SBS World Movies Highlights: 19 – 25 October | Movie News

• Audio Description (AD) available for Her and Shirley
  
• Closed Captions (CC) available for Her
  
• This week’s SBS World Movies channel premieres include The Marco Effect, Riders of Justice, True Story, Jumbo, Shirley, English Vinglish, The Warrior Queen Of Jhansi, Little Joe and Krew Boga (Sword of War)
  

 

WEDNESDAY 19 OCTOBER

The Guilty
7:30pm

M
Denmark, 2018
Genre: Drama, Crime, Thriller
Language: Danish
Director: Gustav Moller
Starring: Jakob Cedergren, Jessica Dinnage, Omar Shargawi, Johan Olsen
What’s it about?
Police officer Asger Holm (Cedergren), demoted to desk work as an alarm dispatcher, answers a call from a panicked woman who claims to have been kidnapped. Confined to the police station and with the phone as his only tool, Asger races against time to get help and find her.

The Marco Effect
9:05pm

MA15+
Denmark, Germany, 2021
Genre: Thriller, Crime
Language: Danish
Director: Martin Zandvliet
Starring: Ulrich Thomsen, Sofie Torp, Anders Matthesen, Zaki Youssef, Helle Pilar Larsen
What’s it about?
When 14-year-old Marco (Lubos Oláh), a homeless Romani boy, is arrested at the Danish border for possession of a missing public servant’s passport, police inspector Carl Morck (Thomsen) is tasked with finding the connection. However, the traumatised Marco refuses to talk and it’s not long before he’s on the run from those who intend to kill him because of what he knows.

 

THURSDAY 20 OCTOBER

The Spy
7:30pm

M
Norway, 2019
Genre: Thriller, Drama, History
Language: Norwegian, Swedish,  English, German
Director: Jens Jonsson
Starring: Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Rolf Lassgård, Damien Chapelle, Alexander Scheer, Erik Hivju
What’s it about?
Sonja Wigert (Berdal) is a diva and star in Stockholm when World War Two breaks out, and she quickly catches the attention of Nazi officer Josef Terboven (Scheer). Sonja is recruited by Swedish intelligence as a spy, but Terboven in turn makes her spy on the Swedes.

Hope
9:35pm

MA15+
Norway, Sweden, 2019
Genre: Drama
Language: Norwegian, Swedish
Director: Maria Sødahl
Starring: Andrea Bræin Hovig, Stellan Skarsgård, Elli Rhiannon Müller Osborne, Johannes Joner
What’s it about?
Anja (Hovig) is in the middle of an active career as a choreographer but gets a life-threatening cancer diagnosis on Christmas Eve. Together with her husband Tomas (Skarsgård), their three children, three stepchildren and their own father in a modern extended family – she is thrown into a turbulent Christmas week.

 

FRIDAY 21 OCTOBER

The Salvation
7:30pm

MA15+
Denmark, 2014
Genre: Drama, Western
Language: Danish
Director: Kristian Levring
Starring: Mads Mikkelsen, Eva Green, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Eric Cantona, Mikael Persbrandt
What’s it about?
Former Danish soldier Jon (Mikkelsen) lives in a wild frontier town in 1870s America. After being separated from his family for seven long years, his wife and son finally start making their way to him, but unfortunately they do not survive the journey. Devastated, Jon goes on a revenge killing spree after learning that his family was murdered.

Riders of Justice
9:15pm

MA15+
Denmark, Sweden, 2020
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Language: Danish
Director: Anders Thomas Jensen
Starring: Mads Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Lars Brygmann, Nicolas Bro, Andrea Heick Gadeberg
What’s it about?
Markus (Mikkelsen) returns home to care for his daughter when his wife dies in a tragic train accident. However, when a survivor of the wreck surfaces and claims foul play, Markus suspects his wife was murdered and embarks on a mission to find those responsible.

 

SATURDAY 22 OCTOBER

Memoria
5:00pm

PG
Colombia, Thailand, France, 2021
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Language: English, Spanish
Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Starring: Tilda Swinton, Agnes Brekke, Juan Pablo Urrego, Jeanne Balibar, Elkin Díaz
What’s it about?
A Scottish orchid farmer (Swinton) visiting her ill sister in Bogotá, Colombia, befriends a young musician (Urrego) and a French archaeologist (Balibar) in charge of monitoring a century-long construction project to tunnel through the Andes mountain range. Each night, she is bothered by increasingly loud bangs which prevent her from getting any sleep. From acclaimed Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives), and winner of the Jury Prize at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival.

True Story
7:30pm

M
USA, 2015
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Language: English
Director: Rupert Goold
Starring: Jonah Hill, James Franco, Felicity Jones, Maria Dizzia, Ethan Suplee, Robert John Burke
What’s it about?
Based on Michael Finkel’s chilling, real-life story. After a disgraced New York Times journalist (Hill) learns that Christian Longo (Franco), a man accused of murdering his family, claims to be him, he is intrigued and begins meeting with Longo. But as time goes on, Finkel begins to realise just how dangerous Longo really is.

Jumbo
9:25pm

MA15+
Belgium, France, Luxembourg, 2020
Genre: Fantasy, Romance, Drama, Comedy
Language: French
Director: Zoé Wittock
Starring: Noémie Merlant, Emmanuelle Bercot, Sam Louwyck, Bastien Bouillon, Tracy Dossou
What’s it about?
Jeanne (Portrait of a Lady on Fire‘s Noemie Merlant), a shy young woman, works as a night watchwoman in an amusement park and lives at home with her elderly mother. Her mother is desperate for her to meet a man, but Jeanne prefers to spend her time with the park’s newest attraction – Jumbo, the tilt-a-whirl ride.

