Dissolve

Packard Schmidt is a burnt-out, middle-aged college English professor. In a desperate attempt to restore some sense of vitality to his lonely existence he embarks on a series of impulsive romantic exploits resulting in a cavalcade of disaster both personally and professionally. These disasters change and educate Pack and serve eventual...

Runtime

1h 30m

Director

Chris Iovenko

Cast

Julian Sands, Alex Sol, John Savage

An impressionable young woman's relationship with an aging prostitute leads to a job as a maid at a brothel.

Runtime

1h 41m

Director

Alberto Lattuada

Cast

Virna Lisi, Anthony Franciosa, Renato Salvatori

During the Edo Period, a noblewoman's banishment for her love affair with a lowly page signals the beginning of her inexorable fall.

Runtime

2h 16m

Director

Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast

Kinuyo Tanaka, Tsukie Matsuura, Ichirō Sugai

For nearly a decade, Gilbert and Sullivan’s collaborations have delighted the English people. But in 1884, as a London heat wave cuts into the theater trade, their latest work, "Princess Ida", receives lukewarm press. In an effort to reconcile their creative differences and drawing inspiration from Japanese culture, they went on to cre...

Runtime

2h 40m

Director

Mike Leigh

Cast

Jim Broadbent, Allan Corduner, Timothy Spall

Fiona is abandoned at six months of age, raised in foster and adoptive homes, abused, and, still a teen, hustles on the streets of New York. We watch her use heroine, fall in love with other women, be pursued by men, engage in murderous violence, hide out in a crack house, and decide to leave the city. We see her mother, also a stree...

Runtime

1h 22m

Director

Amos Kollek

Cast

Anna Thomson, Felicia Maguire, Alyssa Mulhern