Director: Jonathan Levine
Year: 2008
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Forgotten Woman, The
Following the international success of Deepa Mehta’s Oscar-nominated film Water, which has achieved, to date, sales of over $15 million and more than 1,000,000 viewers, Ms. Mehta received thousands of letters from the audience. After viewing the film, many wanted to know more about the state of widows in India today. The Forgotten Woman was made in direct response to this interest and aims to bring about an understanding of the destitution and marginalization of many of the millions of widows in India today, who are forced by age-old traditions to live out their remaining years isolated from and shunned by the society at large. The film explores how these widows, coerced by their families to give up their possessions, become non-entities in society.
Director: Dilip Mehta
Year: 2008
Language: Bengali/Hindi/English
Genre: Canadian, Documentary
Surviving Crooked Lake
Four friends take an overnight canoe trip to celebrate their last year of camp together. 14-year-old Steph is deathly afraid of water, and is only persuaded to go when her brother Jonah agrees to be their guide. But their fun-filled adventure takes a dark turn when an accident claims Jonah¿ life. The girls are suddenly stranded - lost and alone in the wilderness. It doesn¿ help when Steph insists that they bring Jonah¿ body along, making their uncertain journey home all the more perilous.
Director: Sascha Drews, Ezra Krybus, Matthew Miller
Year: 2008
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
Children of Huang Shi, The
About young British journalist, George Hogg, who with the assistance of a courageous Australian nurse, saves a group of orphaned children during the Japanese occupation of China in 1937.
Director: Roger Spottiswoode
Year: 2008
Language: English
Genre: World Cinema, Drama
Rachel Getting Married
When Kym (Anne Hathaway) returns to the Buchman family home for the wedding of her sister Rachel (Rosemarie Dewitt), she brings a long history of personal crisis and family conflict along with her. The wedding party’s abundant cast of friends and relations have gathered for an idyllic weekend of feasting, music and love, but Kym with her black-comic one-liners and knack for bombshell drama is a catalyst for long-simmering tensions in the family dynamic.
Filled with the rich and eclectic characters that have always been a hallmark of Jonathan Demmes films, Rachel Getting Married paints a strikingly perceptive and sometimes hilarious family portrait. Director Demme, first-time writer Jenny Lumet, and the stellar acting ensemble leaven the drama of these difficult but compelling people with wry affection and generosity of spirit.
Director: Jonathan Demme
Year: 2008
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
World According to Monsanto, The
Monsanto is the world leader in genetically modified organisms (GMOs), as well as one of the most controversial corporations in industrial history. This century-old empire has created some of the most toxic products ever sold, including polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and the herbicide Agent Orange. Based on a painstaking investigation, The World According to Monsanto puts together the pieces of the company’s history, calling on hitherto unpublished documents and numerous first-hand accounts.
Misleading reports, collusion, pressure tactics and attempts at corruption: the history of Monsanto is filled with disturbing episodes. Behind its clean, green image, Monsanto is tightening its grasp on the world seed market, striving for market supremacy to the detriment of food security and the global environment.
Director: Marie-Monique Robin
Year: 2008
Language: English & French
Genre: Documentary
Triage
TRIAGE: DR. JAMES ORBINSKI'S HUMANITARIAN DILEMMA follows the powerful odyssey of James Orbinski, a humanitarian and doctor who accepted the 1999 Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders. In TRIAGE he returns to Africa to ponder the meaning of his life's work and the value of helping others. Drawing on his experience deep in the trenches of genocide and famine, this extraordinary man relives the triumphs and tragedies of relief work in Somalia, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Bristling with energy, TRIAGE brings the causes and cures of conflict into sharp focus through Orbinski's unflinching, fearless perspective.
Director: Patrick Reed
Year: 2008
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Ashes of Time Redux
Ashes of Time Redux is inspired by Louis Cha's novel "The Eagle-Shooting Heroes." It centers on a man named Ouyang Feng (Leslie Cheung). Since the woman he loved rejected him, he has lived in the western desert, hiring skilled swordsmen to carry out contract killings. His wounded heart has made him pitiless and cynical, but his encounters with friends, clients and future enemies make him conscious of this solitude...
Director: Kar Wai Wong
Year: 2008
Language: Cantonese with English Subtitles
Genre: World Cinema
S.O.P. Standard Operating Procedure
Errol Morris, Academy Award® winning documentary filmmaker, trains his camera on the abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison, the photographs that exposed the scandal and the procedures and legal opinions that made it possible. After two-plus years of investigation, yielding a million and a half words of interview transcript, thousands of pages of unredacted reports, and hundreds of photographs, Morris discovers that "Abu Ghraib photographs serve as both an expose and a coverup. An expose,because the photographs offer us a glimpse of the horror of Abu Ghraib; and a coverup because they convinced journalists and readers they had seen everything, that there was no need to look further."
While exposing the previously unpublicized scope of the abuse Morris tries to answer the essential and unresolved question, "how could American values become so compromised that Abu Ghraib and the subsequent coverup-could happen?"
Director: Errol Morris
Year: 2008
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Growing Op
GROWING OP is a provocative dramatic comedy about a teenage boy coming of age in a suburban grow-operation, where every day is either paradise or fresh hell. But it's always a trip.
Sheltered all his life and home-schooled by loving parents who are also committed neo-hippie criminals, Quinn Dawson is a lonely kid who yearns to experience the normalcy of the suburban world around him. When his new neighbor Crystal turns out to be the blonde girl of the his dreams, Quinn is motivated to rebel against his parents and attend high-school for the first time.
Director: Michael Melski
Year: 2008
Language: English
Genre: Canadian, Drama, Comedy
Unwinking Gaze, The
The Unkwinking Gaze was filmed over a period of three years with exceptional access showing the daily agonies of the Tibetan leader as he tries to strike a balance between his Buddhist vows and the realpolitik needed to placate China. David and Goliath is played out in front of us as the world’s emerging superpower and the Dalai Lama walk a tightrope over an issue of global importance.
Director: Joshua Dugdale
Year: 2008
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Lost Song
Pierre and Elisabeth, a couple in their thirties, move with their baby into a cottage on a lake for the summer. The setting is idyllic, and the couple's happiness seems within reach. Every day, Pierre goes to work in the city while Elisabeth rehearses for an upcoming voice recital. Despite the benevolent presence of her mother-in-law who lives in the neighbouring house, the yong woman feels isolated and overwhelmed in her new role as a mother. Her entourage is concerned, but no one fully grasps the extent of Elisabeth's distress. Muted violence soon takes hold and tightens it's grip.
Director: Rodrigue Jean
Year: 2008
Language: French
Genre: Drama
Terribly Happy
White-knuckle suspense meets delightfully quirky noir in Terribly Happy, an expertly crafted mood piece that plays like a collaboration between David Lynch and the Coen brothers. After suffering a nervous breakdown, straight-laced cop Robert Hansen is pulled away from his wife and children in the city and reassigned to what feels like "The Twilight Zone"--a remote small town inhabited by a collection of strange, enigmatic characters. In the blink of an eye, his first case appears: a damsel in distress seeking protection from her booze-guzzling husband. Probing the townspeople for answers merely sinks Robert deeper into mystery and danger. Can he escape the clutches of his nightmare and make it back to his family?
Director: Henrik Ruben Genz
Year: 2008
Language: Danish
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime
Every Little Step
EVERY LITTLE STEP explores the incredible journey of A CHORUS LINE from ambitious idea to international phenomenon. The film compares and contrasts the original musical with the current revival and investigates the societies in which they’ve debuted, and why the themes are so timeless and universal. It goes behind the scenes with exclusive interviews and footage of a revival’s audition process, revealing the dramatic journey of the performers, unfolding a story of life imitating art.
Director: Adam Del Deo and James D. Stern
Year: 2008
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Whirlwind
Handsome David Rudd stars as Drake, a sexy and charismatic stranger who infiltrates a group of good-looking, successful, thirty-something gay men in New York City. The flirtatious Drake spices up the lives of this tight knit circle of friends, but soon creates unexpected drama. Drake has a bitter past filled with hurt and betrayal. He thinks that all gay men are cheaters and resents anyone who seems happy and committed. He proceeds to manipulate, seduce and tear apart these friends to prove that no one deserves happiness. Will these friends survive Drake's cunning schemes or prove that love and friendship can prevail against all odds?
Director: Richard Lemay
Year: 2008
Language: English
Genre: GLBT
Class, The (Entre les Murs)
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Cannes Film Festival - Golden Palm Winner
Francois and his fellow teachers prepare for a new year at a high school in a tough neighborhood. Armed with the best intentions, they brace themselves to not let discouragement stop them from trying to give the best education to their students. Cultures and attitudes often clash in the classroom, a microcosm of contemporary France. As amusing and inspiring as the teenaged students can be, their difficult behavior can still jeapordize any teacher's enthusiasm for the low-paying job. Francois insists on an atmosphere of respect and diligence. Neither stuffy nor severe, his extravagant frankness often takes the students by surprise. But his classroom ethics are put to the test when his students begin to challenge his methods...
Director: Laurent Cantet
Year: 2008
Language: French
Genre: Drama
Legend of the Tsunami Warrior
On the treacherous high seas, a battle for power intensifies as a rebel prince joins forces with a rogue band of pirates to overthrow the kingdom of Pattani, led by Queen Hijau and her two daughters. The key to victory lies in a massive, state-of-the-art cannon submerged deep in the ocean's abyss, guarded by enormous jelly fish. Who will wield the prized artifact depends upon which party can master the ancient art of Dim Lum -- the power to manipulate the forces of the ocean.
Director: Nonzee Nimibutr
Year: 2008
Language: Thai
Genre: Adventure, World Cinema, History, Fantasy, Action
Three Monkeys
If you ignore the truth, will it go away? This is the central theme of THREE MONKEYS, a film noir whose title refers to the adage: see no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil. Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan won the 2008 Cannes Film Festival Best Director prize for this story about a politician who hits a pedestrian with his car and asks his driver to take the rap. Gradually the driver and his family discover their lies beget tragedy. More narrative than Ceylan's previous Cannes favorites (DISTANT and CLIMATES), THREE MONKEYS bears all his trademarks, including brooding cityscapes, a natural soundtrack, and breathtaking cinematography.
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Year: 2008
Language: Turkish
Genre: Drama
Heaven on Earth
Chand (Preity Zinta) is a young woman who travels from India to Canada to marry Rocky (Vansh Bhardwaj), a man she has never met. Her dream of a new life morphs into a nightmare as marriage to Rocky and his family becomes a numbing spiral of confusion and pain. Chand finds hope in her friendship with Rosa (Yanna McIntosh), a street-smart woman from Jamaica who works with Chand at a laundry factory. Rosa gives Chand a magical root and promises that it will make Rocky fall deeply in love with her. The experiment ends in a surreal parallel life that mirrors an Indian fable involving a King Cobra.
Director: Deepa Mehta
Year: 2008
Language: Punjabi, English
Genre: Canadian, Drama
Down to the Dirt
Thirty-year-old Keith Kavanagh (Joel Thomas Hynes) ekes his way through life in a small town in Newfoundland. A hard-drinking hooligan, he keeps his ragged collection of poetry a closely guarded secret… as secret as his regret for the shattered relationship with his father. When Keith meets the darkly exotic Natasha, his life is changed forever. Scary, sexy, and funny -- and sometimes all three at once – Down to the Dirt is a raw and poignant adaptation of the internationally acclaimed novel .. a visceral, darkly humorous chronicle of the transformative power of love, and the improbable roads that lead to redemption
Director: Justin Simms
Year: 2008
Language: English
Genre: Canadian, Drama
Jane Austen Book Club, The
Today’s central California may be far removed from Regency England, but some things never change. We’re still every bit as preoccupied with the complexities of marriage, friendship, romantic entanglements,
position, and social manners and mores as was Jane Austen at the turn of the 1800s. THE JANE AUSTEN BOOK CLUB reveals the lives of an ensemble of present-day friends through the witty prism of their literary
heroine.
Six book club members, six Austen books, six interwoven story lines over six months in the busy modern setting of Sacramento, where city and suburban sprawl meet natural beauty. While the contemporary stories
never slavishly parallel the Austen plots, the six characters find echoes, predictions, warnings and wisdom about their own trajectories within Austen’s beloved narratives.
Director: Robin Swicord
Year: 2007
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Timecrimes
A man who travels accidentally back to the past and meets himself there. A naked girl in the middle of the forest. A scissor-wielding madman with his face covered by a pink bandage. A disquieting mansion on the toip of a hill. All of them pieces of an unpredictable jigsaw puzzle where terror, drama, and suspense lead to an unthinkable sort of crime. Who's the murderer? Who's the victim? In Nacho Vigalondo's time-jumping brain-twister, the future is never the same twice!
Director: Nacho Vigalondo
Year: 2007
Language: Spanish
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Drama, Sci-Fi, Mystery
Temoins, Les (The Witnesses)
Manu arrives in Paris, where he shares a cheap hotel room with his sister Julie. He strikes up a joyous, chaste friendship with Adrien, a wealthy doctor in his early fifties who opens Manu’s eyes to a different way of life.
On a trip out on a speedboat, Adrien introduces Manu to Sarah and Mehdi, a young couple who have just had their first child.
An unplanned love affair and the onset of the AIDS epidemic - seen by the media and in the collective imagination as a shameful, modern-day plague - upset the ordered tranquility of their individual destinies. Each of them becomes a protagonist in - and witness to - a contemporary tragedy, where those who don’t die may emerge stronger, but not undamaged.
Director: André Téchiné
Year: 2007
Language: French
Genre: World Cinema, Drama
Uncorked
UNCORKED! is the must-have contemporary guide to wine. This acclaimed and unpretentious public television series strips away the mystique of the world’s most fabled beverage and restores the fun for wine lovers everywhere. Through interviews with some of the most important wine experts, makers and critics, UNCORKED! is as informative as it is entertaining.
Narrated by Ted Allen
Ted Allen is devoted to making good wine and delicious food accessible to everyone. On the Emmy® Award-winning NBC/Bravo hit Queer Eye, he helped guests and viewers sharpen their cooking and entertaining skills.
Director: Kevin Whelan
Year: 2007
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Brick Lane
At the tender age of seventeen, Nazneen’s life is turned upside down. After an arranged marriage to an older man, she exchanges her Bangladeshi village home for a block of flats in London’s East End. In this new world, pining for her home and her sister, she struggles to make sense of her existence – and to do her duty to her husband. A man of inflated ideas (and stomach), he sorely tests her compliance.
Told from birth that she must not fight her fate, Nazneen submits, devoting her life to raising her family and slapping down her demons of discontent. Until the day that Karim, a hot-headed local man, bursts into her life.
Against a background of escalating racial tension, they embark on an affair that finally forces Nazneen to take control of her life. Set in multicultural Britain, Brick Lane is a truly contemporary story of love, cultural difference, and ultimately, the strength of the human spirit.
Director: Sarah Gavron
Year: 2007
Language: English
Genre: World Cinema, Drama
Jindabyne
On an annual fishing trip, in isolated high country, Stewart, Carl, Rocco and Billy (‘the Kid’) find a girl’s body in the river. It’s too late in the day for them to hike back to the road and report their tragic find. The next morning, instead of making the long trek back, they spend the day fishing. Their decision to stay on at the river is a little mysterious—almost as if the place itself is exerting some kind of magic over them.
When the men finally return home to Jindabyne, and report finding the body, all hell breaks loose.
Director: Ray Lawrence
Year: 2007
Language: English
Genre: World Cinema, Drama
Youth Without Youth
YOUTH WITHOUT YOUTH stars Tim Roth (Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction) as Dominic Matei, a professor whose life changes after a cataclysmic incident during the dark years prior to World War II. Becoming a fugitive, he is pursued through far-flung locations including Romania, Switzerland, Malta and India.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Year: 2007
Language: English
Genre: World Cinema, Drama
When Did you Last See Your Father?
"When Did You Last See Your Father?" is Blake Morrison's moving and candid memoir of his father in the weeks leading up to his death. When Arthur Morrison was diagnosed with terminal cancer he had only a few weeks left to live. Morrison traveled to Yorkshire to stay with his mother in the village where he grew up. He visited his father at the hospital where he had spent so much time with his own patients as a GP. As his father's condition worsened Morrison contemplated their shared experiences, the intimacies and the irritations of their relationship. After his father's death Morrison questions the nature of the bond between them, articulately expressing the contradictions, frustrations, love and loss bound into the complicated relationships which most of us have with our parents as we grow up.
Director: Anand Tucker
Year: 2007
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Mang Shan
Young student Bai Xuemei is cheated and sold as a 'wife' by human traffickers to a remote village. Raped and beaten, she leads the life of a sex slave and child-bearer with no hope of escape because of the villagers' apathy and selfishness. When help finally arrives it is only the beginning of another tragedy...
Director: Yang Li
Year: 2007
Genre: Drama
Walk All Over Me
Arriving from a small town, a young woman looks up the only person she knows in couver, and learns she is doing very well as a full-time dominatrix. Thinking it is a route she herself can exploit for some fast cash, she selects a potential client, only to find he is being pursued by three very bad men, who will stop at nothing to retrieve a large sum of money they believe he has stolen from them. The young woman suddenly finds herself both in the middle and in the way.
Director: Robert Cuffley
Year: 2007
Language: English
Genre: Canadian, Drama, Comedy
Normal
NORMAL explores the lives of three strangers who are struggling for control, having failed to confront their roles in a tragic accident two years earlier. Catherine is a well-to-do suburban mother who has lost the ability to connect on any level with her surgeon husband and twelve-year-old son after the loss of her elder son. Walt is a failed writer and philandering university professor who deals with impending middle age and haunting memories by sabotaging every relationship around him. Jordie is a sensitive teenager who made a wrong choice one night and although he’s paid the price, still can’t halt his journey downward.
Director: Carl Bessai
Year: 2007
Language: English
Genre: Canadian, Drama
Without the King
Swaziland is Africa's last absolute monarchy and a nation at a dangerous crossroads. The people demand democracy and an end to starvation, while the king insists on banning political parties. The people want relief from a 43 per cent AIDS/HIV infection rate, the world's highest, while the king prices a fleet of luxury limousines. Against this backdrop of blatant inequality, we meet the royal family: Princess Sikhanyiso, a teenage rapper and eldest child; Queen LaMbikiza, a headstrong outsider and first of 12 wives; and King Mswati III, a distant figure out of touch with his home and country. The camera captures the birth of a nation's revolution, a struggle to reconcile First and Third World orders.
Director: Michael Skolnik
Year: 2007
Language: English
Genre: World Cinema, Documentary
Persepolis
The poignant story of a young girl coming-of-age in Iran during the Islamic Revolution.Clever and fearless, she outsmarts the "social guardians" and discovers punk, ABBA and Iron Maiden. Yet when her uncle is senselessly executed and as bombs fall around Tehran in the Iran/Iraq war, the daily fear that permeates life in Iran is palpable.
Director: Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud
Year: 2007
Language: French/Persian/English
Genre: World Cinema, Drama
My Kid Could Paint That
In the span of only a few months, 4-year-old Marla Olmstead rocketed from total obscurity into international renown - and sold over $300,000 dollars worth of paintings. And then, five months into Marla’s new life as a celebrity and just short of her fifth birthday, a bombshell dropped. CBS’ 60 Minutes aired an exposé suggesting strongly that the paintings were painted by her father, himself an amateur painter. Embattled, the Olmsteads turned to the filmmaker to clear their name.
Director: Amir Bar-Lev
Year: 2007
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
O'Horten
Odd Horten has driven the same train route every day for so long that the rest of his life has become a routine of comfortable rituals. But the time has come for the 67-year-old engineer to retire after forty years of dutiful service. His orderly, solitary existence is about to give way to a future of perplexing questions. How could Horten get himself in such an awkward situation when he should be celebrating his retirement? Will Horten ever travel by plane? Will he finally sell his prized boat? How does Horten end up in a pair of women’s red high-heeled shoes? Will he survive a nighttime drive with a blindfolded man at the wheel? The only thing for certain is that Horten is first in line for some absurd adventures and quirky encounters. And maybe even a new dog and an old love!
Director: Bent Hamer
Year: 2007
Language: Norwegian
Genre: World Cinema
Sleuth
The Anthony Shaffer play originally brought to the screen in 1972 gets the remake treatment in this updating that finds Michael Caine stepping into the role of the brilliant thriller writer portrayed by Laurence Olivier in the original, and Jude Law following in Caine's footsteps as the young hairdresser who steals the literary giant's wife, only to find himself subsequently swallowed up in an elaborate revenge scheme.
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Year: 2007
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Verite ou presque, La (True Enough)
Anne is on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Nothing is going right for this television host; ratings are dropping fast, her marriage is falling apart and her son is a ten year old brat. Alienated from Thomas, her too perfect husband, she seeks refuge in the arms of Marc, her ex-husband who’s married to Caroline. Meanwhile, Thomas has a thing for Caroline but Caroline has eyes for someone else. When Vincent, a novelist and lecturer, arrives on the scene, he turns all their lives upside down. Quickly, they all learn that when lust rings, deception follows. So what’s the truth? The truth is you can love someone forever but not all the time... well, that's true enough.
Director: Sam Karmann
Year: 2007
Language: French with English subtitles
Genre: World Cinema, Comedy
How She Move
Following her sister's death from drug addiction, a high school student is forced to leave her private school to return to her old, crime-filled neighborhood where she re-kindles an unlikely passion for the competitive world of step dancing.
Director: Ian Iqbal Rashid
Year: 2007
Language: English
Genre: Canadian, Drama
Terror's Advocate
Jacques Verges is the kind of lawyer that people love to hate. Over several decades, he's made a career of defending some of the most despised figures of our time - from anti-colonial bombers in Algeria, to left-wing extremists like Carlos the Jackyl, to right-wing dictators like Slobodan Milosevic. At the height of his career he disappeared for an eight year period that no investigator has ever been able to account for. Then he reappeared - refusing to disclose where he had been - and continued where he left off, taking on even more controversial clients.
Director: Barbet Schroeder
Year: 2007
Language: French/English/German/Arabic
Genre: World Cinema, Documentary
Up the Yangtze
In China, it is simply known as “The River.” But the Yangtze—and all of the life that surrounds it—is undergoing a truly astonishing transformation wrought by the largest hydroelectric project in history, the Three Gorges Dam. Canadian documentary filmmaker Yung Chang returns to the gorgeous, now-disappearing landscape of his grandfather’s youth to trace the surreal life of a “farewell cruise” that traverses the gargantuan waterway.
Singularly moving and cinematically breathtaking, UP THE YANGTZE gives a human dimension to the wrenching changes facing not only an increasingly globalized China, but the world at large.
Director: Yung Chang
Year: 2007
Language: English, Mandarin
Genre: Documentary
Counterfeiters, The
The true story of Salomon Sorowitsch, counterfeiter extraordinaire and bohemian.
After getting arrested and placed in a German concentration camp, he agrees to help the Nazis in an organized counterfeit operation set up to help finance the war effort.
It was the biggest counterfeit money scam of all times. Over 130 million pound sterling were printed, under conditions that couldn't have been more tragic or spectacular. During the last years of the war, as the German Reich saw that the end was near, the authorities decided to produce their own banknotes in the currencies of their major war enemies. They hoped to use the duds to flood the enemy economy and fill the empty war coffers. At the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, two
barracks were separated from the rest of the camp and the outside world, and transformed into a fully equipped counterfeiters workshop. "Operation Bernhard" was born. Prisoners were brought to Sachsenhausen from other camps to implement the plan...
Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky
Year: 2007
Language: German
Genre: World Cinema, Drama
Three Robbers, The (Les Trois Brigands)
A young orphan girl named Tiffany has her life changed when her carriage is stopped by three robbers. Instead of returning to her overbearing “Auntie” at the orphanage, the charming and clever little girl convinces the robbers that her father is a wealthy king in India who will pay a healthy ransom for her safe return. Blinded by promises of gold, the bumbling robbers agree to take Tiffany captive - she even helps them write the ransom note! With a wonderfully witty script, dramatic design and bold use of colour, this film is a cinematic treat for audiences of all ages.
Director: Hayo Freitag
Year: 2007
Language: German
Genre: World Cinema, Crime, Comedy, Family, Animation
Very British Gangster, A
The Noonan crime family is front and center in this searing profile of a dynasty of corruption. A Very British Gangster is an up-close look at the tribulations of charismatic leader Dominic Noonan, the boss of the Noonan crime dynasty. This deep look into the criminal underbelly of England reveals a world embroiled in kidnapping, narcotics and murder. With unprecedented access into the lives of these contemporary criminals, A Very British Gangster exposes an intriguing world of bravado and brutality unlike anything to come before it.
Director: Donal MacIntyre
Year: 2007
Language: English
Genre: Crime, Documentary
Wild Horse Redemption
At a prison in the high desert foothills of the Colorado Rocky Mountains, hardened criminals are taught the training methods of ‘horse whisperers’ and given 90 days to tame wild mustangs taken from the herd that roams government lands. Failure means one more defeat for the inmate; success could save both lives. Most of the inmates who volunteer for this unique rehabilitation program have never ridden a horse before, let alone trained a wild one. The Wild Horse Redemption follows the men and mustangs of the Wild Horse Inmate Program through one training cycle. Experienced inmate trainers guide greenhorn trainees while they attempt to gentle and saddle-train wild horses fresh from the range. Can two wild creatures tame each other?
Director: John Zaritsky
Year: 2007
Language: English
Genre: Canadian, Documentary
Truands
Enter the brutal world of Parisian organized crime, where aging mob boss Claude Corti rules over his pack of power-hungry thugs with an iron fist. In this empire of fast cars, upscale drugs and expensive women, money is God and Corti’s people are always rewarded for their devotion. But when they disobey, his creative use of power drills and metal rods makes them wish for death. Power and money, however, cannot buy trust...
Director: Frédéric Schoendoerffer
Year: 2007
Language: French
Genre: Drama
Breakfast with Scot
Adapted from the novel by Michael Downing, BREAKFAST WITH SCOT is a touching and very contemporary comedy that tells the story of an "alternative" family finding its feet.
Eric (Tom Cavanagh) lives for all things hockey. At 36, he's managed to turn his stint playing for the Toronto Maple Leafs into a full-time gig commentating for sports TV. He's living the dream! But when Eric's boyfriend Sam (Ben Shenkman) announces that they're to become temporary guardians of a young boy, Eric's comfortable world shatters. Enter Scot (Noah Bernett) -- a recently orphaned, sweet, vulnerable, yet oddly resilient kid, who also happens to be a swishy 11 year-old sissy-of-a-boy -- and Eric's mirror opposite. Freaked out by Scot's "joie de vivre", Eric and Sam gently nudge Scot away from scented hand cream, excessive twirling, and kissing the school bully, towards a more "acceptable" pastime - hockey. But after Scot's disastrous first game, Eric begins to rethink the compromises he's made.
Director: Laurie Lynd
Year: 2007
Language: English
Genre: Canadian, Comedy
Jimmy Carter: Man From Plains
Last year, former President Jimmy Carter dove headfirst into the most controversial topic in international politics, publishing the book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid. Following the path of Carter's recent book tour, Academy Award winner Jonathan Demme reveals a complex individual who, with the gusto and determination of a youngster, criss-crosses the county to get his message of peace across, even as that message creates a media onslaught in which his credibility and judgement are called into question.
Director: Jonathan Demme
Year: 2007
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Muffins for Granny
The sad history of the Canadian government's residential school program has had a profound effect on First Nations peoples across the country. For filmmaker Nadia McLaren, it’s personal history as well; her Ojibway grandmother was forced into a residential school and its repercussions have echoed through her family. Looking to understand her loving but troubled grandmother, McLaren interviews seven First Nations elders about their experiences in residential schools. Mixing stark animated moments with human faces and home movie footage, Muffins For Granny is a raw and honest documentary about a difficult chapter in Canadian history — a chapter that, for some, is not over.
Director: Nadia McLaren
Year: 2007
Language: English
Genre: Canadian, Documentary
Vieille Maîtresse, Une (Last Mistress, The)
This future wedding is on everyone’s lips. The young and dissolute Ryno de Marigny is betrothed to marry Hermangarde, an extremely virtuous gem of the French aristocracy. But some, who wish to prevent the union, despite the young couples’ mutual love, whisper that the young man will never break off his passionate love affair with Vellini, which has been going on for years.
In a whirlpool of confidences, betrayals and secrets, facing conventions and destiny, feelings will prove their strength is invincible...
Director: Catherine Breillat
Year: 2007
Language: French
Genre: World Cinema, Drama, Romance
Steep
Whether it's jumping out of a helicopter hovering above the powdery slopes of Alaska's mountain ranges or trying to outrun an avalanche in the French Alps, STEEP traces the legacy of extreme skiing from its early pioneers to the death-defying daredevils of today.
Director: Mark Obenhaus
Year: 2007
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Who Killed The Electric Car?
It was among the fastest, most efficient production car ever built. It ran on electricity, produced no emissions and catapulted American technology to the forefront of the
automotive industry. The lucky few who drove it never wanted to give it up. So why did General Motors crush its fleet of EV-1 electric vehicles in the Arizona desert?
WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR? chronicles the life and mysterious death of the EV-1; examining the cultural and
economic ripple effects caused by its conception and how they reverberated through the halls of government and big business.
Director: Chris Paine
Year: 2006
Language: English
Genre: Environment, Documentary
War Tapes, The
The first war movie filmed by soldiers themselves, The War Tapes tells the story of Operation Iraqi Freedom through the eyes of three young men from different backgrounds, driven to fight for different reasons. The soldiers’ unfailing candor and honesty paints a complicated picture and tells a story that the 2,700 embedded reporters in Iraq could never get.
Director: Deborah Scranton
Year: 2006
Language: English/Arabic
Genre: Documentary
Stone's Throw, A
Set in the achingly beautiful world of rural Nova Scotia, A Stone’s Throw follows the journey of photojournalist Jack Walker, who arrives unannounced in the remote seaside town where his sister, Olivia lives a carefully constructed and insulated life with her two children. Jack, charming but guarded, is reticent about both the reason for his visit and the secrets of his recent past.
Director: Camelia Frieberg
Year: 2006
Language: English
Genre: Canadian, Drama
I Served the King of England
Jan Dítì (Ivan Barnev) is short in height, but high in ambition. To put it bluntly, the young provincial waiter wants to become a millionaire. Jan falls in love with Líza (Julia Jentsch), a Sudeten German proud of her Aryan blood. They marry, and soon after Líza is sent to serve on the Polish front, while Jan remains behind to serve as a nurse in a Nazi SS Research Hospital, but when she returns, she has a fortune in rare stamps that Jews had ‘left behind’ … After Líza’s less than heroic death, Jan sells the stamps and becomes … a millionaire. But he only has three years to enjoy his fortune: the new Communist regime puts him behind bars for 15 years. Upon his release Jan reflects on the events that have shaped his life – and to reflect on what might have happened if he had played a different role in these events.
Director: Jiri Menzel
Year: 2006
Language: Czech with English subtitles
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Black Book
When the hiding place of the beautiful Jewish singer Rachel Steinn is destroyed by a stray bomb, she decides with a group of other Jews to cross the Biesbosch to the already liberated south of the Netherlands. However, their boat is intercepted by a German patrol and all the refugees are massacred. Only Rachel survives. She joins the resistance, and under the alias Ellis de Vries manages to get friendly with the German SD officer Müntze. He is very taken with her and offers her a job. Meanwhile, the resistance devise a plan to free a group of imprisoned resistance fighters with Ellis' help. The plan is betrayed and fails miserably. Both the Resistance and the Germans blame her. She goes into hiding once more, with Müntze in tow. Together they wait for the war to end. Liberation does not bring Ellis freedom; not even when she manages to expose the real traitor. Every survivor is guilty in some way.
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Year: 2006
Language: Dutch/German/English/Hebrew
Genre: World Cinema, Drama
Offside
In Iran, all Women Are banned from men's sporting events. In June of 2005, Iran defeated Bahrain to qualify for the World Cup. A disparate group of girls, united only by their desire to see their beloved team play live and in-person, disguise themselves in myriad ways, risking arrest to try to get into the game.
Director: Jafar Panahi
Year: 2006
Language: Farsi
Genre: World Cinema, Drama, Comedy
This Film is Not Yet Rated
This breakthrough film from Oscar®-nominated director Kirby Dick (Twist of Faith) is an unprecedented investigation into the MPAA film ratings system and its profound impact on American culture. Including interviews with top filmmakers such as Kevin Smith (Clerks 2), Atom Egoyan (Where the Truth Lies), Matt Stone (South Park) and John Waters (A Dirty Shame), this film examines the most controversial ratings decisions in recent history, as well as the MPAA’s efforts to protect copyright and control culture in the name of piracy and profit.
Ultimately, Dick tries to uncover Hollywood’s best-kept secret: the identities of the ratings board members themselves. The result is a movie about movies unlike any other movie ever made.
Director: Kirby Dick
Year: 2006
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Things To Do
An unstable and indifferent office worker, Adam Stevenson, decides to leave his job and escape to his childhood home to reevaluate his "life strategy". Upon his return, Adam is greeted by the under concern of his baby boom parents and quickly aligns with the lazy comforts of his backyard, yearning for a summer of sulk and solitude.
A chance encounter at the grocery store reunites him with Mac, an unusual acquaintance from his past who acts as the perfect catalyst for Adam to turn the wheel of change and rebirth. Together the underachieving duo set out to complete a "Things To Do" list, a collection of bizarre aspirations plucked from the gaps of an incomplete adolescence.
Director: Ted Bezaire
Year: 2006
Language: English
Genre: Canadian, Comedy
Summer Rain (El Camino De Los Ingleses)
Summer Rain is a lushly romantic, beautifully crafted paean to young men coming of age in southern Spain in the 1970s. We follow the lives of three young men--each of whom must confront his past, as well as his future, while indulging in the expected pursuits of youth on the threshold of adulthood, especially, of course, love and sex. And as each discovers what life's erratic fortunes have in store for him, they must venture forth, leaving this past and their youthful indiscretions behind.
- Sundance Film Festival
Director: Antonio Banderas
Year: 2006
Language: Spanish with English subtitles
Genre: World Cinema, Drama
Transylvania
Zingarina arrives in Transylvania, in the heart of Romania, looking for the man she loves. She had met him in France, but one day he left without a word of explanation. With her friend Marie, Zingarina throws her body and soul into a romantic quest in this fascinating land.
Director: Tony Gatlif
Year: 2006
Language: French/Romanian/English
Genre: World Cinema, Drama
Vitus
Vitus is a boy who almost seems to be from another planet: he has hearing like a bat, he
plays piano like a virtuoso and studies encyclopaedias at the age of five. It is no wonder
his parents begin to anticipate a brilliant future for him. They want Vitus to become a
pianist. However, the child prodigy prefers to play in his eccentric grandfather’s
workshop. He dreams of flying and of a normal childhood. Ultimately, with one dramatic leap, Vitus takes control of his own life.
Director: Fredi M. Murer
Year: 2006
Language: Swiss/German/English
Genre: World Cinema, Drama
Driving Lessons
Ben (RUPERT GRINT) is a shy, bookish 17-year old begins another unpromising summer vacation when his absurdly straitlaced world is turned upside down when
he gets a job assisting Evie (JULIE WALTERS), an eccentric retired actress. Vulgar, dignified and childish all at once, Evie enters Ben's life with a cataclysmic force. Suddenly caught between two worlds, Ben starts to gravitate towards his employer's unconventional and often bizarre ways, even though it continually gets him into trouble with his highly-strung and overbearing mother (LAURA LINNEY).
