I See Buildings Fall like Lightning

While out to avoid spending time with her narcissistic and promiscuous mother, sixteen-year-old Jo has a brief affair that leaves her pregnant and abandoned. When her mother remarries, Jo's only support becomes her friend Geoffrey, a homosexual.

Runtime

1h 40m

Director

Tony Richardson

Cast

Rita Tushingham, Murray Melvin, Paul Danquah

Beth, a bookish teenager, befriends Emilia, an aspiring novelist who has just arrived in town. Emilia soon begins an affair with Beth's father that threatens to have devastating consequences.

Runtime

1h 30m

Director

Niall MacCormick

Cast

Jessica Brown Findlay, Harry Treadaway, Felicity Jones

James and his three closest lifelong friends go on an ill-advised trip to the stunning coastal area of Barafundle Bay in West Wales. What follows is a touching and comical adventure dealing with friendship, heroism and love.

Runtime

1h 32m

Director

Hattie Dalton

Cast

Tom Burke, Benedict Cumberbatch, JJ Feild

When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley at a party, the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar becomes someone entirely unexpected in private moments: a thrilling crush, an ally in loneliness, a vulnerable best friend.

Runtime

1h 53m

Director

Sofia Coppola

Cast

Cailee Spaeny, Jacob Elordi, Ari Cohen

In 1920s New York City, a Black woman finds her world upended when her life becomes intertwined with a former childhood friend who's passing as white.

Runtime

1h 38m

Cast

Tessa Thompson, Ruth Negga, André Holland

Through an immigrant cab driver, our world collides with a nervous filmmaker, a lawyer whose new breasts her ex-boyfriend wants to see, a mystery man, a gay man who might or might not have AIDS, and a birthday girl who got stood up. It is a mixture of laughter and sadness, all floating on a sea of philosophy.

Runtime

1h 39m

Director

Denis Villeneuve, Manon Briand

Cast

Igor Ovadis, Sébastien Joannette, Eve Gadouas