Child Abuse

Three generations of women deal with family secrets while surviving the east wind, fire, insanity, superstition, lies and even death.

Runtime

2h 1m

Director

Pedro Almodóvar

Cast

Penélope Cruz, Carmen Maura, Lola Dueñas

An orphan endures a harsh life in a workhouse before fleeing to London, where he falls in with a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the criminal Fagin, and eventually finds a better life, exposing the cruelties of poverty and child labor in Victorian England.

Runtime

2h 10m

Director

Roman Polanski

Cast

Barney Clark, Ben Kingsley, Jamie Foreman

The family of a wealthy businessman gather to celebrate his 60th birthday. During the course of the party, his eldest son presents a speech that reveals a devastating secret that turns the night into a battle of truth and denial.

Runtime

1h 41m

Director

Thomas Vinterberg

Cast

Ulrich Thomsen, Henning Moritzen, Thomas Bo Larsen

The lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them suffers a family tragedy.

Runtime

2h 18m

Director

Clint Eastwood

Cast

Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon

Matti and Niila, growing up in the mid-sixties in the harsh and conservative environment of a Finnish-speaking part of Tornedalen in Swedish Laponia, close to the Finnish border. Their big dream is to become rock stars. In the present the now grown-up Matti feels guilt for the death of his drug-addicted rock star friend Niila.

Runtime

1h 45m

Director

Reza Bagher

Cast

Max Enderfors, Andreas af Enehielm, Niklas Ulfvarson