Before the Night

Vada Sultenfuss is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her father runs a funeral parlor. She is also in love with her English teacher, and joins a poetry class over the summer just to impress him. Thomas J., her best friend, is "allergic to everything", and sticks with Vada despite her hangups. When Vada's father hires Shelly,...

Runtime

1h 43m

Director

Howard Zieff

Cast

Anna Chlumsky, Macaulay Culkin, Dan Aykroyd

The dramatised story of the Irish civil rights protest march on January 30 1972 which ended in a massacre by British troops.

Runtime

1h 47m

Director

Paul Greengrass

Cast

James Nesbitt, Allan Gildea, Gerard Crossan

The story of how George Jung, together with the Medellín Cartel led by Pablo Escobar, established the billion-dollar cocaine empire in the United States in the 1970s.

Runtime

2h 4m

Director

Ted Demme

Cast

Johnny Depp, Penélope Cruz, Franka Potente

Danton and Robespierre were close friends and fought together in the French Revolution, but by 1793 Robespierre was France's ruler, determined to wipe out opposition with a series of mass executions that became known as the Reign of Terror. Danton, well known as a spokesman of the people, had been living in relative solitude in the Fre...

Runtime

2h 16m

Director

Andrzej Wajda

Cast

Gérard Depardieu, Wojciech Pszoniak, Patrice Chéreau

An extravagant, exotic and moving look at Rembrandt's romantic and professional life, and the controversy he created by the identification of a murderer in the painting The Night Watch.

Runtime

2h 15m

Director

Peter Greenaway

Cast

Martin Freeman, Emily Holmes, Eva Birthistle