Director: Sidney Lumet
Stars: Nick Nolte, Timothy Hutton, Armand Assante
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA | UK
When dirty cop Mike shoots a man and plants a gun on him, rookie assistant DA Al gets the case. Something in the Q&A of Mike isn’t right. Bodies pile up as Al tries to solve the case.
Director: Hal Hartley
Stars: Adrienne Shelly, Martin Donovan, Rebecca Nelson
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK | USA
After being thrown out of her house, Maria encounters a married woman who complains of not having children. Maria ends up in an abandoned house, where she meets Matthew. When a baby is kidnapped Maria sets out to find the woman.
Director: Bernt Amadeus Capra
Stars: Liv Ullmann, Sam Waterston, John Heard
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Philosophical conversations between a poet, politician, and scientist.
Director: Barry Levinson
Stars: Aidan Quinn, Elizabeth Perkins, Leo Fuchs
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
A Polish-Jewish family comes to the U.S. at the beginning of the twentieth century. There, the family and their children try to make themselves a better future in the so-called promised land.
Director: Louis Malle
Stars: Miou-Miou, Michel Piccoli, Michel Duchaussoy
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France | Italy
During the events of May 1968 in France, different worldviews of conflicting relatives are collide in their family estate.
Director: Dariush Mehrjui
Stars: Pantea Bahram, Ezzatolah Entezami, Bita Farahi
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Hamoon’s wife is leaving him. He is also unsuccessfully trying to finish his Ph.D. thesis. He is forced to reexamine his life. In a series of flashbacks and dreams, Hamoon tries to figure out what he did wrong.
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Stars: Wojciech Pszoniak, Ewa Dalkowska, Teresa Budzisz-Krzyzanowska
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Poland | Germany | UK
Account of the last days of life of the legendary Polish pedagogue Janusz Korczak and his heroic dedication to protecting Jewish orphans during the war.
Director: Pavel Lungin
Stars: Pyotr Mamonov, Pyotr Zaychenko, Vladimir Kashpur
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Soviet Union | France
A comedic love/hate relationship develops between a dour taxi driver and a hapless aspiring musician after the latter stiffs his cab fare.
Director: Nicolas Roeg
Stars: Anjelica Huston, Mai Zetterling, Jasen Fisher
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: UK | USA
A young boy stumbles onto a witch convention and must stop them, even after he has been turned into a mouse.
Director: Ali Hatami
Stars: Rogheyeh Chehreh-Azad, Mohamad Ali Keshavarz, Farimah Farjami
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
How a mother acts in the hardest parts of her, and her children’s lives.
Director: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
Stars: Julian Sands, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Massimo Bonetti
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy | France | Germany
Young nobleman Baron Sergio Giuramondo, after discovering that his bride-to-be was the king’s mistress, leaves Naples in disgust to become a monk. But his quest for perfect solitude is constantly interrupted by visitors hearing rumours that Sergio possesses miraculous powers, and by women who bet each other that they can successfully seduce him…
Director: Jim Sheridan
Stars: Richard Harris, John Hurt, Sean Bean
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Ireland
When a field (which has been farmed by the McCabe family for generations) goes up for auction, the patriarch of the McCabe family will stop at nothing to prevent a rich American from buying it.
Director: Idrissa Ouedraogo
Stars: Rasmané Ouédraogo, Ina Cissé, Roukietou Barry
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Switzerland | UK | France | Burkina Faso | Germany
Set in a pre-colonial African past, Tilai is about an illicit love affair and its consequences. Saga returns to his village after an extended absence to discover that his father has taken Nogma, Saga’s promised bride, for himself. Still in love with each other, the two begin an affair, although it would be considered incestuous. When the liaison is discovered, Saga’s brother, Koudri, pretends to kill Saga for the honor of the family and village. Saga and Nogma flee to another village, but when Nogma’s birth mother dies, he returns home. Having brought ruin on the family, Saga is shot by Koudri, who walks off into exile and probable death.
Director: Carlos Saura
Stars: Carmen Maura, Andrés Pajares, Gabino Diego
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Spain | Italy
During the Spanish Civil War, a group of comics lightens the days of the Republican troops. Tired of life in the front lines, they make their way to Valencia, accidentally entering enemy land and falling prisoner.
Director: David Lynch
Stars: Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Willem Dafoe
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Young lovers Sailor and Lula run from the variety of weirdos that Lula’s mom has hired to kill Sailor.
