GIMS DVD/Videotape Collection by Genre: Drama

Khalil, a refugee in a Lebanese camp, tries to rouse Younès, a comatose Palestinian soldier, by telling him stories from his own life.

"The story of a blind dervish named Bab'Aziz and his spirited granddaughter, Ishtar. Together they wander the desert in search of a great reunion of dervishes that takes place just once every thirty years. With faith as their only guide, the two journey for days through the expansive, barren landscape. To keep Ishtar entertained, Bab'Aziz relays the ancient tale of a prince who relinquished his realm. As the tale of the prince unfolds, the two encounter other travelers with stories of their own"--Container.

" Tragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, touching off an interlocking story involving four different families." www.imdb.com

With the mysterious arrival of Babette, a refugee from France's civil war, life for two pious sisters and their tiny hamlet begins to change. Before long, Babette has convinced them to try something other than boiled codfish and ale bread--a gourmet French meal! Her feast scandalizes the elders, except for the visiting General. Just who is this strangely talented Babette, who has terrified this pious town with the prospect of losing their souls for enjoying too much earthly pleasure?

In South Central L.A., Jody has two babies by two different women and he still lives at home with his mom. He's trying to live large, but doesn't have or want a job. Growing up is tough on Jody, but a series of events involving his mom, her new boyfriend, his girlfriend, and her ex-con ex-boyfriend all force him to learn some hard lessons about living, loving and surviving.

"An impressionable teen girl from a dead-end town and her older greaser boyfriend go on a killing spree in the South Dakota badlands." www.imdb.com

"A young man-about-Paris, cut off from his father's money, falls in with a picaresque gang of car thieves." www.imdb.com

Amid the decaying elegance of cold-war Vienna, psychoanalyst Dr. Alex Linden becomes mired in an erotically charged affair with the elusive Milena Flaherty.

In this story taking place in a remote village of South China during the 1930s, Yang Bailao, a poor peasant, has a daughter, Xi'er, who falls in love with a young peasant. But Huang Shiren, a local landlord, attracted by the beauty of Xi'er, tries to force Yang Bailao to give him his daughter in order to settle a debt. The father refuses and is forced to commit suicide, after which his daughter is raped by the landlord. She escapes into a deep forest, where her hair quickly turns grey. Only after liberation can she revenge her father and have a new life.

"During World War II, 19 year old soldier Alyosha gets a medal as a reward for a heroic act at the front. Instead of this medal he asks for a few days leave to visit his mother and repair the roof of their home. On the train eastwards he meets Shura, who is on her way to her aunt. In those few days traveling together they fall in love." www.imdb.com

Melé, a bar singer, and her unemployed husband Chaka are on the verge of breaking up. In the courtyard of the house they share with other families in Bamako, the capital city of Mali, African civil society representatives have taken proceedings against such international financial institutions as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, whom they blame for Africa's woes. As numerous trial witnesses air bracing indictments against the multinational economic machinery that haunts them, life in the courtyard presses forward. Much of the film consists of dramatic non-fictional testimony about Africa's problems and their causes, and the lawyers in the trial are real lawyers who are familiar with the issues and make up their own questions and arguments.

"Douglas is a foreign entrepreneur, who ventures to Russia in 1885 with dreams of selling a new, experimental steam-driven timber harvester in the wilds of Siberia. Jane is his assistant, who falls in love with a young Russian officer, André, and spends the next 10 years perfecting the harvester and pursuing her love, who has been exiled to Siberia." www.imdb.com

"A day in the life of a South Side Chicago barbershop." www.imdb.com

"A poor family in the Northeast of Brazil (Fabiano, the father; Sinhá Vitória, the mother; their 2 children and a dog called Baleia) wander about the barren land searching for a better place to live, with food and work. But the drought and misery destroy their hopes." www.imdb.com

The rise and fall of a young 18th century Irishman bent on achieving fame and fortune, mainly by marriage.

In 1981, a nineteen-year-old unknown graffiti writer takes the New York art world by storm.

Born to a young mother, "Bone" grows up poor in South Carolina in the 1950s. When her mother marries, her new stepfather becomes jealous of the powerful bond between mother and daughter.

In the 1950s, fear and violence escalate as the people of Algiers fight for independence from the French government.

"The drama of a poor family in the bloodiest war in the History of Brazil: the war of Canudos." www.imdb.com

Re-creates the 1905 mutiny on the battleship "Prince Potemkin." It focuses on a mutiny by the battleship's crew and the subsequent massacre of civilians, reflecting the spirit of the times.

A Roman Catholic teenage boy in Nova Scotia during the 1930s faces various growing-up problems -- Should be become a priest? What should he do about the murder he witnessed, committed by a local cop and upstanding parishioner? And how far should he go with his girl friend, who happens to be the murderer's daughter?

A true story of obsession, passion, and murder. Burroughs and his wife Joan Vollmer are haunted by the murder of a college friend by another one of their closest friends. Their obsessive love pushes them to the limits and once again murder is part of their legacy.

Follows a successful yet sickly young man who returns home to the small village where he grew up. There, he finds himself at odds with his former close friend - now unhappily married and a wretched alcoholic, and the provincial life he represents.

Men in the French Foreign Legion, escaping some personal or legal entanglement, can leave their lives behind and take on a new identity. In an outpost in Djibouti, the men of the Legion yield to the rigid discipline and unvarying routine of life within it. When new recruit Sentain saves the life of a fellow soldier, brooding taskmaster Sgt. Galoup sets out to destroy him. The film observes how power functions among men, and considers the consequences of remaining a stranger, even as the Legionnaires must always remain strangers.

Binh has grown up not knowing his parents, an American soldier and a Vietnamese woman. In an effort to find a better life he searches for his mother in Saigon before heading to New York City and later Houston.

The true story of a troubled Princeton mathematician who is able to overcome years of suffering from schizophrenia to win the Nobel Prize.

A look at the life of Reinaldo Arenas, from childhood in Cuba to his death in New York City.

"The Russian Civil War and emigration is shown through the eyes of the defeated Tsarist Generals - Vrangel, Khludov, Charnota, as well as intellectuals and aristocracy." www.imdb.com

A well-known judge has become a fugitive from the police, with a large reward on his head. A reporter believes that the judge is hiding in a private sanitarium, so she seeks out a private investigator and asks him to pretend to be insane, so that he can get inside the sanitarium and look for the judge. The investigator is admitted to the asylum, and encounters many dangers while trying to prove that the judge is there.

"Two bumbling store clerks inadvertently erase the footage from all of the tapes in their video rental store. In order to keep the business running, they re-shoot every film in the store with their own camera, with a budget of zero dollars." www.imdb.com

Séverine, a Paris housewife, begins secretly spending her afternoon hours working in a bordello in an examination of contemporary social mores and class divisions.

After spending four years in prison for killing his girlfriend, lumbering man-child Franz Biberkopf is finally released back into society. He wants to stay honest now he has left jail, but it is tough in the Alexanderplatz section of Berlin. After failing to succeed in several 'regular' jobs, he falls in with some old cohorts and an on-again, off-again association with thugs. Post-war society is crumbling, and it appears that nothing will bring it back. Originally made for television, Berlin Alexanderplatz is a prototype for the modern long-form drama, grandfather to Tony and the Sopranos.

This moving drama of the birth of Israel focuses on two women - Else Lasker-Schuler, a German poet, and Tania Shohat, a Russian revolutionary. They meet first in Berlin, where utopian ideals and fear of the Nazis force their escape to Palestine. Re-united in Jerusalem, they confront a harsh reality in the city idealized in their dreams.

"The corner Schönhauser Allee in East Berlin is the main meeting-point for a group of adolescents. Dieter is a construction worker who falls in love with Angela. She, in turn, spends time with the clique whenever her mother is occupied with her new lover. "Kohle" stays away from home to avoid his dad's alcohol problem, and Karl-Heinz is on his way to becoming a small-time criminal. Due to their interest in western music and culture they are regarded as no-goods and rowdies. Things get interesting when an incident forces Dieter and "Kohle" to escape to West Germany." www.imdb.com

"In this classic adaptation of Emile Zola's novel, a tortured train engineer falls in love with a troubled married woman who has helped her husband commit a murder." www.imdb.com

Carlos Galindo always dreamed of a better life for his wife and newborn son when he crossed the border into the U.S. But when his wife left him, Carlos's only goal became to make sure his son Luis was given the opportunities he never had. A story that follows father and son as they embark on a physical and spiritual journey where they discover that family is the most important part of the American dream.

A tapestry of stories woven around the themes of love, hope and destiny. The characters lead separate lives but are bound by one common desire - to be with their loved one. The protagonists in the movie are fictitious bar one - Theresa Chan, a courageous deaf and blind woman whose life story inspired the film.

Since the earliest days in her childhood, Lara has had a difficult but important task. Both her parents are deaf-mute, and Lara has to translate from sign-language to the spoken word and vice versa when her parents want to communicate with other people. Getting older and more mature, she becomes interested in music and starts to play the clarinet very successfully. Since her parents are deaf, they cannot share Lara's musical career. The day comes when Lara has to decide between her parents and her own ambitions.

