Denis revisits Africa, this time exploring a place rife with civil and racial conflict. A white French family outlawed in its home and attempting to save its coffee plantation connects with a black hero also embroiled in the tumult. All try to survive as their world rapidly crumbles around them.
Frances lives in New York, but she doesn’;;t really have an apartment. Frances is an apprentice for a dance company, but she’;;s not really a dancer. Frances has a best friend named Sophie, but they aren’;;t really speaking anymore. Frances throws herself headlong into her dreams, even as their possible reality dwindles. Frances wants so […]
Psychologist Kim Kelvin is sent to a space station orbiting the moon of a distant planet to investigate a mysterious death. There, he discovers that the nearby planet of Solaris is having dangerous effects on the crew members, somehow transforming their memories and obsessions into living beings.
In 1951, a group of high school seniors come of age in a bleak, isolated, atrophied small town of Anarene, Texas, that is slowly dying, both economically and culturally.
After surviving a ship wreck on his way from India to Canada with his parents, a brother and their zoo animals, Pi is hurtled into an epic journey of adventure and discovery. While cast away, he forms an amazing and unexpected connection with another survivor… a fearsome Bengal tiger.
A Belgian girl, Carol, works as a manicurist at a London beauty salon. She shares a flat with her sister Helen. While Helen and Michael, her boyfriend, leave on a vacation to Pisa, Italy, Carol chooses largely to lock herself in the apartment, ditching work. Left alone in their flat, Carol’;;s moments of catalepsy and hallucination increase […]
Yiu-Fai and Po-Wing, who arrive in Argentina from Hong Kong and take to the road for a holiday and their relationship.
Veteran photojournalist Richard Boyle, down on his luck in the US, drives to El Salvador to chronicle the events of the 1980 military dictatorship, including the assasination of Archbishop Oscar Romero. When Boyle witnessed the execution of a student by government troops just as they enter the country, it becomes clear that this war is more serious […]
The young son of an American diplomat and his wife, living in London, turns out to be marked with the sign of Satan, the infamous ‘666’. It soon becomes apparent that he could be the Anti-Christ incarnate and possesses the evil powers to stop anyone who stands in his way. Mysterious deaths surround an American […]
Jeffrey Wigand was a scientist employed in research for a tobacco firm, Brown and Williamson. Not long after he was fired by Brown and Williamson, Wigand came into contact with Lowell Bergman, a producer for 60 Minutes who worked closely with journalist Mike Wallace. A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he […]
Set in a highly-stylized and ultra grim Manhattan, The Fisher King is Terry Gilliam’;;s magical reworking of an Arthurian legend. After hearing a popular DJ rail against yuppies, a madman carries out a massacre in a popular New York bar. A burned-out, embittered radio deejay finds personal salvation after he is saved from death by […]
Seth and Evan are best friends, navigating the last weeks of high school. But Evan and Seth both know that college is a place of personal reinvention, and that if they are able to make that first leap together they will have forged a bond powerful enough to last a lifetime.
Set in the high-stakes world of the financial industry, Margin Call is an entangling thriller involving the key players at an investment firm during one perilous 24-hour period in the early stages of the 2008 financial crisis. What follows is a long night of panicked double checking and double dealing as the senior management prepare […]
In a world connected by YouTube, iTunes, and Facebook, Lola and her friends navigate the peer pressures of high school romance and friendship while dodging their sometimes overbearing and confused parents. Broken-hearted by her ex, Lol’;;s world is soon turned upside down when she is surprised to find her best friend, Kyle, a musician in […]