The Band’s Visit
Members’ Rating: 75% An Egyptian police band visiting Israel gets lost, misses the last bus back to Alexandria and winds up as the guests for the night of a local bar owner. This is a sweet-natured examination of strangers in...
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Honeydripper
Members’ Rating: 66% Set in Harmony, Alabama, in 1950. Hard times have hit the Honeydripper saloon. Proprietor Tyrone has a plan but needs beer and money first. This bluesy ensemble piece is firmly grounded in time and place, with a...
The Counterfeiters
Members’ Rating: 86% In the late 1930s the Nazis evolved a plan to flood the British and American economies with fake money by ‘enlisting’ concentration camp inmates. Written by a camp survivor, the story is beautifully shot – it is...
In Bruges
Members’ Rating: 84% Two Irish hoods are sent by their bosses to hide out in Bruges, after a botched killing, to await further orders. Life proves to be far less boring than they initially assumed it would be. This is...
The Singer
Members’ Rating: 78% A witty, poignant story of Alain (played by Gérard Depardieu), a washed-up lounge singer working the casinos and rest-homes of the Auvergne. He becomes smitten with an attractive divorcee who is unimpressed by his charms. A beautifully...