Two friends from Côte d'Ivoire go to Europe with dreams of returning home as heroes. One is deported home; the other remains to seek his future. The two meet again at home; but not as heroes or losers.

Tarek, a young Palestinian man blackmailed into a suicide mission in Tel Aviv, is given a second chance at life when the fuse on his expolsive vest fails to detonate. Forced to spend the weekend in Tel Aviv waiting its repair, he meets the beautiful Keren, who has cut off contact with her Orthodox Jewish family. As love blooms, so does decision-making.

Story of an unemployed man and his son in war devastated Rome. The father finds a job pasting up posters, work requiring a bicycle to get around. The bicycle is stolen; panic stricken at being unable to recover his bicycle and at the prospect of losing his job, the father is compelled to steal a bicycle, only to be caught and humiliated in front of his son.

"A man and his son search for a stolen bicycle vital for his job." www.imdb.com

A bank clerk in a small Polish town awakens to discover a camel outside his window. He and his wife develop a bond with the animal and the neighbors become increasingly jealous. A lesson about tolerance, love, and sacrifice is learned by all.

Seven college housemates from the 1960s who have drifted apart reunite at the funeral of a friend. Having entered adulthood as non-conformists, most now belong to the establishment. Stunned by the death of their peer, sensing their own mortality and the loss of their innocence, each takes the opportunity to reevaluate his or her life and re-establish their bonds.

Discouraged by his superior officers, but helped by a ganster's former girl friend, a dedicated detective lieutenant doggedly continues his investigation to obtain evidence that would convict the head gangster of a crime syndicate.

"In this musical, Paul Robeson stars as Joe, a Marseilles docker hired by a wealthy English couple to find their missing son." www.imdb.com

When a friendly, successful suburban teacher and father is prescribed cortisone for a painful, possibly fatal affliction, he grows dangerously addicted to the experimental drug, resulting in his transformation into a psychotic and ultimately violent household despot.

The story of two brothers whose Italian restaurant is on the brink of bankruptcy. Their only chance for success is to risk everything they own on an extravagant feast for bandleader Louis Prima. But their big night is complicated by a lovers' triangle, a sneaky restaurant rival, and the hilarious perfection of chef Primo.

In an attempt to heal from the deterioration caused by the pressures of sudden fame and too much alcohol, famous Beat author Jack Kerouac escapes to an isolated, mist-shrouded cabin in the primitive landscape of the Big Sur woods. Instead of finding the peace he desires, he is foiled once again by his own inner demons and sets off on a visceral collision course of paranoia, sex, delirium tremens, misery and madness.

The life of legendary jazz musician Charlie "Yardbird" Parker, directed and produced by jazz fan, Clint Eastwood. The film uses actual recordings by Parker with the backgrounds removed, and accompaniment by modern musicians attuned to the Yardbird's improvisations.

A Civil War spectacular. Portrays life in the South during and after the Civil War as revealed in a story depicting the war itself, the conflict between the defeated Southerners and emancipated renegade Negroes, the despoiling of the South during the carpetbagger period, and the revival of the Southern white man's honor through the efforts of the Ku Klux Klan.

Javier Bardem is Uxbal, a man on the wrong side of the law who struggles to provide for his children on the dangerous streets of Barcelona. As fate encircles him, Uxbal learns to accept the realities of life, whether bright, bad — or biutiful.

"A schoolteacher of privilege and a cynical tabloid journalist join forces to avenge the politically motivated murder of the teacher's jurist fiance during Peru's corrupt Fujimori regime"--Container.

In La noire de ..., a Senegalese maid goes to the Riviera with her employers and gains a new perspective on what it means to be African outside of Africa. A story of exile and despair.

"Fictionalized account of the adventures of hired gunman Antonio das Mortes, set against the real life last days of rural banditism." www.imdb.com

"A retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, set during the time of the Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro." www.imdb.com

A woman caught in fallout during the bombing of Hiroshima returns to her village, where she is ostracized and considered unsuitable for marriage.

A young Jesuit priest seeks to convert the Indian tribes in Canada while also trying to survive the harsh winter.

The teenage life and adventures of young José, who lives in a shanty-town on Martinique in the mid-1930s, comprises the body of this film. José lives with his grandmother and is well aware of the French colonial presence. He gets into mischief, learns valuable lessons on living from an old former slave, drinks too much one time, and even sets fire to one of the run-down shanties. Regardless of his pranks, José never neglects his education.

The action of this film opens in a tiny Soviet village by the sea, in the years before the Second World War. A very young girl, Vera, falls madly in love with an older military officer who is visiting from out of town. She leaves her home and family to live with him in various military posts where he serves with the army. Through the difficulties of army life, and years of war, her love for this older man survives, and she gives herself completely without reservation. This film is about friendship, loss, survival, loyalty, and the wonderful gift of unconditional love, which is only given to a few.

"A drama centered around the employees of a Nanjing massage parlor who share a common trait: they are all blind."--IMDB.

Marco, a young loyalist peasant-soldier, falls in love with Norma, a rebel spy, during the Spanish Civil War. They struggle against a powerful enemy blockade that is preventing the delivery of food in a battle that could change the course of the war.

Kim is a despicable man who physically and emotionally assaults everyone around him. He abuses the workers at his fish cake factory, his mistress, his estranged wife, and his entire family. He has ruthlessly pursued success at any cost and wastes his earnings while keeping the people closest to him in desperate need.

A romantic tragedy about the rise and fall of a matador. Juan Gallardo, Spain's most idolized matador, returns to his home town and finds himself the victim of his own desires and the sinister charms of the exotic Doîna Sol.

An avant-garde film built around a character who lives what he creates. An artist is driven mad by the sight of his own blood and a drawing of a mouth that seems to come to life. The combination sends him off on a series of bizarre adventures that strive to explain how artists become obsessed with their own works.

"An elderly professor's ordered life spins dangerously out of control when he falls for a nightclub singer." www.imdb.com

This film described the fate of one Beijing family, their neighbours and friends, as they experienced the political movements and social upheavals of the 1950s and '60s in China.

"Junta is hated by the people in the village where she lives, especially by the women, who suspect her of being a witch." www.imdb.com

Tells the macabre legend of Duke Bluebeard, who brings his young wife Judith to live in his remote castle.

"During World War II, Switzerland severely limited refugees: "Our boat is full." A train from Germany halts briefly in an isolated corner of Switzerland. Six people jump off seeking asylum: four Jews, a French child, and a German soldier." www.imdb.com

Charley has become the middleweight champion of the world by winning a "fixed" fight. In his devious climb to the top, Charley has become hard and arrogant, and has estranged both his mother and the girl he loves.

Tells the story of a minister gone corrupt. He associates with the owner of a house of gambling, forces a girl to steal, and later kills the girl's brother. Yet, when all is said and done, it's only a dream.

While looking for garage work, Juan travels to Patagonia trying to make a living selling hand-made knives in an economically depressed Argentina. After helping a stranded motorist, he is given a giant white purebred dog named "Bombón." This leads to an introduction to a dog trainer named Walter, who trains the dog and owner for the dog show circuit. When Bombón wins one of of the dog shows, Juan and Walter now think they have it made.

Realizing that teenage mom Tina is about to gas herself and her newborn child, Tina's boyfriend grabs the infant and takes to the streets of Lisbon. In this extremely downbeat film, he attempts to sell the child and failing that, eventually gives the child to a streetwalker. Meanwhile Tina and her friend try to get the baby back. When they fail, they decide to get revenge upon the boyfriend.

A young carpenter is happy with his wife and family, happier still when he finds a mistress, whom he marries when his wife is found drowned.

"A woman is overwhelmed with having to deal with her emotionally unstable daughter, mentally-challenged brother and two suitors while simultaneously trying to run her small firewood business." www.imdb.com

Made on location in Bangladesh, this video demonstrates the positive effects of micro-loans by the Grameen Bank on several rural Bangladeshi families, including the empowerment of women to become leaders in their families and their communities. Demonstrates how Nobel Peace Price winner, Muhammad Yunus, in partnership with world businesses, pioneered microcredit and social business to unleash the potential of the poor.

Made on location in Bangladesh, this video demonstrates the positive effects of micro-loans by the Grameen Bank on several rural Bangladeshi families, including the empowerment of women to become leaders in their families and their communities. Demonstrates how Nobel Peace Price winner, Muhammad Yunus, in partnership with world businesses, pioneered microcredit and social business to unleash the potential of the poor.

Made on location in Bangladesh, this video demonstrates the positive effects of micro-loans by the Grameen Bank on several rural Bangladeshi families, including the empowerment of women to become leaders in their families and their communities. Demonstrates how Nobel Peace Price winner, Muhammad Yunus, in partnership with world businesses, pioneered microcredit and social business to unleash the potential of the poor.

"The story of a young man's adventures in the Californian pornography industry of the late 1970s and early 1980s." www.imdb.com

" While subjected to the horrors of World War II Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. In the basement of her home, a Jewish refugee is being sheltered by her adoptive parents." www.imdb.com

Gifted Eyad, a Palestinian Israeli boy, is given the chance to go to a prestigious Jewish boarding school in Jerusalem. As he desperately tries to fit in with his Jewish schoolmates and within Israeli society, Eyad develops a friendship with another outsider, Jonathan, a boy suffereing from muscular dystrophy, and gradually becomes part of the home Jonathan shares with his mother, Edna. After falling in love with Naomi, a Jewish girl, he leaves school when their relationship is uncovered, and he discovers that he will have to sacrifice his identity in order to be accepted. Faced with a choice, Eyad will have to make a decision that will change his life forever.

