Vivian Bearing, a brilliant and fiercely independent professor of English literature, is diagnosed with advanced ovarian cancer and undergoes an aggressive experimental treatment. As her condition deteriorates, Vivian is forced to confront loneliness, mortality and the emotional detachment that has shaped both her academic career and personal life.
Everyone saw the furious crowds forcing Ceauşescu to flee by helicopter. In a quiet little town near the capital, the owner of a local TV station wants to answer a question that has remained unresolved for 16 years: did the town join the Revolution or not?
In suburban America during the final days of October 1988, emotionally troubled teenager Donnie Darko begins experiencing visions of a monstrous rabbit named Frank, who tells him the world will end in 28 days. As reality fractures around him, Donnie is drawn into a labyrinth of time travel, paranoia, and apocalyptic destiny.
After her parents are transformed into pigs, young Chihiro becomes trapped in a mysterious, magical world inhabited by spirits and monsters. Terrified at first, the little girl slowly discovers a courage she never knew she possessed...
After a violent clash, rebellious teen Lang dies and mysteriously wakes in his sister Shanshan’s body. Trapped between life and death, the siblings battle for control over one existence, confronting guilt, love, and the limits of identity. Blending raw urban realism with surreal metaphysics, My Turn is a haunting study of family bonds and the human need to be seen.
Four former college dorm friends reunite in an apartment ten years after blowing each other's lives to pieces. They never thought they would speak again - but tonight, it is a matter of life and death whether they can understand each other.
Things go terribly awry when small-time Minnesota car salesman Jerry Lundegaard hires two thugs to kidnap his wife so he can collect the ransom from his wealthy father-in-law. Once people start dying, the very chipper and very pregnant Police Chief Marge Gunderson takes the case. Is she up for this challenge? You betcha.
After investigations reveal an unusually high number of residents receiving disability aid in a small Romanian village, social services dispatch a team of inspectors to uncover the truth. What will they discover?
In the middle of the Bosnian war, a Bosnian and a Serbian soldier find themselves stranded in the same trench with a dying man lying on a mine that could explode at any moment. As UN troops and television crews descend on the scene, the conflict spirals into a grotesque circus.
Maria Angeles, a 79-year-old Spanish woman, lives alone in Tangier, in northern Morocco, where she enjoys the city and her daily life. Everything changes when her daughter, Clara, arrives from Madrid to sell the apartment in which she has lived her entire life. Determined to stay in the city where she grew up, she does everything she can to keep her home and reclaim the objects she has accumulated over a lifetime.