Derek Cianfrance

Cagefighter

Derek Cianfrance

Urijah Faber, Brian Bowles

Impressionistic documentary that follows the intersecting lives of a group of mixed martial arts fighters before, during and after a Las Vegas title fight. The film humanizes the brutal profession and illuminates the primal struggle for survival in a cold, emotionless, post-industrial America.

Brother Tied

Derek Cianfrance

Christina Chang, Gary Cianfrance

When Cal's brother Aaron forms a disliking towards Cal's new friend, suddenly they find their fraternal connection fading away which poses a big problem for them both.

Blue Valentine

Derek Cianfrance

Райан Гослинг, Michelle Williams

Dean and Cindy live a quiet life in a modest neighborhood. They appear to have the world at their feet at the outset of the relationship. However, his lack of ambition and her retreat into self-absorption cause potentially irreversible cracks in their marriage.

The Place Beyond the Pines

Derek Cianfrance

Райан Гослинг, Eva Mendes

A motorcycle stunt rider considers committing a crime in order to provide for his wife and child, an act that puts him on a collision course with a cop-turned-politician.

The Light Between Oceans

Derek Cianfrance

Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander

A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from an adrift rowboat.

Lately There Have Been Many Misunderstandings in the Zimmerman Home

Derek Cianfrance

Allan Greenberg, Kira Sternbach

A comedy in which the Zimmerman family stop feuding, briefly.

Bonnie

Simon Wallon

Bonnie Timmermann, Liam Neeson

A portrait of casting director Bonnie Timmermann.

Empire of the Summer Moon

Derek Cianfrance

Two epic stories of an incredible saga. In 1836, Cynthia Ann Parker, a lovely nine-year-old girl with cornflower-blue eyes, gets kidnapped by Comanches from the far Texas frontier. She then grows to love her captors and becomes infamous as the "White Squaw", a pioneer woman who refused to return until her tragic capture by Texas Rangers in 1860. Her mixed-blood son, Quanah, succeeds her and becomes the last and greatest chief of the Comanches. Their legacy is wrapped around the rise, and ultimately, the fall of the most powerful Indian tribe in American history, battling a war spanning four decades, holding up the development of the new American nation. In a beautiful tale encompassing Spanish colonialism, the Civil War, the destruction of the buffalo herds, and the arrival of the railroads, is the war of the Comanches.

Towheads

Shannon Plumb

Shannon Plumb, Derek Cianfrance

A Brooklyn mother finds comic relief from domestic drudgery by inhabiting the world in guises—drag king, pole dancer, Santa Claus—managing to find moments of grace even on thankless days.

Sudden Death

Derek Cianfrance

Video based on the feelings of angst director Derek Cianfrance carried throughout his youth while growing up in the shadow of a looming, forbidding thermonuclear war.