Finding Forrester (2000)
Director: Gus Van Sant
Actors: Anna Paquin, Busta Rhymes, Damany Mathis, F. Murray Abraham, Rob Brown, Sean Connery
Country: United States of America
Ghost of My Father (2020)
An arthouse debut feature follows a grizzled ex-con’s first day of freedom as he struggles to reconnect with his conflicted son.
Smoke Signal (1955)
Capt. Harper’s cavalry patrol returns to the fort to find it besieged by Ute Indians. The apparent cause is the recapture of Army traitor Brett Halliday, who deserted to the…
Things We Lost in the Fire (2007)
A recent widow invites her husband’s troubled best friend to live with her and her two children. As he gradually turns his life around, he helps the family cope and…
The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq (2014)
In September 2011 writer Michel Houellebecq briefly disappeared off the face of the earth. Wild rumours began circulating on the Internet that he’d been abducted by Al-Qaeda or aliens from…
Close-Up (1990)
This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered…
Bullfighter and the Lady (1951)
An American takes up bullfighting to impress the ladies but learns to respect the sport.
The Big Game (1973)
Two soldiers of fortune are hired by an inventor to protect him and his invention, a radar-like machine that is capable of controlling armies and forcing them to fight.