SIFF AWARD WINNERS 2020–2021
There Is No Evil
Mohammad Rasoulof · 2020 · Germany, Iran, Czech Republic
Shot in secret and smuggled out of Iran, this anthology film comprises four stories of men responsible for implementing capital punishment. Whether they choose to accept to defy their orders will affect their relationships, and their consciences, and the rest of their lives.
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Fly So Far
(Nuestra Libertad)
Tedora Vasquéz is in prison due to her miscarriage, and speaks up for the rights of other imprisoned women, victims of a patriarchal legal system.
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- El Salvador, Sweden • 2021
- Director Celina Escher
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Radiograph of a Family
(رادیوگرافی یک خانواده)
A personal documentary about the director's secular father and devout Muslim mother and their marriage before, during, and after the Iranian revolution.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Norway, Iran, Switzerland • 2020
- Director Firouzeh Khosrovani
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Earth Is Blue as an Orange
(Земля блакитна, ніби апельсин)
Hanna and her four children live in war-torn Ukraine and attempt to make a film about their traumatic experiences.
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- Ukraine, Lithuania • 2020
- Director Iryna Tsilyk
- Cast Hanna Hladka, Stanislav Hladkyi, Anastasiia Trofymchuk, Myroslava Trofymchuk, Vladyslav Trofymchuk
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Film Movement Plus, Criterion Channel, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Vudu, Kanopy, YouTube, Apple TV
Eyimofe (This Is My Desire)
In Lagos, Nigeria, two people believe they will better their lives in another country, but come to a stark realization.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Nigeria • 2020
- Director Chuko Esiri, Arie Esiri
- Cast Jude Akuwudike, Tomiwa Edun, Temi Ami-Williams, Cynthia Ebijie, Toyin Oshinaike
- Genre Drama
- Available on Max, Max Amazon Channel
Little Girl
(Petite fille)
A documentary portrait of eight year-old Sasha, currently questioning her gender identity and dealing with (oftentimes negative) societal reactions.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Denmark • 2020
- Director Sébastien Lifshitz
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Vudu, Kanopy, Plex, Tubi TV, YouTube, Plex Player, Apple TV
Son of Monarchs
(Hijo de monarcas)
A Mexican biologist living in NYC returns to his hometown following the death of his grandmother, undergoing an intense personal journey.
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- Mexico, United States • 2020
- Director Alexis Gambis
- Cast Tenoch Huerta, Kaarlo Isaacs Barria, Noé Hernández, Angel Adrian Flores, Ignacio Guadalupe, Alexia Rasmussen
- Genre Drama
- Available on Google Play Movies, YouTube, Max Amazon Channel, Apple TV
Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America
A history of U.S. anti-black racism given by former ACLU deputy legal director Jefferey Robinson.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- United States • 2021
- Director Emily Kunstler, Sarah Kunstler
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Microsoft Store, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Vudu, Spectrum On Demand, YouTube, Apple TV
SIFF AWARD WINNERS 2010–2019
Captain Fantastic
Matt Ross · 2016 · United States
In the forests of the Pacific Northwest, an unconventional father devotes himself to raising his six kids with a rigorous physical and intellectual education. When tragedy strikes, they are forced to leave their self-created paradise and enter the real world, challenging the idea of what it means to be a parent.
Available on Netflix, Apple iTunes, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, FandangoNOW, Redbox, AMC on Demand, Google Play Movies, YouTube, DIRECTV
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Five Star Existence
(Den trådlösa världen)
Director Sonja Lindén's personal and sensitive quest to the core of the modern information society where technology and human beings get more and more entwined.
