Film Search
- Jan 26, 2007
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Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story
Some time ago I read an interview with the late South Korean filmmaker Shin Sang-ok, who had been abducted by North Korean agents and held captive for eight years so that dictator Kim Jong-il could play movie producer. more...
- Jan 24, 2019
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An Acceptable Loss (R)
Shot in Chicago and on Northwestern University's Evanston campus, this speculative political thriller stumbles through most of its first hour, during which a disgraced former national security analyst (Tika Sumpter) comes out of retirement to accept a distinguished academic appointment, only to arouse protests and attract the sinister attention of a furtive graduate student (Ben Tavassoli). more...
- Jun 18, 2009
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Accidental Army: The Amazing True Story of the Czechoslovak Legion (NR)
A stash of rare World War I photos preserved by a small museum in Prague inspired Chicago media execs Bruce Bendinger and John Iltis to trace the history of the "Czechoslovak Legion," a force of 70,000 Czechs and Slovaks who were instrumental in the Allied victory. more...
- Oct 14, 2005
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Additions and Subtractions
From Colombia comes this taut 2004 thriller that explores the insidious nature of the country's drug culture. more...
- Oct 14, 2005
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The Afghan Bride
An earnest drama from Iranian director Abolghassem Talebi, this 2004 TV movie follows the tribulations of a progressive schoolteacher after he runs afoul of the Taliban. more...
- May 28, 2004
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The African Traveling Film Festival
Three shorts examining different aspects of African life. more...
- Oct 15, 2004
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After Midnight
A sexy car thief, his gamine lover, and the shy film buff who rescues her form a romantic triangle in Davide Ferrario's beguiling valentine to the movies. more...
- Mar 14, 2019
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The Aftermath (R)
The value of Rhidian Brook's novel, from which this film is adapted, is the ground-zero view of firebombed post-World War II Hamburg by its surviving Germans—from starving street urchins, to middle-class adults who were not Nazi party members but who suffer all the burdens and humiliations of defeat nonetheless, to hostile teenagers who still revere Hitler and plot terrorist attacks against the Allied occupying forces. more...
- Aug 12, 2013
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Afternoon Delight (R)
A couple's marriage is edging toward collapse when they try to reboot their dormant sex life in this sly, hip, and rewarding comedy of manners. more...
- Sep 19, 2017
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Against the Law
This somber BBC production, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the 1967 British law decriminalizing homosexuality, intercuts eyewitness accounts from grizzled survivors of homophobia in postwar England with a dramatic treatment of the life of journalist and activist Peter Wildeblood. more...
- Aug 18, 2006
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Agnes and His Brothers
Freud would have had a field day with this 2004 German feature: its dysfunctional Westphalian family includes a nerdy librarian (Moritz Bleibtreu) who masturbates while hiding in women's restrooms; his ambitious politician brother (Herbert Knaup), who defecates on a napkin in his office rather than put down the phone; and their transgender club-hopping sibling (Martin Weiss), who can't fathom that her boyfriend wants a housewife, not an independent woman. more...
- Nov 12, 2004
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Agogo Eewo
This sly tale of political chicanery in Nigeria features a large, zestful, and elaborately costumed cast that frequently breaks into song and dance, turning the movie into a sort of Yoruban musical. more...
- Apr 28, 2006
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Akeelah and the Bee (PG)
Coming on the heels of Spellbound and Bee Season, this small gem (2006) about a South Central LA girl with a gift for spelling restores luster to the family genre. more...