Meanwhile on Earth

Hell's Kitchen, New York. Terry Noonan returns home after a ten-year absence. He soon reconnects with Jackie, a childhood friend and member of the Irish mob, and rekindles his love affair with Jackie's sister Kathleen.

Runtime

2h 15m

Director

Phil Joanou

Cast

Sean Penn, Ed Harris, Gary Oldman

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

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.

Runtime

2h 26m

Director

Rob Marshall

Cast

Zhang Ziyi, Gong Li, Michelle Yeoh

Ramón Sampedro is a ship mechanic and part-time poet left a quadriplegic following a diving accident. Ramón fought for 30 years for the legal right to end his own life. He develops close relationships with his long-term lawyer Julia and his friend Rosa, who tries to convince him that his life is worth living. Despite his situation, Ram...

Runtime

2h 6m

Director

Alejandro Amenábar

Cast

Javier Bardem, Belén Rueda, Lola Dueñas

Or shoulders a lot: she's 17 or 18, a student, works evenings at a restaurant, recycles cans and bottles for cash, and tries to keep her mother Ruthie from returning to streetwalking in Tel Aviv. Ruthie calls Or "my treasure," but Ruthie is a burden. She's just out of hospital, weak, and Or has found her a job as a house cleaner. The c...

Runtime

1h 37m

Director

Keren Yedaya

Cast

Dana Ivgy, Ronit Elkabetz, Meshar Cohen