Song of Youth

Based on a real-life story, this drama focuses on a small group of Allied soldiers in Burma who are held captive by the Japanese. Capt. Ernest Gordon, Lt. Jim Reardon and Maj. Ian Campbell are among the military officers kept imprisoned and routinely beaten and deprived of food. While Campbell wants to rebel and attempt an escape, Gord...

Runtime

1h 48m

Director

David L. Cunningham

Cast

Ciarán McMenamin, Robert Carlyle, Kiefer Sutherland

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

Schoolteacher Bertram Cates is arrested for teaching his students Darwin's theory of evolution. The case receives national attention and one of the newspaper reporters, E.K. Hornbeck, arranges to bring in renowned defense attorney and atheist Henry Drummond to defend Cates. The prosecutor, Matthew Brady is a former presidential candida...

Runtime

2h 8m

Director

Stanley Kramer

Cast

Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly

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

Successful writer/director Bernard Rougerie is at a creative dead end and decides to isolate himself from his wife in order to complete the script for his next film. Bernard moves into an apartment building whose tenants are in the midst of a revolt against their abusive landlord. Reluctant at first, he joins their cause and then becom...

Runtime

1h 53m

Director

Bertrand Tavernier

Cast

Michel Piccoli, Christine Pascal, Michel Aumont