, 1h25 Directed byLenny Abrahamson GenresDrama, Comedy, Comedy-drama ThemesMedical-themed films, Films about drugs ActorsTom Murphy, Ion Caramitru, Michael McElhatton Rating70% Adam and Paul are childhood friends who as adults have withered into two hopeless, desperate addicts, tied together by habit and necessity. The film is a stylised, downbeat comedy, following the pair through a single day, which, like every other, is devoted to scrounging and robbing money to buy heroin.
, 2h15 Directed byCosta-Gavras OriginGerman GenresDrama, Historical ThemesFilms about religion, Théâtre, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism, Films based on plays ActorsUlrich Tukur, Mathieu Kassovitz, Ion Caramitru, Michel Duchaussoy, Ulrich Mühe, Marcel Iureș Rating71% The film Amen. examines the links between the Vatican and Nazi Germany. The central character is Kurt Gerstein (Ulrich Tukur), a Waffen-SS officer employed in the SS Hygiene Institute, designing programs for the purification of water and the destruction of vermin. He is shocked to learn that the process he has developed to eradicate typhus, by using a hydrogen cyanide mixture called Zyklon B, is now being used for killing Jews in extermination camps. Gerstein attempts to notify Pope Pius XII (Marcel Iureş) about the gassings, but is appalled by the lack of response he gets from the Catholic hierarchy. The only person moved is Riccardo Fontana (Mathieu Kassovitz), a young Jesuit priest. Fontana and Gerstein attempt to raise awareness about what is happening to the Jews in Europe but even after Fontana appealing to the pope himself, the Vatican makes only a timid and vague condemnation of Hitler and Nazi Germany.
, 30minutes OriginRoumanie ActorsMircea Albulescu, Dan Condurache, Rona Hartner Rating77% The movie is the one-day story of a famous writer, touched with paralysis, whose faith cannot help him overcome his frustrations, and mostly the jealousy aroused by a woman too young and beautiful to be his wife.
, 1h42 Directed byNicolas Roeg OriginUnited-kingdom GenresDrama, War ActorsMichael Gambon, Sônia Braga, Patrick Malahide, Ion Caramitru, John Shrapnel, Nickolas Grace Rating63% On the eve of a revolution in an East European country, Dr. Daniel Pavenic (Gambon) sits down to dinner with some friends and discusses his past and his obsession with a former house servant. His shocking honesty eventually leads to his guests also disclosing some of their own secrets.