Genre: Drama
Chapel of Rest
Directed by Ben Mercer
Two mischievous young brothers attending their grandfather’s wake experience the surreal ceremony of death.
Sullivan’s Travels
Directed by Preston Sturges
Sturges made a career on exquisitely rendered comedies with a strongly humanistic drive—and perhaps nowhere does this alchemical mixture come …
César
Directed by Marcel Pagnol
The culminating episode, which can be fully appreciated without seeing the first two parts, continues the story 20 years later. …
Lean on Pete
Directed by Andrew Haigh
Fifteen-year-old Charley Thompson (Charlie Plummer) wants some stability: a home, food on the table, and a high school he can …
Jeannette, The Childhood of Joan of Arc
Directed by Bruno Dumont
France, 1425. In the midst of the Hundred Years’ War, 8-year-old Jeannette looks after her sheep in the small village …
Parks
Directed by Natsuki Seta
Produced to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Inokashira Park in Tokyo, Parks tells the story of three young friends who …
An Act of Defiance
Directed by Jean van de Velde
In this riveting historical drama, 10 political activists, including Nelson Mandela and his inner circle of Black and Jewish supporters, …
Summer with Monika
Directed by Ingmar Bergman
Originally regarded as an erotic exploitation film, Monika enjoyed reappraisal as Bergman gained international recognition. Here he first articulates his …
The Tree of Life
Directed by Terrence Malick
In what was only his fifth feature in almost 40 years, the reclusive director Terrence Malick sets the lives of …
Menashe
Directed by Joshua Z. Weinstein
Deep in the heart of New York’s ultra-orthodox Hasidic Jewish community, Menashe—a kind, hapless grocery store clerk—struggles to make ends …
Angels of Sin
Directed by Robert Bresson
Bresson’s first feature hints at the themes for which his later films would become famous: isolation, suffering, martyrdom, and the …
Come to My Voice
Directed by Huseyin Karabey
In a snowy Kurdish mountain village in the east of Turkey, an old woman and her granddaughter are distressed. The …