The Newcomers (2000)

Saint Peter, a reluctant but passionate leader, from the crucifixion of Jesus to his own. The film’s first half dramatizes the New Testament’s “Acts”: early fear, the renewal of Pentecost,…

When a father is forced to abruptly depart for work, he leaves his children, Aidan and Mia, at their holiday home in the care of his new girlfriend, Grace. Isolated…

Afghanistan. War correspondent Elsa Casanova is taken hostage by the Taliban. Faced with her imminent execution, a Special Forces unit is dispatched to free her. In some of the world’s…

In late-1970s suburban London, Chris and Marion have settled into a comfortable yet all-too-predictable middle-class existence. Chris receives an unexpected visit from his free-spirited friend Toni, a reunion that reminds…

A former football hero cannot accept his career is over. He loses himself in alcohol and women.

On the Wirral in the grim early years of Margaret Thatcher’s premiership, the opportunities for thrill seeking young men looking to escape 9 to 5 drudgery are what they’ve always…

Two sisters from Hungary become famous entertainers in the early 1900s. Fictionalized biography with lots of songs.

Climbing to fame, Irish-American composer Ernest R. Ball romances a showgirl, who catches the eye of an underworld character.

Teefa goes to Poland to get Anya to Pakistan to marry Butt gangster’s son but lands up in trouble with Anya’s gangster father and the Polish police.

Spain, 1974. A teenager and his father are traveling in a car that is the only property they have. Their life is a continuous move by desolate coastal apartments in…

A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu is on the run from the police.

Makio Kōdai is a shy 35-year-old woman. She works as a novelist. One day, her sibling and her sibling’s married partner die in a car accident. Makio Kōdai attends their…