Cinematic Era: 2001 Vintage

In the 1980s, Algeria experienced a tumultuous social context which reached its peak during the riots of October 88. This wave of protest, with youth as its figurehead, echoed the texts of raï singers. Thirst for freedom, misery of life and the aspirations of youth are among the main themes of their works which will inspire an entire generation. More than music, raï celebrates the Arabic language and becomes a vector of Algerian culture, thus providing the cultural weapons of emerging Algerian nationalism With Cheb Khaled, Cheb Mami and Chaba Fadela as leaders of the movement, raï is also a way of telling and reflecting the essence of Algeria in these difficult times. While the threat weighs on artists in Algeria, their exile allows raï to be exported internationally and thus, to bring the colors of Algeria to life throughout the world.

Anna, a nine year old girl, is determined to find her father, but the only clue she has of him is a picture that her mother keeps pinned to the wall. When Anna’s mother falls ill, Anna is given a chance to discover more about her identity, which has been hidden from her.

The actor Lucas Bron performs the play King Lear by William Shakespeare for the pupils of his son Patja. After the show, Patja has already got home when he is warned that his father's house is on fire. He rushes to the fateful spot. The fire brigade has already arrived and is unable to say whether his father is still in the house. Patja desperately runs into the burning house and finds his father unconscious on the kitchen floor. But Lucas' spirit is in the theatre. In a magic train of thought, just before he dies, Lucas directs and acts, assisted by his son, high points and low from his eventful life in the theatre, but also outside. Theatre and reality become intertwined. It slowly becomes clear that Lucas still has something to tell his son.

Nabucco the complex story of Nebuchadnezzar the King of Babylon, who proclaims himself God and is hereon afflicted with madness remains a success with audiences. The director Günter Krämer paid particular attention to the interpersonal component of the opera accentuating the conflict-ridden king's loss of power as the core. His Nabucco is the tragedy of a mighty ruler. Leo Nucci, the baritone well known at all the great opera houses of the world, is Nabucco. After experiencing him at the Vienna State Opera, a critic wrote of his "fascinating timbre" and "intense and plausible acting". Maria Guleghina, who performs Abigaille, is one of the most celebrated and acclaimed sopranos of the world. She has been described as "Russian soprano with Verdi flowing through her veins". Supported by a distinguished cast (Marina Domashenko, Miroslav Dvorský, Giacomo Prestia) this Nabucco is a must for opera lovers.

Federica Felici is a lawyer who has always been involved in cases of small marginalized, but one day is to defend Laura Conti, which is part of one of the most important families of the city, from the charge of murder.

A Bangladeshi movie starring Ferdous Ahmed, depicting the love story that captures the struggle against society and family.

The Ruff Ryders take you on a gritty journey through the hardened New York and Baltimore streets. The CEO's (Dee & Waah) along with rap superstars DMX, EVE, and others tell of their struggles in the hood to become the top-selling rap label in the record industry. Death before dishonor!

17, rue Bleue is an autobiographical drama about an Algerian immigrant's self-destruction in Paris. In it, director Chad Chenouga recounts how his mother, Adda, came to France as an illegal alien, hoping to escape the haunting secrets of her native land, and seeking a new life of wealth. When Adda falls in love with her employer, a wealthy Parisian named Merlin, she believes her fortune is within reach. But troubles begin when Merlin suddenly dies, leaving behind no clear will. Adda, believing in the Algerian superstition that a beauty mark on her son's hand signifies great wealth to come, throws herself into a losing court battle to win Merlin's estate. As legal defeats mount up, Adda turns to drugs, driving away friends and family members, until she's left with only her son, Chad. When he turns 16, his mother dies from her many years of drug abuse.

Barbara Joyce stars as Serena Powers and Tina Krause co-stars as Lisa McKay, her assistant and would be a partner. In a case of mistaken identity, Lisa is kidnapped by an inept killer and questioned about her knowledge of a missing $150,000 in drug money. But only Serena knows the answers he seeks so he goes back and kidnaps Serena. He leaves them to discuss their fate and the two of them just end up arguing back and forth as usual. Unable to convince the women to talk, he has his beautiful assistant (Shannon Guild) bring in a helpless victim (Sandra Kennedy) and murders her in front of them. Still not talking, he forces them to strip to their panties and they are placed in a series of deathtraps. Will they break and reveal what he wants to know? Or will Lisa be sliced in half by a table saw? Or will they die by hanging? Or perhaps go up in flames?

Vasilis Arvanitakis after spending the E.U money for buying a poor Brazilian Football player, must face the two members of the E.U who will come to check how and where the money is spent...

