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After the end of the war, a Nazi officer returns to Greece with the aim of recovering the hidden property of a Jew whom he had killed. The daughter of the murdered man will trap him with her charm, take back her property, and avenge her father's murder.
The plot centres on the tragic fate of Carmen, a gypsy girl, and Jose, a soldier who has fallen in love with her and whom Carmen leaves for the young Torero.
1964, in the Escambray mountains: the area is infested with counter- revolutionary bands which are trying to spread terror among the population and re-establish contact with the US, CIA. The murder of a man led to a reprisal to wipe out the bandits.
When a teenager is accused of his mother's murder, the community of Canaan rallies to his defense.
A professional race car driver's obsession with winning races causes communication problems between him and his wife that threaten to separate them.
A cheerful young man working in fashion photography spies at a woman from his window, with a bigger plan haunting his mind.
Mika Hino is a sharp-shooting investigator that belongs to the infamous "Gator Branch.” When an executive board member of a trading company is accused of being involved in a bribery, Mika is assigned to keep watch over him. A few nights later her target is found dead outside of his 30 floor office building. With an apparent suicide note as evidence, local police conclude the case as a suicide. Mika’s assignment may have ended in failure, but her mission has just begun...
In 1947 Los Angeles, a police detective tries to solve the shocking and grisly murder of 22-year-old aspiring actress Elizabeth Short.
The true story of a strike in 1970 by female textile-factory workers in Leeds who wanted to be paid the same as their male colleagues, but whose efforts were undermined by the trade union that they belonged to.
The 50 year old house wife Ingrid is unsuccessful in her first job after the kids have grown up. her husband send her to a stay at a summer hotel, where she return to spirit and goes back home only to find him in bed with a lover.
In a village on the edge of the Sahara, Rima, a 19-year-old orphan, dreams of learning, of discovering, of living free while the men of the salt mine go on strike. The authorities react by sending the army, Rima decides to help the strikers by trapping the soldiers. Co-produced with the Office des Actualités Algériens and shot in the region of Téhouda, 50 kilometers from Biskra, this Franco-Algerian film is fully part of the cinematographic heritage of both shores of the Mediterranean. Bertuccelli adopts the technique of cinema verite, with non-professional actors from the village itself, giving the film a striking documentary texture and a rare force of authenticity. Carried by the moving interpretation of Leila Shenna in the role of Rima, the actor Krikèche and lulled by the music of Taos Amrouche, the film questions female emancipation, social resistance and the relationship with the territory.
The "Gang of Four" wants to stop a troup from performing the "Yellow River Cantata".
Pierrot, mechanic in Paris, falls madly for a female chemist his senior—who at first refuses him, only accepting love after being diagnosed with a deadly illness.
The small town hospital staff is trying to gain the confidence of the local farmers and merchants.
A young woman joins an exclusive health clinic and discovers that the town is populated almost entirely by women, and they have surprising intentions for any male tourists who visit.
Days before the general election, after a girl from a rich family is murdered in an attempted rape, the editor-in-chief of a conservative tabloid tries to derail the police investigation in order to help the right-wing candidates supported by his bosses.
Set in a spa motel during summer, this is a story about the fancy lifestyle which gives these personalities a chance to imitate better, fashionable world of Europe. Hence they become the victims of one such fashion, the victims of Goethe's "The Sorrows of Young Werther" and its influence on generations of young people.
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16 year old Linus, living in 1930s Stockholm, dreams of becoming a poet, while working in a bookstore. After visiting a brickhouse with his father, Linus becomes involved with several of its inhabitants, including an enigmatic Ambassadress; her housekeeper Abigail, who Linus falls in love with; the janitor, who manages a brothel in the basement; Linus’ father’s best friend, who gets murdered.
A young sociology student has an unintended pregnancy and is subjected to the terrible humiliation of an incompetent doctor. The girl falls ill from the poorly performed abortion and is taken by a friend to the General Hospital. Film that reports clandestine abortion in Mexico, with interviews with women who have had abortions in that hospital and shocking maternal death statistics from procedures carried out under unsafe conditions.
Part 2 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, amoral, but not evil chinpira (Bunta Sugawara and Tamio Kawachi) thinking too big of themselves.
An erotic film that is imbued with many influences from Italian realist cinema, and now and then it adopts a Jean-Luc Godard-like style.
