
Based on reportage of the 1976 strike in Radom, which ended with the regional Party Committee headquarters set aflame, Kieslowski’s made-for-TV hybrid film merges archival materials with a dramatization of organized opposition during a single day of conflict. Read More »
Drama
Kor / Ember (2016) Zeki Demirkubuz, Aslihan Gürbüz, Caner Cindoruk, Taner Birsel, Drama

When her husband Cemal is arrested in Romania, Emine is left alone with their child who needs immediate surgery. Read More »
Yuyake-gumo / Farewell to Dream (1956) Keisuke Kinoshita, Shinji Tanaka, Yûko Mochizuki, Takahiro Tamura, Drama

A coming-of-age story portrayed as the loss of all youthful illusions. Sixteen-year-old Yoichi dreams of becoming a sailor. Read More »
Ana Yurdu / Motherland (2015) Senem Tüzen, Esra Bezen Bilgin, Nihal G. Koldas, Semih Aydin, Drama

Nesrin, an urban upper-middle class woman, goes back to her parents’ old village in Anatolia to finish a novel and live out her dream of being a writer. Read More »
Let Us Live (1939) John Brahm, Maureen O’Sullivan, Henry Fonda, Ralph Bellamy, Crime, Drama

Two innocent men are wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to death. The fiance of one of them convinces a police detective of their innocence, and together they try to find the real killer before the men’s execution date.
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Gold is Where You Find It (1938) Michael Curtiz, George Brent, Olivia de Havilland, Claude Rains, Drama, History, Romance

Colonel Ferris, a wealthy farmer in northern California, is strongly opposed to hydraulic mining, a new method developed during the gold rush of the 1870’s Read More »
Duplo Exilio / Double Exile (2001) Artur Ribeiro, John Gardner, Joana Seixas, Diana Costa e Silva, Drama

David Santo was born in Portugal, in the Atlantic islands of the Azores, and was five months old at the time his parents immigrated to the US. Read More »
The Devil Is a Woman (1935) Josef von Sternberg, Marlene Dietrich, Lionel Atwill, Edward Everett Horton, Comedy, Drama, Romance

Film told in flashbacks of an older man’s obsession for a woman who can belong to no-one but can frustrate everyone. Read More »
Hamlet liikemaailmassa / Hamlet Goes Business (1987) Aki Kaurismäki, Pirkka-Pekka Petelius, Esko Salminen, Kati Outinen, Comedy, Drama, Romance

A bizarre black-and-white film noir reworking of Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’. After the death of his father, young Hamlet inherits a seat on the board of a company controlled by his uncle that decides to move into the rubber duck market. But Hamlet is suspicious of the circumstances surrounding his father’s death…
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Babylon Pink (1979) Henri Pachard, Arcadia Lake, Bobby Astyr, Robert Kerman, Adult, Comedy, Drama

Freudian repressions fill the fantasies of a sexually bored housewife, a seemingly emasculating businesswoman employer, a shy dinner attendee Read More »