Le Dictateur

County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up from Bethnal Green, starting a class war with the lower classes suffering. Caught in the middle of the conflict is 11-year old Billy Elliot, who, after leaving his boxing club for the day, stumbles upon a ballet class and finds out that h...

Runtime

1h 51m

Director

Stephen Daldry

Cast

Jamie Bell, Julie Walters, Gary Lewis

In the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin revolt against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel's officers. The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre.

Runtime

1h 15m

Director

Sergei Eisenstein

Cast

Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barsky, Grigori Aleksandrov

In 1933, a young woman and her father discover an Alabama plantation whose inhabitants live as if slavery had never been abolished. Feeling a sense of duty to those behind the heavy gates, she stays to liberate the people and see them through their first harvest. With four of her father's colleagues and a lawyer, she faces the daunting...

Runtime

2h 18m

Director

Lars von Trier

Cast

Bryce Dallas Howard, Isaach de Bankolé, Danny Glover

Juanita returns to her childhood home on the fictional Caribbean island of San Christopher, accompanied by her husband Stephen, their daughter Nancy, and Stephen's secretary Gail. Traumatized and influenced by voodoo exposure from her past, Juanita becomes drawn into local rituals and is elevated by the islanders to the status of a voo...

Runtime

1h 8m

Director

Roy William Neill

Cast

Jack Holt, Fay Wray, Dorothy Burgess

In a repressive boarding school with rigid rules of behavior, four boys decide to rebel against the director on a celebration day.

Runtime

48m

Director

Jean Vigo

Cast

Jean Dasté, Robert le Flon, Du Verron