104m; U.S.
Director: Martin Ritt
Cast: Jane Fonda, Robert De Niro and Swoosie Kurtz
Synopsis (IMDB): An illiterate cook at a company cafeteria tries for the attention of a newly widowed woman. As they get to know one another, she discovers his inability to read. When he is fired, she takes on trying to teach him to read in her kitchen each night.
110m; U.K.
Director: Carol Reed
Cast: Michael Redgrave, Margaret Lockwood and Edward Rigby
Synopsis (IMDB): Davey Fenwick leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls in love with Jenny who gets him to marry her and return home as local schoolteacher before finishing his degree. Davey finds he is ill-at-ease in his role, the more so when he realises Jenny still loves her former boyfriend. When he finds that his father and the other miners are going to have to continue working on a possibly deadly coal seam he decides to act.
18m
Director: Rafa Piqueras
Since he was a child, Ernesto Casanova always knew that he would be the best typist in the World. We’re in the 70’s, he’s 35 years old and he works for a lawyer’s office as a typist. He’s secretly in love with the office’s secretary. Life flows in a pleasent routine, but one day, Mr. Robledo, the boss, decides to introduce the technologic renovation in the office and he buy a new computer. Casanova thinks that this is the end.
89m; U.K.
Director: Karel Reisz
Cast: Albert Finney, Shirley Anne Field and Rachel Roberts
Synopsis (IMDB): Arthur, one of Britain’s angry young men of the 1960s, is a hardworking factory worker who slaves all week at his mindless job for his modest wages. Come Saturday night, he’s off to the pub for a loud and rowdy beer session. With him is Brenda, his girlfriend of the moment. Married to a fellow worker, she is nonetheless captivated by his rugged good looks and his devil-may-care attitude. Soon a new love interest Doreen enters and a week later, Brenda announces she’s pregnant. She tells Arthur she needs money for an abortion, and Arthur promises to pay for it. By this time, his relationship with Doreen has ripened and Brenda, hearing of it, confronts him. He denies everything, but it’s obvious that their affair is all but over.
93m; France
Director: Marcel Carné
Cast: Jean Gabin, Jacqueline Laurent and Arletty
Synopsis: A disastrous love triangle is played out against the background of working class Paris.
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
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.
105m; U.S.
Director: Wayne Wang
Cast: Jennifer Lopez, Ralph Fiennes and Natasha Richardson
Synopsis (IMDB): A senatorial candidate falls for a hotel maid, thinking she is a socialite when he sees her trying on a wealthy woman’s dress.
153m; U.S.
Director: Nunnally Johnson
Cast: Gregory Peck, Jennifer Jones and Fredric March
Synopsis (IMDB): An ex-soldier faces ethical questions as he tries to earn enough to support his wife and children well.
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