The Sound of Crickets at Night

A fatally ill mother with only two months to live creates a list of things she wants to do before she dies without telling her family of her illness.

Runtime

1h 46m

Director

Isabel Coixet

Cast

Sarah Polley, Amanda Plummer, Scott Speedman

Cecilie and Joachim are about to get married when a freak car accident leaves Joachim disabled, throwing their lives into a spin. The driver of the other car, Marie, and her family don’t get off lightly, either. Her husband Niels works in the hospital where he meets Cecilie and falls madly in love with her.

Runtime

1h 53m

Director

Susanne Bier

Cast

Sonja Richter, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Mads Mikkelsen

Several lonely hearts in a semi-provincial suburb of a town in Denmark use a beginner's course in Italian as the platform to meet the romance of their lives. The film, which unspools the connections and family drama shared between the students, complies with several aesthetic principles of Dogme 95 movement.

Runtime

1h 58m

Director

Lone Scherfig

Cast

Anders W. Berthelsen, Anette Støvelbæk, Ann Eleonora Jørgensen

Serving as Ludwig van Beethoven's copyist gives a conservatory student access to the composer's musical genius, but also exposes her to his cruelty.

Runtime

1h 44m

Director

Agnieszka Holland

Cast

Ed Harris, Diane Kruger, Matthew Goode

A Jewish woman named Jettel Redlich flees Nazi Germany with her daughter Regina, to join her husband, Walter, on a farm in Kenya. At first, Jettel refuses to adjust to her new circumstances, bringing with her a set of china dishes and an evening gown. While Regina adapts readily to this new world, forming a strong bond with her father'...

Runtime

2h 20m

Director

Caroline Link

Cast

Juliane Köhler, Merab Ninidze, Sidede Onyulo

In the UK suburbs, an underground tournament is set to challenge twelve fighters from different backgrounds to compete for the price of £500,000. They have been handpicked for a no-holds barred competition that will push each fighter to their limit. Each fighter has their own reason for competing, and each will give everything they've ...

Runtime

1h 35m

Director

Chee Keong Cheung

Cast

Mark Strange, Nathan Lewis, Joey Ansah

Leung is the bodyguard of a Chinese Triad boss, Wong, to whom his loyalty is unrivaled. Living in Hong Kong, Wong requests that his bodyguard travel to the UK to protect a young British woman, whose true identity is known only by Wong himself. Even Wong's son, Yuen, is kept in the dark, which leads to a betrayal that threatens to destr...

Runtime

1h 35m

Director

Chee Keong Cheung

Cast

Vincent Sze Cho-Lam, Richard Ng Yiu-Hon, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa