Country: USA – Wimbledon Film Club

Donnie Darko

It’s the run up to the 1988 presidential election in the States and troubled teenager, Donnie (Jake Gyllenhaal) is plagued by visions of a giant evil rabbit predicting the end of the world.

Convict Harry Powell, (Robert Mitchum), learns from a cellmate facing execution, of a stash of loot hidden at his family home. On his release Powell poses as a preacher and inveigles himself into the man’s home. Marriage and murder follow.

The Motorcycle Diaries

The film recounts the 1952 expedition, partly by motorcycle, across South America by Ernesto Guevara, later known as the revolutionary leader Ché, and his friend Alberto Granado.

Angels and Insects

The film, Angels and Insects, was adapted for the screen from Booker prize-winning author AS Byatt’s Morpho Eugenia, one of the two novellas in her book Angels and Insects.

Mullholland Drive

A woman regains consciousness after a car crash in Mulholland Drive on the outskirts of LA.

Holes

Stanley is dogged by the family curse and blamed for a crime he didn’t commit.

Key Largo

Frank McCloud (Bogart) visits the family of a GI friend killed in the war and finds they have been taken hostage by gangster on the run, Rocco (Edward G.

The Shining

Aspiring writer, Torrance (Nicholson), takes a job as a winter caretaker at the isolated, snowbound Overlook Hotel to create space in his life for a writing project.

Hustle and Flow

Not just another story of urban tough guys, but a fresh take on music movies and widely hailed as a modern day On the Waterfront or Rocky.

Breaking Away

Its the 1970s and Bloomington, Indiana is a campus community with town-and-gown tensions.