Anis (Suhaila) a programmer at a computer company is trying to investigate the death of her best friend, Nurafizah after participating in a game called "Laman Maut". Only 12 participants were selected from thousands of entries. The rules of the game are "die or money "1 million" ..

The search for truth of the 16 families of technicians killed in the April 23rd, 1999, NATO bombing of the Radio Television Serbia building.

French national Stéphane Bouquet, the illegitimate son of a U.S. soldier, goes looking for the father he never met in the United States' heartland.

Two innocent lovers must unwillingly sacrifice their love as their families belong to two different castes and religions.

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Slim muscular women, with bare midriffs, demonstrate kuo shu martial arts, fighting with long sticks in front of sleazy rich men. It's an art performed as entertainment; but, when violence breaks out within the troupe, Tyler (the best fighter) leaves. After the death of the troupe's master, the dish-water blond Tyler returns to face honey-blond Morgan, whom Tyler suspects is the cause of both the violence and their teacher's demise. In the practice room, barefoot and armed only with a long stick, they fight to the death. Is it good-bye Tyler?

The German composer Valentin Reiner receives a letter from his ex-wife Anna, who now lives in Los Angeles with their 18-year-old son Stefan. In her letter, Anna asks Valentin to come and help her with their son. Stefan is engaged to Leila, a young Muslim woman from Palestine, who is three months pregnant with his baby. They live with Anna and Judge Boccia, who hates black Muslims. Stefan and Leila hate Jews. Together with his buddy Riff Mason, Stefan terrorizes the Jewish community with home invasions, where they paint swastikas on the houses and leave fake anthrax letters. Reiner is determined to expose the fascist group and regain the trust of his son.

An author spends a year and a half filming what happens as a new apartment building is built in a neighborhood of Barcelona.

Tom Strusinski - "Ostrich" to his friends - has got it all: good looks, brilliant career, and money. Everything is going great until he meets a beautiful girl named Justyna. To win her heart he needs to join the basketball team owned by her father's faltering company. Tom meets Dr. Devilish, a physician who makes an extraordinary offer that he can’t refuse: a shot of a miraculous substance that results in outstanding physical abilities which will enable him to play on the team. What he does not know is that he made a deal with the devil.

In fremder Erde (In Foreign Soil) documents the Muslim traditions of burial in Turkey and Germany, but above all, the paths the dead take to return to Anatolian soil.

Sergeant wakes up alone with only a widescreen TV for company, in a place designed for him to relax in peace and tranquility, for all eternity...

Somewhere in the near past a girl carries a box down a street. She carries The Box past an assortment of life before finally reaching a pawn-brokers where its contents and significance are revealed.

A strange green cloud has turned almost the entire human race into stone. The only survivors are eight children, their intrepid teacher Birnenstiel and his friend, a jolly millionaire, who by chance all happen to be in an airship above the green cloud at the time. Against this background Birnenstiel tells a bizarre adventure story in which he and the children are heroes. With loving and pointed irony he confronts his protagonists with deep-frozen beauty queens, gene-manipulated tomatoes, extraterrestrial maniacs, aggressive goldfish and last but not least the rampant mechanics of an abandoned civilisation which claims its victims one by one. When the narrator goes too far, the children take the story into their own hands...

Two childhood friends must fight against each other after growing up to be on opposite sides of the law.

This DVD contains a behind the scenes documentary film and an intimate concert performance by Sting. The documentary is a candid look at the genesis, development and realisation of Sting's live CD. "...all this time," which features reinvented arrangements of Sting's most celebrated songs. [Tracklist:] 01 Fragile 02 A Thousand Years 03 Perfect Love... Gone Wrong 04 All This Time 05 Seven Days 06 The Hounds Of Winter 07 Don't Stand So Close To Me 08 When We Dance 09 Dienda 10 Roxanne 11 If You Love Somebody Set Them Free 12 Brand New Day 13 Fields Of Gold 14 Moon Over Bourbon Street 15 Shape Of My Heart 16 If I Ever Lose My Faith In You 17 Every Breath You Take

In hope to find his lover, a Mainland Chinese A-Fei, comes to Taiwan. He is mistaken by others to be a missing taxi driver. Seeing all those roads named after Chinese provinces, A-Fei believes he can surely do this. At the same time, a gangster movie is about to shoot⋯

A group of rich teenagers from Lima travel to Cusco looking for drugs, parties and sex. One of them wants to find Pamela, who he met when they were kids. In that quest, his friends and him will get to know a world of violence, perversion and disenchantment.