What follows is a journey in which Ben and Evie help each other move forward in their radically different lives, as Ben is forced to confront how he was brought up and who he wants to be.
Director: Jeremy Brock
Year: 2006
Language: English
Genre: World Cinema, Drama, Comedy
Yacoubian Building, The
The Yacoubian Building in Cairo, a monument to a bygone era, is still an eye-catching construction despite obvious signs of decay. The film portrays the lives its residents. One is the aristocratic Zaki, a lazy man living of family wealth with a weakness for women. A neighbor, Bothayna, is a poor young girl, is obliged to sleep with the owner of the shop where she works in order to feed her family and even has to sacrifices the love of her life to that end. Taha, a young man at a crossroads, has developed a troubling interest in Muslim extremism and as a result has his dream of attending the police academy thwarted. Hatem is a respected newspaper editor who has a dangerous secret -- he's gay, and is romantically involved with young soldier. And atop everyone else are Fanous and Malak, living in a hut on the roof that doubles as the laundry facilities. Different people and different stories, all detached from each other, with only one thing bringing them together... the Yacoubian...
Director: Marwan Hamed
Year: 2006
Language: Arabic
Genre: World Cinema, Drama
Special
After enrolling in an experimental drug study, a lonely and depressed comic book geek named Les (Michael Rapaport) believes he has gained a host of bizarre supernatural powers -- the ability to levitate, read people's minds and even walk through walls. Donning a homemade superhero costume, he puts his newfound abilities to use on the streets, fighting crime and protecting the world from the forces of evil. Has he truly become humanity's unlikely savior? Or is he simply losing his mind?
Director: Hal Haberman and Jeremy Passmore
Year: 2006
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Takva: A Man's Fear of God
Muharrem is a strict Muslim who lives his life by the rules and rites of an arch-conservative religious order. His fear of God is so unconditional that he captures the attention of the order’s sheikh - who offers him a position of responsibility. Muharrem’s job is to collect the rents from the order’s Istanbul properties. For the first time, he is
confronted with the modern world - witnessing sin, hypocrisy and blasphemy. Worse still, Muharrem has to confront his own personal temptations.
Director: Ozer Kiziltan
Year: 2006
Language: Turkish
Genre: World Cinema, Drama
Sweet Mud
In this dark yet comedic coming-of-age story, a boy enters his bar mitzvah year on a southern Israel kibbutz in the 1970s. Trying to reconcile the community’s motto of equality with the reality that his mentally ill mother has been abandoned, he comes to learn that not every person fits into Utopia.
Director: Dror Shaul
Year: 2006
Language: Hebrew/French
Genre: World Cinema, Drama
Toi et Moi (You and Me)
Ariane, a writer of photo-novels for the magazine "Toi et Moi", has a tendency to use and embellish her own love life and that of her sister Léna in her work. However, their life is no storybook: Ariane clings to a man who couldn't care less about her while Léna grows bored with her own boyfriend. But what if Ariane surrendered to the love of Paolo, the handsome Spanish builder who works in her building? And what if Léna let her heart beat for Mark, the virtuoso violinist she has just met? Between the real world and photo-novels, will the two sisters find true love at last?
Director: Julie Lopes-Curval
Year: 2006
Language: French
Genre: World Cinema, Comedy
Away from Her
"Away From Her" is the lyrical screenplay adaptation of celebrated author Alice Munro's short story "The Bear Came Over the Mountain." "Away From Her" is a beautifully moving love story that deals with memory and the circuitous, unnamable paths of a long marriage. Married for 50 years, Grant (Gordon Pinsent) and Fiona's (Julie Christie) commitment to each other appears unwavering, and their everyday life is full of tenderness and humour. This serenity is broken only by the occasional, carefully restrained reference to the past, giving a sense that this marriage may not always have been such a fairy tale. This tendency of Fiona's to make such references, along with her increasingly evident memory loss, creates a tension that is usually brushed off casually by both of them. As the lapses become more obvious and dramatic, it is no longer possible for either of them to ignore the fact that Fiona is suffering from Alzheimer's disease.
Director: Sarah Polley
Year: 2006
Language: English
Genre: Canadian, Drama
When the Road Bends... Tales of a Gypsy Caravan
When the Road Bends: Tales of a Gypsy Caravan follows the breath-taking performances and behind-the-scenes action of a unique concert tour. We discover the real lives of these musicians; traveling to their homes, meeting their families and seeing what music brings to their lives. At home in Macedonia, Romania, India and Spain, the tales of these characters unfold and are woven between their performances, reflecting the imagery and emotion of the music. We get to know them, allowing us to understand and expand on the riches of their music, history and culture.
During the highs and lows of a whimsical fun-filled U.S. road trip (ranging from screaming fans flocking hundreds of miles for an autograph to cold coffee at Motel-6 machines and plenty of practical jokes), the artists befriend each other and they share the majesty and glory of music whilst overcoming the prejudice that is part of their shared ancestry.
Director: Jasmine Dellal
Year: 2006
Language: English, Romani, Spanish, Romanian, Macedonian, Hindi and Marwari
Genre: World Cinema, Documentary
U
Mona is a sad princess who lives in a castle by the sea. One day an adorable unicorn named U appears and declares that she is there to help Mona find happiness. The two become inseparable and U introduces Mona to a whole new world - full of joy and adventure. Soon Mona discovers the wonder of music and develops a budding attraction to a young guitarist. But this creates a big dilemna for U... What will happen to her if Mona finds the missing happiness which was the sole reason for U's existence?
Director: Grégoire Solotareff & Serge Elissalde
Year: 2006
Language: French
Genre: World Cinema
Welcome Home
Eva and Samuel are young twenty-somethings in love who have just moved together to Madrid, where Samuel lands a photography job at a magazine and befriends his off-beat colleagues. When Eva announces that she is pregnant, Samuel’s world turns upside down as he tries to grapple with the doubt, commitment, responsibility and fear in becoming a real adult.
Director: David Trueba
Year: 2006
Language: Spanish
Genre: World Cinema, Drama, Comedy
Quinceanera
Magdalena is the daughter of a Mexican-American family in Echo Park, Los Angeles. With her 15-birthday approaching, all she can think about is her boyfriend, her Quinceanera dress, and the Hummer Limo she hopes will carry her on her special day. But a few months before the celebration, Magdalena falls pregnant. As the elaborate preparations for her Quinceañera proceed, it is only a matter of time before her religious father finds out and rejects her. Forced out of her home, Magdalena moves in with great-great uncle Tomas, an old man who makes his living selling a Mexican hot drink in the street. Already living with him is Carlos, Magdalena’s cousin, a tough cholo who was thrown out by his parents. Carlos does not disguise his disapproval of Magdalena’s arrival. The back house rental where Tomas has lived happily for many years is on a property that was recently purchased by an affluent white gay couple. Worlds collide when they become entangled in the lives of their tenants.
Director: Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland
Year: 2006
Language: English & Spanish
Genre: GLBT, Drama
Twice Upon a Time (Desaccord Parfait)
In their youth, Alice and Louis were lovers. Their romance fascinated a nation; he was a director and she was his muse, until Alice abruptly left France for England and never looked back. Thirty years later, Louis is being presented an award in England and Alice has been selected to present it to him...
Director: Antoine de Caunes
Year: 2006
Language: French
Genre: World Cinema, Comedy
Still Life
The Three Gorges dam is the largest electricity-generating facility in the world. A lake approximately 650 km long will form behind it, forcing the relocation of more than 1 million people and permanently flooding many villages. The town of Fengie is already under water, but its new neighborhood hasn’t been finished yet, turning the inhabitants into refugees of progress. Still Life distills the melancholy and apprehension of the villagers as they attempt to come to terms with their new environment. They begin to let their old lives wash away and attempt to build new ones. Director Jia Zhang-ke, a supremely gifted visual artist with profound understanding for character and narrative, brings forth a critically acclaimed film of lyrical beauty that highlights China’s new reality.
Director: Zhang Ke Jia
Year: 2006
Language: Mandarin
Genre: World Cinema, Drama
Volver
Revolving around an eccentric family of women from a wind-swept region south of Madrid, Cruz plays Raimunda, a working-class woman forced to go to great lengths to protect her 14-year-old daughter Paula. To top off the family crisis, her mother Irene comes back from the dead to tie up loose ends.
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Year: 2006
Language: Spanish (Castilian)
Genre: World Cinema, Drama, Comedy
Paprika
Dr. Atsuko Chiba is a genius scientist by day, and a kick-ass dream warrior named PAPRIKA by night. In this psychedelic sci-fi adventure, it will take the skills of both women to save the world...
In the near future, a revolutionary new psychotherapy treatment called PT has been invented. Through a device called the DC Mini it is able to act as a dream detective to enter into people’s dreams and explore their unconscious thoughts. Before the government can pass a bill authorizing the use of such advanced psychiatric technology, one of the prototypes is stolen, sending the research facility into an uproar. In the wrong hands, the potential misuse of the devise could be devastating, allowing the user to completely annihilate a dreamer’s personality while they are asleep. Renowned scientist, Dr. Atsuko Chiba, enters the dream world under her exotic alter-ego, code name PAPRIKA, in an attempt to discover who is behind the plot to undermine the new invention.
Director: Satoshi Kon
Year: 2006
Language: Japanese
Genre: World Cinema
Curse of the Golden Flower
China, Later Tang Dynasty, 10th Century. On the eve of the Chong Yang Festival, golden flowers fill the Imperial Palace. The Emperor returns with his second son, Prince Jie, to celebrate the holiday with his family despite the chilled relations between the Emperor and the Empress.
For many years, the Empress and Crown Prince Xiang, her stepson, have had an illicit affair. Feeling trapped, Prince Xiang dreams of escaping the palace with his secret love Chan, the Imperial Doctor’s daughter. Price Jie, the faithful son, worries over the Empress’s health and her obsession with golden chrysanthemums. Could she be headed down an ominous path?
Meanwhile, The Emperor harbors clandestine plans that only the Imperial Doctor is privy to. When the Emperor senses a looming threat, he relocates the doctor’s family from the Palace. While they are en route, assassins attack them. Chan and her mother are forced back to the palace. Their return sets off a tumultuous sequence of dar surprises.
Director: Zhang Yimou
Year: 2006
Language: Mandarin
Genre: World Cinema, Drama
American Hardcore
Generally unheralded at the time, the early-80s Hardcore Punk Rock scene gave birth to much of the rock music and culture that followed. There would be no Nirvana, Beastie Boys or Red Hot Chili Peppers were it not for Hardcore pioneers such as Black Flag, Bad Brains and Minor Threat.
Hardcore was more than music — it was a social movement created by Reagan-era misfit kids. The participants constituted a tribe unto themselves — some finding a voice, others an escape in the hard-edged music; some sought a better world, others were just angry and wanted to raise hell.
AMERICAN HARDCORE traces this lost subculture, from its early roots to its extinction. The film is based on Steven's book AMERICAN HARDCORE: A Tribal History (Feral House), which detailed the scene's rise and fall, and came out in 2001.
Director: Paul Rachman
Year: 2006
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Manufactured Landscapes
Manufactured Landscapes is a feature documentary on the work of internationally renowned artist Edward Burtynsky. The film follows him as he travels through China photographing the evidence and effects of that country's massive industrial revolution. The Three Gorges Dam, factory floors a kilometre long and the breathtaking scale of Shanghai's urban renewal are subjects for his lens and our motion picture camera. Shot in Super-16mm film, the documentary extends the narratives of Burtynsky's photographs, meditating on human impact on the planet without trying to reach simplistic judgements or reductive resolutions. In the process, it shifts our consciousness about the world and the way we live in it.
Director: Jennifer Baichwal
Year: 2006
Language: English
Genre: Environment, Canadian, Documentary
Summer '04
At 40, Miriam's life seems ideal. Beautiful and assured, she has a happy relationship with her husband André and their 15-year-old son Nils. But when Nils invites his brazenly sensual teenage girlfriend to spend the holidays with them at their summer home, Miriam finds herself unexpectedly jealous of the young girl's ongoing flirtation with an older man. Her newly awakened bitterness and self-doubt draw her into a secret affair that threatens to bring her happy existence to an abrupt and sudden end.
Director: Stefan Krohmer
Year: 2006
Language: German
Genre: World Cinema, Drama
Stories of Lost Souls
Stories of Lost Souls compiles seven powerful, intriguing, sometimes unsettling vignettes of human will and courage. The star-studded cast includes Cate Blanchett, Hugh Jackman, Josh Hartnett, James Gandolfini, Keira Knightley, Paul Bettany, Jeff Goldblum, Daryl Hannah, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Illeana Douglas, Billy Boyd, Andy Serkis and Michael Gambon.
Director: Deborra Lee-Furness, William Garcia, Colin Spector, Toa Stappard, Andrew Upton
Year: 2006
Language: English
Genre: World Cinema, Drama
Don't Come Knocking
Howard Spence (Sam Shepard) has seen better days. Once a big Western movie star, he now drowns his disgust for his selfish and failed life with alcohol, drugs and young women. If he were to die now, nobody would shed a tear over him, that's the sad truth. Until one day Howard learns that he might have a child somewhere out there. The very idea seems like a ray of hope that his life wasn't all in vain. So he sets out to find that young man or woman. He discovers an entire life that he has missed...
Director: Wim Wenders
Year: 2005
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Water
A widow should be long suffering until death, self-restrained and chaste.
A virtuous wife who remains chaste when her husband has died goes to heaven.
A woman who is unfaithful to her husband is reborn in the womb of a jackal.
- The Laws of Manu, Chapter 5 verse 156-161, Dharamshastras (Sacred Hind texts)
Set in 1938 Colonial India, against Mahatma Gandhi’s rise to power, the story begins when eight-year-old Chuyia is widowed and sent to a home where Hindu widows must live in penitence. Chuyia’s feisty presence affects the lives of the other residents, including a beautiful young widow, who falls for a Gandhian idealist.
Director: Deepa Mehta
Year: 2005
Language: Hindi
Genre: World Cinema, Canadian, Drama
Italian, The
Based on the true story of a small Russian boy abandoned in an orphanage who goes in search of his birth mother.
A childless, affluent couple from Italy comes to a provincial Russian children's home to find a child for adoption.
When the Italian couple singles out six-year-old ragamuffin Vanya Solntsev as their prospective choice, the other orphans give Vanya a new nickname: The Italian. They envy Vanya, imagining that he is destined for a life of ease in sunny Italy.
But plucky little Vanya has other plans. He decides to track down his birth mother, teaching himself to read in order to learn her address from his personal file locked in the home's office. After stealing his records, Vanya sneaks out of the orphanage and boards a commuter train headed for the city, with the orphanage staff and police in close pursuit. Fearing that Vanya will make them lose a very lucrative adoption deal, the orphanage attempt to find the runaway child by any means necessary.
Director: Andrei Kravchuk
Year: 2005
Language: Russian
Genre: World Cinema, Drama
Enfant, L' (The Child)
Dispossessed twenty-year old Bruno (Jérémie Renier) lives with his eighteen-year-old girlfriend Sonia (Déborah François) in Seraing, an eastern Belgian steel town. They live off Sonia’s unemployment benefits and the panhandling and petty theft committed by Bruno and his gang. Their lives change forever when Sonia gives birth to their child, Jimmy. She returns home after Jimmy’s birth to find that Bruno has sublet their apartment to total strangers. After an initial and promising change of heart about becoming a father and changing his ways, Jimmy becomes little more to Bruno than a new source of wealth. Desperate for money and unable to face his parental responsibilities, Bruno sells Jimmy to a black market connection, who promises to find the child an adoptive home. Realizing the error in his actions Bruno sets out to try and undo his callous deed, leading him to a powerful personal transformation.
Director: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
Year: 2005
Language: French
Genre: World Cinema, Drama
White Countess, The
Shanghai. 1936. Crossroads of the world and into this city of political intrigue comes Sofia, a Russian Countess who, with the remains of her family, has been left stateless by the Revolution. Forced by her reduced circumstances to support herself and her family as a bar-girl and taxi dancer, Sofia forms a relationship with Jackson, a blind former diplomat who opens an elegant bar; The White Countess. Their curious relationship matures but they are caught up in the fall of the city to the Japanese invaders.
Director: James Ivory
Year: 2005
Language: English
Genre: Drama
White Massai, The
At the end of her holidays in Kenya, Carola (Nina Hoss) meets the Samburu warrior Lemalian (Jacky Ido), who cuts a handsome figure with his weapons and traditional dress. Fascinated, Carola falls head over heels in love with him. The results are fateful: she impulsively cancels her return flight and sends her boyfriend (Janek Rieke) back home alone. She stays in Kenya and sets out in search of Lemalian. After a grueling journey through the African wilderness, Carola meets the German woman Elisabeth (Katja Flint) in Maralal, and the two become friends. There she also runs into Lemalian again and follows him to his village, Barsaloi. Carola decides to turn her back on her old life in Switzerland. With incredible energy, she braves all obstacles and builds a new life for herself in Africa. But what she felt was the biggest love of her life turns into an ordeal, an adventure between heaven and hell, a journey that takes her to her limits...
Director: Hermine Huntgeburth
Year: 2005
Language: German/Swahili/English
Genre: World Cinema, Drama
Quiet, The
Popular cheerleader Nina Deer’s (Elisha Cuthbert) seemingly unblemished suburban world is turned upside down when her parents (Edie Falco and Martin Donovan) adopt their recently orphaned goddaughter Dot (Camilla Belle). Dot’s arrival delivers a blow to Nina’s idyllic social life and triggers the unraveling of the family’s darkest secrets. Both Nina’s family and friends, including the school hunk Connor (Shawn Ashmore, The X-MEN trilogy), develop an odd fascination with Dot and confide in her their troubling secrets. Dot quietly shoulders the burdens and secrets of those around her, while continuing to hold what is perhaps the biggest secret -- her own.
Directed by Jamie Babbit (BUT I’M A CHEERLEADER), THE QUIET is about family secrets, friendship, trust and betrayal. Through Nina’s eyes, Babbit takes us on an emotional rollercoaster ride— through the hilarious and often crude interactions of high schools students and a family where happy faces disguise ugly truths.
Director: Jamie Babbit
Year: 2005
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Niagara Motel
The guests of this low-rent motel in the tourist Mecca of Niagara Falls are not your typical tourists. A waitress being recruited to star in low budget porn, a young couple with criminal pasts struggling to recover their child, and a middle class husband with a rapidly disintegrating marriage. Throw into the mix a woeful drunken motel manager, a prostitute, a small time hustler, an underachieving staple salesman, the owner of the motel, his physics studying daughter, and a social worker with a Christian bias. Watch as tragedy waltzes with unpredictable comedy in an intense dance of life.
Director: Gary Yates
Year: 2005
Language: English
Genre: Canadian, Drama, Comedy
Sabah
Sabah (Arsinée Khanjian) is a 40-year-old Arab woman living in Toronto. One day, when Sabah least expects it, she falls in love with the wrong man: she’s Muslim, he’s not. Keeping him secret from her family, she embarks on a whirlwind affair before both culture and love collide.
Director: Ruba Nadda
Year: 2005
Language: English
Genre: Canadian, Drama
Thumbsucker
It’s not easy growing up, no matter what age you are...
Justin Cobb (LOU PUCCI) still sucks his thumb at 17. He wants to stop and knows that his thumbsucking is disrupting his family, his love life and his identity. The only thing that changes his behavior is hypnosis therapy administered by his "guru" orthodontist. But while Justin felt this would solve all his problems and he would finally be "normal," his troubles were really just beginning. Thumbsucking was only a symptom of a deep-seated fear: that he and his father aren’t good enough for his mother, and that she would leave them. Thumbsucking was the only way to soothe this fear. Once that is gone Justin spirals into manic behavior, is diagnosed with ADHD and put on Ritalin, which becomes a substitute for his thumb. When the high of the prescription drugs and a newfound success at school crash, Justin turns to pot and sex to replace his thumb.
Director: Mike Mills
Year: 2005
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
House of Sand, The
Aurea (Fernanda Torres) is brought to the northern Brazilian town of Maranhão by her insane husband Vasco, who suffers from delusions that the barren land may be profitably farmed. A calamitous turn of events leaves Aurea, now pregnant, and her mother Maria alone in the desert in a house full of sand. They eventually find friendship and food through Massu, who lives at a quilombo (a self-sustaining society originally formed by escaped slaves). Aurea wrestles with her unhappy fate but slowly grows accustomed to the new rhythm of life in the dunes.
Years pass and we find Aurea at peace in the desert, while her wild and sexually promiscuous daughter Maria lacks social propriety. Maria yearns to see the outside world and her dream is eventually fulfilled. However, the reality of the sand dunes - manifested through sweeping shots of the horizon, the sound of the wind skimming the sand and the soft, assured pacing of Waddington's direction - will never leave her psyche.
Director: Andrucha Waddington
Year: 2005
Language: Portuguese
Genre: World Cinema, Drama
Why We Fight
"Why We Fight," the film by Eugene Jarecki which won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, is an unflinching look at the anatomy of the American war machine, weaving unforgettable personal stories with commentary by a "who’s who" of military and beltway insiders. Featuring John McCain, Gore Vidal, William Kristol, Chalmers Johnson, Richard Perle and others, ‘Why We Fight’ launches a bipartisan inquiry into the workings of the military industrial complex and the rise of the American Empire.
Inspired by Dwight Eisenhower’s legendary farewell speech (in which he coined the phrase "military industrial complex"), filmmaker Jarecki ("The Trials of Henry Kissinger") surveys the scorched landscape of a half-century’s military adventures, asking how - and telling why - a nation of, by, and for the people has become the savings-and-loan of a system whose survival depends on a state of constant war.
Director: Eugene Jarecki
Year: 2005
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Breakfast on Pluto
Breakfast on Pluto tells the wild, rollicking story of Patrick "Kitten" Braden, a catty, beleaguered Irish transvestite who becomes involved with the Irish Republican Army while on a quest to reunite with his mother. Told in thirty-six short chapters, this delirious frenzy is the second collaboration between Neil Jordan and author and screenwriter Patrick McCabe, who gave us the equally inventive and scatalogical The Butcher Boy. Outrageous star Cillian Murphy shines as the "svelte gamine" Kitten, supported by the venerable Liam Neeson as a sympathetic local priest and Jordan regular Stephen Rea in an eccentric cameo appearance.
Director: Neil Jordan
Year: 2005
Language: English
Genre: GLBT, Drama
Lives of Others, The
East Berlin, November 1984. Five years before its downfall, the former East-German government ensured its claim to power with a ruthless system of control and surveillance. Party-loyalist Captain Gerd Wiesler hopes to boost his career when given the job of collecting evidence against the playwright Georg Dreyman and his girlfriend, the celebrated theater actress Christa-Maria Sieland. After all, the “operation” is backed by the highest political circles. What he didn’t anticipate, however, was that submerging oneself into the world of the target also changes the surveillance agent. The immersion in The Lives of Others – in love, literature, free thinking and speech – makes Wiesler acutely aware of the meagerness of his own existence and opens to him a completely new way of life which he has ever more trouble resisting. But the system, once started, cannot be stopped. A dangerous game has begun...
Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Year: 2005
Language: German
Genre: World Cinema, Drama
Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles
From three-time Academy Award nominated director Zhang Yimou comes a moving
story of one man¡¦s journey across China's heartland. RIDING ALONE FOR THOUSANDS OF MILES stars the legendary actor Ken TAKAKURA, and Japanese stars Shinobu TERAJIMA and Kiichi NAKAI.
After years of painful estrangement, Takata's ill son still refuses to see him. Crushed, the old man quietly slips out of the hospital,
but not before Rie gives him a videotape to watch. Rie hopes what Takata sees
on the tape will help him get to know his son again.
Takata plays the tape and learns that Ken-ichi is studying a form of Chinese
folk drama that dates back more than a thousand years. Hoping to bridge the gap between himself and his son, Takata decides to find legendary actor Li Jiamin and videotape his performance for his dying son, Ken-ichi.
Director: Zang Yimou
Year: 2005
Language: Mandarin/Japanese
Genre: World Cinema, Drama
Eve & The Fire Horse
Eve is a precocious nine year-old girl with a wild imagination growing up in a traditional Chinese immigrant family in Vancouver where Confucian doctrines, superstitious obsessions and divine visions abound. When Buddhism and Catholicism are thrown into the mix, life for Eve and her 11-year-old prim and authoritative sister, Karena, escalates into a fantasia of catastrophe, sainthood and cultural confusion.
Director: Julia Kwan
Year: 2005
Language: English, Cantonese
Genre: Canadian, Drama
Lucid
Joel Rothman, a thirty-two-year-old psychotherapist, has been having trouble sleeping ever since his wife left. The hours of insomnia are spent obsessively listening to her final angry message and drawing sheep on the wall. Meanwhile, his newest patients are suffering from symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder and, under his compromised care, are getting increasingly worse. Rapidly approaching rock bottom, Joel becomes increasingly unstable as the line between doctor and patient begins to blur...
Director: Sean Garrity
Year: 2005
Language: English
Genre: Canadian, Drama, Comedy
Friends With Money
Jennifer Aniston, Frances McDormand, Joan Cusack and Catherine Keener star as a quartet of west coast, life-long friends who have achieved a level of comfort in their lives and have now settled into a life of designer clothes, charity events, and caring for the men (and offspring) in their lives. But as they approach 'a certain age,' unsettling things are starting to throw their comfortable lives off balance.
Director: Nicole Holofcener
Year: 2005
Language: English
Genre: Drama
U-Carmen
The most-performed opera in the world gets a new spin in U-Carmen eKhayelitsha, which sets the famous opera Carmen in modern-day South Africa. The music, translated and sung in Xhosa and mixed with traditional song, gives the film a thrilling synthesis of Xhosa culture and European opera, while still telling the age-old story of love and obsession, duty and desire, jealousy, revenge and madness.
Director: Mark Dornford-May
Year: 2005
Language: Xhosa
Genre: World Cinema, Drama
Sophie Scholl - The Final Days
The true story of Germany’s most famous anti-Nazi heroine is brought to thrilling life in the multi-award winning drama SOPHIE SCHOLL-THE FINAL DAYS. Academy Award Nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, SOPHIE SCHOLL stars Julia Jentsch in a luminous performance as the young coed-turned-fearless activist. In 1943, as Hitler continues to wage war across Europe, a group of college students mount an underground resistance movement in Munich. Dedicated expressly to the downfall of the monolithic Third Reich war machine, they call themselves the White Rose. One of its few female members, Sophie Scholl is captured during a dangerous mission to distribute pamphlets on campus. Unwavering in her convictions and loyalty to the White Rose, her cross-examination by the Gestapo quickly escalates into a searing test of wills as Scholl delivers a passionate call to freedom and personal responsibility that is both haunting and timeless.
Director: Marc Rothemund
Year: 2005
Language: German
Genre: World Cinema, Drama
Angel-A
A man meets a woman in Paris.
Down-on-his-luck petty criminal Andre (Jamel Debbouze) has reached the end of his rope. Irreversibly in debt to a local gangster, with no one to turn to, his only solution is to plunge himself into the Seine.
Just as he is perched to do so, a fellow bridge-jumper beats him to the water. Diving in, he saves Angela (Rie Rasmussen), a beautiful, statuesque and mysterious woman. As they pull themselves out the water, the two form a bond and venture into the streets of Paris determined to get Andre out of the hole he has found himself in.
As Andre will find out, not all debts are financial, and sometimes the solutions to life¹s problems are found in the unlikeliest of places. Is Angela simply repaying Andre for his kindness, or are there other forces at work beyond his comprehension?
Director: Luc Besson
Year: 2005
Language: French/Spanish
Genre: World Cinema
Start Walking (Saint Jacques...La Mecque)
Director Coline Serreau's warmhearted comedy Stop Walking! (Saint Jacques. . .La Mecque) concerns a trio of estranged siblings who must complete a road trip together in order to collect an inheritance after their mother dies. The high-strung businessman Pierre, mousy teacher Clara, and drunken loser Claude, must travel together in order to each earn the millions their mother left them or else it all goes to charity. - Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
Director: Coline Serreau
Year: 2005
Language: French
Genre: World Cinema, Comedy
In My Country
A Washington Post journalist (Jackson) is sent to South Africa to cover the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings, in which the perpetrators of murder and torture on both sides during Apartheid are invited to come forward and confront their victims ñ and are thus granted amnesty. He meets an Afrikaans poet (Binoche) who is covering the hearings for radio ñ and is shattered by the accounts of the cruelty and depravity committed by her fellow countrymen. They both must question their sense of identity as their story unfolds.
Director: John Boorman
Year: 2005
Language: English/Afrikaans
Genre: Drama
Devil & Daniel Johnston, The
"The Devil and Daniel Johnston" is a stunning portrait of a musical and artistic genius who nearly slipped away. Director Jeff Feuerzeig exquisitely depicts a perfect example of brilliance and madness going hand in hand with subject Daniel Johnston. As an artist suffering from manic depression with delusions of grandeur, Daniel Johnston’s wild fluctuations, numerous downward spirals and periodic respites are exposed in this deeply moving documentary.
Director: Jeff Feuerzeig
Year: 2005
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Junebug
When Madeleine, a British-born dealer in regional, "outsider" art, travels from Chicago to North Carolina to pursue a local painter for her gallery, she and her brand-new, younger husband George extend the trip to include an introduction to his family: his prickly mother Peg; his taciturn father Eugene; his angry younger brother Johnny, who has always suffered in the shadow of his over-achieving brother; and Johnny’s very pregnant and innocently garrulous wife Ashley.
Although Ashley immediately takes to the sophisticated Madeleine and embraces her as a sister, the other members of George’s family are less than receptive. With George falling into his old routine of spending time alone, Madeleine relies almost entirely on Ashley to help her navigate the family dinners, Church meetings and Ashley’s baby shower, all while desperately trying to close the deal on the artist. Tensions mount when Ashley goes into labor. Each family member’s priorities, Madeleine’s included, are confronted.
Director: Phil Morrison
Year: 2005
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, The
A man is shot and quickly buried in the high desert of west Texas. The body is found and reburied in Van Horn's town cemetery. Pete Perkins, a local ranch foreman (TOMMY LEE JONES) kidnaps a Border Patrolman and forces him to disinter the body. With his captive in tow and the body tied to a mule Pete undertakes a dangerous and quixotic journey into Mexico.
Guillermo Arriaga's dramatic and poetic script weaves past and present as it gradually reveals a great friendship, the lonely subterfuge of an illegal migrant's life, the cost of a promise made and kept, and culminates in the redemption of a callous if accidental killer.
Director: Tommy Lee Jones
Year: 2005
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Witnesses
Set amid the atrocities of war in the Balkans, "Witnesses" is retold, Roshoman-style, from various characters' viewpoints, adding new information about the complexity of war and humanity. Beginning inside a rustic house with a woman in black (Mirjana Karanovic) standing beside her husband's coffin, "Witnesses" interweaves the stories of a small town confronting ethnic hatred and deep moral ambiguities.
Director: Vinko Bresan
Year: 2005
Language: Serbo-Croatian
Genre: World Cinema, Drama
Two Sides of the Bed
Javier and Pedro live happily with their new girlfriends, Marta and Raquel. Javier is about to marry Marta, but he and Pedro are unaware that Marta and Raquel are secretly in love. When the boys find out, they are all sent into a rollercoaster of hilarious situations and sexual confusion that puts their lives and options into question in this follow-up to the hit film The Other Side of the Bed.
Director: Emilio Martinez Lazaro
Year: 2005
Language: Spanish
Genre: World Cinema, Comedy
Caché / Hidden
Georges (Auteuil), a television talk showhost, and his wife Anne (Binoche) are living the perfect life of comfort and security. One day, their idyll is disrupted in the form of a mysterious videotape that appears on their doorstep. On it they are being filmed by a hidden camera from across the street with no clues as to who shot it, or why.
As more tapes arrive containing images that are disturbingly intimate and increasingly personal, George launches into an investigation of his own as to who is behind this. As he does so, secrets from his past are revealed, and the walls of security he an Anne have built around themselves begin to crumble.
Director: Michael Haneke
Year: 2005
Language: French
Genre: World Cinema, Drama
Wedding Party, The
A wedding set at a beautiful country inn turns bloody when the overbearing father of the groom starts a feud with the chef. The father tries to stiff the inn for the bill, but the crafty chef locks the door on the bride and her mother-in-law, now held as collateral. What started as a happy day turns into an over the top battle of wits involving shotguns, hand grenades and twist-laden mayhem.
Director: Dominique Deruddere
Year: 2005
Language: German
Genre: World Cinema, Comedy
Layer Cake
Sleek, well dressed and polite, our unnamed hero (Daniel Craig) is a consummate professional. Treating cocaine and ecstasy like any other commodity, he has made a fortune for himself by keeping his hands clean and staying under the radar. Having made the decision to retire, his aim is
to break free from the world of crime, drugs and violence and live a simple, quiet life with the money he has amassed.
But before this can happen, crime boss Jimmy Price wants two last favors from
him. First, he must track down the missing, drug addict daughter of powerful criminal Eddie Temple. Second, he must negotiate the sale of a huge shipment of ecstasy with
The Duke, a loose cannon petty crook playing well out of his league.
What should be a routine transaction is anything but and nothing goes according to plan. Instead, duplicity and hidden alliances become the order of the day, in a struggle for power that reaches from the crack dens London to the highest ranks of British society.
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Year: 2004
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Social Genocide
Having survived a political assassination attempt in 1991, Director Fernando Solenas attacks his subject relentlessly and isn't afraid to name names and point fingers. Of the country's current $170-billion debt, Solenas estimates $10 billion ended up in the pockets of crooked politicians. This is 2005's The Take with sleeves rolled up, ready to fight.
Director: Fernando Solanas
Year: 2004
Language: Spanish
Genre: World Cinema, Documentary
Yes
YES is the story of a passionate love affair between an American woman (Joan Allen) and a Middle-Eastern man (Simon Abkarian) in which they confront some of the greatest conflicts of our generation - religious, political and sexual. Sam Neill plays the betrayed and betraying politician husband and Shirley Henderson a philosophical cleaner who witnesses the trail of dirt and heartbreak the lovers leave behind them, as they embark on a journey that takes them from London and Belfast to Beirut and Havana.
Director: Sally Potter
Year: 2004
Language: English
Genre: World Cinema, Drama
November
After a dinner out, photographer Sophie Jacobs (Cox) and her boyfriend Hugh (Le Gros) stop at a corner store for a late night snack. While Sophie waits unaware in the car, Hugh is murdered in a violent robbery.
Haunted by guilt, Sophie goes on with her life as best she can: teaching photography at a local art college, meeting her mother (Archer) for lunch, and visiting her therapist (Dunn). But one day at school, a slide mysteriously appears in the projector’s carousel: an image of what looks like her car in front of the corner store the night of the shooting. Are these paranoid visions stemming from her grief and guilt, or does someone know
something about the murder?
As her investigation deepens, more strange events start to occur, drawing into question exactly what happened the night of Hugh’s death. As Sophie struggles with her memory of that night, her life becomes like a photograph itself, an image refracted through a lens, with as much outside the frame as
in.
Director: Greg Harrison
Year: 2004
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Beautiful Country, The
Bui Doi - "less than dust" - is a slur aimed at Vietnamese children with American fathers. The Beautiful Country, set in 1990, relates the odyssey of a young Bui Doi as he who embarks on a personal journey with a young beautiful woman, Ling, aboard a refugee ship to America in search of a better life and Binh's estranged American father . Binh escapes Vietnam, endures refugee camp, and survives a brutal ocean crossing and indentured servitude with a human-trafficking ring. Nevertheless, he manages to keep hope, humanity, and a generous spirit alive as he searches for a connection with his long lost family. His quest leads him from Saigon to Malaysia to New York City and, finally to a remote Texas ranch and a redemptive reunion.
