The Teachers' Lounge

A pregnant Colombian teenager becomes a drug mule to make some desperately needed money for her family.

Runtime

1h 41m

Director

Joshua Marston

Cast

Catalina Sandino Moreno, Yenny Paola Vega, Jhon Álex Toro

It is summertime in a blue-collar, marginal district of a city in the South of Spain. Tano, a teenager currently serving a sentence in a juvenile reform center, is given a 48-hour leave to attend his brother’s wedding.

Runtime

1h 26m

Director

Alberto Rodríguez

Cast

Juan José Ballesta, Jesús Carroza, Vicente Romero Sánchez

At the turn of the century, Lodz, Poland, was a quick-paced manufacturing center for textiles, replete with cutthroat industrialists and unsafe working conditions. Three young friends, a Pole, a Jew, and a German, pool their money together to build a factory.

Runtime

2h 59m

Director

Andrzej Wajda

Cast

Daniel Olbrychski, Wojciech Pszoniak, Andrzej Seweryn

In a violent relationship, it takes a mother’s strength to save herself and her children from the man she loved. Once Were Warriors is a violent love story set against a contemporary urban backdrop.

Runtime

1h 39m

Director

Lee Tamahori

Cast

Rena Owen, Temuera Morrison, Mamaengaroa Kerr-Bell

A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.

Runtime

1h 57m

Director

Stanley Kubrick

Cast

Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin, Vincent D'Onofrio