Crime

Normal

If the term neo-western exists, it can be applied perfectly to films like this one, a surprising marriage of the classic American genre with sharp glances at the present day. Unique performances by Jeff Bridges, Chris Pine and Ben Foster.

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Two brothers, Toby, a divorced father trying to make a better life for his son, and Tanner, a hot-tempered ex-convict, team up to rob branches of the bank that has foreclosed on their family property. Armed robberies are their last resort to take back the future that forces beyond their control have robbed them of.

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Nomination for Best Film | Oscars | 2017
Nomination for Best Supporting Actor (Jeff Bridges) | Oscars 2017
Nomination for Best Screenplay | Oscars | 2017
Nomination for Best Film | Golden Globes | 2017
Official Selection - Un Certain Regard | Cannes Film Festival | 2016

Hell or High Water

With a blend of harsh realism and aching humanity, Héctor Babenco’s fully restored by Film Foundation "Pixote" offers an electrifying look at youth fighting to survive on the bottom rung of Brazilian society in the 80s.

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The life of a boy on the streets of Sao Paulo who, after escaping a nightmarish reformatory, will resort to a life of violent crime, even as he forms a makeshift family with some fellow outcasts.

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Special Jury Prize | Locarno Film Festival | 1981
Honourable Mention | San Sebastian Film Festival | 1981
Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film | Golden Globes | 1982

Pixote

A film that comes out of the Sundance Festival with the momentum of a stray bullet ricocheting in unexpected directions. Full of action, humour and a disarming, sweet allure at its heart.

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When high school student Mike buys a beaten-up 1965 Chrysler in order to have some means of picking up girl-next-door Kelsey for their first date, he gets more than a ramshackle set of wheels. The car comes with a secret cargo. And there are plenty of dangerous (and dangerously stupid) people looking for it.

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Official Selection | Sundance Film Festival | 2021

First Date

"If you want to win the lottery you have to make the money to buy a ticket" says Jake Gyllenhaal, who is prepared to do anything for his lottery ticket. Atmospheric, paranoid thriller about the world of media, nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actor and an Oscar for Original Screenplay.

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Louis Bloom is desperately looking for work, until he discovers the underground and ephemeral world of police reporting in Los Angeles. He will work with a TV crew and meet Nina, a veteran of the "sport", who will help him experience success. Frantically searching for hot news that will skyrocket the ratings, he turns into a morally questionable journalist who will do anything for a scoop.

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Nomination for Best Original Screenplay | Oscars | 2015

Nightcrawler

This is the kind of film everyone needs to watch, urgently. Francois Ozon’s detailed story, seen through a perceptive, sober lens, handles true information about pedophilia in the Catholic Church and raises questions of faith and morality.

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A man lives in Lyon with his wife and children. One day he learns by chance that the priest who molested him when he was a boy still works with children. He decides to take action, along with two other victims of the priest. The three of them unite to "lift the veil of silence" around their suffering, but the consequences will be grave for everyone.

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Grand Jury Prize | Berlin International Film Festival | 2019
FIPRESCI Prize | Stockholm Film Festival | 2019

By the Grace of God

The crime thriller is transformed through its socially-minded attentiveness, and the two stellar protagonists, Cassel and Duris, give it their all in a story of many implications and even more twists.

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Α teenage boy disappears and his family is frantic. An experienced but overworked police detective takes over the case and starts investigating the missing young man, but seems reluctant to deal with his own 16-year-old son. When the boy's teacher finds out about the disappearance, he shows a keen interest and offers to help the police with their investigation. The case comes closer to a solution, yet things are not what they seem to be.

Black Tide

One of the most notable entries in the thriving Spanish thriller wave, and a true descendant of the American school of its kind, this movie combines two impressive performances alongside images of an increasingly helpless society.

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Madrid, 2011. Hottest August in the history of the Spanish capital. A million and a half Christians are waiting for the Pope and security forces are closely supervising the city. The celebratory atmosphere is violently interrupted by a series of awful crimes: elderly women are found murdered, with signs of sexual assault. Two unlikeable detectives are forced to work the case, for which they receive the following instruction: solve the crimes as soon as possible and with the utmost secrecy.

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Jury Prize for Best Screenplay | San Sebastián Film Festival | 2016
Best Lead Actor (Roberto Álamo) | Goya Awards | 2017

May God Save us

In this hard-hitting, fiercely anti-Nazi film by Fatih Akin, Diane Kruger stars (and wins big at Cannes) as a woman who loses everything, is betrayed by the system and decides to take revenge. Akin also casts, in a surprising role, the acclaimed director Yannis Economides!

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A woman's life collapses when her Kurdish-born husband and their young son are killed in a bombing. With the help of friends and relatives, she barely manages to endure, but the search for the culprits and the motives behind the tragedy keeps her up at night. Her husband's lawyer and best friend represents her in the trial against two suspects: a young couple in neo-Nazi circles. The court's ruling will drive her over the edge.

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Official Selection | Cannes Film Festival | 2017
Best Actress (Diane Kruger) | Cannes Film Festival | 2017
Best Foreign Language Picture | Golden Globes | | 2018

In the Fade

Crime, family and tradition. Set in the Colombia of the '70s, Oscar nominee Ciro Guerra ("Embrace of the Serpent") along with Cristina Gallego, unfold an evocative saga of crime and morality, which opened the Directors' Fortnight at Cannes '18.

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The opening note that started the song of the Colombian drug trade is getting personal through the tragic story of an indigenous family, the Wayúu, who find themselves, almost unwittingly, involved in the growing business of selling marijuana to young Americans in the 70s. When greed and passion collide with the unwritten laws of honor, a civil war breaks out that endangers their lives, culture and ancestral traditions.

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Honorable Mention - Best Film | London Film Festival | 2018

Birds of Passage

In the best and most well known of the seven films Claude Chabrol and Isabelle Huppert collaborated on, crime is an act of class vengeance that is literally blood-curdling. Not just because of its brutality, but mostly because of its precisely structured inevitability.

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Sophie is an introverted girl, who works as a maid in the house of a wealthy family, in the suburbs of Paris. Hardworking and obedient, Sophie tries to hide from her bosses that she is illiterate. Soon, she will befriend Jean the postwoman, an unconventional, strange woman, who will try to turn her against her employers.

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Best Actress Award (Isabelle Huppert) | César Awards | 1996
Best Actress (Isabelle Huppert, Sandrine Bonnaire) | Venice Film Festival | 1995
Pasinetti Award for Best Actress | Venice Film Festival | 1995
Metro Media Award for Best Film | Toronto Film Festival | 1995

A Judgement in Stone

Claude Chabrol meets the heights of his ‘60s filmography with this suspenseful gem full of playfulness and lethal passion. Isabelle Huppert in one of her 7 collaborations with the director and Anna Mouglalis in one of her first on-screen appearances.

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A famous pianist and the CEO of a chocolate factory get married, the second time for both of them. The pianist has a teenage son from his previous marriage, whose mother died at birth. A young pianist enters their lives claiming to be his real daughter. That’s when the new wife’s Machiavellian character comes to play…

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Best Film | Louis Delluc Prize | 2000

Nightcap

Claude Chabrol celebrates the fiftieth film of his rich filmography in the company of his beloved Isabelle Huppert and with a light and cosmopolitan mood of a Hitchcockian mystery.

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Con artists Victor and Betty are a perfect team when it comes to cheating gamblers out of their winnings. They plow Europe's luxury hotels in search of victims and get into a series of misadventures because of a suitcase full of "dirty" money.

