The Secrets We Keep

Mystic River

October 2003 •English

The lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them suffers a family tragedy.

Desire Me

October 1947 •English

A war widow falls in love with the man who informed her of her husband's death.

Stromboli

February 1950 •Italian

After the end of WWII, a young Lithuanian woman and a young Italian man from Stromboli impulsively marry, but married life on the island is more demanding than she can accept.

Akce Býčí oko

July 1976 •Czech

The Hessen Affair

January 2009 •English

In 1945 a group of victorious American officers discover a stash of German jewels and try to fence them in New York.

Lady Vengeance

July 2005 •Korean

Released after being wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for 13 years, a woman begins executing her elaborate plan of retribution.

Krótkie życie

June 1976 •Polish

Mortenol

October 2019 •French

Ashes and Diamonds

October 1958 •Polish

A young academy soldier, Maciek Chelmicki, is ordered to shoot the secretary of the KW PPR. A coincidence causes him to kill someone else. Meeting face to face with his victim, he gets a shock. He faces the necessity of repeating the assassination. He meets Krystyna, a girl working as a barmaid in the restaurant of the "Monopol" hotel. His affection for her makes him even more aware of the senselessness of killing at the end of the war. Loyalty to the oath he took, and thus the obligation to obey the order, tips the scales.

Vengeance

November 2023 •English

A former bandit goes back to his old ways to hunt his brother's killer after he was killed in cold blood, and after twelve years, he is eventually located.

De Gaulle, le géant aux pieds d'argile

June 2012 •French

The Perfect Wife

May 2001 •English

When Leah's brother dies in a car accident, she vows revenge on the doc who failed to save him.

The Third Man

August 1949 •English

In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime, only to learn he has died. Martins develops a conspiracy theory after learning of a "third man" present at the time of Harry's death, running into interference from British officer Major Calloway, and falling head-over-heels for Harry's grief-stricken lover, Anna.

Two Graves

June 2018 •English

Margaret Powers—a middle aged, middle class doctor of pathology—seeks a path of vengeance when she captures and tortures the young man she believes murdered her son, but in a bid to extract a confession, that path to vengeance leads to tragedy and unearths deeply troubling truths.

Shoeshine

April 1946 •Italian

At a track near Rome, shoeshine boys are watching horses run. Two of the boys Pasquale, an orphan, and Giuseppe, his younger friend are riding. The pair have been saving to buy a horse of their own to ride...

Jacquou the Rebel

January 2007 •French

In 1815, young Jacquou lives an idyllic peasant life with his parents in the Périgord region of France. But one day, his childhood happiness is cruelly ended when his father is arrested, after a dispute with the arrogant Count de Nansac. With both his parents dead, Jacquou is adopted by Bonal, a kind priest, under whose influence he grows into an assured, morally upright young man. Now an adult, Jacquou has one desire. To repay the Count de Nansac for the evil he once inflicted on his parents...

Janovi lidé

November 1977 •Czech

Sleep Sweet, My Darling

July 2005 •Croatian

"Sleep Sweet, My Darling" shows a bittersweet coming of age of Tomica Skrinjar, starting at the tail end of World War II in 1945.

The Resistance Fighter

March 2019 •Polish

Film about the lead up to the Polish uprising against German occupation at the end of the Second World War.

New York, New York

June 1977 •English

An egotistical saxophone player and a young singer meet on V-J Day and embark upon a strained and rocky romance, even as their careers begin a long uphill climb.