A Rose Between Thorns

Beauty and the Beast

October 1946 •French

The story of a gentle-hearted beast in love with a simple and beautiful girl. She is drawn to the repellent but strangely fascinating Beast, who tests her fidelity by giving her a key, telling her that if she doesn't return it to him by a specific time, he will die of grief. She is unable to return the key on time, but it is revealed that the Beast is the genuinely handsome one. A simple tale of tragic love that turns into a surreal vision of death, desire, and beauty.

Powder Blue

May 2009 •English

On the gritty streets of LA, the destinies of four people desperate for connection and redemption are about to collide.

Revolutionary Girl Utena: The Movie

August 1999 •Japanese

In a loose retelling of the Revolutionary Girl Utena TV series, Utena Tenjou arrives at Ohtori Academy, only to be immediately swept up in a series of duels for the hand of her classmate Anthy Himemiya and the power she supposedly holds. At the same time, Utena reunites with Touga Kiryuu, a friend from her childhood who seems to know the secrets behind the duels. Utena must discover those secrets for herself, before the power that rules Ohtori claims her and her friends, new and old.

Beauty and the Beast

October 1991 •English

Follow the adventures of Belle, a bright young woman who finds herself in the castle of a prince who's been turned into a mysterious beast. With the help of the castle's enchanted staff, Belle soon learns the most important lesson of all -- that true beauty comes from within.

Almost

January 2011 •German

Oscar jumps on his subway as every day. But at that morning a side-glance wipes every ritual away...Catherine! Two unknown whose glimpses are coming across in the following weeks. Oscar knows that he would not show the courage to come in contact with her all the more after an embarrassing mishap so he is casting for another way to give her a sign whose uniqueness he is hoping she will understand.

Mrs. Miniver

July 1942 •English

Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charming granddaughter of the local nobility as represented by Lady Beldon. Then the war comes and Vin joins the RAF.

Beauty and the Beast

May 1992 •English

A young, beautiful girl awaits the day she will be killed after having asked for a most humble gift.

American Beauty

September 1999 •English

Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend.

The Rose King

March 1986 •German

A mentally unstable woman and her son move to a sprawling mansion in Portugal to grow roses.

It's Not All Sunshine and Roses

Invalid date •English

A short indie film

The Subject Was Roses

October 1968 •English

Timmy Cleary returns to his Bronx home at the end of World War II and is soon disillusioned to find his parents' marriage filled with discord, quarreling, and recriminations.

We Grew Apart

May 2025 •Thai

A younger sister who returns home on the day her mother passes away has to meet her older sister whom she hasn't seen in a long time in the same uncomfortable place.

Officer with a Rose

May 1987 •

It is 1945 in Zagreb, and everyone is settling into the new regime following the disturbances of the war. Matilda is a wealthy widow of a war hero and has an apartment so spacious that she is required to take a boarder. Fortunately for her, the handsome young Lt. Horvat, the communist housing officer, has taken a fancy to her and has assigned his fiancee to be Matilda's new roommate. Where Matilda is soft and rounded, Lilijana is hard, skinny, and given to revolutionary pronouncements rather than tender endearments. The lieutenant loves them both, though he naturally finds Matilda more attractive. His situation is simplified when Lilijana, though pregnant, is transferred to another post. However, his commander is horrified that he has a lover in addition to his fiancee and demands that he choose whether to continue his career or continue his affair.

The Widow

August 1990 •Danish

A gothic allegory reinventing horror movie conventions while exploring the cyclical nature of life expressed through the romantic relationship between a lonely widow and her restless husband.

Dried Roses

April 2023 •Spanish

An ode to the excesses and depression of a duel.

SUNGLASSES I & II

June 2022 •English

Two mysterious souls meet at a bus stop and secretly decide to manipulate each other into a stilted and disaffectionate relationship.

Meditative Momentary

June 2021 •English

Inspired by Salvador Dali’s Meditative Rose (1958)

Rosewater

May 1999 •English

A solitary man struggles to cultivate beauty in a desolate urban world. Lonely and dislocated, he drifts in and out of a dream state envisioning the promise of regeneration. ROSEWATER tells a story of hope sustained through perseverance, ritual and, ultimately, revelation.

Le Visage Chaud

April 2024 •French

Baccara

December 2024 •French