Director: Yimou Zhang, Fengliang Yang
Stars: Li Gong, Wei Li, Baotian Li
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China | Japan
A woman married to the brutal and infertile owner of a dye mill in rural China conceives a boy with her husband’s nephew but is forced to raise her son as her husband’s heir without revealing his parentage in this circular tragedy.
Director: Christian Vincent
Stars: Fabrice Luchini, Judith Henry, Maurice Garrel
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
There is an author who has been dumped by his girlfriend and has no inspiration for a next novel. In an attempt to find a solution to both crises, he, along with his publisher friend, decides to seduce a young woman with the singular purpose of keeping a diary of the seduction and then dump her before publishing the book about it. Unfortunately he falls in love with her.
Director: Derek Jarman
Stars: Tilda Swinton, Johnny Mills, Philip MacDonald
Genre: Drama
Country: UK | Germany | Japan
A nearly wordless visual narrative inter cuts two main stories and a couple of minor ones.
Director: Nietzchka Keene
Stars: Björk, Bryndis Petra Bragadóttir, Valdimar Örn Flygenring
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Iceland
Margit and her older sister, Katla, flee their homeland after their mother is killed for practicing witchcraft. Needing a place to stay, Katla casts a spell over a young farmer named Jóhann which makes him fall in love with her.
Director: Ken Loach
Stars: Frances McDormand, Brian Cox, Brad Dourif
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
When an American human rights lawyer is assassinated in Belfast, it remains for the man’s girlfriend, as well as a tough, no nonsense, police detective to find the truth.
Director: Sergio Rubini
Stars: Sergio Rubini, Margherita Buy, Ennio Fantastichini
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
It starts as a studio theatre: a good-natured, bit pedantic stationmaster performs his job at a railway station in the middle of nowhere. Eventually a beautiful, obviously very rich young woman enters the station and wants to buy a ticket. She has to wait, they start talking, get closer – high-society meets petty bourgeois. Then suddenly the mood turns around: the woman’s fiance appears and tries to prevent the girl from leaving with increasing violence. The stationmaster interferes and the film becomes a thriller about a fight to the death.
Director: Su Friedrich
Stars: Jessica Meyerson
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Through a series of twenty six short stories, a girl describes the childhood events that shaped her ideas about fatherhood, family relations, work and play. As the stories unfold, a dual portrait emerges: that of a father who cared more for his career than for his family, and of a daughter who was deeply affected by his behavior. Working in counterpoint to the forceful text are sensual black and white images that depict both the extraordinary and ordinary events of daily life. Together, they create a formally complex and emotionally intense film.
Director: Étienne Chatiliez
Stars: Tsilla Chelton, Catherine Jacob, Isabelle Nanty
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Auntie Danielle, supposedly in ailing health but in reality just a nasty old bitch, lives with a paid housekeeper who she regularly abuses. When the housekeeper dies falling off a ladder, Danielle moves in with her great-nephew and his family. She continues using her nastiness to manipulate everyone into doing things her way until the family goes on vacation to Greece. The young housekeeper they hire to watch after her knows what Auntie is doing, and deals with her accordingly, and they begin forming respect for each other.
Director: Xavier Koller
Stars: Necmettin Çobanoglu, Nur Sürer, Emin Sivas
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland | Turkey | UK | France
The story of a poor Turkish family who try to emigrate illegally to Switzerland.
Director: Jennie Livingston
Stars: Brooke Xtravaganza, André Christian, Dorian Corey
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
A chronicle of New York’s drag scene in the 1980s, focusing on balls, voguing and the ambitions and dreams of those who gave the era its warmth and vitality.
Director: Volker Schlöndorff
Stars: Natasha Richardson, Faye Dunaway, Aidan Quinn
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA | Germany
In a dystopian, polluted right wing religious tyranny, a young woman is put in sexual slavery on account of her now rare fertility.
Director: Jacques Doillon
Stars: Richard Anconina, Gérald Thomassin, Clotilde Courau
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Marc and Nathalie are brother and sister living separately since their parents’ separation. Marc decides to visit Nathalie but in order to finance his trip he robs a shop bringing him to the attention of the police.
Director: Satyajit Ray
Stars: Ajit Banerjee, Haradhan Bannerjee, Soumitra Chatterjee
Genre: Drama
Country: India | France | UK
Four brothers converge around an ailing father.
Director: Bruce Beresford
Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Edward Woodward, Maynard Eziashi
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
In 1923, a local resident of British Colonial Nigeria tries to be equal with the colonial administration.