Set in a Swiss mountain resort town, tells the story of Adah, a black woman who has an affair with Thorne, a white man.

Set in the 1930's, a homeless woman and an union organizer team up on a crime spree to get revenge from a railroad company.

" Set on the east coast of New Zealand in the year 1984, Boy, an 11-year-old kid and devout Michael Jackson fan gets a chance to know his father, who has returned to find a bag of money he buried years ago." www.imdb.com

In Birmingham in December 1955, Rosa Parks is arrested when she refuses to vacate her bus seat for a white man. Black citizens mount a boycott of the bus system in protest, giving birth to the modern civil rights movement and bringing to fame the young minister Martin Luther King, Jr.

A story of growing up as seen through the eyes of a boy named Mason, who ages from six to eighteen years old on screen. The film was shot intermittently over a twelve-year period from May 2002 to October 2013, showing the growth of Mason and his older sister, Samantha, to adulthood.

"The story about the relationship between a rebellious 50s teenager and his abusive father, based on the memoirs of writer and literature professor Tobias Wolff." www.imdb.com

"A woman struggles to recover from a brutal attack by setting out on a mission for revenge." www.imdb.com

"Helene Regnier's husband Charles, who is mentally ill, injures their son Michel in a rage." www.imdb.com

"Two Latina sisters work as cleaners in a downtown office building, and fight for the right to unionize." www.imdb.com

Three Australian lieutenants are court martialed for executing prisoners as a way of deflecting attention from war crimes committed by their superior officers. Based on a play and true story.

They are five high school students with nothing in common, faced with spending a Saturday morning detention together in their school library. At 7 a.m. they had nothing to say to each other, but by 4 p.m., they had bared their souls and become good friends.

"Oilman Jan is paralyzed in an accident. His wife, who prayed for his return, feels guilty; even more, when Jan urges her to have sex with another." www.imdb.com

"A young car thief kills a policeman and tries to persuade a girl to hide in Italy with him." -IMDB.com

"A hard-working young man meets and falls in love with his sister's bridesmaid. He soon finds out how disturbed she really is." www.imdb.com

"The world of a young housewife is turned upside down when she has an affair with a free-spirited engineer." www.imdb.com

World-traveling National Geographic photographer Robert Kincaid is on assignment to photograph the bridges of Madison County, Iowa. He stops for directions at Francesca Johnson's farmhouse, and passion ignites.

"Meeting a stranger in a railway station, a woman is tempted to cheat on her husband." www.imdb.com

In 1961, a young Havana student goes to a poor rural region near the famous Bay of Pigs to teach peasants how to read. There he must overcome the initial resistance of some of the locals, accustom himself to a completely unfamiliar natural environment, and confront the bandits that support the mercenary invaders, experiences which help him mature.

Romantic triangle set in the world of television news. Tom Grunick is the perfect modern anchorman. He's got the smooth charm and handsome good looks that America loves. Jane Craig is the brilliant hot-shot producer, committed to fighting the trend toward flashy, style-over-substance "personality" news, whose job it now is to make Tom look like a newsman. Aaron Altman is the dedicated reporter, utterly devoid of on-camera charisma, who's jealous and resentful of Tom's instant success both on camera with the public and off camera with Jane.

Set in the Limehouse district of London, this is the story of Lucy, a 15-year-old living under the violent, abusive hand of her resentful prizefighter father, Battling Burrows. Driven from her home, she finds love and protection in the home of a gentle Chinese man. Together they begin to discover the joys that life has denied both of them until that time. Then Lucy's father finds her, brutally beats her protector, takes her back home, and, in his rage, kills her. The grief stricken Chinese man avenges Lucy's death and then takes his own life.

"In the wake of the Spanish Civil War, a number of the Republican guerrillas who fought against Franco's fascist army have gone into hiding in the mountains and continue their resistance. Upon returning to her small village, young Lucia meets and falls in love with Manuel, the handsome ironsmith. The "Maquis" stage a raid on the town, freeing a number of Republicans from jail with Manuel's help, drawing the attention and wrath of Franco's Civil Guard. Manuel must flee and Lucia discovers the reality of political repression, the silence, the horror and fear"--Container.

"Danila Bagrov, just demobbed from the army, returns to his quiet, provincial home town. But life is monotonous and boring in this Russian backwoods, so he is heading for faraway Petersburg, to his elder brother who, as he heard, is doing quite well there and might help his darling little brother to start a new life. On his arrival in Petersburg, Danila discovers that his brother is indeed doing well, having mastered the profession of a contract killer. And Danila decides to follow suit."--Container.

An elderly man, poet Bruce Nugent, meets a young, black, gay artist struggling to find his voice. Together they embark on a journey through his inspiring past.

Tells the story of four wildly disparate brothers in 19th century Tsarist Russia, who stand to gain an inheritance from their father; together they weave a web of intrigue and murder.

Based on the true story of a reform warden who risks his life to replace brutality and corruption with humanity and integrity in a state prison farm.

Three young Israelis, two guys, Yali and Noam, and a girl, Lulu, share an apartment in Tel Aviv's hippest neighborhood. Noam meets and falls in love with a Palestinian man and he and his friends conspire to help Ashraf stay on in Tel Aviv illegally.

Corporate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers have nothing in common, except they both have been diagnosed with terminal illnesses. While sharing a hospital room together, they decide to make a Bucket List of all the things they have ever wanted to do before they die. In the process of completing the list, both of them heal each other, become unlikely friends, and ultimately find the joy in life.

"A young girl, destined to slay vampires, demons and other infernal creatures, deals with her life fighting evil, with the help of her friends." www.imdb.com

"A young girl, destined to slay vampires, demons and other infernal creatures, deals with her life fighting evil, with the help of her friends." www.imdb.com

"A young girl, destined to slay vampires, demons and other infernal creatures, deals with her life fighting evil, with the help of her friends." www.imdb.com

"A young girl, destined to slay vampires, demons and other infernal creatures, deals with her life fighting evil, with the help of her friends." www.imdb.com

"A young girl, destined to slay vampires, demons and other infernal creatures, deals with her life fighting evil, with the help of her friends." www.imdb.com

"A young girl, destined to slay vampires, demons and other infernal creatures, deals with her life fighting evil, with the help of her friends." www.imdb.com

This drama follows the traumas of a 14-year-old boy who has a terrible home life with an angry mother and a stepfather who can barely stand the sight of him. At school, bullies torment and attack him with regularity. Prone to day-dreaming about a life where he is loved, fights back and has a beautiful girlfriend, the reality of a different and terrible life continually shocks him back to reality. Is he just a timid kid destined for abuse or will he gain the strength to fight off his attackers?

"When three close friends escape from Hong Kong to war-time Saigon to start a criminal's life, they all go through a harrowing experience which totally shatters their lives and their friendship forever." www.imdb.com

Egomaniacal Sir William Walker (Brando) is sent by the British to instigate a slave revolt on a Portuguese-controlled sugar-producing Caribbean island. While there he befriends Jose and Teddy, and plants the seeds of revolution in their heads. Years later he must go back and stop the revolution that he helped begin.

The Japanese Army seizes a ship, Aunt Mary, and forces it to transport goods to a secret base where they are building a submarine harbor and launching their final effort in World War II. Once they arrive the crew is forced to work day and night under sordid and brutal working conditions. Aware that the completion of their work may cost thousands of lives, this multinational band of prisoner join forces together against the enemy.

A lyrical film filled with beauty and warmth, it is also an indelible account of a man dedicated to family and fatherland, cruelly destroyed by political paranoia.

"Nene & Angel and their accomplice Cuervo participate in a botched bank robbery in 1965 Buenos Aires, then hide out from the police in Uruguay while the gang breaks down." www.imdb.com

Life of a young black woman, Dorothy, living on welfare in Watts and her experiences with police violence, welfare offices, unemployment lines, decaying tenements, and social workers.

Former Spokane Reservation best friends, Seymour and Aristotle have taken different paths when they are brought together for the funeral of an old friend. Both went off to college; one is now a successful poet, the other returned home embittered. Tensions and resentments flare as they meet again.

A high-class call girl in New York and a socially prominent man fall in love. However, he can't forget her past and she resents his distrust, so they battle their emotions and each other, leading to a powerful and explosive climax.

After a family tragedy, two young French-Arab brothers leave Paris to live with their uncle and his family in Marseilles. where they are pulled apart as one is seduced by the streets and its life of drugs and crime, while the other desperately seeks to rescue his brother without succumbing to the same temptations.

A hypnotically languorous road movie with an upbeat political kick. The story follows a smalltime traveling sideshow which includes Ciço, a recent addition. A poor villager with a pregnant wife, he has fallen in love with the exotic dancer Salomé. In the end, the troupe heads down dusty roads facing increasing disinterest and social change in Brazil.

An egocentric American girl dreams of becoming a star while working in a third-rate Berlin cabaret.

