They Learned About Women

Three tales of love, ambition, and neurosis unfold in the city that never sleeps. In "Life Lessons" (Martin Scorsese), a tormented painter channels heartbreak into his art. In "Life Without Zoë" (Francis Ford Coppola), a precocious 12-year-old navigates privilege and loneliness in a Manhattan hotel. And in "Oedipus Wrecks" (Woody Allen...

Runtime

2h 4m

Director

Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen

Cast

Nick Nolte, Rosanna Arquette, Patrick O'Neal

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's teenaged daughter.

Runtime

2h 17m

Director

Adrian Lyne

Cast

Jeremy Irons, Dominique Swain, Melanie Griffith

A discount store clerk strikes up an affair with a stock boy who considers himself the incarnation of Holden Caulfield.

Runtime

1h 33m

Director

Miguel Arteta

Cast

Jennifer Aniston, Zooey Deschanel, Jake Gyllenhaal

Joe's a car salesman with a problem—he has two days to sell 12 cars or he loses his job. This would be a difficult task at the best of times but Joe has to contend with his girlfriends (he's two-timing), a missing teenage daughter and an ex-wife.

Runtime

1h 37m

Director

Roger Donaldson

Cast

Robin Williams, Tim Robbins, Pamela Reed

A former vaudeville child star viciously torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.

Runtime

2h 15m

Director

Robert Aldrich

Cast

Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono

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