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A Real Pain (2024)
USA
Directed by Jesse Eisenberg
Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Keiran Culkin
Mismatched cousins David and Benji reunite for a tour through Poland to honor their beloved grandmother. The adventure takes a turn when the pair’s old tensions resurface against the backdrop of their family history.
Touki Bouki (1973)
Senegal
Directed by Djibril Diop Mambety
Starring: Magaye Niang, Myriam Niang
Mory, a cowherd, and Anta, a university student, try to make money in order to go to Paris and leave their boring past behind.
Grey Gardens (1975)
USA
Directed by David Maysles, Albert Maysles, Muffie Meyer, and Ellen Hovde
Starring: Edith Bouvier Beale, Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale
Edie Bouvier Beale and her mother, Edith, two aging, eccentric relatives of Jackie Kennedy Onassis, are the sole inhabitants of a Long Island estate. The women reveal themselves to be misfits with outsized, engaging personalities. Much of the conversation is centered on their pasts, as mother and daughter now rarely leave home.
The Red Balloon (1956)
France
Directed by Albert Lamorisse
Starring: Pascal Lamorisse
A young boy discovers a stray balloon, which seems to have a mind of its own, on the streets of Paris. The two become inseparable, yet the world’s harsh realities finally interfere.
Daisies (1966)
Czechoslovakia
Directed by Vera Chytilova
Starring: Jitka Cerhova, Ivana Karbanova
Two teenage girls embark on a series of destructive pranks in which they consume and destroy the world around them.
Julius Caesar (1953)
USA
Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Starring: Marlon Brando, James Mason, John Gielgud
The assassination of the would-be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic consequences for the idealist and for the republic.
The Defiant Ones (1958)
USA
Directed by Stanley Kramer
Starring: Sidney Poitier, Tony Curtis
Two convicts—a white racist and an angry Black man—escape while chained to each other.
Pride & Prejudice (2005)
United Kingdom
Directed by Joe Wright
Starring: Keira Knightley, Matthew Macfayden
A story of love and life among the landed English gentry during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is a gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife and five daughters, but if he dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met, so the family’s future happiness and security is dependent on the daughters making good marriages.
Brief Encounter (1945)
United Kingdom
Directed by David Lean
Starring: Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard
Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with virtuous doctor Alec Harvey. Their casual friendship soon develops during their weekly visits into something more emotionally fulfilling than either expected, and they must wrestle with the potential havoc their deepening relationship would have on their lives and the lives of those they love.
The Teachers' Lounge (2023)
Germany
Directed by Ilker Catak
Starring: Leonie Benesch, Eva Lobau
When one of her students is suspected of theft, teacher Carla Nowak decides to get to the bottom of the matter. Caught between her ideals and the school system, the consequences of her actions threaten to break her.
The Watermelon Woman (1996)
USA
Directed by Cheryl Dunye
Starring: Cheryl Dunye, Guinevere Turner, Valarie Walker, Lisa Marie Bronson
A young Black lesbian filmmaker probes into the life of The Watermelon Woman, a 1930s Black actress who played ‘mammy’ archetypes.
Polyester (1981)
USA
Directed by John Waters
Starring: Divine, Tab Hunter, Edith Massey
Blessed with a keen sense of smell and cursed with a philandering pornographer husband, a parasitic mother, and a pair of delinquent children, the long-suffering Francine Fishpaw turns to the bottle as her life falls apart – until deliverance appears in the form of a hunk named Todd Tomorrow.
Perfect Days (2023)
Japan/Germany
Directed by Wim Wenders
Starring: Koji Yakusho, Tokio Emoto, Arisa Nakano
Hirayama is content with his life as a toilet cleaner in Tokyo. Outside of his structured routine, he cherishes music on cassette tapes, books, and taking photos of trees. Through unexpected encounters, he reflects on finding beauty in the world.
Giant (1956)
USA
Directed by George Stevens
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean
Wealthy rancher Bick Benedict and dirt-poor cowboy Jett Rink both woo Leslie Lynnton, a beautiful young woman from Maryland who is new to Texas. She marries Benedict, but she is shocked by the racial bigotry of the White Texans against the local people of Mexican descent. Rink discovers oil on a small plot of land, and while he uses his vast, new wealth to buy all the land surrounding the Benedict ranch, the Benedict’s disagreement over prejudice fuels conflict that runs across generations.
Cabaret (1972)
Germany/USA
Directed by Bob Fosse
Starring: Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Joel Grey
Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles and an impish emcee sound the clarion call to decadent fun, while outside a certain political party grows into a brutal force.
Moonstruck (1987)
USA
Directed by Norman Jewison
Starring: Cher, Nicolas Cage
37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts a marriage proposal from her boyfriend Johnny, even though she doesn’t love him. When she meets his estranged younger brother Ronny, an emotional and passionate man, she finds herself drawn to him. She tries to resist, but Ronny, who blames his brother for the loss of his hand, has no scruples about aggressively pursuing her while Johnny is out of the country. As Loretta falls for Ronny, she learns that she’s not the only one in her family with a secret romance.
Sherlock Jr. (1924)
USA
Directed by Buster Keaton
Starring: Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire
A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meagre skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend’s father’s pocketwatch.