Nuremberg

A solitary nurse bonds with a badly burned patient who survived an accident on an oil rig.

Runtime

1h 55m

Director

Isabel Coixet

Cast

Sarah Polley, Tim Robbins, Javier Cámara

A woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the Balkan war.

Runtime

1h 30m

Director

Jasmila Žbanić

Cast

Mirjana Karanović, Luna Mijović, Leon Lučev

The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of...

Runtime

2h 30m

Director

Roman Polanski

Cast

Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and the honorable principles that rule them. Pressed to destroy the samurai's way of life in the name of modernization and open trade, Algren decides to become an ultimate warrior himself and t...

Runtime

2h 34m

Director

Edward Zwick

Cast

Tom Cruise, Ken Watanabe, Timothy Spall

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; his exploitation by the invading Japanese, and finally to his obscure existence as just another peasant ...

Runtime

2h 43m

Director

Bernardo Bertolucci

Cast

John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O'Toole

An ex-con finds his plan to go straight foiled by a loan shark who manipulates his target into taking on one last heist.

Runtime

1h 23m

Director

Risa Bramon Garcia

Cast

Donald Sutherland, Rebecca Romijn, Russell Peters