Putih is an adaptation of the Malay classic folklore Bawang Putih Bawang Merah. Putih can be considered the Malay folklore version of Cinderella, where good and evil collides. It tells the story of a pretty, smart and kindhearted young woman who manages to escape her evil stepmother and stepsister and marry her Prince Charming. Her wisdom and conscience also makes her a role model as a woman, daughter and wife.

A playwright going through a period of crisis returns to his childhood home and begins to nostalgically recall the relationships that shaped his life.

Dukhiram is a very poor man. He has two beautiful young daughters. As Dukhiram is a very poor man so he is unable to arrange dowry for the marriage of his daughter. His elder daughter commits suicide. His other daughter Chandni also tries as once again Dukhiram is hailed to fulfil the demands of dowry made by her in-laws at the time of her marriage.

Three young men and three girls, with some emotional ties, including a wealthy or middle-class family and one of them rural. They are all involved in opening a fast food restaurant with a loan from the bank. Without justification, the police arrest them. They are released with the assurances of their parents. One of them refuses to marry her boyfriend until she achieves her dream of a restaurant project. The young man returned after her return from work that killed the doorman. In the end, everyone succeeds in realizing their dreams at the beginning of the journey of marriage to each of his beloved.

Veterans of the Vietnam War tell about their experiences. The disasters but also the glorious moments of war. The central figure in the documentary is the scenario writer of Full Metal Jacket, Michael Herr. The veterans describe how it felt to kill for the first time and how those feelings still haunt them.

A banished nobleman returns to usurp the throne of England when the king seizes all his property.

Special agent Major Hashemi is working on several terrorist cases. Meanwhile a news is received about a plan for bombing in Tehran.

Examine the drives and motivations of this sinister villain, courtesy of audio recordings made of the late Christopher Gable talking about his role in The Caves of Androzani, incorporating photographs from his collection and footage from the studio recording sessions.

An appreciation of Dressed to Kill by Keith Gordon

Alkis, a young gay man, is upset when Tonia, his ex-girlfriend, moves in next door to him with her new husband. Her marriage is not going well and she makes a play for Alkis. He rebuffs her but is worried that her next target will be Babis, his boyfriend.

Suddenly, in the cramped boiler room, a pressure-relief valve opens and discharges steam. Then, a certified technician approaches to perform a routine check. But, is he wearing his factory mask?

Alan Berliner uses the internet to track down 12 men who share his surname, and invites them over for dinner in New York.

Three scripts, each one with independent storylines, have in common a vision of the Colombian capital in 2016.

During the Exodus, one of the most famous miracles of the Old Testament took place. More than 3000 years have passed since Moses led two million Israelites across the Red Sea and out of the bondage of Egypt. Christians, Jews, and Muslims throughout the world still embrace the accounts of this remarkable event. It is an epic that so fascinated Hollywood director Cecil B. DeMille that he made THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, twice. Now THE EXODUS REVEALED follows the footsteps of the children of Israel in an unforgettable journey of discovery. A journey that reveals physical evidence for the Exodus including: the remains of 3800 year old Hebrew settlements in Egypt's Nile Delta; Egyptian records of the Israelites bondage under Pharaoh; the precise route they may have followed to freedom; their crossing site on the shore of the Red Sea; and the location of Mt. Sinai. THE EXODUS REVEALED brings to light the first significant archaeological "find" of the 21st century.

Inga Tidblad started acting in 1921 and became one of Sweden's greatest and most successful actresses of all time. Daughter Meg Westergren, colleagues Bibi Andersson, Helena Bergström, Thommy Berggren and Sven Wollter are a few who talk and remember her as a person and as an actor.

Fadl works as a history teacher in Cairo. His father, the mayor of El-Bahnasawi in Upper Egypt and his friend Sheikh El-Khafr, are looking for archaeological tombs and selling their contents to gangs of antiquities smuggling. The mayor is different from the Shaykh al-Khafar. One of the wicked will exploit this dispute and kill the sheikh of the encampment. The charge is attached to the mayor, demanding

The story of the University of Brasília, since it was only a project in Darcy Ribeiro's head until the fateful events in August 1968 when its campus was invaded by the police, during the military dictatorship, thus putting an end to its independence.

Martin Sheen hosts this documentary that commemorates the 200th anniversary of the White House by taking an in-depth look at the beloved piece of American architecture and history and examining artifacts from various presidents. Letters, memos and journal entries bring to light the inside details of the good, the bad and the ugly that's taken place within the White House's great halls over the past 200 years.

A young woman has a date with a stranger she doesn't know because of his skin color.

A housewife discovers that she is actually a superhero and must choose between a life of excitement and glamour or her good old boy husband whom she still loves.