Genre: Drama – 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.

Zatoichi

Zatoichi is a blind traveller who makes his living as a gambler and masseur.

City of God

This is the film that made director, Fernando Meirelles (more recent work includes “The Constant Gardener”) internationally famous.

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.

Reconstruction

Its a mystery why Alex suddenly leaves the devoted Simone to follow a beautiful woman into the Copenhagen night.

Three Colours: Blue

Three Colours Blue is the first part of Kieslowski’s trilogy examining the meaning to contemporary French society of the concepts behind the three national colours blue, white, and red.

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.

All About My Mother

Esteban, an aspiring young writer, runs to get the autograph of an actress, with tragic results.