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A young father takes his son on a journey away from Buenos Aires and through the strange and wondrous world of rural South America. The man is unemployed and separated from the boy's mother. The trip teaches the man to rediscover both the world outside urban Argentina, and also to rediscover his son.
A young woman searches for the mysterious lover of a recurring dream whom she believes to be real.
Three women each cling to the hope that an 8 year old boy that survives an airplane crash is their son that was put up for adoption as a baby. This is a remake of the 1950 film by the same name.
A young engineer, from a small town, moves to Mumbai, with big dreams. As he hugely advances in his career, he gets caught up in the rich and glamorous lifestyle and starts getting changed. After becoming a victim of a conspiracy, he realizes his mistake and tries to redeem himself.
A revealing and devastating portrait of a trio of aspiring real-life Viennese models. Vivian will stop at nothing to be a magazine cover girl. Lisa fills her time with routine plastic surgery and cocaine binges, while innocent Tanja focuses on the mystical through tarot cards, yoga, and raw animal energy.
A series of cop murders plagues the city. The remaining officers on the force are increasingly worried as the deaths increase with no leads. As the department's finest must solve the case before the killer strikes again.
A boy with an alcoholic father befriends a jazz musician.
A sharp-edged look at people who live outside the constraints of Islamic law.
23 year-old Jimmy Ray is a small-time drug dealer bent on self-destruction. The product of broken home, Jimmy refuses help from those around him and spends his final hours hanging out and selling drugs (with, of course, an occasional robbery).
A trial lawyer risks losing his family and career when he defends a client who he knows to be guilty as charged.
He's wooden, he's square, and he just doesn't fit in. What's more Toby the Square Boy seems to have trouble remembering where he lives, what would you do if he knocked at your front door and called you 'Daddy'? Should life for a seven year old boy really be this difficult?
Four stories set in the city of Regensburg.
Gu Yue stars as Mao Zedong in this 1992 biographical drama, tracing his life from the late civil war years through the founding of the PRC to his later decades. Intimate vignettes capture his leadership, personal losses, family moments, and quiet humanity amid revolutionary triumphs. Directed by Han Sanping.
Vasthuhara (Malayalam: വാസ്തുഹാര English: The Dispossessed) is a Malayalam social film by the late G. Aravindan which looks into the lives of partition refugees from East Bengal to West Bengal.
This drama is about Alma Mahler, the wife of the famous composer Gustav Mahler, who herself was engaged in music, loved composing and conducting, and who was the muse of many famous artists: Klimt, Zemlinsky, Kokoska, Walter Gropius, Franz Werfel and her husband.
In London, during October 1993, England is playing Holland in the preliminaries of the World Cup. The Bosnian War is at its height, and refugees from the ex-Yugoslavia are arriving. Football rivals, and political adversaries from the Balkans all precipitate conflict and amusing situations. Meanwhile, the lives of four English families are affected in different ways by encounter with the refugees.
Cheng Yaojin was the legendary hero in the Sui-Tang Dynasty, and this movie was about his fantastic legend.
Ajay is framed by Balwant Rai for his brother's murder and sent to prison. Later, he befriends three convicts and sets out to seek revenge against Balwant Rai.
A homoerotic exploration of the Odyssey mixing black and white, color, and old film clips.
Mac and Monica want to add an element of sexual intrigue to their marriage so they begin picking up men and playing games with them. Monica gets to add a little spice to her life, while Mac can fulfill his voyeuristic desires. But when they make their indecent proposal to the wrong man, everything changes, and Mac and Monica find they may pay for their desires with their marriage.
The story revolves around Hassan, who is studying Arabic calligraphy from a grand master. Coming across a manuscript fragment, Hassan searches for the missing pieces, believing that once he finds them, he will learn the secrets of love.
Turbat, an architect by profession, lives off lending money at high interest rates after taking low interest loans from the bank together with his wife. When the borrowers fail to repay, the bank seizes their household possessions and the property of their small private business. After a tragic car accident, his wife ends up in prison. Their only daughter dedicates herself to fighting for her parents, doing everything she can. One day, she accidentally finds out that her father’s architectural project has been approved and lets out a cry of joy. Their lives, especially her father’s, begin anew.
Directed by Jixing Wang.
Three women and a gay man in their 20s share a house in Los Angeles; try to find love and happiness - often at the expense of their well-being and friendships. Artist Amanda is trying to make it on the gallery scene, while aspiring actor Banks attempts to hit it big in Hollywood. Meanwhile, Frankie has an emotionally draining yet rewarding job as a social worker, but would be shattered to know that her roommate M.J. is sleeping with her boyfriend.
