Drama

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Marseille: The Complete Series

Marseille: The Complete Series

Drama

The longtime mayor of Marseille is preparing to hand over the reins to his protégé when a sudden and ruthless battle erupts for control of the city.

Martin Eden

Martin Eden

Period Drama · Based on Literature · Drama

Adapted from a 1909 novel by Jack London and operating in the tradition of the great Italian classics, Martin Eden tells the story of a dashing young proletarian who hopes that his dreams of becoming a writer will help him rise above his station in order to marry a bourgeois university student.

May in the Summer

May in the Summer

Comedy · World Cinema · Romance

To all appearances, May Brennan has it all - intelligence, looks, the recipient of raves from her recently published book and set to marry her loving fiancé Ziad, a distinguished New York scholar. But immediately upon returning to her hometown of Amman, Jordan for the wedding, the cracks in h…

The Measure of a Man

The Measure of a Man

Drama · RT Certified Fresh · World Cinema

Vincent Lindon (Mademoiselle Chambon) gives his Cannes Film Festival-winning performance as unemployed everyman Thierry, who must submit to a series of humiliating ordeals in his search for work. Futile retraining courses, interviews via Skype, a workshop critique of his self-presentation by fellow …

Mindscape (AKA Anna)

Mindscape (AKA Anna)

Sci-Fi · Mystery · Drama

A detective with the ability to enter people's memories takes on the case of a brilliant, troubled 16-year-old girl to determine whether she is a sociopath or a victim of trauma.

Molly's Theory of Relativity

Molly's Theory of Relativity

Comedy · Drama

Jeff Lipsky creates a funny and beautifully idiosyncratic portrait of a 28-year-old unem- ployed astrophysicist about to make the most reckless deci- sion of her life. The family and friends that surround her - some real, dead, and possibly imaginary, come and go asMolly observes the unbreakable bon…

The Mountain

The Mountain

Period Drama · Sundance Film Festival · Drama

Set against the 1950’s "golden age" of American male supremacy, an introverted young man (Tye Sheridan) joins a renowned lobotomist (Jeff Goldblum) on a tour to promote the doctor’s recently-debunked procedure.

Mountains May Depart

Mountains May Depart

Family · Culture · World Cinema

Mainland master Jia Zhangke scales new heights with Mountains May Depart. At once an intimate drama and a decades-spanning epic that leaps from the recent past to the present to the speculative near-future, Jia's new film is an intensely moving study of how China's economic boom and the culture of m…

Mouthpiece

Mouthpiece

RT Certified Fresh · Drama

An aspiring writer, while struggling to compose a eulogy after the sudden death of her mother, comes to discover that her own rebelliousness is as much a response to the male gaze as her mother's conformity.

Murder In... Vol. 1

Murder In... Vol. 1

Mystery · Crime · Drama

A gorgeous collection of mysteries, each one set in a picturesque region of France.

Museo

Museo

World Cinema · Crime · Based on True Story

Inspired by true events, and shot on never-before filmed locations in Mexico, MUSEO is a sardonic cautionary tale that underscores the old adage: you don’t know what you have until you lose it.

Mustang

Mustang

World Cinema · Drama

In a village in the north of Turkey, Lale and her four sisters come home from school, innocently playing with boys. The supposed debauchery of their games causes a scandal with unintended consequences.

My Joy

My Joy

World Cinema · Drama

The first fiction film by acclaimed documentarian Sergei Loznitsa, MY JOY is a haunting parable of post-Communist Russia, shot by master cinematographer Oleg Mutu (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days).

My Son

My Son

World Cinema · Drama

Julien travels constantly for work - his perpetual absence from home has wrecked his marriage. During a stopover in France, he gets a message from his very distraught ex-wife: Mathys, their seven-year-old, has disappeared. Julien begins the search for his son. He will stop at nothing to get the boy …

Neon Bull

Neon Bull

Culture · RT Certified Fresh · World Cinema

Wild, sensual and utterly transporting, Brazilian writer-director Gabriel Mascaro's second fiction feature unfolds within the world of the vaquejada, a traditional exhibition sport in which cowboys try to pull bulls to the ground by their tails. Neon Bull explores the vaquejada through the eyes of I…

Nero Wolfe (2012)

Nero Wolfe (2012)

Suspense · Action · Drama

Based on the classic novels by Rex Stout, following one of Rome's finest investigators who'd rather spend time at home than chase criminals.

