2022 Movies : True Story

With Ansel Elgort • Ken Watanabe • John Lesher • Anthony Mandler • J.T. Rogers • Rachel Keller

A writer for a Tokyo-based newspaper is assigned to cover Tadamasa Goto, one of the highest ranking figures in the Yakuza, the Japanese mafia.

With Mel Gibson • Mark Wahlberg • Stephen Levinson • Rosalind Ross • Jacki Weaver • Miky Lee • Colleen Camp • Teresa Ruiz • Jordan Foss • Patrick Peach • Tony Grazia

Based on a true story, Father Stu is an unflinchingly honest, funny and ultimately uplifting drama about a lost soul who finds his purpose in a most unexpected place. When an injury ends his amateur boxing career, Stuart Long moves to L.A. dreaming of stardom. While scraping by as a supermarket clerk, he meets Carmen, a Catholic Sunday school teacher who seems immune to his bad-boy charm. Determined to win her over, the longtime agnostic starts going to church to impress her. But surviving a terrible motorcycle accident leaves him wondering if he can use his second chance to help others find their way, leading to the surprising realization that he is meant to be a Catholic priest. Stu pursues his vocation with courage and compassion, inspiring not only those closest to him but countless others along the way.

With Keira Knightley • Sam Claflin • Brenda Blethyn • Jim Broadbent • Mark Strong • Eddie Marsan • Sophie Okonedo • Helen McCrory • Henry Czerny • Eric Warin • Tahir Rana

CHARLOTTE is an animated drama that tells the true story of Charlotte Salomon, a young German-Jewish painter who comes of age in Berlin on the eve of the Second World War. Fiercely imaginative and deeply gifted, she dreams of becoming an artist. Her first love applauds her talent, which emboldens her resolve. But the world around her is changing quickly and dangerously, limiting her options and derailing her dream. When anti-Semitic policies inspire violent mobs, she leaves Berlin for the safety of the South of France. There she begins to paint again, and finds new love. But her work is interrupted, this time by a family tragedy that reveals an even darker secret. Believing that only the extraordinary will save her, she embarks on the monumental adventure of painting her life story.

With Jim Broadbent • Helen Mirren • Roger Michell • Matthew Goode • Fionn Whitehead • Richard Bean • Nicholas Martin • Nicky Bentham • Charlotte Spencer • Anna Maxwell Martin • Sian Clifford • Clive Coleman

Set in 1961 when Kempton Bunton, a 60-year old taxi driver, stole Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. It was the first (and remains the only) theft in the Gallery’s history. Kempton sent ransom notes saying that he would return the painting on condition that the government agreed to provide television for free to the elderly. What happened next became the stuff of legend. Only 50 years later did the full story emerge – a startling revelation of how a good man set out to change the world and in so doing saved his son and his marriage.