Farhad Safinia has 3 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2010s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Apocalypto.
Set in the Mayan civilization, when a man's idyllic presence is brutally disrupted by a violent invading force, he is taken on a perilous journey to a world ruled by fear and oppression where a harrowing end awaits him. Through a twist of fate and spurred by the power of his love for his woman and his family he will make a desperate break to return home and to ultimately save his way of life.
Dir. Mel Gibson · With Rudy Youngblood, Raoul Max Trujillo, Gerardo Taracena
Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the mid 19th century, and receives over 10,000 entries from a patient at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Dr. William Minor.
Dir. Farhad Safinia · With Mel Gibson, Sean Penn, Natalie Dormer
Mayor Tom Kane sits like a spider at the center of Chicago's web of power; a web built on a covenant with the people. They want to be led, they want disputes settled, jobs dispensed, and loyalties rewarded. If he achieves all this through deception and immorality, so be it. As long as he gets the job done, they look the other way. Yet despite being the most effective mayor in recent history, a degenerative brain disorder is ripping everything away from him. He can't trust his memory, his closest allies, or even himself.
Dir. Farhad Safinia · With Kelsey Grammer, Connie Nielsen, Hannah Ware
