Pelle The Conqueror
(1988) [M]

Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Picture, this epic drama about human resilience stars the hypnotic Max Von Sydow as a poor, but never downtrodden widower who emigrates with his young son, Pelle, from the economically depressed Sweden to Denmark at the turn of the century. His...  More

Intervista
(1987) [M]

Fellini's movie combines the film-within-a-film. A playful recollection of previous works and an eerie conflating of the past and present in this surreal and imaginative distillation of a man's life and work. As Fellini prepares to adapt Kafka's Amerika, his every move and gesture is captured by...  More

Prick Up Your Ears
(1987) [M]

'Prick Up Your Ears' is a celebration of the outrageous playwright Joe Orton (Gary Olman), and his love affair with Kenneth Halliwell (Alfred Molina), which concluded with their violent and premature deaths. Joe Orton (Gary Oldman) was one of the 1960s golden boys, from working class Leicester...  More

Wings Of Desire
(1987) [PG]

One of Wim Wenders' biggest commercial successes and arguably his most accessible film to date, Wings Of Desire (Der Himmel uber Berlin) centres around two trench-coated angels, Damiel (Bruno Ganz) and Cassiel (Otto Sander), wandering the streets of post-war, pre-unification Berlin. Invisible to...  More

Dark Eyes
(1987) [PG]

Marcello Mastroianni, in an Oscar-nominated role, is Romano, a romantic with a wife, a mistress and a deep yearning to find a Russian woman he met at a spa. Based on several short stories by Chekhov.  More

Three Films by Jane Campion
(1982) [M]

At the 1986 Cannes Film Festival, Jane Campion made an unprecedented debut. The films were Peel, A Girl's Own Story and Passionless Moments. The three were made while she was a student at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School.  More

Noir Et Blanc
(1986) [R]

An accountant takes a temporary job at a health club. Taking advantage of the facilities, he nervously delivers his puny frame into the hands of the black masseur, submitting to a relationship that turns into a consuming obsession. French dialogue with English subtitles. Winner of the Camera D'Or...  More

After Hours
(1985) [M]

A bored, buttoned-up, button-down word processor sets out on a late-night date. He's about to become the punch line of a giant cosmic joke. Because different rules apply when it's After Hours. New York filmmaker Martin Scorsese takes a darkly comic look at his favorite city in this wild...  More

Mona Lisa
(1985) [M]

Recently released from prison, George (Bob Hoskins) hopes to return to his wife and daughter, but is told in no uncertain terms that it's not an option. His friend Thomas (Robbie Coltrane) is much more obliging and before long George has found work driving high-class call-girl Simone (Cathy...  More

The Sacrifice
(1986) [PG]

The Sacrifice, director Andrei Tarkovsky's final film, begins in Bergmanesque fashion on a small, remote island, where friends and family gather for drama critic Alexander's (Erland Josephson) birthday celebration. The revelry is interrupted by a radio announcement: World War III has begun, and...  More