Only the Animals
11:15pm

M
France, Germany, 2019
Genre: Drama, Crime
Language: French
Director: Dominik Moll
Starring: Laure Calamy, Denis Ménochet, Valeria Bruni‑Tedeschi, Damien Bonnard
What’s it about?
Following the disappearance of the glamorous and secretive Evelyne Ducat (Bruni Tedeschi) during a blizzard in the highlands of southern France, the lives of five people inextricably linked to Evelyne are brought together to devastating effect as the local police investigate the case. Written and directed by Dominik Moll (Harry He’s Here To Help, Lemming). 

 

SUNDAY 23 OCTOBER

Sun Children
4:40pm

PG
Iran, 2020
Genre: Drama
Language: Persian
Director: Majid Majidi
Starring: Roohollah Zamani, Ali Nasirian, Javad Ezzati, Tannaz Tabatabaei
What’s it about?
The story of 12-year-old Ali (Zamani) and his three friends. Together they work hard to survive and support their families, doing small jobs in a garage and committing petty crimes to make fast money. In a turn of events that seems miraculous, Ali is entrusted to find hidden treasure underground. Directed by Majid Majihi (Children of Heaven, The Colour of Paradise).

Coco Avant Chanel
6:25pm

PG
France, Belgium, 2009
Genre: Drama, History
Language: French, English
Director: Anne Fontaine
Starring: Audrey Tautou, Alessandro Nivola, Emmanuelle Devos, Marie Gillain, Benoit Poelvoorde
What’s it about?
Several years after leaving the orphanage, to which her father never returned for her, Gabrielle Chanel (Tautou) finds herself working in a provincial bar both. She’s both a seamstress for the performers and a singer, earning the nickname Coco from the song she sings nightly with her sister. A liaison with Baron Balsan (Poelvoorde) grants her entry into French society and a chance to develop her gift for designing.

Shirley
8:30pm

M, AD
USA, 2020
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Language: English
Director: Josephine Decker
Starring: Elisabeth Moss, Odessa Young, Michael Stuhlbarg, Logan Lerman, Victoria Pedretti
What’s it about?
Renowned horror writer Shirley Jackson (Moss) is on the precipice of writing her 1951 masterpiece Hangsaman, when the arrival of newlyweds (Young, Lerman) upends her meticulous routine and heightens tensions in her already tempestuous relationship with her philandering husband (Stuhlbarg). Directed by Josephine Decker  Directed by Josephine Decker (Madeline’s Madeline) and executively produced by Martin Scorsese.

Her
10:30pm

MA15+, AD, CC
USA, 2013
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Language: English
Director: Spike Jonze
Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Scarlett Johansson (voice), Amy Adams, Olivia Wilde, Rooney Mara
What’s it about?
In future Los Angeles, Theodore (Phoenix) is a lonely man who has had his heart broken. He uses his savings to invest in a personalised computer operating system called Samantha (voiced by Johansson), who is designed to meet his every requirement. Theodore and Samantha have a fulfilling life together, serving each others needs but over time, their relationship develops and deepens, becoming more complicated that anyone could have predicted. Winner of the 2014 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.

 

MONDAY 24 OCTOBER

English Vinglish
7:05pm

PG
India, 2012
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Language: Hindi
Director: Gauri Shinde
Starring: Sridevi, Adil Hussain, Mehdi Nebbou, Priya Anand, Navika Kotia, Shivansh Kotia
What’s it about?
A quiet, sweet-tempered housewife (Sridevi), living in New York, endures regular slights from her well-educated family because of her inability to speak and understand English. One day, on a trip to visit her sister in Manhattan, she decides to enrol in an English Learners class.

The Warrior Queen of Jhansi
9:30pm

MA15+
India, UK, 2019
Genre: Drama, History
Language: English, Hindi
Director: Swati Bhise
Starring: Devika Bhise, Rupert Everett, Nathaniel Parker, Ben Lamb, Jodhi May, Derek Jacobi
What’s it about?
The story of Rani Lakshmibai (Bhise), the historic Queen of Jhansi who fiercely led her army against the British East India Company in the infamous mutiny of 1857. Her insurrection set in motion the demise of the British East India Company and the beginning of the resistance against the ensuing British Raj under Queen Victoria.

 

TUESDAY 25 OCTOBER

Little Joe
7:30pm

MA15+
Austria, Germany, UK, 2019
Genre: Drama, Science Fiction
Language: English
Director: Jessica Hausner
Starring: Emily Beecham, Ben Whishaw, Kerry Fox, Kit Connor, David Wilmot, Phénix Brossard
What’s it about?
Alice (Beecham), a single mother, works as a senior plant breeder at a corporation engaged in developing new species. Against company policy, she secretly takes one home as a gift for her teenage son, Joe (Connor). They christen it ‘Little Joe’ but as it grows, so too does Alice’s suspicion that her new creations may not be as harmless as their nickname suggests. Directed by Jessica Hausner (Lourdes, L’amour Fou).

Krew Boga [Sword of God]
9:30pm

MA15+
Belgium, Poland, 2020
Genre: History, Horror, Mystery, Drama
Language: Polish
Director: Bartosz Konopka
Starring: Krzysztof Pieczyński, Jacek Koman, Karol Bernacki, Wiktoria Gorodeckaja
What’s it about?
Two men in the early Middle Ages come to a pagan land: one to bring Christianity, the other to find his way of living. They choose two different ways of reaching the pagans. In the fight between dialogue and force, one of them will die.