Critically-acclaimed
Mother & Child
A drama centered around three women: A fifty-year-old woman, the daughter she gave up for adoption thirty-five years ago, and a woman looking to adopt a child of her own.
Playtime: 125 minutes
Production country / language: USA, Spain / English
Production year: 2009
Director(s): Rodrigo García
Producer(s): Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Lisa Maria Falcone, Julie Lynn
Genre: Drama, Romance
Cast: Naomi Watts, Annette Bening, Kerry Washington
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Shock Doctrine, The
An investigation of “disaster capitalism”, based on Naomi Klein’s proposition that neo-liberal capitalism feeds on natural disasters, war and terror to establish its dominance.
Playtime: 79 minutes
Production country / language: UK / English
Production year: 2009
Director(s): Mat Whitecross, Michael Winterbottom
Producer(s): Avi Lewis, Alex Cooke, Andrew Eaton
Genre: Documentary, Politics, War
Cast: Ewen Cameron, Janine Huard, Naomi Klein
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Return, The
In the Russian wilderness, two brothers face a range of new, conflicting emotions when their father – a man they know only through a single photograph – resurfaces.
Playtime: 110 minutes
Production country / language: Russia / Russian
Production year: 2003
Director(s): Andrey Zvyagintsev
Producer(s): Dmitry Lesnevsky
Genre: Drama
Cast: Vladimir Garin, Ivan Dobronravov, Konstantin Lavronenko
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Tamara Drewe
A young newspaper writer returns to her hometown in the English countryside, where her childhood home is being prepped for sale.
Playtime: 107 minutes
Production country / language: UK / English
Production year: 2010
Director(s): Stephen Frears
Producer(s): Tracey Seaward, Paul Trijbits
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Cast: Gemma Arterton, Luke Evans, Dominic Cooper
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Woody Allen Collection: Scoop
An American journalism student in London scoops a big story, and begins an affair with an aristocrat as the incident unfurls.
Playtime: 96 minutes
Production country / language: UK, USA / English
Production year: 2006
Director(s): Woody Allen
Producer(s): Letty Aronson, Gareth Wiley
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Hugh Jackman, Jim Dunk
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Woody Allen Collection: Match Point
Multiple award winning and Oscar nominated film from Woody Allen. At a turning point in his life, a former tennis pro falls for an actress who happens to be dating his friend and soon-to-be brother-in-law.
Playtime: 124 minutes
Production country / language: UK, Ireland, Luxembourg / English
Production year: 2005
Director(s): Woody Allen
Producer(s): Letty Aronson, Lucy Darwin, Gareth Wiley
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Thriller
Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Emily Mortimer
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Woody Allen Collection: Anything Else
Jerry Falk learns a lesson the hard way when he falls head over heels in love with a beautiful but flighty girl, Amanda.
Playtime: 108 minutes
Production country / language: USA / English
Production year: 2003
Director(s): Woody Allen
Producer(s): Letty Aronson, Stephen Tenenbaum
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Cast: Jason Biggs, Christina Ricci, Jimmy Fallon, Danny Devito, Woody Allen
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Wim Wenders Collection: Wrong Move aka Falsche Bewegung
A writer goes on a road trip across West Germany with a group of eclectic people he meets along the way.
Playtime: 103 minutes
Production country / language: West Germany / German
Production year: 1975
Director(s): Wim Wenders
Producer(s): Bernd Eichinger, Peter Genée, Joachim von Mengershausen
Genre: Drama
Cast: Rüdiger Vogler, Hanna Schygulla, Hans Christian Blech
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Wim Wenders Collection: Trick of the Light, A aka Die Gebrüder Skladanowsky
A rare gem of cinematic storytelling that weaves docudrama, fictional reenactment, and experimental photography into a powerful, reflective work on the early days of German cinema. The film tells the story of the Skladanowsky Brothers, the German-born duo responsible for inventing the “bioskop”, an early version of the film projector.
Playtime: 69 minutes
Production country / language: Germany / German
Production year: 1995
Director(s): Wim Wenders
Producer(s): Veit Helmer, Wolfgang Längsfeld
Genre: Drama, Biography
Cast: Stefan Barber, Wiebke Bayer, Nadine Büttner
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Wim Wenders Collection: Tokyo GA
Moved by the work of director Yasujirô Ozu, Wim Wenders travels to Japan in search of the Tokyo seen in Ozu’s films.
Playtime: 92 minutes
Production country / language: USA, West Germany / English, Japanese, German
Production year: 1985
Director(s): Wim Wenders
Producer(s): Wim Wenders, Chris Sievernich
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Chishû Ryû, Werner Herzog, Yûharu Atsuta
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