Los Tarantos

It is summertime in a blue-collar, marginal district of a city in the South of Spain. Tano, a teenager currently serving a sentence in a juvenile reform center, is given a 48-hour leave to attend his brother’s wedding.

Runtime

1h 26m

Director

Alberto Rodríguez

Cast

Juan José Ballesta, Jesús Carroza, Vicente Romero Sánchez

A small-time hustler makes a deal with a notorious gangster to whom he owes money: marry his teenage son to the latter's daughter. However, the young lovers are not as agreeable.

Runtime

2h 7m

Director

Emir Kusturica

Cast

Bajram Severdžan, Srđan 'Žika' Todorović, Zabit Memedov

A man is looking for a singer he had heard on cassette. He finds much more.

Runtime

1h 42m

Director

Tony Gatlif

Cast

Romain Duris, Rona Hartner, Izidor Serban

A look at a few chapters in the life of Poppy, a cheery, colorful, North London schoolteacher whose optimism tends to exasperate those around her.

Runtime

1h 58m

Director

Mike Leigh

Cast

Sally Hawkins, Eddie Marsan, Alexis Zegerman

The film presents thirteen rhythms of flamenco, each with song, guitar, and dance: the up-tempo bularías, a brooding farruca, an anguished martinete, and a satiric fandango de huelva. There are tangos, a taranta, alegrías, siguiriyas, soleás, a guajira of patrician women, a petenera about a sentence to death, villancicos, and a final r...

Runtime

1h 40m

Director

Carlos Saura

Cast

La Paquera de Jerez, Paco de Lucía, Fernanda de Utrera

In the UK suburbs, an underground tournament is set to challenge twelve fighters from different backgrounds to compete for the price of £500,000. They have been handpicked for a no-holds barred competition that will push each fighter to their limit. Each fighter has their own reason for competing, and each will give everything they've ...

Runtime

1h 35m

Director

Chee Keong Cheung

Cast

Mark Strange, Nathan Lewis, Joey Ansah

Leung is the bodyguard of a Chinese Triad boss, Wong, to whom his loyalty is unrivaled. Living in Hong Kong, Wong requests that his bodyguard travel to the UK to protect a young British woman, whose true identity is known only by Wong himself. Even Wong's son, Yuen, is kept in the dark, which leads to a betrayal that threatens to destr...

Runtime

1h 35m

Director

Chee Keong Cheung

Cast

Vincent Sze Cho-Lam, Richard Ng Yiu-Hon, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa