American Fiction

Mahjong

1996 · ★ 7.6

Amid a rapidly changing cityscape, the lives of a disparate group of swindlers, hustlers, gangsters, and expats collide, with a naive French teenager and a sensitive young local who tries to protect her caught dangerously in the middle.

Fever

2025

Constantly interrupted by the ringing of a telephone, a man is desperate to poke his eye out. Can he succeed?

Born This Way

Follows Supernova, a young Christian, and the backlash they face after coming out to their church as LGBTQ+. Loosely based on director Tatiana Navarrette’s own experiences.

Is It Just Me?

2010 · ★ 5.6

A socially shunned columnist finds his romantic match online, but messaging under the wrong account causes his sleazy roommate’s picture to be forwarded, creating an identity mix-up.

Muriel, or the Time of Return

1963 · ★ 6.9

In the seacoast town of Boulogne, antique furniture saleswoman Hélène lives with her stepson, Bernard, who's back from military duty in Algiers. An old lover of Hélène's comes to visit, Alphonse, with his niece Françoise; he too is back from Algiers, where he ran a café. Bernard speaks of his fiancée, Muriel, whom Hélène has not met. The past is obscured by guilt, misperceptions, and missed possibilities. Appearances deceive, things change. As Hélène and Alphonse try to sort out a renewal, everyone seems off-kilter just enough to hint that all cannot end well.

Swiped

2025 · ★ 6.6

Whitney Wolfe uses extraordinary grit and ingenuity to break into the male-dominated tech industry.

Tracey Breaks the News

2017 · ★ 8.2

Tracey Ullman and her cast of characters react to the outcome of the 2017 British election.

Holy Shoes

2024 · ★ 6.5

The film tells, through the stories of four characters whose lives, in different forms and manners, are either changed or endangered by shoes, an object symbolizing desire par excellence, what we are willing to do to find our identity in the world, how far we go to be loved and accepted. It narrates a world where everyone desires what they don't have, where everyone wants to be what they are not.

Key of Keys

1965 · ★ 6.8

Intelligence director Suritai asks agent Kitami to steal money from anti-government guerrillas.

Beautiful Stranger

2021 · ★ 1

Romain, in his thirties, has just been dumped by his boyfriend. Lonely and romantic, he tries a dating app and will make two surprising encounters in a two-star hotel.

Misunderstood

1983 · ★ 6.5

A workaholic father becomes sole parent to his two young sons, and finds it hard to relate to them, consumed as he is with his own grief.

Starting Over

1979 · ★ 6.4

After divorcing his ambitious singer wife, a middle-aged man begins a new relationship with a teacher.