Character Study Movies

While their girlfriend is on a trip, Harrison reminisces on his old apartment's bedroom window, one much higher up than his current one.

In the stillness of a remote town, a troubled writer intervenes in a neighbor’s abusive household— testing the limits of truth, heroism...

Descend into the world of New York City’s pigeon people and see how this community reshapes our understanding of the city’s most...

In 1977, four mismatched teens flee their dead-end Long Island town, colliding over identity, dreams, and the cost of freedom on the road to...

When a young gay lawyer arrives on Fire Island to explore his sexuality, he becomes witness to a murder after being drugged. A stranger helps him to...

A poor Harvard student's romance with a girl hits a rough spot when he realizes, on his 21st birthday, that he's in love with her brother.

E. T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Steven Spielberg's endearing movie released in 1982, achieved the triple feat of bringing to life one of the most iconic...

A character study about a childlike man who believes in signs, but gets himself in trouble when he arrives in the big city to audition for a movie.

On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Matisse's birth and of the exhibition at the Center Pompidou which will be dedicated to him in 2020, this...

In this mockumentary, high school senior Matthew Reese documents the final day of the first semester.

After his mother kills herself, Wallace Kirkman struggles in his relationships with the women in his life.

In a bar, Pauline writes to a man she does not know. Between desire, art, and projection, reality eventually begins to crack the story she has...

An aspiring filmmaker goes to shocking extremes to convince Hollywood actress Anne Hathaway to star in his film. First entry in Adrian Țofei's...

A window into the broken soul of Bruce, battling long-term depression and the culmination of events leading up to the tipping point of his bottled up...

Marlon Brando is best known for his successful films and two Oscars. But his link with French Polynesia, where the actor lived for nearly thirty...

An old-fashioned young man meets a modern girl in a theatre class, and their connection slowly unravels, leading him through unrequited love, faith,...

A young woman forced by her family to study a major she doesn't want, finds her only escape in her passion for the sky while caught between economic...

51 films to date, a unique body of work whose common thread is the search for love: this is the cinema of Claude Lelouch. As a Jewish child hunted...

The 1960s opened with La Dolce Vita by Federico Fellini and its unforgettable lead: Marcello Mastroianni. The actor seemed to glide effortlessly...