To make her meeting with her lover Bernard, Françoise needs Julien's help. Julien is 11, Françoise, 14. They're brother and sister.
After the accidental death of his son on a racetrack, Edward Milan, a wealthy industrialist, asks his nephew to find his grandson, who has been living in an orphanage for eleven years and whose existence he has just learned. But the boy, named Martineau, is suspicious of the police since he has been unjustly accused of shoplifting. He runs away when the two uniforms in charge of taking him back to his grandfather's house appear. He manages to find lodging with an old lady, a kleptomaniac at times, then with a theater prop master who is persecuted by his fiancée and finally with a lonely veterinarian.
In 1995, Chasen's closed its doors after 60 years of serving chili to movie stars and visiting dignitaries, Presidents and the Pope. During its two final weeks, Chasen regulars (actors and producers), staff, and management sat for interviews. There's an Oscar party for 1500, footage and photos of famous diners, and time with Tommy Gallagher, the ebullient head waiter until retirement in 1994, his son Patrick, catering head Raymond Bilbool, general manager Ronnie Clint, hat check girl Val Schwab, ladies' room attendant Onetta Johnson, and foreign- born waiters, including Jaime. When he started in 1970, like other Latins, he wasn't allowed out of the kitchen. It's a family farewell.
A feisty 17th-century Scotswoman falls in love with a despised landowner, to the dismay of her father.
Another adaptation of the novel "Tim", about the love that develops between a mentally challenged young man and the older, lonely widow who takes him under her wing.
A 12 year-old Olympic swimmer and her mother (both played by July) speak to the public about “going for the gold”.
Eighteenth century. Georgia weakened by external and internal wars. The main characters of the film sacrifice their lives to establish peace between separate corners, to fight for spirituality. They die, but their legacy - songs, wall paintings, cultural monuments - survive the ravages of time.
Germany, WWII: 10-year old Dagmar has just lost her beloved twin brother Doug and her family through a bomb attack. Together with a young girl who worked in the bakery of Dagmar's parents they escape to Bavaria and find shelter at some far relatives of Dagmar's family. The little girl just doesn't feel comfortable in the strange family but soon finds a good friend: Laurent, a 17-year old French alien employee. Laurent is tormented by August, the "head of the family", but cannot defend himself because as soon as he causes a conflict he will be sent into an approved school in France which is even worse. Dagmar and Laurent become very close and become almost like brother and sister, they are all they have and Dagmar even falls a bit in love with Laurent. One day August sees how Laurent hugs Dagmar, he provokes a conflict and at the end Laurent is sent back to France...
The story of the residents of a small village in Israel in the 1940s, their loves, worries and pleasures as experienced by Yossi, a naive adolescent who never grows up. Yossi's day-to-day life and the lives of his relatives interest him more than grave national issues, until those invade his world and destroy it
A young pianist and a countryside girl fall in love in a village on a Baltic sea shore just days before the beginning of WWII.
A doctor suffering from Alzheimer's wishes to end his life, causing a severe rift in the family, with each side convinced they have the father's best interests at heart.
A cop begins to turn to booze and cocaine during a tough undercover assignment. When a big drug-buy goes sour and the cop ends up with a million in cash, he decides to take off with the money. The drug dealer catches up with him, but he dies before revealing where he stashed the cash. Months later, the drug dealer finds the cop's wife and seduces her, in an effort to find his missing million. In the process, he falls in love with her and alienates his former partners in crime.
A teenage girl becomes infatuated with a stranger who is, unbeknownst to her, a serial killer.
Fumiko Matsuzawa (24), newly assigned to Fujioka High School—a den of delinquents—becomes prime prey for the students almost immediately upon her arrival. Male students hurl obscene remarks at the beautiful, voluptuous Fumiko. Little does she know that among them is Takaaki, the younger brother of her boyfriend, Motoaki. As usual, Takaaki and his delinquent friends roamed the streets looking for victims to gang rape, eventually targeting a younger student named Maki. Seeing her former self in Takaaki's self-deprecating attitude, the polar opposite of his elite older brother Motomasa, Fumiko began paying special attention to him. Though Takaaki verbally rejected her advances, sensing a familiar vibe, he gradually opened up to her. But when Takaki finally returned home after so long, what he saw was Fumiko and his beloved older brother, Motomasa, in each other's arms. Takaki cursed them with vile words.
Friends betray one another over investments and women, which leads to deadly confrontations.
