The heartwarming story of the relationship that develops between a shy young boy and his kind teacher in 1936 Spain. The boy, Moncho, is frightened about starting school, and it is up to the gentle, compassionate Don Gregorio to set the boy’s mind at ease. When the Spanish Civil War erupts on July 18, both individuals’ lives are changed forever. Gomez turns in another memorable performance as the sensitive teacher.
FRIENDSHIP
THE THIRD MAN
American writer, Holly Martins, arrives in post-war Vienna to visit his old friend Harry Lime. On arrival, he learns that his friend has been killed in a street accident, but also that Lime was a black marketer wanted by the police.
DRIVING MISS DAISY
An old Jewish woman and her African-American chauffeur in the American South have a relationship that grows and improves over the years.
MOTORCYCLE DIARIES -R
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The film is based on the books Diarios de motocicleta by Guevara, and Con el Che por America Latina by Alberto Granado. It tells the story of a journey by motorcycle across South America in 1952 by young Ernesto “Fuser” Guevara and his friend Alberto Granado. The film depicts the gradual development of Guevara’s political outlook, but his revolutionary exploits are not mentioned except in a caption at the end.
THE MAN WHO KNEW INFINITY -PG13
Colonial India, 1913. Srinavasa Ramanujan (Dev Patel) is a 25-year-old shipping clerk and self-taught genius, who failed out of college due to his near-obsessive, solitary study of mathematics. Determined to pursue his passion despite rejection and derision from his peers, Ramanujan writes a letter to G. H. Hardy (Jeremy Irons), an eminent British mathematics professor at Trinity College, Cambridge. Hardy recognises the originality and brilliance of Ramanujan’s raw talent and despite the scepticism of his colleagues, undertakes bringing him to Cambridge so that his theories can be explored.
The film, which does attempt to provide a biopic on the real-life Srinivasa Ramanujan, has been declared as heavily inaccurate by some of those who caught a screening of The Man Who Knew Infinity during the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. It doesn’t help that critics describe the film as perfectly average or, according to the Hollywood Reporter, an “all too conventional biopic.”
THE PROFESSIONAL -R
“Mathilda, a twelve-year old New York girl, is living an undesirable life among her half-family. Her father stores drugs for two-faced cop Norman Stansfield. Only her little brother keeps Mathilda from breaking apart. One day, Stansfield and his team take cruel revenge on her father for stretching the drugs a little, thus killing the whole family. Only Mathilda, who was out shopping, survives by finding shelter in Léon’s apartment in the moment of highest need. Soon, she finds out about the strange neighbour’s unusual profession – killing – and desperately seeks his help in taking revenge for her little brother. Léon, who is completely unexperienced in fatherly tasks, and in friendships, does his best to keep Mathilda out of trouble – unsuccessfully. Now, the conflict between a killer, who slowly discovers his abilities to live, to feel, to love and a corrupt police officer, who does anything in his might to get rid of an eye witness, arises to unmeasurable proportions – all for the sake of a little twelve-year old girl, who has nearly nothing to lose.”
KITE RUNNER – PG13
An epic tale of fathers and sons, of friendship and betrayal, that takes us from the final days of Afghanistan’s monarchy to the atrocities of the Taliban reign. This unforgettable story of redemption is based on the best selling phenomena The Kite Runner.
SUPER 8 – PG 13
During the summer of 1979, a group of friends witness a train crash and investigate subsequent unexplained events in their small town.
THE SOCIAL NETWORK – PG13
Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg creates the social networking website that would become known as Facebook, but is later sued by two brothers who claimed he stole their idea, and the co-founder who was later squeezed out of the business.
OUTSIDERS
When two poor greasers, Johnny, and Ponyboy are assaulted by a vicious gang, the socs, and Johnny kills one of the attackers, tension begins to mount between the two rival gangs, setting off a turbulent chain of events.