This is a sequel to the film Guna-guna Istri Muda ("A Young Wife's Witchcraft"). The husband, Arifin, realizes his bad behavior and divorces his second wife, Sandra, to go back and live with his first wife, Tati. Sandra is vengeful about the one-sided divorce. She asks for the shaman’s help, to use black magic to destroy Arifin’s family. Chaos ensues in the family, including during a wedding reception of the son. At a critical moment, a savior arrives.
Four children come across and adopt a stray dog - 'Sikandar'. It follows them on their journey of taking care of their new found pet.
The story of Tom and Joann Hammil, a divorced couple who explore new relationships while maintaining their mutual affection a year after their sixteen-year marriage has ended. A sequel to Breaking Up (1978).
In Medieval England, the sadistic Duke of Norwich plots to eliminate all heirs to the throne so he can claim the crown for himself.
A former Red Rebellion leader returns home after being imprisoned for his participation in the Finnish Civil War, but soon finds out that wartime mindsets still linger in the heads of people.
A shipwrecked man is washed ashore in Mykonos and saved by a hotel employee. He suffers from amnesia and soon becomes romantically involved with his savior. The hotel owner falls in love with him in turn, but reports him to the police as a suspect in murder and antiquities trafficking. However, his innocence is quickly proven and the man returns to the woman who saved him.
Diego is a troubled runaway who tries to make something out of himself by joining a swimming team and competing in national tryouts and champion races which takes a turn when he is struck by a terminal illness and attempts to find a way to beat it.
Criminals hijack an airplane carrying five beauty contest finalists, but unknowingly they've also kidnapped a government agent carrying a dangerous virus that is to be used in bacterial warfare.
Towards the end of the 16th century, the Spanish conquerors living in the New World faced a serious problem: the evangelization of the indigenous people, who did not understand or accept Christianity due to their unshakable faith in their own religion. The court of the Inquisition cracks down on heretics and the natives prepare for a general uprising ...
A delicious and understated countryman, Anna, leaves for the capital to study. He's hitchhiking on the motorway, and a business car, with a medical practitioner, stops to get it. The driver, named Fanis, is doing this job very much to take care of his seriously ill mother. Fanis gives her a place in his house to stay and, over time, falls in love with her, but family situations force Anna to abandon her studies. She returns to the village and marries her fellow villager, the Bargaining Barnabas. This, above all, has sent her father to the grave for unbearable debts. After his death and his mother, Fanis comes to the village and tries to persuade the girl to follow him to Athens, which is done with the mediator's help from the pope. Fanis promises to finish his studies and become the doctor of the village, to marry Anna naturally and to have children.
Sophie and Otto Bentwood are a middle-aged, middle class, childless Brooklyn Heights couple trapped in a loveless marriage. He is an attorney, she a translator of books. Their existence is affected not only by their disintegrating relationship but by the threats of urban crime and vandalism that surround them everywhere they turn, leaving them feeling paranoid, scared, and desperately helpless.
Six women from three generations of one family live in an old villa on the outskirts of a provincial Polish town. All of them have lost their husbands; one is divorced, the others are widows. The women live on their memories, raving about the old days or looking back bitterly on a lost life. The doted center of this isolated women's world is the old grandmother, whose wise kindness determines the atmosphere of the house. Joanna Nielewicz returned to the family circle just a few months ago, after the death of her husband, who was respected by all for his particularly high moral standards. Since his death, Joanna has been tormented by a guilt that she finally confesses to her grandmother: once during her marriage, she was unfaithful to her husband. One day, the surprise visit of a young girl brings unrest to the villa. Despite the women's resistance, she manages to get through to Joanna and reveal that she is the illegitimate daughter of her late husband.
Two young “women from dreams” unexpectedly enter the senile longing and boring everyday life of two poor and aging Dalmatian fishermen. They cannot refuse their desire to row out to sea together, even though foreign women speak a language that these old men do not understand at all.
Two stories of perversion. 1) A Meiji era erotic artist forces his wife and maid to pose for his bondage themed paintings with dire consequences. 2) A WWII soldier develops a nasty sexual obsession overseas and which only grows stronger when he returns home.
Sedat, a famous factory owner, falls in love with Sevim, a worker in his factory, and marries her. However, his family does not want this marriage. Meral, a rich woman in love with Sedat, wants revenge. Making a plan with Sedat's brother Nedim, Meral traps Sevim and makes it look like she is cheating on Sedat. Unable to accept this situation, Sevim shoots her husband's brother Nedim and goes to jail. Meanwhile, Sevim is pregnant and gives birth to her baby in prison. When she gets out after serving her sentence, she realizes that the outside is just as cruel as prison.
