MOVIES

Taste of Cherry

Abbas Kiarostami · 1997

A middle-aged Tehranian man, Mr. Badii is intent on killing himself and seeks someone to bury him after his demise. Driving around the city, the seemingly well-to-do Badii meets with numerous people, including a Muslim student, asking them to take on the job, but initially he has little luck. Eventually, Badii finds a man who is up for the task because he needs the money, but his new associate soon tries to talk him out of committing suicide.

Cinema Paradiso

Giuseppe Tornatore · 1988

A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.

Eyes Without a Face

Georges Franju · 1960

Dr. Génessier is riddled with guilt after an accident that he caused disfigures the face of his daughter, the once beautiful Christiane, who outsiders believe is dead. Dr. Génessier, along with accomplice and laboratory assistant Louise, kidnaps young women and brings them to the Génessier mansion. After rendering his victims unconscious, Dr. Génessier removes their faces and attempts to graft them on to Christiane's.

Suspiria

Luca Guadagnino · 2018

A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the artistic director, an ambitious young dancer, and a grieving psychotherapist. Some will succumb to the nightmare. Others will finally wake up.

Suspiria

Dario Argento · 1977

An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders.

Requiem for a Dream

Darren Aronofsky · 2000

The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.

There Will Be Blood

Paul Thomas Anderson · 2007

Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview, moves to oil-rich California. Using his son to project a trustworthy, family-man image, Plainview cons local landowners into selling him their valuable properties for a pittance. However, local preacher Eli Sunday suspects Plainview's motives and intentions, starting a slow-burning feud that threatens both their lives.

Paris, Texas

Wim Wenders · 1984

A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.

Donnie Darko

Richard Kelly · 2001

After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that manipulates him to commit a series of crimes.

American Beauty

Sam Mendes · 1999

Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend.

Naked

Mike Leigh · 1993

An unemployed Brit vents his rage on unsuspecting strangers as he embarks on a nocturnal London odyssey.

Scarecrow

Jerry Schatzberg · 1973

Deux hommes se lient d'amitié en partageant le feu d'une dernière allumette sur le bord d'une autoroute. Lion compte regagner son foyer, abandonné depuis quelques années. Max, tout juste sorti de prison, rentre au pays pour y monter une station-service.

The Cure

Peter Horton · 1995

Erik, un joven de trece años, y su madre se trasladan a una nueva casa en Minnesota. El muchacho se siente como un pez fuera del agua y tiene dificultad para encontrar amigos, hasta que conoce a Dexter, un chico más pequeño que vive en la casa de al lado. Erik y Dexter se llevan muy bien, pero un día la madre de Erik le prohíbe acercarse a su amigo porque se entera de que hace unos años contrajo el SIDA a causa de una negligencia en una transfusión de sangre. (FILMAFFINITY)

Taxi Driver

Martin Scorsese · 1976

Vétéran de la Guerre du Vietnam, Travis Bickle est chauffeur de taxi dans la ville de New York. Ses rencontres nocturnes et la violence quotidienne dont il est témoin lui font peu à peu perdre la tête. Il se charge bientôt de délivrer une prostituée mineure de ses souteneurs.

Hunger

Steve McQueen · 2008

The story of Bobby Sands, the IRA member who led the 1981 hunger strike during The Troubles in which Irish Republican prisoners tried to win political status.

My Own Private Idaho

Gus Van Sant · 1991

In this loose adaptation of Shakespeare's "Henry IV," Mike Waters is a hustler afflicted with narcolepsy. Scott Favor is the rebellious son of a mayor. Together, the two travel from Portland, Oregon to Idaho and finally to the coast of Italy in a quest to find Mike's estranged mother. Along the way they turn tricks for money and drugs, eventually attracting the attention of a wealthy benefactor and sexual deviant.

Big Fish

Tim Burton · 2003

L’histoire à la fois drôle et poignante d’Edward Bloom, un père débordant d’imagination, et de son fils William. Ce dernier retourne au domicile familial après l’avoir quitté longtemps auparavant, pour être au chevet de son père, atteint d’un cancer. Il souhaite mieux le connaître et découvrir ses secrets avant qu’il ne soit trop tard. L’aventure débutera lorsque William tentera de discerner le vrai du faux dans les propos de son père mourant.

