Nickel Boys
Dir. RaMell Ross
The first things that grab your attention in Nickel Boys are its beauty and technicality. Director RaMell Ross, a large-format…
Howards End
Is a TV adaptation necessary when we already have a novel and film version of Howards End? Probably not, but…
Babette's Feast
Dir. Gabriel Axel
Sisters Martine and Filippa, daughters of a founder of a religious sect, live a simple and quiet life in a…
Shirley Valentine
Dir. Lewis Gilbert
As an adaptation of the one-character play, it’s a delight to see Pauline Collins as Shirley Valentine rip into the…
Iris
Dir. Albert Maysles
Albert Maysles’ penultimate film celebrates fashion icon Iris Apfel, who charms everyone with her quick wit, no-nonsense attitude, and love…
In The Loop
Dir. Armando Iannucci
A hilarious comedy about politics in the UK and US. The secretary of State for Internal Development Simon Foster accidentally…
The Madness of King George
Dir. Nicholas Hytner
At first glance, The Madness of King George seemed like a history lesson about King George III. Like plenty of…
Strictly Ballroom
Dir. Baz Luhrmann & Baz Lurhman
Strictly Ballroom is an energetic, fun and hilarious movie. Baz Lurhman does an incredible job telling the story of a…
Wonder Boys
Dir. Curtis Hanson
Michael Douglas plays Grady Tripp, a craggy, lovable English professor struggling to finish the follow-up to a very successful first…
A Room with A View
Dir. James Ivory
A Room with a View is downright beautiful. Amidst the impressionistic scenery of Florence’s and England’s countrysides, paired with iconic…
The Motorcycle Diaries
Dir. Walter Salles
Let’s fight! I’m not a fan of “Into the wild” okay okay, calm down… Maybe we can fix this. Maybe…
The Kite Runner
Dir. Marc Forster
From one of the most compelling books of this generation, comes the good movie that aims to tell the tale…
High Fidelity
Rob Brooks, a female record store owner in the rapidly gentrified neighborhood of Crown Heights, Brooklyn revisit past relationships through…
Sense and Sensibility
Dir. John Alexander
Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve when she falls in love with the charming but unsuitable John Willoughby,…
Prick Up Your Ears
Dir. Stephen Frears
When the young, attractive Joe Orton meets the older, more introverted Kenneth Halliwell at drama school, he befriends the kindred…
About a Boy
Will Freeman lives a charmed existence as the ultimate man-child. After writing a hit song, he was granted a life…
Three Colors: Red
Dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski
Part-time model Valentine unexpectedly befriends a retired judge after she runs over his dog. At first, the grumpy man shows…
Paris, Texas
Dir. Wim Wenders
A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull…
My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
Dir. Jim Sheridan
No one expects much from Christy Brown, a boy with cerebral palsy born into a working-class Irish family. Though Christy…
A Room with a View
Dir. James Ivory
When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and…
East Is East
Dir. Damien O'Donnell
In 1971 Salford fish-and-chip shop owner George Khan expects his family to follow his strict Pakistani Muslim ways. But his…
A Passage to India
Dir. David Lean
Set during the period of growing influence of the Indian independence movement in the British Raj, the story begins with…
The Constant Gardener
Dir. Fernando Meirelles
Ralph Fiennes plays a mild-mannered British diplomat in Kenya who is stunned by the news of his wife Tessa’s (Rachel…
In the Name of the Father
Dir. Jim Sheridan
A small-time Belfast thief, Gerry Conlon, is wrongly convicted of an IRA bombing in London, along with his father and…
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Dir. Peter Webber
This film, adapted from a work of fiction by author Tracy Chevalier, tells a story about the events surrounding the…
Nocturnal Animals
Dir. Tom Ford
Susan Morrow receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband – a man she left 20 years earlier – asking for…
A History of Violence
Dir. David Cronenberg
An average family is thrust into the spotlight after the father commits a seemingly self-defense murder at his diner.