"A taxi driver is given a difficult choice from 2 small time crooks: drive them around while they rob, or get locked up in the trunk." www.imdb.com

"A skewering of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi." www.imdb.com

When Chris' best friend Annie loses her husband, Chris devises a scheme to memorialize him. The two English women, along with some of their friends--all fiftysomething women--will make a nude calendar to raise money for the hospital where he died. The calendar becomes hugely popular. Based on actual events.

"In 1959, Truman Capote learns of the murder of a Kansas family and decides to write a book about the case. While researching for his novel In Cold Blood, Capote forms a relationship with one of the killers, Perry Smith, who is on death row." www.imdb.com

"When a fisherman leaves to fight with the Greek army during WWII, his fiancee falls in love with the local Italian commander." www.imdb.com

Pantaleón y las visitadoras: A dedicated Peruvian army captain, who is also a devoted husband, is put in charge of a top secret military operation--setting up a brothel in the Amazon jungle to satisfy the needs of his fellow soldiers. While his organizational skills get the unit running smoothly, he must contend with a wife who dislikes the long hours and secrecy of his tak, and finds himself attracted to one of his "subordinates."

Cristina's life is thrown into turmoil when she is suddenly escorted from her strict Catholic school and told that she is really Sofía Lombardi, the daughter of activists who disappeared in the 1970s. Questioning everything she once thought true, Cristina embarks on a journey to find her true identity. Meeting others like herself, the young girl soon discovers the real-life horrors of Argentina's recent past and the nightmare that claimed tens of thousands of lives during the country's 'Dirty War.'

"Brazilian MD Drauzio Varella starts AIDS prevention in Brazil's largest prison, Carandiru, in São Paulo, where the population is nearly double its 4,000 maximum." www.imdb.com

An elderly priest is devastated when his church is deconsecrated, leaving him without a role in life. It is not long before a group of illegal immigrants find shelter in the "church" and give the priest a new role and set of responsibilities.

After getting out of jail, a Puerto Rican drug lord wants to go straight, but his cohorts in the New York Underworld won't let him.

Examines the sexual triumphs and disasters of two American men as it traces their lives from college days to middle age.

"August 6, 1956 during the military dictatorship of Rojas Pinilla. Explosions in central Cali military convoy destroy much of the traditional buildings of the city and exposing the roots of some houses which for years had kept the secret stories of its inhabitants: Proprietary notable families of Manors sugar mills and surrounding. One such family is visited by a girl, who has lived for years in the U.S., and is half sister of our young protagonist. It is knowledge, dig into the past of the family¸ attracted to each other¸ and are immersed in a delirium in which they appear as mythical ancestors who also starred in stories of incest and violence." www.imdb.com

"In World War II Morocco, seething with European refugees desperate for passage to neutral Lisbon, only a world-weary and bitter nightclub owner can help his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis." -www.imdb.com

Andrea is a NATO officer who can only make love in dangerous situations. Concerned for his well-being, he decides to live as a celibate with a beautiful young woman, but will he be able to avoid temptation?

Ace Rothstein and Nicky Santoro, mobsters who move to Las Vegas to make their mark, live and work in this paradoxical world. Seen through their eyes, each as a foil to the other, the details of mob involvement in the casinos of the 1970's and '80's are revealed. Ace is the smooth operator of the Tangiers casino, while Nicky is his boyhood friend and tough strongman, robbing and shaking down the locals. However, they each have a tragic flaw--Ace falls in love with a hustler, Ginger, and Nicky falls into an ever-deepening spiral of drugs and violence.

In 1830 Cuba, the son of a rich colonial family falls in love with a proud, beautiful, but poor mulatto girl. His father, however, wants him to marry a woman from his own social class.

The family and friends of prominent Danish patriarch Helge Klingenfeldt gather at his country estate to celebrate his sixtieth birthday. Two months prior to this event, Helge's daughter committed suicide. Her twin brother, Christian, makes a birthday toast that brings a barrage of family secrets out into the open.

Following their divorce, the lives of a restless writer and his inhibited ex-wife take off in unpredictable directions.

"An emotive journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew." (www.imdb.com)

What should have been a simple cash-for-sex arrangement sends a young computer-genius and a beautiful stripper on an emotionally shattering journey into each of their own deepest erotic fantasies. It's provocative and sensual, captured in a raw and voyeoristic image.

"Unique story of a village's attempts to solve drought by appealing to the powers of a mysterious mountain-dwelling diviner." www.imdb.com

Working-class suburb Los Angeles, 1928. Christine says goodbye to her son, Walter, and departs for work. Arriving home, Christine discovers that Walter is nowhere to be found. Christine launches a desperate search for her son. Then, a boy claiming to be Christine's son appears out of thin air. Knowing the boy is not hers, Christine invites the child to stay in her home. Christine cannot accept the injustice being pushed upon her and continues to challenge the Los Angeles police force at every turn. The police slander Christine and paint her as an unfit mother. Christine challenges the system and the only person willing to aid her in her search is benevolent local activist Reverend Briegleb.

Two 16-year-old girls have an intense friendship while living in Nazi-occupied Tunis in 1942. Nour is a Muslim who eagerly anticipates her wedding to a handsome cousin. Myriam is a French Jew who is furiously resisting her betrothal to a much older doctor. However, his money is needed by her family to pay fines imposed by the Nazis.

"With an international chess tournament in progress, a young man becomes completely obsessed with the game. His fiancée has no interest in it, and becomes frustrated and depressed by his neglect of her, but wherever she goes she finds that she cannot escape chess. On the brink of giving up, she meets the world champion, Capablanca himself, with interesting results." www.imdb.com

"Circa British rule in India, two slightly eccentric noblemen in India, indulge in chess, day and night, without any regard to the change in the situation, personal life, and the eminent threat of the British taking over their region, becoming a harsh reality." www.imdb.com

"Three young Russian friends amuse themselves in a small seaside town with a series of minor adventures, some of which involve a new suit." www.imdb.com

A love story about John Leeds, an idealistic special education teacher, and a headstrong deaf girl named Sarah. At first, Leeds sees Sarah as a teaching challenge. But soon their relationship blossoms into a love so passionate it shatters the barrier of silence that keeps them apart.

"Attacking child labor and the unhealthy living conditions of the urban tenement, Children of Eve climaxes in a detailed reenactment of the tragic Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911." Container

"A private detective hired to expose an adulterer finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption and murder." www.imdb.com

"A young French woman returns to the vast silence of West Africa to contemplate her childhood days in a colonial outpost in Cameroon." www.imdb.com

"Alejandro, a resourceful street orphan on the verge of adolescence, lives and works in an auto-body repair shop in a sprawling junkyard on the outskirts of Queens, New York. In this chaotic world of adults, Alejandro struggles to make a better life for himself and his sixteen-year-old sister." www.imdb.com

" In 1944, in Brooklyn, two Jewish kids become friends. One is from a very conservative family, and the other is more liberal. The issues of importance of tradition, parental expectations and the formation of Israel cause constant friction." www.imdb.com

Levi, an intellectual exiled by the Fascist government during World War II to a mountain village in southern Italy, discovers the resilience and dignity of people who live close to the land.

"A small village in Latin America. Santiago have been knife in the morning. It surprise nobody. The Vicario brothers have openly declared the would kill him to avenge the lost honour of their young sister. It's the way and custom of the country. Nothing and nobody would have prevent it. It was a death foretold. Let see how and why." www.imdb.com

In this cutting though sometimes slow-paced study of children and their ability to be cruel, director Rolan Bykov focuses the eye of the camera on the experiences of a young girl, Lena (Kristina Orbakaite). When the 12-year-old Lena moves into a new town with her grandfather, they are both ostracized because they are different. He is crotchety and eccentric, a collector of old paintings, and she is too shy and anxious to please the usual friends. When she is blamed for something she did not do, the children decide to go after her with a vengeance -- and that is when the cruelty escalates. As Lena begins to get some backbone to withstand her tormentors, fate is waiting in the wings to help her out just a little.

"Two melancholy Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious female underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal server at a late-night restaurant he frequents." (www.imdb.com)

The Kid thinks he's the best 5-card stud player in New Orleans, but The Man has never been beaten. It is therefore inevitable that they go head-on in a non-stop duel to the death.

The story of an Italian boy's love of the movies, and of the projectionist who teaches him the secrets of movie-making.

This film offers insights into the lives of women in Iran. As the narrative dynamically shifts from woman to woman, their stories culminate with tremendous potency, transforming a shared sense of dispair and injustice into one of kinship and even hope.

Grateful for a respite from his imploding marriage, Hamburg newspaperman Georg arrives in civil war torn Beirut to chronicle the bloody Lebanese war. Inside a shell-pitted hotel, Georg and colleague Hoffman, join a cynical international coterie of competitive fellow journalists. Outside, they take their lives in their own hands, dodging bullets and conducting interviews that are always just a trigger pull away from becoming executions.

An all-powerful press magnate, Kane, dies in his fabulous castle Xanadu, his last word being "Rosebud", which leads a reporter to seek the meaning behind the word and find the meaning of Kane.

