Cinema Paradiso (1988)

For Gwen, it’s always 1999. The face in the mirror is unfamiliar and her partner isn’t recognizable to her despite waking up together every day. Joe’s past is coming undone…

Valerie, a Czechoslovakian teenager living with her grandmother, is blossoming into womanhood, but that transformation proves secondary to the effects she experiences when she puts on a pair of magic…

Professional beach bum and ‘knight errant’ Travis McGee goes up against psychotic body-builder Terry Bartell. McGee pulls out all the stops when he joins a Caribbean cruise to bring the…

Three stories about the impact of three God’s miracles in the medieval sense that happen to the film’s heroes living in a post-communist society that, after half a century of…

Bartender on parole gets re-involved with his previous girlfriend, only to discover he’s part of her criminal scheme.

After years spent working as a prostitute in her Italian village, middle-aged Mamma Roma has saved enough money to buy herself a fruit stand so that she can have a…

The son of a crooked cop follows in his father’s footsteps. He joins an elite group of cops known as the “Flying Tigers” and there learns the true meaning of…

An illegitimate child of the slums comes to faith. Later, she chooses to labor in a canning factory in order to investigate its poor conditions, not realizing she has a…

Jarhead is a film about a US Marine Anthony Swofford’s experience in the Gulf War. After putting up with an arduous boot camp, Swofford and his unit are sent to…

After years abroad in Italy, Shadi returns to his native Nazareth. But this is no spectacular homecoming. He’s back somewhat begrudgingly to honour his “wajib” (or duty) to hand out…

Compelled by grief and curiosity a young Englishman travels to France where he meets an eccentric older woman and unearths truths about the father he never really knew and about…

Old sailor Chris Christofferson eagerly awaits the arrival of his grown daughter Anna, whom he sent at five years old to live with relatives in Minnesota. He has not seen…