In 17th-century Salem, Hester Prynne must wear a scarlet A because she is an adulteress, with a child out of wedlock. Read More »
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Faro Document (1970) Ingmar Bergman, Per Broman, Richard Ostman, Documentary
Fårö Document is Ingmar Bergman’s first documentary. Having recently built a house on the island in the Baltic he was taken by the people who lived there Read More »
Oxhide II (2009) Huifen Jia, Jiayin Liu, Zaiping Liu, Documentary, Drama
Just as in her previous film, Oxhide, the Chinese director films herself and her parents in their rather claustrophobic apartment with documentary realism. Read More »
Two Shots Fired (2014) Martín Rejtman, Manuela Martelli, Susana Pampin, Laura Paredes, Camila Fabri, Comedy, Drama
17-year-old Mariano finds a gun in his house and, in a thoughtless impulse, shoots himself twice. But he survives. Read More »
Mirrormask (2005) Dave McKean, Stephanie Leonidas, Jason Barry, Rob Brydon, Adventure, Fantasy
In a fantasy world of opposing kingdoms, a 15-year-old girl named Helena who works at the family circus with her father and mother Read More »
Runaway Jury (2003) Gary Fleder, John Cusack, Rachel Weisz, Gene Hackman, Drama, Thriller
After a workplace shooting in New Orleans, a trial against the gun manufacturer pits lawyer Wendell Rohr (Dustin Hoffman) against shady jury consultant Rankin Fitch (Gene Hackman) Read More »
Taxi Blues (1990) Pavel Lungin, Pyotr Mamonov, Pyotr Zaychenko, Vladimir Kashpur, Comedy, Drama
Ivan is old Russia: thick, dour, hard-working, often brutish; he misses Communism. He drives a taxi and one night meets Alexi, a new Russian, a musician, an alcoholic, irresponsible. Read More »
Saladin and the Great Crusades (1963) Youssef Chahine, Ahmed Mazhar, Mohamed Abdel Gawad, Mahmoud Almeleji, Action, Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, War
Saladin, ruler of the kingdoms surrounding the Latin state of Jerusalem, is brought to attack the Christians in the Holy Land by the sacking of a convoy of Muslim pilgrims Read More »
Land Without Bread (1933) Luis Buñuel, Abel Jacquin, Alexandre O’Neill, Documentary, Short
In this documentary short by director Luis Buñuel he travels to Las Hurdes, a remote region of Spain which was connected to the outside world only in 1922 with the completion of a road. Read More »
Heritage Africa (1989) Kwaw Ansah, Kofi Bucknor, Ian Collier, Anima Misa, Drama
The films follows the first black district commissioner appointed in Ghana circa 1955, shortly before the civil unrest that would lead to Ghana becoming the sub-Saharan African country to gain independence. Read More »