"The Tramp struggles to help a blind flower girl he has fallen in love with." www.imdb.com

Set in the future world of 1976, in the city of Vientria. The burghers of Vientria pass a law, expelling all Jews from their city. Leo Strakosch, a local Jew who is betrothed to Lotte, a Gentile, reluctantly complies with the law and leaves. As the years pass, the city plunges into economic depression and artistic stagnation because of the loss of its Jewish citizens. Leo Strakosch returns to Vientria, disguising himself as a Gentile. He gets involved in local politics and runs for office, hoping to get elected to the city's council so that he can rescind the law the banished the Jews.

"'Ciudad en Rojo' plantea una reflexión sobre la violencia desde aquellos que no tienen vocación por la violencia, de quienes se ven empujados a ella. Cuando la violencia es impuesta, para recuperar la paz, a veces no queda otra opción que una respuesta también violenta, una violencia que pudiera considerarse legítima y de defensa pero que también es violencia y deja su huella en el ser humano. Esta reflexión no transcurre en abstracto sino que se desprende de una relectura de los personajes y la acción de la novela Bertillón 166 y de la propia historia de Santiago de Cuba en los años finales de la década del 50"--Container.

" Four angry cadets have formed an inner circle in an attempt to beat the system and ward off the boredom and stifling confinement of the military academy, set off a chain of events that starts with a theft and leads to murder. " www.imdb.com

A high-priced personal injury attorney takes on a case that becomes an epic legal battle ... one that may cost him his career, reputation and all that he owns.

The film portrays the personal story of a group of young Cuban revolutionaries in Havana against Fulgencio Batista's dictatorship during the period 1956-1958. It also depicts the role of young Cuban women in the guerrilla warfare that preceded Castro's revolutionary movement and his entry into La Havana in 1959.

"During the 1950s Sasha Lvova reminisces about the WW2 years when she fell in love with Soviet fighter pilot Aleksei Astakhov." (www.imdb.com)

A girl waiting for the result of a medical examination wanders around Paris thinking she has cancer; the film focuses on her ever-changing moods, and her search for answers.

A woman singer waiting for the result of a medical examination wanders around Paris thinking she has cancer. The film focuses on her ever-changing moods, and her search for answers.

Cleopatra tries to increase her power with help from the Roman Empire. Both Julius Caesar and Mark Antony fall for her. After Caesar's death Cleopatra seduces Mark Antony, but the couple soon face certain doom.

"The man-hungry Queen of Egypt leads Julius Caesar and Marc Antony astray, amid scenes of DeMillean splendor." www.imdb.com

Four temporary office workers share good times and bad times while trying to maintain their sanity and upward mobility.

In this cross-cultural comedy, Gombo, a Mongolian herder who lives a traditional life with his wife Pagma and family, and Sergei, a Russian road builder, strike up a friendship and go on the road together, headed for the city. On the way back from town where Gombo purchases condoms and a television, Mongol warriors ridicule Gombo for his trappings of civilization and the truck and television are destroyed. When Gombo returns home, Pagma and he leave their tent with the "urga," a pole with a noose used to catch cattle and mark out a space for lovemaking.

Comedy-drama about a young trainmaster employed in a tiny station during World War II. He becomes involved in a plot to blow up a German ammunition train, but when the plan backfires, he is forced to commit the ultimate act of courage.

At the peak of her international career, Maria Enders is asked to perform in a revival of the play that made her famous twenty years ago. Back then she played the role of an alluring young girl but now she is being asked to step into the older role. With her assistant Maria prepares to play opposite a young Hollywood starlet and finds herself on the other side of the mirror, face to face with an unsettling reflection of herself.

The life of the "Queen of Country Music" from her backwoods Appalachia home to the Grand Ole Opry and super stardom.

Francisco Manoel da Silva, 19th century, gun-toting Brazilian bandit known as the Cobra Verde, is unknowingly hired by the owner of a sugar plantation to keep his slaves in check, but instead, the Cobra manages to sleep with the landowner's daughters and impregnate them. In revenge, the owner sends the Cobra on a dangerous mission to sail to the West coast of Africa and reopen the slave trade, and the Cobra wages war with a local tribal king.

Two political prisoners, freed in 1953 from a Stalinist concentration camp after fourteen years of imprisonment, save a small village from a reign of terror.

Stylized biography of noted eighteenth century Armenian poet and troubadour Sayat Nova, based on his writings. It depicts the poet's life in eight sections, from childhood to death, rich with symbols of sacred and secular Armenian life.

An uneducated woman living in the rural American south who was raped by her father, deprived of the children she bore him and forced to marry a brutal man she calls "Mister" is transformed by the friendship of two remarkable women, acquiring self-worth and the strength to forgive.

Ventura is an elderly immigrant from Cape Verde living in a low-cost housing complex in Lsbon, who has been abandoned by his wife and spends his days visiting his neighbors, whom he considers his "children."

The horrific and harrowing experiences of a young boy coming of age during the brutal German occupation of Byelorussia during the Great Patriotic War.

"A cynical Welsh hotel owner secretly romances a diplomat's wife in Haiti under the violent reign of the despot 'Papa Doc' Duvalier." www.imdb.com

After locking up an embezzling CEO, Jeanne pushes the limits of her power even further and winds up in a dangerous game of threats and intimidation.

A sad, poignant love story set against the social upheaval of the Vietnam war. Set in 1968, the story concerns a woman who, while her husband is serving in Vietnam, falls in love with a paraplegic while performing volunteer work at a San Diego veterans hospital.

"Lu and Feng are a devoted couple forced to separate when Lu is arrested and sent to a labor camp as a political prisoner during the Cultural Revolution. He finally returns home only to find that his beloved wife no longer remembers him." -- imdb.com.

In this drama set against the Russian Civil War, a tough Red Army commander's military career is disrupted by an unwanted pregnancy. Forced to stay with a poor Jewish family until her child is born, she finds herself transformed by the warmth and compassion of her hosts. She must ultimately decide whether to rejoin her troops or stay with her child.

"During Mexican Revolution, Rosalio Mendoza (Del Diestro) survives by making and winning favors from both factions, the governmental forces and Zapata's Army." www.imdb.com

'Even among cinema's greatest legends, Jean Vigo stands alone. The son of a notorious anarchist, Vigo had a brief but brilliant career making poetic, lightly surrealist films before his life was cut tragically short by tuberculosis at age twenty-nine. Like the daring early works of his contemporaries Jean Cocteau and Luis Buñuel, Vigo's films refused to play by the rules. This set includes all of Vigo's titles' -- Container.

William Faber became a tax accountant like his father and resolved himself to a life where nothing much ever changed. At least until the beautiful Anna walked in one day and mistook his office for the therapist's down the hall. Unsolicited, Anna begins to reveal intimate details of her life which include how she is seeking security by attempting to save her tumultuous marriage. William and Anna find a bond developing between them, one that only true strangers can have, even after she finds out who he really is ... or is not! Masterfully directed by French film legen Patrice Leconte ("Man on the Train," "Girl on the Bridge," "The Widow of St. Pierre"), "Intimate Strangers" takes you on a journey into the depths of human relationships and shows just how intimate strangers can be.

"A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident." www.imdb.com

"Screenwriter Paul Javal's marriage to his wife Camille disintegrates during movie production as she spends time with the producer. Layered conflicts between art and business ensue." -IMDB.com

A provoking mystery-suspense drama explores the morality of privacy in the story of Harry Caul, a surveillance expert, who conducts a routine surveillance job only to later find himself suspicious that he has become an unwitting player in murder scheme.

Set in the southern United States, Luke is caught cutting off parking meters and is sentenced to the "chain gang."

"A television adaptation of Michael Frayn's celebrated and award-winning stage play about the meeting between physicists Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg in 1941 Copenhagen." www.imdb.com

" A strong-willed teacher, determined to educate the poor and illiterate youth of an impoverished Welsh village, discovers one student whom she believes to have the seeds of genius in him." www.imdb.com

"The Cotton Club was a famous night club in Harlem. The story follows the people that visited the club, those that ran it, and is peppered with the Jazz music that made it so famous." www.imdb.com

High-powered attorney George Simon frantically juggles the scandals, crimes, and crises that pass through the chrome-and-glass doors of his art deco office high in the Empire State Building. Balanced on an ethical tightrope, Simon engages in insider trading and bleeds funds from wealthy clients, while tending to the needs of the less fortunate New Yorkers who come from his own working-class background. A political enemy uncovers a past legal indiscretion and begins disbarment proceedings, causing Simon's socialite wife to seek comfort in the arms of another man. With the unflagging support of his faithful secretary, Simon attempts to exercise his legalistic wizardry to defend his reputation and protect those who rely upon him for justice.

"The Counterfeiters is the true story of the largest counterfeiting operation in history, set up by the Nazis in 1936. Salomon "Sally" Sorowitsch is the king of counterfeiters. He lives a mischievous life of cards, booze, and women in Berlin during the Nazi-era." www.imdb.com

The tale of a high school graduate teaching in a remote mountain village school in northern China.

Countryman, a nature-boy fisherman with mystical powers, rescues an American couple whose plane has crashed. Against a background of political corruption, he hides them as they are hunted.

