The Mother's Family

County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up from Bethnal Green, starting a class war with the lower classes suffering. Caught in the middle of the conflict is 11-year old Billy Elliot, who, after leaving his boxing club for the day, stumbles upon a ballet class and finds out that h...

Runtime

1h 51m

Director

Stephen Daldry

Cast

Jamie Bell, Julie Walters, Gary Lewis

An emotional journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew.

Runtime

1h 51m

Director

Walter Salles

Cast

Fernanda Montenegro, Vinícius de Oliveira, Marília Pêra

An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry. After Celie's abusive father marries her off to the equally debasing 'Mister' Albert Johnson, things go from bad to worse, leaving Celie to find companionship anywhere she can. She perseveres,...

Runtime

2h 34m

Director

Steven Spielberg

Cast

Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Margaret Avery

Mexican beauty Camilla hopes to rise above her station by marrying a wealthy American. That is complicated by meeting Arturo Bandini, a first-generation Italian hoping to land a writing career and a blue-eyed blonde on his arm.

Runtime

1h 57m

Director

Robert Towne

Cast

Colin Farrell, Salma Hayek Pinault, Donald Sutherland

A teenage skateboarder becomes suspected of being connected with a security guard who suffered a brutal death in a skate park called "Paranoid Park".

Runtime

1h 25m

Director

Gus Van Sant

Cast

Gabe Nevins, Dan Liu, Jake Miller