Jitze is a pro gamer, traveling the world to play in tournaments. When he witnesses an accident strikingly similar to the one's he sees in the games he plays every day, the real world and the fictional one meet and make him confront his own "reality."
A ruthless struggle for power has erupted within Japanese criminal underworld, and through scheming and shady alliances, rival bosses aspire to reach the top in a world full of betrayal and vengeance.
Groundbreaking director Jean-Luc Godard bills this as a "symphony in three movements," one of which centers on a sister and brother who demand explanations from their parents on some of life's most complex ideals.
Xavier Dolan writes, stars and directs this tale of friendship that turns into one about obsession and the powerful, destructive forces it can have on people and relationships.
Mathieu Amalric (Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Quantum of Solace) directs, writes and stars in this film about a television producer who leaves his family and friends for America only to realize he can't fully escape what he wants to run away from.
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In north Africa, monks have been living peacefully with the Muslim population. But as violence starts to consume the region, the eight monks vow to remain, resisting the belief that violence will take over the once-peaceful area.
In director Lee Chang-Dong's latest, he touches on the effects of authorship as an elderly woman comes to view the world around differently, as if for the first time, after taking a poetry class and putting what she sees into words.
Surrounded by death, Piroska is a nurse in a hospital's terminal ward. Almost as a rejection of the despair around her, she sets off in search of a long-lost friend from childhood.
From award-winning South Korean director IM Sangsoo, comes the story of a woman hired by an upper-class family. But the family starts to fall apart when a romantic relatioships starts between the new employee and her boss.
In this thriller from Fabrice Gobert, people are disappearing from a Paris suburb. As everything from kidnapping to suicide to murder are proposed as possible reasons, more people disappear.
A hit earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival, Blue Valentine stars Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams as a married couple trying to reignite their love and also figure out how it took a turn for the worse.
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Doug Liman (Bourne Identity) directs the story of Valerie Plame and the events that led to her exposure as a covert CIA agent. Starring Naomi Watts and Sean Penn as Plame's diplomat husband, Joe Wilson.
Director Stephen Frears (The Queen) helms this story of a once shy, ugly teenager, Tamara, who has transformed into a ravishing beauty. When she returns to her home town, she triggers a pattern of envy, scandal and gossip that quickly consumes the locals.
Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarittu (Babel) directs Javier Bardem as Uxbal, a businessman working in the shady world of Barcelona's underworld.
Juliet Binoche and Jean-Claude Carriere star in this film from Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami about a chance meeting between a British author and a French gallery owner while both visit a small Italian village in Tuscany.
British director Mike Leigh takes a look at the "seasons" of life: Family and friendship, love, joy and sadness. Features acclaimed British thesps Jim Broadbent and Imelda Staunton.
From celebrated director Rachid Bouchareb comes this story of three Algerian brothers and the three very different paths their lives take after they lose their family home.
When five teenagers meet online, their developing friendships seem innocent enough. Soon though, the ability to manipulate an online world clashes with realities of offline reality.
With his country in a civil war, destitute hotel employee Adam is pressured by the government to contribute to the war effort by providing money or his only son as a volunteer in the conflict.
Actor-director Diego Luna's (Motorcycle Diaries) Abel has stopped talking since his father left home. But when he starts speaking again, pretending to be the head of the family, which no one questions, until his father does unexpectedly return.
Gekko is back on the Street. Michael Douglas stars as the financial icon adapting to the world he once dominated. Shia LaBeouf is the young banker hoping to be taken under Gekko's tutelage in Oliver Stone's sequel.
With an all-star cast of Anthony Hopkins, Naomi Watts, Antonio Banderas and Josh Brolin, Woody Allen's latest features people dealing with, what else, their own neurosis, forcing them into situations ranging from ludicrous to dangerous.
Smith is just a typical college student living the typical college life of arty, sarcastic reparté and casual hookups. But when he trips on halluconigenic cookies and thinks he witnessed a murder, his typical existence becomes anything but.
Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe's take on the legendary archer who stole from the rich to give to the poor gives us the backstory on what turned this everyday soldier in the king's army into a force agains corruption.
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