Director: Hans Petter Moland
Year: 2004
Language: English/Cantonese/Mandarin/Vietnamese
Genre: World Cinema, Drama
Watermarks
Watermarks is the story of the champion women swimmers of the legendary Jewish sports club, Hakoah Vienna. Hakoah ("The Strength" in Hebrew) was founded in 1909 in response to the notorious Aryan Paragraph, which forbade Austrian sports clubs from accepting Jewish athletes. After the political unification of Nazi Germany and Austria in 1938 the Nazis shut down the club, but the swimmers managed to flee the country before the war broke out, thanks to an escape operation organized by Hakoah’s functionaries.
Sixty-five years later, director Yaron Zilberman meets the members of the women’s swim team in their homes around the world, and arranges a reunion in their old swimming pool in Vienna, a journey that evokes memories of youth, struggle and triumph.
Director: Yaron Zilberman
Year: 2004
Language: English, German and Hebrew
Genre: World Cinema, Documentary
She Hate Me
Wharton-educated biotech executive John Henry "Jack" Armstrong (Anthony Mackie) gets fired when he informs on his bosses launching an investigation into their business dealings by the Securities & Exchange Commission. Branded a whistle-blower and therefore unemployable, Jack desperately needs to make a living. When his former girlfriend Fatima (Kerry Washington), a high powered businesswoman and now a lesbian, offers him cash to impregnate her and her new girlfriend Alex (Dania Ramirez), Jack is persuaded by the chance to make "easy" money. Word spreads and soon Jack is in the baby-making business at $10,000 a try. Lesbians with a desire for motherhood and the cash to spare are lining up to seek his services. But, between the attempts by his former employers to frame him for security fraud and his dubious fathering activities, Jack finds his life, all at once, becoming very complicated.
Director: Spike Lee
Year: 2004
Language: English
Genre: GLBT, Drama, Comedy
Bad Education
Celebrated Spanish auteur Pedro Almodóvar's latest is a classic film noir set in Madrid, 1960 - 1980. Two kids, Ignacio and Enrique, discover love, cinema and fear in a religious school. Father Manolo, the school principal and their literature teacher, is witness to and part of these discoveries. The three characters meet twice again, at the end of the 70s and in the 80s. The re-encounter will mark the life and death of some of them.
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Year: 2004
Language: Spanish(Castilian)/Latin
Genre: World Cinema, Drama
Baadasssss!
In Baadasssss! Mario Van Peebles sharply observes his father Melvin’s (played by Mario) struggles to raise money to fund Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (1971) under the guise of creating a black porno film. Melvin ducked creditors, the unions and had to bail out his camera crew after they were arrested because a white cop decided a bunch of Negroes and hippies couldn’t have come by that camera equipment honestly. Despite death threats and temporarily losing sight in one eye, Melvin managed to whip into shape a rag-tag, multi-racial crew and finish the film. The film had a winning formula - a hip, empowered black lead and a driving, energetic soundtrack with music from the then up-and-coming band Earth Wind and Fire. Maurice White of Earth Wind and Fire also contributes new music to the new film.
Before the Wright Brothers, there was no manned flight. Before Melvin Van Peebles, there were no films that would dare depict a brother standing up to the "man" and living to tell about.
Director: Mario Van Peebles
Year: 2004
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Riding Giants
Riding Giants takes us along surfing’s timeline from it’s early Polynesian roots, to its rebirth in the early 20th Century, to the development of a fledgling surf culture along the coast of Southern California in the 1940s highlighting the group of extraordinary adventurers that emerged: surfers who, not satisfied with the mere recreational and social aspects of the sport, began searching for bigger and bigger waves, pushing the boundaries of performance to explore the “unridden realm.”
Riding Giants is the story of these big wave riders, of where and how their quest began, of the classic characters who throughout the eras chased their dreams out into the blue water, and who still do today, riding 50, 60 and even 70 foot waves in a manner once considered the realm of fantasy.
Director: Stacy Peralta
Year: 2004
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
House of Flying Daggers
The Tang Dynasty, one of the most enlightened empires in Chinese history at its height, is in decline. Unrest is raging throughout the land, and the corrupt government is locked in battle with rebel armies that are forming in protest. The largest, and most prestigious of these rebel groups is the House of Flying Daggers, which is growing ever more powerful under a mysterious new leader. Two local captains, Leo and Jin are ordered to capture the new leader and the two hatch an elaborate plan. Captain Jin will pretend to be a lone warrior called Wind and rescue the beautiful, blind revolutionary Mei (Zhang Ziyi) from prison, earning her trust and escorting her to the secret headquarters of the House of Flying Daggers. The plan works, but to their surprise, Jin and Mei fall deeply in love on their long journey to the House. Danger lurks in the forest surrounding them, and the wind is still, as if sensing the tension in the air. What lies ahead for Jin and Mei, these star-crossed lovers?
Director: Yimou Zhang
Year: 2004
Language: Chinese (Mandarin)
Genre: World Cinema, Drama
Viva Laldjerie
Algiers, the winter of 2003: Three women have been living in a hotel in the centre of town since the violence started. The daughter has chosen a modern, emancipated life for herself by working for a photographer, taking a generous married lover and spending steamy weekends in nightclubs. Her faithful friend, prostitutes herself under the thumb of a powerful and "kind" protector. Meanwhile the mother bides time, torn between fear and nostalgia.
Director Nadir Moknèche weaves a richly drawn portrait of women exiled in their own country.
Director: Nadir Moknèche
Year: 2004
Language: French
Genre: World Cinema, Drama
Imaginary Heroes
IMAGINARY HEROES is a look at one long year in the lives of an ostensibly typical, upper-middle-class suburban family. It tells a tale of a family in crisis with wit, warmth and a very contemporary sardonic spin.
Following a sobering family tragedy, the Travises go to pieces. Teenaged son Tim (Emile Hirsch), the black sheep of the family, walks through his life like it’s a bad dream. His father Ben (Jeff Daniels) begins treating his wife and children like strangers and completely disengages from the world around him, while his mother Sandy (Sigourney Weaver) takes to smoking pot and letting loose with all the considerable sarcasm she can muster. Meanwhile, she wages a bitter feud with the next-door neighbor over carefully concealed secrets that threaten to tear the family apart.
With elements of pathos, salty humor and self-discovery, Imaginary Heroes is ultimately about what it means to be part of a family -- the good, the bad, and everything in between.
Director: Dan Harris
Year: 2004
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Lightning in a Bottle
On February 7th, 2003, renowned artists across multiple music genres and generations commandeered the stage at New York City's Radio City Music Hall to pay tribute to their common heritage and passion - the blues. Shared with thousands of fans in attendance, legendary performers from roots, rock, jazz and rap joined forces for a once-in-a-lifetime "Salute To The Blues" benefit concert whose proceeds went to musical education. Executive produced by Martin Scorsese, produced by Alex Gibney and directed by Antoine Fuqua, LIGHTNING IN A BOTTLE captures the night's magic and weaves a history of the blues through the juxtaposition of performances, backstage interviews, rehearsals and archival clips of some of the greatest names in American music, from blues royalty like Buddy Guy, and B.B. King, to their musical heirs ranging from John Fogerty and Bonnie Raitt to Mos Def and India.Arie.
LIGHTNING IN A BOTTLE follows the story of the week leading up to the concert - including rehearsals.
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Year: 2004
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Up & Down
In the dead of the night, near the Czech-Slovak border, two smugglers discover theirtruckload of illegal Indian immigrants have left a baby behind. In a small Prague apartment, Franta (Jiri Machacek) and Mila (Natasa Burger) dream of having a child, but Franta - on probation because of his soccer hooliganism past - is not
allowed to adopt, and Mila is unable to conceive. After cashing in on her savings, Mila decides to buy a baby from a pawnshop that fronts a den of thieves and pickpockets.
Meanwhile, an unusual family reunion is taking place: Academy professor Otto (Jan Triska) collapses while teaching, prompting his estranged son Martin (Petr Forman, son of director Milos) to return to Prague from Australia to see his father and his mother, Vera (Emilia Vasaryova), long separated from Otto whom she still pines for. Otto is now living with the beautiful and much younger Hana (Ingrid Timkova), who works in a refugee aid center helping immigrants to adjust to their new lives...
Director: Jan Hrebejk
Year: 2004
Language: Czech/English/German/Russian
Genre: World Cinema, Drama, Comedy
Kung Fu Hustle
Set amid the chaos of pre-revolutionary China, small time thief, Sing, aspires to be one of the sophisticated and ruthless Axe Gang whose underworld activities overshadow the city. Stumbling across a crowded apartment complex aptly known as “Pig Sty Alley,” Sing attempts to extort money from one of the ordinary locals, but the neighbors are not what they appear. Sing’s comical attempts at intimidation inadvertently attract the Axe Gang into the fray, setting off a chain of events that brings the two disparate worlds face-to-face. As the inhabitants of the Pig Sty fight for their lives, the ensuing clash of kung fu titans unearths some legendary martial arts Masters. Sing, despite his futile attempts, lacks the soul of
a killer, and must face his own mortality in order to discover the true nature of the kung fu master.
Director: Stephen Chow
Year: 2004
Language: Cantonese/Mandarin
Genre: World Cinema, Drama, Comedy
Wilby Wonderful
Today in the small East Coast island town of Wilby, Carol French, the local realtor, is trying to sell the Mayor a house that belonged to her recently deceased mother-in-law. Her police officer husband Buddy is in the middle of an investigation into the town’s deviant underbelly. It seems that Buddy is also about to begin a love affair with the wrong-side-of-the-tracks just-back-in-town Sandra Anderson. Meanwhile, Sandra’s daughter Emily isn’t very happy that her mother has given her a handful of condoms to use with her new one-track-mind boyfriend. Add to the mix the apparently dyslexic sign painter Duck MacDonald, and MacKenzie Fisher, the Mayor’s algebra-challenged young daughter, and it’s just another Thursday in Wilby. But then why is Dan Jarvis trying to kill himself in all the wrong places? Where are all the drugs suddenly coming from? And, what’s Carol French going to do about that body in the closet?
Director: Daniel MacIvor
Year: 2004
Language: English
Genre: Canadian, Comedy
Touch of Pink
Alim (Jimi Mistry) is so caught up in the romance, style and dreams of old Hollywood that he thinks he's living with the spirit of Cary Grant (Kyle MacLachlan).
A young, Ismaili Canadian based in London, Alim lives with a handsome, charming intelligent English boyfriend, Giles (Kristen Holden-Ried), who is completely unaware of his lover's fantasy life.
Alim and Giles are happy together, despite Cary's presence, until Alim's mother Nuru (Suleka Mathew) shows up for a visit. Totally unaware that her son is gay, let alone that he is living with Giles, Nuru has come to London to find Alim a proper Ismaili-Muslim girlfriend and to convince him to come home to Canada.
With his mother in the picture, Alim's different worlds quickly begin to collide, and he has to choose between his fantasy life with Cary and the earthlier pleasures of real life. Touch of Pink combines a contemporary clash of cultures, values and sexuality, with the pleasures of an old fashioned romantic comedy.
Director: Ian Iqbal Rashid
Year: 2004
Language: English
Genre: Canadian, Drama, Comedy
Syrian Bride
Mona’s wedding day is the saddest day of her life. She knows that once she crosses the border between Israel and Syria to marry Syrian TV star Tallel, she will never be allowed back to her beloved family in Majdal Shams, the largest Druze village in the Golan Heights, occupied by Israel since 1967.
The Syrian Bride is a story about physical, mental and emotional borders and the will to cross them. A story about a family trying to cope with its ability to define boundaries and deal with them - focusing on Mona’s sister Amal, a modern woman trapped in a tradition and culture she wants to break out of.
Director: Eran Riklis
Year: 2004
Language: Arabic, English, Hebrew, Russian, French
Genre: World Cinema, Drama
Merchant of Venice
Set in 16th century Venice, Shakespeare’s timeless comedy/drama follows the fates and fortunes of a group of Christian noblemen and their interactions with the Jewish moneylender Shylock.
Antonio (Jeremy Irons) borrows money from Shylock (Al Pacino) to help his young penniless friend Bassanio (Joseph Fiennes) in his quest to win the hand of the fair Portia (Lynn Collins). Bitter at Antonio’s insults, Shylock stipulates very specific terms if he defaults on the loan.
As Antonio’s shipping business is devastated by storms, Shylock is further angered by his daughter’s elopement with the nobleman Lorenzo (Charlie Cox). The loan falls due and Shylock claims his forfeit in the form of a pound of Antonio’s flesh. As Bassanio desperately tries to save Antonio from this fate, miraculous help comes from an unexpected quarter.
Director: Michael Radford
Year: 2004
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Saving Face
Saving Face is a romantic comedy about a daughter struggling to understand her mother's heart, which ultimately allows her to understand her own. It is the story of unspoken loves, contemporary and cultural taboos, and the journey of two women towards living their lives honestly.
Director: Alice Wu
Year: 2004
Language: English/Chinese (Mandarin)
Genre: GLBT, Drama, Comedy
Warriors of Heaven & Earth
After decades of service to the Chinese Emperor, Lai Xi longs to return to Japan. Finally, his request seems to be granted, and as battles against the invading Turkish armies intensify, Lai Xi promises to bring Wen Zhu back to the capital city of Changan. Instead, he is sent to the West to chase wanted criminals. His only passport back to Japan is to capture and execute Lieutenant Li, a renegade soldier wanted for leading a violent mutiny when he refused orders to kill female and child prisoners.
Li and Lai Xi battle, but finally agree to delay their final personal fight until the caravan carrying Wen Zhu and a Buddhist monk is brought to safety. The monk, however, is carrying a sacred and powerful pagoda that attracts the attention of the region's ruthless overlord, Master An (Wang Xueqi). Lai Xi and Lt. Li, accompanied by Li's former posse of soldiers, who have forsaken their peaceful new lives to return to his side, must face the cruelty of the desert.
Director: Ping He
Year: 2004
Language: Chinese (Mandarin)
Genre: World Cinema, Drama
Somersault
After making a misjudged advance towards her mother’s boyfriend, 16-year-old Heidi flees her home for the small Australian ski town of Jindabyne and starts a new life for herself. But when she falls for the son of a wealthy local farmer, her self-destructive tendencies resurface and her fragile new world threatens to come tumbling down. An erotic, lyrical depiction of a young woman’s sexual awakening.
Director: Cate Shortland
Year: 2004
Language: English
Genre: World Cinema, Drama
Love That Boy
Phoebe (Nadia Litz of The Five Senses) is a socially inept overachiever, unrecognized in a world run by C students. With a month until college ends, she's given herself a "To Accomplish Before Graduation" list, which includes everything from picking wild mushrooms to learning how to kayak.
When her roommate points out that what Phoebe really needs is a boyfriend, she simply adds that to her list. After the demise of her first relationship - her "boyfriend" didn't even know they were going out - Phoebe inadvertently falls in love. The only problem is, he's 14.
Director: Andrea Dorfman
Year: 2003
Language: English
Genre: Canadian, Drama, Comedy
Zelary
It is the 1940's and the Czech lands have been occupied by the Nazis. Eliska is a young woman who was unable to complete medical school because the Germans closed the universities and now works as a nurse in a city hospital. She is also involved in the resistance movement.
One night, a man from a rural mountain area is brought to the hospital with serious injuries and desperately needs a transfusion. Eliska is the only one with the same blood type. Her blood saves his life and a connection is formed between the two that in the course of the story becomes an extraordinarily strong relationship between the modern, cosmopolitan, and educated Eliska and the barbaric, salt of the earth man with the soul of a child, Joza.
The resistance group that the doctors are involved in is discovered and hunted by the Gestapo and suddenly their lives are threatened. Joza is asked to Eliska in his remote mountain cabin. Eliska is forced become a new woman: Hana, the wife of a mountain man.
Director: Ondrej Trojan
Year: 2003
Language: Czech/Russian/German
Genre: World Cinema, Drama
Saraband
In Saraband, Marianne and Johan meet again after thirty years without contact, when Marianne suddenly feels a need to see her ex-husband again. She decides to visit Johan at his old summer house in the western province of Dalarna. And so, one beautiful autumn day, there she is, beside his reclining chair, waking him with a light kiss.
Also living at the summer house are Johan's son Henrik and Henrik's daughter Karin. Henrik is giving his daughter cello lessons and already sees her future as staked out. Relations between father and son are very strained, but both are protective of Karin. They are all still mourning Anna, Henrik's much-loved wife, who died two years ago, yet who, in many ways, remains present among them. Marianne soon realizes that things are not all as they should be, and she finds herself unwillingly drawn into a complicated and upsetting power struggle...
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Year: 2003
Language: Swedish/English/German
Genre: World Cinema, Drama
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...And Spring
The exquisitely beautiful and very human drama Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring is entirely set on and around a tree-lined lake where a tiny Buddhist monastery floats on a raft amidst a breath-taking landscape. The film is divided into five segments; each season representing a stage in a man’s life. Under the vigilant eyes of Old Monk, Child Monk learns a hard lesson about the nature of sorrow when some of his childish games turn cruel. In the intensity and lushness of summer, the monk, now a young man, experiences the power of lust, a desire that will ultimately lead him, as an adult, to dark deeds. With winter, strikingly set on the ice and snow-covered lake, the man atones for his past actions, and spring starts the cycle anew… With an extraordinary attention to visual details, such as using a different animal (dog, rooster, cat, snake) as a motif for each section, writer/director/editor KIM Ki-duk has crafted a totally original yet universal story about the human spirit.
Director: Ki-duk Kim
Year: 2003
Language: Korean
Genre: World Cinema, Drama
3-Iron
Tae-suk (JAE Hee) drifts around on his motorcycle looking for empty houses to
stay in. Tae-suk lives in the empty house until the owners return, but never steals or
ruins anything. He simply guards the houses for a few days, fixing broken items,
and even does the owners' laundry. Before leaving, he puts everything back as it
used be. One day, sneaking into a wealthy home, Tae-suk meets his destiny - a married
woman named Sun-hwa (LEE Seung-yeon) who has been tormented by her
abusive husband. That same night, Tae-suk wakes up suddenly to find Sun-hwa staring at him. He
runs out, but the phone rings suddenly. It's Sun-hwa's husband. Tae-suk
overhears their conversation and realizes that Sun-hwa has an unhappy
marriage and life. Sun-hwa looks silently at him as if she is begging for him to
save her.
Director: Kim Ki-Duk
Year: 2003
Language: Korean
Genre: World Cinema, Drama
Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, The
The true story of a Bohemian St. Francis and his remarkable relationship with a flock of wild red-and-green parrots. Mark Bittner, former street musician in San Francisco, falls in with the flock as he searches for meaning in his life, unaware that the wild parrots will bring him everything he needs.
Director: Judy Irving
Year: 2003
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
All the Real Girls
All The Real Girls is set in a small North Carolina mill town where 22-year-old Paul has spent his entire life. He lives with his mom, works for his uncle and has a small group of lifelong friends (Tip, Bo and Bust Ass) who are rowdy, funny and loyal. Paul's girlfriends, however, are neither lifelong nor loyal; his charm has led to a string of broken hearts for which he feels little if any remorse. But Paul's easy going life and his attitudes about love and women change dramatically when he meets Noel, Tip's 18-year-old sister. Unlike Paul, Noel has spent most of her life away at boarding school but she has just graduated and returned home with no plans for the future. As the summer progresses, things go right, and then wrong, as both Paul and Noel discover that real love comes at a cost that sometimes is too high. But they also realize that their experience was a turning point for both of them and it will bind them together forever.
Director: David Gordon Green
Year: 2003
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Mother, The
May is an ordinary grandmother from a London suburb. When her husband dies on a family visit to London, she recedes into the background of her busy, metropolitan children's lives. Stuck in an unfamiliar city far from home, May fears that she has become another invisible old lady whose life is more or less over. Until, that is, she falls for Darren, a man half her age who is renovating her son's house and sleeping with her daughter.
Director: Roger Michell
Year: 2003
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Moving Malcolm
Vancouver's Ben Ratner pulls triple-duty for Moving Malcolm, his directorial debut, which he also wrote and stars in opposite Elizabeth Berkley (Roger Dodger) and John Neville (Spider). The film won a special jury award at the 2003 Montreal World Film Festival for its incisive and compassionate comedy.
Gene (Ratner) is a struggling writer who's dumped at the altar by flighty B-movie actress Liz (Berkley). At odds with his family, friends, and himself, Gene spends the next year toiling away on a voluminous novel that he hopes will win back his former fiancee. Then suddenly Liz shows up at his door, asking Gene to help her father, Malcolm (Neville), move while she's off making a low-budget flick in Prague. Is this Gene's chance to recapture Liz's love?
Director: Benjamin Ratner
Year: 2003
Language: English
Genre: Canadian, Drama, Comedy
Masked and Anonymous
In a fictional America caught up in a civil war that is tearing the nation apart, a benefit concert is being organized. A traveling troubadour named Jack Fate (Bob Dylan) is sprung from jail by his scheming former manager, Uncle Sweetheart (John Goodman), to headline a concert with the expectations to bring peace to a country that is entrenched by chaos, lawlessness and pandemonium.
Director: Larry Charles
Year: 2003
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Spare Parts (2003)
Ludvik is a former speedway champ who has drifted into the lucrative business of people-trafficking, pocketing fistfuls of euros from desperate souls as they are shoved into his van, waiting to be taken across the border into Italy. Young and inexperienced Rudi is his new assistant. In a story straight from the headlines, Ludvik inducts Rudi into the blood-chilling illegal immigrant trade, a squalid world where the refugees are considered disposable, sexual exploitation is par for the course, and the paying customers are just as likely to be drugged and used as "spare parts" (unwilling organ donors), once they are safely over the border.
Director: Damjan Kozole
Year: 2003
Language: Slovenian
Genre: World Cinema, Drama
Carandiru
In his ninth full-length feature, Hector Babenco creates a loyal adaptation of the book Carandiru Station by Drauzio Varella. The film follows the point of view of a doctor who makes regular visits to the Sao Paulo Penitentiary and hears hundreds of prisoners' stories, about love and passion, crime and friendship. He is also the witness of the survivors of the 1992 massacre that left 111 people dead.
Director: Hector Babenco
Year: 2003
Language: Portuguese (Brazil)
Genre: World Cinema, Drama
Monsieur Ibrahim
During the early 1960's, Paris was an explosion of life. As the old gave way to the new, everything was in flux and the city was filled with an energy that promised cultural shifts and social change.
Against this background, in a working class neighborhood, two unlikely characters - a young Jew and an elderly Muslim - begin a friendship. When we meet Moise, also known as Momo (Pierre Boulanger), he is in effect an orphan even though he lives with his father, a man slowly retreating into a crippling depression. His only friends are the street prostitutes who treat him with genuine affection. Momo buys his groceries at the neighborhood shop, a crowded dark space owned and run by Ibrahim (Omar Sharif), a silent exotic looking man who sees and knows more than he lets on.
After Momo is abandoned by his father, Ibrahim becomes the one grownup in Momo's life. Together they begin a journey that will change their lives forever.
Director: François Dupeyron
Year: 2003
Language: French/Arabic
Genre: World Cinema, Drama
Paradise Found
Paris, 1880. Paul Gauguin is a successful financier. He lives in Paris with his wife Mette and their four children. But when his passion for painting becomes a mission to revolutionize art, Gauguin must unleash the savage within himself. To do so he gives up his job and comfortable lifestyle, leading his family into a downward spiral of poverty and travels to Tahiti. His voyages take him even further from his beloved family and teach him the true meaning of the word sacrifice. What price must he pay in order to pursue his dream?
Director: Mario Andreacchio
Year: 2003
Genre: Drama, Biography
Tibet: Cry of Snow Lion
Ten years in the making, this provocative documentary was filmed during a remarkable nine journeys throughout Tibet, India and Nepal. Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion brings audiences to the long-forbidden "rooftop of the world" with an unprecedented richness of imagery... from rarely-seen rituals in remote monasteries, to horse races with Khamba warriors; from brothels and slums in the holy city of Lhasa, to magnificent Himalayan peaks still traveled by nomadic yak caravans.
The dark secrets of Tibet's recent past are powerfully chronicled through riveting personal stories and interviews, and a collection of undercover and archival images never before assembled in one film.
A definitive exploration of a legendary subject, Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion is an epic story of courage and compassion.
Director: Tom Peosay
Year: 2003
Language: English
Genre: World Cinema, Documentary
Fog of War, The
The Fog of War is a 20th century fable, a story of an American dreamer who rose from humble origins to the heights of political power. Robert S. McNamara was both witness to and participant in many of the crucial events of the 20th century: the crippling Depression of the 1930s; the industrialization of the war years; the development of a different kind of warfare based on air power and the creation of a new American meritocracy. He was also an idealist who saw his dreams and ideals challenged by the role he played in history.
Although strictly speaking, neither a work of biography nor a work of history, The Fog of War has produced important, new biographical and historical material.
- Errol Morris
Director: Errol Morris
Year: 2003
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Facing Windows
Giovanna, though still very young, has been married to her devoted husband Filippo for 9 years. She divides her time between her job at the poultry factory, looking after her 2 children, and baking cakes for the local cafe, bearing the weight of responsibility on her shoulders.
The strain on Giovanna is increased when Filippo, in his kindness, brings home a refined elderly gentleman who has lost his memory. In trying to help this man Giovanna reluctantly spends more and more time with him, slowly uncovering clues to the mystery of his buried past: a number tatooed onto his forearm, his expertise in the art of the patisserie and the name, Simon... Increasingly irritated by her husband's softness, her fantasies of the ideal are projected onto the handsome mysterious neighbor whom she watches in the hope of adding a little excitement to her life.
Director: Ferzan Ozpetek
Year: 2003
Language: Italian
Genre: World Cinema, Drama
Young Adam
Featuring a strong cast headed by Ewan McGregor, Tilda Swinton, Peter Mullan and Emily Mortimer, YOUNG ADAM is a moody, sensual thriller that takes place on the canals between Glasgow and Edinburgh during the 1950s.
The film focuses on the crisis of Joe (McGregor); a young drifter who finds work on a barge owned by the down-to-earth Les (Mullan) and his enigmatic wife Ella (Swinton). One afternoon Joe and Les happen upon the corpse of a young woman floating in the water and the questions begin. Accident? Suicide? Murder?
As the police investigate the case and a suspect is arrested, it becomes evident that Joe knows more about the drowned woman Cathie (Mortimer) than he will admit. Meanwhile, against the backdrop of the investigation, Joe and Ella embark on a passionate affair.
Written and directed by the award-winning filmmaker David Mackenzie, YOUNG ADAM is adapted from novel by the Scottish Beat writer Alexander Trocchi.
Director: David Mackenzie
Year: 2003
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Distant
Mahmut is a relatively successful commercial photographer who has been struggling to come to terms with the growing gap between his artistic ideals and his professional obligations. His tedious workload, coupled with the lingering loss he still feels for his ex-wife (newly married and on the verge of leaving Istanbul for Canada), leaves Mahmut clinging to the melancholic and obsessive routines of his solitary life. Without warning, Mahmut's distant relative Yusuf arrives in Istanbul determined to find a job aboard a ship so that he may fulfill his dream of traveling around the world. In need of a place to stay as he searches for work, Yusuf imposes himself on Mahmut, who resents the sudden intrusion, but nonetheless feels obliged to help his family.As the two men struggle to make a connection, communication is slowly reduced to the bare minimum; and their time together must come to an end.
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Year: 2002
Language: Turkish
Genre: World Cinema, Drama
Talk to Her
Two men are sitting together by chance. They don't know each other. They are Benigno (a young nurse) and Marco (a writer in his early forties). On the stage, filled with wooden chairs and tables, two women, their eyes closed and their arms extended, are moving to the music of "The Fairy Queen", by Henry Purcell. The piece is so moving that Marco starts to cry. Benigno can see the gleam of his chance companion's tears, in the darkness of the stalls. He'd like to tell him that he too is moved by the spectacle but he doesn't dare.
Months later, the two men meet again at "El Bosque", a private clinic where Benigno works. Lydia, Marco's girlfriend and a bullfighter by profession, has been gored and is in a coma. It so happens that Benigno is looking after another woman in a coma, Alicia, a young ballet student.
When Marco walks by the door of Alicia's room, Benigno doesn't think twice before speaking to him. It's the start of an intense friendship... as linear as a roller coaster.
Director: Pedro Almodovar
Year: 2002
Language: Spanish (Castilian)
Genre: World Cinema, Drama
Mad Love
Laredo, August 22, 1496. A fleet sets sail for Flanders. Its mission, to carry Princess Joan to the Brussels court where she is to be wed to the monarch later to be known as Philip the Handsome.
Sparks fly at their first meeting. One look is enough to create mutual attraction and uncontrollable desire. Joan and Philip forget their political obligations and abandon themselves to their emotions. However, destiny has other plans for them.
The death of her elder brother, sister and mother, Isabella the Catholic, leave Princess Joan the Queen of Castile and heir to the crown of Aragon. Two battles ensue: the political one, between the Flemish and Castilian nobility, and the tumultuous one that Joan will wage in her marriage bed.
Director: Vincente Aranda
Year: 2002
Language: Spanish (Castilian)
Genre: World Cinema, Drama
Cherish
Zoe Adler is a twenty-something love starved dotcom'er who is running away from herself and from reality. She compulsively avoids being home alone and spends countless hours listening to KXCH "Cherish" radio, loosing herself in a syrupy romantic fantasy of 1970's and 80's pop songs. When she manages a three-martini cocktail with the object of her latest romantic obsession, she ends up driving a hijacked car that mows down a policeman. For this, she is unfairly incarcerated in the electronic bracelet program and is trapped in her apartment for two years. With only the nerdy bracelet officer, Daly, to provide uneasy company, Zoe sheds her rose colored glasses and finds a new meaning of love and self worth. But when she realizes that she is still being stalked by her attacker/admirer, she will have only a few hours to find him and thus become her own superhero...
Director: Finn Taylor
Year: 2002
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Zhou Yu's Train
A dreamlike love story set against the vast landscape of modern China, Zhou Yu’s Train features internationally acclaimed actress Gong Li as Zhou Yu, a young woman torn between her feelings for a shy poet and the persistent affections of a well-meaning young veterinarian.
As she rides the train twice a week to cover the great distance between her two lives, we see Zhou Yu make the emotional journey between a fading passion that once inspired great beauty and a trusted friendship that seems destined to be her next great love. Co-starring Tony Leung Ka Fai and newcomer Sun Hong Lei, Zhou Yu’s Train was directed and co-written by Sun Zhou.
Director: Zhou Sun
Year: 2002
Language: Chinese (Mandarin)
Genre: World Cinema, Drama
Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary
In Blind Spot - Hitler's Secretary, Traudl Junge describes on camera for the first time her experience working as one of Adolf Hitler's private secretaries from 1942 until his suicide in 1945. After keeping quiet for nearly 60 years, Frau Junge tells the riveting story of working alongside Hitler until the final collapse of the Nazi regime. Frau Junge is one of only a handful of witnesses to Hitler's last days in his fortified bunker as the Third Reich was collapsing above them. In his final hours, he dictated his final will and testament to her. Frau Junge also worked with Hitler at Wolf's Lair (his field headquarters in East Prussia), at his Bavarian residence at Berchtesgaden and on the Führer's special train.
In Spring 2001, André Heller met Traudl Junge and was able to persuade her that it would be fascinating as well as historically important to make a record of her unique experiences... and of her present attitudes to that time, after years of contemplation and self-analysis.
Director: Andre Heller
Year: 2002
Language: German
Genre: World Cinema, Documentary
Marion Bridge
Marion Bridge is the moving story of three sisters torn apart by family secrets. In the midst of struggling to overcome her self-destructive behaviour, the youngest sister, Agnes, returns home determined to confront the past in a community built on avoiding it. Her quest sets in motion a chain of events that allows the sisters each in their own way to re-connect with the world and one another. Set in post-industrial Cape Breton, Marion Bridge is a story of poignant humor and drama.
Director: Wiebke von Carolsfeld
Year: 2002
Language: English
Genre: Canadian, Drama
Wild Dogs, The
Set in the hauntingly beautiful city of Bucharest during a cull of stray dogs, The Wild Dogs weaves together a week in the lives of several of the city's residents and visitors. Geordie (Thom Fitzgerald), a visiting Canadian pornographer, Bogdan (Mihai Calota), a reluctant city dog-catcher, and Nathalie (Alberta Watson), the lonely wife of a diplomat, each risks losing everything as they become embroiled in the struggles of Bucharest's abandoned children, gypsies, dogs and beggars.
Director: Thom Fitzgerald
Year: 2002
Language: English
Genre: Canadian, Drama
Sunshine State
In Delrona Beach, Marly (Edie Falco) runs the motel her now ailing father (Ralph Waite) founded decades ago. When Marly begins a romance with a landscape architect (Timothy Hutton) who's working for the developers, could he be her ticket out of here? Meanwhile, Desiree (Angela Bassett) has come home to Lincoln Beach, 25 years after she left. She's returned to show off her trophy husband (James McDaniel). Community activist (Bill Cobbs) wants Desiree to help him fight the developers, but she needs to resolve the past before she tackles the future.
These are just some of the dozen characters whose stories are interwoven with the community's fate. There's also Marly's environmentalist mom (Jane Alexander), the Chamber of Commerce stalwart (Mary Steenburgen) and the oily developer (Alan King) who stands for "gated communities"
and "golf courses."
Real people. Real places. Welcome to Florida.
Director: John Sayles
Year: 2002
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Auto Focus
From Paul Schrader, the acclaimed director of Affliction, The Comfort of Strangers, American Gigolo, Blue Collar and Cat People, and the screenwriter of Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and The Last Temptation of Christ, comes Auto Focus, an absorbing glimpse into the colourful life, and mysterious death, of actor Bob Crane. Handsome and charming, Crane became well known as the star of television's hit comedy Hogan's Heroes (1965-1971). Capitalizing on his fame, Crane dove into the freewheeling spirit of the times with relish, having affairs with numerous women. (Auto Focus is a fascinating chronicle of American male sexual identity in the sixties and seventies.) Eventually, Crane teamed up with video technician John Carpenter to document his exploits, an association that may very well have led to his murder in a Scottsdale, Arizona motel room in 1978.
Director: Paul Schrader
Year: 2002
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Dogtown & Z-Boys
The high-flying "vert" (i.e. vertical) style of skateboarding is now such a defining element of international youth culture that it's hard to believe it wasn't invented by a skateboard manufacturer. In fact, it was invented in the street, in a place called Dogtown, "where the debris meets the sea."
Dogtown was the name of a section of Santa Monica and Venice that lay almost in ruins by the early 1970s, a rundown urban beach neighborhood with a legacy of outlaw surfing. It bred aggressive, territorial competitors with a street-smart sense of style. It was a center for customized cars, graffiti, street gangs and surfboard design.
Director: Stacy Peralta
Year: 2002
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Past Perfect
Past Perfect takes place over two days, two years apart. On an overnight flight from Halifax to Vancouver, Charlotte (Rebecca Jenkins), an unemployed sales clerk on the verge of giving up on her dream of marriage and children, finds herself sitting next to the nervous and seemingly stuffy Cecil (Daniel MacIvor), a linguistics professor who is in the process of ending a long-term relationship with a woman (Marie Brassard) who does not share his desire for a family. Over the course of the flight Charlotte and Cecil find themselves falling into one another's lives and in love
Intercut with their meeting is a Saturday two years later. Charlotte and Cecil now live together in Halifax and are in the midst of a crisis in their relationship. What starts off seeming like a case of a couple's general malaise, reveals itself to be the fallout from a very specific tragedy, one which forces Charlotte and Cecil to decide whether the the end of a dream means the end of the relationship.
Director: Daniel MacIvor
Year: 2002
Language: English
Genre: Canadian, Drama
Swing
Max, an only child, is 10 years old. He loves Manouche jazz, a music he discovered the first time he heard the guitar virtuoso Miraldo play. This music becomes his passion and brings him to the town's Manouche neighbourhood, where he buys an old guitar.
Max will learn about Manouche music and culture through the lessons Miraldo agrees to give him. He quickly makes friends with Swing, a young gypsy girl who is the same age as he is and whose charisma, self-confidence and freedom fascinate him.
Director: Tony Gatlif
Year: 2002
Language: French
Genre: World Cinema, Drama, Comedy
Looking for Leonard
A petty crime heroine's life-long daydream is interrupted by the arrival of a romantic Czech computer programmer. Then tragedy strikes, and our sweethearts are left looking for guidance, redemption, and maybe a glimpse of Leonard Cohen in this funny, existential tale of despair and joy for the young and old.
Director: Matt Bissonnette
Year: 2002
Language: English
Genre: Canadian, Drama, Comedy
Love Liza
Winner of the Waldo Salt Screenwriting award at the 2002 Sundance film festival, Love Liza features a tour de force performance by Philip Seymour Hoffman, one of this country's most original actors. Set somewhere in Middle America, Wilson Joel (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a successful website designer, suddenly sees his world stop with the untimely death of his young wife Liza. Trying to make sense of everything that has just happened, Wilson turns to his mother-in-law (Kathy Bates) for support. Their relationship intensifies when Wilson refuses to open a letter Liza left behind for fear it will shatter his ideal of the perfect life they shared. As Wilson attempts to rebuild his life, with unopened letter in tow, eccentric behaviour begins to surface taking him on an odyssey of self-pity, self-realization and a curious fascination with remote-control model enthusiasts. Through this temporary comfort, he begins dealing with his grief.
Director: Todd Louiso
Year: 2002
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Son Frere
Thomas and Luc are brothers. Thomas is straight; Luc is gay. Unable to accept his brother’s homosexuality, Thomas distances himself. When Thomas contracts a terminal illness, he intrudes into Luc’s contented life and asks him to be his caretaker. Luc begrudgingly sacrifices his lover, his job and his comfortable life to care for his dying brother. Through the rounds of doctors and the demanding challenges of catastrophic illness, the brothers are forced to examine the meaning of their existence, and their powerlessness in the face of impending doom. They return to their childhood home on the beach, reconnect with their past, and ultimately forge a new and vital relationship.
Director: Patrice Chéreau
Year: 2002
Language: French
Genre: World Cinema, Drama
Walking on Water
Walking on Water is a refreshingly unsentimental film about how people deal with loss and grief. Some of these responses are small - people raid the fridge, bicker over possessions, bitch about friends. Others are big - relationships begin and end, life long friendships are destroyed.
Charlie (Vince Colosimo) and Anna (Maria Theodorakis) are Gavin's two best friends. They made a pact to assist terminally ill Gavin to die when the time came. However, despite a massive overdose of morphine, Gavin stays alive. Charlie ends up slipping a plastic bag over Gavin's head and suffocating him. This is hardly the dignified death that they had all planned - but the beginning of an emotional rollercoaster ride, which takes Charlie and Anna through the highs and lows of the grief experience - from illicit affairs and left over morphine to devastating accusations and unwitting betrayals. At the end of the day, Charlie and Anna are forced to face the true meaning of friendship, loyalty and love.
Director: Tony Ayres
Year: 2002
Language: English
Genre: World Cinema, GLBT, Drama, Comedy
Khaled
Acclaimed as a powerful and groundbreaking portrait of inner city life, Khaled is the story of a feisty 10-year-old boy (a breakthrough performance by Michael D’Ascenzo) who lives with his chronically ill, single mother in a Toronto housing project. When she suddenly dies, Khaled keeps her death a secret and attempts to carry on with school and his daily life as if everything were normal. But soon the building manager comes looking for the rent, the social worker starts asking questions, and the neighbours begin to notice a strange smell coming from the apartment...
Director: Asghar Massombagi
Year: 2002
Language: English
Genre: Canadian, Drama
Pianist, The
A brilliant Polish pianist, a Jew, is confined to the Warsaw ghetto where he experiences suffering and humiliation. He escapes deportation to the death camps and hides in the ruins of the city. A German officer comes to his aid and helps him to survive ...
Director: Roman Polanski
Year: 2002
Genre: History, Drama
Laurel Canyon
The canyon is notable for its varied residents through the years and has served, and continues to serve, as the home to many rock stars, musicians, performers, producers, and the like. Among its current residents are Jane (Frances McDormand), a legendary record producer, currently producing an album for a British band whose lead singer Ian (Allesandro Nivola) is her much younger lover. Jane and the band are creating the album in her Laurel Canyon house where she has a recording studio.
Jane's son Sam (Christian Bale) and his fiancé Alex (Kate Beckinsale) are both recent graduates of Harvard medical school. Conservative, solid and serious, the couple find it necessary to move to Los Angeles to complete their studies.
Jane has offered her Laurel Canyon home for them to stay in, promising that it will be vacant. But when Sam and Alex arrive Jane and the band are still working in Jane's home recording studio to complete the album.
Once in the house, however, things begin to unravel.
Director: Lisa Cholodenko
Year: 2002
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Bollywood/Hollywood
Rahul Seth (Rahul Khanna) is a dashing young millionaire who believes he is "western" enough to rebel against his mother (Moushumi Chatterjee) and grandmother (Dina Pathak). They are not too keen about his Caucasian girlfriend Kimberly (Jessica Paré) who, to make matters worse, is a pop star. Before you can say "karmic intervention," Kimberly dies in a freak accident and Rahul is devastated. Instead of allowing him to mourn in peace, Rahul's mother sees the opportunity she's been waiting for. She threatens to call off his sister's (Rishma Malik) wedding unless he finds himself a "nice Indian girl." Rahul enlists the services of Sue (Lisa Ray), a fiercely independent escort whom he believes to be Hispanic, and therefore not "married" to the conventions taught to young Indian women. With a wink in her eye, Sue accepts the deal to pose as his Indian bride-to-be. She needs the money and having never been a fan of the typical Indian male, she feels her heart is safe. The charade begins....
Director: Deepa Mehta
Year: 2002
Language: English
Genre: Canadian, Comedy
Spun
For a speed freak, time is an elastic concept. College dropout Ross (Jason Schwartzman) learns this first-hand as he surrenders to a three-day odyssey through a circus-like, crystal-meth hell in the North Los Angeles Valley. It starts when Ross shows up at Spider Mike's (John Leguizamo) dive bungalow, looking to score and desperate enough to risk Spider Mike's paranoid and mercurial temper. Spider Mike's companions at the bungalow that day include his greasy-haired, red-eyed girlfriend Cookie (Mena Suvari), the pimply, video game-addicted Frisbee (Patrick Fugit) and Nikki (Brittany Murphy), a giggly Vegas stripper, whose boyfriend The Cook (Mickey Rourke) concocts the local speed supply in his airless, combustible motel room laboratory.
With its humor, electric visual style and intensely experiential point of view, Spun explores the razor-fine line between the edge, and over the edge.
Director: Jonas Akerlund
Year: 2002
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Winged Migration
"For eighty million years, birds have ruled the skies, seas and earth. Each spring, they fly vast distances. Each fall, they fly back on the same route. This film is the result of four years following their amazing odysseys, in the northern hemisphere and then the south, species by species, flying over seas and continents."
- Jacques Perrin (from Winged Migration)
Five crews of more than 450 people, including 17 pilots and 14 cinematographers, were necessary to follow a variety of bird migrations through 40 countries and all seven continents. The film covers landscapes that range from the Eiffel Tower and Monument Valley to the remote reaches of the Arctic and the Amazon.
Director: Jaques Perrin
Year: 2001
Language: French
Genre: World Cinema, Environment, Documentary
Mulholland Dr.
After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.
Director: David Lynch
Year: 2001
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Dark Blue World
Dark Blue World begins at the height of the Cold War in Communist-ruled Czechoslovakia with Franta Slama (Ondrej Vetchy) - a man in his early forties -confined to a labour camp as an "enemy of the people". The film then flashes back to March 1939, just before world peace is irredeemably shattered.
After three months of training, Franta and Karel are among the scrambled pilots sent up to fight. In one particular mission Karel takes a direct hit and his plane crashes into a field. Unbeknown to Franta, Karel has bailed out and as night falls arrives at a remote cottage on the countryside where he is taken in and nursed by Susan (Tara Fitzgerald), a beautiful woman whose husband is missing in action.
A story about love, comradeship and sacrifice, Dark Blue World is told with the nostalgic sentiment of classical Hollywood movies against the romantic and historical backdrop of World War II.
Director: Jan Sverak
Year: 2001
Language: Czech/English
Genre: World Cinema, Drama
Va Savoir (Who Knows?)
Va savoir is a romantic comedy that follows three men and three women as they become entangled in each other's lives during the brief run of a production of Pirandello's "As You Desire Me" in Paris.
As these six characters are drawn into an ever-increasing series of interlocking love triangles, the city of Paris serves as a sumptuous backdrop for their romantic misadventures. Sexy and wise, Va savoir explores the vagaries of love without ever losing its sense of fun.
Director: Jaques Rivette
Year: 2001
Language: French
Genre: World Cinema, Drama, Comedy
Secret Ballot
An unsuspecting soldier awakens to discover that he can forget about another uneventful day at his lonely seaside post. It's Election Day!
A ballot box is parachuted down as a young woman pulls up to the shore of the remote island. To the soldier's surprise, she's actually the government bureaucrat in charge of local voting. The couple gets off to a rocky start since the soldier expects election agents to be men.
Whether he wants to or not, the soldier is thrown into an elections adventure that just may put him out of a job. Orders from above force him to accompany the female agent in an army jeep across the island's dusty desert. The agent literally leaves no stone unturned in her search for ballots. Many a surprise lies along their route, as they find themselves in one absurd situation after another.
So much can happen in a single day, especially when opposites attract. Views can change, hearts can melt.
Director: Babak Payami
Year: 2001
Language: Farsi (Persian)
Genre: World Cinema, Comedy
My Wife Is An Actress
My Wife Is An Actress is a screwball romantic comedy about Yvan (Yvan Attal), a successful sports writer married to Charlotte (Charlotte Gainsbourg), a popular movie star with whom he’s madly in love. The problem is that everyone else in Paris seems to be in love with her too.
Her latest film role, opposite John (Terence Stamp), a suave, international star, is enough to send Yvan over the edge, devising all kinds of schemes to test his wife’s fidelity.
My Wife Is An Actress makes the directorial debut of actor Yvan Attal who co-stars with his real-life wife Charlotte Gainsbourg in this funny, perceptive look at a peculiarly male form of hysteria.
Written and directed by Attal, the film was shot by director of photography Remy Chevrin and produced by Claude Berri with Pierre Grunstein serving as Executive Producer.
Director: Yvan Attal
Year: 2001
Language: French
Genre: World Cinema, Drama, Comedy
Son of the Bride
At age 42, Rafael Belvedere (Ricardo Darin) is having a crisis. He's overwhelmed by his numerous responsibilities and just isn't having any fun. He has spent most of his life frantically trying to run the restaurant his father, Nino (Hector Alterio) founded. He has achieved success, but nevertheless, continues to live in the old man's shadow.
Just when Rafael feels the most alone and unable to reach out to anyone, unexpected events lead him to reevaluate his life. A minor heart attack forces him to slow down, and a reunion with Juan Carlos (Eduardo Blanco), a childhood friend who tries to keep a positive attitude in the wake of personal tragedy in his own life, helps Rafael to reconstruct his past and look at the present in new ways.
Most importantly, when his father makes the decision to fulfill his mother's dream of getting married in a church, it gives Rafael a task to focus on, stirring him to action and bringing the family together to create a new memory they can share.
Director: Juan Jose Campanella
Year: 2001
Language: Spanish (Argentina)
Genre: World Cinema, Drama, Comedy
Life & Debt
Jamaica - land of sea, sand and sun. And a prime example of the complexities of economic globalization on the world's developing countries. Using conventional and non-conventional documentary techniques, this searing film dissects the "mechanism of debt" that is destroying local agriculture and industry in Third World countries while substituting sweat-shops and cheap imports. With a voice-over narration written by Jamaica Kincaid, adapted from her non-fiction book "A Small Place", LIFE AND DEBT is an unapologetic look at the "new world order," from the point of view of Jamaican workers, farmers, government and policy officials who see the reality of globalization from the ground up.
Director: Stephanie Black
Year: 2001
Language: English
Genre: World Cinema, Documentary
Speaking of Sex
Dan and Melinda, a young couple from Boise, Idaho, seek help from a female marriage counselor, Dr Paige and a male depression expert -Dr Klink combining in unorthodox ways to solve their marital problems. While Dan "could" have screwed a waitress in his truck, he can't have decent erection with his wife. Referred to Dr Klink for "efficient" treatment, Melinda explains in great salacious detail her oral experiments at getting a rise out of "Mr. Happy" (the name Dan has given to his penis). The very depressed Dr Klink refuses to take her on as a patient but chases after and catches up to Melinda in the Elevator where they spontaneously engage in sex between floors. Now, her spirits lifted, Melinda candidly congratulates Dr Paige for Dr Klink's "method". Enraged by this breach of ethical conduct, Dr Paige gets attorney Connie Barker to sue Dr Klink for $ 30,000000, a figure so impressive that Dan and Melinda react as though they had won the Lottery. To counter attack, Dr Klink gets his in
Director: John Mcnaughton
Year: 2001
Genre: Comedy
Inertia
In INERTIA, the lives of four characters are sidetracked by desire into deception, adultery, and incest.
Joseph cannot accept that Laura doesn't want him anymore. He believes that all she needs is a little "space" to realize what they have together. Joseph believes that, with his friend Bruce's help, he can get Laura back. Laura is currently infatuated with Bruce. Joseph is unaware that Laura and Bruce slept together when Joseph and Laura first started seeing each other. Bruce, who recently married Yumi in an effort to leave his pleasure-seeking lifestyle behind, now finds himself attracted to Joseph's nineteen-year-old cousin, Alex. Alex, on the other hand, is obsessed with Joseph. Joseph innocently believes she moved to the city to attend university but it doesn't take long for him to realize she has other things on her mind.
Director: Sean Garrity
Year: 2001
Language: English
Genre: GLBT, Canadian, Drama
Solo Mia
It was love at first sight. In the beginning, Angela did everything she could for the sake of her undying love for Joaquin. When she became pregnant, they were both over the moon. Then, one day, things changed. At first he shouted at her and then he hit her. Things went from bad to worse after that. A rough day at the office was enough for him to give her his first severe beating - brutally so.
Angela filed for divorce. Joaquin defied the law and subjected her to the most ruthless harassment in his attempt to get her back.
Angela soon realized that her liberation had to come from within. So she confronted Joaquin, deciding to fight fire with fire.
Sóló Mia is a tale of love, betrayal and justice.
Director: Javier Balaguer
Year: 2001
Language: Spanish
Genre: World Cinema, Drama
'R Xmas
New York. Christmas Time. A big Dominican drug dealer and his wife are buying some presents for their kids. They are desperate trying to find the famous "my size Barbie" for their daughter that looks to be sold out. So they are using most of their connections (almost the same they used for their drug deals). But it's really hard to find. The husband must have a meeting with someone that says he has the doll. The husband goes to the meeting but doesn't come back. Sometimes later the phone rings : he has been kidnapped and they ask for 250 000 $. His wife has got a few hours to bring them the money. She calls all her husband's friends but, one by one, they let her down. She is all alone now and she must save her husband. And these kidnappers looks to be really tough guys. But who are they : gang members ? Policemen ? Drug dealers ? Will her husband die on Christmas Eve ? Will her daughter ever got her "my size Barbie" ?
Director: Abel Ferrara
Year: 2001
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Trembling Before G-d
Trembling Before G-d is an unprecedented feature documentary that shatters assumptions about faith, sexuality, and religious fundamentalism. Built around intimately-told personal stories of Hasidic and Orthodox Jews who are gay or lesbian, the film portrays a group of people who face a profound dilemma - how to reconcile their passionate love of Judaism and the Divine with the drastic Biblical prohibitions that forbid homosexuality.
For the first time, this issue has become a live, public debate in Orthodox circles, and the film is both witness and catalyst to this historic moment. What emerges is a loving and fearless testament to faith and survival and the universal struggle to belong.
Director: Sandi Simcha DuBowski
Year: 2001
Language: Hebrew, Yiddish and English
Genre: World Cinema, GLBT, Documentary
Weight of Water, The
A riveting tale of obsession and betrayal, The Weight of Water is inspired by the real-life events of an 1873 brutal double murder. Pulitzer-Prize winning poet, Thomas Janes sets sail with his wife, photojournalist Jean Nichols, on her weekend assignment to an East Coast island to photograph the site of the legendary murders. Joining them are Thomas's brother and his new girlfriend. Jean soon becomes absorbed by the sensational details of the case. While the events of the past are uncovered, the present finds Jean and her husband gripped by a crisis of their own - one that mirrors the emotional, uncontrolled passions from a century ago.
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Year: 2000
Genre: Thriller
Burnt Money
Burnt Money is the steamy Argentinean hit film about an infamous heist gone horribly wrong. Set in Argentina in 1965, Burnt Money is based on the true story about the ruthless bank-robbing duo, Nene (Leonardo Sbaraglia) and Angel (Eduardo Noriega, of Open Your Eyes). Everyone calls them 'Los Mellizos' (the twins), but they are actually lovers: lethal, thieving lovers. It's the story of a doomed relationship, confined to four rooms where intense passion and violence push the extremes. They flee from Argentina across the border to Uruguay after a large-scale hold-up that turns bloody. With the cops closing in, the two lovers must confront their demons to survive.
Director Marcelo Piñeyro (Tango Feroz, Wild Horses), has created an original piece of filmmaking that is full of action and sexy to watch. His signature style has rendered him huge recognition as a director in Argentina as well as internationally.
Director: Marcelo Pineyro
Year: 2000
Language: Spanish
Genre: World Cinema, GLBT, Drama
Time of Favor
Army officer Menachem studies in an Orthodox military yeshiva on the West Bank led by the revered Rabbi Meltzer. Their yeshiva is looked upon warily by the military officers, as led by a fanatic that could lead the company to dangerous ground. Meltzer wants Pini, the prized pupil in his class and Menachem's best friend, to marry his daughter Michal. But as Pini courts Michal, Menachem, strong-willed and passionate, falls in love with her.
As the Rabbi's agenda, the Army's control and Pini's desperation all build to a boil, Menachem and Michal's secret passion threatens to destroy more than just their reputations. A violent scheme to blow up the Temple Mount soon puts all their allegiances to the test.
From a peaceful desert sunrise on the Wailing Wall to a frantic chase through an 1800 year-old network of tunnels, Time of Favor raises issues of religious faith and duty to one's nation that are inextricably relevant to our lives today.
Director: Joseph Cedar
Year: 2000
Language: Hebrew
Genre: World Cinema, Drama
Hotaru
Ayako storms out of her tumble-down house after a loud row with her boyfriend - only to walk into the pathway of an oncoming car. One of the first people to come to her aid is a moody potter named Daiji, who thinks that she intended to commit suicide. Though not the case, Ayako - who works as a stripper - is depressed. Daiji invites her to a mountain festival for which he fashioned hundreds of ceramic containers for an outdoor votive candle display. Unfortunately, Ayako's club is raided and she is forced to spend the day in jail. Thinking that she killed herself, Daiji searches desperately for her...
Director: Naomi Kawase
Year: 2000
Genre: Drama
Very Annie Mary
In the little Welsh valley village of Ogw, Annie Mary lives under the thumb of her father, the local Baker. She is 33 years old, shy and inhibited. Bethan Bevan is her best friend but the 16 years old girl is terminally ill. The village is collecting money to send her to Disneyland, which is poor Bevan's idea of hell. She would rather hear Annie Mary sing. One day The Baker suffers a stroke. Annie Mary is forced to take care of her father but uses the circumstances to emancipate herself and find the courage to sing once again.
Director: Sara Sugarman
Year: 2000
Language: English
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Divided We Fall
Divided We Fall is set in a small Czech town occupied by German forces during the last years of the Second World War.
Josef and Marie C'Zek are a childless couple trying to lead a normal life in the face of Josef's sterility and the chaos of war that surrounds them. One night, Josef has a chance encounter with David Weiner, the Jewish son of his former employer whose family has long since been deported from their town. David is the only surviving member of his family and has recently escaped from a concentration camp. After brief deliberation, Josef decides to give David refuge in his home.
To distract the attention of the German authorities and to protect their neighbours from possible reprisals, Josef takes a job with Horst Prohazka, a Nazi collaborator and former colleague and becomes more and more entangled with the representatives of arbitrary rule. To make matters worse, Horst has a romantic interest in Marie and often visits the couple unannounced.
Director: Jan Hrebejk
Year: 2000
Language: Czech, German
Genre: World Cinema, Drama, Comedy
Monday
One normal Monday morning, a man in a black suit wakes up in a posh hotel room. His memory is fuzzy; he has no idea of where he is, how he got there, or what happened the night before. Suddenly, a packet of purification salts (to ward off evil spirits) drops out of his pocket reminding him of a funeral he went to a few days earlier. He then remembers a café, a bar, some yazuka – Are they only parts of a dream or is it reality reaching out to him?
An exquisitely crafted black comedy about an ordinary man sucked deeper and deeper into extraordinary circumstances. Monday is shot through a series of flashbacks in a studied ‘SABU’ style that will keep you on the edge of your seat and wondering how one man’s life got so out-of-control!
Sabu is one of Japan’s hottest young filmmakers. His second feature, Postman Blues (’97), was successful at home and abroad, going on to receive acclaim from several international film festivals.
Director: Sabu
Year: 1999
Language: Japanese
Genre: World Cinema, Drama, Comedy
Tuvalu
Tuvalu is the name of an island to which the film's young heroes dream of escaping - a dream that seems to be unlikely, given that they are marooned in a dilapidated and largely deserted bathhouse. Anton is the eccentric, downtrodden younger son of the pool's proprietor, the blind Karl. Anton takes great pains to preserve the illusion that this astonishing wreck of a building is still a prospering enterprise. In fact, there are almost no swimmers, and those who do come pay in buttons, literally. Their daily routine is disrupted when the beautiful, young Eva appears one rainy day. Meanwhile Anton's unscrupulous older brother is trying to bring ruin to the family business so that the building can be demolished and the site developed. But the young lovers, Eva and Anton, will prevail in this allegory of totalitarianism versus the little people. Comedy, emotion and romance abound and, above all, a genuinely distinctive visual style is employed to brilliant effect.
Director: Veit Helmer
Year: 1999
Language: No dialogue
Genre: World Cinema, Drama, Comedy
Voyages
Emmanuel Finkiel's debut film "Voyages" elegantly and wistfully courses through three countries, over two continents, and in several languages, exploring the emotional landscape of the last generation of Holocaust survivors as they struggle to make peace with their uprooted pasts before it's too late. Divided into discrete portions, "Voyages" serves up a trilogy of seemingly unrelated female characters whose destinies don't so much collide (for that would be too easy) as they do casually intermingle -- as if they were somehow cosmically joined by fate.
Director: Emmanuel Finkiel
Year: 1999
Language: French and Yiddish
Genre: World Cinema, Drama
Straight Story, The
The Straight Story is based on the real life journey of 73-year-old Alvin Straight, a man who decides to travel from his home in Laurens, Iowa, to Mount Zion, Wisconsin, to mend his relationship with his estranged older brother. There's a slightly quirky twist as Alvin insists on making the 317 mile journey on his lawnmower...
Director: David Lynch
Year: 1999
Genre: Drama
Wind Will Carry Us, The
An engineer (Behzad Dourani) and his crew travel from Tehran in a jeep looking for the remote mountain village of Siah Dareh, in Iranian Kurdistan. There they meet Farzad, a young boy from the village, who becomes their guide.
The Engineer and his crew (who are never shown on-screen) are there to record a special ritual ceremony that will be determined by the fate of a certain Mrs. Malek. However, the locals believe that they are archeologists looking for buried treasure in an old cemetery.
The crew only plans on staying in Siah Dareh for a few days but their trip is extended as Mrs. Malek's health begins to improve. The crafty Engineer befriends Farzad in order to get reports on Mrs. Malek's condition.
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Year: 1999
Language: Farsi
Genre: World Cinema, Drama
Monkey'S Mask, The
Jill Fitzgerald, a lesbian private detective, dives head first into murder, manipulation and the consuming power of sex, as she falls hopelessly in love with Diana, one of her suspects in a missing person's case. Guided by Diana through a surprisingly sleazy Sydney poetry scene, Jill becomes a victim of her own infatuation.
Director: Samantha Lang
Year: 1999
Genre: Thriller
Day the Ponies Come Back, The
Daniel Moulin goes to New York on a business trip and decides to take advantage
of his time in the Big Apple to try and locate the father he never knew. The only thing he has to go on however is an address in the Bronx that is 25 years old!
Director: Jerry Schatzberg
Year: 1999
Language: English, French
Genre: Drama
Gohatto
Kyoto - In the Spring of 1865. At the temple Nishi-Honganji, the Shinsengumi militia is choosing new recruits to become samurai warriors. Commander Isami Kondo (Yoichi Sai) and lieutenant Toshizo Hijikata (Beat Takeshi) are supervising the recruiting process. Those hoping to be chosen must face off the best man in the militia, Soji Okita (Shinji Takeda). Out of all the men present, only two are chosen : Hyozo Tashiro (Tadanobu Asano), a low-level samurai from the Kurume clan and Sozaburo Kano (Ryuhei Matsuda), a handsome young man whose good looks are bewitching. Tashiro is immediately attracted to Kano. Rigid rules and regulations keep order among this group of men and are the unifying force in the face of adversity... But suddenly the militia finds themselves prey to rumors and jealousies... the fascination that the young samurai Kano holds for the others creates confusion all around.
Director: Nagisa Ôshima
Year: 1999
Language: Japanese
Genre: History, Drama
Solomon & Gaenor
Wales in 1911 is a beautiful world, but fraught with racial and economic unrest. Set against the backdrop of the little-known 1911 Tredegar riots, when Jewish businesses in the Welsh valley were attacked and looted, Solomon and Gaenor chronicles a passionate and illicit love affair between Gaenor, a Welsh girl and Solomon, a Jewish boy. Solomon conceals his Jewish identity and courts Gaenor but eventually his identity is revealed and the prejudice and mistrust of their respective families and communities threatens to drive the young lovers apart.
An Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Film, Solomon and Gaenor is a moving love story that has been widely praised for the terrific performances of its two young leads, its outstanding cinematography and its use of English, Welsh and Yiddish dialogue that enhance the film's authenticity.
Director: Paul Morrison
Year: 1999
Language: English/Welsh/Yiddish
Genre: World Cinema, Drama
At the Height of Summer
On the occasion of the anniversary of the death of their mother, three sisters and their brother meet at the eldest sister's café. Quynh, Liên and Khanh are very close, tell each other everything, share everything. Nevertheless, each of them hides a secret they dare not reveal.
Director: Anh-Hung Tran
Year: 1999
Genre: Drama
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
Ghost Dog lives above the world, alongside a flock of birds, in a homemade shack on the roof of an abandoned building. Guided by the words of an ancient samurai text, Ghost Dog is a professional killer able to dissolve into the night and move through the city unnoticed. When Ghost Dog's code is dangerously betrayed by the dysfunctional mafia family that occasionally employs him, he reacts strictly in accord with the Way of the Samurai. In Ghost Dog's words, "We're like two ancient tribes, both almost extinct...and everything seems to be changing around us".
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Year: 1998
Genre: Adventure, Thriller, Drama, Crime, Action, Film Noir
Lost Son, The
In this contemporary film noir, a French private detective operating in London, is asked to find the missing 30-year-old son of a rich elderly couple. His investigations take him on a journey into the darkest parts of both the city and his own soul.
Director: Chris Menges
Year: 1998
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Earth
A young girl with polio, Lenny (Maia Sethna), narrates the story through the voice of her adult self (Shabana Azmi). She is from a wealthy Parsi family who hopes to remain neutral to the rising tensions between Hindus, Sikhs, and Muslims in the area. She is adored and protected by her parents, Bunty (Kitu Gidwani) and Rustom (Arif Zakaria) and is cared for by her Ayah, the beautiful Hindu woman, Shanta (Nandita Das). Both Dil, the Ice-Candy Man (Aamir Khan) and Hassan, the Masseur (Rahul Khanna) are Muslim and in love with Shanta.
Director: Deepa Mehta
Year: 1998
Language: Hindi, English, Gujarati, Panjabi, Urdu
Genre: War, Drama, Romance
Chinese Box
Acclaimed director Wayne Wang (Smoke, Blue in the face, The Joy Luck Club) returns to his native Hong Kong to tell the story of several star-crossed lovers just before the island's takeover by China. There is John, a dying British journalist who has lived in Hong Kong for the past 20 years, deeply in love with Vivian, a Chinese bar hostess turned nightclub owner. There is Chang, Vivian's lover and a rising figure among Hong Kong's new power brokers. There is Jean, a street-wise young punk who hustles tourists to survive. Six months remain before the return of Hong Kong to Chinese rule. During this time of apprehension, excitement and fear, these lives will become intimately intertwined in a passionate, exotic tale of hope, pain and self-discovery.
Director: Wayne Wang
Year: 1997
Language: English, Cantonese
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Under the Skin (1997)
Carine Adler's feature debut has been critically hailed as one of the most promising and daring British films of 1997. Described by many critics as a feminist answer to Mike Leigh's Naked and Lars Von Trier's Breaking the Waves. Starring Samantha Morton as Iris (Academy award nominee for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Sweet and Lowdown, 1999), Under the Skin is an exploration of the complex world of female emotions and sibling rivalry.
Iris is stuck in an emotional void after the sudden death of her mother. Her frustration is exacerbated by her combative relationship with her older sister, Rose, of whom she has always been jealous. In her confusion, Iris desperately seeks emotional fulfillment through her risky and self-destructive sexual exploration. She nearly loses everything in her life, but eventually comes to terms with her mother's death and begins her life afresh.
Director: Carine Adler
Year: 1997
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Sorry Dear, Lucas Loves Me
This Spanish outing is largely set in the spacious apartment living room of three gay roommates: the pudgy, glasses-wearing Carlos, pothead/quasi-philosopher Toni and the ever smooth but diminutive Dani. The trouble begins when Toni decides that the trio needs another roommate.
Director: Dunia Ayaso and Félix Sabroso
Year: 1997
Language: Spanish
Genre: Comedy
Mill on the Floss, The
It is the story of Maggie and her elder brother Tom, ordinary people swept away by the forces their own passions unleash. They express the central dilemma : the choice between love and loyalty. Based on the novel by George Eliot.
Director: Graham Thaekston
Year: 1997
Genre: Drama
Winter Sleepers
Laura, Marco, Rebecca and Rene are four young people from the city spending the winter in a remote alpine town. Laura amuses herself by practicing acting, Rene by taking photographs, and Marco and Rebecca by having a hot affair. One afternoon when rushing to get into bed with Rebecca, Marco leaves the keys in his car and Rene seizes the opportunity to take a spin through the mountains. But the visibility of the winter roads is deceptive. Without ever realizing what he has done, Rene causes a car, driven by a local farmer, to crash, leaving the farmer's young daughter seriously injured.
Soon after this strange accident, mysterious, almost hallucinatory events begin to unfold. As these events engulf the characters, intertwining their lives in unexpected ways, the shimmering expanses of snow provide the perfect backdrop for their increasingly unpredictable emotions.
Director: Tom Tykwer
Year: 1997
Language: German
Genre: World Cinema, Drama
Chronicle of a Disappearance
What does it mean to be Palestinian in the second half of the twentieth century? Filmmaker Elia Suleiman returned to the land of his birth to answer that question. Born in Nazareth in 1960, well after the establishment in 1948 of the State of Israel in historic Palestine, Suleiman lived for twelve years in self-imposed exile in New York. He returned to attempt to find his roots in a culture that had been uprooted. Chronicle of a Disappearance is a personal meditation on the spiritual effect of political instability on the Palestinian psyche and identity. As such, it is an invaluable contribution to the struggle for peace in the region.
Elia Suleiman lived in New York from 1982 until 1993 where he directed two short films, Introduction to the End of an Argument (co-directed by Jayce Salloum) and Homage by Assassination. In 1994, Suleiman moved to Jerusalem and was Visiting Scholar at Bir Zeit University. For the past several years he has commuted between New York, Paris and Nazareth.
Director: Ella Suleiman
Year: 1996
Language: Arabic
Genre: World Cinema, Drama
Time Regained
Marcel Proust (1871-1922) is on his deathbed. Looking at photographs brings memories of his childhood, his youth, his lovers, and the way the Great War put an end to a stratum of society. His memories are in no particular order, they move back and forth in time. Marcel at various ages interacts with Odette, with the beautiful Gilberte and her doomed husband, with the pleasure-seeking Baron de Charlus, with Marcel's lover Albertine, and with others; present also in memory are Marcel's beloved mother and grandmother. It seems as if to live is to remember and to capture memories is to create a work of great art. The memories parallel the final volume of Proust's novel.
Director: Raoul Ruiz
Year: 1996
Language: French
Genre: World Cinema, Drama
Barbara Taylor Bradford: Love in Another Town
When Maggie Sorrell, a glamorous interior designer in her early forties, moves to a small New England town to recuperate from a bitter divorce, the last thing she expects to find is true love with Jake Cantrell, a younger man. Together, Maggie and Jake, a rugged, handsome carpenter, fight small town prejudice, family crises and their own emotional scars. Maggie and Jake eventually discover that their love for each other can conquer all.
Director: Lorraine Senna
Year: 1996
Genre: Drama
Fire
Radha (the stunning Shabana Azmi) is unwavering in her devotion to her husband, Ashok (Kulbushan Kharbanda), despite their barren and sexless arranged marriage. For 15 years, Radha has been the consummate Indian wife, while Ashok, under the guidance of a spiritual leader, is attempting to rid himself completely of any form of desire. Meanwhile, Ashok’s brother Jatin (Jaaved Jaaferi) has brought home his new wife, Sita (Nandita Das), but is unwilling to give up his relationship with his Chinese girlfriend. Added to the mix are Biji (Kushal Rekhi), Ashok and Jatin's infirm mother, who keeps a watchful eye over the family, and Mundu (Ranjit Chowdhry), who works in the family's restaurant and video store under their small apartment. Slowly, Sita's presence causes the threads that held the family together to unravel. Each member tries to hang on to a semblance of allegiance to the deeply rooted traditions of Indian family life…
Director: Deepa Mehta
Year: 1996
Language: Hindi, English
Genre: Canadian, Drama
Barbara Taylor Bradford: Everything to Gain
Mallory, a young and beautiful woman, embarks on a journey to justice and passion in this adaptation of the best-selling romance novel by Barbara Taylor Bradford. Shattered by the random murder of her husband and two children at the hands of urban violence, she joins a detective with a mysterious past. Together, they track the criminals while embarking on a torrid love affair.
