In Algiers, during the Algerian War of Independence, one of the leaders of the FLN was arrested by the French colonial army, which used the most violent methods to make the prisoners speak. The use of torture poses a conscience problem for a French officer. Playing shot-reverse-shot, between the tortured and his torturer, in a suffocating camera, Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina approaches torture by drawing inspiration from the story of his father, who died of abuse.
The family of a wealthy businessman gather to celebrate his 60th birthday. During the course of the ...
After a chaotic night of rioting in a marginal suburb of Paris, three young friends, Vinz, Hubert an...
Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of...
Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on half-brothers Pa...
Caye is a young prostitute whose family is unaware of her profession. She meets her striking Dominic...
Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their ti...
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow rec...
In 1940, author Richard Wright turns to Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paul Green to help adapt h...
A rape case opens racial divisions in a small town. A black sheriff and his white deputy investigate...
Mexican beauty Camilla hopes to rise above her station by marrying a wealthy American. That is compl...
Marvin, a heavy-drinking widower meets Tige, an 11-year-old orphan. With nowhere else to go, Tige mo...
Salvatore "Sal" Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggi...
In 1906, two American brothers join the French Foreign Legion and, led by a sadistic Sergeant-Major,...
The love story of an abused English girl and a Chinese Buddhist in a time when London was a brutal a...
Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set ad...
During a televised debate on the Algerian war in the early 1980s, Professor Paulet denounced the met...
Geeky teenager David and his popular twin sister, Jennifer, get sucked into the black-and-white worl...
Set in colonial French Indochina during the 1930s to 1950s, this is the story of Éliane Devries, a F...
African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bi...
A small, turbulent town in Texas obsesses over their high school football team to an unhealthy degre...