Tabula Rasa

A biopic depicting the life of filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947, during which time he became a successful film producer and an aviation magnate, while simultaneously growing more unstable due to severe obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Runtime

2h 50m

Director

Martin Scorsese

Cast

Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale

Retired and widowed Chinese master chef Chu lives in modern day Taipei, with his three attractive daughters, all of whom are unattached. Soon, each daughter encounters a new man in their lives. When these new relationships blossom, stereotypes are broken and the living situation within the family changes.

Runtime

2h 3m

Director

Ang Lee

Cast

Lung Sihung, Yang Kuei-mei

Frank Rautenbach leads a strong cast as Angus Buchan, a Zambian farmer of Scottish heritage, who leaves his farm in the midst of political unrest and racially charged land reclaims and travels south with his family to start a better life in KwaZulu Natal,South Africa.

Runtime

1h 56m

Director

Regardt van den Bergh

Cast

Frank Rautenbach, Jeanne Neilson, Hamilton Dlamini

Set in the People's Republic of China during the 1990s, the film centers on a 13-year-old substitute teacher, Wei Minzhi, in the Chinese countryside. Called in to substitute for a village teacher for one month, Wei is told not to lose any students.

Runtime

1h 46m

Director

Zhang Yimou

Cast

Wei Minzhi, Zhang Huike, Tian Zhenda

A married woman realizes how unhappy her marriage really is, and that her life needs to go in a different direction. After a painful divorce, she takes off on a round-the-world journey to "find herself".

Runtime

2h 13m

Director

Ryan Murphy

Cast

Julia Roberts, Javier Bardem, James Franco