Director: James Foley
Stars: Jason Patric, Rachel Ward, Bruce Dern
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
An ex-boxer is drifting around after escaping from the mental hospital. He meets a widow who convinces him to help fix up the neglected estate her ex-husband left. Her Uncle talks them both into helping kidnap a rich boy for ransom money, and the ex-fighter must make decisions about his loyalties and what is right.
Director: Nicolas Philibert
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary
Country: France
A voyage into the museum’s reserves, and part of the extra work involved to mount the expositions after the renovation of the Louvre in the 1980s, when the glass pyramid was added to the classic buildings. From the preservation rooms through the frame and painting retouches by experts, to the personnel instruction on how to be efficient in protecting the collections, and look nice to the visitors.
Director: Mark Kitchell
Stars: Jentri Anders, Joan Baez, Frank Bardacke
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: USA
A documentary about militant student political activity in the University of California-Berkely in the 1960’s.
Director: Harriet Eder, Thomas Kufus
Stars: Erich von Manstein
Genre: Documentary, War
Country: Germany
Late in the 1980s, two documentary film makers found six German men, all in their 60s and 70s, who had been soldiers in the German invasion of the USSR in 1942. Each carried an 8mm camera into battle and they still had their film. “Mein Kreig” alternates between interviews with these older men, now apologetic, philosophical, or defiant about their participation, and the footage they shot. It’s chronological: basic training, the train trip East, roof-top vistas of war-torn Warsaw, peasants in Belarus, the downing with carbine volleys of a Russian plane, winter, a holiday at the Black Sea, mud, impassable roads, death, destruction and retreat. “Home, that was the front,” one says.
Director: Bertrand Tavernier
Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Jane Birkin, Odette Laure
Genre: Drama
Country: France
The setting is the Riviera in autumn. A retired English businessman (Sir Dirk Bogarde) has just been through heart surgery, but it has, apparently, done little to relieve his constant pain or improve his long-term survival prospects. During his recuperation, Caroline (Jane Birkin), his adult daughter, comes from Paris to be with him and her mother, Miche (Odette Laure), and she and her father begin to communicate as adults for the first time.
Director: María Luisa Bemberg
Stars: Assumpta Serna, Dominique Sanda, Héctor Alterio
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
A viceroy and an archbishop take their posts in Mexico. A local nun, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651-1695), intrigues them. The viceroy and his wife find her brilliant and fascinating. The prelate finds her a symbol of European laxity. He engineers the election of a new abbess, severe and ascetic. The virreina visits Sor Juana often and inspires her to write passionate poetry that the archbishop finds scandalous. The viceroy protects her. After he is replaced and returns to Spain with his wife, Sor Juana faces envy and retribution. A bishop betrays her, her confessor humbles her. Plague, a tribunal, and her confession as “the worst of all” end the great poet’s life.
Director: Yves Robert
Stars: Julien Ciamaca, Philippe Caubère, Nathalie Roussel
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Comedy
Country: France
Every holiday Marcel and his family go to their cottage in the Provence (France). He likes the hills in this region. Before they arrive at the cottage they have to walk about 5 miles. With the co-operation of an ex-pupil of Marcel’s father, who’s a teacher, they only have to walk 1 mile, since they can take a shortcut along a canal, through the backyards of some eccentric people. During one of these holidays he meets Isabelle, a pretty but conceited girl…
Director: Richard Pearce
Stars: Sissy Spacek, Whoopi Goldberg, Dwight Schultz
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Two women, black and white, in 1955 Montgomery Alabama, must decide what they are going to do in response to the famous bus boycott lead by Martin Luther King.
Director: Charles Burnett
Stars: Danny Glover, Paul Butler, DeVaughn Nixon
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
A charismatic old acquaintance drifts into town, stirring up trouble for a mild-mannered family.
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Stars: Debra Winger, John Malkovich, Campbell Scott
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK | Italy
An American couple travel abroad to revitalize their relationship. But as the trip drags on, their attempt at recovering what they once had seems futile.
Director: Jacques Doillon
Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Béatrice Dalle, Jean-Louis Murat
Genre: Drama
Country: France
After the suicide of her husband, a widow is trying to get a confession from his mistress that it was her fault.
