Following the economic collapse of a company town in rural Nevada, Fern (Frances McDormand) packs her van and sets off on the road exploring a life outside of conventional society as a modern-day nomad. The third feature film from director Chloé Zhao, NOMADLAND features real nomads Linda May, Swankie and Bob Wells as Fern’s mentors and comrades in her exploration through the vast landscape of the American West.
The film is based on the life of a one time award winning professional billiard champion down on his luck who encounters a young Korean woman seeking to become the billiard world champion to save her son’s life. What ensues is an emotional and dramatic journey leading to a climactic event that will change their lives forever.
“By No Means” depicts a recurrent family drama. An ambitious husband, driven to succeed, travels a lot. He’s always on the edge, nervous from high stress conflicts at work, with no time for his family. Wife, left alone, seeks fulfillment outside the marriage. In a moment of stress, husband knocks wife’s treasured family heirloom off the ledge. The antique glass vase shatters. The marriage fractured, a replica of the vase becomes a clue. Through wife’s shallow affairs, a reported murder, and mounting suspense, husband and wife wake up, and a surprise turns their marriage around.
Brazilian Western is an adaptation of the eponymous song by Renato Russo a famous Brazilian singer and composer who in the style of Bob Dylan knew how to delight crowds by telling stories and singing with his lyrics The adaptation precipitated a both social and romantic drama with a tragic ending. Focusing on the love story of outlaw Joao do Santo Cristo with Architecture major student Maria Lucia, the movie takes place in Brasilia in the early 80s. In a clash of interest, drug dealers and the police conflict with one another,while the end of the military dictatorship in the Capital of Brazil, Brasilia takes place. The wanderings and tedium of a young rocker, who lived in a city still being built, are the backdrop for this story.
“Elegant Friends” is a story that takes place in the wake of a murder case against the backdrop of a town largely inhabited by couples in their 40s.
An ex-marine with PTSD storms into a gallery, taking hostages and forcing them to confront their complex past and looming mortality, as time ticks by.
After being objectified by her husband, Leah Shaffer abandons her marriage and falls in to a destined kinship with a small cult bent on ending misogynistic culture and transcending to a place beyond the stars.
A man tries to solve the mystery of his girlfriend’s disappearance in this dreamlike, erotic tale of love, betrayal, and obsession inspired by the Brothers Grimm fairy tale “Hansel and Gretel”.
When two inept criminals break into the home of a washed-up psychic in search of hidden loot, they get a lot more than they bargained for.
In 1972, young women looking for a fresh start in life endure isolated captivity in a true 98-day human experiment studying the effects of marijuana on females.
Campers find themselves in a fight for survival against a clan of cannibals in the Appalachian woods.
1970s USA, Three African American siblings on the run from the police take refuge at an abandoned Tennessee Ranch, unaware their hideout is on the hunting grounds of a cannibalistic Ku Klux Klan cult…Trapped and tortured, the three must fight tooth and nail to escape alive and take down the bloodthirsty Klan.
