1984 Watchlist

Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator.

The son of a woman dying of a brain tumor tries to fulfill his mother's last wish: to meet Greta Garbo.

A young actor's obsession with spying on a beautiful woman who lives nearby leads to a baffling series of events with drastic consequences.

A mysterious woman, fashion designer by day and prostitute by night, is hounded by two men: a married father of two children and a sexually repressed preacher.

When Wabisuke's father-in-law unexpectedly dies, the family goes through a series of events and occurrences as the funeral unfolds over three days in their home.

A communist soldier travels to Shanbei to collect folk songs for propaganda while visiting a poor peasant family, giving hope to the teenage daughter in escaping an arranged marriage.

An old communist returns to Greece after 32 years in the Soviet Union. However, things aren't the way he had hoped for.

Paris at night. Alex, 22, wants to be a filmmaker. Florence, his girlfriend just left him for his best friend Thomas. First breakup, first assassination attempt. Alex tries to strangle him, but he gives up and wanders the streets.

A geologist employed by an Australian mining company finds himself disputing the rights of some aborigines who believe their land to be sacred.

Two closely bound, emotionally wounded souls reunite after years apart.

A young punk, recruited by a car repo agency, finds himself in pursuit of a Chevrolet Malibu with a huge, $20,000 bounty--and something otherworldly stashed in its trunk.

After enrolling in a school, an impoverished boy finds conflict with his classmates and decides to compete to earn their respect.

A hapless talent agent attempts to reconcile a lounge singer with his mistress.

An alien takes the form of a young Wisconsin widow's husband and makes her drive him to his departure point in Arizona. Distrustful government agents, along with a more ambivalent scientist, give pursuit in hopes of intercepting them.

An inexperienced young actress is invited to play a role in a film based on Dostoyevsky's 'The Possessed'. The film director, a Czech immigrant in Paris, takes over her life, and in a short time she is unable to draw the line between acting and reality. She winds up playing a real-life role posing as the dead wife of another Czech immigrant, who is manipulated by the filmmaker into committing a political assassination.

Graciliano Ramos' period he spent in prison after being considered a subversive element by the government.

A surreal, isolated village sees its inhabitants gradually leave behind their mutual traditions and superstitions as they leave for the city. Among them are two cousins who love each other and who get into a quarrel with other villagers.

The vicissitudes of Gloria, a neurotic housewife, and her family's peculiar characters.

A New Yorker's life is thrown into a tailspin when his younger cousin surprise-visits him, starting a strange, unpredictable adventure.

The life, success and troubles of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as told by Antonio Salieri, the contemporaneous composer who was deeply jealous of Mozart's talent and claimed to have murdered him.

Mathematics professor Michele starts a new job at an unorthodox school. After a murder nearby, he meets colleague Bianca, sparking a relationship. Will their bond grow as Michele aids the investigation?

Elisabeth and Simon have been deeply in love for two months when Simon momentarily dies, but comes back to life. Simon does not want any further medical tests, but the couple are forced to grapple with the possibility of his death. They eventually tell their close friends Jérôme and Judith Martignac about the event. The Martignacs are both clerics, and Judith has just been giving a funeral service for a villager who committed suicide, though Jérôme would have nothing to do with suicide...

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan 35 years later, where he must once again confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.

Spinal Tap, one of England's loudest bands, is chronicled by film director Marty DiBergi on what proves to be a fateful tour.

Five stories by Luigi Pirandello set in turn-of-the-century Italy.