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Susan Seidelman established her distinctive vision of New York City with this debut feature, the lo-fi original for her vibrant portraits of women reinventing themselves. After escaping New Jersey, the quintessentially punk Wren (Susan Berman)—a spark plug in fishnets—moves to the city with the mission of becoming famous. When not pasting up self-promotional flyers or […]

Få andra filmer har orsakat sådan uppståndelse i England som SCUM! 1976 gav BBC i uppdrag till regissören Alan Clarke att göra en film om unga interner. Men när de fick se resultatet blev de chockade och utfärdade visningsförbud. I vredesmod bestämde sig Alan för att spela in filmen på nytt –ännu mer provocerande, ännu […]

Efter sju år i fängelse blir George frigiven. Utfryst av sin fru och utan pengar får han jobb som chaufför åt lyxfnasket Simone, som är hans exakta motpol. Medan han klär sig i skrikiga kläder, bräker på cockney och uppför sig som en buffel är hon elegant och gåtfull, som hämtad från Mona Lisas tavla […]

Michael Caine is Jack Carter, the London gangland enforcer who returns to his hometown of Newcastle to investigate his brother’s death. Rarely has the criminal underworld been so realistically portrayed as in this 1971 masterpiece. Shot on location, resulting in a devastatingly authentic snapshot of life in the north east of England, Get Carter remains […]

Col. Percival Fawcett (Charlie Hunnam) was, like any successful explorer, more than a little foolhardy. His passion was the Amazon and in the 1925 set out to find ‘Z’, or El Dorado, the fabled city of gold in the South American jungle. Director James Gray is better known for his New York dramas, but his […]

Paul Dano moves behind the camera for his directorial debut, starring Carey Mulligan and Jake Gyllenhaal. His nuanced adaptation of Richard Ford’s novel features outstanding performances by its leads. Jeanette and Jerry seem like the perfect couple, but their son has long noticed fissures in the relationship, which are gradually tearing them apart. 

Following up his surprise Oscar winner Moonlight, Barry Jenkins adapts James Baldwin’s novel of 1970s Harlem in this sumptuous tale of lovers divided by circumstance. Deeply in love, Tish (KiKi Layne) and Fonny (Stephan James) find their hopes for a life for themselves are dashed when Fonny is wrongly imprisoned. Their fight for justice pushes […]

När Cameron Post (Chloë Grace Moretz) förlorade sina föräldrar i en bilolycka kände hon både skuld och lättnad över att de nu aldrig skulle få reda på att hon var lesbisk. Några år senare bor den 16-åriga Cameron med