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Contemporary Russia. After he flubs a penalty kick, a humiliated national soccer player quits the game. He flees to a small town, where he decides to coach their local team.

A man living in the towering shadow of his aging father finds it difficult to start a new chapter in his life by marrying his girlfriend and moving to California.

A daughter seeks to restore the reputation of her disgraced father, a wronged college professor. With help of a professional student, she must overcome an ambitious sorority bitch and corrupt college dean.

Middle-aged widow Beatrice Hunsdorfer and her daughters Ruth and Matilda are struggling to survive in a society they barely understand. Beatrice dreams of opening an elegant tea room but does not have the wherewithal to achieve her lofty goal. Epileptic Ruth is a rebellious adolescent, while shy but highly intelligent and idealistic Matilda seeks solace in her pets and school projects, including one designed to show how small amounts of radium affect marigolds.

คอรี่ แบรนด์ นักเบสบอลดาวดัง รู้วิธีที่จะเอาชนะ ในเกมใหญ่ แต่นอกสนาม ความทรงจำในอดีต ที่คอยรังควาน ทำให้ชีวิตของเขา ต้องเสียศูนย์ หลังจากอุบัติเหตุ เมาแล้วขับ จนถูกทีมสั่งพัก ผู้จัดการของคอรี่ จึงส่งเขากลับไป ยังเมืองบ้านเกิด ในชนบท โดยให้เป็นโค้ชกับ ทีมเยาวชนใน โปรแกรมฟื้นฟูจิตใจ เป็นเวลา 8 สัปดาห์ และโอกาสครั้งที่สอง นี้เอง ทำให้คอรี่ ได้พบ การเปลี่ยนแปลง และไถ่ถอน ความผิดในใจ ในแบบที่เขา เองก็คาดไม่ถึง สร้างจากเรื่องจริง ที่เกิดขึ้น หลากหลาย จนกลายมาเป็น ภาพยนตร์ทรงพลัง และย้ำเตือนว่า ไม่มีคำว่าสาย สำหรับการ เปลี่ยนแปลง

On a summer day in late 19th century Russia, a group of bourgeois friends and acquaintances gather at a dilapidated country estate.

Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.

Georgy is driving a load of freight into Russia when, after an unpleasant encounter with the police at a border crossing, he finds himself giving a lift to a strange old man with disturbing stories about his younger days in the Army. After next picking up a young woman who works as a prostitute and is wary of the territory, Georgy finds himself lost, and despite asking some homeless men for help, he’s less sure than he was before of how to make his way back where he belongs. As brutal images of violence and alienation cross the screen, Georgy’s odyssey becomes darker and more desperate until it reaches an unexpected conclusion.

The film is set during 1962 in Sevastopol, Crimea, then a secret Navy Base in the Soviet Union. General Serov hires Viktor, a cadet from the Kremlin Guard to work as his private chauffeur. In a jet-black "ZIM" limo, Viktor is chauffeuring the General's disabled daughter Vera. Viktor is oblivious to the hidden agenda of the KGB agent Saveliev, who manipulates everyone behind the scenes in the old rivalry between the Army and KGB.

On the eve of his fortieth anniversary Sergei Makarov looks back at his life and learns that he has achieved nothing. He was not able to be happy and to bring happiness to the closest people in his life, neither to his long-suffering wife nor young mistress nor friends nor work... It is about the men who never grew up and could not find themselves in the time of stagnation – gifted, charming, but infantile and lost, they never were able to realize themselves...