Hot Gimmick: Girl Meets Boy
A quiet teen’s life is shaken up when she’s forced to be her arrogant neighbor’s slave. He loves her, but they both have a lot to learn about trust.
Director: Yuki Yamato
Actors: Hiroya Shimizu, Hiyori Sakurada, Kaisei Kamimura, Miona Hori, Mizuki Itagaki, Riho Yoshioka, Shotaro Mamiya
Kingsway
A single car mechanic’s suspicions that her sister-in-law is having an affair prompts their small circle of family and friends to confront their own stalled routes to romance.
Aunt Tula
Ramiro, a bank clerk and father of two young children, has been left, after his wife’s death, in the care of Tula, his sister-in-law. From the novel by Miguel de…
Anton Chekhov’s The Duel
Set in a seaside resort in the Caucasus, the story centers on n’er do well, Laevsky and his illicit relationship with his mistress Nadya. Laevsky has convinced Nadya to leave…
Never Let Me Go
As children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy spend their childhood at an idyllic and secluded English boarding school. As they grow into adults, they must come to terms with the complexity…
Romeo and Juliet
In Shakespeare’s classic play, the Montagues and Capulets, two families of Renaissance Italy, have hated each other for years, but the son of one family and the daughter of the…
The Song of Lunch
A dramatisation of Christopher Reid’s narrative poem that tells the story of an unnamed book editor who, fifteen years after their break-up, is meeting his former love for a nostalgic…
Together
The workaday boredom and crushing hardships of London’s East End in the 1950s, seen from the point of view of two deaf-mutes who share a strong bond of friendship.
A Woman Rebels
A Victorian-era woman struggles to break free of the moral codes established by society and enforced by her father.
Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures
1942, in the middle of Northeastern Brazil, two very different men meet along the road: Johan, an aspirin salesman avoiding the German draft, and Ranulpho, a rural Brazilian seeking escape…
Straight Time
After being released on parole, a burglar attempts to go straight, get a regular job, and just go by the rules. He soon finds himself back in jail at the…
Never Steal Anything Small
Director Charles Lederer’s 1959 musical stars James Cagney as an unscrupulous longshoreman who’ll resort to every dirty trick in the book to win his union’s presidency.