Love & Gelato

In late 1940s Los Angeles, Easy Rawlins is an unemployed black World War II veteran with few job prospects. At a bar, Easy meets DeWitt Albright, a mysterious white man looking for someone to investigate the disappearance of a missing white woman named Daphne Monet, who he suspects is hiding out in one of the city's black jazz clubs. S...

Runtime

1h 42m

Director

Carl Franklin

Cast

Denzel Washington, Tom Sizemore, Jennifer Beals

After an abrupt and violent encounter with a French warship inflicts severe damage upon his ship, a captain of the British Royal Navy begins a chase over two oceans to capture or destroy the enemy, though he must weigh his commitment to duty and ferocious pursuit of glory against the safety of his devoted crew, including the ship's tho...

Runtime

2h 18m

Director

Peter Weir

Cast

Russell Crowe, Paul Bettany, James D'Arcy

Once called "Father Frank" for his efforts to rescue lives, Frank Pierce sees the ghosts of those he failed to save around every turn. He has tried everything he can to get fired, calling in sick, delaying taking calls where he might have to face one more victim he couldn't help, yet cannot quit the job on his own.

Runtime

2h 1m

Director

Martin Scorsese

Cast

Nicolas Cage, Patricia Arquette, John Goodman

Penelope Keeling, a sixty-four-year-old daughter of a famous artist, reflects on her life, and the fate and choices that defined it, when she arrives in the Mediterranean to stay with her headstrong daughter. Shifting through time, and falling into place like the pieces of a jigsaw, the truth of Penelope's rich, heartbreaking and surpr...

Runtime

2h 54m

Director

Piers Haggard

Cast

Vanessa Redgrave, Maximilian Schell, Charles Edwards

A boy, obsessed with comparing himself with those less fortunate, experiences a different life at the home of his aunt and uncle in 1959 Sweden.

Runtime

1h 42m

Director

Lasse Hallström

Cast

Anton Glanzelius, Tomas von Brömssen, Anki Lidén