Drama Movies

Algeria, the 1930s. Younes is nine years old when he is put in his uncle’s care in Oran. Rebaptized Jonas, he grows up among the Rio Salado youths, with whom…

Alienated teen Pauline struggles with the pressures of fitting into high school, pleasing her mother and a burning desire to lose her virginity. With a grotesque curiosity for the darker…

Francine is released from prison and settles down in a small town. She is unable to regain a foothold in society and turns to animals for comfort.

Camille was only sixteen and still in high school when she fell in love with Eric, another student. They later married and a child and were happy for a while….

The We and the I is the heartfelt and comical story of the final bus ride home for a group of young high school students and graduates.

Alina returns to Romania from Germany, hoping to bring Voichita—the only person in the world she loves and was loved by—back with her. But Voichita has found God, and God…

Returning to a “home” they hardly know after being deported from their adopted countries for minor criminal offenses, three people from very different backgrounds try to make a new life…

A hyper-repressed and schlubby accountant (Jonas Chernick) strikes a deal with a worldly but disorganized stripper (Emily Hampshire): he’ll help her with her crushing debt if she helps him become…

HANNAH ARENDT is a portrait of the genius that shook the world with her discovery of “the banality of evil.” After she attends the Nazi Adolf Eichmann’s trial in Jerusalem,…

In the aftermath of the 1950 Winnipeg flood, Fernand floats listlessly through the sad, sunken landscape of ruin. His estranged wife prays for the drowned souls of Saint-Boniface.

Ali Toumi, born Algerian, has just escaped from a Belgian prison. Buying a new identity he hopes to make a fresh start and provide his son and himself with a…

Craig, a fiercely determined New Brunswick farmer, sets out to build a more suitable house for his ailing wife, Irene, despite their children’s concerns. As he starts building, he is…

Despite his age and general weariness, Gebo keeps on working as an accountant to provide for his family. He lives with his wife, Doroteia, and his daughter-in-law, Sofia, but it…

Based on the award-winning novel of the same name, this boldly erotic yet movingly tender portrait of a group of vulnerable, variously wounded people — a depressed housewife, her high-school-aged…

Two young men — a Palestinian grad student and an Israeli lawyer — meet and fall in love amidst personal and political intrigue.

The siblings of the Fitzgerald family must decide if the dad who abandoned them 20 years ago can come home for Christmas. Can the big Irish clan get past their…

In December 2004, close-knit family Maria, Henry and their three sons begin their winter vacation in Thailand. But the day after Christmas, the idyllic holiday turns into an incomprehensible nightmare…

In 1952, as England prepares for the coronation, two very different men have one thing in common—a face.

A young man recently released from prison recruits his three best friends to rob the local drug kingpin who is responsible for his incarceration.

This is a film about a troubled teen, Sean Randall, who is falsely accused of planning a Columbine shooting scenario. It all begins when an unlikely bond forms between Sean…

What Richard Did is a striking portrait of the fall of a Dublin golden-boy and high school rugby star whose world unravels one summer night.

A Canadian doctor finds her sympathies sorely tested while working in the conflict ravaged Palestinian territories.

As a war rages on in the province of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea, a young girl becomes transfixed by the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations, which is being read…

When single mom Megan Nolan moves to a new town, she feels guilty for uprooting her ten-year-old daughter Caitlin. Seeing that the little girl’s only friend is a neighbor’s dog,…

A young man in a small seaside town learns a thing or two about love, luck and life from his well-traveled, outlaw grandfather.

The Words follows young writer Rory Jansen who finally achieves long sought after literary success after publishing the next great American novel. There’s only one catch – he didn’t write…

A story of a man who fakes his own death and assumes a new identity in order to escape his life, who then moves in with a woman who is…

Aliide experienced The Great Terror under Stalin’s regime, and decades after her hometown people were deported to Siberia, she lives alone in an isolated house. One night, she finds a…

While both living under demanding conditions of city life, Sevda and Zuhal’s paths intersect when Sevda’s husband Cezmi starts having an affair with Zuhal. This betrayal is life threatening for…

Five passengers – the Bandit, his friend Matvei, Matvei’s old father, the Musician, and a young woman – race along an empty road in a big black jeep, searching for…

An affair with a 19-year old actor helps reinvigorate life for thirty-something Amy after she moves home to her parents’ house following her divorce.

Christopher, fifteen years old, has an extraordinary brain – exceptional at maths while ill-equipped to interpret everyday life. When he falls under suspicion of killing Mrs Shears’ dog Wellington, he…

In Imperial Russia, Anna, the wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets the charming cavalry officer Vronsky to whom she…

A playwright who begins to mentally unravel before premiere night. She is plagued by dreams and visions of being watched, but cannot decide if she is at the center of…

Based on the life of Indian guru Shirdi Sai Baba, who taught love, forgiveness, charity and devotion.

Jan, a young boy, grows up without a mother and is often insulted by his father. He struggles with his life as he longs to be with several women, even…

Ida, a Danish hairdresser who has lost her hair to cancer, returns home from the hospital one day to find her husband is cheating on her. She decides to travel…

Three stories about persons forced to think about the ethics and moral issues raised by medical advances.

One-time hard man Frank Barron is barely recognisable now he’s been afflicted with Alzheimer’s, but when his estranged son Jamie visits him in hospital he realises the extra stress Frank…

The comedy of the year. This wannabe magical romance-drama is one of the most illogical films ever and the actors, if not director Kam Kwok-Leung, may be aware of it….