It’s surprising how VIRUS (2019, Malayalam) foreshadows the COVID pandemic when most people had not even heard of the term. Shot and...

An African-American car thief is given a choice – either he serves five years in prison for impersonating a cop and stealing a car, or...

Jim Donavan’s BELIEVE ME: THE ABDUCTION OF LISA McVEY (2018, US-Canada) is the story of a brave young working class girl from an abusive...

A man kidnapped by the State on unspecified political charges during the Lebanese Civil War comes out of jail after 20 years and has...

A film built around a chase will always evoke the necessary dramatic tension if handled well; the idea is to sustain the tension,...

A tongue-in-cheek comedy involving an ordinary man jailed for 3 months on a minor case of forgery, who forms a bonding with the inmates...

Films on small-town crimes have always held a special charm with their quirky characters with disturbed pasts and an atmosphere that...

A colored woman is chased through the deep jungles of British Honduras bordering Mexico by her British husband and his local gunmen; when...

Writer-director Mohamed Diab’s 678 (2010, Egypt) follows three Cairo women from different social strata who negotiate sexual harassment...

ARISHADVARGA (2019) is a Kannada neo-noir that adopts a Rashomanesque structure to arrive at the bottom of a mystery involving the murder...

A henchman working for a drug lord in Amsterdam is required to locate and kill three men who are responsible for the death of the drug...

NAYATTU (The Hunt, 2021, Malayalam), directed by Martin Prakkat deals with three police officers who are on the run after being accused...

Set in the last part of the 19th century when homosexuality was treated as a crime in Mexico and could lead to stiff jail sentences,...

The eldest of the three brothers who run a small-time drug business under the guise of a pizza delivery shop ventures into film...

When a teenage girl working at a veterinary shop in Buenos Aires discovers that she has got pregnant by the owner’s middle-aged son, she...

“Why are people saying bad things about grandpa on the internet?” asks an 8-year old to her mother, triggering a query that unsettles a...

Despite its tacky beginning, AKASATHINTE NIRAM (The Colour of Sky, 2012, Malayalam) by Dr. Biju soon settles down into a languid and...

Written and directed by Durul Taylan and Yagmur Taylan, STUCK APART (2021) looks at Aziz, a middle-aged bachelor in Istanbul stuck in a...

A slow-burn study of a toll booth attendant’s humdrum life takes on poetic dimensions in this extraordinary film from Turkey – TOLL BOOTH...

Victor Banerjee plays Rahul Negi who comes back to his village in Uttarakhand from London after 40 years to walk down memories lanes...