Biju Menon plays a highly respected lighthouse keeper in a small village in Kerala whose unabashed patriarchal heft and intimidating ways...

Director Claire Denis reduces the plot of BEAU TRAVAIL to its minimum, choosing to narrate the events in fragments through the reminisces...

Written, directed, and co-produced by Jeremy Saulnier, REBEL RIDGE (US, 2024) follows ex-marine Terry Richmond's quest for revenge...

In May 1980, students in the South Korean city of Gwangju rose up in revolt against the country’s authoritarian government. A Seoul taxi...

MOONLIGHT (US, 2016) touches upon all the tropes that a film involving a black protagonist deals with: unemployment, drugs, hostile...

Despite having an open marriage, Vic (Ben Affleck) is jealous of his wife’s (Ana de Armas) affairs. As a series of mysterious...

Based on the book of the same name SHE SAID by two New York Times investigative reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor – played...

As a bereaved young wife, along with her mother-in-law waits for several days for the rains to subside so that they can hold the funeral...

I am not sure if Sri Lankan auteur Prasanna Vithanaje had Satyajit Ray’s ARANYER DIN RATRI (Days and Nights in the Forest, 1970) in mind...

Post-performance of a well-appreciated play, the sole actress of the group (played impressively by Zarin Shihab) is groped in her sleep...

TOKYO SONATA’S plot kicks off as a regular salaryman loses his job to cheap Chinese workers but hides the news from his family....

A young cell phone snatcher kills its owner and is subsequently arrested. While the grandmother of the thief tries to raise money for his...

In this post-truth world where everything is suspect, where emotion scores over facts and vicious disinformation proliferates under...

A newly-married 21-year-old student of criminology in need of money is roped in for a clandestine operation one night by a criminal...

Victoria is a Paris-based criminal lawyer with two kids. As she goes about her days, she has to juggle between fighting her ex-husband...

A socialite woman (Glenn Close) sinks into irreversible coma and her dissolute husband (Jeremy Irons in an Oscar-winning role) is accused...

A young motorbike courier and small-time crook in search of his lost love forms the core of the plot of Lou Ye’s SUZHOU RIVER (2000,...

This is an autobiographical essay by the legendary French filmmaker Agnes Varda made to commemorate her 80th birthday in which she traces...

Will, a war veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), lives illegally in the reserved forest with his teenage...

As the fortunes of a wealthy family in Rio de Janeiro crumble, its teenage son Jean must come to terms with it; but unlike his parents...

A young woman, Jean returns to Bangkok from Sweden after three years, inspired by the ideas of minimalism and undertakes to de-clutter...

POKHAR KE DUNU PAAR (2022, Bihar) deals with a young couple who had eloped to Delhi but are forced to come back to their hometown in...

Comprising several characters whose lives intersect in Paris through an unfortunate incident involving the insult of Maria, a homeless...

American indie cinema has always thrown up surprises at regular intervals. This time it is TO LESLIE (2022), based on a true account of a...

A twisted tale surrounding the theft of gold bars smuggled from Dubai to Kochi is what Mridul Nair’s KASARGOLD (Malayalam, 2023) is...

In the guise of a thriller NIGHT MOVES (US, 2013) depicts the efforts of three young radical environmentalists (Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota...

Quite strangely, while watching FAIR PLAY (US, 2023) by debutant Chole Domont, I was reminded of Satyajit Ray’s MAHANAGAR (1963). In the...

What seems like a desolate industrial town serves as the setting for this atmospheric film peopled with drug addicts, drug dealers,...

A taut noir at 1.10-hour, HIGHWAY DRAGNET (1954) by Nathan Juran follows the travails of Richard Conte, a WW2 veteran who is on the run...

In BLIND CHANCE (Poland, 1987), Krzysztof Kieslowski’s biting criticism of Communist Poland did not go down well with the authorities; so...

We knew about the North Indians’ obsession with Mumbai or the Punjabis’ fixation on Canada but weren’t aware of the fascination the city...

Unlike the Holocaust and other disturbing moments in history, the Armenian genocide under Ottoman rule during the First World War has...

It is 1943 Europe and any foreigner engaging romantically with a German woman is viewed as causing harm to racial purity – a sacrilege...

This is quite a bewildering narrative in the sense that it packs in several stories that are woven around a main plot involving a...

Cassandra is a 26-year-old flight attendant working at a low-cost airliner, consumed with grief from her mother’s death in an accident,...

A young girl who cooks for a roadside food joint run by her family is inducted into the employment of a famous chef in Bangkok known for...

There comes a moment in everybody’s life when an incident that one had not anticipated a moment ago assumes momentous significance – even...

When Adam, a fisherman’s son gains a scholarship to Cairo’s Al-Azhar University he is delighted; after all, the university is known for...

James, the belligerent leader of a Malayalee group wakes up from his afternoon slumber inside the bus that they have hired to take them...

Years ago, a young medical student killed herself after being sexually harassed by her batchmates at a private party. The culprits have...

Despite being eclipsed by the other significant Westerns of that time, THE PROFESSIONALS (1966) continued to stand on its feet, mainly...

An octogenarian Serbian lady who had fled the horrors of WWII and migrated to Mexico is still haunted by its memories. Her granddaughter...

Siblings gathered around the occasion of the death of a parent at their ancestral house has been a familiar setting to spark off...

A woman wronged, embarked on a revenge trip has always been a popular thriller template. Malayalam filmmaker Jithin Issac Thomas reduces...

Love, betrayal, and revenge form the core of this astounding film from the Philippines. Set in a Manila slum where poverty impinges upon...

In a small seaside town somewhere in Japan, a young ex-sex worker works at a roadside restaurant. When she is not working, she...

Set against the clock manufacturing industry in a small Swiss town in the 1870s, UNREST (Switzerland, 2022) deals with the brewing...

Crumbling small towns seeped in inertia have always exuded a cinematic charm that could be deceptive. In the hands of debutant Carlos...

Inspired by true events that happened in the 90s in a remote village in Algeria, OF GODS AND MEN (2010, France) deals primarily with the...

A crook wanting to turn a new leaf after a jail sentence, but being brought back to the world of crime by vested interests for one last...