The South

An endearing light comedy about a woman who spontaneously becomes a resident of Venice after her family left her behind. While enjoying the wonderful people she meets she achieves a new life and the first time independent of her family.

Runtime

1h 54m

Director

Silvio Soldini

Cast

Licia Maglietta, Bruno Ganz, Giuseppe Battiston

Maria marries a young soldier in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. She must rely on her beauty and ambition to navigate the difficult post-war years alone.

Runtime

2h

Director

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast

Hanna Schygulla, Klaus Löwitsch, Ivan Desny

Over the course of five social occasions, a committed bachelor must consider the notion that he may have discovered love.

Runtime

1h 57m

Director

Mike Newell

Cast

Hugh Grant, Andie MacDowell, Kristin Scott Thomas

Angela Bennett is a freelance computer systems analyst who tracks down software viruses. At night, she hooks up to the internet and chats to others 'surfing the net'. While de-bugging a new high-tech game for a cyber friend, she comes across a top secret program and becomes the target of a mysterious organization, who will stop at noth...

Runtime

1h 54m

Director

Irwin Winkler

Cast

Sandra Bullock, Jeremy Northam, Dennis Miller

A tobacco planter on Réunion island in the Indian Ocean becomes engaged through correspondence to a French woman he does not know. The woman that arrives does not look like the picture he received, but he marries her anyway.

Runtime

2h 3m

Director

François Truffaut

Cast

Jean-Paul Belmondo, Catherine Deneuve, Michel Bouquet

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