Bleeder is a 1999 Danish crime drama film written, produced, and directed by Nicolas Winding Refn. The film was a big hit in Denmark, much like Refn’s previous film Pusher. Leo and Louise are a young couple living together in Copenhagen. Leo often goes out with his… Continue Reading
Whiplash is a 2014 American drama film written and directed by Damien Chazelle based on his experiences in the Princeton High School Studio Band. Starring Miles Teller and J. K. Simmons, the film depicts the relationship between an ambitious jazz student (Teller) and an abusive instructor (Simmons). Paul Reiser and Melissa Benoist co-star as the… Continue Reading
Prag (Prague in english) is a 2006 award winning danish Film written and directed by Ole Christian Madsen. A slowly crumbling relationship begins to collapse while a man performs an unpleasant family errand in this drama. Christoffer (Mads Mikkelsen) and… Continue Reading
The Theory of Everything is a 2014 British biographical coming of age romantic drama film directed by James Marsh and adapted by Anthony McCarten from the memoir Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen by Jane Wilde Hawking, which deals with her relationship with her ex-husband, theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, his diagnosis of motor neuron… Continue Reading
Relatos salvajes (Wild tales in the english version) is a 2014 Argentine-Spanish black comedy–drama film written and directed by Damián Szifrón. An anthology film, it is composed of six standalone shorts united by a common theme of violence and vengeance. Inequality, injustice and the demands of the world… Continue Reading
American History X is a 1998 American crime drama film directed by Tony Kaye and written by David McKenna. It stars Edward Norton and Edward Furlong. The film tells the story of two Venice, Los Angeles brothers who become involved in the neo-Nazi movement. The older brother serves three years in prison for voluntary manslaughter,… Continue Reading
Elephant is a 2003 drama film edited, written and directed by Gus Van Sant. It takes place in the fictional Watt High School, in the suburbs of Portland, Oregon, and chronicles the events surrounding a school shooting, based in part on the 1999 Columbine High School… Continue Reading
Das wilde Leben (Eight Miles High in the english version) is a German biographical motion picture, set in the 1960s and depicting the “wild life” of Uschi Obermaier, a West German groupie, interpreted by Natalia Avelon. Obermaier enjoyed sexual freedom at the legendary Kommune 1 in Berlin… Continue Reading
Requiem for a Dream is a 2000 American psychological drama film directed by Darren Aronofsky and starring Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, and Marlon Wayans. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Hubert Selby, Jr., with whom Aronofsky wrote the screenplay, and it depicts different forms of addiction,… Continue Reading
Dark Horse is a 2005 Danish comedic drama film directed by Dagur Kári about a young man, his best friend, and a girl. Kári reworks several thematic and topical elements from his prior film, Nói Albinói. He also crafts a feature which brings together… Continue Reading
Nymphomaniac is a 2013 two-part drama art film written and directed by Lars Von Trier. On a snowy evening, the elderly bachelor Seligman (Skarsgård) finds the self-diagnosed nymphomaniac Joe (Gainsbourg) beaten up and lying in an alleyway. He brings her back to his… Continue Reading
The fifth feature of noted Spanish filmmaker Alex de la Iglesia, La Comunidad (Common Wealth in the english version), is a frenetic black comedy from 2000 set in a decrepit old house in the center of Madrid. One of the… Continue Reading
Into the Wild is a 2007 American biographical drama survival film written and directed by Sean Penn and starring Emile Hirsch. It is an adaptation of the 1996 non-fiction book of the same name by Jon Krakauer based on the travels of Christopher McCandless… Continue Reading
London is a 2005 independent film centering on a Manhattan party, which becomes a metaphor for the wasted lives of a handful of young hipsters in this edgy independent drama. Syd (Chris Evans) awakes from the latest in a long series of drug-… Continue Reading
Efter brylluppet (After the wedding in the english version) is a 2006 Danish drama directed by Susanne Bier, in which a manager of an orphanage in India is sent to Copenhagen, Denmark, where he discovers a life-altering family secret. It stars Mads Mikkelsen and… Continue Reading
Les petits mouchoirs (Little White Lies in the english version) is a 2010 French comedy-drama film written and directed by Guillaume Canet. In a Parisian nightclub, party man Ludo (Jean Dujardin) takes off late at night on his scooter, where he’s blindsided by… Continue Reading
Hunger is a 2008 British/Irish film based in Northern Ireland, UK. It is a historical drama film directed by Steve McQueen and starring Michael Fassbender, Liam Cunningham and Liam McMahon, about the 1981 Irish hunger strike. It was written by Enda Walsh and McQueen. The film… Continue Reading
Non ti muovere (Don’t move in the english version) is a 2004 italian film directed by Sergio Castellitto. Timoteo (Castellitto), a surgeon, gets the shocking news that his fifteen-year old daughter Angela (Elena Perino) has been seriously injured in a motorcycle accident. As… Continue Reading
Based on true events and set in 1979, Skin is the tragic story of a boy who, in trying to break free from life with a father traumatized by the Holocaust, is led into the emerging skin-head youth culture and… Continue Reading
