Linha De Passe (Brazil, 2008)
This touching Brazilian drama by co-directors Walter Salles and Daniela Thomas focuses on four brothers’ desperate attempts to rise out of the poverty of Sao Paulo’s concrete slums with the odds...
View ArticleFlame and Citron (Denmark, 2008)
This is the true story of two infamous World War II resistance fighters, brilliantly presented by director Ole Christian Madsen in one of the most expensive films made in Danish movie history. During...
View ArticleTrader Games (Belgium, 2010)
When hot young trader Erwan realises the work of Cybille, a climate researcher, applies to market fluctuations he takes a risk and begins to apply his theory at his job. But when his superiors don’t...
View ArticleKokowääh (Germany, 2011)
Til Schweiger stars in this romantic comedy as Henry, an unlucky-in-love writer who gets the chance of a lifetime to co-write the screenplay of a best-selling novel. However his co-writer is Katharina,...
View ArticleWe Have A Pope (Italy, 2011)
The newly elected Pope suffers a panic attack just as he is about to appear on St Peter’s balcony to greet the faithful who have gathered to see him. His advisors, unable to convince him he is the...
View ArticleThe Well Digger’s Daughter (France, 2011)
In pre-World War II France, a father is torn between his sense of honour and his deep love for his saintly daughter, when she gets in trouble with the wealthy son of a shopkeeper. The directorial debut...
View ArticlePoint Blank (France, 2010)
One night happily married nurse Samuel saves the life of a mysterious car-accident victim. He soon realises the man he has saved is a violent criminal, and after his wife is kidnapped he is drawn into...
View ArticleOutside The Law (France, 2010)
This Oscar-nominated drama is set across three decades of the Algerian struggle for independence. After losing their family home, three brothers and their mother become separated around the world and...
View ArticleEasy Money (Sweden, 2009)
Set within the seedy underworld of Stockholm, JW is a poor student who falls in love with a sexy young heiress. He turns to a life of crime to keep himself in the upper class, but soon winds up...
View ArticleCharlie the World Movies Critic: ‘The Devil’s Double’ Review
If an Iraqi James Bond met Hollywood’s Drive, then the result would be The Devil’s Double. This Sundance Film Festival drama brings to life the horrifying true story of Latif Yahia. Based on his...
View ArticleWM Premiere: Scorpion in Love (Spain, 2013)
Scorpion in Love is an adaptation of the bestselling novel by Carlos Bardem, about a former neo-Nazi gang member who after doing time in prison, turns to boxing in an effort to reinvent himself. Julián...
View ArticleWM Premiere: The Snitch Cartel (Colombia, 2011)
For Martin Gonzalez winning the unobtainable Sofia has been an obsession since childhood. A lower class kid with little hopes of a better future, Martin joins the dangerous Cartel Norte del Valle, a...
View ArticleWM Premiere: Northwest (Denmark, 2013)
Northwest is one of the most impoverished multi-ethnic areas of Copenhagen. Living here with his mother, younger brother and little sister is 18-year-old Casper, who struggles to make ends meet selling...
View ArticleWM Premiere: Sex, Love & Therapy (Belgium, 2014)
Lambert (Patrick Bruel), an ex-sex addict turned marriage counsellor hires the sultry, sex-mad Judith (Sophie Marceau) as his assistant. Lambert’s self-imposed celibacy is sorely tested by Judith who...
View ArticleWM Premiere: Little Accidents (USA, 2014)
When a teenage boy goes missing in a small town already devastated by a fatal mining accident, three strangers find themselves drawn together in a tangle of secrets, lies, and the collective grief of...
View ArticleWM Premiere: Abuse Of Weakness
Inspired by director Catherine Breillat’s (Fat Girl, Romance) true life experiences, her latest film, Abuse Of Weakness, is an exploration of power and sex. Isabelle Huppert (The Piano Teacher, 8...
View ArticleWM Premiere: Jack Strong (Poland, 2014)
A Polish army colonel discovers that an American nuclear counter attack against Soviet forces is planned to be executed on Polish territory. With ironclad determination, he starts a lonely and...
View ArticleWM Premiere: Superchondriac (France, 2013)
Romain Faubert is forty years old, unmarried, has no children. His work as a photographer for an online medical dictionary exacerbates the pathological hypochondria which has guided his existence for...
View ArticleWM Premiere: Horses of God (Belgium, 2012)
Ten year-old Yachine and his thirteen year-old brother Hamid live in Sidi Moumen, a destitute slum on the outskirts of Casablanca. Days are spent trying to draw some pleasure from their petty...
View ArticleWM Premiere: Magic Magic
Magic Magic tells the story of Alicia (Juno Temple), a teenager who arrives in Chile on her first trip out of the United States. As she visits her friend Sarah (Emily Browning), she tries to fit into a...
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