The Seasons

A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. Based on a novel by Richard Yates.

Runtime

1h 59m

Director

Sam Mendes

Cast

Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Kathy Bates

Teacher Anne and policeman Georg are thought of as the perfect couple. However, appearances are deceptive: one of them is covered with scars and bruises. But which one is the abuser?

Runtime

1h 36m

Director

Jan Bonny

Cast

Matthias Brandt, Victoria Trauttmansdorff, Wotan Wilke Möhring

A poet falls in love with an art student, who gravitates to his bohemian lifestyle — and his love of heroin. Hooked as much on one another as they are on the drug, their relationship alternates between states of oblivion, self-destruction, and despair.

Runtime

1h 56m

Director

Neil Armfield

Cast

Abbie Cornish, Heath Ledger, Geoffrey Rush

After her much older husband forces a move to a suburban retirement community, Pippa Lee engages in a period of reflection and finds herself heading toward a quiet nervous breakdown.

Runtime

1h 38m

Director

Rebecca Miller

Cast

Robin Wright, Alan Arkin, Keanu Reeves

Unemotional, restrained cinematographic poem, situated in a wintry and poor suburb of Tehran. A man is dismissed and his lack of prospects for the future make him decide to seek his happiness abroad. He leaves his wife and child behind and for a long time nothing is heard of him. Then a stranger turns up, a car mechanic looking for a j...

Runtime

1h 26m

Director

Rafi Pitts, Nooreddin Goodarzi

Cast

Mitra Hajjar, Ali Nicksaulat, Hashem Abdi