Isaach de Bankolé
13 titles
Filmography
13 results

The Limits of Control
(2009)HD. A well-traveled espresso-drinker makes his way around Spain for a peculiar job in this Jim Jarmusch film.

Mirage
(2014)Un futbolista africano que huye encuentra refugio en una granja remota, pero pronto se da cuenta de que la granja es un campamento de esclavos.

Manderlay
(2005)A difficult yet rewarding film from the equally complex Danish provocateur Lars von Trier! This fiercely polemical, little-seen sequel to Dogville tackles a topic as sensitive as slavery, all the while maintaining its predecessor’s Brechtian premise, anti-American bent, and yes, its brilliance.

The Guitar
(2008)
I Am Slave
(2010)I Am Slave reveals the shocking truth that if you're living in London today, you could be living next door to a slave. Having been kidnapped as a child and taken away from the Nuba Mountains in Sudan, young Malia finds herself being sent to London as a teenager, and made to work with no wages and no freedom in a house where they control her every move. She doesn't speak the language, her passport is taken away, and her fear of the dangerous streets of the city outside, and repeated threats to her and her family back home keep her imprisoned. When she realises she is at the mercy of the men of the house, and seeing what her future will be there, Malia takes refuge in her memories of her father, the champion wrestler of her village, which gives her the courage to attempt a daring escape to save her life - and to be able to tell the world about the slaves of London today. Despite her years of slavery, Malia is kept alive by her indomitable courage and a father's uncrushable love. An ultimately uplifting film about the triumph of the human spirit and the unbreakable bond between parent and child, I Am Slave explores Malia's extraordinary journey from slavery to freedom.

Black Is Beltza
(2018)A young Basque man is radicalized in 1960s America after being forbidden from participating in a parade on racial grounds.

Cherry
(1999)10 years after being left at the alter and swearing men off forever, a young woman decides she'd like to have a child.

White Material
(2010)Isabelle Huppert plays a plantation owner clinging to her land as civil war creeps ever closer, in Claire Denis' memserising rumination on the effects of colonialism.

Night on Earth
(1991)LA, New York, Paris, Rome, and Helsinki are the stage for encounters between cabbies and their fares in this 1991 Jim Jarmusch comedy.

Calvary
(2014)A good man intent on making the world a better place, Father James (Brendan Gleeson), is continually shocked and saddened by the spiteful and confrontational inhabitants of his small country town. One day his life is threatened during confession.

The Brutalist
(2024)A Jewish Hungarian architect flees to the US from postwar Europe and attracts the attention of an industrialist who enlists him for an ambitious project.

The People We Hate at the Wedding
(2022)In this hilariously raunchy comedy, dysfunctional American siblings Alice (Kristen Bell) and Paul (Ben Platt) along with their ever-optimistic mom (Allison Janney), are invited to the British wedding of their estranged half-sister Eloise (Cynthia Addai-Robinson) as a chance for them to reconnect as – more or less – adults, and learn to love each other like they once did

A Violent Man
(2019)A struggling mixed martial arts fighter finds himself in a fight for his life after his one night stand is found dead in her home.