Velvet Film Popular Movie

26 year-old Karl Marx embarks with his wife, Jenny, on the road to exile. In 1844 in Paris, he meets Friedrich Engels, an industrialist’s son,...

genus: History

cast: August Diehl

Working from the text of James Baldwin’s unfinished final novel, director Raoul Peck creates a meditation on what it means to be Black in the...

genus: Documentary

cast: Samuel L. Jackson

Two brothers are divided by marriage and fate during the 100 horrifying days of the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

genus: Drama

cast: Idris Elba

The story of the Reels family who are valiantly attempting to protect the land their family bought one generation after slavery. This documentary,...

genus: Documentary

cast: Mamie Reels Ellison

More than 60,000 of Ernest Cole’s 35mm film negatives were inexplicably discovered in a bank vault in Stockholm, Sweden. Most considered these...

genus: Documentary

cast: LaKeith Stanfield

Documentary about African political leader Patrice Lumumba, who was Prime Minister of Zaire (now Congo) when he was assassinated in 1961.

genus: Documentary

cast: Patrice Lumumba

The true story of the rise to power and brutal assassination of the formerly vilified and later redeemed leader of the independent Congo, Patrice...

genus: Drama

cast: Ériq Ebouaney

In the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake, a middle-aged Port-au-Prince couple come face to face with the stark contradictions of Haitian society when...

genus: Drama

cast: Alex Descas

Definitive feature-length documentary on visionary author George Orwell.

genus: Documentary

cast:

A road trip, over ten years, across the so-called Amexican border, a mythical boundary, both physical and cultural, that separates the United States...

genus: Documentary

cast: Raymond Daukei

Haitian born filmmaker Raoul Peck takes us on a 2-year journey inside the challenging, contradictory and colossal rebuilding efforts in...

genus: Documentary

cast:

Early 1960s Haiti during 'Papa Doc' Duvalier's dictatorship seen through the eyes of a young girl whose family has suffered heavily.

genus: Drama

cast: Jennifer Zubar

In a fortress on a hill in Haiti a democratically elected president prepares himself for a state ceremony. On the day of the festivities the...

genus: Comedy

cast: Zinedine Soualem