Lonely Planet

A celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Parisian nightclub, at the cusp of the 20th century. A young poet, who is plunged into the heady world of Moulin Rouge, begins a passionate affair with the club's most notorious and beautiful star.

Runtime

2h 8m

Director

Baz Luhrmann

Cast

Ewan McGregor, Nicole Kidman, John Leguizamo

Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the normal laws of physics are victim to frequent anomalies. A stalker guides two men into the Zone, specifically to an area in which deep-seated desires are granted.

Runtime

2h 42m

Director

Andrei Tarkovsky

Cast

Alisa Freyndlikh, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy, Anatoliy Solonitsyn

A cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand.

Runtime

1h 35m

Director

Martin Ritt

Cast

Andrea Marcovicci, Woody Allen, Zero Mostel

Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young man who starts romantically pursuing her.

Runtime

2h 11m

Director

Michael Haneke, Rudolf Melichar

Cast

Isabelle Huppert, Annie Girardot

Gabriel is a young, aspiring musical composer whose life seems stuck in the First Act. When his new musical number gets a critical reception, a theatre colleague, Perry, tells Gabriel that he needs to get a life before he can write about one – so he heads straight for his local gay bar.

Runtime

1h 29m

Director

Jim Fall

Cast

Christian Campbell, John Paul Pitoc, Tori Spelling