Lorber Films

Film Socialisme

Legendary director Jean-Luc Godard returns to the screen with Film Socialisme, a magisterial essay on the decline of European Civilization. As a garish cruise ship travels the Mediterranean (with Patti Smith among its guests), Godard embarks on a state of the EU address in a vibrant collage of philosophical quotes, historical revelations and pure cinematographic beauty.

United Red Army

Koji Wakamatsu’s epic docudrama explores the political unrest of 1960s Japan, when mass student uprisings coincided with the beginnings of the far-left United Red Army group, which tortured and murdered its “deviant” members during a 1972 training session.

Caterpillar

During the Second Sino-Japanese War, a village woman is given the grueling task of looking after (and fulfilling the sexual needs of) her quadruple-amputee husband, a decorated solider tortured by memories of his war crimes.

Tuesday After Christmas

In the days leading up to Christmas, a married man forces himself to choose between his wife and his mistress.

Rapt

Lucas Belvaux’s edge-of-your-seat thriller — inspired by the 1978 kidnapping of French industrialist Edouard-Jean Empain — features a career-defining performance by Yvan Attal(Munich, My Wife Is an Actress) as a millionaire playboy who is abducted and held for ransom for 60 days.

Korkoro

During the Second World War, a Gypsy family travels the roads of France before learning that the Vichy regime no longer gives them the right to travel freely.

Lorber Films is a New York-based theatrical distributor and DVD label dedicated to the best in recent and classic world cinema and independent documentaries. We curate the distribution of high quality, critically-acclaimed films to discerning audiences – delivering the classics of yesterday and tomorrow.
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