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With three of his companions in a fatal gas-station robbery drowned while evading a police roadblock, the surviving young thug has no reason to turn himself in to the police, since they don't know about his existence. At least, that's the way his rescuer Bruno (Bruno Ganz) sees it. Besides, Bruno needs such an overly enterprising fellow to help him pull off a really big heist that he's been planning for a long time. It takes some doing, but the boy and his girlfriend are recruited by the older man, who has been keeping a low profile by working as a gardener.

A pair of high school kids in love, Ronnie and Orna tangled up in an unplanned pregnancy. For this reason there has been a clear dilemma between the different options: abortion, adoption or leavng the child on their own growth.

A film about a pair of sisters, whose parents are divorcing after their father leaves their mother for a younger woman, and who plot together to try to repair their fractured family.

Twelve year old Jonny lives in foster home. Suddenly the family of a local doctor decides to adopt him. But it's not so easy...

George and Lenny travel through the Depression-era west working at odd jobs, hoping to make enough money to buy their own farm. George must always watch over his intellectually disabled friend, and keep him out of danger, both to himself and to others. After they take a new job at a ranch, Lenny gets into far more trouble than George can talk his way out of, leaving George to decide whether to help him, or leave him to his fate.

In the final days of the war, Duyên faces a daily struggle to take care of her young son and ailing father-in-law, all the while hiding from them the fact that her husband has recently been killed in battle.

The shepherd boy Besame is lucky, with the help of the old maestro he becomes a student at the conservatory and begins to learn to play the flute. But the governor and other envious people lock Besame in a correctional cell to learn the ruthless rules of life. Here he is tortured, deprived of music, accustomed to money, and turned into a strong animal. Besame's metamorphosis frightens even the bullies, but the maestro saves the young man again - the sound of the flute washes away all the filth from Besame, returning love and freedom.

Traveling salesman in a small town before WW2 makes a solemn promise to kill himself. Later he finds that the local people took him very seriously.

Cécile, a single mother, contrives to meet Gilquin, the married father of a classmate of her nearly-adolescent son. An affair ensues. Isabelle, approaching middle age with two children, discovers she's pregnant, goes into a funk, and arranges for a younger woman to seduce her husband. Adeline is distraught at her ex-lover's plan to leave France. The three women are colleagues at a radiology clinic. They come to each other's aid, but each must decide on her own what course to take: Cécile with Gilquin, Isabelle with her husband, and Adeline with her solitude.

About three monks in a remote monastery; an aging master, a small orphan and a young man who left his city life to seek Enlightenment.

Employees of the district housing office, Kurikhin and Olovyannikova, extort bribes from those who are legally entitled to receive apartments. They do the same to the family of war veteran Mikhov. When Mikhov, a man of impeccable integrity, finds out that his daughter gave a bribe, he cannot bear the injustice...

Her deepening affair with a separatist spurs a wealthy Manhattanite to return to the Bronx, where she grew up, and reevaluate her Puerto Rican cultural roots.

A drama based on the novel "Kvietimas". The director of the local history museum, Adamonis, has everything that, in his opinion, an employee of this rank should have: a seemingly prosperous family, employees who seem to respect him, and even a mistress. In addition, he is patronized by the first secretary of the district party committee. Hoping for a future career in Vilnius, Adamonis decided to give his benefactor one of the museum’s valuable exhibits. But new people came to the leadership of the district, demanding people who did not tolerate showing off or flattery, and Adamonis’s ambitious dreams were never destined to come true.

With the birth of New China, a husband-and-wife pair of Overseas Chinese painters resolve to return to the embrace of their motherland, and their child is born under the five-starred red flag. But these Overseas Chinese patriots are persecuted in various political campaigns and their daughter subject to discrimination from childhood. The male lead freezes to death as a fugitive and draws a giant question mark in the snow before dying. The daughter emigrates following the Cultural Revolution; when her relatives try to stop her, she says: "You love the motherland, but does the motherland love you?" Based on a script by Bai Hua, SUN AND MAN was completed in 1981 but permanently shelved following high-level criticism and a public campaign against its "anti-Party" character. The film is said to survive in the studio archive but has never been publicly screened. A Taiwanese adaptation of the script (with some modifications) was released in 1982 under the English title PORTRAIT OF A FANATIC.