Director: Michael Miller
Year: 1995
Genre: Drama, Crime
Trois Frères
Three half-brothers are reunited at their mother's funeral. After being told of their inheritance they quickly spend the money, only to find out that they will not receive it after all. The men grow closer while deciding how to proceed.
Director: Didier Bourdon, Bernard Campan
Year: 1995
Language: French
Genre: Comedy
Saved By the Light
Academy Award nominee Eric Roberts stars in this dramatic adaptation of Dannion Brinkley's best-selling account of his transformation after he was struck by lightning. Roberts portrays an anti-social man who, with the guidance of an expert in near-death experiences, uses the visions and lessons of his accident to become a popular, inspirational speaker. He faces the ultimate test of character and strength, however, when he realizes he has alienated his wife - the one person who loved him when nobody else did
Director: Lewis Teague
Year: 1995
Genre: Drama
Somebody to Love
A young and ambitious "Latina", Mercedes, is killing time as a dancer in a seedy cabaret waiting to see her name up in lights in Hollywood. She has an affair with Harry, a married, fading actor, and scorns the love of young Ernesto because he reminds her too much of her poor background. But when Harry has to get together a large sum of money quickly, the young Mexican does not hesitate to execute a contract for a ruthless mafia boss. When Mercedes finally realizes that Ernesto knew he was taking this huge risk to help out his rival, she at last understands the strength of his love, but it might already be too late...
Director: Alexandre Rockwell
Year: 1995
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Rough Magic
A runaway show girl Myra Shumway from a cabaret magic act in Hollywood is on the run 'down South' having escaped from a marriage to a crooked American Senator...
Director: Clare Peploe
Year: 1995
Genre: Adventure, Action, Comedy
Liz: The Elisabeth Taylor Story
From her radiant performance in "National Velvet" at the age of 12, to her series of tragic and passionate marriages, Elizabeth Taylor has been a larger-than-life celebrity for more than half a century. Based on the unauthorized biography by C. David Heymann, this explosive four-hour mini-series follows Elizabeth Taylor through her personal and professional lives, including the movies, the men, the triumphs, the tribulations, the scandals and the successes.
Director: Kevin Connor
Year: 1995
Genre: Drama, Biography
Murder in the First
The tale of one man's descent into inhumanity and another man's determination to bring him back and reveal the truth of his imprisonment. The unlikely friendship that forms between the wealthy and privileged attorney and the troubled, deeply withdrawn convict leads to a triumphant struggle marking the beginning of the end of Alcatraz as a penal institution.
Director: Marc Rocco
Year: 1995
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Dalekmania
A nostalgic look back at the making of the 1960's Dalek movies DR WHO AND THE DALEKS and DALEKS - INVASION EARTH 2150 A.D. To mark the 30th anniversary of both movies, this documentary reveals their history for the first time - from the extraordinary advertising campaigns, through the hilarious behind-the-scenes anecdotes to the amazing Dalek publicity appearances via recently discovered archive material and newly shot interviews with the cast and crew.
Director: Kevin Davies
Year: 1995
Genre: Documentary
Cutthroat Island
Morgan Adams is a ravishing young pirate who inherited her ship and one third of a treasure map from her recently assassinated father. She launches on a search for the other two pieces of the map and her father's killers with William Shaw, a charming thief and compulsive liar.
Director: Renny Harlin
Year: 1995
Genre: Adventure, Action
Double Happiness
Twenty-two year old Chinese-Canadian Jade Li comes from a traditional Chinese family, who try to put on the perfect public persona at all cost so as to "save face". One primary part of this persona is prosperity. Jade's father hopes that true financial prosperity will become reality through penny stocks. Because of its instability, Jade's parents don't understand or widely publicize Jade's aspirations to be an actress. Their main want for Jade is to date and marry a nice Chinese boy, a goal for which Jade's extended family also strives as they are always trying to introduce her to Chinese boys. They believe that *the* boy is Andrew, with whom Jade even agrees to go out. But Jade, beyond wanting to be an actress, wishes her family had more western sensibilities. She is attracted to a slightly awkward but persistent Caucasian English graduate student named Mark. Jade has to figure out how to both please her family, who would not approve of her dating a Caucasian, and be true to herself.
Year: 1994
Language: English, Cantonese
Genre: Drama, Romance
Shanghai Triad
Shanghai 1930. Xiao is a kept woman, who is both influential queen of the opium dens and a country girl in fear of her life. She was bought by the Godfather when she was ten years old. Xiao is the source of rivalry between and a source of influence over the two gangs leaders.
Director: Yi-Mou Zhang
Year: 1994
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Musical
Vive L'Amour
There are three central characters in Vive L'Amour: a woman entering middle age who lives alone and is desperate to be loved; a young gay man, desperate to love someone; and a footloose young man who loves no one and feels no need for the love of another. The woman sells real estate. The young gay man sells burial plots. The other man sells women's clothing on the street. An empty apartment soon becomes a crossroads for these seemingly disparate lives. Eventually, unlikely liaisons develop and an extended game of musical rooms evolves...
Tsai Ming-liang was born in Malaysia ad went to college in Taiwan, majoring in drama and cinema. He won acclaim for his theatre performances, as well as television awards for writing and directing. His first feature film was Rebels of the Neon God which won several international prizes. Vive L'Amour is his second feature film, which was followed by his critically hailed masterpiece The River.
Director: Tsai Ming-Liang
Year: 1994
Language: Mandarin
Genre: World Cinema, GLBT, Drama, Comedy
Empty Cradle
The harrowing story of two women who are both trying to create a family. Jane Morgan, about to give birth to her third child, is working on putting her marriage back together. While Rita Donohue obtains her babies by stealing them. The two women's paths converge when Rita takes Jane's newborn, claming it died at birth. But no one believes Jane when she declares that her baby is still alive and has been stolen. (based on a true story).
Director: Laurent Cantet
Year: 1993
Genre: Drama
Amateur
Isabelle, an ex-nun, keeps herself fed by writing short stories for a pornographic magazine. One day, she meets Thomas, a confused but insightful amnesiac wandering the streets of New York City. When they set out to discover Thomas's past, Isabelle suspects that it's somehow linked with a desperate young porn actress, Sofia...
Director: Hal Hartley
Year: 1993
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Comedy
Tango
Vincent, a stunt pilot, is acquitted of murdering his wife and her lover. However, a few years later, L'Elegant, the Judge in the case, comes to blackmail him. The Judge's nephew, Paul, is having trouble with his wife and they demand that Vincent kill her. The Judge, a confirmed bachelor, takes Paul and Vincent on the road to search for Paul's wife Marie. The three men get on well together, and spend their time discussing their relationship with women.
Director: Patrice Leconte
Year: 1993
Language: French
Genre: Comedy
Incident at Oglala
In the Native American reservation of Pine Ridge (South Dakota) violence is brewing and an official employed by the government commonly perpetrates extortion. On June 26, 1975 two FBI agents come into the reservation and are killed in a shootout. Leonard Peltier, a Native American who fled to Canada is arrested, extradited and condemned during a trial fraught with perjury and contradictory evidence.
Director: Michael Apted
Year: 1992
Genre: Documentary
Aces : Iron Eagle III
Colonel Charles "Chappy" Sinclair teams with three retired maverick fighter jocks from England, Germany and Japan as they fly souped-up World War II airplanes to combat a ruthless German drug lord and his high tech weaponry in the lawless South American jungles.
Director: Kevin Elders, John Glen
Year: 1992
Genre: Adventure, Action
Universal Soldier
Luc Devreux and Andrew Scott are members of a prototype military unit known as "Universal Soldiers". These men are part of a top-secret government project to create the perfect warrior and have incredible agility and extraordinary powers. They do not feel pain or emotions and have no memory of their past when they were not yet "UniSols". They are the final result of machine combat until something horrible happens: Devreux and Scott begin to recover their memory and escape the control of their military creators.
Director: Roland Emmerich
Year: 1992
Genre: Adventure, Action, Sci-Fi
Basic Instinct
A bloody ice pick, a white silk scarf tied to a headboard and rumpled sheets bearing witness to a torrid night are the clues San Francisco Detective Nick Curran has to carry out his investigation. As his search continues, Nick suspects sexy Catherine Tramell, a novelist whose crime writing strangely resembles the crime that has been committed.
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Year: 1992
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime
It's Nothing Personal
Roberta Whitloff, a cop burdened by guilt since the day her brother was killed before her very eyes, has become a danger to everyone. Following a touchy incident, the police close the file on her brother's death. Roberta, a hard and stubborn character, decides to act alone. How will she find the murderer ? Will she discover the real reason for her brother's death ? Roberta, a live wire and obsessive character who works within or without the law, undertakes her investigation with vengeance as her guiding light.
Director: Michael Mccarthy
Year: 1992
Genre: Adventure, Thriller, Crime, Action
Chaplin
Chaplin is the story of the life and artistic adventure of a brilliant, enigmatic man, hated by some yet loved by most whose life coincides with the history of movies and the major events of our century. Chaplin started on the stage at age five replacing his mother who had a sudden attack of stage fright. Accompanied by his brother, also a music hall artist, he played in England and America until he discovered cinema in 1914. He was married four times and fathered 11 children. Chaplin lived in America for 40 years until he was exiled in 1952. Twenty years later he made a triumphant return to receive one of the most sought-after rewards in Hollywood: a special Oscar for his entire career. He died on a Christmas day.
Director: Richard Attenborough
Year: 1992
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Biography
Willing to Kill: The Texas Cheerleader Case
Headlining national newspapers this is Wanda Holloway's true story. Divorced Wanda wants only the best for her two children, Shane and Shanna. So when Shanna tries out for the cheerleading squad, Wanda pushes her to succeed. Unfortunately, Shanna seems to be edged out of the running by her rival, Amber Heath. Verna, Amber's mother, a neighbor and a good friend of Wanda's, is in fact the true instigator of this rivalry because she wants her daughter to be the best. But as Shanna's frustration grows so does her mother's jealousy. Driven by ambition and a mother's love, Wanda hires her brother-in-law to kill Verna.
Director: David Greene
Year: 1992
Genre: Drama
When No One Would Listen
This is the tale of Jessica's desperate fight to escape the obsessive jealousy of Gary, her husband, and the incapacity of the law to defend her. Bit by bit her dreams of a fairy tale marriage and family life crumble. Gary's universe is made up of alcohol, violence, tyranny, suspicion and aggression towards those around him. He is released by the Colorado police after having killed his neighbor. Jessica, whose life is one of despair and fear, turns to Walter her employer for protection. The children become the new victims of Gary's monstrosity. Even when Gary kidnaps Jessica and menaces her with his gun, the police do not react.
Director: Armand Mastroianni
Year: 1992
Genre: Drama
Doors, The
In 1965, Jim meets Ray Manzarek in a UCLA film class. Jim writes poems, Ray plays the organ, they decide to try their luck and form a group called the "Doors" with guitarist Robby Krieger and drummer John Desmore. The group draws crowds to their first shows in the small clubs on Sunset Strip. The Doors music, lyrics and especially their lifestyle speak to an entire generation. Jim is inspired by two women, Pamela and Patricia, and is open about his attraction to drugs. On stage he seems to be in a state of grace. But his life is a path that inevitably leads to a mysterious and premature death.
Director: Oliver Stone
Year: 1991
Genre: Musical, Biography
Hell Hath No Fury
In this Machiavellian thriller Terri's world falls apart the day her husband is brutally murdered by Connie, an old girlfriend who is mentally unstable. Connie then devises a brilliant yet perverse plan to target Terri.
Director: Paul Wendkos
Year: 1991
Genre: Thriller, Crime
Highlander II: The Quickening
The RENEGADE VERSION is a re-edited director’s cut of HIGHLANDER 2: THE QUICKENING with 18 minutes of additional footage. It’s 2024 and Connor MacLeod (Christopher Lambert) and Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez (Sean Connery) are back to save planet Earth from an evil corporation. Ozone depletion, time travel and corporate greed are at the core of all the thrilling twists and turns in this stylish action-packed sequel with state-of-the-art special effects. Featuring and a great supporting cast which includes Virginia Madsen (Fire with Fire) as a beautiful revolutionary leader recruited by MacLeod, Michael Ironside (Total Recall) as the villainous Highlander, General Katana and John C. McGinley (The Rock) as the president of the evil corporation. Original music by Stewart Copeland (Rumble Fish) and directed by Russell Mulcahy (Resident Evil: Extinction).
Director: Russell Mulcahy
Year: 1991
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Action, Sci-Fi
Dice Rules
They call him America's bad boy comic. He's been vilified, sanctified, at times nearly crucified. But America's #1 comedian, Andrew "Dice" Clay isn't phased by the media spotlight. "I was put on this earth to entertain", he says. "Dice Rules" reveals the real Andrew Dice Clay, not as he has been portrayed in the headlines, but as he intended his fans to know him. He may be provocative, even offensive to some, but for both long-time Dice fans and curious first-timers, "Dice Rules" presents the comedian at his unfettered best.
Director: Jay Dubin
Year: 1991
Genre: Documentary, Comedy
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
A cyborg, identical to the one who failed to kill Sarah Connor, must now protect her teenage son, John, from a more advanced cyborg, made out of liquid metal.
Director: James Cameron
Year: 1991
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Action, Sci-Fi
L.A. Story
Harris lives in Los Angeles and has had seven heart attacks. He is a weatherman on TV and talks a lot without saying anything. He is married to a beautiful and vain wife and believes he is happy although his life is passing him by. By chance fate intervenes in the form of an electronic display road sign on the highway. Harris notices it one moonless night when his car breaks downs mysteriously: the sign speaks to him and its messages give advice that will change the routine of his existence. First Harris leaves his wife who is sleeping with his agent. Now he is free to dine in French restaurants, go to hotels in Miami, visit museums on roller-skates and pursue the charmingly hysterical salesgirl of a ready-to-wear shop. But there is also Love with a capital L in the form of Sarah, an eccentric English girl who plays the tuba.
Director: Mick Jackson
Year: 1991
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
Narrow Margin
Robert Caulfield, the district attorney of Los Angeles, has made a mistake. He has been protecting Carol Hunnicut, a prime witness in a murder case. He visits her in her hidden chalet in Canada. But he was careless and he was followed. Robert and Carol must flee. They hide in a train going to Vancouver. But the mafia is close behind. The killers are on board. The couple will go through hell for twenty hours. The train speeds along. The rails wind around the Rocky Mountains. Their only escape is the next car, the next compartment. How will they escape the trained hit men?
Director: Peter Hyams
Year: 1990
Genre: Adventure, Thriller, Crime, Action
Uranus
After World War II, a small French village struggles to put the war behind them as the controlling Communist Party tries to flush out Petain loyalists. The local bar owner, a simple man who likes to write poetry and only wants to be left alone to do his job, becomes a target for Communist harassment as they try and locate a particular loyalist.
Director: Claude Berri
Year: 1990
Language: French
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Total Recall
2084. Quaid is haunted each night by a dream that he is on Mars looking for beautiful Melina. He goes against his wife Lori's wishes and visits the Recall laboratories. They claim that they can help make his dream a reality by offering him an adventurous trip in his mind with a powerful hallucinogenic drug. But the experience has unexpected consequences, the drug awakens a memory that was erased from Quaid's mind. In fact he is not Quaid, he is a dangerous terrorist fighting against a Martian despot, Lori is not his wife she is an enemy agent and the red planet is at the heart of a terrifying plot. Pitiless killers relentlessly chase Quaid and he goes to Mars where other memories and other dangers await him, including Melina, the woman of his dreams. He will make an incredible discovery about his own identity.
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Year: 1990
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Thriller, Action, Sci-Fi
Air America
It is 1969 and the Vietnam War is raging. Air America is a clandestine organisation that drops supplies over Laos, the neighbouring country. After losing his job, Billy Covington, a brilliant helicopter pilot from California, is recruited by the CIA and lands at Long Tien, the secret Air America base. He is welcomed by veteran Gene Ryan who shows him the ropes. Billy then discovers that his new colleagues are getting rich through a variety of schemes. One of them tries to escape an investigation by planting packets of drugs in Billy's plane. Suddenly, guerrillas attack the base. Hundreds of civilians are caught in the crossfire.
Director: Roger Spottiswoode
Year: 1990
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Action
Shattered Dreams
John Sedders is a brilliant lawyer and his wife Charlotte is the devoted mother of their four children. They appear to be a perfect couple. But one day Charlotte asks for a divorce alleging that her husband has been beating her for years. This is the beginning of Shattered Dreams, the true story of Charlotte whose marriage started like a dream and quickly became a 20-year nightmare.
Director: Robert Iscove
Year: 1990
Genre: Drama
Jacob's Ladder
For four years Jacob Singer has been haunted by the painful memory of his combat in Vietnam. He is plagued by hallucinations. When his former psychoanalyst is killed by a car bomb Jacob thinks he will lose his mind. His friend Jezzi tries to comfort him in vain; only his therapist can calm him. One afternoon Jacob runs into a GI from his battalion. This man is also plagued by terrible visions when he is suddenly killed before Jacob's eyes in the same way as his psychoanalyst. At his funeral Jacob sees all his old war buddies who have the same demonic visions. They are convinced that they were used as guinea pigs for chemical warfare in Vietnam and decide to take legal action. Suddenly they all give up. Jacob must find the key to his nightmare alone.
Director: Adrian Lyne
Year: 1990
Genre: Fantasy, Drama
Return of the Musketeers, The
Twenty years after the death of Milady de Winter, the four musketeers once again go "one for all and all for one." They are called back into service in order to save King Charles I.
Director: Richard Lester
Year: 1989
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Action
Music Box
Mike Laszlo is a Hungarian refugee living in the United States. Is he a war criminal? His daughter, a famous lawyer, doesn't believe it and defends him. But during her investigation she begins to have doubts.
Director: Costa-Gavras
Year: 1989
Genre: Drama
Lock Up
Frank Leone is a model prisoner. Six months before his release he is transferred to Gateway, a high security penitentiary where he meets his archenemy, Warden Drumgoole. Frank must resist the provocations of the Warden if he wants to be released at the end of his sentence. But it isn't easy because the Warden has a huge advantage, he rules the prison. The Warden tries everything to push Frank to revolt or try to escape: humiliation, intimidation, blackmail and brutality. Frank resists patiently until the Warden sets into motion a Machiavellian plan that triggers Frank's fury. Once he is angry he cannot be controlled and turns into a hunted beast with nothing to lose.
Director: John Flynn
Year: 1989
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Action
Punisher, The
Tough cop Frank Castle and his partner Jake are about to arrest a mafia boss. The operation fails, Castle's family is attacked and he is left for dead. Five years pass and a mysterious vigilante starts killing the mafia members one at a time. His methods reveal an in-depth knowledge of combat and weaponry. The media call him the "Punisher". Jake guesses that it is his long lost friend and tries to halt the bloodbath but Castle won't stop. He believes he is on a crusade to "punish" all gang leaders. But when Japanese gangsters start attacking the women and children of the Mafiosi, Castle remembers his own family. He makes a temporary pact with the godfather. This could be his last mission but the "Punisher" must prevent innocent people from being killed.
Director: Mark Goldblatt
Year: 1989
Genre: Adventure, Action
Backtrack
An artist witnesses a Mafia hit and calls the police. At the police station she realizes that the Mafia has a man in the force, so she runs. Trailed by the police, who need her testimony, and a hitman hired by the Mafia, she goes to Mexico, where eventually she meets the hitman, who has become infatuated after studying her art and life to prepare for the hit.
Director: Dennis Hopper
Year: 1989
Genre: Adventure, Thriller, Action
Pound Puppies and the Legend of Big Paw
A delightful animated feature about a group of puppies' hair-raising quest to reunite two pieces of a mystical relic stolen by a power hungry villain who plans to take over the world.
Director: Pierre Decelles
Year: 1988
Genre: Children, Animation
Red Heat
In Moscow drug trafficker Viktor Rostavili kills the partner of Captain Ivan Danko, then flees to the United States where he sets up new drug trafficking operations. During a police raid he kills the partner of Sergeant Art Ridzik. Danko is sent to Chicago to try to arrest Viktor and bring him back to the Soviet Union. To do this he must work with Ridzik. The men have different methods. Ridzik is cheerful and cunning while Danko is cold and ruthless and prefers violence. The two cops make a great team despite their differences. They both have personal reasons to put the Soviet gangster out of circulation. They embark on a tireless chase to find Rostavili who has decided to turn Chicago into a battlefield.
Director: Walter Hill
Year: 1988
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Action
Noble House
Ian Dunross, a brilliant businessman with a complete understanding of the complicated cultural traditions of the Orient, is Tai-Pan : the chief of the "Noble House". The company, founded 150 years ago, is responsible for a vast proportion of Hong Kong's wealth, owing to its mighty sea trade. But the Noble House is under threat - from dangerous rivals, competitors, oriental traders and drug dealers .
Director: Gary Nelson
Year: 1988
Genre: Adventure, Action
Traxx
At Headleyville, crime is soaring. Drug dealers, thieves and murderers thrive under the protection of Aldo Palucci, the town's godfather. Traxx, a "Rambo" style adventurer, dreams of starting a cookie shop but the gangsters don't like his cookies. To ensure his enterprise works, Traxx resurrects his combat skills and clears the town of anyone who stands in his way. His success wins him not only great popularity but also the heart of the town's gorgeous lady mayor.
Director: Jerome Gary
Year: 1988
Genre: Comedy
Rambo III
Rambo's Vietnam commanding officer Colonel Trautman is held hostage in Afghanistan, and it's up to Rambo to rescue him.
Director: Peter Mcdonald
Year: 1988
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, War, Action
Nightmare Beach
Convicted murderer Edwin "Diablo" Santor, head of "the Demons", a vicious motorcycle gang, has just been executed. Before dying, he swears to Gail that he did not kill her sister. It's Spring Break ! The annual hordes of college students from the frozen North invade the beaches of sunny Florida for the Easter vacation bash. Skip and Ronnie, two college students, are in the same hotel. They meet local resident Gail pushing beers at the beside bar. Ronnie gets drunk and is picking up by Trina, girlfriend of Dawg the local Hells Angels leader. Ronnie follows Trina into a trap. The bikers beat him up and leave him there. Minutes later the mystery rider zaps him. The next day, Skip searches for his missing friend and ends up at the Demon's hangout...
Director: Harry Kirkpatrick
Year: 1988
Genre: Horror, Drama
Bedroom Window, The
Looking through her lover's bedroom window, Sylvia sees a girl being attacked. The attacker flees and his victim is saved. But later that night, another girl is found murdered. Sylvia cannot give evidence, for that would reveal her affair with Terry, so he gives evidence in Sylvia's place, but when it is found that he is not telling the truth, he becomes the main suspect ...
Director: Curtis Hanson
Year: 1987
Genre: Thriller, Crime
Date With an Angel
Jim, a talented young musician, is going to marry a girl from a well-off family. An angel alights in his swimming-pool in the form of a wonderful woman and upsets his whole life: his friends want to take unfair advantage of this heavenly creature, Jim's bride wants to get rid of her out of jealousy. As for the father-in-law, he would like to use her to save his cosmetics factory...
Director: Tom Mcloughlin
Year: 1987
Genre: Fantasy, Comedy
Angel Heart
New York 1955. Angel is an unemployed detective who cheerfully accepts a job from the strange Mr. Cyphre: find a disfigured and amnesic former singer who disappeared ten years ago without paying a debt. From the streets of Harlem to voodoo ceremonies in New Orleans, his investigation quickly becomes a descent into hell. All the witnesses that Angel questions are then brutally murdered and the police suspect Angel. The detective is terrified; he is plagued and exhausted by horrible visions. He wants to quit but Cyphre tells him the incredible truth.
Director: Alan Parker
Year: 1987
Genre: Fantasy, Mystery
Million Dollar Mystery
On his deathbed, Sidney Preston reveals that he has hidden four million dollars. Eighteen people listen to his last words which include a mysterious sentence uttered in his final breath. The sentence is the clue to the mystery and starts a frantic and eventful treasure hunt across Arizona in search of the money.
Director: Richard Fleischer
Year: 1987
Genre: Comedy
Evil Dead II
In an apparently forsaken cottage, Ash and Annie discover a tape-recorder. They turn it on and hear Professor Knoby's voice who successfully translated a Book of the Dead. His words awaken the spirit of Evil. Annie disappears. Ash is pursued by a strange power. On waking up, he is possessed by Evil, but resumes his normal appearance at sunrise. He vainly tries to escape and shelters in the cottage again. Hideous ghosts attack him ...
Director: Sam Raimi
Year: 1987
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Comedy
Extreme Prejudice
In Benrey, a small border town between Texas and Mexico, Jack Benteen has a hard time fighting a drug trafficking ring led by his childhood friend Cash Bailey. Jack gets help from a military commando unit sent by the Pentagon. This group of mercenaries is led by the ruthless Hackett and is entirely made up of former Vietnam soldiers. Hackett disobeys his orders and tries to take over Cash's drug trafficking operation for his own benefit. Against his will Jack must temporarily join forces with Cash. While the town becomes the battlefield between traffickers and mercenaries, the two former friends will finally settle their differences. One on one, they will duel.
Director: Walter Hill
Year: 1987
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Action
Tandem
Michel Mortez is going to and from France to compare a radio game he created 25 years ago. He is famous among the average Frenchmen. But he is also a poker player. Rivetot, his assistant and technician, always goes with him. He is the only one to know what really lies under Mortez's appearance of a playful don Juan. When the programme is condemned by the managers, Rivetot delays as long as possible the moment he will have to announce it to Mortez... Both malicious and tender, this bitter comedy also shows nostalgia.
Director: Patrice Leonte
Year: 1987
Language: French
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Clockwise
Brian Stimpson, headmaster, runs his school, as he runs his life, by the clock - until one little slip destroyed his schedule and turned one of the most important days of his life into a disaster. By the end of the day he is wanted by the police for kidnapping, car theft, vandalism and impersonating a monk and all because he went right instead of left!
Director: Christopher Morahan
Year: 1986
Genre: Comedy
Rambo Cartoon
.Ramb?. is a thrilling animated TV series featuring the popular action hero John J. Rambo as leader of the Force of Freedom, an undercover strike force. Rambo gives his all in the battle against evil. For this he counts on the unswerving loyalty of the other members of his team.
Rambo and the Force of Freedom are ready to face any challenge, for they know they're fighting on the side of good.
Director: Michael Hack
Year: 1986
Genre: Adventure, Action, Animation
King Kong Lives
King Kong has a weak heart and for ten years has been kept alive by Dr. Amy Franklin. An enormous female gorilla is discovered in the jungle and is given to Amy, who now has the right blood to attempt the impossible : to give King Kong an artificial heart. Awaking from the operation, King Kong is aware of the female gorilla. He sets then both free, overcoming Colonel Nevitt and his guards, and they flee to the mountains ; but they are pursued by Nevitt who is bent on King Kong's destruction...
Director: John Guillermin
Year: 1986
Genre: Adventure, Action
Trick or Treat
Eddie, a shy schoolboy, is often ragged by his mates. He is fascinated by Sammi Curr, a rock star, famous for his defiance. When his idol dies, one friend gives him his latest album unpublished copy. In the record, a message is directed to him. From beyond the grave, his idol proposes him to help revenge himself from the undergone affronts. First delighted with this unexpected help, Eddie soon sings small for Sammi Curr, full of hatred, has quite a personal way of avenging Eddie ...
Director: Charles Martin Smith
Year: 1986
Genre: Fantasy
Ran
In the 16th century, Lord Hidetora decides to retire and share his territory between his three sons, Taro, Jiro, and Saburo. The latter foreseeing difficulties, opposes his decision. He is consequently disinherited. However the father soon discovers that, mocking his authority, his first two sons begin to fight. Jiro treacherously kills Taro and then Saburo before realising that it is in fact Taro's widow who is responsible for this confusion since she had sworn to revenge Hidetora's murder of her family years ago. Now all that is left for Jiro is to die fighting the enemies of the Hidetora dynasty.
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Year: 1985
Genre: Adventure, History, Action
Santa Claus: The Movie
Claus, a woodsman, and his wife Anya give beautiful presents to the children in the area each year. This is the origin of the wonderful legend of Father Christmas, or Santa Claus, as the English call him.
Director: Jeannot Szwarc
Year: 1985
Genre: Comedy, Family
Flash Gordon Animated
Ming, Emperor of planet Mongo, wants to destroy Earth. The potential attack has long been predicted by the scientist Zarkov but the Authorities have never believed him. Flash, Gordon, Zarkov and the beautiful Dale Arden are forced to board a rocket which is magnetically led to Mongo. There, they are taken prisoner by Ming whose intentions are to marry Dale and to force Zarkov to work for him. As for Flash, he finds himself under the guard of Princess Aura, Ming's beautiful daughter ...
Director: Mike Hodges
Year: 1985
Genre: Animation, Sci-Fi
Rambo: First Blood Part II
John Rambo is released from prison by the government for a top-secret covert mission to the last place on Earth he'd want to return - the jungles of Vietnam.
Director: George Pan Cosmatos
Year: 1985
Genre: Adventure, Action
Not for Publication
A humorous tale of muck-raking journalism and political scandal. By night, Lois works for a smutty newspaper, but by day she campaigns for the dashing Mayor of New York, who is touting for re-election on an anti-vice ticket. When she is told to report on an orgy she discovers that politicians are only human - and that far more than bare flesh has been exposed!
Director: Paul Bartel
Year: 1984
Genre: Comedy, Mystery
Vengeance du Serpent à Plumes, La
After the death of his grandmother, odd-job man Loulou Dupin is delighted to learn that he has inherited a large Parisian apartment. He hastens to Paris to view the apartment, hoping to sell it as soon as he can. He is surprised to find that the apartment is occupied by two attractive young women, Laura and Valérie. Unbeknown to Loulou, the latter belong to a terrorist cell which is using the apartment as a headquarters for their operations. Laura flirts with Loulou to distract him, whilst her murderous friends try – without success – to put him out of the way. By the time Loulou learns the truth, Laura and her friends have disappeared. Accompanied by his best friend Alvaro, a vindictive Loulou pursues Laura to Mexico. There, he discovers that the terrorists are preparing for the most spectacular coup of their career...
Director: Gérard Oury
Year: 1984
Language: French
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Comedy
Where Is Parsifal?
A man whose wife entertains eccentric individuals, has no other choice to avoid ruin than to sell a patent on laser beams he invented...
Director: Henri Helman
Year: 1984
Genre: Comedy
Bad Boys
At the age of nine, they've joined a street gang; at twelve, they're pushing drugs. At sixteen, they're part of a nightmare teenage underworld of rape, mugging, armed robbery and murder. If they get to twenty and they're still alive, they're the survivors!
Director: Rick Rosenthal
Year: 1983
Genre: Drama, Crime
Tender Mercies
A compassionate love story tracing the relationship between a burnt-out country-and-western star and the young widow he meets in a small Texas motel. With a past littered with the spoils of fame and scarred by the effects of alcoholism, two broken marriages and a painful descent from stardom have left him very low. But Rosa Lee and her young son help him to live life joyfully again.
Director: Bruce Beresford
Year: 1983
Genre: Drama
Let's Spend the Night Together
"Let's spend the night together" is a film which makes us relive the concerts of one of the world's most famous rock groups, the Rolling Stones, on an American tour in New Jersey and Arizona in 1981. We find them back at the zenith of their career with their greatest hits : "Honky Tonk Women", "Satisfaction" and many other ones ...
Director: Hal Ashby
Year: 1983
Genre: Documentary, Musical
Frances
At 16 she was an award-winning high-school student in Seattle; at 23, a rising and provocative star of stage and screen, admired for her beauty and talent. At 27, a chain of relatively insignificant events led to her arrest and eventual involuntary committal to a mental institution ...
Director: Graeme Clifford
Year: 1982
Genre: Drama, Biography
Evil Under the Sun
Who could have strangled the bitchy Broadway superstar as she lay tanning herself on the deserted beach of an exclusive Mediterranean isle ? All of the suspects have excellent reasons for harboring ill-will against the haughty victim. For once, Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot is nearly outdone ...
Director: Guy Hamilton
Year: 1982
Genre: Crime
Vice Squad
Fed up with life as a Hollywood prostitute, Karla goes to a mortuary to identify the body of her friend Ginger who has been beaten to death by their pimp Ramrod. Karla then agrees to work with Sergeant Tom Walsh to help arrest the murderer. She calls on Ramrod with a hidden recorder and collects enough evidence to enable the police to arrest him. But Ramrod escapes, determined to hunt Karla down. Tom Walsh and his men have to move fast to find Karla before her would-be murderer.
Director: Gary A. Sherman
Year: 1982
Genre: Crime
Seduction, The
At 29, Jaimie is a successful and beautiful TV news announcer. One day, she receives a call from a mysterious admirer, Derek. Flattered at first, Jaimie soon becomes aware that Derek is obsessed with her. Brandon, Jaimie's lover, intervenes and punches Derek. The situation intensifies and, panic stricken, Jaimie begs Brandon never to leave her. But he is shot by Derek in Jaimie's arms. Jaimie's feelings turn to hatred : she becomes the hunter and Derek her prey ...
Director: David Schmoeller
Year: 1982
Genre: Drama
First Blood
Johnny Rambo is a Vietnam vet who won many military honours. He is arrested in a small town for loitering. He is treated badly and decides to escape. A manhunt is launched but Rambo knows how to evade traps. His former superior, Colonel Trautman convinces him to surrender.
Director: Ted Kotcheff
Year: 1982
Genre: Adventure, Action
Memoirs of a Survivor
Based on the famous novel by Doris Lessing, this is the story of 'D', a housewife trying to carry on after a cataclysmic war. Garbage is piled high in the streets, the near-derelict buildings are covered with graffiti, the electricity supplies are variable and water is collected from a van. 'D" spends her time examining her relations with authority, marauding street gangs and a teenage lodger.
Director: David Gladwell
Year: 1981
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Times Square
Amidst a fabulous soundtrack of 19 numbers from bands like Suzi Quatro, The Pretenders, Joe Jackson and Talking Heads, two girls fight tooth and nail in the heart of New York City for the freedom to live their own lives as they please. The only person who seems to support them is a radio DJ. And what more do The Sleaze Sisters need? Shot on location amongst the clubs and sex shops of the city, the stupendous climax is a rock concert held in Times Square at midnight.
Director: Allan Moyle
Year: 1981
Genre: Drama, Musical
Can't Stop the Music
The first mammoth screen musical comedy smash of the eighties, a multi-million-dollar explosion of sound, spectacle and smash-hit music. "Can't Stop the Music" vibrates against the backdrop of two of the world's most exciting cities - New York and San Francisco, and has the pulsating presence of the innovative and controversial group Village People.
Director: Nancy Walker
Year: 1980
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Mirror Cracked, The
A colony of Hollywood ex-patriots have arrived to film the story of Mary, Queen of Scots. Old conflicts reappear - and so does a body. Inspector Craddock is delighted to find that his suspects are none other than his movie heroes but his favorite aunt, the formidable Miss Marple, famous female sleuth, soon gets investigations well under way. Agatha Christie fans, take your seats!
Director: Guy Hamilton
Year: 1980
Genre: Crime
Flash Gordon
Ming, evil emperor of the planet Mongo, has begun destroying the Earth. Zarkov, a former NASA scientist, has predicted this extraterrestrial assault and forces Flash Gordon and the beautiful Dale Arden to board his rocket and save the planet. Zarkov, Flash and Dale are magnetically led to Mongo and taken prisoner by merciless Ming ...
