Fear of Fear

The Bounty

May 1984 •English

The familiar story of Lieutenant Bligh, whose cruelty leads to a mutiny on his ship. This version follows both the efforts of Fletcher Christian to get his men beyond the reach of British retribution, and the epic voyage of Lieutenant Bligh to get his loyalists safely to East Timor in a tiny lifeboat.

The Astronaut's Wife

August 1999 •English

When astronaut Spencer Armacost returns to Earth after a mission that nearly cost him his life, he decides to take a desk job in order to see his beautiful wife, Jillian, more often. Gradually, Jillian notices that Spencer's personality seems to have changed, but her concerns fade when she discovers that she's pregnant. As Jillian grows closer to becoming a mother, her suspicions about Spencer return. Why does it seem as if he's a different person?

First Reformed

May 2018 •English

A pastor of a small church in upstate New York starts to spiral out of control after a soul-shaking encounter with an unstable environmental activist and his pregnant wife.

Dark Blue Almost Black

March 2006 •Spanish

Jorge is a young man whose plans for the future are put on hold when his father has a stroke. For seven years, he diligently nurses his father and works as a janitor while studying part time to get a business degree. When Natalia, his childhood crush, returns from a stint studying abroad, Jorge begins to yearn for something better. He is desperate to find a new and better job, but finds that no one will hire him because he has experience only as a janitor. Antonio, Jorge’s older brother, soon to be released from jail, is an opportunist who has never gotten along with their father. In prison, at a theater workshop, Antonio meets Paula, a beautiful young woman in jail on drug charges. Paula has a problem because she flirted with another inmate's boyfriend.

Friends

March 1971 •English

Paul, a rich English boy, and Michelle, an orphaned French girl, run away from home to a remote beach. Living on their own, their friendship grows into love.

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

March 1988 •Spanish

Pepa resolves to kill herself with a batch of sleeping-pill-laced gazpacho after her lover leaves her. Fortunately, she is interrupted by a deliciously chaotic series of events.

Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere

October 2025 •English

Bruce Springsteen, a young musician on the cusp of global superstardom, struggles to reconcile the pressures of success with the ghosts of his past.

Jamon Jamon

September 1992 •Spanish

José Luis has a cushy corporate job at the lingerie factory his mom owns. After he falls in love and proposes to Silvia, a beautiful laborer on the underwear assembly line, his mom enlists Raul, a potential underwear model and would-be bullfighter, to seduce Silvia.

A Simple Story

November 1978 •French

A middle-aged woman leaves her partner and drifts back to her ex-husband, while the lives of her middle class friends intersect with her own.

Surcharge

January 2025 •French

Knight Rider 2010

February 1994 •English

Loosely based on the popular television series of the 80's, this movie brings the story into an apocalyptic time and a new "KITT".

Adventure

December 1945 •English

A rough and tumble man of the sea falls for a meek librarian.

The Delinquents

December 1989 •English

A small town in Australia, in the late 1950s: Brownie and Lola are deeply in love. But because they are under-age, their parents are against their relationship and try to separate them.

Before I Go to Sleep

September 2016 •Bulgarian

A boy and a girl are left homeless while expecting their baby to be born. Together they leave the familiar world and set to the unknown.

Estátua!

August 2014 •Portuguese

Isabel is a babysitter pregnant of her own child and can't wait to be a mother. Until she meets Joana.

Miette

October 2021 •French

Through the encounter between a director and a scarred young woman, Miette explores how guilt shapes our personal narrative and relationships.

Blue Valentine

December 2010 •English

Dean and Cindy live a quiet life in a modest neighborhood. They appear to have the world at their feet at the outset of the relationship. However, his lack of ambition and her retreat into self-absorption cause potentially irreversible cracks in their marriage.

Sound of the Mountain

January 1954 •Japanese

An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely slights her for another woman.

El Nazareno

Invalid date •Spanish

Blonde

September 2022 •English

From her volatile childhood as Norma Jeane, through her rise to stardom and romantic entanglements, this reimagined fictional portrait of Hollywood legend Marilyn Monroe blurs the lines of fact and fiction to explore the widening split between her public and private selves.