Buddy (1986) is a BBC schools drama, based on the novel of the same name by Nigel Hinton. It was shown as part of the social studies strand. It starred Wayne Goddard as Buddy Clark, a teenager dealing with various life problems, Roger Daltrey as his father Terry and pupils from the Cavendish School in Eastbourne. Daltrey reprised his role in the 1991 film Buddy's Song with Chesney Hawkes as Buddy.

When young Roxanne Ulrich (Chynna Phillips) meets wealthy charmer Herbert Pulitzer (Perry King) and enters the scandal-ridden world of the rich and famous, her life changes forever. After a whirlwind courtship, the two wed, but their marriage is quickly torn apart by drug abuse and affairs. Courteney Cox co-stars in this drama based on Roxanne Pulitzer's 1987 autobiography, written after her headline-making divorce from the publishing heir.

A story that follows the lives and interactions of two Buddhist monks living in South Korea.

Six people survive the crash of an airplane and find themselves in a mysterious Central American mansion and ghost town, where they encounter ghosts from their past. They are then judged for their sins by a demonic figure while the jury chants their (predictable) verdict.

Everybody takes advantage of Fernand who has just come out of prison.

A newly-elected Pope Leo XIV finds himself accidentally locked out of the Vatican. Unknown to the outside world, he winds up in an impoverished Italian village, where his adventures ultimately teach the Pope and his new friends some important lessons about friendship and self-esteem. Written by Chris DeSantis

In 1927, Shanghai was shrouded in white terror. On the day Communist Party member Jian Hua was killed by the enemy, his son was born. The leader of the underground party transferred his wife Min Wen to the Soviet District, and entrusted his son to the worker Gu Argen for adoption, naming him Xiaoliang. After several twists and turns, Xiao Liang was adopted by an official family. At the age of 10, Xiao Liang learned of his own background and fled to Shanghai to find his mother. Min Wen also happened to go to North Jiangsu to pick up Xiao Liang, but Xiao Liang was no longer there. Xiao Liang was found wandering on the street by Gu Argen, and he led him to Wuhan with refugees. He was blown up halfway through the journey. With the help of a wounded soldier, Xiao Liang arrived in Wuhan and became a Xiaobalu.

A life is difficult even for children during the forties in Estonia...

In 1949 a Nationalist military officer is tricked into fleeing to Taiwan without his wife. His godson's father also remained on the mainland. They hope for national reunification.

An abridged remake of the first Ashita no Joe TV series, released in 1980 to provide back-story for the second TV series to new fans who were not familiar with the first TV series or the manga.

Sylvia and Cora Miao play two widowed mothers, best friends and confidants who spend their days reminiscing about times past. Over the course of a lazy weekend afternoon, the two women conjure memories of Cora's husband, his life, his death, and his passionate affair with Sylvia. A series of wistful flashbacks reveal the sometimes touching, sometimes painful circumstances around the women's deep friendship with one another, and their love for the same man.

A beautiful young girl, possessed from childhood by a vengeful spirit, wanders around lonely places to seduce and kill people and thus, gradually becomes lost in a dark world of revenge and lust.

Two aspiring car racers have a big dream: they want to make a journey to the heart of Africa. But their value system is severely skewed, and one of them is willing to steal to do it. What's more, he causes a car accident, from which he tries to escape, and ends up in prison.

A cattle rancher faces off with his estranged son. A right-wing cattle rancher wrangles with his recently returned son, a soldier who went AWOL in Vietnam. The proud men butt chins in this arid macho weepie.

A Belgrade TV adaptation of the 17the century Slavic folk ballad, which relates that following a battle, whilst lying wounded, Hassan-aga summons his wife Fatima, who was unwilling to accompany him to the battlefield.

A moment inevitably comes in life when one has to part with childhood and enter another world, the world of adults. The transition from one state to another is very important - it is at this time that the character of the teenager is tested, his whole future life is determined. Eighth-grader Lyonka Buldyryov solves the problem of choosing a future path in life. These few days, full of important events and impressions, become decisive for him.

Suna is horrified when she discovers her mother in bed with a young man. Her aunt Dilek is molesting Suna’s boyfriend, Kenan. After having sex with him, the ever concerned aunt tucks her niece in bed.

The film was shot as the final part of the play "Drink the sea, Xanthos" theatre-Studio "NEO" (St. Petersburg 1987-1989). As a result, the performance was changed and the film gained independence. He became an allegory of acting.

The story played by civilian players is laid in a Transdanubian village, where on the initiative of the municipality doctor the local inhabitants wish to build a social welfare home as volunteers, with the support of the local co-operative and the state farm. Having first consented to the plan, the leadership of the county starts opposing the project because of the plan to build a social welfare home called the City of the Happy Aged to be established by the county. Both parties take the field for their ideas and the battle starts.

Rickshawali is a 1990 Indian Marathi drama film directed by Satish Randive.

Brij Mohan is married to the beautiful Kalyani, but is unhappy in his marriage: he doubts the sincerity of his wife's feelings.

A man and a woman fall in love with each other and get married. However, she soon becomes a victim of domestic violence and decides to kill her husband.

A married woman with a traumatic past embarks on an affair with a younger married man.

Burro is the surname of a simple-mind boy. He lives in a little village in Emilia Romagna (north of Italy). He fallen in love for the picture of an actress (!) and transfers his love to every girls he meets. More, he is orphan and is afflicted with his father figure.

Joe returns to Colorado after many years to help the man who brought him up, Kim. Joes father was killed by a gang looking to find some gold they believe he had found. Joe finds that Kim has also been murdered by them and tries to help his sister and her man to beat the gang and perhaps find the gold.

Max is unemployed. He shares an apartment with a prostitute, who dreams of another life, and Jiri, a refugee who believes the world is doomed. Max is certain that one day he will find the deal that will make him rich.

A schoolteacher in her early 40s, involved in a dead-end love affair with a married mortician, drifts into a relationship with an aging newspaperman.

Attorney Henry Strauss grew up in Germany, but left the country with his Jewish family during the rise of the Third Reich. Still wondering about what happened to his boyhood friend Konradin Von Lohenburg, Strauss travels back to Germany for the first time since he was a young man, bringing up some painful memories.

Alberto Aguilera arrives from Ciudad Juárez to the capital to pursue a career in music, but in the midst of confusion he is accused of stealing and is sent to prison.

Based on a popular komiks serial by Elena Patron.

Pivoine, a 13-year-old girl, tired of her parents' arguments, reluctantly goes on vacation with them. She takes advantage of an accident on the highway to run away from them and take her legs. She meets a young legionnaire, Rouquin, also on the run. Together and in complicity, they will flee, trying to escape the highway police, and will love each other without saying it...

Society matron Millicent Jordan arranges a dinner party to honor some visiting aristocrat oblivious to the health and financial problems of her husband.

Ranjit Verma is lawyer to criminal Veljibhai who gets involved with Ranjit's brother, Ravi. Veljibhai, with the help of Ravi, tries to steal the property of Ustad Ali.

A young girl is orphaned when her nurturing grandmother enters a nursing home. She is sent to live with her Bach-obsessed uncle, an organist preparing for an important recital.

After his wife Marjan has died in a car crash, Philip de Wit becomes a total wreck. Only after months does he return to a more or less normal life and even then he only works in his wife's bookstore. A year later Eileen walks in the store, a girl from Northern Ireland with her baby in her arms. When Philip sees her, he's dumbfounded, for she's the spitting image of his dead wife. Obsessed with her, he goes and tries to find her again, but he soon finds out that he's not the only one who's looking for Eileen.

A student is devastated when he finds that his girlfriend is cheating on him. In order to find out why she did it, he decides to spy on her and her airline pilot lover. Then he sees the pilot with a blonde woman and he begins to follow them…

Their sexually dissatisfying marriage life changes when Paula discovers her latent masochism after raped by her husband, Fernando. She welcomes Celia, a vicious young woman whom she has met in a park and, in the end, Paula ends up officiating as a dog of both, while Celia will eventually dominate the situation.

Ram Kapoor comes from a poor family, while Kiran comes from a middle-class family. Ram and his brother, Shyam, commit petty thievery to sustain themselves. Ram meets Kiran and both fall in love and would like to get married. Kiran's dad is Police Inspector, Vijay Kumar, and does not approve of either Ram nor this marriage. Despite of this opposition, Kiran and Ram get married. After sometime, Kiran gets pregnant, and her mother, Madhu, comes to look after her. A gangster, Shakti, abducts both mother and daughter, and holds them for ransom. Vijay thinks that Ram and Shyam are behind this abduction so to get money from him, and launches a manhunt for them. Shyam is apprehended, while Ram is on the run. Ram must decide to hand himself over to the police, and let his wife and her mother be at the mercy of Shakti or continue to evade the police and search for Kiran and Madhu.

A middle-aged doctor has an affair with the student actor she's housing during the Edinburgh Festival.

A love story between a model fleeing from her boyfriend who is pursuing her because she witnessed a murder, and a novelist.