Films for English Speakers

Dedicated beyond reason to his employer, Stevens is the perfect butler – always anticipating the needs of others and neglecting his own. It will take years before he realizes that he missed living. An excellent exploration of class structure and its social and psychological implications. 

Filmmaker Tom Shoval creates a personal cinematic letter to David Cunio, kidnapped by Hamas on October 7, 2023. David and his twin brother starred in Shoval's debut feature Youth. Using behind-the-scenes footage, Shoval reflects on brotherhood, memory, reality, and the catastrophic consequences of war.

Iman’s appointment to a senior position in the Iranian judiciary sparks a family conflict when his daughters support the protests. When his gun disappears, tension rises. Mohammad Rasoulof, one of today’s greatest directors, masterfully transforms political struggles into dramatic questions, engaging the senses and the mind.

In a futuristic colony, Mickey volunteers to be “expendable,” repeatedly dying and being reprinted with his memories intact. Behind the regime stands a fascist ruler and his vain wife. Bong Joon Ho delivers a smart, strange, and emotionally rich sci-fi tale, as gripping as Parasite.

After her son Louis falls into a coma, Thelma finds his adventurous bucket list. Hoping to wake him, she fulfills his dreams—traveling from Japan to Portugal—rediscovering herself and their bond along the way.

The life and times of the infamous gangster couple Bonnie and Clyde. With a touch of brilliance, Bonnie and Clyde is a cinematic milestone that takes the audience on an unforgettable roller-coaster ride.

A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist. 

When Rubens Paiva is arrested by Brazil’s military junta in the 1970s, his wife Eunice must balance caring for their family with fighting for his freedom. I'm Still Here offers an intimate portrait of resilience under oppression, earning the 2024 Oscar for Best Foreign Film.

A surveillance expert becomes personally interested in a case and finds himself involved with a murder. As always with Coppola, something in his cinematic syntax, pace, and emotional momentum, captures the eye and ear. The result is spellbinding, stimulating, and exhilarating.  

Alan Parker's film is based on a real 1960s murder case, following a six-week investigation led by two contrasting FBI agents. The story explores racial injustice in the American South and the tension between the agents' clashing methods and personalities.

Twenty years after abandoning his wife and three precocious children, Royal Tenenbaum decides to return home and is willing to do whatever it takes to win them back. An intelligent, witty, and enjoyable comedy.

In Mumbai, Nurse Prabha's routine is troubled when she receives an unexpected gift from her estranged husband. Her younger roommate, Anu, tries in vain to find a spot in the city to be intimate with her boyfriend.