Charles Darnay is the nephew of the Marquis St. Evremonde in pre-Revolutionary France Read More »
History
Aferim! (2015) Radu Jude, Teodor Corban, Mihai Comanoiu, Toma Cuzin
Set in early 19th century Wallachia, when a local policeman, Costandin Read More »
Andersonville (1996) John Frankenheimer, Jarrod Emick, Frederic Forrest, Ted Marcoux
Sort of Civil War version of “Schindler’s List” looks at the atrocities that occurred Read More »
Neighbours (2009) Zubair Farghand, Mohammad Zabi Abdali, Ainuddin Abdulfezali, Noor Ahmad
Graphically depicts the brutalities on Afghan prisoners in an Iranian camp, Safaid Sang (White Stone) near the Iranian-Afghan border. Read More »
Andrei Rublev (1966) Andrei Tarkovsky, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolay Grinko
Andreiv Rublev charts the life of the great icon painter through a turbulent period of 15th Century Russian history Read More »
Agora (2009) Alejandro Amenábar, Rachel Weisz, Max Minghella, Oscar Isaac
Alexandria, 391 AD: Hypatia teaches astronomy, mathematics, and philosophy. Read More »
The Sorrow and the Pity / Le chagrin et la pitié (1969) Marcel Ophüls, Helmut Tausend, Marcel Verdier, Alexis Grave
From 1940 to 1944, France’s Vichy government collaborated with Nazi Germany. Read More »
The Texas Rangers (1936) King Vidor, Fred MacMurray, Jack Oakie, Jean Parker
Jim Hawkins and Wahoo Jones are stagecoach robbers who head to Texas to find Sam McGee, their partner. Read More »
The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre (1967) Roger Corman, Jason Robards, George Segal, Ralph Meeker
Chicago February 14th 1929. Al Capone finally establishes himself as the city’s boss of organised crime. Read More »
The Mexican suitcase / La maleta mexicana (2011) Trisha Ziff, Ernest Alós, Juan Diego Botto, Antonio de la Fuente Ferraz
Mexican Suitcase tells the story of the recovery of 4,500 negatives by Robert Capa, Gerda Taro Read More »