2024-07-03
The life of the writer of a television program in Uruguay is affected by the pressures of the military in the year that preceded the military coup of 1973.
While at Oxford University, a chance encounter with the charming and decadent Sebastian Flyte, son of Lord and Lady Marchmain, draws Charles Ryder into the exclusive world of British high society. For the impressionable Charles, Sebastian's world of money, glamour and outrageous behaviour makes for a seductive cocktail.
A recently deposed European monarch from a fictional country seeks shelter in New York City where he becomes an accidental television celebrity. But when he supports a child with communist parents, he also gets wrongly accused.
During World War II, the tiny Scottish island of Todday runs out of whisky. When the freighter SS Cabinet Minister runs aground nearby during a heavy fog, the islanders are delighted to learn that its cargo consists of 50,000 cases of whisky. But when an officious English captain demands the return of the liquor, the islanders rebel.
A Muslim refugee from Chechnya illegally immigrates to Hamburg where he is caught in a war on terrorism. Based on the novel of the same name.
In the aftermath of World War I, a young German woman travels to the grave of her fiance in France, where she finds a mysterious Frenchman who has come to pay his respects. Nominated for 11 Cesar Awards in 2017, including Best Film and Best Director. Directed by Francois Ozon and stars Pierre Niney and Paula Beer.
New York-raised Sarah visits Malaysia for the first time, and because of her mother's work commitments elsewhere, has to move in with a grandfather she's never met. She struggles to accept her grandfather's traditional lifestyle and refuses to communicate with him.
A cinematic journey into the world of a monastic community that practises the art of mindfulness with Zen Buddhist master Thich Nhat Hanh.
Gwen Cummings (Sandra Bullock), a big-city newspaper columnist, is sent to a rehab centre after ruining her sister's wedding and crashing a stolen limousine. There, she re-examines her life and begins to make new friends. Stars Viggo Mortensen, Steve Buscemi and Dominic West.
When a teenage girl is kidnapped, a jaded enforcer begins a rescue mission, but uncovers high-level corruption and abuses of power. As he is engulfed in his search for the girl, he is forced to reckon with his own childhood traumas suffered at the hands of his abusive father.
A promiscuous young woman struggles with her emotions when the one man she cares deeply about, her equally restless father, finally finds true love.
Jimmy, a nihilist, carries a black leather doctor's bag containing the rope he plans to hang himself with. When he visits his hometown his father dies.