Tuesday

6.8

2024

110 mins

FantasyDrama

A mother and her teenage daughter must confront Death when it arrives in the form of an astonishing talking bird.

Bastard Out of Carolina

Year : 1996Rating : ⭐ 7.1

A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as her last chance.

Iron Jawed Angels

Year : 2004Rating : ⭐ 6.8

Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote.

Vesper

Year : 2022Rating : ⭐ 6.2

After the collapse of Earth's ecosystem, Vesper, a 13-year-old girl struggling to survive with her paralyzed Father, meets a mysterious Woman with a secret that forces Vesper to use her wits, strength and bio-hacking abilities to fight for the possibility of a future.

The Safety of Objects

Year : 2002Rating : ⭐ 6.5

In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to his career, not his family. Helen Christianson wants to find a new spark in life, while Annette Jennings tries to rebuild hers.

A Dry White Season

Year : 1989Rating : ⭐ 6.7

During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody.

Hounddog

Year : 2008Rating : ⭐ 6.5

A drama set in the American South, where a precocious, troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music and movement of Elvis Presley.

Introducing Dorothy Dandridge

Year : 1999Rating : ⭐ 6.4

An acclaimed stage performer, Dorothy still struggled with the challenge of her color, in a time that wouldn't let some stars in by the front door. Yet against the odds she beat out many more famous rivals for the role of "Carmen Jones", becoming the first black woman ever nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award. Marriages and affairs would break her heart, but her heart was strong. Seductive and easily seduced, she was born to be a star - with all the glory and all the pain of being loved, abused, cheated, glorified, undermined and undefeated. Here was a woman who wouldn't wait in the wings. Halle Berry stars as Dorothy Dandrige.

The Trials of Cate McCall

Year : 2013Rating : ⭐ 6.4

In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicted of murder.

Nine Days

Year : 2021Rating : ⭐ 6.8

A bureaucrat interviews five souls to decide which of them will be given a life on Earth. But he soon faces an existential challenge of his own.

Lucky Them

Year : 2013Rating : ⭐ 6.0

More interested in partying and flirting with young musicians than work, veteran rock journalist Ellie Klug has one last chance to prove her value to her magazine’s editor: a no-stone-unturned search to discover what really happened to long lost rock god, Matt Smith, who also happens to be her ex-boyfriend. Teaming up with an eccentric amateur documentary filmmaker, Ellie hits the road in search of answers.

The Short History of the Long Road

Year : 2019Rating : ⭐ 7.3

Nola grew up living in a van with her father, Clint—two nomads against the world. When tragedy strikes, Nola must confront the reality of life on the road alone, learning to own her grief, her past, and her new destination.

Magpie

Year : 2024Rating : ⭐ 6.6

A couple's lives are thrown into disarray when their daughter is cast opposite a controversial major star.

Holy Lands

Year : 2019Rating : ⭐ 6.1

When lapsed Jew and former cardiologist Harry suddenly decides to spend his retirement as a pig farmer in Nazareth, Israel, the move deeply shocks his family and his new neighbours. Back in New York, Harry’s ex-wife Monica is trying to manage the lives of their adult children, Annabelle and David, as well as her own.

A Thousand and One

Year : 2023Rating : ⭐ 6.6

Struggling but unapologetically living on her own terms, Inez is moving from shelter to shelter in mid-1990s New York City. With her 6-year-old son Terry in foster care and unable to leave him again, she kidnaps him so they can build their life together. As the years go by, their family grows and Terry becomes a smart yet quiet teenager, but the secret that has defined their lives threatens to destroy the home they have so improbably built.

Horns

Year : 2013Rating : ⭐ 6.3

In the aftermath of his girlfriend's mysterious death, a young man awakens to strange horns sprouting from his temples.

Byzantium

Year : 2013Rating : ⭐ 6.3

Residents of a coastal town learn, with deadly consequences, the secret shared by the two mysterious women who have sought refuge at a local boarding house, the Byzantium.

The Congress

Year : 2013Rating : ⭐ 6.4

An aging, out-of-work actress accepts one last job, though the consequences of her decision affect her in ways she didn't consider.

Strange Weather

Year : 2016Rating : ⭐ 5.9

Years after her son's suicide, a woman longs to confront both the past and a friend of his who took his business idea.

Mothers' Instinct

Year : 2024Rating : ⭐ 6.8

Housewives Alice and Celine are best friends and neighbours who seem to have it all. However, when a tragic accident shatters the harmony of their lives, guilt, suspicion and paranoia begin to unravel their sisterly bond.

Shirley

Year : 2020Rating : ⭐ 6.1

A famous horror writer finds inspiration for her next book after she and her husband take in a young couple.