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- Finland, Sweden • 2011
- Director Sonja Lindén
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Boundaries
(Pays)
A newly elected member of the Canadian parliament tries to balance family life and negotiations between a Canadian politician and the president of a country whose natural resources are being exploited.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Canada • 2016
- Director Chloé Robichaud
- Cast Emily VanCamp, Macha Grenon, Nathalie Doummar, Serge Houde, Rémy Girard, Alexandre Landry
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Sami Blood
(Sameblod)
Elle Marja, 14, is a reindeer-breeding Sami girl dreaming of another life.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Norway, Denmark, Sweden • 2016
- Director Amanda Kernell
- Cast Lene Cecilia Sparrok, Mia Sparrok, Maj-Doris Rimpi, Julius Fleischanderl, Olle Sarri
- Genre Drama
- Available on Viaplay, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, VUDU Free, Peacock, Peacock Premium, Kanopy
Night Catches Us
United by revolution, divided by the past.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- United States • 2010
- Director Tanya Hamilton
- Cast Anthony Mackie, Kerry Washington, Wendell Pierce, Jamie Hector, Kevin C. Walls, Black Thought
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Hoopla, fuboTV, Apple iTunes, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, FandangoNOW, YouTube, Redbox, FlixFling, Crackle, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Pluto TV, VUDU Free
Gandu
Loser.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- India • 2010
- Director Qaushiq Mukherjee
- Cast Anubrata Basu, Joyraj Bhattacharjee, Rii Sen, Kamalika Banerjee, Silajit Majumder
- Genre Drama
- Available on Kino Now, Tubi TV, Plex, Plex Player
The Awakening of the Ants
(El despertar de las hormigas)
A young woman is under pressure from her family to have a third child, provoking a rebellion from her domesticity.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Costa Rica, Spain • 2019
- Director Antonella Sudasassi
- Cast Daniela Valenciano, Leynar Gomez, Adriana Alvarez, Isabella Moscoso, Adriana Alpizar
- Genre Drama
- Available on Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Kanopy, YouTube, myfilmfriend, Apple TV
The Extraordinary Journey of Celeste García
(El viaje extraordinario de Celeste García)
Follows a kindly Havana-based planetarium worker who accepts a very special invitation from her neighbor, an extraterrestrial.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Cuba, Germany • 2018
- Director Arturo Infante
- Cast María Isabel Díaz, Omar Franco, Néstor Jiménez
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube, Apple TV
C.O.G.
A cocky young man travels to Oregon to work on an apple farm to figure out where he stands on sexuality, religion and identity.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- United States • 2013
- Director Kyle Patrick Alvarez
- Cast Jonathan Groff, Denis O'Hare, Corey Stoll, Dean Stockwell, Dale Dickey, Casey Wilson
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Epix, Starz, Starz Play Amazon Channel, Hoopla, fuboTV, DIRECTV, Apple iTunes, Vudu, Amazon Video, FandangoNOW, Redbox, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Tubi TV, Popcornflix, VUDU Free
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
A little friendship never killed nobody.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- United States • 2015
- Director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
- Cast Thomas Mann, RJ Cyler, Olivia Cooke, Connie Britton, Nick Offerman, Molly Shannon
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on Apple iTunes, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, Redbox, Google Play Movies, YouTube, DIRECTV, FandangoNOW
Short Term 12
A young supervisor at a foster care facility is reminded of her own troubled past, which begins to erode her tough exterior.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- United States • 2013
- Director Destin Daniel Cretton
- Cast Brie Larson, John Gallagher Jr., Kaitlyn Dever, Rami Malek, Lakeith Stanfield, Kevin Hernandez
- Genre Drama
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Fandor Amazon Channel, Hoopla, Apple iTunes, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, FandangoNOW, YouTube, Tubi TV, Popcornflix, VUDU Free, Peacock, Peacock Premium
The Guilty
(Den skyldige)
A cop, who can't leave his office, must --- somehow ---- solve a convoluted kidnapping case.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Denmark • 2018
- Director Gustav Möller
- Cast Jakob Cedergren, Jessica Dinnage, Omar Shargawi, Johan Olsen, Jacob Ulrik Lohmann, Katinka Evers-Jahnsen
- Genre Drama, Crime, Thriller
- Available on Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Hoopla, Vudu, Spectrum On Demand, Plex, YouTube, FlixFling, Plex Player, fuboTV, Apple TV
Simple Simon
(I rymden finns inga känslor)
Simon has Asperger's syndrome and doesn't like changes in his life.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Sweden • 2010
- Director Andreas Öhman
- Cast Bill Skarsgård, Martin Wallström, Cecilia Forss, Sofie Hamilton, Susanne Thorson, Kristoffer Berglund
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
To Be Heard
The story of three whose struggle to change their lives begins with writing poetry.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- United States • 2011
- Director Amy Sultan
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Kanopy
The Reports on Sarah and Saleem
(Al-Taqareer Hawl Sarah wa Saleem)
An extramarital affair between a Palestinian and an Israeli becomes the target of political espionage.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Occupied Palestinian Territory, Germany, Netherlands • 2018
- Director Muayad Alayan
- Cast Adeeb Safadi, Sivane Kretchner, Ishai Golan, Hanan Hillo, Maisa Abd Elhadi
- Genre Drama
- Available on Freevee, Amazon Video, Hoopla, Vudu, Plex, Tubi TV, Plex Player, Apple TV
House of Hummingbird
(벌새)
Seoul, 1994. Fourteen-year-old Eunhee struggles to navigate the treacherous waters of adolescence, until the arrival of a sympathetic new teacher.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Korea • 2019
- Director Kim Bo-ra
- Cast Park Ji-hu, Kim Sae-byuk, Jeong In-gi, Lee Seung-yeon, Park Soo-yeon, Son Sang-yeon
- Genre Drama
- Available on Freevee, Rakuten Viki, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Vudu, AsianCrush, Kanopy, Plex, Tubi TV, YouTube, The Roku Channel, Pluto TV, Fandor Amazon Channel, Plex Player, Cineverse, Apple TV
SIFF AWARD WINNERS 2000–2009
Derek
Isaac Julien · 2008 · United Kingdom
Filmmaker Isaac Julien and actress Tilda Swinton guide viewers through the work and life, the humor and spirit, that stand at the foot of late artist Derek Jarman. His contributions to British, queer, and avant--garde cinema make his influence live on, including in Julien's own work.