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Best Film | San Sebastian Film Festival | 1997
Best Director | San Sebastian Film Festival | 1997

The Swindle

One of the most famous unfinished projects in the history of cinema, Henri-Georges Clouzot’s L’ Enfer, with Romy Schneider, finds its worthy heirs in Claude Chabrol, who puts his own cynical twist on the film, and the devilishly alluring Emmanuelle Béart.

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Paul (Francois Clouzet) and Nelly (Emmanuel Bear) have everything to be happy: a dream wedding and a hotel. Until he begins to suspect that she is cheating on him and begins to gradually sink into a paranoid hell that will lead him to crime.

Torment

Harmony Corinne's explosive film that pulled Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens away from their Disney roots and sparked conversation like few others in the past decade with its wild mix of Florida parties, gangsters, Britney Spears songs and The Scarface.

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Four young girls set their sights on Florida for spring break. Quickly, fun collides with illegality, they crash parties and fall in with dangerous mobsters as their trip spirals into the wildest, most reckless extracurricular adventure of their lives.

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Official Selection - Main Competition | Venice Film Festival | 2012

Spring Breakers

In one of the most classic films of the world cinema of the '00s, a glance at organized crime against the background of Rio’s favelas turns into an epic of conflicts of jaw-dropping beauty. Nominated for 4 Oscars, including the Award for Best Director for Fernando Meirelles.

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In the poor favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths. Rocket is a budding photographer documenting the increasing drug-related violence in his neighborhood. Zé is an ambitious drug dealer who uses Rocket and his photos as a way to increase his reputation as a war breaks out with his rival. The conflict will be sweeping.

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Nomination for Best Director Oscar | Oscars | 2004
Nomination for Best Original Screenplay Oscar | Oscars | 2004
Best Editing | BAFTA Awards | 2003
Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film | Golden Globes | 2003
Visions Award - Special Mention | Toronto Film Festival | 2002

City of God

Nikos Papatakis' explosive directorial debut made it to Cannes in 1963, was likened to Bunuel's best works, never won an award for fear of nationalist organizations and remains to this day an unparalleled cinematic poem.

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Two sisters work as maids in an isolated farmhouse unpaid, due to their bosses' financial difficulties. The announcement of the sale of the house brings them to the brink of insanity and they end up slaughtering their employers.

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Official Selection | Cannes Film Festival | 1963

Les Abysses

Before "Zodiac", there was Bong Joon-ho's "Memories of Murder". The 4 Oscar winning director of "Parasites" captures the true story of Korea's first serial killer murders, as two detectives follow the murderer's trail. One of the top Korean movies of all time.

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In 1986, two unsuspecting detectives take on the case of a double murder in a South Korean province. But when the killer strikes several times again, detectives realize they're on the hunt for the country's first recorded serial killer. Based only on their instinct and skills, the two detectives attempt to solve the puzzle by combining the evidence at their disposal, in a thriller based on true events. Oscar winner Bong Joon-Ho's first collaboration with the star of "Parasites", Song Kang-ho.

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Best Director | San Sebastián International Film Festival | 2003
Best New Director | San Sebastián International Film Festival | 2003

Memories of Murder

Another brilliant example of Bong Joon Ho's fascinatingly unclassified cinema, which masterly combines the genres of crime thriller, film noir, family drama and social satire to compose one of the most unconventional stories of maternal love ever screened.

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One day a young girl is found dead in an abandoned building and a 27-year-old man is accused of her murder. An inefficient lawyer and an apathetic police force that closes his case too quickly inspire his mother to act on her own—to act as Mother in its purest form. Summoning all her maternal instincts and trusting no one, she sets out to find a killer and prove her son’s innocence.

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Official Selection - Un Certain Regard | Cannes Film Festival | 2009

Mother

A night of suspense seeped in electronic sounds, neon hues, money and sweat. Robert Pattinson (like we’ve never seen him before) runs for his life in New York, under the guidance of the Safdie brothers, of the cult hit ‘’Uncut Gems’’. Official Selection at the International Competition at Cannes.

