Genre: Drama
Ratcatcher
Directed by Lynne Ramsay
Taking place during a 1970s garbage strike in Glasgow, Lynne Ramsay’s Ratcatcher follows young James (William Eadie) who lives in …
Bless Their Little Hearts
Directed by Billy Woodberry
A crucial film about inner-city life and the difficulty of modern Black experience in a capitalist climate which is extremely …
Lolita
Directed by Stanley Kubrick
Lolita began the string of masterpieces that form the second half of Kubrick’s career, through which he became one of …
Charlie’s Country
Directed by Rolf de Heer
This year’s Australian submission for the Best Foreign Film Oscar features a soulful performance from David Gulpilil, who received the …
The Golden Era
Directed by Ann Hui
Selected as the closing night film at the Venice Film Festival, Hui’s modernist biopic tells the epic tale of Manchurian …
The President
Directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf
In this dark satire, The President and his family rule their land with an iron fist, enjoying lives of luxury …
American Dreams in China
Directed by Peter Ho-Sun Chan
In 1985, in the midst of China’s economic reform period, three college students in Beijing—an overzealous country boy who refuses …
Ida
Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski
Orphaned during World War II and raised in a rural convent, Anna is about to take her own vows. But …
Two Lives
Directed by George Maas, Judith Kaufmann
1990. After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War, a flood of information from …
Fire Season
Directed by Courtney Saunders
During a dry, hot summer in a small Montana town, two sisters share a brief, intense relationship with a young …
The Long Day Closes
Directed by Terence Davies
Liverpool, 1950s. A drab and dreary existence hangs over the town. 11-year-old Bud (Leigh McCormack) lives a comfortable life, surrounded …
Fanny
Directed by Marc Allégret
Picking up moments after the end of Marius, Fanny grieves after Marius’s departure—and realizes that she’s pregnant. Panisse continues courting …