Hope and Pain
The adventures and tribulations of a group of students during the years following the II World War.
Genre: Drama
Director: Yoji Yamada
Actors: Eri Ishida, Hashinosuke Nakamura, Hiroko Yakushimaru, Isao Takeno, Jun Togawa, Kiyoshi Atsumi, Shinobu Sakagami, Tetta Sugimoto, Toshinori Omi, Toshiro Yanagiba
Body and Soul
A young man struggles to become a boxing champ, but success blinds him. It is only through the love of his girlfriend that he is brought back to reality.
Forty Shades of Blue
A Russian woman living in Memphis with a much older rock-n-roll legend experiences a personal awakening when her husband’s estranged son comes to visit.
The Time Capsule
In the near future, a politician fresh off an electoral loss escapes to his family’s summer lake house. His vacation is disrupted by the appearance of his first love, who…
Mr. Michel’s Dog
In 1977, after working as an assistant director on several features, BETTY BLUE filmmaker Jean-Jacques Beineix directed the following short film about a man and his dog.
Legend of the Lost Locket
When an antiques expert takes on a quest to find a long-lost locket that promises to bring the wearer true love, she finds herself in conflict with, but also attracted…
Absolution
At a Catholic boys’ school, domineering disciplinarian Father Goddard rules over his pupils with an iron hand. When one of his teenage charges confesses to murder, the dogmatic but deeply…
Pennies from Heaven
Larry Poole, in prison on a false charge, promises an inmate that when he gets out he will look up and help out a family. The family turns out to…
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
When Pericles discovers the dread answer to Antioch’s riddle, he flees for his life straight into famine, shipwreck, love, fatherhood, and another shipwreck; he loses his wife and daughter, and…
Choir Girl
CHOIR GIRL is a gritty drama about a lonely photographer, Eugene, who becomes obsessed with an underage prostitute, Josephine, in his rundown neighbourhood. She has escaped a worn-torn country only…
Go Fish
Max is a trendy, pretty, young lesbian, who is having trouble finding love. A friend sets her up with Ely, whom Max likes, but Ely is frumpy, homely, and older….
Elvis & Nixon
In 1970, a few days before Christmas, Elvis Presley showed up on the White House lawn seeking to be deputized into the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs by the…