The New Girlfriend

The New Girlfriend

World Cinema · Romance · Drama

After the death of her best friend, Claire falls into a deep depression, but a surprising discovery about her friend's husband gives her a new taste for life.

Nicolas Le Floch

Nicolas Le Floch

Adventure · Mystery · Drama

A police procedural set in 18th-century France following Nicolas Le Floch, solving crimes for the King's Police under Louis XV.

Nicolas Le Floch - Volume Two

Nicolas Le Floch - Volume Two

Adventure · Mystery · Drama

A police procedural set in 18th-century France following Nicolas Le Floch, solving crimes for the King's Police under Louis XV.

The Nightingale

The Nightingale

World Cinema · Earth Day · Drama

In the "very sweet family drama" (New York Times) The Nightingale, Zhigen (Bao Tian Li) honors the request of his late wife by going back to his home town to free his bird, his sole companion in his senior years.

Nuit #1

Nuit #1

World Cinema · Erotic · Drama

Anne Émond's striking feature film debut is a daring examination of a one-night stand. Clara and Nikolaï meet at a rave. They return to Nikolaï's apartment and frantically make love. Afterwards, instead of parting, the two lovers divulge their deepest secrets to one another.

The Nymphets

The Nymphets

Comedy · Drama · American Independent

Joe, a well-to-do 30-something, encounters two younggirls and impulsively invites them back to his loft. Thethree begin to party hard, and despite their age differencethey flirt with reckless abandon. As the night escalates,it becomes clear that Joe and the girls will go to great lengths to get thei…

OKA!

OKA!

World Cinema · Drama

Ethnomusicologist Louis Sarno traveled from New Jersey to the forests of Central Africa to record the music of the Bayaka Pygmies. He fell in love with the people and their music – and a Bayaka girl.

Omar

Omar

RT Certified Fresh · Academy Award Nominees · Drama

Omar is accustomed to dodging surveillance bullets to cross the separation wall to visit his secret love Nadia. But occupied Palestine knows neither simple love nor clear-cut war. On the other side of the wall, the sensitive young baker Omar becomes a freedom fighter who must face painful choices ab…

On My Way

On My Way

World Cinema · Romance · Drama

Now in her early sixties, former beauty queen Bettie (Catherine Deneuve) finds herself jilted by her lover and left alone to deal with the financial problems facing her family's restaurant. What begins as a quick drive to clear her head turns into a full-fledged road trip.

On the Bowery: The Films of Lionel Rogosin Vol. 1

On the Bowery: The Films of Lionel Rogosin Vol. 1

Documentary · History · Drama

Lionel Rogosin's portrait of life on New York's skid row remains devastating and powerful more than sixty years later. Also features making-of docs by the filmmaker's son Michael Rogosin.

Oranges and Sunshine

Oranges and Sunshine

History · Biography · Drama

Oranges and Sunshine tells the story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham who uncovered one of the most significant social scandals of recent times: the deportation of thousands of children from the United Kingdom to Australia. 

The Other Son

The Other Son

Drama · World Cinema · War

As he is preparing to join the Israeli army for his national service, Joseph discovers he is not his parents' biological son, and that he was inadvertently switched at birth with Yacine, the son of a Palestinian family from the West Bank.

Outside the Law

Outside the Law

Crime · Drama

From award winning writer-director Rachid Bouchareb comes the story of three brothers who fight for Algeria’s independence from France after World War II.

Overwhelm the Sky

Overwhelm the Sky

Drama

Daniel Kremer’s Overwhelm the Sky is an epic odyssey of a spiritually shell-shocked man searching for answers in a world of loners, mourners, kooks, seducers, deceivers, and sleepwalkers.