Available on Kanopy
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Sons
(Sønner)
A young lifeguard discovers a man is preying on the young boys in his neighborhood and resolves to stop it.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Norway • 2006
- Director Erik Richter Strand
- Cast Nils Jørgen Kaalstad, Mikkel Bratt Silset, Henrik Mestad, Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Fredrik Stenberg Ditlev-Simonsen
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Game of Their Lives
A BBC documentary producer is given unprecedented access in North Korea to chronicle the story of the famed 1966 World Cup team from the North that advanced to the quarterfinals.
- ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom • 2002
- Director Daniel Gordon
- Cast Daniel Gordon, Paul Nicholson, Pak Doo-ik, Giovanni Rivera, Eusébio
- Genre Documentary
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Ruthie and Connie: Every Room in the House
They're Jewish. They're grandmothers. They're lesbians. And they started it all.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- United States • 2002
- Director Deborah Dickson
- Cast
- Genre
- Available on Kanopy, Google Play Movies, VUDU Free
Everything Is Fine
(Tout est parfait)
When a suburban teen discovers that his friends have committed suicide, he must come to terms with the aftermath on his own journey.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Canada • 2008
- Director Yves Christian Fournier
- Cast Maxime Dumontier, Chloé Bourgeois, Normand D'Amour, Maxime Bessette, Sébastien Bergeron-Carranza, Jean-Noël Raymond-Jetté
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Cell 211
(Celda 211)
The story of two men on different sides of a prison riot -- the inmate leading the rebellion and the young guard trapped in the revolt, who poses as a prisoner in a desperate attempt to survive the ordeal.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Spain, France • 2009
- Director Daniel Monzón
- Cast Luis Tosar, Alberto Ammann, Antonio Resines, Carlos Bardem, Félix Cubero, Marta Etura
- Genre Action, Thriller, Drama
- Available on AMC+, AMC+ Amazon Channel, IFC Films Unlimited Apple TV Channel, Tubi TV
Trade Off
An inside look at the World Trade Organization's meeting in Seattle in 1999.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- United States • 2000
- Director Shaya Mercer
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Best of Youth
(La meglio gioventú)
Spanning four decades, from the chaotic 1960s to 2003, director Marco Tullio Giordana's passionate epic 'La Meglio Gioventu' follows two Italian brothers through some of the most tumultuous events of recent Italian history.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy • 2003
- Director Marco Tullio Giordana
- Cast Luigi Lo Cascio, Alessio Boni, Adriana Asti, Sonia Bergamasco, Fabrizio Gifuni, Maya Sansa
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Vudu, Amazon Video
Reverse
(Rewers)
A story about women, set in the present and in 1950s Warsaw.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Poland • 2009
- Director Borys Lankosz
- Cast Agata Buzek, Krystyna Janda, Marcin Dorociński, Anna Polony, Adam Woronowicz
- Genre Comedy, Drama, Thriller, Romance
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Gitmo
(Gitmo: The New Rules of War)
A documentary on conditions at the U.S. Guantanamo Bay prison.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Sweden • 2005
- Director Erik Gandini, Tariq Saleh
- Cast
- Genre
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Wild Side
A transgender woman who survives by prostituting herself in Paris, returns – with her two male lovers in town – to her family home in the countryside to look after her dying mother.
