Nuts (1987)

An offbeat look at four Crescent City layabouts, who dream big in a ‘small change’ world of cards, women and endless cups of coffee. Their passionate blundering, like their rants,…

The widows of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X and how they carry on as single mothers after the assassination of their husbands.

Robert Shaw slaughters his wife’s lover and runs away with his secretary Jacqueline. Helped by a French trapper who takes them for film-makers, they hide in Northern Canada.

Compton Bennett’s war drama The Gift Horse follows the fortunes of ageing destroyer The Ballantrae and her crew from the time they come together in 1940 until the climactic raid…

The story kicks off on Hartcliffe council estate in Bristol during the early 1980s. It follows Steven Knight, a working-class boy who has his motorbike stolen the day he buys…

Sarah, a former professional kickboxer from Vienna, accepts an offer to work as a personal trainer for a rich family in the Middle East. She finds herself in a foreign…

Jackie Justice is a mixed martial arts fighter who leaves the sport in disgrace. Down on her luck and simmering with rage and regret years after the fight, she’s coaxed…

John is a man of many talents, including one forbidden skill: he can read. When he teaches a young slave girl named Sarny to read and write, she learns an…

The story follows twelve-year-old Xiaoxian’s memories of her family and her village. During seven days, the girl witnesses three deaths and two births, including the death of her own mother,…

At a remote location in the mountains of Mexico lives Artemio, a farmer who is watching the desolate plot of land on which he works and his life itself slip…

When Natalie Conway’s father passes away, she believes she will forever be on her own. So when her long lost brother, Luke, returns after a twenty-year hiatus she’s elated. He’s…

A woman recalls her life and musical career choices in New York City through the years.