Rainer Werner Fassbinder not only directed Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Angst essen Seele auf),
but also scripted the film, designed the sets, and produced. Brigitte Mira heads the cast as a lonely German cleaning woman, who enters into an ...
New Zealand poet Janet Frame is the subject of Jane Campion's biographical drama, which presents
a poetically evocative look at the authoress' turbulent life. The film begins with a look at Frame's childhood, showing her as a bright but odd-looking, ...
Written and directed by French filmmaker Olivier Assayas, L'Eau Froide is a romantic drama about
young, rebellious love in 1972 Paris. Christine (Virginie Ledoyen) and Gilles (Cyprien Fouquet) are 16-year-old lovers who have become frustrated with the aloofness of their ...
Though it is seldom discussed (or acknowledged) in the West, modern-day France incorporates a substantial
number of immigrant communities, with many indigenes from North Africa populating the bucolic regions of southern Gaul. Abdel Kechiche's La Graine et le Mulet hones ...
Master filmmaker Kenji Mizoguchi directed this tale of star-crossed lovers, based on a puppet play
by Monzaemon Chikamatsu. Set in 1693 during a period of rigid feudal hierarchy and strict social customs, the film begins at the estate of a ...
An innocent youth finds love and, eventually, heartbreak in this film, which ranks among Ingmar
Bergman's simplest and most unaffected. Harry (Lars Ekborg), the unworldly, unhappy hero, suffers at his job and in his personal life. Then he falls in ...
Terence Davies' blissful, evocative and non-narrative follow-up to his Distant Voices, Still Lives follows a
few months in the life of 12-year-old Bud (Leigh McCormack), in impressionistic snatches of his everyday existence growing up in the Liverpool of 1956. Bud's ...
Throughout a career that encompasses both visually arresting art-house hits and big-budget Hollywood spectacles, director
GUILLERMO DEL TORO has continually redefined and elevated the horror genre with his deeply personal explorations of myths and monsters. These three Spanish-language films, each ...
