A Hong Kong soldier displaced after the British handover of the island to China finds himself working for the Triad; but a smuggling deal...

A black waitress at a Detroit restaurant is persuaded by a white young stripper to accompany her on a road trip to Florida to perform on...

As the year draws to a close, we would remain grateful to OTT platforms for springing so many surprises, including regional and...

French cinema and love triangles cannot quite go wrong, especially if it has Golshifte Farahani as its central character. Farahani who is...

A Swiss banker goes to Argentina to replace his colleague who has mysteriously disappeared. The country has just been taken over by a...

Thwarted dreams, 'machismo' that defines Latin American patriarchy, and an impossible search are some of the elements that this sumptuous...

During one of their clandestine excursions to a deserted island near their home, two adolescents stumble upon a fugitive (played by...

Set in the late 50s in French Cameroon, Claire Denis’s CHOCOLAT (1988, France) is a study of colonialism through sexual tension that...

7 PRISONERS (2021, Brazil) by Alexandre Moratto is a brutal portrayal of modern-day slavery set in Sao Palo where a couple of rural youth...

For an audience accustomed to linear dramatic narratives, DIVINE INTERVENTION (2002, Palestine) might be unsettling initially; but very...

When a producer loses her long-time collaborator-director to heart attack, she withdraws into herself, moves into the suburbs and takes...

A young police officer’s investigation into the murder of a homosexual opens up a Pandora’s Box of sordid details that could implicate...

An Arab production assistant working on a Palestinian soap in Israel is suddenly entrusted with the writing of the show when its regular...

Somewhere in the Canadian countryside, a mother mourning the death of her younger son is visited by the son’s male lover on the eve of...

HEDI (2016, Tunisia) tackles the story of a shy young Tunisian car salesman whose domineering mother arranges a match for him to a girl...

In occupied France during WWII, an impoverished young mother of two children performs illegal abortions on women whose husbands are away...

For most viewers, Sri Lanka does not quite figure as a filmmaking nation despite significant films emerging from that country for so many...

With the rise of Japanese nationalism in the early 40s, a young Japanese merchant and his wife find their Westernised lifestyle in direct...

Aleksei Balabanov’s MORPHINE (2008, Russia) is about a young doctor recently posted at a remote Russian village and his gradual descent...

This big budget Mexican crime drama is a good study of how familiar tropes can be used and infused with sufficient unpredictability to...