In Bruges is a 2008 British-American crime-black comedy film written and directed by Martin McDonagh. The film stars Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson as two Irish hitmen in hiding, with Ralph Fiennes as their gangster boss. The film takes place, and was filmed, in the Belgian city of Bruges. In Bruges was the opening night film of… Continue Reading
Eden Lake is a 2008 British thriller film written and directed by James Watkins and starring Kelly Reilly, Michael Fassbender and Jack O’Connell. Refusing to let anything spoil their romantic weekend break, a young couple confront a gang of loutish youths with terrifyingly brutal consequences. Dennis Harvey reviewed the film for Variety and… Continue Reading
Carlito’s Way is a 1993 American crime drama film directed by Brian De Palma, based on the novels Carlito’s Way and After Hours by Judge Edwin Torres. The film follows the life of Carlito Brigante after he is released from prison and vows to go straight and retire. However,… Continue Reading
Amy is a 2015 British documentary film that depicts the life and death of singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse and is directed by Asif Kapadia. The narrative is focused in Winehouse’s life, who was found dead on 23 July 2011 from alcohol poisoning, at the age of 27 at her home in Camden, North… Continue Reading
2nd Prize Winner of Tropfest Australia 2014, the short film ‘Red Nuts‘ by Director Jackson Mullane explores themes of mortality with a darkly tale of Sam, a suppressed 30-something with a real fear of confrontation, who has just discovered he only has two… Continue Reading
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a 1994 American horror film directed by Kenneth Branagh and starring Robert De Niro, Helena Bonham Carter and Branagh. When the brilliant but unorthodox scientist Victor Frankenstein rejects the artificial man that he has created, the Creature escapes and later swears revenge. The… Continue Reading
Bug is a 1975 American horror film in Panavision, starring Bradford Dillman, Joanna Miles, and Richard Gilliland. An earthquake releases a bunch of mutant cockroaches that can create fire by rubbing their cerci together. Eventually most of the bugs die because they cannot survive in the low air pressure on the Earth’s… Continue Reading
Phenomena is a 1985 Italian horror film directed by Dario Argento and starring Jennifer Connelly, Daria Nicolodi, and Donald Pleasence. Its plot focuses on a young girl at a remote Swiss boarding school who discovers she has psychic powers that allow her to communicate with insects, and uses them to pursue a serial… Continue Reading
Leaving Las Vegas is a 1995 romantic drama film written and directed by Mike Figgis and based on a semi-autobiographical novel of the same name by John O’Brien. Nicolas Cage stars as a suicidal alcoholic who has ended his personal and professional life to drink himself to death in Las Vegas. While there, he… Continue Reading
Charlie Countryman (originally known as The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman) is a 2013 American-Romanian psychological romantic comedy-drama film directed by Fredrik Bond in his directorial debut, written by Matt Drake, and starring Shia LaBeouf, Evan Rachel Wood, Mads Mikkelsen, Til Schweiger, Rupert Grint and Aubrey Plaza. While traveling abroad, a guy falls for… Continue Reading
The Outsiders is a 1983 American drama film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, an adaptation of the novel of the same name by S. E. Hinton. Jo Ellen Misakian, a librarian at Lone Star Elementary School in Fresno, California, and her students were responsible for inspiring Coppola to make the film, which is noted for… Continue Reading
Hesher is a 2010 American dark comedy/drama film co-written and directed by Spencer Susser and starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Rainn Wilson, Natalie Portman (who also produced the film) and Devin Brochu. Following the loss of his mother in a car crash, T.J. (Devin Brochu) falls into a state of depression. He… 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
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
Serving as a “mini-sequel” from Ramin Serry’s indie feature film, Loveless, this short film focuses on the same central character, Andrew, a commitment-adverse Manhattanite lothario. In this particular adventure, he’s on a quest to round home plate with his drunken date.… Continue Reading
Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic war film set during the Vietnam War, Produced and Directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen, and Robert Duvall. The film follows the central character, U.S. Army special operations officer Captain Benjamin L. Willard (Sheen), on a mission to kill the renegade and presumed insane U.S.… Continue Reading
Written and directed by American cinematographer Po Chan, The Last 3 Minutes is an unashamedly tear-jerking flashback through a dying man’s life. Every shot is lovingly crafted and there are some beautiful American landscapes, as one might expect from an American DoP.… Continue Reading
This short film is a nicely twisted take on the fun we have carving pumpkins, only that it’s told from the point of view of a pumpkin. It follows a pumpkin that is kidnapped from a pumpkin patch, stabbed and… 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
La Grande Bouffe (The big feast or Blow-Out in the english version) is a 1973 French–Italian film. Subversive Italian satirist Marco Ferreri directed and co-wrote (with Rafael Azcona) this grotesquely amusing French black comedy about four men who grow sick of… Continue Reading
Cyborg, known in the UK as Cyborg 009, is a 1989 American martial-arts science fiction film directed by Albert Pyun. Jean-Claude Van Damme stars as Gibson Rickenbacker, a mercenary who battles a group of murderous marauders led by Fender Tremolo… Continue Reading
Oscar-nominated dark comedy short film about the frustrations of being stuck in traffic while your wife cheats on you.
Der Himmel über Berlin (Wings of desire in the english version) is a 1987 Franco-German romantic fantasy film directed by Wim Wenders. The film is about invisible, immortal angels who populate Berlin and listen to the thoughts of the human… Continue Reading
Tonight Is Not A Good Night For Dying by Iranian filmmaker Ali Asgari was selected as the overall winner of the summer Films Short 2012 competition. It is a simple idea beautifully executed with great performances. In the Short film,… Continue Reading