The Future Above Us

No one expects much from Christy Brown, a boy with cerebral palsy born into a working-class Irish family. Though Christy is a spastic quadriplegic and essentially paralyzed, a miraculous event occurs when, at the age of 5, he demonstrates control of his left foot by using chalk to scrawl a word on the floor. With the help of his steely...

Runtime

1h 43m

Director

Jim Sheridan

Cast

Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker, Alison Whelan

Barley Scott Blair, a Lisbon-based editor of Russian literature who unexpectedly begins working for British intelligence, is commissioned to investigate the purposes of Dante, a dissident scientist trapped in the decaying Soviet Union that is crumbling under the new open-minded policies.

Runtime

1h 58m

Director

Fred Schepisi

Cast

Sean Connery, Michelle Pfeiffer, Roy Scheider

April 1957: Rational engineer Faber's plane crashes in Mexico, where he learns that he became a father in 1938. He takes a ship from NYC to France and meets cute, young Sabeth. Is it fate?

Runtime

1h 57m

Director

Volker Schlöndorff

Cast

Sam Shepard, Julie Delpy, Barbara Sukowa

'Bears Discover Fire' is the strange tale of a lonely man, his aging mother, his curious nephew, and a family of bears that have discovered how to use fire.

Runtime

14m

Cast

Daniel Butler, Andrew M. Chamberlain, Edith Ivey

After a catastrophic military disaster reanimates the dead, Ava searches for her missing husband amidst an increasingly hostile world.

Runtime

1h 35m

Director

Zak Hilditch

Cast

Daisy Ridley, Brenton Thwaites, Mark Coles Smith