Plot Synopsis
In this urban drama, a teenage street punk learns a valuable lesson about the dangers of crime. Jackie Cooper is the tough gangleader with political aspirations. He tries to get himself involved in the graft and corruption of local city government. He almost dies after he is plugged by a gangster. That is the turning point in his life. He decides to forego the crooked path for the straight and narrow. He takes his sweetheart along for the ride.Read More »
Thirty-year-old Jérémie returns to Saint-Martial to attend an old friend’s funeral. In this village full of things left unsaid, he finds himself the target of rumour and suspicion, to the point he commits an irreparable act and finds himself at the centre of a police investigation.Read More »
In a remote woodland cabin, a small-town doctor discovers Nell – a beautiful young hermit-woman with many secrets.Read More »
Farm family Frake, with discontented daughter Margy, head for the Iowa State Fair. On the first day, both Margy and brother Wayne meet attractive new flames; so does father’s prize hog, Blue Boy. As the fair proceeds, so do the romances; must lovers separate when the fair closes?Read More »
Sin of God was made as a studio exercise by the world-famous Polish-born director Agnieszka Holland (born 1948) during her studies at FAMU in Prague. The plot is based on Isaac Babel’s short story The Sin of Jesus. – A young maid Arina (Jaroslava Pokorná) has a love affair with a peddler Serega. She is even pregnant with him for the second time. She doesn’t take care of the twins from her first pregnancy, she gave them to a foundling. Her lover, however, has to enlist. The inexperienced mother does not know how to fulfil her sexual and emotional desires during Serega’s absence. So she consults God. He sends her an angel, Alfred, with whom she cannot conceive. But this is not the end of the woman’s troubles, rather the beginning.Read More »
Synopsis
A factory worker in a dark, gray world assembles devices that promise happiness. In his spare time he tinkers to create something better, and finally succeeds in perfecting his invention, which allows people to see life through rose-colored glasses. But he has to pay a price for his success.Read More »
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Three years after his wife, acclaimed photographer Isabelle Reed, dies in a car crash, Gene keeps everyday life going with his shy teenage son, Conrad. A planned exhibition of Isabelle’s photographs prompts Gene’s older son, Jonah, to return to the house he grew up in – and for the first time in a very long time, the father and the two brothers are living under the same roof.Read More »
23 year-old Zoë ought to be wild and free but she’s already got four kids. WASP takes place on a day when Zoë is broke and her kids are hungry. When Dave, an old flame, swings by with the offer of brief release she lies about being a mum and leaves her kids outside the pub. Nearby, late summer wasps are hunting for food around an old rubbish bin.
Wasp was Andrea Arnold’s third short, which won over 30 international festival awards and the Oscar for Best Short Film in 2005. Her first feature film, Red Road, premiered in competition at Cannes winning the Jury Prize in 2006.Read More »
Synopsis
Adapted from a work by Paul Bowles and co-written by Andre Techine, this film — directed by Benoit Graffin) — is about the complicated relationship between a young up-and-comer and a silver-haired lothario. Driss is a jack-of-all trades type who sells fish from his car and moves furniture from one end of his hometown Tangiers to the other. His girlfriend is a free-spirited and wealthy European lass who runs an antique shop. One day, Driss becomes fascinated with Fouad, an old man who runs a rundown caf by the beach.Read More »