Real Lies

Close-Up

May 1990 •Persian

This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and existence, in which the real people from the case play themselves.

Upperdog

August 2009 •Norwegian

As young children, half-siblings Axel and Yanne are adopted to Norway. They are separated on arrival, him to material wealth on Oslo's west side, her to an average family on the east side. In contrast to her younger brother, Yanne remembers their journey to Norway, but she has no idea where he might be now.

The Soldier

January 1966 •

A story of a boy, forced to grow mature before his time and to die too early because of the cruel war circumstances. This film is dedicated to all the children who have died during the National Liberation War.

Another Country

June 1984 •English

In Moscow in 1983, an American journalist interviews Guy Bennett, who recalls his last year at public school, fifty years before, and how it contributed to him becoming a spy.

Attack

September 1956 •English

Battle of the Bulge, World War II, 1944. Lieutenant Costa, an infantry company officer who must establish artillery observation posts in a strategic area, has serious doubts about Captain Cooney's leadership ability.

Besos perdidos

August 1945 •Spanish

A man thinks he is not the father of his presumed daughter.

Orphans

September 1987 •English

Brothers Treat and Philip have only had each other since they were kids, when a small-time criminal abruptly upends their routine lives.

Coming Home

February 1978 •English

In 1968 California, a Marine officer's wife falls in love with a former high school classmate who suffered a paralyzing combat injury in the war.

A Huey P. Newton Story

June 2001 •English

The story of how the radical Huey P. Newton developed the Black Panther Party based on his 10-point program for social reform.

Mexican Hayride

December 1948 •English

Two con men selling phony stock flee to Mexico ahead of the law, where they run into a woman friend from their earlier days, who is now a bullfighter.

Brighton Beach Memoirs

December 1986 •English

Eugene, a young teenage Jewish boy, recalls his memoirs of his time as an adolescent youth. He lives with his parents, his aunt, two cousins, and his brother, Stanley, whom he looks up to and admires. He goes through the hardships of puberty, sexual fantasy, and living the life of a poor boy in a crowded house.

Washed Hands

January 1958 •French

An efficiency expert is called in to downsize a trucking company and the employees fight to establish a union to save their jobs.

Show People

November 1928 •English

Hollywood hopeful Peggy Pepper arrives at a major studio, from Georgia, to become a great dramatic star. Things don't go entirely according to plan.

Conquer: Lahad Datu

August 2024 •Malay

When hundreds of militants invade eastern Sabah, the Royal Malaysia Police sends in an elite force to respond to the incursion.

Inkognito

January 1978 •Slovak

Love Me Tonight

August 1932 •English

A Parisian tailor goes to a château to collect a bill, only to fall for an aloof young princess living there.

Caesar and Cleopatra

December 1945 •English

The aging Julius Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen Cleopatra.

The Auteur

April 2008 •English

THE AUTEUR follows formerly renowned porn director Arturo Domingo (Five Easy Nieces, Requiem for a Wet Dream) through a bizarre weekend as he receives a lifetime achievement award at a film festival in Portland, OR. Encountering crazed fans, former collaborators, bitter enemies and free-loving hippies, Arturo attempts to put the pieces of his broken career and personal life back together.

Camel Through The Eye Of A Needle

January 1937 •Czech

Slightly ironic comedy of wretches, who come to understand the rich and are able to accept charity, and also about how love and work prevail over the factory owner's son.

Naimisiin päiväksi

January 1946 •Finnish

A Finnish romantic comedy, based on a play about cousins trying to inherit a legacy. To get the inheritance they must be married, even for a day.