Vincent Gallo is an American actor, director, model, writer, painter, musician, and former motorcyclist. He is best known for his role as ‘Mohammed’ in the film ‘Essential Killing’ (2010), for which he won a ‘Volpi Cup’ for ‘Best Actor’ at the ‘67th Venice International Film Festival.’ Interestingly, he won the award for a role that didn’t have a single dialogue in the film. He made his film debut in ‘Downtown 81 (1981). He is also known for films such as ‘The Perez Family’ (1995), ‘Nenette and Boni’ (1996), ‘Buffalo 66’ (1998), ‘L.A. Without a Map’ (1998), ‘Tetro’ (2009), ‘Loosies’ (2011), ‘Oliviero Rising’ (2007), and ‘The Legend of Kaspar Hauser' (2012). Some of his unsuccessful films are ‘Stranded’ (2011), ‘The Brown Bunny’ (2003), ‘Moscow Zero’ (2006), and ‘Human Trust’ (2013). He also wrote and directed films, such as ‘Buffalo 66’ (1998), ‘The Brown Bunny’ (2003), and ‘Promises Written in Water’ (2010).
Deemed ‘one of the greatest films ever made’ and winner of numerous awards, Goodfellas is a crime movie adapted from the 1985 non-fiction book Wiseguy by crime reporter Nicholas Pileggi. The film follows the rise and fall of the real life American mobster Henry Hill who eventually became an informant.
After serving a 5-year prison sentence, Billy Brown has to meet his parents, to whom he has lied that he is a married man working out of town. Desperate, he kidnaps a young tap dancer, Layla, and forces her to pretend to be his wife. Though Billy is trying to use her for his plans, Layla truly falls in love with him.
A young New Yorker, who works at the fish counter at the city’s harbor, is a dreamer. Coaxed by his cousin, he travels to Arizona to attend his uncle’s wedding. There he meets a strange woman, who dreams of building a flying machine and her quirky stepdaughter, who dreams of being incarnated as a turtle. The three soon bond up.
Based on a novel of the same name, this drama film is set during the military dictatorship in Chile. It revolves around the life of a young woman named Clara, and her husband Esteban Trueba and his political career.
Tetro is a drama film which tells the story of Bennie, a young boy, who arrives in Argentina to search for his estranged brother. After meeting Tetro, his brother, he finds that he is not the same person, but he has become a self-destructive soul and has also abandoned his writing career. Bennie thinks of secretly completing one of his brother’s plays, and submitting it, hoping to win a literary prize.
Despite constant pleading from their wives, two criminals named Chaz and Rey Tempio, decide to set out on a bloody revenge mission to punish the person who killed their brother.
Raymond is a small-time conman, who takes the blame of a crime to save his boss, Tony, a drug lord. However, he is infuriated upon his release, when Tony shows his appreciation by giving him a menial job. Therefore, he decides to take revenge by stealing drugs worth millions. The plan is successful and he plans to cross the border into Mexico, but he suspects that the DEA might be in pursuit.
Loosies is a romantic comedy drama film which tells the story of Bobby Corelli, a young pickpocket in New York, who is enjoying a carefree life until he is one day confronted by a woman named Lucy, with whom he had a one night stand some time back. She tells him that she is pregnant with his child, and tells him to take responsibility for it.
Essential Killing is a war thriller film which tells the story of a Taliban member living in Afghanistan, who is taken captive by the American forces, after he kills one of their soldiers and two contractors. Eventually, he is transferred to Europe for interrogation, but somehow he manages to escape his captors. Now, he is lost in a continent he knows nothing about.
Bud Clay is a motorcycle racer who is on a road trip to California, to participate in a race. On the way, he meets three women, but he is unable to form any emotional connection with any of them, since he is haunted by memories of his former lover Daisy.
Metropia is an animated science fiction film which takes us to a future, where there is a huge underground network beneath Europe. A man named Roger chooses to avoid the underground as he finds it disturbing. One day, he learns that Trexx, the company running the rail network in Europe is actually controlling the minds of the people using their shampoo.