"A US Army officer, despondent about a deadly mistake he made, investigates a female chopper commander's worthiness for the Medal of Honor." www.imdb.com

In 1940, WWII, a widower, Niu er and an imported cow survive a Japanese invaders' slaughter in a Chinese villege and Niu er takes the responsibility of raising and, more importantly, protecting the cow. Directed by, Guan Hu, one of the famed 'Chinese sixth generation' directors, Cow is telling a meaningful story in an absurd style.

In a small village in Iran, Hassan cherishes his cow more than anything in the world but, while he is away, the cow mysteriously dies and the villagers try to convince Hassan that she has only wandered off. The griefstricken Hassan begins to believe that he is the cow.

Veronica plans a rendezvous with her lover, Boris, at the bank of river, only for him to be drafted into World War II shortly thereafter.

"[James] Spader stars as James Ballard, a bored film director who explores new realms after a near fatal car accident introduces him to a world of sexually obsessed car crash enthusiasts. Unsatisfied by his marriage, Ballard joins Dr. Helen Remington ([Holly] Hunter) and begins to explore the eroticism of the car and the sexual violence of auto accidents. His quest eventually leads him to Vaughan (Elias Koteas), a renegade scientist overcome by the erotic power of the crash"--Container.

" Los Angeles citizens with vastly separate lives collide in interweaving stories of race, loss and redemption." www.imdb.com

Two brothers compete for the amorous favors of a young woman during a seaside summer of gambling, boating, and drinking. A portrayal of post-war sexual revolution among Japan's young and privileged.

Born on Christmas Day 1960, Zac is the fourth boy in a family of five boys. He shares his story of being different and trying desperately to become "one of the boys."

"The third film of a five-part art-installation epic -- it's part-zombie movie, part-gangster film." www.imdb.com

Eight-year-old Ana lives in Madrid with her two sisters. They are mourning the death of their mother, whom Ana conjures as a ghost. The film evokes both the complex feelings of childhood and the struggles of a nation emerging from the shadows of fascism.

Two sisters, Karin and Maria, are keeping vigil for a third, Agnes, who is dying of cancer and can find solace only in the arms of a beatific nurse.

"Politics and sexual passions threaten to corrupt a young, newly-ordained priest in a small Mexican town." www.imdb.com

"An ophthalmologist's mistress threatens to reveal their affair to his wife, while a married documentary filmmaker is infatuated by another woman." www.imdb.com

Groundlessly jealous of his wife's romantic past, Enrico Fontana hires a private detective to finally determine whether she is faithful or not. Ironically, his suspicious attitude unconsciously brings his wife, Paola, together with Guido, a man with whom she had once been in love. Paola and Guido's past was clouded in tragedy. Guido had been involved with Paola's close friend's death. Their passion rekindled once again, the lovers even get to the point where they are thinking about murdering Enrico.

Tells the story of a traffic engineer who faces adversity and eventual redemption." Container

"Four students in Shanghai have recently finished university. All are unemployed. Xu contemplates suicide but his friend Zhao talks him out of it." www.imdb.com

"Two warriors in pursuit of a stolen sword and a notorious fugitive are led to an impetuous, physically skilled, adolescent nobleman's daughter, who is at a crossroads in her life." www.imdb.com

Laria Ogudalova, the heroine, loses security in marriage and even life for love.

"King Richard and the Third Crusade (1190-1192) are given the DeMille treatment with more spectacle than history." www.imdb.com

Satirically humorous, and sometimes frightening, look at the history of an America where the South won the Civil War.

" A murder sets in motion a series of tragedies that find their way to the city morgue's Dr. Arturo Fernandez. Physically and emotionally isolated, Arturo develops an intimate relationship with the personal lives of his cases, forcing him to confront his connection to the living and the dead. This dark, serpentine tale offers a richly textured rendering of Ecuador's capital." www.imdb.com

Set in 1944, a Russian army officer, a disgraced Finnish army sniper and the owner of a farm form a unique bond in the European region of the Laplands.

A dramatic production, incorporating documentary footage, which argues that political parties and elections serve only to prevent true democracy for the Mayas of Guatemala. The primary characters are of the Mam people and aspects of their everyday life are portrayed.

"This story captures a man’s journey to the mystical house of a father, son, and daughter, where strange events bring the traveler to a better understanding of the redemptive power of Christ’s suffering and death. An RTVE Production." -www.films.com

"In this story, a descendant of famous ancestors dreams of more heroic times … until a serious accident takes him to the doors of death, where the past and the present mingle—and where he meets his final destiny. An RTVE Production." -www.films.com

"Beneath the timid personality of 19-year-old Emma Zunz there lurks a thirst for vengeance. In this tale, Emma’s father, wrongly accused of a crime, commits suicide, sending her on a search for the real culprit. Contains mature themes. An RTVE Production." -www.films.com

"This is a story of passion involving two brothers, inseparable in work and play, and a woman who comes between them. Soon all three are trapped in their own hell of jealousy and death. Contains mature themes. An RTVE Production." -www.films.com

"This mystery revolves around a series of three identical assassinations, each committed on the third day of the month, for three consecutive months, in three different locations. Following the clues, a clever detective stumbles into the perfect trap. An RTVE Production." -www.films.com

"Set in 1930s Spain amidst the politics of the right and the left, this is the tale of a man of humble origin who kills the town bully in a just fight. His life then takes a sudden turn, entangling him in a spiral of violence and suspicion. An RTVE Production" -www.films.com

King Cymbeline's evil second queen forces the king to banish his daughter Imogen's husband, Posthumus. While the queen tries to force Imogen to marry her own son, Posthumus flees to Rome. There he is tricked into believing Imogen has been unfaithful. Imogen disguises herself as a boy and flees the court.

"[Daisy Miller is] an expatriate American living abroad in Europe with her daffy mother and bratty kid brother. Daisy is very liberated and very much ahead of her time as her behavior scandalizes the Victorian high society of 1878."--Container.

" In 1985 Dallas, electrician and hustler Ron Woodroof works around the system to help AIDS patients get the medication they need after he is himself diagnosed with the disease." www.imdb.com

In this Jamaican melodrama, single mother Marcia works as a street vendor to support her two daughters. However, she also needs the financial assistance of "Uncle" Larry, who demands repayments in the form of sex with Marcia's teen daughter Tanya. After Marcia's vending stall is threatened by brutal thug Priest, she devises a retaliatory plan. The dressmaker Mrs. Gordon sews a sexy costume so Marcia can compete for the cash prize in the Dancehall Queen contest. When no one recognizes her in this outfit, she uses the disguise to pit Priest and Larry against each other.

Rewarded for his heroism in the Civil War, Lt. John Dunbar wants to see the American frontier before it is gone. Assigned to an abandoned fort with a Sioux tribe as his only neighbor, he overcomes the language barrier and mutual fear and distrust to become a friend of the tribe. But his knowledge of their ultimate fate forces him to make a crucial decision.

A fictionalized account of the son of a Jewish couple who are branded as spies and put to death by the U.S. government. Believing that his parents were wrongly convicted and executed, their son Daniel Isaacson, an anti-war activist, sets out to clear their name. The film flips back and forth from the story of Daniel and the story of his parents. Based on the real case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.

"Anna has just left Paul who, annihilated by the separation, moves back with his father in Paris. His younger brother Jonathan, a casual student, still lives in his father's apartment and spends most of his time womanizing and fooling around. But what this apparent lightness conceals is a deep wound. Jonathan, in fact, has never been able to overcome the death of his beloved sister. Meanwhile Paul sinks into depression..." www.imdb.com

Radical, new visual techniques are used to bring the first eight cantos of Dante's Inferno to the screen. The film illustrates and complements Dante's text, re-creating a 600 year-old work as a late twentieth century post-modern masterpiece.

In Oklahoma in the 1920s, Ruben Flood loses his job as a traveling salesman, when the company goes bankrupt. This adds to his worries at home. His wife Cora is frigid because of trying to make ends meet. His teenage daughter Reenie is afraid of going out on dates, but eventually makes friends with a troubled Jewish boy Sammy, and his son is a mama's boy. He finally storms out of the house when Cora falsely accuses him of having an affair with Mavis Pruitt.

Follows the daring patrol of the U-96, one of the famed German U-boats known as the "gray wolves." The crew is graphically portrayed in a life-and-death struggle, challenging the British Navy at every turn.

A young man falls in love with a girl from a fishing village, but the young man has a fiancee from an arranged marriage. After the fiancee learns that the young man and the fishing girl are truly in love, she withdraws herself and helps to make the match.

Story of a large African-American family as they prepare to move North from the Sea Islands off the coast of Georgia at the dawn of the 20th century.

A film director who no longer makes films, Seongjun, arrives in Seoul to meet a close friend. When the friend doesn't show up, Seongjun wanders the city aimlessly. He runs into an actress he used to know, shares a drink with some film students and against his better judgment, heads to his ex-girlfriend's apartment. The next day goes very much like the last; Seongjun meets the actress, has drinks with friends, and falls for woman who looks remarkably like his ex-girlfriend. Each new day plays out like a flimsy copy of the previous one, but only Seongjun knows why. Infused with a playfulness and dry wit that recalls the films of Woody Allen and Eric Rohmer, The Day He Arrives is a delightful meditation on relationships, filmmaking, and the unknowable forces that govern our lives.

