La Strada

Raoul Duke and his attorney Dr. Gonzo drive a red convertible across the Mojave desert to Las Vegas with a suitcase full of drugs to cover a motorcycle race. As their consumption of drugs increases at an alarming rate, the stoned duo trash their hotel room and fear legal repercussions. Duke begins to drive back to L.A., but after an od...

Runtime

1h 58m

Director

Terry Gilliam

Cast

Johnny Depp, Benicio del Toro, Tobey Maguire

A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he became a Black Muslim and then a leader in the Nation of Islam. His assassination in 1965 left a legacy of self-determination and racial pride.

Runtime

3h 22m

Director

Spike Lee

Cast

Denzel Washington, Angela Bassett, Albert Hall

A cameraman is knocked over during a football game. His brother-in-law, as the king of the ambulance-chasing lawyers, starts a suit while he's still knocked out. The cameraman is against it until he hears that his ex-wife will be coming to see him. He pretends to be injured to get her back, but also sees what the strain is doing to the...

Runtime

2h 5m

Director

Billy Wilder

Cast

Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ron Rich

The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's Fascist State in 1974.

Runtime

2h 17m

Director

Manuel Huerga

Cast

Daniel Brühl, Tristán Ulloa, Leonardo Sbaraglia

Ramón Sampedro is a ship mechanic and part-time poet left a quadriplegic following a diving accident. Ramón fought for 30 years for the legal right to end his own life. He develops close relationships with his long-term lawyer Julia and his friend Rosa, who tries to convince him that his life is worth living. Despite his situation, Ram...

Runtime

2h 6m

Director

Alejandro Amenábar

Cast

Javier Bardem, Belén Rueda, Lola Dueñas

Beverly is the perfect happy homemaker, along with her doting husband and two children, but this nuclear family just might explode when her fascination with serial killers collides with her ever-so-proper code of ethics.

Runtime

1h 34m

Director

John Waters

Cast

Kathleen Turner, Sam Waterston, Ricki Lake

'Pleasantly plump' teenager Tracy Turnblad achieves her dream of becoming a regular on the Corny Collins Dance Show. Now a teen hero, she starts using her fame to speak out for the causes she believes in, most of all integration. In doing so, she earns the wrath of the show's former star, Amber Von Tussle, as well as Amber's manipulati...

Runtime

1h 32m

Director

John Waters

Cast

Sonny Bono, Divine, Ruth Brown

Notorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against Connie & Raymond Marble, a sleazy married couple who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize her tabloid-given title as "The Filthiest Person Alive".

Runtime

1h 33m

Director

John Waters

Cast

Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce

A Baltimore teenager who picks up a second-hand camera starts snapping his way to stardom, soon turning into a nationwide sensation, with a fateful choice between his life and his art.

Runtime

1h 26m

Director

John Waters

Cast

Edward Furlong, Christina Ricci, Bess Armstrong

Dawn Davenport progresses from a teenage nightmare hell-bent on getting cha-cha heels for Christmas to a fame monster whose egomaniacal impulses land her in the electric chair.

Runtime

1h 38m

Director

John Waters

Cast

Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce