Once you were Mine

In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths. Rocket is a budding photographer who documents the increasing drug-related violence of his neighborhood, while José “Zé” Pequeno is an ambitious drug dealer diving into a dangerous life of crime.

Runtime

2h 9m

Director

Fernando Meirelles

Cast

Alexandre Rodrigues, Leandro Firmino

Three friends growing up in South Central Los Angeles navigate a neighborhood plagued by violence, unemployment, and crime, each responding differently to the harsh realities of street life. As tragedy strikes close to home, their friendship, choices, and hopes for a better future are put to the ultimate test.

Runtime

1h 52m

Director

John Singleton

Cast

Laurence Fishburne, Cuba Gooding Jr., Ice Cube

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out.

Runtime

2h 42m

Director

Volker Schlöndorff

Cast

Mario Adorf, Angela Winkler, David Bennent

In 1973, a precocious 15-year-old aspiring rock journalist lands a dream assignment from Rolling Stone to tour with a rising rock band, embarking on a coming-of-age journey as he discovers the exhilarating and heartbreaking realities behind rock stardom.

Runtime

2h 4m

Director

Cameron Crowe

Cast

Billy Crudup, Frances McDormand, Kate Hudson

At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to liberate himself from his virginity. Oblivious to the war and the resistance that surrounds him, this young man embarks on a journey of sexual awakening and self-discovery, encountering a universe of frustration, eroticism, and adventur...

Runtime

1h 33m

Director

Jiří Menzel

Cast

Václav Neckář, Jitka Scoffin, Vladimír Valenta