Modern Films Shot in Academy Ratio

A writer encounters the owner of an aging high-class hotel, who tells him of his early years serving as a lobby boy in the hotel's glorious years under an exceptional concierge.

When George, a silent movie superstar, meets Peppy Miller, a dancer, sparks fly between the two. However, after the introduction of talking pictures, their fortunes change, affecting their dynamic.

A novice nun about to take her vows uncovers a family secret dating back to the German occupation.

A Jewish-Hungarian concentration camp prisoner sets out to give a child he mistook for his son a proper burial.

A teenage girl with nothing to lose joins a traveling magazine sales crew, and gets caught up in a whirlwind of hard partying, law bending and young love as she criss-crosses the Midwest with a band of misfits.

A female assassin receives a dangerous mission to kill a political leader in eighth-century China.

Several ordinary high school students go through their daily routine as two others prepare for something more malevolent.

Everything changes for 15-year-old Mia when her mum brings home a new boyfriend.

A romantic drama centered around a young shepherd and shepherdess and the ramifications of their forbidden affair.

Settlers traveling through the Oregon desert in 1845 find themselves stranded in harsh conditions.

A restless retired woman teams up with her deceased neighbor's maid to seek out a man who has a secret connection to her past life as a farm owner at the foothill of Mount Tabu in Africa.

A drama that charts ten years in a transgender woman's relationship with her lover.

Juan and his urban family live in the Mexican countryside, where they enjoy and suffer a world apart. And nobody knows if these two worlds are complementary or if they strive to eliminate one another.

A poor boy of unknown origins is rescued from poverty and taken in by the Earnshaw family where he develops an intense relationship with his young foster sister, Cathy.

A teenage skateboarder's life begins to fray after he is involved in the accidental death of a security guard.

With the destruction of Fontainhas nearly complete, the old man Ventura wanders around a bleak housing project and the ruins of the slums, meeting with his kids and old friends.

A Seattle musician's life and career are reminiscent of those of Kurt Cobain.

Amidst the chaos of student and union protests, 20-year-old Parisian poet François finds himself in legal hot water for dodging a stint in the French military. While at a party, he falls in love with Lilie, a would-be sculptor.

A despairing scholar sells his soul to Satan in exchange for one night with a beautiful young woman.

A father and daughter journey from Denmark to an unknown desert that exists in a realm beyond the confines of civilization.

A twist on the Snow White fairy tale that is set in 1920s Seville and centered on a female bullfighter.

A group of men and women of all generations have been brought together in the course of their travels after World War II, when Italy regained its national unity. Amid the ruins of this post-war period, the men and women who make up this community build a new rapport, both in their professional and daily lives. The group maintains a kind of diary.

An indictment of modern times divided into three "kingdoms": "Enfer" ("Hell"), "Purgatoire" ("Purgatory") and "Paradis" ("Paradise").

The collapse and the struggle of a poor farming clan in Philippines.

France, 1936-37. The Popular Front wins elections, the Spanish Civil War begins, and Hitler and Stalin are manipulating and spying. The brilliant exile, Fiodor Voronin, a general at 20, is the deputy at the White Russian Military Union, probably slated to replace the aging Général Dobrinsky soon. Fiodor's Greek wife, Arsinoé, paints and stays away from politics, befriending Communist neighbors. Her health declines; the attentive Fiodor arranges care and, against the backdrop of Stalin's Great Purge, considers his options. He plays a chess game in which love of country, love of Arsinoé, ideology, petty jealousies, and the machinations of power roil in matters of life and death.