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- France, Belgium, United Kingdom • 2004
- Director Sébastien Lifshitz
- Cast Stéphanie Michelini, Yasmine Belmadi, Edouard Nikitine, Josiane Stoléru
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Finder's Fee
The numbers don't lie, but the players just might.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Canada, United States • 2001
- Director Jeff Probst
- Cast Ryan Reynolds, Erik Palladino, Dash Mihok, Carly Pope, James Earl Jones, Frances Bay
- Genre Drama, Thriller
- Available on Starz, Starz Roku Premium Channel, Starz Amazon Channel, Starz Apple TV Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Plex Player
The Magic of Marciano
The bond between a mentally fragile mother and her young son is tested when the mother lapses into psychosis.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, United States • 2000
- Director Tony Barbieri
- Cast Cody Morgan, Nastassja Kinski, Robert Forster, Marcia Bennett, Eugene A. Clark
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
The harrowing tale of Shackleton's ill-fated expedition to Antarctica.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- United States, United Kingdom, Germany • 2000
- Director George Butler
- Cast Liam Neeson, David Cale, Brian d'Arcy James, Julian Ayer
- Genre Documentary, History
- Available on Tubi TV
Whale Rider
A contemporary story of family, rejection and triumph.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- New Zealand, Germany • 2003
- Director Niki Caro
- Cast Keisha Castle-Hughes, Rawiri Paratene, Vicky Haughton, Cliff Curtis, Grant Roa, Mana Taumaunu
- Genre Drama, Family
- Available on Starz, Hoopla, Starz Roku Premium Channel, Starz Amazon Channel, Starz Apple TV Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Tubi TV, Kanopy
O
Nothing comes between two people's love, like one person's jealously.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- United States • 2001
- Director Tim Blake Nelson
- Cast Mekhi Phifer, Josh Hartnett, Andrew Keegan, Julia Stiles, Martin Sheen, Rain Phoenix
- Genre Drama, Romance, Thriller
- Available on Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, FandangoNOW, YouTube, Pluto TV
SIFF AWARD WINNERS 1990–1999
Son of the Shark
Agnès Merlet · 1993 · Belgium, France, Luxembourg
In a small seacoast town in France, brothers Martin and Simon are infamous troublemakers; Martin runs away from reform school, Simon from foster homes. Led by the belief that he and his brother are the sons of a female shark, they attempt to navigate adolescence while holding onto hope that they will one day return to the ocean.
Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube
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Shower
(洗澡)
A disaffected son, an old-values father, and a sibling who stayed loyal.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- China • 1999
- Director Zhang Yang
- Cast Zhu Xu, Quanxin Pu, Jiang Wu, He Zeng, Zhang Jin Hao, Lao Lin
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Run Lola Run
(Lola rennt)
Every second of every day, you're faced with a decision that can change your life.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany • 1998
- Director Tom Tykwer
- Cast Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaup, Nina Petri, Armin Rohde, Joachim Król
- Genre Action, Drama, Thriller
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, AMC on Demand
Venus Beauty Institute
(Vénus beauté (institut))
Welcome to the Venus Beauty Institute where love, innocence and sex are a sight to behold.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- France • 1999
- Director Tonie Marshall
- Cast Nathalie Baye, Bulle Ogier, Audrey Tautou, Mathilde Seigner, Samuel Le Bihan, Jacques Bonnaffé
- Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Pump Up the Volume
Talk hard!