Boys Don’t Cry is a 1999 American independent romantic drama film directed by Kimberly Peirce and co-written by Andy Bienen. The film is a dramatization of the real-life story of Brandon Teena, a trans man played in the film by Hilary Swank, who is beaten,… Continue Reading
We Need to Talk About Kevin is a 2011 British-American psychological thriller film, directed by Lynne Ramsay and adapted from Lionel Shriver’s novel of the same name. Tilda Swinton stars as the mother of Kevin, struggling to come to terms with her son and the horrors… Continue Reading
Tokyo! is a 2008 anthology film containing three segments written by three non-Japanese directors, all of which were filmed in Tokyo, Japan. Michel Gondry directed “Interior Design”, Leos Carax directed “Merde”, and Bong Joon-Ho directed “Shaking Tokyo”. The last one centers on a man who has lived… Continue Reading
Låt den Rätte Komma In (“Let the right one in” in the english version) is a 2008 Swedish romantic horror film directed by Tomas Alfredson, based on the 2004 novel of the same title by John Ajvide Lindqvist, who also… Continue Reading
Oh Boy (A coffee in Berlin in the english version) is a 2012 German comedy film directed by Jan-Ole Gerster. It is the director’s debut film in black and white, and thesis project for the German Film and Television Academy in… Continue Reading
Crazy Heart is a 2009 American drama film, written and directed by Scott Cooper and based on the 1987 novel of the same name by Thomas Cobb. Jeff Bridges plays a down-and-out country music singer-songwriter who tries to turn his… Continue Reading
A dedicated young German boy pulls off an elaborate scheme to keep his mother in good health in this comedy drama from director Wolfgang Becker. Hailed as the Best European Film at the 2003 Berlin Film Festival, Goodbye Lenin! is set… Continue Reading
A shy trainee massage therapist at a luxury hotel on the German coast strikes up a very unusual friendship with a loud, no-nonsense apprentice from the kitchen in Love Steaks, the second feature of precocious filmmaker Jakob Lass (the film… Continue Reading
Broken Flowers is a 2005 French-American comedy-drama film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch and produced by Jon Kilik and Stacey Smith. The film focuses on an aging “Don Juan” (Bill Murray) who embarks on a cross-country journey to track… Continue Reading
25th Hour is a 2002 American drama film directed by Spike Lee and starring Edward Norton. Based on the novel The 25th Hour by David Benioff, who also wrote the screenplay, it tells the story of a man’s last 24… Continue Reading
Filmed over 12 years with the same cast, Richard Linklater’s Boyhood is a groundbreaking story of growing up as seen through the eyes of a child named Mason (a breakthrough performance by Ellar Coltrane), who literally grows up on screen before… Continue Reading
Adams Äpfel (Adam’s Apples) is a 2005 Danish black comedy film that revolves around the theme of the Book of Job. An overly-optimistic preacher (Mads Mikkelsen) with a penchant for taking in lost causes to help around his remote church, finds… Continue Reading
Searching for Sugar Man is a 2012 Swedish–British documentary film directed and written by Malik Bendjelloul, which details the efforts of two Cape Town fans in the late 1990s, Stephen ‘Sugar’ Segerman and Craig Bartholomew Strydom, to find out whether… Continue Reading
Dirty Pretty Things is a 2002 British thriller film directed by Stephen Frears and written by Steven Knight, a drama about two illegal immigrants in London. It was produced by BBC Films and Celador Films. The film was nominated for an… Continue Reading
The Pusher trilogy films by Danish film director Nicolas Winding Refn illustrate and explore the criminal underworld of Copenhagen. The first film (Pusher) follows Frank for a week, a mid-level drug dealer who becomes indebted to his supplier, Milo. It depicts… Continue Reading
C’est arrivé près de chez vous (Man bites dog in the english version)) is a 1992 Belgian black comedy crime mockumentary written, produced and directed by Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel and Benoît Poelvoorde, who are also the film’s co-editor, cinematographer… Continue Reading
Hundstage (Dog days in english) is a 2001 Austrian feature film directed by Ulrich Seidl. It is characterized by a disturbing naturalistic style which is a trademark of Seidl’s directing. The film stars a mix of professional and amateur actors… Continue Reading
Buffalo ’66 is a 1998 comedy-drama film that is writer-director Vincent Gallo’s full-length motion picture debut.Having just served five years in prison for a crime he did not commit, Billy Brown (Vincent Gallo) kidnaps a young tap dancer named Layla… Continue Reading
Candy is a 2006 Australian romantic drama film, adapted from Luke Davies’s novel Candy: A Novel of Love and Addiction. The film was directed by debut film-maker Neil Armfield and stars Heath Ledger, Abbie Cornish and Geoffrey Rush. A poet named… Continue Reading
Mr. Morgan’s Last Love (also known as Last Love) is an 2013 comedy-drama film based on Francoise Dorner’s French novel La Douceur Assassine. It is written and directed by Sandra Nettelbeck and stars Michael Caine and Clémence Poésy. The film centres… Continue Reading
Romper Stomper is a 1992 Australian crime drama film written and directed by Geoffrey Wright, starring Russell Crowe, Daniel Pollock, Jacqueline McKenzie and Tony Lee. The film follows the exploits and downfall of a neo-Nazi group in blue-collar suburban Melbourne. Geoffrey… Continue Reading