Navajo

Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.

Runtime

1h 59m

Director

Orson Welles

Cast

William Alland, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore

In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's mastermind meets a prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.

Runtime

2h 28m

Director

Fritz Lang

Cast

Brigitte Helm, Gustav Fröhlich, Alfred Abel

A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.

Runtime

1h 4m

Director

Tod Browning

Cast

Edgar Allan Woolf, Harry Earles, Olga Baclanova

Kresten, newly wed, is on the threshold of a great career success in his father-in-law’s company. But when the death of his own father takes him back to his poverty-stricken childhood home, far out in the country, his career plans fall apart. For one thing he has to deal with his loveable, backward brother, who is now all alone; for an...

Runtime

1h 38m

Director

Søren Kragh-Jacobsen

Cast

Anders W. Berthelsen, Iben Hjejle, Jesper Asholt

When an old friend brings filmmaker Enrique Goded a semi-autobiographical script chronicling their adolescence, Enrique is forced to relive his youth spent at a Catholic boarding school. Weaving through past and present, the script follows a transvestite performer who reconnects with a grade school sweetheart. Spurred on by this chance...

Runtime

1h 45m

Director

Pedro Almodóvar

Cast

Gael García Bernal, Fele Martínez, Daniel Giménez Cacho