A drama following a French platoon during Algeria's war of independence.
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A drama following a French platoon during Algeria's war of independence.
After her alcoholic mother’s suicide, Ida - traumatized and plagued by guilt - flees her hometown and ends up on the island of Rügen. There, she begins an intense healing process marked by a fresh start, an unexpected friendship, and her first great love.
Erotic novelist Victor Kinski and his partner Miriam live in a remote mansion. Victor is haunted by memories of his Lucía who committed suicide and meets Luisa, a young woman who looks exactly like Lucía.
Regine, a physician, loses her lover in a car crash and carries out an abortion; it's the beginning of her descent into hell.
A lonely retiree returns home to find that he's been burgled, only to then realise that the culprit never left.
Mater is a film about the struggle between love and law; about social differences and distances that these generate. And about love, that crosses all, allows all: both good and evil.
Lisbon, 1938. Mr. Pereira is the editor of the culture section of an evening paper. Although fascism is on the rise in Europe, like in nearby civil war Spain or even inside Portugal itself in the form of Salazar's regime, Pereira only concerns himself with writing bios and translating French novels. Things change after he hires a young writer as his assistant, getting to know also his girlfriend – both opponents to the regime – and reluctantly helps them when they begin to get in trouble for subversive activities. Eventually, he's forced to take a stand...
An estranged father, Eamonn, and his son, Sean, meet up after 15 years at a café in London to heal old wounds.
Martin, the illegitimate son of an industrialist and a hairdresser, was sent to live with his wealthy father in the countryside as a young boy. Alice is a musician living with Martin's half-brother in Paris. When Martin shows up at Alice's door after fleeing his father's home under troubled circumstances, their lives become intertwined.
On a sweltering summer day, Bianca feels unseen by her parents. Then an unexpected encounter with her favourite female actor, Billie King, helps her to find herself. A tender, imaginative tale about dreams and carving out a space for yourself in life.
Finn's story seems to begin when Henry Kirk comes into the bookshop where she works. But it goes back a lot further than that...
Always On Sunday is a bio-pic on Le (Henri) Douanier Rousseau, a French naive painter.
Three girls in a trivial and absurd argument over how to make a paper airplane. Three adults in a sophisticated and intellectual debate about the details of a historical event. Two apparently distant problems but with a common core: the inability to manage envy and ego of the two central characters, Aran, the youngest daughter, and Artur, her father.
Ali is a 14-year-old teenager on the loose. To give him a proper education, his single mother sends him to a madrassa in Mali. When Ali comes back ten years later, he is a completely changed young man in his twenties. He has received a pious religious education and his deep knowledge of Islam makes him the perfect candidate to be the local Imam of his city, despite his young age and the doubts of his mother. His modern views and charisma quickly make him popular amongst his Muslim community, until his will to do good meets his new ambition.
when Neil meets Heather it is love at first sight they enjoy a whirlwind romance and revel in how happy they are until they run into Machlis. Parallel is an erotic and thrilling psychological drama with a distinctly new approach and a killer twist!
Cairo, 2011. A police officer investigates the murder of a woman in a luxurious hotel in the days leading up to the Egyptian revolution.
Three very different adolescent girls team up to take revenge on men until one day it is no longer a game.
The detective investigating Laura Hunt's murder finds himself becoming obsessed with the dead woman only to find out she's actually still alive.
A chronicle of the unconditional love between a mother and her daughter, from 1958 to the present day, which is endangered by an unsteady and manipulative father.
During a nighttime stroll, Giorgio, a burnt-out painter, encounters the beautiful Emanuelle, whom he makes his new muse. What he doesn't know is that Emanuelle has gotten herself into a dangerous deal with gangsters.
Overwhelmed by grief following the death of his wife, Donnelly shares a train carriage home with a troubled young man identified only as the 'Kid'. As the Kid becomes more agitated and foul-mouthed, the journey takes on a violent and dangerous hue – for the bereaved Donnelly and for other hapless passengers on the train. Academy Award Winner: Best Live Action Short Film – 2005
The Cheerful Squadron is a 1954 Italian war-comedy film directed by Paolo Moffa and Interpreted by movie stars like Paolo Stoppa, Vittorio De Sica, Alberto Sordi and Silvana Pampanini. Based on the military environment novel The Allegro Squadron by Georges Courteline (1886), this film presents a series of sketches on military life in the late nineteenth century.
Edward is an editor in a small English publishing house. The story concerns what happens when he receives a very good manuscript from Nicholas, an old friend, who up until now has been a hack writer. The manuscript sheds light on events both men lived through, and Edward comes to the conviction that it reveals that it was Nicholas who raped the woman Edward loved, and that he is therefore responsible for her subsequent suicide. Very carefully, he plots his revenge.
Paris, France, 2001. Octave Parango, a young advertiser working at the Ross & Witchcraft advertising agency, lives a suicidal existence, ruled by cynicism, irresponsibility and debauchery. The obstacles he will encounter in developing a campaign for a new yogurt brand will force him to face the meaning of his work and the way he manages his relationship with those who orbit around his egotistic lifestyle.
In a community where residents pay for access to sunlight, a father goes to extreme lengths to support his daughter’s entry in a school competition to grow sunflowers.
Christine Clarke brings a new man back to her flat from a New Year's Eve party, and immediately her life starts to unravel. Who is the terrifying stranger that keeps appearing in the flat at night?
In 1830s England, Tom Brown attends a rugby boys' school, where his moral and personal growth is formed through friendship, bullying–particularly from the cruel Flashman–and the influence of headmaster Dr Thomas Arnold.
