A Higher Law

Wake in Fright

A schoolteacher, stuck in a teaching post in an arid backwater, stops off in a mining town on his way home for Christmas. Discovering a local gambling

1971

Libido

Scripted by four of Australia’s greatest authors (David Williamson, Thomas Keneally, Hal Porter and Craig McGregor), this quartet of carnal desires ex

1973

Amsterdam

A rich American couple, a family of Dutch criminals, a French gay couple, a working class family from Germany and an illegal Moroccan youth and his ki

2009

To Sir, with Love

A British Guianese engineer starts a job as a high school teacher in London’s East End, where his uninterested and delinquent pupils are in desperate

1967

Cheeky

While scouting out apartments in London for her Venetian boyfriend, Carla rents an apartment overlooking the Thames. There, she meets the lesbian hype

2000

The Ron Clark Story

A passionate and innovative teacher leaves his small hometown to teach in one of Harlem's toughest schools. But to break through to this students, Ron

2006

Anne of the Thousand Days

Henry VIII of England discards his wife, Katharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir, in favor of the young and beautiful Anne Boleyn.

1969

Iron and Silk

Iron and Silk is a 1990 movie based on the eponymous book by American writer Mark Salzman. It details his journey to China after college to study Chin

1991

The Sheltering Sky

An American couple drift toward emptiness in postwar North Africa.

1990

Lymelife

A coming of age dramedy where infidelity, real estate, and Lyme disease have two families falling apart on Long Island in the early eighties. Scott, 1

2008

Pygmalion

When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training,

1939

Jude

In late 19th-century England, Jude aspires to be an academic, but is hobbled by his blue-collar background. Instead, he works as a stonemason and is t

1996

Fish Tank

Fifteen-year-old Mia is in a constant state of war with her family and the world around her. When she meets her party-girl mother’s charming new boyfr

2009

How to Get Away with Cheating

Two students retake an algebra test after school in hopes of bringing their grades up.

2020

Permanent Midnight

Juggling increasing career success and a growing heroin habit, a television comedy writer attempts to go down a path of improvement.

1998

Twenty-Four Eyes

TV adaptation of the novel "Twenty-Four Eyes", combining animation with a few live-action scenes.

1980

We Don't Live Here Anymore

Married couple Jack and Terry Linden are experiencing a difficult period in their relationship. When Jack decides to step outside the marriage, he bec

2004

Russian Doll

A private detective agrees to marry his best friend's mistress to keep her from being deported.

2001

The Wren

Feride is a young girl who lost her family as a child and was educated in a French school. Because of her mischievousness and cheerfulness, she is nic

1966

Waste

Kralj, an energetic businessman, unexpectedly gets into trouble: at the same moment both his wife and his mistress start seeing through his carefully

2008