The French Boys

Sex and love. Some seek it, some need it, some spurn it and some pay for it, but we're all involved in it. Set on one afternoon on Hampstead Heath in north-west London, the film investigates the minutiae of seven couples. What makes us tick?

Runtime

1h 31m

Director

Ed Blum

Cast

Holly Aird, Eileen Atkins, Hugh Bonneville

Max is a trendy, pretty, young lesbian, who is having trouble finding love. A friend sets her up with Ely, whom Max likes, but Ely is frumpy, homely, and older. Nor do they have much in common. Can Max learn to look past the packaging?

Runtime

1h 23m

Director

Rose Troche

Cast

Guinevere Turner, V.S. Brodie, T. Wendy McMillan

Gilda Bessé shares her Paris apartment with an Irish schoolteacher, Guy Malyon, and Mia, a refugee from Spain. As the world drifts toward war, Gilda defiantly pursues her hedonistic lifestyle and her burgeoning career as a photographer. But Guy and Mia feel impelled to join the fight against fascism, and the three friends are separated.

Runtime

2h 1m

Director

John Duigan

Cast

Charlize Theron, Penélope Cruz, Stuart Townsend

After a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their own mortality and the repercussions of their vile atrocity.

Runtime

2h 14m

Director

Richard Brooks

Cast

Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe

Old college chums get together for a weekend reunion that is bound to open old wounds and perhaps heal them. New romances find a spark while old ones rekindle.

Runtime

1h 50m

Cast

Monica Bell, Carol Schneider, Ellen McLaughlin