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Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he finds an abandoned and sinister town, inhabited by mysterious voices and whispers…

A happily married teacher finds out that a child of hers she believed dead for 10 tears is alive. On the trail of her first lover, she reconnects with her lost daughter.

A rich emigrant returns to Madrid where he meets the beautiful Amparo . The girl, however, lives a secret affair with a priest

Two Korean college graduates arouse the suspicions of Japanese authorities after modernizing a rural community with a school and a youth hall.

From the novel by Lidia Ravera, which wants to be a mirror of the disappointed generation that made '68 and that ten years later finds itself without ideals to reject the world or to fit into that, reassuring, of the fifties. The protagonist, a left-wing journalist, manages to find her identity in the relationship with a teenager who lives her life without wasting it on hopes or regrets.

France, 1975. Jean, an exiled Spanish Communist, is a successful screenwriter who, after a tragic event, struggles with his political commitment, his love for his country, under the boot of General Franco, whose death he and his comrades have waited for years, and his complicated relationship with his son. (A sequel to “The War Is Over,” 1966.)

An unsuccessful middle-aged college professor commits suicide, leaving his wife to cope with guilt, shame, and an angry teenage son who blames her for his father's death.

Depicts various relationships between four beautiful sisters, their husbands, and their second daughter's husband's mistress.

Brecht's company of actors tells the story of Bertolt Brecht: his theatre, plays, poetry and his life.

Louise lives alone and seems to like it that way. She has been through a divorce and the recent death of her mother. Recently, she has moved to Annecy, a moderate-sized city, to take work as a schoolteacher. She encounters a much younger man, Luigi, an Italian who is down on his luck. Though he moved to France to find work, he was robbed of his money and papers and is stranded. When he helps her bury her dogs, which her neighbour has poisoned for barking, their relationship grows to a new level.

Time after time, soldiers of the Italian Army are forced to leave their mountain trenches in attempts to storm an enemy fortress, always with the same disastrous results. As casualties mount, indignation spreads among the rank and file. Disturbed by his superiors' decisions, Lieutenant Sassu is led to question the purpose of war and reconsider where his real duties lie.

A live-theater production in which Elizabeth Taylor stars as Emily Loomis, a professor of ancient history at a small California college, who reluctantly agrees to rent a room in her house to one of the new students, named Stewart Anderson. Both happen to be loners (she with a secret past) and although they initially get on each other's nerves, they eventually realize the rapport to help one another emerge from their emotional shells.

This wartime romantic melodrama set in the mountains of Yilan during the final days of WWII. Young and free-spirited Shiow-lan (Feng Fei-fei) falls in love at first sight with Charng-rong (Liang Hsiu-shen), a worker at her father’s lumber mill. She likes to sing, he likes to write music. With their parents' approval, the two decide to get married but their plans are thwarted by Japanese lieutenant Herng-shan who has set his eyes on Shiow-lan. Herng-shan drafts Charng-rong and sends him to war in Southeast Asia where almost certain death awaits.

Two hurricane hunters track a huge, violent hurricane that is bearing down on a Gulf Coast town.

Sequel to "The Great Family" and "Family and one more". A widower and the godfather of his 16 children, aged two, wistfully contemplate the past. The father was left alone in the family home, but loneliness overwhelms him so he decides to spend some time at home for each of their children, most of whom are married. But the experience ends up being disastrous.

A play based on correspondence between George Bernard Shaw and the actress Mrs Patrick Campbell.

Intrigue involving corrupt warlords and rebel spies in the Chinese provinces. Rebels take on the warlord power with brains and fearlessness.

It starts with the discovery of a woman's corpse, then gradually reveals the past of this woman as well as the police investigation which follows the discovery.

Two schoolgirls become bar girls at night to earn money.

A young playwright and director wants to write and perform a historical drama about faith in the Ashkani period of Iran. There is an incongruity between the man's personal life, and his quest to pursue and present history. The woman who lives with him believes he should not neglect their relationship when embarking on such a quest. The people who work with the playwright believe the play ought to be made popular to satisfy the public. Finally, this matter makes the playwright perform the play all by himself.

Kayo, who is famous for her beauty, own a bar in a port town. The establishment is always crowded with customers infatuated with her. For the past three years, Kayo has been in a relationship with Murakami, a city councilman. One day, a young man and woman, Jun and Yoko, come to town. They are planning to stow away somewhere, but no one will take them in. Exhausted, they happen to come to Kayo's bar. Eventually, Kayo's past and the man she used to be with are revealed, and Jun and Yoko's desperate actions lead to the story's conclusion...

Antenna gives a snapshot of the 1970s. The film is a typical work by Ditvoorst: freedom of the individual, the desire for a utopia that does not come true, the lonely and misunderstood artist, the aversion to the state, bureaucracy and religious authorities, absurd side characters etc. The film has little dialogue and is largely told through the images of cameraman Jan de Bon

In the aftermath of the 1967 defeat, four young Lebanese try to figure out their places in a society whose rules seem to have changed. It proved to be an extraordinary anticipation of the civil war that would engulf the country while the film was being edited.

A music idol is going to manage the career of a provincial who wants to succeed in football.

This film is a heavy drama about the downfall of moral values of a family when proper religion teaching is not being instilled in them since they were small. Having a very good career and being respected by others around you wont determine that you will get the same kind of treatment with your own flesh and blood. As a teacher Mr. Talib is the best there could ever be but as to bringing up his own kids he is clearly a failure. Apart from the troubles he has faced at home with his family he is also waiting for death.

This is the story of young Hassem, the son of a powerful sheik, set at the beginning of Hegira. When the youngster's uncle is murdered, Hassem decides to go to Mecca with a view to finding the culprit and punishing him. But what he discovers there is not the murderer but the prophet Muhammad. Touched by grace, Hassem converts to the new religion and comes back to his village to propagate the new faith. Which is not to his father's liking, since the Muslim religion is opposed to feudal rights and privileges. The infuriated sheik curses his son and starts persecuting the new converts.

Mat Peci is a cold-blooded killer. He was forced to break up with his girlfriend, who was pregnant because his parents rejected him. He continued to find ways to meet the girl and was finally arrested because the police continued to follow his trail.

Two spouses, whose marriage is shipwrecked, recall during a last meeting, scenes and episodes of their life as a couple.

Jimmy West abandons his own boxing career to manage Johnny Carlos, a promising fighter who hates boxing. Jimmy fails at his new profession, and as a result of his disappointment with a woman, he turns to homosexual love.

Set in the mid-1950s when Tangier was still an international zone, El Chergui presents the city on the eve of its independence, as Aïcha resorts to magical practices to try to prevent her husband from taking a second wife. Around her, a society of women creates its own form of active resistance even as the larger independence movement grows around it. Through his unique use of montage, Smihi creates arresting images that present a society torn by the contradictions of colonialism, religion, patriarchy, and resistance. (Block Cinema)

Hershl is a thirtyish musician in Winnipeg. Fate brings him together with Kramer, an elderly tailor whose traditions and prejudices have forced him to deny the existence of his son who married a Gentile.

This docudrama follows the court-martial of the title character, the man held responsible for the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War.

A blacksmith and an amateur gunslinger embark on journey through the west together but soon separate and have surreal experiences of their own.

Rit (Mit), a wealthy young man, and Lin (Miss Margaret Lin), a peasant girl, are a couple from vastly different social classes. They overcome various obstacles together to build a married life. But life is like a spinning windmill; Lin becomes pregnant and suffers an accident that causes amnesia. Meanwhile, Rit has to travel abroad, giving his mother, who despises poor daughters-in-law, an opportunity to get rid of Lin in order to make Duangporn (Petchara) her daughter-in-law, as she had always hoped. But will the power of love, gratitude, and goodness have an impact on the turbines of their lives?

A sacrificial passive woman spends her life breeding happiness into her family. What happens when her world of security cracks, shatters completely and her identity dissolves?

Thunder Mountain somewhere in the American wilderness, has a reputation that has scared away travellers, both white and Indian, for hundreds of years. Undaunted by the ghost stories surrounding the mountain, a father decides it's just the place for him and his son to go camping and do a little bonding. Strange voices and stranger footprints around their campground try to warn the pair away, but Dad is unconcerned and blithely pushes on. Eventually, however, the two come face to face with the force standing guard over this forbidden mountain.

Film adaptation from the novel by D.H. Lawrence, discovered after the celebrated author's death in 1930, a romantic love story tells of a prim young English girl who is sexually attracted to a seductively virile gypsy. The climatic dam burst is linked with the consummation of her desire.

A popular singer encourages his wife to sing, but tensions mount between the pair when his career begins to falter and her own musical career and popularity surpasses his own.

A businessman in a good economic position spends his leisure time making asados, going to the races or going out with friends. He has a wife and a lover, but he can't satisfy either of them.

A César award nominated short feature.

Open your eyes: Otto Sander is one actor beside 4999 other main actors: 5,000 individuals searching for their real identity, 10,000 eyes that carefully observe so that they din't miss anything.

Hong Kong 1972. Shiu Pang is a poorly paid photographer with a very jealous fiancee. One day he meet an innocent girl and he falls in love with her. His fiancee decides to give a lesson to the young girl by sending a bunch of youngsters beating her and things goes worse and worse, the photographer's best friend dies in fighting the gangsters and the girl loses his mind, ending up in an asylum.

Film opens with the mad rush of haphazard freedom as the concentration camps are liberated. Men are trying to grab food, change clothes, bury their tormentors they find alive. Then they are herded into other camps as the Allies try to devise policy to control the situation. A young poet who cannot quite find himself in this new situation, meets a headstrong Jewish young girl who wants him to run off with her, to the West. He cannot cope with her growing demands for affection, while still harboring the hatred for the Germans and disdain for his fellow men who quickly revert to petty enmities.

Seon-Hee, whose dream is to go to high school, gets a job as a housemaid in Jae-Yon's in Seoul. The family of the restaurant treats her as a member of the family. Seon-Hee solves the problems between Jae-Yong and his girlfriend, Yeo-Ju. On the day when Jae-Yong joins the military service, he ensures his love to Yeo-Ju. With the careful concern of the family, Seon-Hee comes true her dream of going to high school. Seon-Hee in her school uniform is full of hope and walks to school.

Antoine has raised Sébastien, the son of a friend who was killed in a plane crash. Sébastien is doing his military service and Antoine would like him to marry Nathalie, the girl he grew up with. But Nathalie is in love with an American, and the day Sébastien has a leave, she leaves with her lover.

A biography of St. Augustine as he enters the episcopacy and deals with heresy and the decline of the Western Roman Empire.

Young Moldovan nobles try to overthrow King Mihail Sturdza. They plot an assassination and spread flyers. On this backdrop, there is a romance story between Franz Liszt, in tournament, and one of the noblemen's daughter, who is close to the plotters.

The prisoner Nemov is an honest man serving ten years for violations of Article 58. Nemov falls in love with Lyuba, who is having sex with the camp doctor Mereshchun, in exchange for better food and living conditions.

After a ten-year absence, Severino returns to his tribe, the Manzeneros, who live on the edge of the Argentinian Andes. The reason for his visit is to take his younger brother back with him up north. However, in his home village, Severino finds a tense and troubled situation. His father Raymundo has recently been found dead. He was on the tracks of a gang of white bandits who had stolen cattle from both Indians and settlers. A sheep breeding company is behind these criminal machinations. This company seeks to drive the Indians and settlers off the fertile land so that they can purchase it cheaply.

Three students wander through the UNAM University City at the dawn of the October 2 massacre and in the midst of the 1968 student movement

A determined wife tries to rescue her musician husband from mounting problems caused by his complicated life style.

In the middle of the Algerian war, Elise, from Bordeaux, “goes” to Paris to join her brother to earn her living in an automobile factory. There she meets Arezki, an Algerian nationalist activist with whom she falls in love. A chronicle of working life at the time and which highlights the extent of police repression against Algerians.

When a gangster named Heeralal gets arrested, he befriends Johny, a petty thief, in prison. He seeks Jony's help in executing his mission of smuggling a few diamonds. Johny, however, is an undercover CID officer named Sohan.