Closer
A witty, romantic, and very dangerous love story about chance meetings, instant attractions, and casual betrayals. Two couples disintegrate when they begin destructive adulterous affairs with each other.
Director: Mike Nichols
Stars: Clive Owen Colin Stinton Daniel Dresner Elizabeth Bower Jude Law Julia Roberts Natalie Portman Nick Hobbs Ray Donn Steve Benham
Cinema Verite
In 1973, the Loud family became a television sensation of a new kind. It was long before a metal rock star showed his eccentric family on the small screen and decades before housewives had screaming matches with each other on camera in public. CINEMA VERITE tells the behind-the-scenes story of the groundbreaking documentary "An American Family," which chronicled the lives of the Louds in the early 1970s and catapulted the Santa Barbara family to notoriety while creating a new television genre: the reality TV series.
Director: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini
Stars: Caitlin Custer Diane Lane James Gandolfini Johnny Simmons Kaitlyn Dever Karynn Moore Kathleen Quinlan Patrick Fugit Thomas Dekker Tim Robbins
Chocolat
A fable of emotional liberation and chocolate. A mother and daughter move to a small French town where they open a chocolate shop. The town, religious and morally strict, is against them as they represent free-thinking and indulgence. When a group of Boat Gypsies float down the river the prejudices of the Mayor leads to a crisis.
Director: Lasse Hallström
Stars: Alfred Molina Aurelien Parent Koenig Carrie-Anne Moss John Wood Johnny Depp Judi Dench Juliette Binoche Lena Olin Leslie Caron Peter Stormare
Chariots of Fire
In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners train for the 1924 Paris Olympics. Eric Liddell, a devout Christian born to Scottish missionaries in China, sees running as part of his worship of God's glory and refuses to train or compete on the Sabbath. Harold Abrahams overcomes anti-Semitism and class bias, but neglects his beloved sweetheart in his single-minded quest.
Director: Hugh Hudson
Stars: Alice Krige Ben Cross Cheryl Campbell Daniel Gerroll Ian Charleson Ian Holm John Gielgud Lindsay Anderson Nicholas Farrell Nigel Havers
Calendar Girls
Members of a Yorkshire branch of the Women's Institute cause controversy when they pose nude for a charity calendar.
Director: Nigel Cole
Stars: Annette Crosbie Celia Imrie Ciarán Hinds Geraldine James Helen Mirren John Alderton Julie Walters Linda Bassett Penelope Wilton Philip Glenister
By the Sea
Set in France during the mid-1970s, Vanessa, a former dancer, and her husband Roland, an American writer, travel the country together. They seem to be growing apart, but when they linger in one quiet, seaside town they begin to draw close to some of its more vibrant inhabitants, such as a local bar/café-keeper and a hotel owner.
Director: Angelina Jolie
Stars: Aldo Buontempo Angelina Jolie Brad Pitt George Camilleri Marika Green Mélanie Laurent Melvil Poupaud Niels Arestrup Richard Bohringer Sarah Naudi