Films and media
Documentaries, films and series, with one sentence on what each covers.
Andrey Zvyagintsev · Film · 2003
Two brothers' long-absent father returns without explanation and takes them on a tense journey to a remote island.
Garth Davis · Film · 2016
A man adopted from India as a boy and raised in Australia sets out years later to find the mother and home he was separated from as a child.
Walter Salles · Film · 1998
A jaded former teacher who writes letters for the illiterate reluctantly helps an orphaned boy travel across Brazil to find the father he has never met.
Barry Levinson · Film · 1988
A self-centred salesman discovers he has an autistic older brother in an institution and takes him on a cross-country trip to claim their father's inheritance.
Louis Malle · Film · 1987
At a Catholic boarding school in occupied France, a boy forms a close friendship with a new pupil who is secretly Jewish, until the war intrudes.
Benh Zeitlin · Film · 2012
A six-year-old girl living with her ailing father in a flooded bayou community faces his decline and a rising storm through a fierce inner mythology.
Jane Campion · Film · 1993
A mute Scottish woman sent to New Zealand for an arranged marriage pours her feeling into her piano and into an affair with the man who possesses it.
Sam Mendes · Film · 1999
A disillusioned suburban father becomes infatuated with his teenage daughter's friend and starts upending his life as his family quietly falls apart.
Pedro Almodovar · Film · 2002
Two men form an unlikely friendship while tending to the comatose women they love, and one man's devotion crosses a grave line.
Abdellatif Kechiche · Film · 2013
A French teenager's life and sense of herself are transformed by a passionate first love with an older art student, and by its painful end.
Ang Lee · Film · 2005
Two ranch hands begin a secret love affair one summer in Wyoming and carry it, unlived and unresolved, across twenty years of separate married lives.
Luca Guadagnino · Film · 2017
During a summer in northern Italy, a teenage boy and his father's graduate student fall into a brief, intense romance.
David Lynch · Film · 1990
A young couple flee across the American South while the woman's mother, bent on stopping them, sends killers after her daughter's lover.
Ang Lee · Film · 2007
In wartime Shanghai, a young woman posing as a seductress in a plot to assassinate a collaborator finds herself dangerously drawn to her target.
Marielle Heller · Film · 2015
In 1970s San Francisco, fifteen-year-old Minnie begins an affair with her mother's boyfriend and records her sexual and creative awakening in an audio diary.
Lone Scherfig · Film · 2009
In early 1960s London, a bright schoolgirl is courted by a charming older man and nearly abandons her studies before discovering the truth about him.
Derek Cianfrance · Film · 2010
The film cuts between the hopeful beginning and the bitter end of a working-class marriage, following Dean and Cindy as their love forms and then falls apart.
Steven Soderbergh · Film · 1989
An impotent drifter who films women talking about their sex lives arrives in a Louisiana town and disrupts the marriage of an old friend and his unhappy wife.
Ben Lewin · Film · 2012
A man confined to an iron lung by polio hires a professional sex surrogate, with the counsel of his priest, to experience physical intimacy for the first time.
Barry Jenkins · Film · 2016
A boy grows into a man across three chapters in Miami, under a mother lost to addiction and a self he cannot yet claim.