Verden Fell is shattered after the death of his lovely wife. But, after an unexpected encounter with Lady Rowena Trevanion, Fell soon finds himself married again. Nevertheless, his late wife's spirit seems to hang over the dilapidated abbey that Fell shares with his new bride. Lady Rowena senses that something is amiss and, when she investigates, makes a horrifying discovery -- learning that Fell's dead wife is closer than she ever imagined possible.
A woman tries to keep her family together when her son falls ill after he's bitten by a mysterious creature.
Follows the story of grandfather and his grandson and what their generations had to go through which in the end may not be that different.
Graying Spaniard Daniel has a healthy budget for indulging in the finer things in life. Daniel's favorite luxury is playing sponsor to younger men amid the lights and sights of Madrid's gay club scene. After Daniel shares a night with handsome Bulgarian emigre Kyril, he finds himself consumed with an insatiable lust for the charismatic foreigner. But, as their relationship takes shape, Daniel's latest conquest reveals his own manipulative tendencies.
A man is desperate to make something out of nothing and so are the creators of this 42-minute, nearly improvised feature that deals with finding salvation in others, rather than oneself, in the midst of a world falling apart. When the Kafkaesque routine of a man who is alone to the point of imploding into nothingness begins to fall apart, unexpected love and friendship seep in through the cracks. The film was shot on a handy cam over the course of several days during which a number of scenes of comedy and drama were improvised and gradually built up to a story-arch that was really never put down on paper form.
After aspiring poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe fails his law exams, he's sent to a sleepy provincial court to reform. Instead, he falls for Lotte, a young woman who is promised to another man.
Story of two gorgeous, young French boys who begin a passionate relationship that boils over and threatens to destroy both their lives. Shy 18-year-old Mathieu is on summer vacation in the south of France. He spends his days lazily sunning himself at the beach, until he spies the handsome Cédric and falls in love.
George Bird is a salesman of agricultural machinery who finds out that he hasn't long to live. On his doctor's advice, he goes to an exclusive seaside resort to spend his savings on one last holiday.
Juan plans to introduce his girlfriend Casilda during the weekend at the family home in the mountains. However, before arriving, Juan and his brother Santiago have to flee from a group of assassins who are chasing them by mistake. The killers belong to a criminal organization that includes Miki, who should never have been there, and Gus, a policeman infiltrated in the group who tries to take care of Miki. Meanwhile, Pinco, who should take Miki's place, enjoys the hospitality of the man in charge of the criminal organization, unaware of the problems that are coming their way.
In pre-WWI England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial.
TITUS is the story of a virtuoso African-American jazz musician whose damaged soul has brought him to the status of a nobody. Living in London, far from home, he’s wasting away, estranged from his one true love, his vintage alto sax. All hope looks lost until a visitor arrives, Jessica, the daughter he abandoned as a baby…
Maud Goodin is the daughter of a millionaire, content with her present life, but she is an interesting conquest for those wants to get on the social ladder.
The relationship of a married couple takes an unexpected turn when the husband's boss gets the idea that their ad campaigns need spicing up with eroticism, and chooses his employee's wife as his assistant.
After some initial difficulties, the daughter of a circus director who died in an accident follows in her father’s footsteps and takes over the business.
Joseph has an intensely close and ambiguous relationship with his sister Marianne. At her going-away party the day before she leaves to go abroad, Joseph is caught between his feelings for his sister and the advances by other suitors.
The passionate love story that was Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's lengthy marriage. Beginning in 1837, the year of King William IV's death and 18-year-old Victoria's ascension to the throne, the series charts the tumultuous period in 19th Century England where Victoria comes to terms with the enormous duties that lay ahead of her, while also falling deeply in love with her beloved Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. The marriage and birth of their nine children are featured, as is Albert's frustration by the inactivity he experienced in the early years of his role as Prince Consort.
An intimate portrayal of the relationship between one of greatest artists of the 20th century, L.S. Lowry and his unhappy and controlling mother, Elizabeth, whom he lived with all his life.
During the First Lebanon War in 1982, a lone tank and a paratroopers platoon are dispatched to search a hostile town.
What is a mother? When 25-year-old Dania discovers she is pregnant, she decides to turn her uncertainty into a film. Meeting women of different ages, backgrounds, and perspectives, she explores how each of them lives or has chosen not to live motherhood. "Tua Madre" is both a personal and collective journey through fears, desires, and imposed roles. It challenges the idealized, socially mandated image of the mother, using irony and sensitivity to investigate the lights and shadows of this enduring myth.
One night, a man enters his maid's room and tries to rape her while a radio soap opera describes the thoughts of a man caught up in a great amorous passion.
A prominent London psychologist seems to have taken his own life, causing stunned disbelief amongst his colleagues and patients. His teenage daughter refuses to believe it was suicide as this would go against all of the principles her father stood for, therefore she is convinced it was murder. She enlists the help of a former patient to try to get to the truth. However, the truth turns out to be both surprising and disturbing.
The idyllic life of a beautiful gypsy girl is shattered when she runs away from a pre-arranged marriage to a member of her tribe. Away from the safety of her people, she encounters bigotry against her kind. A little girl feels sorry for the missing gypsy beauty and searches for a magic root that can cure the wandering gypsy from her wanderlust and bring her home again. Music, dance, ancient gypsy rituals, and colorful European scenery highlight this feature which takes a decidedly jaundiced view of the racial indignities suffered by the heroine.
Aging small-time conman Augusto works with two younger men: Roberto, who desires to become the Italian Johnny Ray, and Carlo, nicknamed Picasso. Through a series of mishaps and personal entanglements, things go badly for Augusto.
It's summertime in rural France. A charismatic stranger happens upon three teenage boys. He has a gun in his car. Are they ready to go for a ride?
From 1920 to 1975, the hopes and disappointments of four generations of Italian immigrants living in a working-class district of Marseille.
The task of some guerrillas is to try to foment the conscience among peasants of a town, but their attempts will be tragically restricted.