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
Ten Benny (1995)
The story of a young shoe salesman whose overestimation of his own sharpness leads to gambling debts, pissed-off loan sharks, and overall misery.
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (2022)
During the rise of fascism in Mussolini’s Italy, a wooden boy brought magically to life struggles to live up to his father’s expectations.
Hit and Run (2009)
Mary Murdock, a college student, thinks she’s hit and killed a cat with her car driving home drunk from a party. She is horrified beyond words when she gets home…
The Apostle (1997)
After his happy life spins out of control, a preacher from Texas changes his name, goes to Louisiana and starts preaching on the radio.
The Survivors (1979)
A bourgeois Cuban family of aristocratic origin locks itself into its mansion when the Cuban Revolution comes to power, waiting for the new regime to be overthrown. As time passes,…