Parents of a middle class family along with their children are living happily. Suddenly an accident turns their world upside down.
Rüdiger Stein starts filming Klaus and Manuela, young expectant parents, for a documentary on the topic "Starting a Family." As the project threatens to fall apart, Rüdiger becomes personally involved in this family-to-be, an experience which enables him to open his eyes to his life and work.
In 1942 during the time of war, Tatar Ramazan goes to jail because murder after argument on lands. When he gets out, he finds out that the life outside is much harder.
A Mother is devastated when her sailor son is murdered by two of his crewmates in a homophobic attack.
Life is tough for Leena as she is the only earning member of a middle-class household wherein the mother is a housewife, father is handicapped and her sister, Surekha, suffers from Schizophrenia. All her dreams get crushed as she loses herself in the daily grind to make ends meet. She loves dancing and that's where she meets and falls in love with Anupam. But like all others, this dream of hers also gets crushed as she finds out that Anupam is in love with Surekha. What follows is an epic tale of unconditional love and sacrifice between two sisters.
A Filipino action drama film directed by Toto Natividad.
In order to attain wealth and a luxurious life, a greedy wife sells her husband to a rich woman. However she realizes that with a luxurious life, she has to pay a heavy price for this decision.
A young student believes that the spirit of an alien from another planet has gone back in time, taking over his body to infiltrate and study humanity in order to find the reasons why our civilization is doomed to future destruction. He replicates the spirit of another alien in a girl that he meets, and together they use their video cameras to document modern urban Japanese society.
Christopher Millard was 14 years old when he died of cancer in 1972. Shortly before losing his battle, Chris wrote a story about a great knight named Sir Millard who sought out the four diamonds of Courage, Wisdom, Honesty and Strength in order to be released from the grips of an evil sorceress. These diamonds symbolized the attributes that Chris believed were necessary to overcome cancer.
An unspecified European country ca 1912 in the throws of political upheaval. A man only dressed in black (Jacob, played by Philip Zandén) is hired to assassinate the Interior Minister Joel Birkman (Etienne Glaser) after a particular brutal strike down of a student protest. He takes up work as the minister's bodyguard at his summer residence, and get's entangled in the affairs and politics of the Birkman family.
A Vietnam war veteran writes a series of articles about his war experiences for a local newspaper. As he does so, another veteran, drawn by the articles, begins randomly appearing in his life.
A school student and her European-born grandmother share sad stories of their lives.
In 1940s, sympathetic African American L.A. shamus Philip Marlowe helps a dame in trouble whose lovers are offing each other over a possibly fake pearl necklace. He must also deal with a racist cop that's investigating the murders.
Bruno's girlfriend, who lives in another town, doesn't believe he loves her. Therefore, he decides to prove his love by doing something "crazy" and ends up hijacking a school bus full of children at gunpoint to go see her
The film is set in 1989/1990 at a time when the "socialist" ideology underwent another major revolutionary collapse and the supposedly only progressive German "socialist", but walled-in GDR, joined the free West German society of the Federal Republic of Germany. In those days, the son of an East German teacher turns his back on the GDR because he is fed up with the eternal talk of the alleged superiority of "socialist" society and this "socialist" old day is nothing but dreariness and eternal gray everyday life for him. His mother, the convinced teacher and communist Christine Rautmann, suddenly realizes that her eternal propaganda of a golden socialist future is not falling on fertile ground with either her son or her pupils. She is suddenly faced with the ruins of her life as a teacher and mother. She herself becomes a seeker on a tremendously shaky social ground.
Hamel portrays director Dickoff who suspends her career in order to help a friend who's been in prison for quite some time in connection with a murder.
TV commercial director Fei (Michael Chow Man-kin) is mourning the death of girlfriend Angel Chen (Yuk), and through flashbacks induced by his reading of her diary, we see how their relationship developed and, eventually, faltered when she met handsome gym instructor Roy (Ngai). Angel loves both men and her inability to break off with one or both of them leads to tragedy.
When Edvarda arrives at the little Norwegian village, to stay with some family, she find the Lt., Thomas Glahn, very interesting. Soon they fall in love. It's a very passionate relationship, but this leads to problems. Both of them are very strong in their opinions, and both are behaving a little strange. Love turns to hate, and instead of doing all they can to please each other, they do all they can to hurt the other person psychological. They both do a great job, and what began as a love story turns into a sad and depressing story of two ruined persons. The story is told by Thomas Glahn from his "exile" in Thailand, where he in the beginning of the movie receives two green feathers from Edvarda.