The Vertical Ray of the Sun (2000)

Summary: With the brilliant Vietnamese summer as a setting Vertical Ray of the Sun is beautiful from beginning to end. The plot centres around three sisters, two of whom are happily married (or so it appears). The youngest sister is single...

Release Date: May 24, 2000

Genre: Drama

Director: Anh Hung Tran

Writer: Anh Hung Tran

Runtime: 1 h 52 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Arte France Cinéma, Canal+, Lazennec Films, Le Studio Canal+, Vietnam Feature Film Studio, ZDF/Arte, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF), Le Studio Canal+

Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics

Countries: Vietnam, France, Germany

Language: Vietnamese

Domestic: $ 110,134

International: $ 91,536

Journey to the Sun (1999)

Summary: Mehmet, a young Turkish man newly migrated from the village Tire, takes a job searching for water leaks below the surface of the streets of Istanbul. Due to a strange set of events, he is mistaken for a Kurd, imprisoned, and bruta...

Release Date: February 09, 2001

Genre: Drama

Director: Yesim Ustaoglu

Writer: Yesim Ustaoglu

Runtime: 1 h 44 min

Production: Celluloid Dreams, Istisnai Filmler ve Reklamlar (IFR), Medias Res Filmproduktion, Celluloid Dreams, The Film Company, ZDF/Arte

Distributor: Cinema Village Features, Facets Multimedia Distribution

Countries: Turkey, Netherlands, Germany

Language: Turkish

Domestic: $ 4,391

The Idiots (1998)

Summary: The group of people gather at the house in Copenhagen suburb to break all the limitations and to bring out the "inner idiot" in themselves.

Release Date: May 20, 1998

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Lars von Trier

Writer: Lars von Trier

Runtime: 1 h 57 min

Production: Zentropa Entertainments, Danmarks Radio (DR), Liberator Productions, Vrijzinnig Protestantse Radio Omroep (VPRO), ZDF/Arte, Nordisk Film & TV-Fond, CoBo Fonds, SVT Drama, Canal+, Rai Cinemafiction, 3 Emme Cinematografica

Distributor: USA Films

Countries: Denmark, France, Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Italy

Language: Danish

Movie budget: $ 2,500,000

The Celluloid Closet (1995)

Summary: A documentary surveying the various Hollywood screen depictions of homosexuals and the attitudes behind them throughout the history of North American film.

Release Date: March 15, 1996

Genres: Documentary, History

Directors: Rob Epstein