" The young wife of an aging priest falls in love with his son amidst the horror of a merciless witch hunt in 17th century Denmark." www.imdb.com

"An alien lands and tells the people of Earth that they must live peacefully or be destroyed as a danger to other planets." www.imdb.com

"A well-off and sophisticated couple struggles to stay together after the husband loses his job." www.imdb.com

"Set in 1960, the film centres on the young, boyishly handsome Yuddy, who learns from the drunken ex-prostitute who raised him that she is not his real mother." www.imdb.com

"Twenty-three-year-old Santiago returns home from the Peruvian army ill-prepared to cope with the realities of life. Haunted by his violent military past, he is conflicted by his desire for education and his temptation to join his comrades in a decadent life of crime"--Container.

Tells the story of convicted killer Matthew Poncelet and Sister Helen Prejean, his spiritual advisor, and the journey they undertake in search of the truth.

Robin Williams portrays English professor John Keating, who, in an age of crew cuts, sport coats and cheerless conformity, inspires his students to live life to the fullest, exclaiming "Carpe Diem, lads! Seize the day. Make your lives extraordinary!" The charismatic teacher's emotionally charged challenge is met by his students with irrepressible enthusiasm--changing their lives forever.

A complicated Kung Fu action drama with the touch of old west. A selfish father forces a maid to marry his mentally disabled son. When her lover tries to save her, he is shot after a wild struggle and buried alive. He survives to return as an accomplished gunfighter taking his revenge on the whole family.

"Filmmaker Kurt Kuenne's poignant tribute to his murdered childhood friend, Andrew Bagby, tells the story of a child custody battle between Bagby's grieving parents and Shirley Turner, Bagby's pregnant ex-girlfriend and suspected killer. " www.amazon.com

"A political activist is convinced that her guest is a man who once tortured her for the government." www.imdb.com

Upper-class geometry professor Juan and his wealthy, married mistress María José, driving back from a late-night rendezvous, accidentally hit a cyclist and run. The resulting tale of guilt, infidelity, and blackmail reveals the wide gap between the rich and the poor in Spain and surveys the corrupt ethics of a society seduced by decadence.

An abbreviated television adaptation of Arthur Miller's Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a middle-aged man's emotional turmoil.

Dark drama of a failed man, Willy Loman, whose life did not measure up to his expectations. Movie made for television.

"In 1966, three Mossad agents were assigned to track down a feared Nazi war criminal hiding in East Berlin, a mission accomplished at great risk and personal cost--or was it? Thirty years later, the suspense builds as shocking news and surprising revelations compel retired team member Rachel Singer ... to take matters into her own hands"--Container.

A hard-nosed debt collector, Lucek, mercilessly repossesses anything from defibrillator machines from hospitals to a statue of the Virgin Mary, without remorse. But things invariably start to unravel for Lucek, and an "epiphany" turns him into a human being, despite everyone's doubts.

Boccaccio's classic tales of passion brought to the screen with all their lusty fervor intact. Among the stories are a young man's exploits with a gang of robbers, a flock of randy nuns who sin with a strapping gardener, and a pupil of the painter Giotto working on a massive fresco.

Harry Block has gone through three wives, six psychiatrists and dozens of girlfriends during his long literary career. But when Harry writes a bestseller about his best friends, his best friends become his worst enemies.

Tracks a group of steelworker pals from a Pennsylvania blast furnace to the cool hunting grounds of the Alleghenies to the lethal cauldron of Vietnam. Shows what happens to friendship and courage under stress.

"Antonio Martins (Marco Ricca) is a theater critic who has gained a reputation for his incisive analytical style and his keen logical sense. Antonio is the sort of man who feels the need to work out his perceptions and opinions about everything around him, but he's thrown for a loop when he meets Inês (Lilian Taublib), an earthy but attractive artist's model who has only one leg. Inês also has a relationship with artist Jose (Felipe Ehrenberg) that encompasses both the professional and the physical, though she's willing to spend time with Antonio as well. It takes a while for Antonio to come to terms with his feelings for Inês, and when he does, he responds with an aggressive erotic act that he interprets as a passionate expression of love, but she regards as sexual assault. Inês goes to the police and files charges against Antonio, who must now explain his actions and emotions in court"--All Movie Guide.

William Klein's explosive New York street photography made him one of the most heralded artists of the sixties. An American expatriate in Paris, Klein has also been making challenging cinema for more than forty years, yet with the exception of his acclaimed documentary Muhammad Ali, the Greatest, his film work is barely known in the United States. In his three fiction features -- Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?, Mr. Freedom, and The Model Couple -- he skewers the fashion industry, American empire, and governmental mind control with hilarious, cutting aplomb. Today Klein's politically galvanizing social critiques seem even more acute than the works of the better-known New Wavers. These are colorful, surreal antidotes to all forms of social oppression.

Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee "River before it's turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a river-rafting trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country." www.imdb.com

"Story of the trials and tribulations of a German who emigrates to the US during the Great Depression." www.imdb.com

Matt King is an indifferent husband and father of two girls, who is forced to re-examine his past and embrace his future when his wife suffers a boating accident off of Waikiki. The event leads to a rapprochement with his young daughters while Matt wrestles with a decision to sell the family's land handed down from Hawaiian royalty and missionaries.

A German shipyard laborer joins a worker's strike in defiance of a corrupt union and regardless of the company's violent reprisals. Starved, beaten, and discouraged, he is sent in an envoy to the USSR and is rejuvenated by the spirit of cooperation and optimism of the idyllic workers' state.

"In a palace of Paris. Two detectives are investigating a two-year-old murder. Emile and Francoise Chenal are putting pressure on Jim Fox Warner, a boxing manager, who owes them a huge amount of money. But Jim also owes money to the Mafia, and it seems the boxing match he is counting on to bail out will not be sufficient..." www.imdb.com

It's 1983. The Cold War is hot. The threat of nuclear conflict looms. Born and raised in East Germany, Martin Rauch is sent undercover, as Moritz Stamm, to West Germany, to work for a top General in the Bundeswehr. Officially, his job is to gather intelligence on the placement of the Pershing II Missiles. A secondary gig develops, infiltrating youth culture through close relationships with the General's two children. But nothing and no one are as they seem.

"The Devil's needle stars silent goddess Norma Talmadge as a morphine addicted artist's model who sends a neurotic painter down a path of moral deteioration." Container

"Julio Arguelles is the son of a wealthy Buenos Aires businessman. He wants to marry Margarita, but she is below his social status and his father is opposed to the union. Eventually Julio's father disavows him, and Julio marries Margarita and they run off together." www.imdb.com

George Campo searches desperately for his sanity after a near-fatal car crash and three weeks in a coma, when he awakes to a strange new life and can't remember a thing. He becomes convinced that someone wants him dead.

In 1752, a doctor makes the voyage from Portugal to Brazil and keeps a diary about the dangerous voyage, his impressions of the new country, and the power struggles between Spain and Portugal. Once in Brazil, he falls in love with the wife of a Portuguese officer.

A chambermaid with Paris flair gets a job at a country estate. The family she works for and the other staff members are a strange sort and she must learn the ways of country living and neighbor rivalry. After a child is murdered near the estate, she begins to have her suspicions as to whom may be responsible.

A pharmacist's daughter seduced by her father's assistant has a child and is banished to a repressive reform school. Escaping, she makes her way penniless to a brothel where she lives for the moment.

Young German boys suffer senseless deaths during the final days of World War II. Betrayed and urged on by unenlightened leaders, they come to believe that a small and meaningless bridge is worth any risk to their lives.

"Two couples, in which the two men are brothers, meet at a fashionable restaurant for dinner. Between mouthfuls of food and over the polite scrapings of cutlery, the conversation remains a gentle hum of polite discourse. But behind the empty words, terrible things need to be said, and with every forced smile and every new course, the knives are being sharpened. Each couple has a child: the two teenagers are united by their accountability for a single horrific act; an act that has triggered a police investigation and shattered the comfortable, insulated worlds of their families. As the dinner reaches its culinary climax, the conversation finally touches on their children. As civility and friendship disintegrate, each couple show just how far they are prepared to go to protect those they love"--Cineuropa website.

"An illegal Nigerian immigrant discovers the unpalatable side of London life." www.imdb.com

"A surreal, virtually plotless series of dreams centered around six middle-class people and their consistently interrupted attempts to have a meal together." www.imdb.com

In 1920, in the village of San Clemente, in Galicia, a cruel and shameless story unfolds with the exploitation of a hydrocephalic put on display in fair after fair by the wife of the sacristan, the ecclesiastical authority in the village.

The story of Jean-Dominique Bauby, French editor of Elle magazine, who suffered a stroke at the age of 43, paralyzing his entire body except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind.

"Unbeknownst to them, a handful of people are brought together by a crafty swindler, only to eagerly conspire against one another for the promise of a lucrative reward." www.imdb.com

Roughneck stoker Bill Roberts gets into all sorts of trouble during a brief shore leave when he falls hard for Mae, a wise and weary dance-hall girl.

