The Piano Player

In 1930s fascist Italy, adolescent Luca just lost his mother. His father, a callous businessman, sends him to be taken care of by British expatriate Mary Wallace. Mary and her cultured friends - including artist Arabella, young widow Elsa, and archaeologist Georgie - keep a watchful eye over the boy. But the women's cultivated lives ta...

Runtime

1h 57m

Director

Franco Zeffirelli

Cast

Maggie Smith, Cher, Judi Dench

Ruža left Serbia, her country, over 30 years ago and lives in Zurich. Her daily life is a string of repetitive moments until, one day, Ana arrives on the scene and upsets Ruža's painstakingly organized world. A subtle friendship develops between the two strong willed women.

Runtime

1h 21m

Director

Andrea Štaka

Cast

Mirjana Karanović, Andrea Zogg, Marija Škaričić

An airline pilot and his wife are forced to face the consequences of her alcoholism when her addictions threaten her life and their daughter's safety. While the woman enters detox, her husband must face the truth of his enabling behavior.

Runtime

2h 6m

Director

Luis Mandoki

Cast

Andy Garcia, Meg Ryan, Ellen Burstyn

A look at a few chapters in the life of Poppy, a cheery, colorful, North London schoolteacher whose optimism tends to exasperate those around her.

Runtime

1h 58m

Director

Mike Leigh

Cast

Sally Hawkins, Eddie Marsan, Alexis Zegerman

In 1971 Salford fish-and-chip shop owner George Khan expects his family to follow his strict Pakistani Muslim ways. But his children, with an English mother and having been born and brought up in Britain, increasingly see themselves as British and start to reject their father's rules on dress, food, religion, and living in general.

Runtime

1h 37m

Director

Damien O'Donnell

Cast

Om Puri, Linda Bassett, Ian Aspinall