Films for English Speakers

Bogart’s Oscar-winning role as the flea-bitten jack-of-all-trades who goes down the river in an old boat to destroy a German battleship, goaded on by a middle-aged spinster.

Mississippi, 1930s. Two brothers open a blues club for a Black audience under segregation laws. As music and passion rise, strange guests appear. Ryan Coogler blends social drama and horror into a bold, sensory, and electrifying experience.

Adam's Rib is considered the peak of Hepburn and Tracy’s collaborations. They play married lawyers on opposing sides of a murder trial, whose courtroom clash spills into their relationship. With a witty script, elegant direction, and standout performances, it’s a sharp, fast-paced romantic comedy classic.

Spike Lee's powerful film centers on an Italian pizzeria, which acts as a Caucasian and archaic settlement in the heart of an African-American neighborhood, when racial tensions explode on the hottest day of the year. Lee’s brilliant, enjoyable, and enthralling film seems as relevant as ever. 

An American woman visits Venice for the first time but feels lonely. She meets a local man in Piazza San Marco, and despite his marriage, they spend a few happy days together. Summertime offers a poignant cinematic experience, with a standout performance by Katharine Hepburn.

A government scheme sees newly widowed Santosh inherit her husband’s job as a police constable in the rural badlands of Northern India. When a low-caste girl is found raped and murdered, she is pulled into the investigation under the wing of charismatic feminist inspector Sharma.

After falling out with his editor, a sharp political journalist is forced to interview America’s most popular soap actress. What starts out as a boring and frustrating interview turns into an intellectual battle of wits, desires, and deep, dark secrets.

Christian Vincent’s debut film, a funny and clever work with clear Truffautian influences, follows romantic Antoine as he documents his courtship of an ugly girl. She in the end turns out to be beautiful and he sympathetic.

On September 16, 1977, Maria Callas was found dead in her Paris home. Maria revisits her final week—ill, addicted to sedatives, and lost in memories. Pablo Larraín crafts a poetic, emotionally resonant portrait, enriched by operatic passages and a powerful lead performance.

A television news crew documents a serious malfunction at a nuclear plant in California during an earthquake. The head engineer investigates the incident, grappling with his professional conscience. The China Syndrome is a superb film that skillfully blends ethical questions with an effective thriller.

David Mamet’s scorching, profane, Pulitzer Prize-winning play about an office full of desperate real estate salesmen-cum-con-artists. Director James Foley faithfully adapts it to the screen with a stunning ensemble of actors. 

Marguerite is a brilliant mathematics student at France's top university, the Ecole Normale Supérieure. On the day of her thesis presentation, a mistake shakes the certainty in her planned-out life and she decides to quit everything and start afresh.