Romanetto

Art film producer Jeremy Prokosch, unhappy with the work of his director, hires Fritz Lang (as himself) to direct an adaptation of The Odyssey, but when it seems that the legendary filmmaker is making a picture destined to bomb, he brings in a screenwriter to energise the script. The professional intersects with the personal when a rif...

Runtime

1h 43m

Director

Jean-Luc Godard

Cast

Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance

Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named R...

Runtime

2h 22m

Director

Frank Darabont

Cast

Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton

While waiting for her divorce papers, a repressed literature professor finds herself unexpectedly attracted by a carefree, spirited young woman named Cay.

Runtime

1h 31m

Director

Donna Deitch

Cast

Helen Shaver, Patricia Charbonneau, Audra Lindley

A young woman from the Midwest gets more than she bargained for when she moves to New York to become a writer and ends up as the assistant to the tyrannical, larger-than-life editor-in-chief of a major fashion magazine.

Runtime

1h 49m

Director

David Frankel

Cast

Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt

In the winter of 1959, a single mother and her young daughter arrive in a rural French town, where they open an unusual chocolate shop that disrupts the moral fiber of the strictly Catholic townsfolk and mayor.

Runtime

2h 1m

Director

Lasse Hallström

Cast

Juliette Binoche, Alfred Molina, Judi Dench