After the Matinee

Whitebox

January 2023 •Portuguese

The War of the Roses

December 1989 •English

The Roses, Barbara and Oliver, live happily as a married couple. Then she starts to wonder what life would be like without Oliver, and likes what she sees. Both want to stay in the house, and so they begin a campaign to force each other to leave. In the middle of the fighting is D'Amato, the divorce lawyer. He gets to see how far both will go to get rid of the other, and boy do they go far.

Rope

March 1948 •English

Two friends attempt to prove they committed the perfect murder by hosting a dinner for the family of a classmate they strangled to death.

The Argument

September 2020 •English

A couple get into an argument at their cocktail party that escalates until it brings an abrupt end to the festivities. They and their guests decide to re-create the entire night again and again to determine who was right.

This Closeness

June 2024 •English

In Philadelphia for the weekend, Tessa and Ben, a couple on the rocks, rent a room in the apartment of Adam, a reclusive stranger who quickly becomes an unwilling voyeur to the most private parts of the couple’s life. Tensions rise as the three enter an intimate battle to gain and reclaim territory.

Local Hero

February 1983 •English

An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected.

In Paradise

Invalid date •English

While fleeing from an apocalyptic mist, Ana and Adam are forced to confront an eternal dilemma: to keep running or to cherish what's left.

Watership Down

October 1978 •English

When the warren belonging to a community of rabbits is threatened, a brave group led by Fiver, Bigwig, Blackberry and Hazel leave their homeland in a search of a safe new haven.

Ridicule

May 1996 •French

To get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicate games of wit at court at Versailles.

Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter

November 2014 •English

Frustrated with her mundane life, a Tokyo office worker becomes obsessed with a fictional movie that she mistakes for a documentary. Fixating on a scene where stolen cash is buried in North Dakota, she travels to America to find it.

Water Drops on Burning Rocks

March 2000 •French

In 1970s Germany, Léopold, a 50-year-old businessman, picks up and seduces 20-year-old Franz, who swiftly moves into his apartment. The dynamic between them intensifies with the sudden arrival of their ex-girlfriends.

12 Angry Men

August 1997 •English

During the trial of a man accused of his father's murder, a lone juror takes a stand against the guilty verdict handed down by the others as a result of their preconceptions and prejudices.

The Big Kahuna

November 1999 •English

Three salesmen working for a firm that makes industrial lubricants are waiting in the company's "hospitality suite" at a manufacturers' convention for a "big kahuna" named Dick Fuller to show up, in hopes they can persuade him to place an order that could salvage the company's flagging sales.

Argumento

December 2020 •Spanish

A heated argument breaks out when Carlos finds out his longtime girlfriend Maria is pregnant.

White Mane

March 1953 •French

In the south of France, in a vast plain region called the Camargue, lives White Mane, a magnificent stallion and the leader of a herd of wild horses too proud to let themselves be broken by humans. Only Folco, a young fisherman, manages to tame him. A strong friendship grows between the boy and the horse, as the two go looking for the freedom that the world of men won’t allow them.

Their Eyes Were Watching God

March 2005 •English

A drama set in the 1920s, where free-spirited Janie Crawford's search for happiness leads her through several different marriages, challenging the morals of her small town. Based on the novel by Zora Neale Hurston.

Mass

October 2021 •English

Two couples meet for a painful and raw conversation in the aftermath of a violent tragedy.

Ten

May 2002 •Persian

A visual social examination in the form of ten conversations between a driving woman and her various pick-ups and hitchhikers.

Miss Potter

December 2006 •English

Beatrix Potter, the author of the beloved children's book "The Tale of Peter Rabbit", struggles for love, happiness and success.

Bad is Bad

August 2011 •English

A locally loved suburban family man has to pay for the worst thing he's ever done when two mysterious young criminals break into his home.