A Paris Education

A Paris Education

Drama

Shooting in timeless black and white and interweaving references to philosophy, music, and cinema, unsung auteur Jean Paul Civeyrac’s story of a young cinephile who moves to Paris for film school is an ode to the creative process and the heady days of student life.

Pasolini

Pasolini

World Cinema · RT Certified Fresh · Based on Literature

The Roman life and the imaginary worlds of Pier Paolo Pasolini intermingle in Abel Ferrara’s retelling of the final days in the life of the fifty-year-old filmmaker and writer (played by Willem Dafoe), in a lovely, haunting film that draws on his last interview and envisages scenes f…

Paul Verhoeven's Tricked

Paul Verhoeven's Tricked

Tribeca Film Festival · Documentary · Drama

Part behind-the-scenes documentary, part narrative feature, PAUL VERHOEVEN'S TRICKED is the result of an ambitious experiment in filmmaking. Director Paul Verhoeven (Basic Instinct, Total Recall) shoots four minutes of the film Tricked, and crowd-sources the remainder of the script. With a brisk pac…

Paulette

Paulette

Comedy · Crime · Drama

Brash and opinionated retiree Paulette (Bernadette Lafont) lives alone in a housing project on the outskirts of Paris. One evening, upon observing some mysterious dealings outside her building, Paulette discovers a surprising way to supplement her meager pension - an unlikely but successful career s…

The People vs. Fritz Bauer

The People vs. Fritz Bauer

World Cinema · Drama

The story of the man who brought high-ranking German Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann to justice.

Pop Aye

Pop Aye

Earth Day · Comedy · World Cinema

A successful Bangkok architect in the midst of a midlife crisis is reunited with an elephant he knew growing up. The two embark on a road trip to the man's childhood home in the idyllic Thai countryside in Kirsten Tan’s feature debut, which won prizes (and hearts) at the Sundance and Rotterdam…

Porto

Porto

World Cinema · Romance · Drama

An American loner (Anton Yelchin) and a French student (Lucie Lucas) experience a night of carefree intimacy in the ancient Portuguese city of Porto. This romantic encounter is viewed from years later, both characters still haunted by the powerful connection they shared.

Post Mortem

Post Mortem

World Cinema · Drama

The second part of director Pablo Larrain's celebrated trilogy about Chile during the dictatorial reign of Augusto Pinochet, POST MORTEM is a "grim, intense, mordantly comic little film" (A.O. Scott, New York Times) about a civil servant transformed by the 1973 military coup.

Preludio

Preludio

Drama

In this intimate approach to filmmaking, a wannabe rock star and a chef meet at a party and what starts as a casual conversation becomes more profound as they open up to each other and talk about their fears, hopes and dreams. Everything happens in real time and in one single shot.

The Prey

The Prey

Crime · Drama · Thriller

A convicted bank robber breaks out of prison to protect his family after confiding sensitive information to an outwardly friendly cellmate, only to realize he's actually a madman who will stop at nothing to get what he wants.

Prince

Prince

Drama

Prince is the story of ayoub (ayoub elasri) ; 17, shy, lanky, growing up fast on the cusp of the criminal underworld of amsterdam, and completely crazy about neighborhood beauty Laura (Sigrid ten Napel). Unfortunately, Laura's already with the baddest boy in town.

The Prince

The Prince

Drama

Twenty-year-old Jaime is sent away for murder. There he meets and is taken under the protection of a tough older inmate. Amidst the violence of repression an unlikely love story unfolds.

