Films

4.4

186 reviews

Breakfast on Pluto

Neil Jordan20052h 8mComedy, Drama

Neil Jordan gets a magnetic performance from Cillian Murphy in a film that’s as eccentric as it is down to earth. Kitten heads to London to find the mother she has never laid eyes on, and though bombs are going off all around her, she flatly refuses to let her life become a tragedy. — In a small Irish town in 1958, someone leaves a baby on the presbytery doorstep, and the priest who lives there is the child’s father. Twenty years later, Kitten sets off for London in search of the mother she has never seen. Bombs keep going off around her, and she hardly notices. — Nomination for Best Actor (Cillian Murphy) | Golden Globes | 2006 Official Selection | Berlin Film Festival | 2006 Nomination for Best European Film | European Film Awards | 2006 Nomination for Best European Actor (Cillian Murphy) | European Film Awards | 2006

4.7

306 reviews

The Lives of Others

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck20062h 17mMystery, Drama, Thriller

The head of the former Stasi prison memorial refused permission to film, yet it became one of the century’s most powerful films and won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. A political thriller with a moving love story at its heart, it’s set in dark times when honesty comes at a high price. — It’s 1984 in East Berlin, and Stasi captain Gerd Wiesler has orders to bug the flat of Georg Dreyman, the country’s most celebrated playwright, and to take down every word he hears. Dreyman is writing a text meant to reach the West, while up in the attic, Wiesler listens. — Best Foreign Language Film | Oscars | 2007 Best Film Not in the English Language | BAFTA Awards | 2008 Best Foreign Film | César Awards | 2008 Best Foreign Film | Film Independent Spirit Awards | 2007 Audience Award | Locarno International Film Festival | 2006 Audience Award | Palm Springs International Film Festival | 2007 Audience Award | Rotterdam Film Festival | 2007

4.5

144 reviews

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

Jim Jarmusch19991h 56mCrime, Drama

Jim Jarmusch directed this legend of urban cinema and RZA of the Wu-Tang Clan wrote its music. Forest Whitaker plays a Mafia hitman who lives up on a rooftop among his pigeons and follows the code of a three-hundred-year-old samurai handbook. — On the roof of a building in a run-down American city, a hitman raises pigeons, lives by a book of samurai wisdom and works for the gangster who once saved his life. When a job goes wrong through no fault of his own, he becomes the one in the crosshairs. — Official Selection | Cannes Film Festival | 1999 Nomination for Best Foreign Film | César Awards | 2000