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9 Songs

July 2004 •English

Matt, a young glaciologist, soars across the vast, silent, icebound immensities of the South Pole as he recalls his love affair with Lisa. They meet at a mobbed rock concert in a vast music hall - London's Brixton Academy. They are in bed at night's end. Together, over a period of several months, they pursue a mutual sexual passion whose inevitable stages unfold in counterpoint to nine live-concert songs.

Three Colors: White

January 1994 •French

Polish immigrant Karol Karol finds himself out of a marriage, a job and a country when his French wife, Dominique, divorces him after six months due to his impotence. Forced to leave France after losing the business they jointly owned, Karol enlists fellow Polish expatriate Mikołaj to smuggle him back to their homeland.

Match Point

October 2005 •English

Chris, a former tennis player, looks for work as an instructor. He meets Tom Hewett, a wealthy young man whose sister Chloe falls in love with Chris. But Chris has his eye on Tom's fiancee Nola.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

March 2004 •English

Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realises that he still loves her, and may be too late to correct his mistake.

Les Beaux Jours

July 1993 •French

Three couples of friends, going off for the week end, are lulled into redrawing their Map of Love by the spring days.

Life and Death on the Shore

July 2017 •Japanese

Set in 1945 at the end of World War II. Saku arrives on Kakeromajima as the head of navy special forces. He is admired by the children on the island and he is interested in learning the island song as well as drinking with his men. Toe is an elementary school teacher on Kakeromajima and she has feelings for Saku.

PLEH

October 2017 •Dutch

An experimental journey through a year in the life of the director, using his always playing playlist to cross the boundaries of fiction and documentary. Through scenes of both comedy and tragedy, realistic documentary footage and experimental sequences of the director's environment and daily life we get a sometimes estranging image of a young man and also an intriguing insight in his mindset and how this translates to the imagery on screen.

War for the Planet of the Apes

July 2017 •English

Caesar and his apes are forced into a deadly conflict with an army of humans led by a ruthless Colonel. After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his own mythic quest to avenge his kind. As the journey finally brings them face to face, Caesar and the Colonel are pitted against each other in an epic battle that will determine the fate of both their species and the future of the planet.

Cruel Intentions

March 1999 •English

Slaking a thirst for dangerous games, Kathryn challenges her stepbrother, Sebastian, to deflower their headmaster's daughter before the summer ends. If he succeeds, the prize is the chance to bed Kathryn. But if he loses, Kathryn will claim his most prized possession.

Moulin Rouge!

May 2001 •English

A celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Parisian nightclub, at the cusp of the 20th century. A young poet, who is plunged into the heady world of Moulin Rouge, begins a passionate affair with the club's most notorious and beautiful star.

The Day the Earth Stood Still

September 1951 •English

An alien and a robot land on Earth after World War II and tell mankind to be peaceful or face destruction.

Enemy at the Gates

February 2001 •English

A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.

Tsotsi

December 2005 •Tswana

The South African multi-award winning film about a young South African boy from the ghetto named Tsotsi, meaning Gangster. Tsotsi, who left home as a child to get away from helpless parents, finds a baby in the back seat of a car that he has just stolen. He decides that it his responsibility to take care of the baby and in the process learns that maybe the gangster life isn’t the best way.

Tiptoes

December 2002 •English

A man is reluctant to tell his fiancee that his parents, uncle and brother are dwarfs.

Rocco and His Brothers

October 1960 •Italian

When a impoverished widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her five sons become romantic rivals with deadly results.

Cool Young

September 2011 •Chinese

"Cool Young" tells the story of the emotional life of employees in a grey area of Chinese society.

ANON

September 2019 •English

Imagine a dating app that only allows it’s users to connect through character. Would it still work? Or are people too shallow?

Skyldig

May 2024 •Danish

Tunnel Warfare

January 1965 •Chinese

A small town defends itself from the Japanese by use of a network of tunnels during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

Alfie

October 2004 •English

A tale of a philosophical womanizer who is forced to question his seemingly carefree existence.