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Canada, United States • 1990
- Director Allan Moyle
- Cast Christian Slater, Samantha Mathis, Annie Ross, Scott Paulin, Mimi Kennedy, Andy Romano
- Genre Drama, Music
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- United States • 1991
- Director John Bailey
- Cast Lily Tomlin
- Genre Comedy
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Three drag queens journey through the Australian outback in a lavender tour bus named Priscilla.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Australia • 1994
- Director Stephan Elliott
- Cast Terence Stamp, Hugo Weaving, Guy Pearce, Bill Hunter, Sarah Chadwick, June Marie Bennett
- Genre Drama, Comedy
- Available on Hoopla, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Pluto TV, Freevee, Kanopy
Frank Lloyd Wright
The story of the turbulent life and the extraordinary professional career of one of America's greatest architects -- hated by some, worshipped by others and ignored by many.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- United States • 1998
- Creator
- Cast Edward Herrmann
- Genre Documentary
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Opposite of Sex
A 16-year-old girl visits her gay half-brother and ends up seducing his boyfriend, thus wreaking havoc on all of their lives.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- United States • 1998
- Director Don Roos
- Cast Christina Ricci, Martin Donovan, Lisa Kudrow, Lyle Lovett, Johnny Galecki, William Lee Scott
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Hoopla, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, FandangoNOW, YouTube, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Pluto TV
Safe
A suburban housewife succumbs to a mysterious environmental illness that wreaks havoc on her life and those around her.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom, United States • 1995
- Director Todd Haynes
- Cast Julianne Moore, Peter Friedman, Xander Berkeley, James Le Gros, Susan Norman, Kate McGregor-Stewart
- Genre Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV
Romper Stomper
A group of neo-Nazis in Melbourne routinely terrorize members of the local Vietnamese community until a mysterious woman joins their group.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Australia • 1992
- Director Geoffrey Wright
- Cast Russell Crowe, Daniel Pollock, Jacqueline McKenzie, Alex Scott, Leigh Russell, Daniel Wyllie
- Genre Action, Drama, Thriller
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Hoopla, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Tubi TV, Pluto TV, Peacock, Peacock Premium, FILMRISE, Freevee, Kanopy, Plex, Plex Player
The Usual Suspects
While being interrogated by police, a criminal attempts to tell his side of the story while his partners each tell their own in this neo-noir drama.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- United States, Germany • 1995
- Director Bryan Singer
- Cast Stephen Baldwin, Kevin Spacey, Gabriel Byrne, Chazz Palminteri, Kevin Pollak, Pete Postlethwaite
- Genre Drama, Crime, Thriller
- Available on Apple iTunes, Vudu, Microsoft Store, FandangoNOW, Redbox, AMC on Demand, DIRECTV
My Mother's Castle
(Le château de ma mère)
My Mother's Castle (Le chateau de ma mere) is a sequel and companion piece to My Father's Glory (La Gloire de Mon Pere), both based on the childhood recollections of Marcel Pagnol.
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- France • 1990
- Director Yves Robert
- Cast Julien Ciamaca, Philippe Caubère, Nathalie Roussel, Victorien Delamare, Didier Pain, Thérèse Liotard
- Genre Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Available on Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Vudu, YouTube, Apple TV
Road Scholar
NPR journalist Andrei Cordescu sets out on a cross-country road trip in this gently comic, yet poignant, documentary.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- United States • 1993
- Director Roger Weisberg
- Cast Allen Ginsberg, Andrei Codrescu
- Genre
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Close My Eyes
There are some relationships so taboo they're irresistible.After some years of tension, Richard begins a sexual relationship with his sister Natalie. Now married, the relationship proves dangerously obsessional.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom • 1991
- Director Stephen Poliakoff
- Cast Alan Rickman, Clive Owen, Saskia Reeves, Karl Johnson, Lesley Sharp, Kate Gartside
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on No streaming locations found.
An Ideal Husband
A successful and married Government minister attempts to navigate blackmail from an ex wife with the help of his bachelor friend.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom, France, United States • 1999
- Director Oliver Parker
- Cast Cate Blanchett, Minnie Driver, Rupert Everett, Julianne Moore, Jeremy Northam, Peter Vaughan
- Genre Drama, Comedy, Romance
- Available on No streaming locations found.
SIFF AWARD WINNERS 1980–1989
Mona Lisa
Neil Jordan · 1986 · United Kingdom
George is a recently released prisoner in London who finds himself working as a chauffer for Simone, a high-class call girl. When Simone enlists George in helping her find an old friend from her past, the two embark on a dangerous and exploratory journey through the city’s underworld.
Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max
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Boundaries of the Heart
An Australian rodeo rider revisits a tiny town to propose to a hotel owner's 40-ish daughter.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Australia • 1988
- Director Lex Marinos
- Cast Wendy Hughes, John Hargreaves, Norman Kaye, Max Cullen
- Genre Drama
- Available on Tubi TV
Kiss of the Spider Woman
In a South American prison, a gay man imprisoned for immoral behavior and a political prisoner come to understand and respect one another.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Brazil, United States • 1985
- Director Hector Babenco
- Cast William Hurt, Raúl Juliá, Sônia Braga, José Lewgoy, Miriam Pires, Milton Gonçalves
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Prick Up Your Ears
Stephen Frears directs this biographical drama focusing on controversial British playwright Joe Orton.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom • 1987
- Director Stephen Frears
- Cast Gary Oldman, Alfred Molina, Vanessa Redgrave, Frances Barber, Lindsay Duncan, Julie Walters
- Genre Drama
- Available on Pluto TV, ScreenPix Apple TV Channel
The Moderns
What could be more modern than the art world of Paris, 1926?
