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A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent-film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity. (imdb)

A boy from lower class has just finished school. Because he cannot find other work he takes a job in one of the public bathes in the suburbs of London. There he meets a girl who is a little bit older than he... (imdb)

Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind. (imdb)

A comedy about what can happen when you love your phone more than anything else in your life.

A group of ivory-tower lexicographers realize they need to hear how real people talk, and end up helping a beautiful singer escape from the Mob. (imdb)

By turns an elaborate wartime drama of China, suffering under Japanese occupation during the 1930s and 40s, and an absurdist comedy of madness, cultural disconnects and historical booby-traps that Samuel Beckett would recognize in an instant. (Film Forum)

An impoverished young couple (Juno Temple and Michael Angarano) stumble upon an antique teapot that magically dispenses cash whenever either of them feels pain, inspiring them to ever-greater extremes, as they ascend the ranks of the nouveau riche. (tiff.net)

Film version of the documentary television series, "The Blue Planet," examining life under the oceans.

Deep sea researchers, helping the Navy establish an underwater missile silo, are besieged by a prehistoric creature freed after an inadvertent nuclear blast. (Chas. Balun)

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