Director: Mike Hodges
Year: 1980
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Action
S.O.S. Titanic
In the early hours of April 15, 1912, a young wireless operator on the R.M.S. Carpathia heard a faint distress signal. Unbelievably, it came from the R.M.S. Titanic, which was then making her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York ... Based firmly upon facts, this is the tragic story of the end of the ship which had been claimed to be unsinkable.
Director: William Hale
Year: 1980
Genre: Drama
Old Boyfriends
After his married-life failure, Diane is obsessed with the idea of finding back the men who counted a lot in her life : Lewis, her first lover, Eric, her school-mate, and Jeff who she nearly married to. She will seduce Jeff and Eric in turn, and leave them finally. When she hears Lewis's death in Vietnam, she will have designs on his brother. Then she will come home remorsefully, aware of having disturbed everyone on her way, though she needed go through that experience.
Director: Joan Tewkesbury
Year: 1979
Genre: Drama
Sweeney 2
They're back, and this time they're tougher than ever before! This time Regan and Carter are on the trail of a particularly tough and ruthless gang of bank robbers who always use a gold-plated sawn-off shotgun during their raids. Following a trail of dead bodies, wrecked cars and bundles of banknotes, the two detectives ruthlessly pursue their quarry.
Director: Tom Clegg
Year: 1978
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Action
Death on the Nile
A murderer strikes on board the luxury Nile steamer 'Karnak' - and Hercule Poirot faces his most baffling case. Set against the sumptuous scenery of the Nile, the events of this murder mystery are played out by a gallery of memorable characters.
Director: John Guillermin
Year: 1978
Genre: Crime
Are You Being Served?
The famous Grace Brothers' departmental store is closing for two weeks while renovations take place, and the staff are all off for a holiday on the sun-drenched beaches of the Costa Plonka. Their arrival at the hotel, however, is not auspicious and soon one hilarious situation follows another as the story climaxes into Feydeau-type farce.
Director: Bob Kellett
Year: 1977
Genre: Adventure, Action, Comedy
Chicken Chronicles, The
In the late sixties, Dave Kessler is in his final year at high school and his life is full of problems. He has problems with his school principal, with his boss, with his successful younger brother but, worst of all, he has problems getting Margaret - the "All American Girl" - into bed. Moments of tenderness and moments of comedy culminate with the senior prom - the high point of the teenagers who have been attempting to cope with absentee parents, drugs, sexual liberation, Vietnam and the general process of growing up.
Director: Francis Simon
Year: 1977
Genre: Drama, Comedy
That's Carry On
A hilarious feature-length compilation of the funniest moments from 20 years of "Carry On" films. This is a showcase of the best of comic slapstick situations - gags by the "Carry On" gang assembled from the great screen series.
Director: Gerald Thomas
Year: 1977
Genre: Comedy
Sweeney!
Against the lush cosmopolitan setting of British cabinet ministers rubbing shoulders with oil potentates from the East, and beautiful young call girls using every artifice at their finger tips to capture the richest prizes during a London-based oil conference. Detective Inspector Regan and Detective Sergeant Carter accidentally get involved in a gigantic top-level conspiracy against the British government. Masterminded by a multi-racial syndication of illimitable cunning and resources, the conspiracy is ingenious in its very simplicity.
Director: David Wickes
Year: 1977
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Action
Big Carnaval, The Aces High
The first World War is in its third year and aerial combat above the Western Front is consuming the nation's favored children at an appalling rate. By early 1917, the average life-span of a British pilot is less than a fortnight. Such losses place a fearsome strain on Gresham, commanding officer of the squadron. "Aces High" recreates the early days of the Royal Flying Corps with some magnificently staged aerial battles, and sensitive direction presents a moving portrayal of the futilities of war.
Director: Jack Gold
Year: 1976
Genre: War
Man Who Fell to Earth, The
Thomas Jerome Newton, a mysterious and complex personality, appears in New York. Despite his curiously frail physical presence, the strength of his intellect and scientific knowledge appear to transcend contemporary human experience. His inventions are of such originality that they will revolutionize the nation's systems of communication, and lead, in approximately three years, to the creating of the largest corporate empire in the United States ...
Director: Nicolas Roeg
Year: 1976
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Likely Lads, The
England, 1943. Somewhere in war-torn Britain Mrs Edith Collier capitulated to the advances of her husband Corporal Collier who, flushed with the news from Tunis and Newcastle Brown Ale, wouldn't take no for an answer ... Meanwhile, not many miles away, Lance Bombardier Leslie Ferris was bidding a fond farewell to his fiancee Alice. England 1975. And the tide of war has very definitely not turned in the perpetual sniping between Bob Ferris, his wife Thelma, and Terry Collier, long-time friend of Bob ... Sunday morning fishing on the banks of the Tyne ... Tuesday evening drinking sessions between the boys - nothing changes.
Director: Michael Tuchner
Year: 1976
Genre: Comedy
Passenger, The
Originally released in 1975, Sony Pictures Classics re-releases Antonioni's suspenseful and haunting portrait of a drained journalist whose deliverance is an identity exchange with a dead man. He embarks on a treacherous journey through Africa, Spain, Germany and England.
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Year: 1975
Language: English
Genre: World Cinema, Drama
Alfie Darling
"Alfie Darling" marks the return of the screen's most likeable Romeo. Portrayed by Alan Price, the talented singer and songwriter, in his motion picture acting debut, Alfie is a Continental truck driver with a girl in every port, so to speak. There's Fay and Louise and Norma and Claire, plus one or two girls who don't seem to have names. But then during one of his travels, he meets Abby - a top-drawer sophisticated, gorgeous sort of a bird who Alfie develops quite a yearning for. But she puts him down at first. Then they get to know each other and he puts her down. After that they can't put each other down! It is suggested to Alfie that he must be in love. Wedding bells are heard in the distance. But surely Alfie could never settle down?
Director: Ken Hughes
Year: 1975
Genre: Romance, Comedy
All Creatures Great and Small
Set in beautiful Yorkshire surrounds, "All Creatures Great and Small" is the true story of James Herriot, dedicated veterinary surgeon. Based on his autobiographical bestseller, and with Simon Ward in the leading role, the film gives a compassionate and humorous insight into a man whose love for animals exceeded the regard he had for certain humans.
Director: Claude Whatham
Year: 1975
Genre: Children, Comedy
Swallows and Amazons
Set in 1929, and based upon Arthur Ransome's immortal children's novel, "Swallows and Amazons" is the story of a group of children who man two sailing dinghies, 'Swallow' and 'Amazon', and plan mock 'sea-battles' in the Lake District. During the summer days, the children allow their imaginations to run wild, until a real drama happens. The Amazon's Uncle Jim has his houseboat burgled and his cabin-trunk stolen, and immediately suspects the Swallows. They must locate the stolen trunk and return it to Uncle Jim before he decides to take action ...
Director: Claude Whatham
Year: 1974
Genre: Children, Drama
Day of the Dolphin, The
Jake Terrell, a biologist who devotes his life to dolphin research, has concentrated his efforts for four years on Alpha, an animal born and brought up in the center, and for whom he feels an almost fatherly affection. Regrettably, the outside world insists on trying to use his research for political ends and Jake finds himself trapped tragically between these forces and his own beliefs.
Director: Mike Nichols
Year: 1974
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Crime, Action, Comedy
Man About the House, A
Catering college student Robin Tripp sees nothing unusual about sharing a flat with two girls, Chrissy and Jo. They are seldom bothered by the Landlord, Mr Roper, and his wife until their house is threatened with demolition. Thus begins a series of events, as the occupants attempt to protect their home from the forces of evil under the guise of demolition gangs, supplying many hilarious moments.
Director: John Robins
Year: 1974
Genre: Comedy
Best of Benny Hill, The
"The Best of Benny Hill" is packed with some of his most popular characters and situations, made all the more hilarious through Benny's brilliant observation and meticulous attention to detail.
Director: John Robins
Year: 1974
Genre: Comedy
Four Musketeers, The
Embittered by her failure in the affair of the queen's necklace, Milady kidnaps the beautiful Constance whose love is shared by d'Artagnan. With the help of his companions, his one aim is to rescue the prisoner. But he arrives too late: Milady has had Constance murdered.
Director: Richard Lester
Year: 1974
Genre: Adventure, Action
Wicker Man, The
They do things differently on Summerisle. They teach of Christianity in passing, but their own beliefs are more ancient ... the strange, mysterious customs and rituals of distant places and bygone half forgotten days. But Summerisle is no distant South Pacific atoll - it is a small, remote, privately owned, twentieth-century island off the western coast of Scotland. To Summerisle comes Sergeant Howie of the Western Highland Police, investigating the alleged disappearance of twelve-year-old Rowan Morrison. What starts as a routine enquiry becomes a terrifying nightmare for this devout churchgoer.
Director: Robin Hardy
Year: 1973
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Love Thy Neighbour
Eddie Booth and his wife Joan live in a neat row of terraced houses - somewhere in England. Living next door are Bill Reynolds and his wife Barbie. The two men work in the same factory. Socialistic avowed racial discriminator Eddie maintains a constant barrage of abuse at Bill, the happy-go-lucky Jamaican with strong conservative views who is quite capable of throwing back as good as he gets. Joan and Barbie are friends, and when the local newspaper runs a Love Thy Neighbour competition they decide to enter it - albeit they will have to lie through their teeth to win.
Director: John Robins
Year: 1973
Genre: Comedy
Holiday on the Buses
A small matter of three crashed buses, one piece of mutilated council property and a written-off car belonging to the Bus Depot Manager adds up to instant dismissal for Stan, Jack and Blakey. But all is saved when Jack and Stan find work in a Welsh holiday camp running the camp's transport - one open top double-decker bus. Saved that is, until they discover that Blakey has been solemnly installed as Camp Security Inspector, which can only amount to some hilarious and chaotic adventures in this, the third of the popular 'Buses' films.
Director: Bryan Izzard
Year: 1973
Genre: Comedy
Three Musketeers, The
D'Artagnan makes friends with three of the king's musketeers. Queen Anne of Austria trusts them with the mission of bringing some jewels back from London that she had unwisely given to the duke of Buckingham. Richelieu and Milady try to make them fail in their mission...
Director: Richard Lester
Year: 1973
Genre: Adventure, Action
Steptoe and Son Ride Again
Harold Steptoe, innocently going about his business, is lured by a buxom blonde widow into her home, ostensibly to collect her late husband's clothes. Suddenly faced with an impassioned assault, Harold flees. Quite overcome by it all, he drives his horse and cart blindly into a removal van and ends up in York, 200 miles from home. Alas, the three day journey back is too much for the horse. The Steptoes now set about finding a replacement ... and find themselves involved with a greyhound that won't run and a gentleman known as the Godfather of Shepherds Bush.
Director: Peter Sykes
Year: 1973
Genre: Comedy
Henry VIII and His Six Wives
As a young man, Henry loves his wife, Catherine of Aragon, the mother of his son. But when his son dies and he has no successor to the throne, he makes himself head of the Church, has his marriage annulled, and marries Anne Boleyn. But Anne bears him only a daughter, and Henry executes her on the grounds of adultery and witchcraft. Jane Seymour provides Henry with a son but dies in childbirth. For the sake of the Protestant league in Europe, Henry marries Ann of Cleves - who is ugly and can speak nothing but Dutch. After his next wife, Catherine Howard, proves unfaithful and is executed, Henry marries Catherine Parr. With her, at last, he finds a kind of peace and happiness.
Director: Waris Hussein
Year: 1972
Genre: History, Drama
Family Life
Ken Loach's compassionate film of a mentally disturbed young girl. This is a typical case history of a schizophrenic.
Director: Ken Loach
Year: 1972
Genre: Drama
Our Miss Fred
It is World War Two, and Fred Wimbush, a seaside rep actor before he was called up, is playing the heroine in the camp show in France when the Germans arrive. They stop the show and Fred, taken to be an attractive young woman, is immediately offered the protection of the German General, Brincker ...
Director: Bob Kellett
Year: 1972
Genre: Comedy
Steptoe and Son
All hell is let loose in the Steptoe household when Harold decides to marry an attractive stripper called Zita. First Albert - both resentful and jealous - loses the wedding ring. Then comes more trouble, with Albert joining the newlyweds on their Spanish honeymoon. And there is worse to come. Dad complains of food poisoning, and Harold rushes him home, leaving Zita behind.
Director: Cliff Owen
Year: 1972
Genre: Comedy
Endless Night
Michael works as a Rolls Royce chauffeur for rich Americans on tours around Europe. When he meets Ellie, a lovely young American, they are attracted and soon a love affair develops between them. But they are interrupted by a strange, sinister old woman who warns Ellie - 'Go now before the harm is done!'...
Director: Sidney Gilliat
Year: 1972
Genre: Crime, Mystery
I am a Dancer
Not a life story, but a unique study of the personality and techniques of the world's leading male ballet dancer, Rudolf Nureyev. A glimpse behind the curtains at the sheer physical hard work and training that produces his electrifying performances on the stage. Excerpts of several ballets are included, with Nureyev partnered by Carla Fracci, Lynn Seymour, Deanne Bergsma and, above all, Margot Fonteyn.
Director: Bryan Forbes, Evdoros Demetriou, Pierre Jourdan
Year: 1972
Genre: Documentary
Mutiny on the Buses
Bus driver Stan Butler agrees to marry Suzy, much to the anguish of Mum, her son-in-law, Arthur, and daughter Olive. How, they wonder, will they ever manage without Stan's money coming in? Then Arthur is sacked, and Stan agrees to delay the wedding. Meanwhile, he hits on an idea: Arthur should learn to drive a bus. Somehow he does just that, and even gets a job. Stan then blackmails the Depot Manager into giving him the job of driver on the new money-making Special Tours Bus. A great idea ... if only the inspector hadn't taken Stan on his trial run to the Windsor Safari Park ...
Director: Harry Booth
Year: 1972
Genre: Comedy
Fright
Amanda occasionally baby-sits for friends and neighbors, so when the newly-arrived couple in the village ask her to sit for them, she accepts. When the baby is asleep and the parents have left, the house adopts an atmosphere of menace. The simplest domestic sound becomes an assault on the nerves: the relentless tick of the pendulum clock and the tapping, squeaking, breathing of an old house at dead of night. But soon it becomes apparent that her fears are more than just the workings of an over-active imagination ...
Director: Peter Collinson
Year: 1971
Genre: Horror, Crime
Raging Moon, The
Bruce Pritchard is a young, active man - until he finds himself struck down by a crippling disease and confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life. He is taken to a home for the disabled, but his bitterness and his dislike of rules and regulations only serve to make him angry and withdrawn. But he finds meaning in life once more when he falls in love with Jill, a polio victim. Happy, halcyon days follow for them both - but tragedy hasn't finished with their lives yet ...
Director: Bryan Forbes
Year: 1971
Genre: Drama
On the Buses
When the Town and District Bus Company finds itself short-staffed, it is Inspector Blake who comes up with the brilliant idea of employing women drivers. The company is delighted, but the bus crews - led by Stan Butler and his conductor, Jack - are horrified. Not only do they now lose out on overtime but not one of the women is even worth chatting up! Stan and Jack naturally do their best to get rid of the new recruits.
Director: Harry Booth
Year: 1971
Genre: Comedy
Up the Chastity Belt
Though nobly born, Lurkalot has to make the best of life as a mere serf in Custard Castle. There, between buttering for Sir Coward de Custard, he sells chastity belts and love potions very profitably in the local market place. All goes well until Sir Graggart de Bombast arrives on the scene to seize the castle and the beautiful Lobelia de Custard.
Director: Bob Kellett
Year: 1971
Genre: Comedy
Percy (1971)
The world awaits with bated breath when surgeon Sir Emmanuel Whitbread performs the first-ever penis transplant. The patient, Edwin Anthony, regains consciousness in hospital to learn that his wife Hazel has left him. But he is more concerned with discovering the identity of the late donor. When he finds out that the man was something of a lady-killer, he decides he would like to carry on where his predecessor left off!
Director: Ralph Thomas
Year: 1971
Genre: Comedy
Up Pompeii
Frankie Howerd plays Lurcio, lurking at the rent-a-girl stall in Pompeii market place. He quarrels with the cheeky Captain Bilius, who leaves him holding a mysterious scroll. The parchment contains the names of a group of conspirators engaged in a plot against Emperor Nero. Lurcio is the man chosen by Nero to assassinate the leader of the conspirators!
Director: Bob Kellett
Year: 1971
Genre: Comedy
Tales of Beatrix Potter
Jeremy Fisher, Mrs. Tiggywinke, Jemima Puddleduck, Squirrel Nutkin, Pigling Bland - indeed all the delightful and famous Beatrix Potter characters - come to life in this colorful and imaginative musical interpretation of her tales, choreographed by Sir Frederick Ashton, composed and scored by John Lanchbery, and danced by members of the Royal Ballet. Five of the famed Victorian author's most well-known stories - with guest appearances of characters from other themes - have been linked to present an enchanting story-line that will thrill adults and children alike.
Director: Reginald Mills
Year: 1971
Genre: Children, Musical
Loot
Dennis and Hal are eager to acquire a quick fortune by the most expedient method : robbery. They rob a bank and hide the loot in Hal's recently deceased mother's coffin. They then have to deal with the body and get back the money. Based on Joe Orton's hilarious and controversial play, this off-beat black comedy leads to a surprising but perfectly logical denouement.
Director: Silvio Narizzano
Year: 1970
Genre: Comedy
And Soon the Darkness
Two pretty young English girls, June and Cathy, cycle through France on holiday. Two girls alone. And then there is one. Cathy disappears - or does she? A sinister young man says he is a detective and there is a killer at large - waiting, watching perhaps. Questions hang on the air of a late summer's day as the story moves to its terrifying climax.
Director: Robert Fuest
Year: 1970
Genre: Thriller
Hoffman
Hoffman, secretly in love with his typist, blackmails her into spending a week in his flat, promising not to reveal that her fiancé, Tom, is engaged in crooked deals with cigarette thieves. Learning that Tom is prepared to sacrifice her to save his own skin, she realizes Hoffman's true worth and is prepared to stay with him forever.
Director: Alvin Rakoff
Year: 1970
Genre: Comedy
Soldier Blue
A convoy and its cavalry escort are ambushed while crossing Cheyenne country. There are only two survivors : Honus, a soldier, and Cresta - a young girl en route to meet her fiancÚ, and they try to reach the nearest fort. After a series of adventures, they join the Cheyennes and warn them about an impending cavalry attack. Despite raising a white flag, the Cheyennes are slaughtered. Honus is imprisoned and Cresta, who has shot her fiancÚ in battle, decides to settle among the Indians.
Director: Ralph Nelson
Year: 1970
Genre: Western
Playboy of the Western World
Weary and disheveled, Christy Mahon stumbles into a remote inn on the sweeping Irish coast of County Mayo. He tells a captivating story, claiming that he has murdered his tyrannical father by hitting him on the head with a spade. Pegeen Mike, the innkeeper's daughter, is enthralled, and she persuades her father to employ Christy as a pot-boy. However, no sooner has Christy established himself as the village hero and an object of adoration in every female eye, than his father turns up - in excellent health and vowing vengeance! And the playboy's life - and the lives of all around him - becomes even more joyously complicated.
Director: Brian-Desmond Hurst
Year: 1970
Genre: Comedy
Spring and Port Wine
The story revolves around one weekend in the Crompton household. Rafe, the father is an obsessive man, despite his sensitivity towards his wife and four children. But major upheavals are taking place in the house and although it has taken a lifetime to bring up the family, everything could be totally lost in one weekend.
Director: Peter Hammond
Year: 1970
Genre: Comedy
Entertaining Mr. Sloane
Kath, a well-matured blonde, is vaguely mourning her long-dead lover when she stumbles across a comely young psychopath, Mr Sloane, and eyeing him greedily she offers to rent him a room in the mini-gothic house which she shares with her father, 'The Dadda' Kemp. But the appearance of Kath's brother Ed, who is also attracted to Mr Sloane's young leather-clad body, presents problems for Kath. Joe Orton's outrageous black comedy is as fresh and provocative now as it was when it first appeared in 1964.
Director: Douglas Hickox
Year: 1970
Genre: Comedy
Railway Children, The
From the novel by E. Nesbit; a delightful story of three children who live in an old cottage near the railway line. Every day they watch the trains go by and become great friends with Perks, the porter, and an old gentleman who travels on the 'Green Dragon'. Their involvement with the railway leads to many great adventures and dangers.
Director: Lionel Jeffries
Year: 1970
Genre: Drama, Family
An Elephant Called Slowly
Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers are asked by an old friend to care take his home in the African bush while he has an operation in Switzerland. Their adventures with his three elephants and the other animals of the bush make an unusual and exciting comedy adventure set against the authentic, wild and very beautiful African landscape.
Director: James Hill
Year: 1969
Genre: Drama
Touch of Love, A
Adapted from Margaret Drabble's celebrated novel "The Millstone", this is the story of Rosamund, a postgraduate student who discovers that she is pregnant after her first sexual encounter. She is determined to keep the baby, and has no wish to involve the father in her predicament. But it is only when her baby daughter is taken ill and has to have a heart operation that she realizes that the child is the only important thing in her life.
Director: Waris Hussein
Year: 1969
Genre: Drama
Don't Drink the Water
A comedy about the Hollanders, an American family, whose plane is hijacked and lands in Vulgarly, a fanciful country beyond the Iron Curtain. While taking innocent photographs in a forbidden area, the Hollanders are suspected of being spies. After a series of mishaps, they take shelter at the American embassy and eventually escape disguised as Sheiks.
Director: Howard Morris
Year: 1969
Genre: Comedy
Till Death Us Do Part
Only one man could speak so much nonsense with such conviction, be so ignorant, prejudiced and loved - Alf Garnett. The film chronicles the history of the Garnett family from the war with Hitler, to a later, and more sporting, battle with some other Germans during the football World Cup. Alf remains the same irascible, off-beam, true-blue patriot and iconoclast who made the TV series the most successful comedy creation since the war.
Director: Norman Cohen
Year: 1969
Genre: Comedy
Avengers, The - Season 6
In this series, Steed acquires a new assistant, Tara King. Compared with her predecessor, Mrs. Emma Peel, Tara relies less on judo more on feminine guile to dispatch her assailants. Miss King will use a coo or a kiss rather than a karate chop, not to mention an occasional brick-in-the-handbag technique! Emotional, earthy, cunning, Tara is thoroughly emancipated, while remaining essentially feminine. This is her real distinction: It's make her devastating! In each episode Steed and his charming colleague first crime in their own inimitable manner with nonchalant efficiency, sophistication and charm.
Director: Don Chaffey
Year: 1968
Genre: Crime
Woman Times Seven
Widow, seductress, model wife or passionate lover, Shirley MacLaine plays under De Sica's direction the seven roles of a woman's life in seven sketches that are in turn comic, tragic, even humdrum ...
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Year: 1967
Genre: Comedy
Mad Monster Party?
Dr. Frankenstein discovers the secret of total destruction and decides to retire. He invites all the renowned monsters of the world to his Caribbean island where he will elect an heir who will inherit his awesome secret. Dracula, Dr. Jekyll, The Invisible Man and many others are there ... including his nephew Felix who seems to be totally ignorant of what is happening. Felix falls in love with Dr. Frankenstein's ward, Francesca who, unknown to Felix, is one of Frankenstein's "machines". He is in for a surprise - and so is Francesca, who doesn't know what Felix will turn out to be, as the sun sinks slowly in the west.
Director: Damiano Damiani, Jules Bass
Year: 1967
Genre: Children, Fantasy, Animation
Family Way, The
Arthur Fitton and Jenny Piper's wedding is a typical North of England working class affair. But they are both unusually sensitive and find the well-meant but vulgar ribaldry of their relatives and neighbors a terrible obstacle to their efforts to consummate their marriage.
Director: Roy Boulting
Year: 1967
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Accident
A university undergraduate, William, is killed in a car crash outside the home of his tutor Stephen. His fiancée, Austrian undergraduate Anna, survives the accident and is helped into the house by Stephen, who suspects that it was caused because she was driving. However, he reveals no hint of this to the police. Scenes from the recent past are recalled, and it becomes apparent that beneath the conventional surface of the main characters, there seethe primitive passions, instincts, antagonisms and despairs which will be released through Anna's cathartic presence.
Director: Joseph Losey
Year: 1967
Genre: Drama
Avengers, The - Season 5
The mix as before - this time in color. Steed is still the dilettante man-about-town (outwardly a fop, in reality an iron glove). As colorfully quirky as ever, he continues to dispatch villains with his furled umbrella or steel-lined bowler. In her well fitted, skin-tight Emma peeler fighting suits Emma tacks her opponents with a variety of spectacular fighting techniques, this time using kung-fu to vanquish the baddies with a twist of her dainty wrist. The Avengers offer punch-ups and haute couture, stories laced with thrills and a heady mix of tongue-firmly-in cheek humor.
Director: Sidney Hayers, James Hill, Robert Day…
Year: 1967
Genre: Crime
Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D.
Earth is an eerie and sinister place in 2150 AD. Subjected to a ferocious Dalek invasion, it has been bombarded with meteorites and cosmic rays. Its cities have been smashed and human beings turned into living dead men - Robomen - able to act only on radioed instructions from their masters. Only a small group of resistance fighters holds out in London. But then a brilliant scientist, Dr Who, is transported into the future by a time and space machine. He arrives determined to destroy the Daleks...
Director: Gordon Flemyng
Year: 1966
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Morgan, A Suitable Case for Treatment
Morgan Delt is a loving man. He is an artist, fond of flowers, animals and children. But like his jungle hero, the male gorilla, he becomes formidable when in danger. As his wife Leonie decides to divorce him in order to marry a more sensible man, Morgan retaliates by acting out his wildest fantasies. Clad in a hired gorilla costume, he attempts to recapture the affections of his long-suffering wife!
Director: Karel Reisz
Year: 1966
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Billy the Kid vs. Dracula
Billy the Kid has given up his lawless life and plans to marry Betty. They are paid a visit by Betty's uncle, Underhill, who - totally unbeknown to them - is the vampire Dracula. Shortly after his arrival, a local girl is murdered and seeing blood on Underhill's shirt, Billy becomes suspicious. Ignoring Billy's warnings, Betty takes her uncle to a disused mine where Underhill tries to put her in a trance. But the spell is broken by Billy's sudden arrival. The next time, Underhill succeeds. Billy finds Betty with wounds on her throat - and vows to seek revenge.
Director: William Beaudine
Year: 1966
Genre: Horror, Western
Cat, The
Toby, a little town boy lost in the heart of the Rocky Mountains, is pursued by a poacher who he has surprised while killing a steer. Meanwhile, another man searches for his wild cat which he wants to kill before it becomes dangerous. Toby and the cat meet and the two become friends. The cat saves Toby's life when it is threatened by the poacher and, when finally Toby finds his way home, he knows that his friend's life will be spared.
Director: Ellis Kadison
Year: 1966
Genre: Adventure, Children, Action
Man Called Adam, A
Adam, a brilliant trumpet player, is burdened with guilt following a car accident in which his wife and child were killed. He finds happiness briefly with another woman but turns to drink and is wrongly convicted as a drug-addict when arrested after a drunken brawl. Desperate for money, his agent books him a series of one night stands and one night, while playing a farewell number with the band, Adam collapses. The audience believe him to be drunk but in fact it is his final curtain.
Director: Leo Penn
Year: 1966
Genre: Drama
Carry on Screaming
This time the team turn their attentions to the cult of horror with a guarantee of rib-tickling, rather than spine-chilling, moments. All the ingredients of 'straight' horror films are here - man-made monsters, creaking doors and mysterious disappearances.
Director: Gerald Thomas
Year: 1966
Genre: Comedy
An Eye for an Eye
Talion is on the trail of Ike Slant and his gang, responsible for the murder of his wife and child. He teams up with Benny, a youthful bounty hunter. During a fight with the killers, Benny is blinded, and Talion's hand shattered. In order to overcome their handicaps, Benny learns to shoot according to Talion's shouted command. At the final showdown, their teamwork pays off and Benny kills Ike Slant. However, Benny is also gunned down, whereas Talion rides away, without looking back.
Director: Michael D. Moore
Year: 1966
Genre: Western
Great St. Trinian'S Train Robbery, The
The monstrous St Trinian's schoolgirls with their headmistress, Amber Spottiswood, are on the move again. This time to Hamingwell Grange. But the Great Train Robbers have got there before them - and left £21/2 million hidden under the stage. Desperate to retrieve their loot the train robbers pose as caterers at the school Parents' Day, but they have not reckoned with the ferocity of the unbeatable girls of St Trinian's!
Director: Frank Launder, Sidney Gilliat
Year: 1966
Genre: Crime, Comedy
Carry on Cowboy
An hilarious romp through the bars and bedrooms of the Wild West! Sid James is on top form as the Rumpo Kid, an outlaw who shakes up the sleepy residents of Stodge City, while Kenneth Williams appears in the ludicrous role of a highly puritanical judge. As one might expect, the gormless Marshall P. Knutt, a sanitary engineer, is mistaken for a sheriff - to the dismay of the beautiful Annie Oakley and the buxom Belle - which soon leads to a riotous parody of the famous gunfight in "High Noon".
Director: Gerald Thomas
Year: 1966
Genre: Comedy
Big Job, The
Sid James is a small-time crook with big ideas who, after a jail sentence, returns to collect the stolen money he had hidden in a tree only to discover that the whole area has been turned into a housing estate!
Director: Gerald Thomas
Year: 1965
Genre: Comedy
Dr Who and the Daleks
TARDIS is the latest invention of Dr. Who. A Time And Relative Dimension in Space machine, it can transport passengers to another world, at another time. With his granddaughters, Barbara and Susan, Dr. Who demonstrates the machine to Barbara's boyfriend, Ian. Ian trips and stumbles against the control panel, and the four humans are instantly ejected away from earth. They land in a vast, petrified forest, and soon Dr. Who finds himself involved in a terrible struggle as the peaceable That people fight for their survival against the terrible domination of the monstrous Daleks.
Director: Gordon Flemyng
Year: 1965
Genre: Children, Fantasy
Pop Gear
Without doubt one of the most ambitious pop group films ever produced, Pop Gear features Britain's top 16 groups and solo acts of the day ... from Herman's Hermits and The Beatles to Monro and Maughan. All introduced by Jimmy Savile.
Director: Frederic Goode
Year: 1965
Genre: Musical
Avengers, The - Season 2
The winds of change blew through The Avengers for the launch of the second season. Steed had two new partners to replace Dr. Keel, anthropologist Cathy Gale and the rather more ditzy singer Venus Smith. Mrs. Gale's passionate integrity and beautiful idealism won over new audiences. At his manipulative best, Steed could cajole Cathy into anything that would take them to the heart of a fiendish plot. But he could never wheedle his way into her heart for Cathy despised Steed's methods (and his dissolute ways?).
Director: Charles Crichton, Peter Graham Scott…
Year: 1965
Genre: Crime
Three Hats for Lisa
A gorgeous continental film star comes to London for the premiere of her latest film and is whisked away by her number one fan, a Cockney docker, and his three friends. The film traces the adventures of the quartet in procuring for Lisa three souvenirs of her trip to London - a bowler, a Busby and a policeman's helmet. An irresistible musical romp.
Director: Sidney Hayers
Year: 1965
Genre: Musical
Gonks Go Beat
When the 'Great Galaxian' hears of a somewhat turbulent social situation on Planet Earth, he sends Wilco to smooth out the disagreement between the beat groups of Beatland and the ballad singers of Balladisle. This lighthearted film features a host of top beat groups with 16 great beat and ballad hits.
Director: Robert Hartford-Davis
Year: 1965
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Bargee, The
Hemel Pike - Hemel because his parents' narrow boat happened to be moored at Hemel Hempstead at the time - is his name. Hemel's adventures and his entanglements with irascible lock-keeper Hugh Griffith and skirmishes with boating playboy Eric Sykes make this the narrow boats comedy of the year.
Director: Duncan Wood
Year: 1964
Genre: Comedy
Nothing But the Best
Jimmy Brewster is an ambitious clerk who crawls his way to the top of the social pile by using his cocky self assurance and natural cheeky charm to overcome any obstacles...
Director: Clive Donner
Year: 1964
Genre: Comedy
It's All Over Town
A fantastic musical romp through the West End of London in the company of Lance Percival and his fat friend, Willie Rushton.
Director: Douglas Hickox
Year: 1964
Genre: Musical
Carry on Spying
The misadventures of a group of inept trainee spies on the trail of a secret formula misappropriated by a subversive organization known as S.T.E.N.C.H. It is a battle of halfwits; our heroes versus The Fat Men, The Head Waiter, Lila ,the beautiful "agent provocateur" in the pay of S.N.O.G. (Society for the Neutralization of Germs) - and the sinister Dr Crow, head of S.T.E.N.C.H. and neither quite man or woman.
Director: Gerald Thomas
Year: 1964
Genre: Comedy
Carry on Cleo
The "Carry On" team are back again in force! This time they turn a spoofing eye at ancient Egypt and the legend of Cleopatra, Mark Antony, Caesar and a whole host of Roman rogues.
Director: Gerald Thomas
Year: 1964
Genre: Comedy
Ballad in Blue
The famous black American singer Ray Charles befriends a blind youth. When Ray finds himself in Paris during a world tour, he offers the boy an operation giving him a chance to recover his sight.
Director: Paul Henreid
Year: 1964
Genre: Drama, Musical
Wonderful Life
A film made amid the lush tropical scenery of the Canary Islands, bursting with vitality, romance, excitement and sheer high spirits - not to mention a dozen swinging musical numbers . The story concerns the adventures of a group of youngsters stranded in the Canaries who become involved in the making of a super-spectacular epic film.
Director: Sidney J. Furie
Year: 1964
Genre: Romance, Musical
King and Country
During World War I, a young soldier, Hamp, deserts his post, attempting to escape the ever-present sound of guns and walk home. Captain Hargreaves, an aristocratic and British Army lawyer must defend Hamp before the army tribunal, for whom the crime of desertion carries a nasty stigma and the penalty of execution. Initially, Hargreaves approaches Hamp's case with disdain; however, upon learning that Hamp volunteered for duty on a dare, that he is the sole survivor of his unit, and that his wife has been unfaithful in his absence, his efforts on Hamp's behalf become more impassioned and earnest. Faced with the unfeeling face of the army bureaucracy, Hargreaves's arguments fall on deaf ears as Hamp becomes a tool of morale boosting on the eave of the troop's dispersal into an impending bloody battle.
Director: Joseph Losey
Year: 1964
Genre: War, Drama
Crooks in Cloisters
A gang of hardboiled rogues exchange their London gear for the rough brown robes of a religious order. Make no mistake, they are not undergoing a change of heart, just hiding out until the heat cools off a little and they can return to their nefarious activities in the big city!
Director: Jeremy Summers
Year: 1964
Genre: Crime, Comedy
Billy Liar
Billy Fisher is a lazy, wildly inventive and irresponsible clerk in a north country town, who defrauds his employers of the petty cash. Unable to accept the drab reality of life, Billy escapes into a world of fantasy, imagining he is a successful man of the world in various situations. Communication at home is uneasy; his inexplicable lying shocks his parents. But when he becomes engaged to two girls at the same time and invents a demand for his non-existent writing talents, his troubles become more complex. That is, until he meets Liz, a beautiful and understanding girl, who appreciates the creative instincts hidden behind his dreams.
Director: John Schlesinger
Year: 1963
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Unearthly Stranger
TP91 is a secret and highly complex formula which will enable man to project himself through time and space. Work in this field is conducted with the utmost security, using the finest scientific brains in the country, but when Dr. Munro succeeds in solving the first part of the formula he is found dead before he is able to pass on the invaluable result. The all-important paper bearing his calculations is in ashes on his desk.
