Genre: Drama, Romance
Actor: Chu Hung, Do Thi Hai Yen, Doan Viet Ha, Le Khanh, Le Tuan Anh, Le Vu Long, Ngo Quang Hai, Nhu Quynh, Tran Nu Yên-Khê
Director: Tran Anh Hung
Chasing the feel of watching The Godfather ? Here are the movies we recommend you watch right after.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Actor: Chu Hung, Do Thi Hai Yen, Doan Viet Ha, Le Khanh, Le Tuan Anh, Le Vu Long, Ngo Quang Hai, Nhu Quynh, Tran Nu Yên-Khê
Director: Tran Anh Hung
Genre: Drama
Actor: Akari Takaishi, Ayumu Nakajima, Azuki Terada, Daiken Okudaira, Denden, Go Ayano, Hana Kino, Haru Iwakawa, Hiroshi Tachi, Kentaro Sakaguchi, Kotone Hanase, Lily Franky, Mai Fukagawa, Masami Nagasawa, Nana Mori, Ron Mizuma, Ryusei Yokohama, Shinobu Terajima, Shun Sugata, Suon Kan, Takuya Wakabayashi, Tetsushi Tanaka, Yuina Kuroshima, Yukiya Kitamura
Director: Michihito Fujii
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Actor: Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Edith Bouvier Beale, Jerry Torre, Lois Wright
Director: Albert Maysles, David Maysles
It would be easy to define Rose Plays Julie as a cross between Promising Young Woman and Killing Eve, but this psychological thriller turns the camp factor down to zero and makes even just the act of watching somebody else an existential experience. Directors Joe Lawlor and Christine Molloy treat this story with stone-cold intensity (perhaps to a fault), transforming their title character from a confused girl to somebody who relishes the power they have to disrupt other people's lives through her mere existence. There's something eerie about it that crawls under your skin if you let it, like a ghost story told among the living.
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Actor: Aidan Gillen, Alan Howley, Ann Skelly, Annabell Rickerby, Catherine Walker, Jack McEvoy, Joanne Crawford, Lochlann O'Mearáin, Orla Brady, Sadie Soverall
Director: Christine Molloy, Joe Lawlor
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Actor: A Martinez, Amanda Wyss, Gary Farmer, Geoffrey Rivas, Graham Greene, Joanelle Romero, Rodney A. Grant, Sam Vlahos, Wes Studi
Director: Jonathan Wacks
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Actor: Dara Devaney, Dónall Ó Héalai, Dudura O'Gionnáin, Eoin O'Dubhghaill, Michael McElhatton, Peter Coonan, Saise Quinn, Seán T. Ó Meallaigh, Siobhán O'Kelly
Director: Tomás Ó Súilleabháin
Genre: Comedy
Actor: Adrian Dunbar, Agnes Bernelle, Anna Manahan, Brian McGrath, Britta Smith, David McCallum, Frank Kelly, Gina Moxley, Harold Berens, James Nesbitt, Jimmy Keogh, John Dair, Laurie Morton, Liam O'Callaghan, Mary MacLeod, Ned Beatty, Norman Vaughan, Pat Laffan, Rúaidhrí Conroy, Shirley Anne Field, Stephen Marcus, Tara Fitzgerald, William Hootkins
Director: Peter Chelsom
Green Day's Bullet in a Bible has certainly aged well. Maybe it's even better now with time and hindsight, and knowing that the once punk group would commit to their alternative sound from that point forward. Green Day with their American Idiot tracks and frontman Billie Joe Armstrong's stage presence absolutely belongs as a stadium-level act, but you could argue they could've cut down on the heavy American Idiot representation to have more of a mix of albums in the setlist. The film could've also had less of the vignettes and montages with edgy editing—we don't need that many breaks from 14 songs—but it's all nitpicking, really. Say what you want, but this concert marks the birth of Green Day as rockstars.