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After a botched robbery, Connie -desperate and ready for anything- is running out of time to save his brother, Nick, from prison. During a night fueled by adrenaline, reckless Connie goes down a rabbit hole of violence and panic, set in the seedy underbelly of New York. Time is working against him and his brother, as both their lives are hanging by a thread.

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Best Soundtrack | Cannes Film Festival | 2017
Official Selection | Locarno Film Festival | 2017

Good Time

Nominated for an Oscar for Adapted Screenplay and a Golden Globe for Best Actress, an incredible yet true story of gambling and illegality with the indelible signature of Aaron Sorkin and the sweeping leading performance of Jessica Chastain.

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The true story of an Olympic-class skier who after an accident abandoned her dream and began organizing exclusive and high stakes poker games for a decade, until her arrest in the middle of the night by FBI agents.

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Nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay | Oscars | 2018
Nomination for Best Actress (Jessica Chastain) | Golden Globes | 2018

Molly's Game

Through a dreamlike neo-noir narrative, Lou Ye expands the boundaries between realism and poetry, crafting one of the most important films of the so-called “Sixth Generation” of Chinese cinema. A work about the fluidity of identity and the persistent, transformative power of love.

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An anonymous cameraman narrates a story of love and betrayal between a courier and an enigmatic woman who vanishes into the river's waters when she learns that he has betrayed her. Years later she reappears. Is she a ghost? A memory? Or the same woman, who came back from the depths?

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Tiger Award | Rotterdam International Film Festival | 2000

Suzhou River

One of the 21st century's best comedies, an outrageous satire that was banned in many Muslim countries as it took aim at Islamic fundamentalism, with heroes the Coen brothers would envy. Riz Ahmed in his first major film role.

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Driven by a desire for greatness, Omar is determined to become a jihad soldier in England. With his friends, he decides to make a decisive move that will make everyone talk about them and their cause. Problem: they lack the organisation.

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Best British Debut Award | BAFTA Awards | 2011
Independent Camera Award for Best First Film | Karlovy Vary Film Festival | 2010

Four Lions

Ray's love of detective fiction led him to invent Detective Feluda, the Indian Sherlock Holmes, the protagonist of a series of short stories by the director. This is his second appearance in his filmography, a clever and highly entertaining whodunnit.

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Detective Feluda is on holiday in the holy city of Varanasi with his assistant, Tapesh, and a mystery writer. There, he meets the Goshal family, who immediately hire him to solve the mystery of the disappearance of the golden statuette of the God Ganesha, a family heirloom given to their ancestor by the King of Nepal.

The Elephant God

A shocking film experience from Ukraine, a film shot entirely in Ukrainian sign language, but the more you immerse yourself in its world, the more you forget your own prejudices. Multi-award winning and monumental, a film unlike any other.

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Sergei enters a specialised boarding school for the deaf. In this new place, he must find his place in the school's hierarchy, namely the Tribe, an organized crime network involved in robbery and prostitution. By participating in many robberies, he is promoted higher up in the organization. But then he meets one of the Chief's wives, Anna, and unwittingly breaks all the unwritten rules of the Tribe.

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Grand Prize - Critics' Week | Cannes Film Festival | 2014
European Discovery Award | European Film Awards | 2014
Sutherland Award for Best First Feature | London Film Festival | 2014
Best Director Award | Thessaloniki Film Festival | 2024

The Tribe

In his second film in London, after the beloved Match Point, Woody Allen once again puts Scarlett Johansson at the centre of a mystery comedy that combines the filmmaker's trademark humour with his concerns (and, more importantly, his phobias) about mortality.

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When an American journalism student in London attends the show of a  magician called Waterman, she is visited by the ghost of a famous journalist, revealing that the amiable aristocrat Peter Lyman is in fact a serial killer. Immediately she, along with Waterman, takes it upon herself to get a press scoop.