Heat of Desire (1981)

The arrival of a newborn girl causes the gradual disintegration of the Cairn family; particularly for 9-year-old Joshua, an eccentric boy whose proper upbringing and refined tastes both take a…

A wealthy woman discovers a vineyard worker with a beautiful operatic singing voice. She helps make him a star but then breaks his heart. He flees in misery to Mexico…

A criminal waits in a seedy motel for his boss after killing several men to steal a bag.

“La Zerda and the songs of oblivion” (1982) is one of only two films made by the Algerian novelist Assia Djebar, with “La Nouba des femmes du mont Chenoua” (1977)….

A once-celebrated kid detective, now 31, continues to solve the same trivial mysteries between hangovers and bouts of self-pity. Until a naive client brings him his first ‘adult’ case, to…

A female professor, a writer, and an orchestra conductor–three characters, two couples–attend a grand literary cocktail party. The writer has just won the prize for his book “Warsaw Bridge.” The…

April, 1940. The eyes of the world are on Narvik, a small town in northern Norway, a source of the iron ore needed for Hitler’s war machine. Through two months…

A veteran thief is forced to perform one last robbery. In a reality where vengeance is more precious than gold, two thieves break into the house of a troubled couple…

An adventurous young boy, Albert, is diagnosed with terminal cancer and given only a matter of weeks to live. While undergoing aggressive medical treatments Albert befriends a laboratory chimp, Simon,…

With the aid of his former law students, a professor-turned-prosecutor battles corruption and organized crime.

A family becomes convinced they are not alone after moving into their new home in the suburbs.

Susanne is a young single mother who lives a somewhat “carefree” lifestyle. After quitting her job, she finds herself in trouble financially and attempts a minor insurance fraud to make…