Promise at Dawn

Promise at Dawn

World Cinema · War · Biography

From his childhood in Poland to his adolescence in Nice to his years as a student in Paris and his tough training as a pilot during World War II, this epic drama tells the romantic story of Romain Gary, one of the most famous French novelists and sole writer to have won the Goncourt Prize for French…

Proud

Proud

World Cinema · LGBTQ · Drama

In 1981, it was still illegal to be gay in France. Today, same-sex marriage is recognized and has paved the way for legalizing the adoption of children by LGBTQ families. Proud tells the story of Charles, Victor and Diego, three generations of the same family who represent the seismic social changes…

Rabin, The Last Day

Rabin, The Last Day

Jewish Interest · Based on True Story · World Cinema

Lauded director Amos Gitai (Kippur) delves into the prelude and aftermath of the 1995 assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in this gripping docudrama.

Rams

Rams

Comedy · World Cinema · Drama

In a remote Icelandic farming valley, two brothers who haven’t spoken in 40 years have to come together in order to save what’s dearest to them – their sheep.

Red Cow

Red Cow

World Cinema · Drama

Benny’s mother died giving birth to her, and she grew up alone with her caring yet patriarchal father. He is a figure of authority and a mentor for many people in their Jerusalem religious community.

Redemption

Redemption

Drama

Menachem, a former frontman for a rock band, is now religious, and a father to a six-year-old. When his daughter is diagnosed with cancer, he must find a creative solution to fund the expensive treatments. He reunites his band for one last tour. The journey to save his daughter exposes old wounds an…

Riot Girls

Riot Girls

Sci-Fi · Action · Drama

In an alternate 1995, a mysterious disease has wiped out all of the adults. In this new age, two gangs are pitted against each other in a brutal war for territory, resources and survival.

The Robber

The Robber

Based on True Story · Drama · World Cinema

Based on the real-life story of one of Austria’s most-wanted bank robbers, The Robber is a breathless thriller “as lean and taut as its marathon-winning title character.” (LA Times).

The Rocket

The Rocket

Tribeca Film Festival · Sundance Film Festival · World Cinema

A boy who is believed to bring bad luck leads his family (and a couple of ragged misfits) through Laos to find a new home. After a calamity-filled journey through a land scarred by war, the boy builds a giant rocket to prove he's not cursed and to enter the most lucrative but dangerous competition o…

Rodin

Rodin

World Cinema · History · Biography

An account of the famous French sculptor's romance with Camille Claudel.

Sandbar

Sandbar

Comedy · Drama

In this freewheeling dark comedy, a haunted ex-Marine tries to salvage his relationship with his son when they're launched on a wild road trip.

La Sapienza

La Sapienza

Culture · Drama · Architecture

In director Eugène Green's elegant and poignant La Sapienza, architect Alexandre (Fabrizio Rongione) and social scientist Alienor (Christelle Prot Landman) retreat to Stresa, Italy, intent on climbing out of the emotional malaise that has trapped their marriage.

Serial Killer 1

Serial Killer 1

Based on True Story · World Cinema · Drama

Specializing in police procedurals, writer/director Frederic Tellier marks his feature debut with a story about one of the trickiest criminal cases in recent French history, and the first case to incorporate DNA evidence.

Shoelaces

Shoelaces

Drama

SHOELACES tells the story of a complicated relationship between an aging father and his special-needs son. Reuben's (Dov Glickman) kidneys are failing and his son Gadi (Nevo Kimchi) wants to donate one of his own kidneys to help save his father's life. However, the transplant committee objects to th…

Silver Skies

Silver Skies

Comedy · Drama

SILVER SKIES chronicles a group of residents whose lives are turned upside-down when their apartment complex threatens to be sold out from under them.

Silver Tongues

Silver Tongues

Drama

SILVER TONGUES stars two lovers as they travel from town to town, leaving a path of psychological destruction in their wake like a pair of emotional serial killers.

Sin Alas

Sin Alas

World Cinema · Drama

Sin Alas, inspired by Jorge Luis Borges' short story "The Zahir," is one of the first American productions to be shot in Cuba in over fifty years. It is an epic love story that spans Cuban history from pre-evolutionary times to the modern realities of contemporary Havana.

Sister

Sister

Drama · World Cinema · Thriller

A drama set at a Swiss ski resort and centered on a boy who supports his sister by stealing from wealthy guests. A by Ursula Meier.