The Piano

Irish Republican Army member Fergus forms an unexpected bond with Jody, a kidnapped British soldier in his custody, despite the warnings of fellow IRA members Jude and Maguire. Jody makes Fergus promise he'll visit his girlfriend, Dil, in L…

Ludovic is waiting for a miracle. With six-year-old certainty, she believes she was meant to be a little girl -- and that the mistake will soon be corrected. But where she expects the miraculous, Ludo finds only rejection, isolation, and gu…

A narcissistic artist's world turns upside down after his wife's affair and a disastrous exhibition of his work.

This complex portrait of modern-day life on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation explores the bond between a brother and his younger sister, who find themselves on separate paths to rediscovering the meaning of home.

Budapest in the thirties. The restaurant owner Laszlo hires the pianist András to play in his restaurant. Both men fall in love with the beautiful waitress Ilona who inspires András to his only composition. His song of Gloomy Sunday is, at …

The documentary's title translates as "to be and to have", the two auxiliary verbs in the French language. It is about a primary school in the commune of Saint-Étienne-sur-Usson, Puy-de-Dôme, France, the population of which is just over 200…

Antonio, a policeman (carabiniere), has an order to take two children (Rosetta and her brother Luciano) from Milan to Sicily to an orphanage. Their mother has been arrested for forcing Rosetta (11 years old) to work as a prostitute. First t…

The year is 1938, and Mahatma Gandhi's groundbreaking philosophies are sweeping across India, but 8-year-old Chuyia, newly widowed, must go to live with other outcast widows on an ashram. Her presence transforms the ashram as she befriends …

As the end approaches inexorably, the last humans, living millions of years into the future, send a message to the humanity of the present that is both a plea for help and a warning, but also an epic tale of evolution, decline and hope.

Den rumænske greve kendt som Dracula bliver kaldt til London af Arthur Holmwood, en ung lord, der er på nippet til at blive gift. Uden at Arthurs kommende brud Lucy ved det, er hendes kommende mand smittet med syfilis og kan derfor ikke ful…

Janet, en sky og overset pige, vokser op i et fattigt hjem med mange søskende, og hendes barndom rammes af flere tragedier. Broderen lider af epilepsi, og to af hendes søstre drukner med et par års mellemrum. Tidligt opsøger Janet bøgernes …

Isabel Archer er en ung 1800-tals-kvinde med mod på livet. Efter at have arvet en pæn sum penge møder hun i Rom den forførende Gilbert Osmond. Det ender i et ægteskab, hvor Isabel ydmyges psykisk, men også flirter med oprørstanken.

In his first collaboration with renowned screenwriter and longtime partner Cesare Zavattini, Vittorio De Sica examines the cataclysmic consequences of adult folly on an innocent child. Heralding the pair’s subsequent work on some of the mas…

An exiled filmmaker finally returns to his home country where former mysteries and afflictions of his early life come back to haunt him once more.

Nick Garcos comes back from his tour of duty in World War II planning to settle down with his girlfriend, Polly Faber. He learns, however, that his father was recently beaten and burglarized by mob-connected trucker Mike Figlia, and Nick re…

A collection of vignettes highlighting different aspects of the life, work, and character of the acclaimed Canadian classical pianist.

Med Irans CIA-støttede statskup i 1953 som tumultagtigt baggrund, smelter fire kvinders skæbner sammen i en smuk frugthave, hvor de hver især finder uafhængighed, trøst og venskab. Den roste fotograf Shirin Neshat debuterer som instruktør m…

When her husband goes missing at the beach, a female professor begins to mentally disintegrate as her denial of his disappearance becomes delusional.

A witty, perceptive and devastating look at the personal agendas and suppressed revelations swirling among a group of gay men in Manhattan. Harold is celebrating a birthday, and his friend Michael has drafted some other friends to help comm…

The story is based around "spermulites", the alien inhabitants of a dying planet. The only way they can save their planet is by sucking the men of planet earth dry of sperm, kind of like horny vampires.