107m; U.S.
Director: Gordon Parks
Cast: Kyle Johnson, Alex Clarke and Estelle Evans
Synopsis (IMDB): The story, set in Kansas during the 1920’s, covers less than a year in the life of a black teenager, and documents the veritable deluge of events which force him into sudden manhood. The family relationships and enmities, the fears, frustrations and ambitions of the black teenager in small-town America are explored with a strong statement about human values
108m; U.K.
Director: Sidney J. Furie
Cast: Rita Tushingham, Colin Campbell and Dudley Sutton
Synopsis (IMDB): An immature teenager marries a young biker but becomes disenchanted with the realities of working class marriage and her husband’s relationship with his best friend.
110m; France
Director: Avi Nesher
Cast: Neta Garty, Liraz Charhi and Aure Atika
Synopsis (IMDB): As a family from India moves in to a desert neighborhood in Southern Israel in the 1960’s, the family’s eldest, beautiful daughter discovers friendship and romance with the lovely local French girl. The film also explores the hardships and surprises that come with the integration of multiple families from different ethnic backgrounds (from the diaspora) and their struggle with immigration and prejudice
180m; France
Director: Olivier Assayas
Cast: Emmanuelle Béart, Charles Berling and Isabelle Huppert
Synopsis (IMDB): Responsibility versus happiness. Jean Barnery is a young Protestant cleric in Barbazac in 1900 when he divorces his severe wife after falling in love with Pauline, the independent-minded niece of an upper-crust parishioner. Jean’s also an heir to a high-end porcelain factory in Limoges. He gives his fortune to his wife to assuage his guilt over the divorce. He pursues Pauline; they marry and live idyllically in Switzerland. Then, duty calls: his family asks him to come to Limoges to run the business. He accepts, ignoring Pauline’s wishes. His new responsibilities, as well as his fighting in the Great War, change him and his relationship with Pauline
90m; U.K.
Director: Stephen Frears
Cast: Anthony Borrows, Ian Hart and Claire Hackett
Synopsis: Film follows a family and the effects of the Great Depression on the working class in 1930’s Liverpool.
83m; Argentina
Director: Jorge Gaggero
Cast: Norma Aleandro, Norma Argentina and Marcos Mundstock
Synopsis (IMDB): A wealthy woman and her live-in housekeeper must adjust their entrenched routine and relationship when Buenos Aires is plunged into economic crisis.,
104m; U.K.
Director: Tony Richardson
Cast: Michael Redgrave, Tom Courtenay and Avis Bunnage
Synopsis: A rebellious youth, sentenced to a boy’s reformatory for robbing a bakery, rises through the ranks of the institution through his prowess as a long distance runner. During his solitary runs, reveries of his life and times before his incarceration lead him to re-evaluate his privileged status as the Governor’s prize runner.
Directed by John Ford
Features John Wayne, Thomas Mitchell, Ian Hunter, Barry Fitzgerald, Wilfrid Lawson,John Qualen, Mildred Natwick, Ward Bond
The film tells the story of the crew aboard an English cargo ship named the SS Glencairn,during World War II, on the long voyage home from the West Indies to Baltimore and then to England. The ship carries a cargo of high-explosives.
97m; U.S.
Director: Richard Pearce
Cast: Sissy Spacek, Whoopi Goldberg and Dwight Schultz
Synopsis (IMDB): Two women, black and white, in 1955 Montgomery Alabama, must decide what they are going to do in response to the famous bus boycott lead by Martin Luther King.
98m; U.K.
Director: Tony Richardson
Cast: Richard Burton, Claire Bloom and Mary Ure
Synopsis (IMDB): A disillusioned, angry university graduate comes to terms with his grudge against middle-class life and values.
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