The Country Girls

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

Ronia lives happily in her father's castle until she comes across a new playmate, Birk, in the nearby dark forest. The two explore the wilderness, braving dangerous Witchbirds and Rump-Gnomes. But when their families find out Birk and Ronia have been playing together, they forbid them to see each other again. Indeed, their fathers are ...

Runtime

2h 6m

Director

Tage Danielsson

Cast

Hanna Zetterberg, Dan Håfström, Börje Ahlstedt

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 former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.

Runtime

2h 19m

Director

Sergio Leone

Cast

Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern