Films for English Speakers

Fantasia, Disney’s third animated feature, blends eight classical music pieces with stunning animation. Lacking a traditional plot, it captivates through imagination, humor, and visual beauty. Since its 1940 debut, it remains a landmark in cinematic artistry - a timeless sensory experience worth revisiting.

20 years after the Disengagement, the film revisit intimate home conversations from Gush Katif’s early uprooting years, revealing pain, loss, and hope. The camera returns to these families to ask: What remains of the wound? How does the Disengagement look today, not through headlines, but from the heart?

Exquisitely crafted, Kurasawa's 82nd film presents a series of eight vignettes dealing primarily with the themes of living in harmony with nature and the constant struggle against death, both of the individual and the planet. 

An aging professor travels to receive an honorary degree for his life’s work. The journey presents encounters with family members, hitchhikers, and disturbing dreams. 

A car salesman from Minnesota tries to settle his money problems by having his wife kidnapped. He hires two thugs for the job, offering them a cut from the ransom, which he tries to force her rich father-in-law to pay. But the kidnapping turns sour.

Michael Blakemore transports Uncle Vanya to a decaying ranch in 1919 Australia, and creates a film of charm and visual splendor. As in Anton Chekhov's play, the film centers on a young woman and her uncle, who quietly run a family estate while her father establishes his intellectual reputation in the city. 

A retiring detective is spending his last week on the job working with the young cop who is going to replace him. In the thick of a New York winter they find themselves in a chase after a sadistic serial killer. David Fincher presents one of the most effective thrillers to hit the screen in the mid-1990s.

In wintry Sokcho, 25-year-old Soo-Ha meets Frenchman Yan Kerrand, sparking questions about her identity and absent father. As they bond through food and art, a fragile connection forms in Koya Kamura's quiet, unconventional debut about love and belonging.

Max Von Sydow is a painter in the process of losing his grip on reality while staying on a deserted beach with his wife (Liv Ullmann). Visually this film is one of the most impressive of Bergman’s work.

Korki is a lesbian ex-con that spent 5 years in jail. Violet is the wife of a well-known gangster. The two fall madly in love, and quickly they find themselves close to two million Dollars belonging to the Mafia... 

Taking place in the 1950s, the plot focuses on a group of “enemies of the people” at a Stalinist “re-education” camp. They include a saxophonist, a barber, a literature professor and a young chef. 

In this installment, Ethan Hunt and his team race to destroy a rogue AI before it triggers global nuclear war. At 63, Tom Cruise remains energetic and elegant. The Guardian calls this possible finale a “wildly silly, wildly entertaining adventure.”