Voisins, voisines

My Beautiful Laundrette

November 1985 •English

A young Pakistani Briton manages a rundown laundrette with his lover while dealing with tension in his family, the local Pakistani community, and a persistent mob of skinheads.

The Phantom of Liberty

September 1974 •French

This Surrealist film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short incidents based on the life of director Luis Buñuel. Presented as chance encounters, these loosely related, intersecting situations, all without a consistent protagonist, reach from the 19th century to the 1970s. Touching briefly on subjects such as execution, pedophilia, incest, and sex, the film features an array of characters, including a sick father and incompetent police officers.

Dark Horse

May 2005 •Danish

A young man spurs romance and helps his friend and himself go through the struggles of their ordinary life in Denmark.

Adam and Eva

February 1923 •English

An extravagant girl reforms when her father goes bust.

Leila and the Others

January 1977 •Arabic

The story of Algerian women trying to live in 1970s Algeria where the society is between conservative values and progressive modern Algeria.

PK

December 2014 •Hindi

A stranger in the city asks questions no one has asked before. Known only by his initials, the man's innocent questions and childlike curiosity take him on a journey of love, laughter and letting go.

Diary of a Chambermaid

March 1964 •French

Celestine has a new job as a chambermaid for the quirky M. Monteil, his wife and her father. When the father dies, Celestine decides to quit her job and leave, but when a young girl is raped and murdered, Celestine believes that the Monteils' groundskeeper, Joseph, is guilty, and stays on in order to prove it. She uses her sexuality and the promise of marriage to get Joseph to confess -- but things do not go as planned.

Red, White and Blue Blood

November 1917 •English

A hard-core socialite turns over a new leaf after spending time with a less fortunate family.

Like a Cat on a Highway

December 2017 •Italian

The story of an encounter between a bourgeois man and a poor woman, because their teenage children fall in love.

Cafe Society

March 1939 •English

A pampered heiress (Madeleine Carroll) elopes with a shipboard reporter (Fred MacMurray) just to get her name in a society column.

In Society

August 1944 •English

Two bumbling plumbers are hired by a socialite to fix a leak. A case of mistaken identity gets the pair an invitation to a fancy party and an entree into high society. As expected, things don't go too smoothly.

Sunstrokes

September 2014 •Spanish

A group of girlfriends gather almost every day to sunbathe in the terrace of a building, in an age where getting the perfect tan was everything.

The Joy Girl

September 1927 •English

Though she loves one man, an ambitious Palm Beach girl marries another, whom she thinks is rich. He turns out to be a fraud who thought she was an heiress. She returns to a successful hat shop she maintains catering to socialites. Her true love turns out to be in fact, a rich man who let her think he was not to test her.

Cockeyed Cavaliers

June 1934 •English

Two yokels try to crash royal society by posing as the King's physicians.

To The Inside

June 2021 •English

An absurdist arthouse comedy set in Liverpool.

Only Bibi

January 2020 •Hebrew

A concerned citizen encounters a political writing on a public bus stop and decides to call city services. When they fail to respond he decides to take the law into his own hands.

Suicide express

September 2016 •French

The Ballad

March 2025 •Swedish

A fed up food delivery worker chooses a split second act of rebellion - one that results in an awkward, spiraling dance between the classes of 21st century Sweden.

Take me back

Invalid date •English

An unversed alien is sent on earth to fulfill his mission.

Pay Back

February 2010 •Persian

Ziba and three of her prison cohorts, recently released from a Tehran prison, settle in an out of town doctor's house posing as house sitters and embark on a get rich quick scheme. They plan to mug the lecherous men who give a ride to ladies waiting at street sides for a pickup, which was- and is, to some extent, now- how some prostitutes found work back in the time in Iran. The film portrays the characters as well as the social origins of these men, and as it progresses, explores the backgrounds of these women.