Director: John Krish
Year: 1963
Genre: Sci-Fi
Carry on Jack
The Carry On gang strikes again - this time in the bold, brave days of the Armada, a time when countries were judged by their strength at sea, and men by their naval heroism! The not-so-courageous Captain Fearless is in command of the good ship 'Venus', sailing to the Spanish Main to vanquish the foe and earn the glory that makes Britain a proud nation. But the bumbling captain soon becomes a burden to his lusty crew and a plot is hatched to make him desert the ship of his own free will.
Director: Gerald Thomas
Year: 1963
Genre: Comedy
Iron Maiden, The
Aircraft designer, Jack Hopkins' hobby is traction engines, and in particular 'The Iron Maiden'. But they constantly lead him into trouble. First he loses a large aircraft order from an American tycoon, then 'The Iron Maiden' is backed into a barn, with an important rally imminent. Now repaired, 'The Iron Maiden', with Jack at the controls, enters the rally, culminating in a hilarious and riotous climax.
Director: Gerald Thomas
Year: 1963
Genre: Comedy
Heavens Above!
A clerical error leads to the appointment of a left-leaning small-town priest to a rich village, where he immediately horrifies his snobby parishioners by appointing a dustman and a black man as vicar's wardens and throwing open the vicarage to the sprawling, disreputable Smith family, who have just been evicted from their caravan site. He converts the dowager aristocrat to works of absurd charity but he soon has the town and much of the country in uproar.
Director: John Boulting, Roy Boulting
Year: 1963
Genre: Comedy
It's All Happening
Tommy Steele stars as a talent-spotter at a recording company who determines to organize a concert featuring all the most up-to-date singers and bands, in order that the orphanage where he was brought up as a child should be saved from closure.
Director: Don Sharp
Year: 1963
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Mind Benders, The
When a distinguished physiologist Professor Sharpey commits suicide, a security officer reveals evidence of treason against him. Enquiries into his work reveal that he was experimenting with an aspect of space physiology called isolation, the study of what happens to a man when all sensation - touch, taste, sight, smell and hearing - is removed.
Director: Basil Dearden
Year: 1963
Genre: Drama
Avengers, The - Season 4
Enter Diana Rigg as Steed's glamorous new assistant, wealthy young widow, Mrs. Emma Peel . An auburn-haired beauty with a sparkling wit and a penchant for karate, sports cars and figure-hugging black leather. Emma's femininity conceals a cool and resourceful woman who is at her best in a crisis. Steed is still the highly trained professional who cloaks his activities behind a facade of a handsome, debonair and witty man-about-town. This unique duo constitute The Avengers, who extraordinary adventures provide the viewer with a way of escape from an ordinary uneventful existence into a life filled with danger, excitement and new experiences.
Director: Peter Hammond, Bill Bain…
Year: 1963
Genre: Crime
Servant, The
Tony was rich, indolent, charming and a little stupid. He wanted a manservant to do everything for him. But he was too indolent, too charming and a little too stupid to see that Barrett was bogus to the core. And Barrett, day by day, grew less servile and more indispensable ... With elegant savagery "The Servant" explores the relationship between the servant and his golden young victim.
Director: Joseph Losey
Year: 1963
Genre: Drama
Carry on Cabby
When she feels neglected by her husband Charlie, Peg decides to spite him by opening a cab service in opposition employing attractive girl drivers. Charlie, ignorant of her scheme, and realizing the imminent danger of competition, plans to raid the rival company.
Director: Gerald Thomas
Year: 1963
Genre: Comedy
Summer Holiday
Take a double-decker London Transport bus - across France, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Yugoslavia and into Greece on the most unforgettable summer holiday ever. Cliff and his friends are bus mechanics who launch a scheme for 'holidays on wheels' by trying it out themselves - after converting a London bus into a luxury mobile hotel. The venture gets off to a good start when they crash into a rickety old car driven by three pretty girls and they decide to take them all the way to Athens.
Director: Peter Yates
Year: 1963
Genre: Romance, Musical
Kind of Loving, A
Vic Brown does the 'honorable thing' and marries his girlfriend Ingrid when she learns she is pregnant, even though the attraction is purely physical. The hardships and troubles increase when Ingrid's mother, a possessive and over-bearing woman, comes to live with them, intent on causing tensions between them.
Director: John Schlesinger
Year: 1962
Genre: Drama
Mamy Watta
In Gabon, an African doctor encounters a beautiful blonde and is completely bewitched. To escape her spell, he is forced to go to a "white witch doctor".
Director: Robert Darène
Year: 1962
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Action, Comedy
Go to Blazes
A bumbling gang of small time crooks use a fire engine as a means of escape after pulling their jobs. Complications ensue when they are forced to learn how to be firemen in order to deal with emergencies which arise innocently enough during their nefarious travels.
Director: Michael Truman
Year: 1962
Genre: Comedy
Day the Earth Caught Fire, The
In a deserted newsroom Peter Stenning writes the biggest news story the world has ever known: 'Within the next few hours the world will know whether this is the end or another beginning'. The combined jolt of nuclear test explosions carried out by the Americans and the Russians has shifted the Earth's orbit and it is now racing towards the sun. Chaos mounts. But four super bombs exploded simultaneously might halt the catastrophic progress. Will the world be doomed or saved?
Director: Val Guest
Year: 1962
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Young Ones, The
Nicky runs a lively youth club for his friends where they escape from adult disapproval by making their own music. The action centers around the fact that Nicky's millionaire property owner father plans to buy up the land on which the youth club stands, and the youngsters' efforts to thwart the takeover bid.
Director: Sidney J. Furie
Year: 1962
Genre: Musical
Carry on Cruising
About to set sail, Captain Crowther discovers that some of his crew have been replaced by inexperienced men. Like the doctor who has never sailed; the cook who can't cook; the steward who doesn't know how to mix a drink. With a crew like this, you are in for an uproarious time.
Director: Gerald Thomas
Year: 1962
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Crooks Anonymous
Captain Dandy Forsdyke, phoney man-about-town and flourishing jewel thief, drives his girlfriend mad. Dandy cannot prevent himself from lifting such tempting objects as stray diamond rings and bulging wallets which are not at that moment being used. His girlfriend won't marry him unless he tries to go straight, so Forsdyke is persuaded to join Crooks Anonymous. He becomes a London department store Santa Claus, but weakens when he learns that a quarter-million pounds will be left in the building over the weekend. Complications follow when he talks his fellow ex-crooks into pulling the heist with him.
Director: Ken Annakin
Year: 1962
Genre: Crime, Comedy
Pot Carriers, The
James Rainbow, in a moment of jealous rage, attacks his girlfriend and finds himself for the first time in his life on the wrong side of the law. Rainbow finds prison life almost unendurable at first, until he discovers the unexpected friendliness and philosophic acceptance of life among men living in a degrading and inhuman society.
Director: Peter Graham Scott
Year: 1962
Genre: Drama
Avengers, The - Season 3
Steed is still the well-to-do undercover man with the sophisticated taste in living. He is Regency Buck, the twentieth-century style, with a flair for elegant clothes, an eye for the comedy wrench and a not-too-fastidious ruthlessness in getting his own way. Cathy (now an official undercover agent) is a much a professional as Steed. She still cares about people and clashes frequently with Steed over the callousness of his methods.
Director: Richmond Harding, Jonathan Alwyn…
Year: 1962
Genre: Crime
Payroll
Harry Parker and his wife Jackie have a couple of kids, and are happy and are getting along fine. The future looks bright, for Harry and his partner Moore have got the contract to carry the weekly payroll of a large company in their new, bandit-proof car - a security assignment that could lead to many more for the new two-man business. This news comes as a shock to handsome Johnny Mellor's. For months with the help of a weak company employee, he has tailed and timed the old car that used to do the wages run. And that's time well spent when the payroll in question is £100,000 a week.
Director: Sidney Hayers
Year: 1961
Genre: Crime
Long and the Short and the Tall, The
The tragic story of seven British soldiers who, trapped behind Japanese lines, are so concerned with arguing out their own destinies that the enemy has to take second place. When they capture a lone Japanese scout and argue over his fate as well, the film shows with a terrible truth that in war there can be no second chances.
Director: Leslie Norman
Year: 1961
Genre: War, Drama
Don't Bother to Knock
Having too many girlfriends for his own comfort and safety, a lively young travel agent's troubles begin when he mislays the key to his flat and a friend presents him with several more with his name and address attached. Sentimentally, he gives one to each of the glamorous girls he meets on a continental holiday - all of whom turn up at his flat just as he is planning to marry someone else!
Director: Cyril Frankel
Year: 1961
Genre: Comedy
Dentist on the Job
Colonel J.J. Proudfoot, the Managing Director of Proudfoot Industries, is bursting with fury as his latest product, a toothpaste called 'Dreem', is not selling well. To save his skin, his Advertising Manager suggests that the firm should engage a dentist to endorse the toothpaste. This would be illegal and any dentist entertaining such a scheme would be liable to be struck off the register. But J.J. knows just the man to help - his cousin, the Dean of King Alfred's Dental College!
Director: C. Michael Pennington-Richards
Year: 1961
Genre: Comedy
Pure Hell of St Trinian's, The
They're not girls in the fourth form at St Trinian's - they're monsters. They can turn a schoolroom into a battlefield in minutes. Their pastimes range from poker to plastering parents with paint. They can drink whisky with the best, and their motto is 'mayhem'. But their latest trick is the best ever. They burn down St Trinian's. The result? The whole school has to stand trial - at the Old Bailey!
Director: Frank Launder
Year: 1961
Genre: Comedy
Raising the Wind
A riotous comedy about a group of music students who live in fear of conductor Sir Benjamin Boyd, a tyrant of a master who attempts to prevent the lads from indulging in any 'extra-curricular' activity. When part of the scholarship is to conduct a full orchestra, all imaginable hell is let loose!
Director: Gerald Thomas
Year: 1961
Genre: Comedy
Rebel, The
Anthony Hancock sets out for Paris in an effort to prove his worth as an artist. He becomes friendly with a young English artist, Paul, and agrees to share his studio. He makes statements about art which are absolute nonsense, but are so convincing, he is dubbed a genius. Paul returns to London, leaving all his work at Anthony's disposal. When Anthony's fame spreads, an art connoisseur visits the studio and notices Paul's paintings and, overwhelmed by their brilliance, imagines that they are selections of Anthony's work ...
Director: Robert Day
Year: 1961
Genre: Comedy
Frightened City, The
The 'protection racket' is rampant in London. The basic procedure for the crooks is to threaten shop-keepers and café proprietors with the destruction of their premises unless they pay a regular weekly sum of money for 'protection'. There are six main gangs who run the racket in London and one day it occurs to a certain crooked accountant, Waldo Zhernikov, to amalgamate all the gangs into one vast organization. He employs Harry Foulcher, one of the gang-leaders, to do this for him.
Director: John Lemont
Year: 1961
Genre: Crime, Mystery
Criminal, The
Johnny Bannion has spent the last three years in prison devising the biggest robbery of his career. Out of prison, he puts his plans into action. Burying the money in a field, Bannion is arrested before he has a chance to reveal its whereabouts to his gang. They spring him from jail all right, but make the fatal mistake of shooting him before he's given them the full story ...
Director: Joseph Losey
Year: 1961
Genre: Crime
No Kidding
David Robinson intends to sell the ancient family home of Chartham Place but is persuaded to think again by Tandy the gardener. David hits on the idea of turning it into a holiday home for children of the rich. With renovations well under way, Alderman Spicer pays the Robinsons a visit. Her intention is to use the house for underprivileged children, so she sets out to make things as awkward as possible.
Director: Gerald Thomas
Year: 1960
Genre: Comedy
French Mistress, A
For the headmaster of Melbury Public School for Boys, the crisis is sudden. When the new French master arrives at the school, he turns out to be a ... mistress! Her effect on the school's rigidly masculine atmosphere is galvanizing. Madeleine Lefarge's non-academic attributes are exceptional - and she displays them freely in the briefest of shorts and bikinis. Discipline, therefore, rapidly begins to crumble ...
Director: Roy Boulting
Year: 1960
Genre: Comedy
School for Scoundrels
Adapted from the Stephen Potter novels on 'Lifemanship', this lighthearted comedy shows us how Henry Palfrey changes from a young man with a giant inferiority complex into a confident, assured man-of-the-world after a course at the College of Lifemanship on 'how to win without actually cheating'. Sweet is the moment when he takes his revenge on all who cheated and duped him and steals the beautiful April from the arms of his cocksure rival.
Director: Robert Hamer
Year: 1960
Genre: Comedy
Circus of Horrors
Dr. Rossiter, a plastic surgeon wanted by the police, flees to France and under an assumed name acquires, by murder, a run-down circus. His first recruit is a woman criminal. He transforms her face by plastic surgery and trains her as a high-wire artiste. In ten years he builds the circus into one of the most successful in Europe. A series of mysterious accidents to the performers has alerted the continental police, but they are never able to prove any crime. But when the circus comes to England a detective is assigned to follow and investigate, and he determines to find out the truth.
Director: Sidney Hayers
Year: 1960
Genre: Horror
Watch Your Stern
Ordinary Seaman Blissworth has damaged the blueprint of a secret missile, and the only hope is to get another from London. When the Admiral arrives unexpectedly, Blissworth is forced to pose as a scientist down from the Admiralty. But it is discovered that the scientist should be female.
Director: Gerald Thomas
Year: 1960
Genre: Comedy
Two Way Stretch
When Soapy Stevens visits his former partners in crime, Dodger Lane, Jelly Knight and Lennie Price, to organise a big diamond theft, he reckons they will have the perfect alibi - for they will all be in jail when the robbery takes place! They engineer their escape in a Black Maria and the diamonds are taken back to jail in a dust cart. It is only when the trio are released the following day that things really begin to go wrong ...
Director: Robert Day
Year: 1960
Genre: Crime, Comedy
Carry on Constable
Due to a 'flu' epidemic, three new police constables are posted to an understaffed station. The three become involved in all manner of escapades and misadventures forcing the inspector to arrange a 'chaperone' for them. But by complete accident, they come across the hideout of a gang of crooks. They now have the opportunity to become heroes or confirm their cowardice.
Director: Gerald Thomas
Year: 1960
Genre: Comedy
Angry Silence, The
There had never been any trouble at Mardindale's - the factory which dominated the town of Melsham - until Travers came to work there. But then that was Travers' intention. He came to make trouble. There was only one man brave enough to stand up to him, and this is the story of Tom's fight to protect himself and his family from the bullying tactics of the union.
Director: Guy Green
Year: 1960
Genre: Drama
Peeping Tom
Mark Lewis is a cameraman in a film studio. In his off-hours, he takes nude 'art' photographs which are sold under-the-counter by newsagents. Mark's father was a famous scientist who devoted his life to the study of the psychology of fear, using his own son as his 'guinea pig'. His father would wake him by shining a bright light in his eyes and photograph his terrified reactions with a cine camera. Mark, now an adult, has grown into an insane killer with an obsession to record on celluloid the fear on the face of a victim whom he is about to kill.
Director: Michael Powell
Year: 1960
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Please Turn Over
In a quiet suburb of London live the Hallidays. In an effort to impress her father, Jo Halliday secretly writes a book entitled Naked Revolt which becomes a bestseller overnight. Whilst out shopping Janet Halliday meets Ian Howard who is teaching her to drive and he draws her attention to a copy of her daughter's book on sale in a nearby shop. Recognizing themselves as the characters portrayed in the book, the Hallidays now understand the curious stares and behavior of their fellow creatures, who have read the book ...
Director: Gerald Thomas
Year: 1960
Genre: Comedy
Left, Right and Centre
TV personality Robert Wilcot is adopted as Tory candidate in the Earndale by-election. Representing Labour is Stella Stoker, the daughter of a Billingsgate fish merchant. Aided by their respective agents, they wade into their campaigns. From the first, Robert and Stella are attracted to each other - but each refuses to admit it!
Director: Sidney Gilliat
Year: 1959
Genre: Romance, Comedy
I Was Monty's Double
It is 1944! Harvey and Logan, two members of MI5, have been given the almost impossible job of working out a scheme to convince the Germans that the allies' invasion might well take place on the North African coast. Harvey is at a London theatre when, along with the rest of the 'all-Services' audience, he is astonished to see 'General Montgomery' taking the salute. The impersonator is Clifton James, an ex-actor serving in the Royal Army Pay Corps. This starts the most daring and, as it turned out, most successful, impersonation of the war.
Director: John Guillermin
Year: 1959
Genre: War
Carlton-Browne of the F.O.
When news reaches Britain's Foreign Office indicating rich mineral deposits on the small island state of Gaillardia, interest in the ex-colony is re-awakened, only to turn to consternation on the death of the old king, a faithful ally. Learning that other Great Powers are interested, the Foreign Office sends Carlton-Browne as Special Ambassador to cement good relations and, guided by diplomatic precedent, he manages to create a disaster.
Director: Roy Boulting
Year: 1959
Genre: Comedy
Nowhere to Go
Paul Gregory plans to rob Harriet Jefferson, a visitor to London from his home town of Toronto, of her late husband's collection of rare antique coins worth more than £60,000. By a series of misunderstandings, Gregory eventually finds himself (he thinks) 'shopped' by someone he thought was his ally. By the time he's realized his mistake, it's too late.
Director: Seth Holt
Year: 1959
Genre: Drama, Crime
I'm All Right, Jack
When Stanley Windrush leaves the Army, he sees his future as an executive in industry. Unfortunately, Big Business takes the view that it can carry on quite successfully without the contribution of an amiable idiot like Stanley. And so in desperation he seeks the advice of his Uncle Bertram, the head of an arms factory, who is currently planning a shady, get-rich-quick deal. Stanley goes to work for his uncle and unwittingly upsets the elaborate and crooked business scheme.
Director: John Boulting
Year: 1959
Genre: Comedy
Carry on Nurse
The men's surgical ward of the Haven Hospital is staffed by efficient and hardworking nurses. The patients are full of practical jokes and visiting hours provide the only time for a semblance of law and order. But one evening a visitor brings some champagne into the ward, culminating in a riotous operation.
Director: Gerald Thomas
Year: 1959
Genre: Comedy
Orders to Kill
It is 1944. A young US pilot, Gene Summers, grounded after flying fifty combat missions over occupied France, is asked by US Intelligence if he will go as an agent to Paris to kill Lafitte, a man suspected of betraying Free French agents. Gene, treating the assignment as something of a joke, arrives in Paris and tracks down Lafitte, only to discover that what had previously been a face seen only in a photograph is flesh and blood, a small pathetic person who appears totally innocent of any crime ...
Director: Anthony Asquith
Year: 1958
Genre: War
Dunkirk
It is early May: the year 1940. In London, the civil population, lulled into an atmosphere of false security, goes about its business as usual. Even the official war communiqué's merely report activity on the Front. But Charles Forman, war correspondent, knows better. As the war in France takes a turn for the worse, he signs on with the Merchant Navy and volunteers for the greatest mission ever mounted ... the evacuation of Dunkirk.
Director: Leslie Norman
Year: 1958
Genre: War
Wanted: Dead or Alive, Seasons 1-3 [Colorized]
Bounty hunter Josh Randall makes his living by tracking down wanted criminals. The posters always read "dead or alive" but, fearless and quietly confident, Randall uses his gun only in self defense - he always tries to bring his prisoners in alive.
Director: Tony Kraber
Year: 1958
Genre: Adventure, Action, Western
Ice-Cold in Alex
A thousand square miles of blazing, pitiless desert, and a story so unusual, so gripping that it could spring only from life itself. The Mediterranean of 1942; along the barren North African coast where war has turned towns into smoking ruins, and the grim struggle surges to and fro. But that is just the background; the story is about people, not war - and it happens to be true.
Director: Jack Lee-Thompson
Year: 1958
Genre: War, Drama
Duke Wore Jeans, The
The Lords of Whitecliffe are known to be extremely wealthy, but in fact the family fortune is largely sustained by a prize bull and the profits gained from hiring it out for stud. Lord Whitecliffe discovers that, in an oil-rich South American state, the king has an unmarried daughter. His son, the Duke, however, is unwilling to court a girl he has never met ..
Director: Gerald Thomas
Year: 1958
Genre: Musical
Carry on Sergeant
Drill Instructor Sergeant Grimshawe is retiring. Before he does, he is determined to lead the Star Squad of recruits. But with soldiers consisting of a hypochondriac, a girl-mad private and a rock'n'roll singer, things aren't really as simple as one would expect. With the day drawing near, Grimshawe resigns himself to the inevitable farce ...
Director: Gerald Thomas
Year: 1958
Genre: Comedy
Blue Murder at St. Trinian'S
The pupils at this delightful establishment for the education of the daughters of the aristocracy have heard that a rich Italian prince is looking for a wife. Convinced that one of them would fit the bill, they are determined to get to Rome by fair means or foul, and, knowing the past record of these 'fiends in human form', it is hardly surprising that general pandemonium should ensue as the girls go into action! Relations with our European neighbors are about to reach an all-time low ...
Director: Frank Launder
Year: 1958
Genre: Comedy
Wanted: Dead or Alive, Seasons 1-3 [Black & White]
Bounty hunter Josh Randall makes his living by tracking down wanted criminals. The posters always read "dead or alive" but, fearless and quietly confident, Randall uses his gun only in self defense - he always tries to bring his prisoners in alive.
Director: Tony Kraber
Year: 1958
Genre: Adventure, Action, Western
Tommy Steele Story, The
Tommy Steele informs his parents that he wants to join the Merchant Navy. Before leaving for Sea School he buys a secondhand guitar with his meager pocket money. Tommy is treated severely by the Chief Steward for paying more attention to his music than his job, and is told to choose between a career in music or at sea. He chooses music. Arriving in London, he wanders aimlessly into a coffee bar in Soho. The proprietor takes a liking to him and offers him a job playing for his customers. Tommy is a tremendous success and a London impresario engages him as a top-of-the-bill act throughout the country.
Director: Gerard Bryant
Year: 1957
Genre: Drama, Musical
Smallest Show on Earth, The
A young married couple inherit a small town, run down cinema. Spurred on by a rival cinema owners attempts to buy it off them, they do it up so they can eventually get a bigger sale price. However, they soon find themselves more and more attracted to the fleapit and the three old staff members that go with it.
Director: Basil Dearden
Year: 1957
Genre: Comedy
Woman in a Dressing Gown, The
Amy, a warmhearted, slatternly woman, adores her husband and her teenage son, but she is so disorganized that she spends her entire life trying to catch up with things, and never has a moment to think of herself - either to look after her appearance or wonder whether she is the sort of wife to whom a man wants to come home.
Director: Jack Lee-Thompson
Year: 1957
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Lucky Jim
This hilarious adaptation of Kingsley Amis' comic novel tells the story of Jim Dixon's efforts to keep his post as a junior history lecturer at a provincial university, whilst at the same time stealing the beautiful Christine away from his superior's son.
Director: John Boulting
Year: 1957
Genre: Comedy
Man in the Sky, The
John Mitchell, family man and test pilot, is not very pleased with life. His home is too small, his car is old and he's too loyal to ask his already struggling firm for a higher salary. But on his performance in the company's prototype freighter depends the livelihood of the firm. The flight is fraught with disaster, all of the crew and passengers bale out, but Mitchell refuses to give up; he is determined to land the plane safely.
Director: Charles Crichton
Year: 1957
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Action, Mystery
Brothers in Law
When Roger Thursby is called to the bar, and taken on as a pupil by busy Kendall Grimes QC, he takes his first step up the legal ladder - a ladder which, as he soon discovers, can be extremely perilous!
Director: Roy Boulting
Year: 1957
Genre: Comedy
Bold and the Brave, The
An assortment of American types come together in the Italian campaign of 1944. Routine was heroics chiefly remembered (if at all) for a crap game sequence.
Director: Lewis R. Foster
Year: 1956
Genre: War
Who Done It?
Hugo Dill lives between two worlds - the reality of his job as a rink-sweeper at an ice show, and the fantasy world of the private eye. But when fantasy intrudes on reality, in the immense shape of a bloodhound which he wins in a competition, Hugo and showgirl Frankie lose their jobs, and Hugo is left free to realize his ambition of becoming a private eye - with hilarious and lunatic consequences.
Director: Basil Dearden
Year: 1956
Genre: Comedy
Private's Progress
We first meet Stanley Windrush at his 'medical' when the MO gently enquires 'You are not a mermaid, are you?', and follow his erratic, out-of-step progress through Gravestone Camp, where his singular lack of prowess at the military arts almost drives his instructor to apoplexy. Next he is posted to a languages course where he learns Japanese - and is promptly sent on an operation which necessitates a fluency in German...
Director: John Boulting
Year: 1956
Genre: Comedy
Hill in Korea, A
A small fighting patrol is detailed to search a village in Korea. Chinese armies cut off their retreat to their own lines and the patrol is left with only one possible stronghold, a deserted temple on the summit of the nearby mountain. The wireless operator, a cowardly misfit, gives way to despair and throws away his wireless pack, destroying their last chance of contact with base. Although the patrol manages to destroy a tank sent up by the enemy, both the officer and sergeant realize that hope of rescue or breakout is remote.
Director: Julian Amyes
Year: 1956
Genre: War, Drama
Baby and the Battleship, The
Two sailors - Puncher, ex-lightweight boxing champion of the Navy and a simple sort of chap, and Knocker, the 'bright' boy of the ship - go ashore when HMS Gillingham puts into Naples. A complex chapter of accidents leads to a situation in which Puncher, his period of leave expired, is obliged to smuggle a six- month-old baby boy back on ship - with hilarious consequences.
Director: Jay Lewis
Year: 1956
Genre: Comedy
It's Great To Be Young!
It's heaven at Angel Hill Grammar School until the arrival of the new headmaster, Mr. Frome, who prohibits sixth formers from their beloved music making. Instruments are confiscated, and in their efforts to raise funds to buy new ones the boys are assisted by Dingle, a very unconventional music master.
Director: Cyril Frankel
Year: 1956
Genre: Comedy
Long Arm, The
A burglar alarm signal sends a police car to a London office building. The night watchman lets the police in and persuades them that all is well. But next morning it is found that the safe has been robbed and that the night watchman was an imposter. Detective Superintendent Tom Halliday and his new assistant, Detective Sergeant Ward, are put on the case. Halliday links the robbery with a series of similar crimes committed during the previous two years: in each case the rifled safe was of a particular make.
Director: Charles Frend
Year: 1956
Genre: Crime, Mystery
Constant Husband, The
An Englishman wakes in a hotel bedroom suffering from amnesia and sets out to find his identity. He tracks down his wife but soon learns that the job she saw him leave for every morning did not exist. He learns to his disgust that that is the least of his lies. He is a cad and bigamist (or, worse, he has seven wives and identities). His female lawyer tries to keep him out of jail, though he prefers incarceration to multiple matrimony.
Director: Sidney Gilliat
Year: 1955
Genre: Comedy
Night My Number Came Up, The
The Chinese theory that life is pre-ordained and that dreams are a glimpse into the future prompts Commander Lindsay to relate a dream he has experienced to his fellow dinner guests, including Air Marshall Sir John Hardie. The dream involves a Dakota carrying the Air Marshall, an attractive girl, a very important person and five other civilians, who, with a crew of five, number thirteen. The aircraft is lost over the sea, the radio fails, and fuel is running short when, through a break in the clouds, a rock-strewn beach is sighted. The pilot makes desperate attempts to avoid the cliffs. There is a terrible crash, then silence. Lindsay then begins to live out his dream as the different pieces fall into place.
Director: Leslie Norman
Year: 1955
Genre: Thriller
Touch and Go
A professional hockey player's selfish world turns upside down when he falls in love with the mother of the kid who mugged him.
Director: Michael Truman
Year: 1955
Genre: Comedy
Ship That Died of Shame, The
His Majesty's gun boat 1087 is a proud vessel. So too are its crew members. So, the War over, three of the crew decide to buy and refit the ship for a smuggling venture. One of these, the former crew leader, Lieutenant-Commander Randall, stifles his conscience until the second of the three joins forces with a larger, more ruthless organization. Randall is disgusted and repelled. The '1087' refuses to accept the final degradation ...
Director: Basil Dearden
Year: 1955
Genre: Drama, Crime
Ladykillers, The
Professor Marcus arrives to take lodgings at the home of delicate Mrs. Wilberforce. By evening he is visited by four friends, as weird and sinister as Marcus himself. So assembles the ugliest set of criminals one could wish to meet. They explain to the unsuspecting lady that they are members of a string quartet meeting to rehearse. The rehearsing, in fact, is for an armed robbery. The robbery over, Mrs. Wilberforce discovers the truth. Therefore she must be eliminated. But who will do it? The arguing of the issue brings about the hilarious twist to this ingenious Ealing comedy thriller.
Director: Alexander Mckendrick
Year: 1955
Genre: Crime, Comedy
Dam Busters, The
An epic war story of World War II. Scientist Dr. Barnes Wallis believes World War II can be shortened by destroying the Ruhr dams, thus paralyzing the enemy's industrial nerve center. In spite of the difficulties caused by the critical situation at the time, he works steadily to perfect a special bomb of his own invention for the purpose. Air Ace Wing Commander Guy Gibson is chosen to form, train and lead the hand-picked squadron. Flying at tree-top level they cross the Rhine and attack the first dam - Moehne. The bombers seem unable to maintain the accuracy essential for success - then suddenly the masonry begins to crumb.
Director: Michael Anderson
Year: 1955
Genre: War, Drama
Geordie
"Geordie" is a charming love story set in the Highlands of Scotland. It tells the story of a very small boy who feels that the girl he loves will ignore him because of his size. So he takes a correspondence course in body-building, becoming one of the tallest and strongest men in Scotland and an expert at throwing the hammer.
Director: Frank Launder
Year: 1955
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Contraband Spain
When Martin Scott, an American member of a watch-smuggling gang, is found murdered near Urdos, on the Franco-Spanish border, with forged dollar bills in his pocket, F.B.I. agent Lee Scott, Martin's brother, is sent over to investigate. Lee is determined to unravel the events which led to his brother's death.
Director: Lawrence Huntington, Julio Salvador
Year: 1955
Genre: Crime
Colditz Story, The
The Germans believed that no man could escape from Colditz Castle, set as it was in the heart of the Reich, 400 miles from any neutral frontier. This film, based on Pat Reid's epic novel, tells the story of how the British, French, Dutch and Polish prisoners of war who were incarcerated in Colditz set out to prove their captors wrong.
Director: Guy Hamilton
Year: 1955
Genre: War, Drama
They Who Dare
Lieutenant Graham of the Special Boat Service leads a raiding party to Rhodes. Their mission is to blow up two airfields from which enemy bombers are hampering allied lines of communication in Africa.
Director: Lewis Milestone
Year: 1954
Genre: War, Drama
Belles of St. Trinian'S, The
Another rip-roaring farce set among the uninhibited pupils of this particularly unorthodox school. The Sultan of Makyad decides to send his favorite daughter to an English school and chooses St Trinian's because it is conveniently close to the stables where his racehorses are trained. But complications develop when Arabella, leader of the 'Sixth Form Gang' at the school, is encouraged by her bookmaker father to kidnap the Sultan's prize thoroughbred! Alistair Sim gives a winning performance in his dual role as the headmistress and her bookie brother!
Director: Frank Launder
Year: 1954
Genre: Comedy
Rainbow Jacket, The
Sam Lilley, an ex-jockey who has been disbarred, is shown a way into Lingfield racecourse by a cheeky-faced lad named Georgie Crain. Impressed by the boy's knowledge of racing, Sam sees immense possibilities in the lad, but finds some opposition at first from his attractive, widowed mother, Barbara. Georgie manages to get taken on as a stable boy, and with Sam's help begins to ride successfully. And when it looks as if the boy's career might go the same way as his own, Sam makes the ultimate sacrifice ...
Director: Basil Dearden
Year: 1954
Genre: Drama
Heart of the Matter, The
The scene is Freetown, Sierra Leone, in the year 1942. Harry Scobie, Deputy Commissioner of Police, is nearing the end of 15 years' exemplary service. Scobie is a remarkable man - honest, upright and industrious. His chief failing is a passionate pity for the unhappy, the oppressed and the weak, and it is this pity which causes him to commit his first offence and leads to his ultimate downfall.
Director: George More O'Ferrall
Year: 1954
Genre: Drama, Crime
West of Zanzibar
When Bob Payton discovers that the Galanas, an African tribe he has long befriended, are being forced by soil erosion to move from their home lands, he urges their Chief Ushingo to lead them up into the hills where they will find fresh and fertile soil which will give them a peaceful living. But the young men of the tribe favor the attractions of Mombasa, which to them represents a new and exciting way of life. Payton knows this would be fatal, that such a move would place these simple folk in the way of many irresistible temptations, not least of which would be the activities of the ivory smugglers.
Director: Harry Watt
Year: 1954
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Action
Mambo
Giovanna is a salesgirl passionately fond of dancing. Her friend Mario pushes her into Enrico's arms, a moneyed nobleman who spurns her advances. Vexed, she leaves for a ballet tour. On returning triumphantly, she lives with Mario again. He persuades her to marry Enrico, now besotted with her. She agrees and falls in love with him. Following his death she gives away his wealth and devotes her life to dancing.
Director: Robert Rossen
Year: 1954
Genre: Drama
Maggie, The
'Maggie' is one of the fifty-odd puffer boats which chug among the Western Isles of Scotland. Squat, unprepossessing, and badly in need of paint, she is destined for the scrap yard unless her skipper can get her repaired. This seems a forlorn hope - until Mr. Pusey makes his mistake. Mr. Pusey works for the high-pressure American businessman, Calvin B. Marshall, who has a valuable cargo to be shipped to one of the isles. And Mr. Pusey's disastrous error is in allowing, through a misunderstanding, the cargo to be entrusted to the humble 'Maggie' with her crew of four.
Director: Alexander Mckendrick
Year: 1954
Genre: Comedy
Eight O'Clock Walk
Tom Manning, a taxi driver, is falsely accused of the murder of an eight-year-old girl on a derelict bomb site. Jill, his loyal young wife, bewildered by legal procedure, fights for and wins the active sympathy of Peter Tanner, Junior Counsel for the Defense. Against heavy odds Peter proves himself a barrister of ability and resource.
Director: Lance Comfort
Year: 1954
Genre: Drama, Crime
An Inspector Calls
Arthur Birling, a self-satisfied and prosperous businessman who is angling for a knighthood, and his socially superior wife are celebrating the engagement of their daughter to the very eligible son of an old titled family. Suddenly a stranger arrives. He introduces himself as Inspector Poole, and says he is investigating the case of a young girl who has committed suicide ...
Director: Guy Hamilton
Year: 1954
Genre: Drama, Crime
Holly and the Ivy, The
It is Christmas Eve in the little country town of Wyndenham. Inside the rectory all is bustle as Jenny Gregory, the vicar's elder daughter, begins putting up the Christmas decorations. But before this particular Christmas is over the various members of her family will have to discuss and come to terms with a number of difficult subjects, before they can truly claim to have goodwill to all men in their hearts.
Director: George More O'Ferrall
Year: 1954
Genre: Drama
Cruel Sea, The
A dramatic story of the Battle of the Atlantic, where the heroes are the men, the heroines are the ships they sail in, and the villain is the cruel sea. On board H.M.S. Compass Rose, an escort ship, is one professional seaman. The others are civilians turned into wartime sailors; men not trained for the rigors and horrors of war. But as the task of keeping open the Atlantic life-line becomes more and more hazardous, so the men are thrown together, hardened and wiser, in companionship. Then the ship is torpedoed. But for the survivors, the greatest fight is only just beginning.