Director: Aki Kaurismäki
Stars: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Margi Clarke, Kenneth Colley
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland | Sweden | Germany | France | UK
After fifteen years’ service, Henri Boulanger is made redundant from his job. Shocked, he attempts suicide, but can’t go through with it, so he hires a contract killer in a seedy bar to murder him at some unspecified time in the future. But almost immediately he meets and falls in love with Margaret, a flower-seller, which makes Henri realise that his life has some meaning after all. But when he goes back to the bar to cancel the contract, he finds it has been demolished – and there’s no way he can get in touch with the killer…
Director: Chuck Workman
Stars: John Warhola, Viva, Dennis Hopper
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA
A look at the life, work, and impact of Andy Warhol (1928-1987), pop icon and artist, from his childhood in Pittsburgh to his death after a botched surgery. Warhol coined the word “superstar,” became one, and changed the way the culture looks at and understands celebrity. After studying at Carnegie Tech, he goes to New York to be a commercial artist. By 1960, Warhol, Lichtenstein, and Rosenquist are inventing pop art. Warhol starts “The Factory,” his workshop where he paints and makes movies. His is a cafe society of late nights and parties. His family, friends, an agent, a curator, gallery owners, actors, the co-founder of “Interview,” and others tell stories and assess his art.
Director: Vitali Kanevsky
Stars: Dinara Drukarova, Pavel Nazarov, Elena Popova
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Two children living in a remote mining town in the distant wastes of Siberia in 1947, survive poverty and hardship through the warmth of their friendship and a shared sense of humour.
Director: Barbara Kopple, Cathy Caplan, Thomas Haneke, Lawrence Silk
Stars: Jesse Jackson, Juan Munoz, Ray Rogers
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA | UK
Chronicles the six-month strike at Hormel in Austin, Minnesota, in 1985-86. The local union, P-9 of the Food and Commercial Workers, overwhelmingly rejects a contract offer with a $2/hour wage cut. They strike and hire a New York consultant to manage a national media campaign against Hormel. Despite support from P-9’s rank and file, FCWU’s international disagrees with the strategy. In addition to union-company tension, there’s union-union in-fighting. Hormel holds firm; scabs, replacement workers, brothers on opposite sides, a union coup d’état, and a new contract materialize. The film asks, was it worth it, or was the strike a long-term disaster for organized labor?
Director: Alan Parker
Stars: Dennis Quaid, Tamlyn Tomita, Sab Shimono
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
The passionate romance between an Irish-American man and a Japanese-American woman is threatened when the Pearl Harbor attacks happen and the woman is forced into a prison camp because of her ethnicity.
Director: Jan Egleson
Stars: Michael Caine, Elizabeth McGovern, Peter Riegert
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
When you think you’re at the top of the corporate ladder and then discover they have managed to pull that ladder away, sometimes you have to take it upon yourself to “level” the playing field, both professionally and personally. Sir Michael Caine delivers an electrifying performance as Graham Marshall, who quickly catches onto the possibilities as he clears all the hurdles to occupy the corner office.
Director: Bob Rafelson
Stars: Patrick Bergin, Iain Glen, Richard E. Grant
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA
The legendary true-story of Capt. Richard Francis Burton and Lt. John Hanning Speke’s tumultuous expedition to find the source of the Nile river.
Director: Jean-Paul Rappeneau
Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Anne Brochet, Vincent Perez
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: France
Famed swordsman and poet Cyrano de Bergerac is in love with his cousin Roxane. He has never expressed his love for her as he his large nose undermines his self-confidence. Then he finds a way to express his love to her, indirectly.
Director: Peter Werner
Stars: Max von Sydow, Judd Nelson, Mako
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Life in Hiroshima, following different Japanese, a German priest and church, and some American POWs, before and after the atomic bomb was dropped August 6, 1945.
Director: Werner Herzog
Stars: Michael Goldsmith, Werner Herzog, Augustine Assemat
Genre: Documentary
Country: France | Germany
Documentary examining Bokassa’s rule in the Central African Republic using the testimony of witnesses and visits to key sites.
Director: Agnieszka Holland
Stars: Solomon Perel, Marco Hofschneider, René Hofschneider
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany | France | Poland
A boy in Nazi Germany, trying to conceal that he is Jewish, joins the Hitler Youth.
Director: Alejandro Agresti, Gábor Altorjay, José Luis Guerín, Clemens Klopfenstein, Tato Kotetishvili, William Mbaye Ousmane, Eagle Pennell, Dirk Rijneke, Mrinal Sen, Mildred Van Leeuwaarden, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Carlos Reichenbach, Béla Tarr
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: Argentina | Netherlands
A kaleidoscopic panorama of the world. A visual anthology of twelve short stories by twelve innovative directors from all over the world.