A young woman takes the train to Berlin. She wants to kill her friend Wolf, a theater actor. When the woman meets him, he tells her about his weird wife.
Test driver Hayami loses control of his car and rolls over. His company then learns that he has kept secret that he is visually impaired, and he is fired. Without the prospect of returning to his old job he makes a plan to rob several jewelry stores. A few days later, Hayami escapes with stolen goods worth 80 million yen in a violin case on a Kyoto city bus. A wild chase ensues.
A high-school student rescues his baseball team. Live-action adaptation of Shinji Mizushima's manga "Dokaben".
Italian drama
Set in a Shinjuku bathhouse brothel, the film uncovers the sexual eccentricities of everyday people. Focusing on three female prostitutes, the colorful, unpredictable look into the hidden underbelly of Japanese nightlife is playful but also unafraid to explore the darker sides of the business. The fleeting nature of relationships in such an environment and the consequences of toying with feelings are presented with a melancholy tinge.
A small-time hood is murdered just as he is about to blow the whistle on an organized crime ring.
SUMMER'S CHILDREN is the story of a young man who tries to escape his troubled home and sister to find a new life for himself. He takes on a new job and enters into new relationships, but his sister pursues him in a cat and mouse game, getting into trouble in the city's seedy underground. In a series of flashbacks, we discover the reasons for his initial departure, as he and his sister try to find a peaceful resolution to their feelings about each other.
Having learned about her terrible illness and unavoidable death, Victoria, decides to leave her five-year old daughter in the case of her father-in-law.
An unhappily married couple take in a young drifter.
Berlin in the Second World War. A certain S-Bahn line is repeatedly the scene of brutal attacks on women. The police are in the dark. As the attacks become more brutal and the first women's bodies are found, the population becomes restless. The authorities put pressure on the police, demanding a quick investigation, but at the same time obstructing the investigation so as not to tarnish the current propaganda. So the police can only move from one crime scene to the next and wait for the perpetrator to make a mistake. And he continues to murder diligently...
While living rough on the streets of London's East End, Dink encounters the mysterious Dee and they begin a relationship. When tenderness gives way to cruelty, the couple become consumed by darkness.
A tribute to proletarian author Takiji Kobayashi (1903-1933)
The story revolves around the problems of married people in (Egypt) from the economic and social aspects, where the poor young man (Masoud) falls in love with the aristocratic girl (Lina), and marries her despite her father's refusal. The simple poor life experience with her husband, whom she loves, her father tries to pressure her by various means, including threatening to deprive her of the inheritance, but she is determined to stay with her husband, Masoud asks Lina to move with her to her father's villa in order to get out of the difficult life he lives in rented home.
Mercurial, hard-drinking poet Hugh Saunders (Sir Anthony Hopkins) awaits his fortieth birthday, trying to preserve his art and his marriage against the temptations of celebrity and addiction.
After a terrorist attack against a train, the police arrest the young laborer Stefano Baldini, member of a group of militant leftists. Entrusted for interrogation to Sergeant Pendicò and special agents Lorusso and Spasiani, Stefano dies, after four days, in unclear circumstances. Doubting the official version of the police, the second time in which a young person died in custody, journalist Cristina Visconti tries, with the aid of the sister of Stefano, to discover the truth. They rub up against a conspiracy of silence that encircles the acts of Pendicò and his associates. Frustrated beyond reason, Cristina tries a desperate ploy: publishing a story without evidence in the newspaper, accusing the three agents of having caused the death of Stefano with their blows. Cristina is put on trial for defamation. Can she avoid going to jail and also reveal the facts surrounding Stefano's death?
The story takes place in 1862, just after the federal war ended. A pair of Gothic colonels go in search of a juicy inheritance, buried in a farm that is considered invaded by terrifying ghosts. Ignoring the mysterious stories they hear, they go to work. There they are victims of intentional attacks, which in the end they discover are carried out by a little girl, who is the daughter of the former foreman of the owners of the big house, so she feels attacked by the intruders.
A female teacher at a high school. Perhaps because of her germaphobia, she was still single and devoted herself to her education without even thinking about marriage. However, she often hit her students, which resulted in repeated protests from her vice principal and parents...