Island of Freedom

Unemotional, restrained cinematographic poem, situated in a wintry and poor suburb of Tehran. A man is dismissed and his lack of prospects for the future make him decide to seek his happiness abroad. He leaves his wife and child behind and for a long time nothing is heard of him. Then a stranger turns up, a car mechanic looking for a j...

Runtime

1h 26m

Director

Rafi Pitts, Nooreddin Goodarzi

Cast

Mitra Hajjar, Ali Nicksaulat, Hashem Abdi

After their airplane crashes behind enemy lines, four soldiers must survive and try to find a way back to their battalion. However, when they come across a local peasant girl the horrors of war quickly become apparent.

Runtime

1h 2m

Director

Stanley Kubrick

Cast

Frank Silvera, Paul Mazursky, Kenneth Harp

Captivated by the lure of sudden wealth, the quiet rural lives of two brothers erupt into conflicts of greed, paranoia and distrust when over $4 million in cash is discovered at the remote site of a downed small airplane. Their simple plan to retain the money while avoiding detection opens a Pandora's box when the fear of getting caugh...

Runtime

2h 1m

Director

Sam Raimi

Cast

Billy Bob Thornton, Bill Paxton, Bridget Fonda

A political thriller steeped in illegal oil trading, the Russian Mafia, and governmental cover-ups.

Runtime

1h 47m

Director

Harvey Kahn

Cast

Christian Slater, Selma Blair, Robert Loggia

A 1939 test pilot asks his best friend to use him as a guinea pig for a cryogenics experiment. Daniel McCormick wants to be frozen for a year so that he doesn't have to watch his love lying in a coma. The next thing Daniel knows is that he's been awoken in 1992.

Runtime

1h 42m

Director

Steve Miner

Cast

Mel Gibson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Elijah Wood