Genre: Documentary, Music
Actor: Adrienne Armstrong, Billie Joe Armstrong, Jason Freese, Jason White, Mike Dirnt, Samuel Bayer, Tre Cool
Director: Samuel Bayer
Even with its haphazard construction and occasionally unnecessary and corny flourishes (what's with all the mellowed-out covers of pop songs?), there's a sense of intense, sincere pride and joy that shines through Every Body's many testimonials. Intersex people are barely represented whether in media or in legislation, and countless people still have very little understanding of what intersex is. But while this subject is usually viewed as uncomfortable—and this documentary definitely doesn't hold back in explaining the various ways intersex people are mutilated and mentally abused just to force them to conform to the gender binary—the film grounds everything by showing us how its main characters are as ordinary, creative, and full of good humor as the rest of us. So as Every Body skips through various aspects of the intersex experience, even its disorganization takes on the charm of a simple chat with friends. And either way, the discussions held here are the stuff of real courage—demanding our attention and earning our respect.
Genre: Documentary
Actor: Alicia Roth Weigel, Julie Cohen, River Gallo, Sean Saifa Wall, Steven Crowder
Director: Julie Cohen
Though Eternal Summer isn't able to fully engage with its queer characters—maybe due to its being released in the mid-2000s—it still makes for a more interesting character study than you'd expect. This romance between three school friends has more on its mind than simply pitting two romantic pairings against each other. Unrequited feelings, unspoken secrets, and identities that are constantly in flux make Eternal Summer compelling just for the way these people try to dance around one another's emotions. And since it's shot in the muted colors of early digital filmmaking, this is a love story that becomes all the more melancholic just in the way it looks.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Actor: Joseph Chang, Kate Yeung, Ray Chang
Director: Leste Chen
Chile 76 takes place three years after the dictator Augusto Pinochet took over the country and cracked down on dissenting groups and rebels. There was political strife and unnecessary violence, but almost none of this plays out explicitly in the film. Instead, we mostly follow Carmen, who seems to be going through a crisis of her own, albeit an internal one. She lives a well-to-do life as she decorates a new house and volunteers at the church, but there is a deep-seated melancholia about her, which is maybe why she’s so drawn to Elias (Nicolás Sepúlveda). She exits her comfort zone and aids in his covert exchanges across town, perhaps because she’s genuinely interested in Elias’ cause, but possibly because she sees it as a way out from the humdrum of her privileged life. The beauty of the film is that it melds the personal with the political in subtle and interesting ways, allowing us viewers to draw our own conclusions to the matter.
Genre: Drama
Actor: Alejandro Goic, Aline Kuppenheim, Amalia Kassai, Antonia Zegers, Elvis Fuentes, Ernesto Meléndez, Gabriel Urzúa, Germán de Silva, Graciela Tenenbaum, Julián Marras, Marcial Tagle, Mauricio Pesutic, Mora Recalde, Vilma Verdejo
Director: Manuela Martelli
Genre: Drama
Actor: Andy Serkis, Joe Tucker, Kate Byers, Katrin Cartlidge, Lynda Steadman, Margo Stanley, Mark Benton
Director: Mike Leigh
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Actor: Àngels Bassas, Chris Eigeman, Debbon Ayer, Hellena Taylor, Jack Gilpin, Mira Sorvino, Pep Munné, Pere Ponce, Taylor Nichols, Thomas Gibson, Tushka Bergen
Director: Whit Stillman
Genre: Comedy, Family, Music
Actor: Anirudh Acharya, Harshil Koushik, Mandara Battalahalli, Sindhu Sreenivasa Murthy, Sudha Belawadi
Director: Sindhu Sreenivasa Murthy
Genre: Drama
Actor: Ángela Molina, Cristóbal Pinto, Jacek Lenartowicz, Jan Mayzel, Julia Beerhold, Karolina Porcari, Martín Piroyansky, Michał Sikorski, Miguel Ángel Solá, Natalia Verbeke, Norma Argentina, Olga Bołądź
Director: Pablo Solarz