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Dee Rees – Pariah (2011)
Plot / Synopsis Adepero Oduye portrays Alike (pronounced ah-lee-kay), a 17-year-old African-American woman who lives with her parents Audrey and Arthur (Kim Wayans and Charles Parnell) and younger...
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Alice Wu – Saving Face (2004)
A romantic comedy about right, wrong and everything in between A Chinese-American surgeon, living in Manhattan, is shocked when her single mother shows up on her doorstep pregnant. To help her mom...
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Ki-duk Kim – Samaria AKA Samaritan Girl (2004)
Jae-Young is an amateur prostitute who sleeps with men while her best friend Yeo-Jin “manages” her, fixing dates, taking care of the money and making sure the coast is clear. When Jae-Young falls in...
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Cheryl Dunye – The Watermelon Woman (1996)
From IMDB: Cheryl is young, Black, and lesbian, working in Philadelphia with her best friend Tamara and consumed by a film project: to make a video about her search for a Black actress from Philly who...
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Jenifer Malmqvist – Födelsedag AKA Birthday (2010)
Sara prepares a surprise for her wife Katarina’s birthday with the help of their daughter Johanna and their friend Fredrik. But on this early summer day, Katarina has something to tell her that will...
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Isaac Julien – Derek [+Extras] (2008)
Quote: An artist spends his or her existence examining life through their art, so why is it often so hard to use art to examine the artist’s life in turn? We’ve all seen biopics that merely scratch...
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William Wyler – Ben-Hur (1959)
Synopsis by Hal Erickson This 1959 version of Lew Wallace’s best-selling novel, which had already seen screen versions in 1907 and 1926, went on to win 11 Academy Awards. Adapted by Karl Tunberg and a...
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Gianna Sobol – Public Relations (2010)
Sienna Farall and Summer Bishil, star in this hilarious short film about a miserable Hollywood assistant who finds romance when her sexy New York counterpart arrives in town. A funny, fresh take on...
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Pedro Almodóvar – La mala educación AKA Bad Education (2004)
Quote: The wag who first suggested running the trailer for Bad Education before screenings of The Passion of the Christ in southern France deserves a rosette for provocation beyond the call of duty....
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Peter Bogdanovich – Saint Jack [+Extras] (1979)
Quote: After a couple of major studio flops, Peter Bogdanovich returned to his 1960s filmmaking roots with this Roger Corman-produced low budget film. Easygoing expatriate Jack Flowers (Ben Gazzara)...
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Sung-eun Lee – I Am Jin Young (2006)
A cute and comic film about first love and sexual identity. Schoolgirl Jin s Young s mother brings home another woman and our model student finds herself coming to terms with growing up, a major crush...
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René Clément – Plein soleil AKA Purple Noon [+Extras] (1960)
Synopsis: ‘Tom Ripley and Philippe Greenleaf are lately inseparable friends. They’re both idling in Europe, but on papa Greenleaf’s dime. Philippe’s fiancee Marge feels sorry for Tom but resents his...
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Raj Amit Kumar – Unfreedom (2014)
The movie that is BANNED in India. Quote: When a film is “banned” by the Censor Board of Film Certification, you know you are onto something. Well, that is exactly the case with Raj Amit Kumar’s film...
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Gian Carlo Menotti – The Medium (1951)
This is the 1951 film of Menotti’s opera about a fake medium who starts to feel real supernatural presences. Beautifully filmed and sung (in English)...
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Nina Reyes Rosenberg – Organism (2010)
The story of the on / off relationship of high school lovers Carmen and Jen. Sometimes surreal but always sexy, this short film places the spotlight on relationship blues in a palette of dayglo pink...
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John Frankenheimer – Seconds (1966)
Quote: Have you ever suffered from a bout of insomnia, and ended up channel hopping into the small hours of the morning as a result? And having done so, have you ever came across a film that you’ve...
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Michael Winterbottom – Butterfly Kiss (1995)
Quote: Winterbottom’s theatrical feature debut Butterfly Kiss was released into UK theatres in August 1995. Set in a dystopian environment limited almost entirely to motorways, service stations and...
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Christophe Honoré – Métamorphoses (2014)
Quote: One of France’s most unpredictable writer-directors, Christophe Honoré (Dans Paris, Love Songs) offers an audacious, erotically upfront re-reading of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, enacted by a fearless...
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James Whale – Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Sequel to 1931’s Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein was directed by James Whale and stars Boris Karloff as The Monster, Elsa Lanchester in the dual role of his mate and Mary Shelley, Colin Clive as...
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Derek Jarman – The Tempest (1979)
Quote: Prospero, a potent necromancer, lives on a desolate isle with his virginal daughter, Miranda. He’s in exile, banished from his duchy by his usurping brother and the King of Naples. Providence...
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