Director: Charles Frend
Year: 1953
Genre: Adventure, War, Drama, Action
Titfield Thunderbolt, The
This endearing Ealing comedy tells the story of the inhabitants of Titfield, who endeavor to prove that their single-track railway is the only form of transport for the village. The villains of the piece are two unsavory characters who have introduced a smart brand new single-decker bus to Titfield. Crump and Pearce, owners of the bus company, are determined to cease the running of the Titfield train, by fair means or foul.
Director: Charles Crichton
Year: 1953
Genre: Comedy
Folly to Be Wise
When Captain Paris takes over at a big army camp as Chaplain and Entertainments Officer, the troops are in for some surprises. Captain Paris finds the Garrison Theatre ill attended, as the troops favor the local hostelries in preference to the succession of feminine string quartets and madrigal singers hitherto engaged for their amusement. Paris sets out to remedy this sad state of affairs, but his idea of staging a Brains Trust with local celebrities as the 'brains' turns out to have disastrous results!
Director: Frank Launder
Year: 1953
Genre: Comedy
Man Between, The
The scene is set in post-war Berlin. Susanne Mallison arrives in the city to stay with her brother and his German wife, Bettina. Reluctantly, Bettina takes Susanne into the Eastern Sector where they meet Ivo Kern, a former lawyer who is being blackmailed into luring to East Berlin a man called Kastner, who is helping refugees to escape to the West. Finding that Susanne is attracted to the ex-lawyer, Bettina confesses that she is married to Ivo, whom she thought to be dead. He has recently reappeared and is forcing her help in his plot to capture Kastner.
Director: Carol Reed
Year: 1953
Genre: Drama
Trent's Last Case
The body of Manderson, a fabulously wealthy American tycoon, is found in the grounds of his Hampshire mansion, shot neatly through the left eye. The coroner's verdict is suicide, but Philip Trent, famed painter and newspaper reporter, but even more famed crime investigator, is uneasy ...
Director: Herbert Wilcox
Year: 1953
Genre: Crime
Mr. Potts Goes to Moscow
George Potts, sanitary engineer at Barworth Atomic Research Centre, leaves for a holiday with a briefcase containing secret plans which he has mistaken for his own briefcase containing washroom designs. He is kidnapped by Soviet agents under the impression he is an atomic scientist, but he remains under the impression that he is being feted as a brilliant sanitary engineer.
Director: Mario Zampi
Year: 1953
Genre: Comedy
Captain's Paradise
Henry St James, captain of a ferry steamer ploughing between Gibraltar and Kalik in North Africa, believes he has discovered the secret of an earthly paradise, a paradise founded on the love of two very different women. In Gibraltar he has a placid, home-loving wife who caters for all the domestic tendencies in his character. In Kalik his wild, romantic desires find fulfillment in the exotic charms of Nita. But he has overlooked the possibility that women can also be creatures of mood and contrast, and that a heaven on earth can become a fool's paradise.
Director: Anthony Kimmins
Year: 1953
Genre: Comedy
Story of Gilbert and Sullivan, The
The sometimes stormy partnership between Gilbert and Sullivan brought about the creation of many well-loved comic operas, such as "Trial By Jury", "H.M.S. Pinafore", "The Pirates of Penzance", "Iolanthe", "The Mikado", "Rudigore", "The Gondoliers" and "Yeoman of the Guard, all of which are featured in the film.
Director: Sidney Gilliat
Year: 1953
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Musical
Magic Box, The
William Friese-Greene was the first man to produce and patent a commercially practical motion-picture camera based on the principles still used today. He lived for his work, sacrificing himself and his family and fortune to satisfy an obsession - to make pictures move. This is his story and the story of the two women who loved him.
Director: John Boulting
Year: 1952
Genre: Drama, Biography
Sound Barrier, The
The dramatic, award winning story of exploration in the air, and of the human problems which beset those who, earthbound, can only sit and wait. John Ridgefield, pioneer airman and visionary, manufactures jet planes designed to fly faster than sound into a new world, where speeds of two thousand miles an hour may be commonplace. But his daughter, Susan, believing that human life is more important than human progress, condemns her father's aims and endeavors as senseless ambition.
Director: David Lean
Year: 1952
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Action, Comedy
Secret People
Two girls come from abroad to a small Paddington cafe in the London of 1930, run by Anselmo, an ebullient South European. They are sisters - Maria and Nora - aged 19 and 10. They have been entrusted to Anselmo by their father, an outspoken writer threatened by his own country's police. He has sacrificed himself to save his daughters, while Louis, the young man Maria loves, has stayed behind to continue the struggle.
Director: Thorold Dickinson
Year: 1952
Genre: Drama
Outcast of the Islands
Peter Willems, befriended by Captain Lingard, occupies a position of trust with merchant Hudig in a Far East port. When he is discovered stealing he is sacked, but he pretends to commit suicide and Captain Lingard agrees to take him to a secret trading post, run by a man called Almayer. But Willems is soon bored, and hates Almayer who will not give him a share in the running of the post.
Director: Carol Reed
Year: 1952
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Action
Mandy
A metal tray crashes to the floor but the child in the cot remains motionless. The young parents no longer have doubts: their daughter is deaf. They realize that because Mandy is deaf, she will be dumb. If she cannot hear, she will never learn to speak. The parents, Harry and Christine, quarrel bitterly over the child's education. Christine wants to send her to a school where deaf children are taught to lip-read and speak, but Harry refuses. So Mandy remains at home until, after one violent quarrel, Christine leaves, taking the child with her.
Director: Alexander Mckendrick
Year: 1952
Genre: Drama
Cry the Beloved Country
Adapted by Alan Paton from his classic novel, this is the story of two very different South Africans - a wealthy white farmer and a poor black priest - who are united through the tragic deaths of their sons, and whose extension of the hand of friendship to one another eventually brings a hope of peace among the bitter turmoil of South African society.
Director: Zoltan Korda
Year: 1952
Genre: Drama
Angels One Five
It is summer 1940. A squadron of Hurricanes is heading towards German aircraft which are attacking a convoy in the channel. A voice crackles in the pilot's headphones: 'Hello, Pimpernel leader - bandits ahead of you - Angels One Five'. The Hurricanes climb to 1500 feet. The Battle of Britain has begun.
Director: George More O'Ferrall
Year: 1952
Genre: War, Drama
Tales of Hoffmann, The
While waiting for Stella in a cabaret hall, Hoffman amuses his friends with tales of his past loves: Olympia, the animated puppet of Doctor Coppelius; Giulietta, a Venitian courtesan for whom he killed a man and Antonia who died from singing too much. When Stella finally arrives, Hoffman is completely drunk and she leaves with Lindorf, his arch-enemy...
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Year: 1951
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Pool of London
Dan, a sailor and small-time smuggler, is caught trying to take some nylons from his girlfriend through customs at the Pool of London. Later he meets a man called Vernon who persuades him to smuggle a quantity of stolen diamonds to Rotterdam. But Vernon does not mention that a watchman has been murdered during the theft of these gems.
Director: Basil Dearden
Year: 1951
Genre: Crime
Lavender Hill Mob, The
Alec Guinness stars as a mild-mannered transporter of gold bullion who has spent
20 years moving gold bars to banks in an armored truck. Then one day he simply decides to help himself to a million British pounds' worth of the gold, but to pull off the heist he enlists an old friend who sculpts and manufactures paperweights. Once the gold is hijacked, it's molded into souvenir miniatures of the Eiffel Tower and shipped off to Paris. Panic ensues when six of the gold miniatures are mistakenly sold to a group of English schoolgirls, and just when the amateur thieves think they've finally pulled off their heist without a hitch...
Director: Charles Crichton
Year: 1951
Genre: Crime, Comedy
Man in the White Suit, The
Sidney Stratton, laboratory dishwasher at a textile mill, is secretly at work on the invention of a new fabric that will never get dirty and never wear out. After many vicissitudes, the invention succeeds and it is brought to the notice of his employer, who gives him money and facilities to develop it. When the news of Stratton's invention breaks, however, industry is threatened with chaos. The trade unions and the mill owners find themselves in an artificial alliance, both determined that the fabric must never go on the market.
Director: Alexander Mckendrick
Year: 1951
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Laughter in Paradise
When the last will and testament of wealthy, notorious practical joker Henry Augustus Russell is read to his only surviving relatives, it is found that he had remained faithful to his reputation until his last hours. Each of his four relatives will receive a fortune, provided they perform required hilarious, embarrassing or criminal acts. The last laugh is his as at the end: he was broke when he died.
Director: Mario Zampi
Year: 1951
Genre: Comedy
Young Wives' Tale
The housing shortage causes two very different types of married couple, each with one child, to live together. The playwright and his domestically incompetent wife both stay at home all day moving chaotically from one domestic crisis to another. Their married friends who own the house, both coolly efficient, spend most of their home life attempting to establish a certain amount of harmony. Farcical situations arise from attempts to keep nannies, who depart in understandable despair.
Director: Henry Cass
Year: 1951
Genre: Comedy
Lady With a Lamp, The
Born to a life of wealth, ease and elegance, Florence Nightingale rejected the conventional life of her Victorian counterparts and devoted herself to improving conditions of the injured and sick during the Crimean War.
Director: Herbert Wilcox
Year: 1951
Genre: History, Drama
Cairo Road
A drama of narcotics smuggling in Egypt with a police chief and his eager assistant laying traps for the traffickers along the frontiers. A thriller with oriental flavoring.
Director: David Mcdonald
Year: 1950
Genre: Drama, Crime
Odette
It is 1942, and Britain is at war with Germany. Odette Marie Celine Churchill hears an appeal for holiday photographs of the French coast and sends hers to the War Office. Because of her unique qualifications, she is recruited as a secret agent and is sent to France to join the Resistance movement there.
Director: Herbert Wilcox
Year: 1950
Genre: War, Drama
Seven Days to Noon
The receipt of a letter at 10 Downing Street, signed by an eminent atomic researcher and threatening to destroy the seat of Government by blowing up the Houses of Parliament unless the Prime Minister acts to bring his research work to an end, is at first dismissed as a hoax. But the drama grows when Scotland Yard discovers that the researcher has disappeared.
Director: Roy Boulting, John Boulting
Year: 1950
Genre: Thriller, Crime, Mystery
Happiest Days of Your Life, The
Confusion at The Ministry results in a girls school being joined with a boys school, in this rip roaring, laugh a minute, classic English farce.
Director: Frank Launder
Year: 1950
Genre: Comedy
Wooden Horse, The
The story of an epic escape from a prisoner-of-war camp in Germany. In order to conceal the beginning of the escape tunnel, the prisoners constructed a wooden vaulting horse which was carried out to cover the entrance each day. The film, which is firmly based on actual events, follows their efforts to build the tunnel, the escape from the camp, and their desperate journey across Germany to freedom.
Director: Jack Lee
Year: 1950
Genre: Adventure, War, Action
Last Holiday
A mild, unambitious and unsuccessful North-countryman is told by his doctor that he has contracted a fatal disease and has only a month to live. He decides to blow his savings on a visit to an exclusive hotel at a seaside resort. He goes to a tailor who explains the clothing and demeanor he needs. At first, he finds it all very stiff and unenjoyable, but by a series of chance contacts he is offered a number of attractive jobs (which of course, he cannot accept) and enjoys his new life and new self. Among the guests is a doctor who is convinced he must have been misdiagnosed.
Director: Henry Cass
Year: 1950
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Dance Hall
Georgie, Carole, Eve and Mary work together in a factory, and the four friends go regularly to the local "palais de danse". The story of the joys and sorrows of their young lives is told through their experiences at the dance hall.
Director: Charles Crichton
Year: 1950
Genre: Drama
Blue Lamp, The
The Blue Lamp is the story of the ordinary 'copper' on the beat - in particular the story of PC George Dixon, an old-timer, and his new recruit and protégé, Andy Mitchell. When Dixon is shot trying to arrest a couple of crooks, and later dies from his wounds, Mitchell takes up the case with a vengeance.
Director: Basil Dearden
Year: 1950
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Crime, Action
Landfall
Flight Lieutenant Roderick Chambers of the RAF finds himself in trouble when he is accused of sinking a British submarine in the English channel. Feeling he can no longer stay with his unit, he volunteers for the extremely dangerous job of test pilot. Can he now redeem himself?
Director: Ken Annakin
Year: 1949
Genre: War, Drama
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Louis D'Ascoyne Mazzini's mother had been disowned by her noble familly when she married an Italian musician. When her family refuses to let her be buried at the family home, Louis hits on an idea. He can become the tenth Duke of Chalfont if only those between him and the Duke would die. He decides to take matters into his own hands. He will also find himself torn between a woman from his current life and the widow of one of the unfortunately deceased D'Ascoynes.
Director: Robert Hamer
Year: 1949
Genre: Comedy
Queen of Spades, The
It is 1806, and St. Petersburg is in the grip of gambling fever. Each night Herman Suvorin, a poor Captain of Engineers, watches huge fortunes being lost and won. But he does not dare risk losing the money he has so carefully saved from his pay over the years. But then he hears of the Countess Ranevskaya who, by selling her soul many years before, had obtained the secret of winning at cards. He determines to find her and to wrest the secret from her...
Director: Thorold Dickinson
Year: 1949
Genre: Drama
Passport to Pimlico
Pimlico dozes during the worst heat wave for years... until London's last unexploded bomb goes off with a deafening roar, flinging the people headlong into a fantastic adventure. Arthur Pemberton and his daughter Shirley, investigating the crater made by the bomb, find treasure and an old document decreeing that Pimlico can be recognized in perpetuity as Burgundian soil. The residents, quick to see the opportunities, dispense with licensing laws, and put themselves on the export list of English firms. The British Government steps in, wires off 'BURGUNDY', sets up customs barriers and cuts off water and electricity.
Director: Henry Cornelius
Year: 1949
Genre: Comedy
Third Man, The
In 1949, an American writer of westerns, Holly Martins, arrives in post-war Vienna to visit his old friend Harry Lime. On arrival, he learns that his friend has been killed in a street accident, and when he meets Calloway, chief of the British Military Police in Vienna, he is informed that Lime was in fact a black marketer wanted by the police. He decides to prove Harry's innocence, but is Harry really dead?
Director: Carol Reed
Year: 1949
Language: English
Genre: Crime, Mystery
Reign of Terror
The plot starts in France in the year 1774. Robespierre is sowing panic among his opponents with the only reason to take over the power of the state.
Director: Anthony Mann
Year: 1949
Genre: Adventure, History, Action
Scott of the Antarctic
Captain Scott, after his return from the Antarctic in 'The Discovery' in 1904, was determined to make another voyage. And this he did, in 1909, aboard the 'Terra Nova', an old whaling ship, only to find when he finally reached the Pole, that he had been beaten to it by the Norwegian explorer, Amundsen. Then began the hazardous homeward journey ... a journey that was never to end. Eight months later the bodies of Scott and his men were discovered by a search party.
Director: Charles Frend
Year: 1949
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Action
Run for Your Money, A
Two Welsh mining brothers are up for fun in London after winning a newspaper singing-contest prize and a free trip to see a rugby match. Not likely since their escort is the paper's fussy gardening correspondent.
Director: Charles Frend
Year: 1949
Genre: Comedy
Whisky Galore!
It is 1943 and the tiny remote Hebridean island of Todday is plunged into the depths of despair. Everyone is affected. Spirits are at zero - for Todday is without whisky. Then a ship founders on the rocks, and the islanders guide the crew to safety. The ship's captain and mate reveal that they had on board a cargo of 40,000 cases of whisky bound for America. Held up for a day because it is the Sabbath, the islanders eventually succeed in removing a considerable amount of the cargo and the dawn breaks with a rosy glow on a brighter, happier island. But the whisky does not last forever...
Director: Alexander Mckendrick
Year: 1949
Genre: Comedy
Under Capricorn
In 1835, in Australia, Charles meets Sam, an ex-convict, married to Harrieta, an alcoholic whom he falls in love with. Harrietta confesses to Charles that she was actually the one who committed the murder for which her husband was convicted.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Year: 1949
Genre: History, Drama, Crime
Brighton Rock
The scene is Brighton, with holidaymakers awaiting the arrival of Kolley Kibber, who is working on a stunt for his newspaper. A gang, led by Pinkie Brown, recognize Kibber as the man indirectly responsible for the death of a former gang leader. Kibber, recognizing the vicious young Pinkie, fears his life is in danger. He is right: his body is later washed ashore. Spicer, one of the gang, ensures an alibi by leaving Kibber's cards at various places. But he gets an attack of nerves, and Pinkie arranges for a rival gang to eliminate him.
Director: John Boulting
Year: 1948
Genre: Drama, Crime
Fallen Idol, The
Based on a Graham Greene short story which he helped adapt, this is a sensitive study of the way in which the small son of a foreign ambassador in London interprets the strange and seemingly illogical behavior of the adults who surround him. He becomes aware of an illicit love affair between Baines, the butler, whom he hero-worships, and one of the typists at the embassy. But when he sees Baines' wife fall to her death while spying on the couple, his interpretation of the cause of her death places Baines in a perilous situation. Convinced his idol is guilty of murder, he tries to help him, but incriminates him instead in what was, in fact, an accidental death.
Director: Carol Reed
Year: 1948
Genre: Drama
Saraband for Dead Lovers
From a Germany that was then a collection of small and independent states, George Louis of Hanover succeeded the throne of England. He left behind him a prisoner in the Castle of Ahlden - a woman whose story he determined should die with her - the story of his wife, Sophie Dorothea. "Saraband For Dead Lovers" tells that story; the tragedy of a girl forced for political reasons into a loveless marriage.
Director: Basil Dearden
Year: 1948
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Action
Winslow Boy, The
When bank official Arthur Winslow's retirement is marred by the news that his younger son has been expelled from Osborne Naval College on a charge of theft, he is convinced of his son's innocence. But his struggle on the boy's behalf seems to be a hopeless cause until a famous KC and political leader, Sir Robert Morton, agrees to take up the challenge.
Director: Anthony Asquith
Year: 1948
Genre: Drama
Hue and Cry
Teenager Joe Kirby, fantasizing he's on the track of criminals, finds to his astonishment that it has all come true. He has walked straight into the story of his comic book. Very soon he convinces himself and his adventurous cronies the comic is being used as a means of communication between a master criminal and his gang of thieves.
Director: Charles Crichton
Year: 1947
Genre: Crime, Comedy
Nicholas Nickleby
Nicholas Nickleby, his widowed mother and sister Kate, seek the help of a prosperous (but villainous) uncle, Ralph Nickleby. Ralph finds Nicholas work with the cruel and miserly Wackford Squeers, proprietor of a school for unwanted boys. Nicholas rebels, and after a fight with Squeers, leaves, taking one of the boys with him. Meanwhile, Ralph Nickleby has found Kate work with a dressmaker. He plans to use Kate to attract the business of Sir Mulberry Hawk. Hawk invites Mrs. Nickleby and Kate to his country home where he plans to press intentions upon Kate. Nicholas, forewarned, arrives in time to deal with Hawk.
Director: Alberto Cavalcanti
Year: 1947
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Action
Pink String and Sealing Wax
Edward Sutton and his family live in a regency square in Brighton. He is a chemist, also public analyst for the county of Sussex. He is the slave of duty and rules his family with a rod of iron. He refuses to let his daughter Victoria make singing her career. However, after a number of incidents Sutton realizes that the children should be ruled with love rather than fear.
Director: Robert Hamer
Year: 1946
Genre: Drama
Captive Heart, The
A Czech concentration camp escapee takes the identity of a dead British officer to avoid execution. In a German POW camp with other Englishmen, he is forced to keep up a correspondence with the officer's estranged wife. She notices a difference in her husband's letters but wants to believe that he has changed for the better. His fellow POWs begin to suspect him of being a German spy as he is a little too English but his conspicuous courage during an escape attempt vindicates the Czech. If he does eventually reach England, how will she react?
Director: Basil Dearden
Year: 1946
Genre: War, Drama
Dead of Night
Walter Craig is summoned to a British estate. The owner is a stranger to him, yet his face is familiar. So are the other guests. Gradually he recognizes them as the people who constantly recur in a dream which always ends in unspeakable horror. He is told other people's supernatural experiences and finally murders the psychiatrist who is trying to help him by providing scientific explanations.
Director: Alberto Cavalcanti, Basil Dearden…
Year: 1945
Genre: Fantasy
San Demetrio, London
This is a story of British pluck and humor based on a true-life adventure that thrilled the world when, in the autumn of 1940, the petrol tanker 'San Demetrio' was torpedoed by the Germans and her crew was faced with the seemingly impossible task of bringing her back to Britain.
Director: Charles Frend
Year: 1944
Genre: Adventure, War, Drama, Action
Champagne Charlie
To the boisterous, gaslit London of the 1860's came Joe Sanders and his brother Fred to seek their fortunes. They came from Leybourne in Yorkshire, where Fred was a local prizefighter. At the old Elephant and Castle Joe contrived an interview with Tom Sayers, the boxing champion. Fred was given a tryout. But he failed to impress the champion and returned home. Joe remained at the Elephant, engaged as a singer and went on to success.
Director: Alberto Cavalcanti
Year: 1944
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Musical
Nine Men
Sergeant Watson listened to the grumbles of his men, who had been going through a day's heavy training in battle school. They had just come off parade and were in various stages of changing. The Sergeant cut short the grouses and began to tell the story of a desert scrap in which he'd been involved that made their own discomforts look like a day at the circus ...
Director: Harry Watt
Year: 1943
Genre: War
Undercover
The scene is Yugoslavia at the beginning of World War II. An old farmer and his wife are celebrating the anniversary of their wedding. With them are their two sons - one an army officer, the other a doctor who has risen above his peasant background to become head of a clinic in Belgrade. The pleasant village rings to the sound of music and laughter. There is no indication yet of the shadow that lies ahead, for the people's confidence is with the army.
Director: Sergei Nolbandov
Year: 1943
Genre: War, Drama
Bells Go Down, The
Starting just before the war, this is the touching and dramatic story of how an East End auxiliary fire service unit made good and became, by the time of the blitz, a heroic and efficient fire-fighting force.
Director: Basil Dearden
Year: 1943
Genre: War, Drama
Visiteurs du soir, Les
Brilliant cinematography, an imaginative screenplay, haunting ballads, and splendid acting combine in this enchanting fantasy based on French legend. The Devil sends two envoys to Earth in the form of a minstrel couple to wreak anarchy on hapless mortals. Much to the Devil's dismay, instead of corrupting the human race, he finds he has no lasting power over affairs of the heart.
Director: Marcel Carné
Year: 1942
Language: French
Genre: Drama
Went the Day Well
Bramley End, snug and safe, seemed far away from the events of World War II. Little did the villagers suspect the grim events which were impending. They were surprised, but welcomed the lorry loads of Royal Engineers that rolled onto their village green. They had no reason to suspect that the soldiers were disguised German parachutists, and even less reason to mistrust the leader of their little community, Oliver Winsford.
Director: Alberto Cavalcanti
Year: 1942
Genre: War
Ghost of St. Michael'S, The
Mr. William Lamb's start as the new master of St Michael's school, evacuated to Dunbain Castle on the Isle of Skye, is not exactly encouraging. He learns that the place is haunted by the ghost of Mad MacKinnon - a ghost that plays phantom pipes when anyone in the castle is to die.
Director: Marcel Varnel
Year: 1941
Genre: Comedy
Ships With Wings
An epic story of the courage and self-sacrifice shown by the men of the Fleet Air Arm during the Second World War.
Director: Sergei Nolbandov
Year: 1941
Genre: War
Proud Valley, The
David Goliath, an unemployed stoker from a Cardiff tramp steamer, is making his way up the Welsh valleys in search of work. He falls in with an old street-singer, Bert, who joins company with him, and together they try their luck singing in the little mining village of Blaendy. Many adventures follow...
Director: Pen Tennyson
Year: 1940
Genre: Drama
Convoy
A dashing young officer arrives on Captain Armitage's flagship. But the two men are not strangers, for the new recruit is the man who broke up Captain Armitage's marriage by running away with his wife. Their ship is convoying a fleet of merchantmen to England, but they are faced with a terrible conflict between natural feeling and duty when they realize that one ship which fails to join the convoy, and which is being directly threatened by the Nazis, carries Armitage's wife among its passengers.
Director: Pen Tennyson
Year: 1940
Genre: War, Drama
Dark Eyes of London, The
A series of mysterious drownings in the Thames starts Inspector Holt of Scotland Yard on the trail of one of London's most sinister and chilling murderers.
Director: Walter Summers
Year: 1940
Genre: Horror, Crime
Let George Do It!
A ukelele player drops dead while playing in a band in Norway. There are immediate repercussions in British Intelligence headquarters. The dead man was an agent on the track of a German spy. In the general confusion, instructions are wrongly given to George, a member of a concert party on its way to Blackpool, to proceed to Bergen to take the dead man's place. Only next morning, when the ship docks in Bergen, does he realize his predicament ...
Director: Marcel Varnel
Year: 1940
Genre: Comedy, Musical
No Limit
George Shuttleworth's occupation in life is the unromantic one of chimney sweep's help, but the ordinariness of his occupation is mitigated by the eternal romance of his desire to win the Isle of Man TT race. The only asset that he possesses is a machine of doubtful vintage which he has equipped with various gadgets of his own devising. Undeterred by the mockery of his neighbors, George makes up his mind to enter for the race and sets off for the Isle of Man. On the day of the Trials, George's motorcycle develops a speed hitherto undreamed of, and though George tries to check his headlong career, his brakes fail and he makes a record round. George is famous but frightened. Now he's not so sure he wants to ride in the race!
Director: Monty Banks
Year: 1936
Genre: Comedy
Number Seventeen
A beautiful girl member of a gang of thieves falls in love with a detective who is on the track of her confederates. She saves him from death at the hands of the gang and thereafter the film traces their adventures whilst fleeing from the revenge of her former associates...
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Year: 1932
Genre: Crime, Film Noir
Rich and Strange
Fred and Emily Hill, a happy young married couple, inherit money and decide to take a world cruise. On board ship their new-found fortune goes to their heads and they tend to go their separate ways. Fred loses most of his money to a fake princess, while Emily also gets involved, but luckily escapes the commitments of her escapade. Their shipboard romances drive them apart but a shipwreck brings them back together. Rescued by a Chinese junk they return to the security of England and home, having had their fill of romance and adventure.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Year: 1931
Genre: Adventure, Action, Romance
Skin Game, The
The Hillcrests are a wealthy family who have held their country estate for many generations. They cherish the traditions of the landed gentry and regard their neighbors, the Hornblowers, as upstarts; trades people who have fought their way up from the lowest section of society. The Hillcrests consider themselves the moral leaders of the community and on learning that the Hornblowers seek to dispossess the Jackman family after thirty years of tenure, they enter battle in the Jackman defense.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Year: 1931
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Manxman, The
Pete and Philip, friends from boyhood, are both in love with Kate. When Pete leaves the village and is subsequently reported missing, Kate has an affair with Philip. Pete returns, just as he promised, but by that time Kate is carrying Philip's child ...
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Year: 1930
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Murder!
Diana Baring, an actress in a touring company, is discovered near the scene of the crime when a woman is found murdered. She is charged with the murder, placed on trial and convicted on circumstantial evidence. One of the jury, however, Sir John Menier, believes in her innocence and undertakes to prove it. His personal investigations take him to the touring company where he questions members of the cast, and others. Through the girl's landlady he hears that a man's voice was overheard near the scene of the crime, on the night of the murder, and eventually he tracks down the killer in an exciting climax in a circus tent.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Year: 1930
Genre: Film Noir, Mystery
Blackmail
Alice White, the sweetheart of London detective Frank Webber, murders in self-defense an artist who brutally attempts to seduce her in his studio. She escapes and returns home. Her distress and terror are aggravated, however, when her fiancé is assigned to the case. Frank realizes quite soon that the girl is somehow involved, and later he learns the truth when Tracy, a shady character who saw Alice come out of the studio, begins to blackmail him.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Year: 1929
Genre: Thriller, Crime
Moulin Rouge
Set in the famous dance halls of Paris, this period romantic tragedy centres on the misadventures of a young nobleman who tries to kill himself when he realizes that he's fallen in love with both a beautiful dancer and her elegant mother.
Director: Ewald-André Dupont
Year: 1928
Genre: Drama
Farmer'S Wife, The
A middle-aged landowner who has been a widower for five years, decides that the time has come for him to choose a wife from among the unattached women of his neighborhood. Thinking himself to be a fine catch he sets about the task of conferring his favor on someone whom he considers to be deserving of the high honour. With the aid of his housekeeper, the faithful Araminta, he compiles a list of eligible females and then sets off on his journey to make his choice.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Year: 1928
Genre: Comedy
Champagne
The daughter of a millionaire disagrees with her father over a love affair, whereupon he pretends to have lost all his money, making it necessary for her to earn her own living. She gets work in cabaret, where her job is to sell the champagne out of which her father made his fortune.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Year: 1928
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Ring, The
'One Round' Jack Sanders is a young boxer traveling the country with a boxing booth in a fair. He is in love with the beautiful cashier, his only ambition being to beat all comers and to make enough money to marry her.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Year: 1927
Genre: Drama
Ithaqua
Genre: History, Horror, Action
Spiral: From the Book of Saw
A sadistic mastermind unleashes a twisted form of justice in SPIRAL, the terrifying new chapter from the book of SAW. Working in the shadow of an esteemed police veteran (Samuel L. Jackson), brash Detective Ezekiel “Zeke” Banks (Chris Rock) and his rookie partner (Max Minghella) take charge of a grisly investigation into murders that are eerily reminiscent of the city’s gruesome past. Unwittingly entrapped in a deepening mystery, Zeke finds himself at the center of the killer’s morbid game.
SPIRAL stars Chris Rock, Max Minghella, Marisol Nichols, and Samuel L. Jackson, and is produced by the original SAW team of Mark Burg and Oren Koules. The film is directed by Darren Lynn Bousman and written by Josh Stolberg & Pete Goldfinger.
I Am Vengeance: Retaliation
Special-forces operative John Gold is tasked with transporting traitor Sean Teague to a military prison, but a sniper and an extraction team stand in the way.
Language: English
Genre: Action
Oldboy
After being kidnapped and imprisoned for fifteen years, Oh Dae-Su is released, only to find that he must find his captor in five days.
Language: Korean
Genre: Drama, Action, Mystery
East, The
During the post-WW2 Indonesian War of Independence, a young Dutch soldier joins an elite unit led by a mysterious captain known only as “The Turk.” When the fighting intensifies, the young soldier finds himself questioning - and ultimately challenging - his commander’s brutal strategy to stop the resistance.
Language: Dutch, Indonesian
Genre: War, Thriller, Drama, Action
Renegades
When a retired Green Beret soldier is murdered by an international drug gang in London, four of his veteran SAS comrades set out to avenge him, dispensing their own brand of justice on the streets of London.
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Crime, Action
Self Driver
Facing mounting expenses and the unrelenting pressure of modern living, a down-on-his-luck cab driver is lured on to a mysterious new app that promises fast, easy money. As his first night on the job unfolds, he is pulled ever deeper into the dark underbelly of society, embarking on a journey that will test his moral code and shake his understanding of what it means to have freewill. The question becomes not how much money he can make, but what he'll be compelled to do to make it. If you've got nothing to lose, how far would you go?
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
4:30 Movie, The
Writer-director Kevin Smith presents his most personal film to date with this coming-of-age story - set in the summer of 1986 - that follows three sixteen-year-old friends who spend their Saturdays sneaking into movies at the local Cineplex. When one of the guys invites the girl of his dreams to see an R-rated film, all hilarity breaks loose, as a self-important theater manager (Ken Jeong) and teen rivalries interfere with his best-laid plans. Justin Long, Rosario Dawson, Jason Biggs, and more contribute outrageous characters to this poignant comic valentine to movie-going and the youth of the '80s.
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
High Rollers
Master thief Mason (John Travolta) is living the criminal’s dream: island-hopping with his crew and the love of his life, Decker (Gina Gershon), while floating on a sea of stolen cash. But his dream is shattered when his nemesis, the ruthless Salazar, kidnaps Decker and forces Mason and his crew to attempt a near-impossible casino heist in exchange for her return. Hedged in by Salazar’s equally ruthless rivals, and with the FBI on his tail, Mason gambles everything in pursuit of both the big score and the ultimate jackpot: Decker’s life.
Language: English
Genre: Crime, Action
Fear Below
After crashing their van of stolen gold into a river, ruthless gangsters hire desperate divers to retrieve it. But as a relentless bull shark hunts them below, they soon realize the greater threat may be waiting above the surface.
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Action
River, The
Director: Tsai Ming-Liang
Language: Cantonese
Genre: World Cinema
Walking to Paris
The 27-year-old sculptor Constantin Brâncusi walked from Bucharest to Paris in 1903 and 1904 as a preparation and prelude to becoming the most important sculptor of the twentieth century.
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Biography
Urban Feel
Director: Jonathan Sagall
Language: Hebrew
Cremaster Cycle
Matthew Barney has been called "the most important American artist of his generation," by The New York Times Magazine. His best-known body of work is The Cremaster Cycle, a series of five visually elaborate films that have become a tour de force on the international art scene.
The films are named after the muscle that lifts and lowers the testicles. In Barney's work, the term refers to the idea of gender undifferentiation, which characterizes a fetus's first seven weeks in the uterus before the sexual organs ascend to form a female or descend to form a male body.
Although each film is distinct, all explore Barney obsessions: sexually ambiguous genitalia, plus biology, mythology, athletics and aesthetics.
Eschewing convention, Barney created the five films out of sequence.
Director: Matthew Barney
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Very Best of Peter Sellers
A cracking collection of the funniest sketches from one of the world's all time great comedians - continuous and relentless laughter!
Genre: Documentary, Comedy
Tickle in the Heart, A
Contemporary klezmer music is a fusion of Eastern European folk tunes with jazz and other influences. The Epstein Brothers, who began their career some 70 years ago, are one of the oldest klezmer bands still playing. The history of the Epstein Brothers is in fact very much the history of klezmer. With klezmer music enjoying an upswing in popularity, the Epstein Brothers enjoy a very active retirement as they take concert halls of Europe and the USA by storm… Featuring unforgettable musical performances.
Director: Stefan Schwietert
Language: English
In Viaggio: The Travels of Pope Francis
In the first nine years of his pontificate, Pope Francis made 37 trips visiting 53 countries, focusing on his most important issues: poverty, migration, the environment, solidarity and war. Intrigued by the fact that two of Francis's trips - the first to the refugees landing in Lampedusa; the second in 2021 to the Middle East - so closely mirrored the itineraries of his films Fuocoammare (Fire At Sea, 2016) and Notturno (2020), Rosi follows the Pope's Stations of the Cross. He sees what he sees, hears what he says and creates a dialogue between archival footage of Francis' travels, images taken by Rosi himself, recent history and the state of the world today.
Language: Italian
Genre: Documentary, Biography
My Name is Alfred Hitchcock
Directed by Mark Cousins, MY NAME IS ALFRED HITCHCOCK re-examines the vast filmography and legacy of one of the 20th century’s greatest filmmakers, Alfred Hitchcock, through a new lens: the auteur’s own voice.
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Daddio
After landing at JFK Airport, a young woman (Dakota Johnson) takes a cab back to her apartment in Manhattan. During the ride, she and the cab driver (Sean Penn), have unexpectedly honest conversations about numerous topics, including their past and present relationships, sex and power dynamics, loss, and vulnerability.
Language: English
