All Is Well
A woman keeps silent after a rape.
Ant-Man And The Wasp
As Scott Lang balances being both a superhero and a father, Hope van Dyne and Dr. Hank Pym present an urgent new mission that finds Ant-Man fighting alongside The Wasp to uncover secrets from their past.
Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra
Live action cartoon with Gerard Depardieu and Christian Clavier helping to build a palace in Egypt.
At Eternity's Gate
The last days of Vincent van Gogh.
The Big Bad Fox And Other Tales
A triptych of animated adventures.
Birds Of Passage
Story of a family who become involved with the drugs trade.
Blade Runner 2049
An LAPD officer makes a discovery that leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard, a former blade runner who has been missing for 30 years
The Breadwinner
A young girl in Afghanistan disguises herself as a boy in order to provide for her family.
Burning
Jong-soo, a part-time worker, bumps into Hae-mi while delivering, who used to live in the same neighborhood. Hae-mi asks him to look after her cat while she's on a trip to Africa.
Capernaum
A child rebels against the life imposed upon him.
The Chambermaid
Character study of a maid in a Mexican hotel.
Cleo From 5 To 7
A young French singer wanders the streets of Paris while waiting for the results of a cancer screening test.

D

Diane
Diane is a devoted friend and caretaker, particularly to her drug-addicted son. But as those around her begin to drift away in the last quarter of her life, she is left to reckon with past choices.
Erased, Ascent Of The Invisible
Documentary about thousands of people who disappeared during the Lebanon Civil War.
Faces Places
The director and photgrapher travel through France as their friendship blossoms.
Forrest Gump
Tom Hanks is a simple Southern boy who achieves fame and fortune by being himself.
Friend
When they fall in love, two girls from rival families must choose between being together and being safe.
Goodfellas
Biopic of mafiosi Henry Hill and his rise and fall through the mob.
Green Book
An Italian-American is hired as a driver for a world-class black pianist on a concert tour of the Deep South.
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
An exploration of coming-of-age in the Black Belt of the American South.

I

The Load
A truck driver is tasked with transporting mysterious cargo across a scorched landscape from Kosovo to Belgrade during the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.
Look At Me
Lotfi, 40, is forced to come back to Tunisia when his ex-wife is unexpectedly hospitalised. He is now in charge of his autistic son Amr, nine, who ignores the dad he has never known.

M

Manta Ray
A fisherman finds an injured refugee and tries to help him.
The Princess Bride
Ordinary farm boy Westley takes on the world to recover his true love in an enduringly popular comic fantasy.

R

Raging Bull
An emotionally self-destructive boxer's journey through life, as the violence and temper that leads him to the top in the ring destroys his life outside it.
Rojo
Violence is sparked on the eve of Argentina's dictatorship.
Roma
Chronicle of a middle-class family in the 1970s.
The Untouchables
How the infamous Chicago gang boss, Al Capone, was brought down.
Urgent
Drama tracks a group of strangers who come together at an overworked Casablanca hospital.

V

Wildlife
A portrait of a family in crisis.
Yomeddine
A Coptic leper and his orphaned apprentice leave the confines of the leper colony for the first time and embark on a journey across Egypt to search for what is left of their families.
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