Released Date:
1990-09-20
Languages:
English, Spanish
Countries:
New Zealand, Australia, UK
Runtime:
158 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.6 (4703 Reviews)
Director:
Jane CampionJanet Frame (autobiographical books "To the Is-Land"
"An Angel at My Table" and "The Envoy from Mirror City")
Laura Jones (screenplay)
In 1920s and 1930s New Zealand, Janet Frame grows up in a poor family with lots of brothers and sisters. Already at an early age she is different from the other kids. She gets an education as a teacher but since she is considered abnormal she stays at a mental institution for eight years. Success comes when she starts to write novels.
Released Date:
1995-07-28
Languages:
English
Countries:
Australia
Runtime:
118 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (584 Reviews)
Director:
Michael BlakemoreAdaptation of Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" set in rural Australia in the 1920's. Jack Dickens and his niece Sally run the family farm to support brother-in-law Alexander as a (supposedly brilliant) literary critic in London. Action begins when Alexander returns with his beautiful young wife Deborah, revealing himself as an arrogant failure and wanting to sell the farm out from under Jack. Blakemore introduces themes about Australia's separation from England, as well as expanding the pacifist and ecological philosophies espoused by the local Doctor Max Askey.
Released Date:
1995-02-10
Languages:
English
Countries:
UK
Runtime:
92 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.4 (42745 Reviews)
Director:
Danny BoyleThe new flatmate of three preexisting roommates turns up mysteriously dead but in possession of a large sum of money. When the roommates decide to keep it for themselves, their action sets in motion a destructive chain of events that spiral out of control.
Released Date:
1997-11-07
Languages:
English
Countries:
Canada, UK
Runtime:
91 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (2526 Reviews)
Director:
Thom FitzgeraldWilliam, a once obese and troubled teen, goes back to his family's home after being gone, without word, for ten years and finds it (and his family) haunted with his past. He had moved to the city and become a fit, well-adjusted gay man, but during his visit home, he becomes unhinged as the newly remembered reasons for his miserable adolescence come to life in each of their presents.
Released Date:
2001-03-28
Languages:
English
Countries:
France, UK, Germany, Spain
Runtime:
119 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.3 (8565 Reviews)
Director:
Patrice ChèreauHanif Kureishi (stories)
Anne-Louise Trividic
Patrice Chèreau
Jay, a failed musician, walked out of his family and now earns a living as head bartender in a trendy London pub. Every Wednesday afternoon a woman comes to his house for graphic, almost wordless, sex. One day Jay follows her and finds out about the rest of her life (and that her name is Claire). This eventually disrupts their relationship.
Released Date:
2003-05-15
Languages:
English
Countries:
UK
Runtime:
92 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
5.7 (6388 Reviews)
Director:
Brian GilbertWhile going to the town of Ashby Wake, the drifter Cassie is hit by a car driven by Marion Kirkman and loses her memory. Marion invites Cassie to stay in her huge old house with her family, while recovering from the trauma. Cassie becomes very close to Michael, the young son of Marion's husband Simon Kirkman. He is researching a recently discovered buried church from the First Century, with images of the crucifixion of Jesus and many anonymous persons watching it. Cassie starts having visions and premonitions with some locals, and decides to investigate the weird and nasty mechanic Frederick Michael Argyle. Her findings about who she is and the mystery relative to the locals and the town surprises her.
Released Date:
2004-10-01
Languages:
English
Countries:
Denmark, Iceland, Germany, UK
Runtime:
86 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.6 (315 Reviews)
Director:
Frièrik èèr FrièrikssonGenres:
DramaReleased Date:
2009-09-10
Languages:
English, German, Bosnian, Serbian
Countries:
Germany, Denmark, Netherlands, Sweden, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Runtime:
105 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.9 (1074 Reviews)
Director:
Hans-Christian SchmidGenres:
DramaBernd Lange
Hans-Christian Schmid
Hannah Maynard, a prosecutor of Hague's Tribunal for war crimes in former Yugoslavia, charges a Serbian commander for killing Bosnians. However, her main witness might be lying, so the court sends a team to Bosnia to investigate.
Released Date:
2009-10-09
Languages:
English, French
Countries:
UK, Australia, France
Runtime:
119 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
(19990 Reviews)
Director:
Jane CampionJane Campion
Jane Campion (screenplay)
Andrew Motion (biography "Keats")
It's 1818 in Hampstead Village on the outskirts of London. Poet Charles Brown lives in one half of a house, the Dilkes family who live in the other half. Through their association with the Dilkes, the fatherless Brawne family know Mr. Brown. The Brawne's eldest daughter, Fanny Brawne, and Mr. Brown don't like each other. She thinks he's arrogant and rude, and he feels that she is pretentious, knowing only how to sew (admittedly well as she makes all her own fashionable clothes), flirt and give opinions on subjects about which she knows nothing. Insecure struggling poet John Keats comes to live with his friend, Mr. Brown. Miss Brawne and Mr. Keats have a mutual attraction to each other, a relationship which however is slow to develop in part since Mr. Brown does whatever he can to keep the two apart. But other obstacles face the couple, including their eventual overwhelming passion for each other clouding their view of what the other does, Mr. Keats' struggling career which offers him little in the way of monetary security (which will lead to Mrs. Brawne not giving consent for them to marry), and health issues which had earlier taken the life of Mr. Keats' brother, Tom.
Released Date:
2011-11-17
Languages:
English
Countries:
UK, Australia
Runtime:
110 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
6.5 (2839 Reviews)
Director:
Jonathan TeplitzkySarah Keaton has just passed away following a difficult bout of cancer. She is survived by among others her loving executive chef/restaurateur husband, Tom Keaton, and their eight year old son, Oscar Keaton. The end of the Keatons' marriage was difficult not only because of the cancer itself, but also because they had divergently different views on treatment, and because her early prognosis was positive leading to both not treating the news of her imminent death well. Tom copes recklessly, irresponsibly and angrily in his grief, manifested by among other things indiscriminate casual sex with a multitude of partners. Also negatively affected by Tom's actions is Sarah's sister, Karen, who feels she needs to be the responsible one, especially as Oscar is often a casualty of Tom's irresponsibility. Many of the Keatons' friends and colleagues try to be there for Tom in any way they can, including Miriam, a therapist who is more a friend of a friend. Tom may have to go through much pain before he and by association Oscar can emerge from their grief intact, if Tom emerges from it at all before disaster strikes in his recklessness.
Released Date:
2015-02-06
Languages:
English
Countries:
Ireland
Runtime:
102 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (151 Reviews)
Director:
Terry McMahonPatrick is a warm, open, twenty-six year old virgin schizophrenic. Pills and his mother's protection means Patrick is no threat to himself or others. Until he falls in love. Maura is Patrick's obsessive mother and her need to control her son blinds her to the reality that sometimes the only thing more damaging than hate is misguided love. Soon to be redundant, alcoholic air-hostess, Karen, books into an hotel to end her life unaware that the intimacy she shares with Patrick will reintroduce her to living. Dysfunctional loner cop, Freeman, wants to be a stand-up comic, but, when Maura loses her son, Freeman will use his position to help her find him, for a price. A provocative love story about the right to intimacy for everyone Patrick's Day suggests, when it comes to love, we're all a little crazy.
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