A Difficult Journey

The story of Joy Division’s lead singer Ian Curtis, from his schoolboy days in 1973 to his suicide on the eve of the band's first American tour in 1980.

Runtime

2h 2m

Director

Anton Corbijn

Cast

Sam Riley, Samantha Morton, Alexandra Maria Lara

The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details the story of a man and a woman who are passionately in love. Their attempts to consummate their passion are constantly thwarted, by their families, by the Church and bourgeois society in general.

Runtime

1h 3m

Director

Luis Buñuel

Cast

Gaston Modot, Lya Lys, Max Ernst

A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsessive and ultimately destructive sexual relationship.

Runtime

1h 42m

Director

Nagisa Ōshima

Cast

Eiko Matsuda, Tatsuya Fuji, Aoi Nakajima

The story of Operation Market Garden—a failed attempt by the allies in the latter stages of WWII to end the war quickly by securing three bridges in Holland allowing access over the Rhine into Germany. A combination of poor allied intelligence and the presence of two crack German panzer divisions meant that the final part of this opera...

Runtime

2h 55m

Director

Richard Attenborough

Cast

Dirk Bogarde, James Caan, Michael Caine

After graduating from Emory University in 1992, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account to charity, and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness.

Runtime

2h 28m

Director

Sean Penn

Cast

Emile Hirsch, Marcia Gay Harden, William Hurt