The Emperor and the Assassin (1998)
In pre-unified China, the King of Qin sends his concubine to a rival kingdom to produce an assassin for a political plot, but as the king’s cruelty mounts she finds her loyalty faltering.
Director: Chen Kaige
Actors: Benshan Zhao, Chen Kaige, Gong Li, Haifeng Ding, Pan Chang-Jiang, Sun Zhou, Wang ZhiWen, Xiaohe Lü, Yongfei Gu, Zhang Fengyi
The Jew (1999)
The story of Brazilian Antônio José da Silva, a jewish poet, playwright and lawyer living in the 18th Century Lisbon, who managed to avoid Inquisition by converting himself to Catholicism,…
The Children of the Century (1999)
True tale of the tumultuous love affair between two French literary icons of the 19th Century, novelist George Sand and poet Alfred de Musset. But their affair falls apart during…
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Framed in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his…
Brother to Brother (2004)
A drama that looks back on the Harlem Renaissance from the perspective of an elderly, black writer who meets a gay teenager in a New York homeless shelter.
Up On The Glass (2020)
A wanderer named Jack DiMercurio secretly desires the life and wife of his more affluent friend, Andy Shelton. Past tensions resurface between the two men during an informal reunion at…
Jane (2022)
When Olivia gets deferred from her dream college, she begins to spiral. In an attempt to regain control, she embarks on a social media-fueled rampage against those that stand in…
Diên Biên Phu (1992)
Vietnam, 1954. An American reporter finds himself in the middle of the battle of Điện Biên Phủ, between the French army and the Vietminh.
Don’t Let Them Shoot the Kite (1989)
In Turkey, when a woman is sent to prison, her small children stay with her. In this film, Inci (say “Injee”) is sent to prison for murder in self-defense (which…