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- United States • 1988
- Director Alan Rudolph
- Cast Keith Carradine, Linda Fiorentino, John Lone, Geneviève Bujold, Geraldine Chaplin, Wallace Shawn
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Dominick and Eugene
Dominick and Eugene are twins whose relationship becomes strained when Eugene must decide between his brother or his career.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- United States • 1988
- Director Robert M. Young
- Cast Tom Hulce, Ray Liotta, Jamie Lee Curtis, Robert Levine, Todd Graff, Bill Cobbs
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Apartment Zero
Adrian, a British man in Buenos Aires, begins to suspect that his American roommate is more than he appears.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom • 1989
- Director Martin Donovan
- Cast Hart Bochner, Colin Firth, Dora Bryan, Liz Smith, Mirella D'Angelo
- Genre Drama, Horror, Thriller
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Bagdad Cafe
(Out of Rosenheim)
A German woman finds community amongst the eclectic members of a rural desert community in the American Southwest.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- West Germany • 1987
- Director Percy Adlon
- Cast Marianne Sägebrecht, CCH Pounder, Jack Palance, Christine Kaufmann, Monica Calhoun, Darron Flagg, George Aguilar
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on Cohen Media Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, VUDU Free, Freevee, Kanopy, Shout! Factory TV, Plex, Plex Player
Drowning by Numbers
An ironic black comedy of love and death that takes place an a lyrically beautiful landscape.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom, Netherlands • 1988
- Director Peter Greenaway
- Cast Joan Plowright, Juliet Stevenson, Joely Richardson, Bernard Hill, Jason Edwards, Bryan Pringle
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on Fandor Amazon Channel, FlixFling, Midnight Pulp, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV
The Assault
(De Aanslag)
At the end of WW II the Dutch resistance kills a German officer in front of the house of a Dutch family. Years after the war, the young boy who witnessed the killing runs into the members of the resistance who committed the killing.
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- Netherlands • 1986
- Director Fons Rademakers
- Cast Derek de Lint, Marc van Uchelen, Monique van de Ven, John Kraaykamp, Christian Golusda
- Genre Drama, History
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Iris
A female veterinarian moves to the country side to start her own practice. She encounters a lot a skeptical villagers.
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- Netherlands • 1987
- Director Mady Saks
- Cast Monique van de Ven, Roger Van Hool, Titus Tiel Groenestege, Tom Jansen, Elsje Scherjon, Marja Habraken
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Power Of Evil
(Le pouvoir du mal)
The wife of an arms dealer appears unhappy, but in truth, she's just as cynical and self-serving as her capitalist man.
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- France, West Germany, Italy • 1985
- Director Krzysztof Zanussi
- Cast Vittorio Gassman, Marie-Christine Barrault, Benjamin Völz, Hans Marquardt, Erika Wackernagel, Eugeniusz Priwieziencew
- Genre Drama, Mystery
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Fourth Man
(De vierde man)
An alcoholic writer begins having visions apparently warning him of impending danger.
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- Netherlands • 1983
- Director Paul Verhoeven
- Cast Jeroen Krabbé, Renée Soutendijk, Thom Hoffman, Dolf de Vries, Geert de Jong, Hans Veerman
- Genre Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Legend of the Holy Drinker
(La leggenda del santo bevitore)
A recently homeless man is loaned 200 francs. While attempting to repay the money, he encounters an assortment of people along the way.
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- Italy, France • 1988
- Director Ermanno Olmi
- Cast Rutger Hauer, Anthony Quayle, Sandrine Dumas, Dominique Pinon, Sophie Segalen, Cécile Paoli
- Genre Drama
- Available on Fandor Amazon Channel, ARROW, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube
Jesus of Montreal
(Jésus de Montréal)
A group of actors putting on an interpretive Passion Play in Montreal begin to experience a meshing of their characters and their private lives.
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- Canada, France • 1989
- Director Denys Arcand
- Cast Lothaire Bluteau, Catherine Wilkening, Johanne-Marie Tremblay, Rémy Girard, Robert Lepage, Gilles Pelletier
- Genre Drama
- Available on Spamflix, Kanopy, IndieFlix, Fandor Amazon Channel
Bye Bye Blues
During WWII, a woman returns home to her Canadian town after she and her military husband are split by the Japanese invasion of Hong Kong.
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- Canada • 1989
- Director Anne Wheeler
- Cast Michael Ontkean, Rebecca Jenkins, Chad Krowchuk, Jyoti Dhembre, Sumant Mastaher, Tom Alter
- Genre Drama, Music, Romance
- Available on No streaming locations found.
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