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The Organizer

  Professor Sinigaglia (Marcello Mastroianni) is the title character in this darkly comedic Italian drama about mistreated factory workers in the city of Turin. Toiling away in appalling conditions in Read More

The Night Porter

  The Night Porter is a 1974 English-language Italian erotic psychological war drama film.  In this unsettling drama from Italian filmmaker Liliana Cavani, a concentration camp survivor (Charlotte Rampling) discovers Read More

Intact

  Federico (Eusebio Poncela) has a rather unique talent: he can steal the luck of others. For Samuel Berg (Max von Sydow), who runs a lavish casino, that makes him Read More

Malena

  In 1941, Renato was 13 years old and although the world was at war, nothing ever happened in this sleepy village in Sicily until the day he discovered something Read More

The Wind Blows Round

  Philippe is a former teacher who left everything to become a shepherd in the French Pyrenees. After the construction of a nuclear power plant near his sheep, he decided Read More

Tsotsi

  A South African hoodlum named Tsotsi (Presley Chweneyagae) lives by a code of violence, and he and his gang of thugs prowl the streets of Johannesburg day and night, Read More

The Spanish Apartment

  Xavier (Romain Duris) is a French university student who moves to Barcelona, Spain, to learn Spanish in order to score a desirable job. Residing in a house with other Read More

Goodbye, Children

  In 1943, Julien (Gaspard Manesse) is a student at a French boarding school. When three new students arrive, including Jean Bonnett (Raphael Fejto), Julien believes they are no different Read More

Lilya 4-ever

  Lilya (Oksana Akinshina) lives in poverty and dreams of a better life. Her mother moves to the United States and abandons her to her aunt (Liliya Shinkaryova), who neglects Read More

Inspector Montalbano

  Based on a character created by Italian writer Andrea Camilleri in a series of novels and short stories, each episode of ‘Inspector Montalbano‘ tells a stand-alone story of the Read More