Edward Scissorhands

Tim Burton · 1990

A small suburban town receives a visit from a castaway unfinished science experiment named Edward.

Dead Poets Society

Peter Weir · 1989

En un elitista y estricto colegio privado de Nueva Inglaterra, un grupo de alumnos descubrirá la poesía, el significado de "Carpe Diem" -aprovechar el momento- y la importancia de perseguir los sueños, gracias a un excéntrico profesor que despierta sus mentes por medio de métodos poco convencionales.

The Red Shoes

Emeric Pressburger · 1948

Drama ambientado en el mundo del ballet que trata sobre los sacrificios realizados para alcanzar el éxito profesional. Un empresario obliga a una bailarina a anteponer su carrera al amor.

Black Swan

Darren Aronofsky · 2010

The story of Nina, a ballerina in a New York City ballet company whose life, like all those in her profession, is completely consumed with dance. She lives with her retired ballerina mother Erica who zealously supports her daughter's professional ambition. When artistic director Thomas Leroy decides to replace prima ballerina Beth MacIntyre for the opening production of their new season, Swan Lake, Nina is his first choice.

Whiplash

Damien Chazelle · 2014

Under the direction of a ruthless instructor, a talented young drummer begins to pursue perfection at any cost, even his humanity.

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

Peter Greenaway · 1989

The wife of an abusive criminal finds solace in the arms of a kind regular guest in her husband's restaurant.

Lost in Translation

Sofia Coppola · 2003

Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial -- find an odd solace and pensive freedom to be real in each other's company, away from their lives in America.

The Talented Mr. Ripley

Anthony Minghella · 1999

Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. Opportunity knocks in the form of a wealthy U.S. shipbuilder who hires Tom to travel to Italy to bring back his playboy son, Dickie. Ripley worms his way into the idyllic lives of Dickie and his girlfriend, plunging into a daring scheme of duplicity, lies and murder.

Girl, Interrupted

James Mangold · 1999

Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line between normal and crazy. Susanna soon realizes how hard it is to get out once she has been committed, and she ultimately has to choose between the world of people who belong inside or the difficult world of reality outside.

A Clockwork Orange

Stanley Kubrick · 1971

In a near-future Britain, young Alexander DeLarge and his pals get their kicks beating and raping anyone they please. When not destroying the lives of others, Alex swoons to the music of Beethoven. The state, eager to crack down on juvenile crime, gives an incarcerated Alex the option to undergo an invasive procedure that'll rob him of all personal agency. In a time when conscience is a commodity, can Alex change his tune?

American Psycho

Mary Harron · 2000

A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies.

Trainspotting

Danny Boyle · 1996

Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable friends -- Sick Boy, Begbie, Spud and Tommy. He also has an underage girlfriend, Diane, along for the ride. After cleaning up and moving from Edinburgh to London, Mark finds he can't escape the life he left behind when Begbie shows up at his front door on the lam, and a scheming Sick Boy follows.

Mysterious Skin

Gregg Araki · 2005

A gay teenage hustler and another teen obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.

Aftersun

Charlotte Wells · 2022

Avec mélancolie, Sophie se remémore les vacances d’été passées avec son père vingt ans auparavant : les moments de joie partagée, leur complicité, parfois leurs désaccords. Elle repense aussi à ce qui planait au-dessus de ces instants si précieux : la sourde et invisible menace d’un bonheur finissant. Elle tente alors de chercher parmi ces souvenirs des réponses à la question qui l’obsède depuis tant d’années : qui était réellement cet homme qu’elle a le sentiment de ne pas connaître ?

The Dreamers

Saltburn

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

The Lobster

Yorgos Lanthimos · 2015

In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into animals and sent off into The Woods.

The Wind That Shakes the Barley

Ken Loach · 2006

In 1920s Ireland young doctor Damien O'Donovan prepares to depart for a new job in a London hospital. As he says his goodbyes at a friend's farm, British Black and Tans arrive, and a young man is killed. Damien joins his brother Teddy in the Irish Republican Army, but political events are soon set in motion that tear the brothers apart.