"A man robs a bank to pay for his lover's operation; it turns into a hostage situation and a media circus." www.imdb.com

Grace arrives in the isolated town of Dogville, on the run from gangsters. The townspeople agree to hide her. However, when outsiders start looking for the fugitive, the locals make demands of Grace in exchange for the risk of harboring her. But Grace has a secret and it's a dangerous one.

A poet and surgeon, husband and lover finds his life disrupted by war and revolution. It alters the lives of many, including Tonya, the gentle woman he marries and Lara, the woman he cannot forget.

A journalist ventures into the decadent society of modern Rome and finds that his values are being destroyed, leaving him totally disillusioned.

"Three stories of never-ending love." www.imdb.com

A married couple takes an extended trip to Venice following a family tragedy. While in that elegantly decaying city, they have a series of inexplicable, terrifying, and increasingly dangerous experiences.

"Sabina has a regular life. She is satisfied with her job and her love for Franco. Lately nightmares start disturbing her, and almost in the same time she discovers to be pregnant. Step by step she remembers her childhood spent within a severe middle-class family. But a big secret is hidden within her heart." www.imdb.com

This film takes place in 1957 during the time of the US-USSR space race in a Russian port city near the Finnish border. The life of the restaurant cook Konek and his waitress girlfriend are changed by the arrival of the mysterious German, Konek's new boxing partner. German listens to foreign broadcasts, teaches himself English, and swims in ice water. What is he preparing himself for?

Hector is a rising college basketball star in a troubled relationship with dance student Olive, while his roommate, guerrilla theater student/political activist Gabriel, keeps himself awake so long to avoid the draft that he slips into madness.

Teacher Ben du Toit sees himself as a caring and just person. When his gardener's son is beaten up by police at a demonstration by black children, he sees that society is built on a foundation of prejudice.

"Set in Iraq (but shot in Syria), this is the story of three men who try to leave their impoverished and hopeless lives to get get work in Kuwait." www.imdb.com

When a gay lawyer is diagnosed with AIDS, he copes with coming out to his family and colleagues as they deal with their own prejudices.

"In the peaceful countryside, Vassily opposes the rich kulaks over the coming of collective farming."
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"It's 1947 and the borderlines between India and Pakistan are being drawn. A young girl bears witnesses to tragedy as her ayah is caught between the love of two men and the rising tide of political and religious violence." www.imdb.com

The saga of three generations of the Trask and Hamilton families in the early 1900's in Northern California.

Following World War II, a Russian doctor and his French wife take their son back to the Soviet Union to live, but find it is an oppressive nightmare.

Hippie motorcyclists cross the Southwest and encounter a crazy quilt of good and bad people. An attorney joins their quest for awhile and articulates society's problem with freedom as the two hippies embody it.

"Two counterculture bikers travel from Los Angeles to New Orleans in search of America." www.imdb.com

"A senior chef lives with his three grown daughters; the middle one finds her future plans affected by unexpected events and the life changes of the other household members." www.imdb.com

Tells the story of two scrap metal pickers, Edi and his friend Jureczek. Edi is falsely accused of raping the sister of a local thug which leads to tragedy and joy as Edi is made to care for her little baby.

"Six characters are drawn together by circumstances - an old man and a prostitute forging a partnership, a young scholar reconciling his past, two young women falling in love, and a mother putting the shattered pieces of her life back together." (www.worldcat.org)

As the result of an inventor's sudden death, his creation Edward is left with long, sharp scissors instead of hands. Edward is brought from his lonely castle to a stylized, pastel suburb by a kindly Avon lady, who tries to make a home for him with her family and neighbors, with alarming, darkly comic results.

"A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies." www.imdb.com

A love story set in the early days of the Wars of Independence in Quito, Ecuador.

"The fabled Spanish hero Rodrigo Diaz (a.k.a. El Cid) overcomes a family vendetta and court intrigue to defend Christian Spain against the Moors." www.imdb.com

"Based on the novel Francisco by Anselmo Suárez y Romero, "The Other Francisco" is a socio-economic analysis of slavery and class struggle through the retelling of the original novel. The film contrasts the romantic conceptions of plantation life found in Suárez Romero's novel with a realistic expose of the actual historical conditions of slavery throughout the Americas. It offers a critical analysis of the novel, showing how the author's social background led to his use of particular dramatic structures to convey his liberal, humanitarian viewpoint." -www.imdb.com

Tracy Flick (Witherspoon), a straight-A go-getter is determined to be president of Carver High's student body. Popular teacher Jim McAllister (Broderick) decides to derail Tracy's obsessive overachieving by recruiting an opposition candidate. Mr. M. never imagines that stopping Tracy is like trying to put toothpaste back in the tube.

" When a sudden illness and an unexpected reunion threaten dutiful housewife Elena's potential inheritance, she must hatch a desperate plan ..." www.imdb.com

Captain Nascimento from BOPE (Special Police Operation Battalion) wants to find his replacement. Two childhood friends, cadets Matias and Neto, become dismayed at the corruption in the military police. They decide to join the BOPE and Nascimento hopes one of them would become his replacement.

One man's fervent pursuit of wealth and power leads him to religion for profit in the evangelist tents of the 1920's Midwestern Corn Belt.

" Period film. A half breed Spanish-Indian soldier returns to Peru from Europe in 1618 to find a document that can prove he is not illegitimate." www.imdb.com

Brutus Jones, a African American Pullman porter schemes, swindles, and powers his way to become ruler of a Caribbean island.

1895, a small Japanese village. Part-time barmaid Seki is married to Gisaburo, a hardworking rickshaw man. Toyoji is a younger man at loose ends since leaving the army. Toyoji seduces Seki, and they embark on a desultory affair. Later, an impetuous action of Toyoji's prompts the lovers to murder Gisaburo. Three years later, Gisaburo's ghost appears, a sad and confused lost soul whose vague desperation drives his murderers to anguished guilt. This film was director Oshima's venture into the kaidan (Japanese ghost story), and was highly acclaimed on its release in 1978.

"A drama set at the end of the Forties and the beginning of the Fifties. In a distant garrison town, life proceeds at a measured pace. The officers drink and debauch, while the soldiers serve. Meanwhile accidentally unleashed human emotions are suffocated by the atmosphere of cruelty and hypocrisy" www.imdb.com

The story takes place on a farm in the Ecuadorian Andes, in the summer of 1976. Nine year old Manuela is named after her father, a socialist and atheist; but her grandmother, a Catholic and conserative insists on giving her the name that all first-born girls of the family have: Dolores. Determined to defend the name and ideals of her father, Manuela faces her family and herself, changing their relationship forever.

"A peasant comes to St. Petersburg to find work. He unwittingly helps in the arrest of an old village friend who is now a labor leader. The unemployed peasant is also arrested and sent to fight in World War I. After three years, he returns ready for revolution." www.imdb.com

Based on the true story of WWII Russian hero Vassili Zaitsev whose fame thrust him into a personal war with the Nazis best sharpshooter, Major Erwin Konig.

In Riverton, Maine, circa 1893, Dr. Thomas Stockman wants to disclose that the town's moneymaking health spa "Clearwater Springs" has been fouled by pollution from a tannery. But his proposal to go public is opposed by his brother Peter, the town mayor, who prompts a wave of public outrage against Dr. Stockman and his family.

"Bruno and Sonia, a young couple living off her benefit and the thefts committed by his gang, have a new source of money: their newborn son."

Based on a real historical event, this is the story of Kaspar Hauser, a young man who appeared in a small German town in 1820 after having lived in total isolation from humans since birth. He is taught to speak, read, and write by the townspeople, but is then mysteriously murdered.

Anna Holm's bitterness over her facial disfigurement leads her to become a blackmailer. However, when one of her victims turns out to be married to a renowned plastic surgeon, Anna is given the opportunity to change her life.--Container.

Lee goes to the island of a warlord of crime, Han, who carries on his opium smuggling and prostitution activities under the disguise of a martial arts academy. Determined to revenge the death of his sister, Lee penetrates Han's stronghold and enters a brutal martial arts tournament Hans is staging.

"A couple undergo a procedure to erase each other from their memories when their relationship turns sour, but it is only through the process of loss that they discover what they had to begin with." www.imdb.com

A young poet and journalist is persuaded by his lover to become involved in the politics of his country. He fights against two corrupt politicians, a populist governor and a conservative president, both who were at one time his friends.

"As a director and his crew shoot a controversial film about Christopher Columbus in Cochabamba, Bolivia, local people rise up against plans to privatize the water supply." www.imdb.com

Leo Kessler, an American of German descent, visits Germany in 1945. He works as a night conductor on the Zentropa Railway Line, owned by a Nazi sympathizer. Leo attempts to remain neutral to the ongoing purging of loyalists by the Allied forces, but he falls in love with the railway magnate's daughter.

Ingrid Bergman plays a wealthy, self-absorbed Rome socialite racked by guilt over the shocking death of her young son. As a way of dealing with her grief and finding meaning in her life, she decides to devote her time and money to the city's poor and sick. Her newfound, single-minded activism leads to conflicts with her husband and questions about her sanity.

"Living a life of loneliness and questioning his existence, Sinji struggles to accept responsibility for mankind's battle for survival in this visually striking rebuild of one of the most important anime of all time. Shinji will fight the angels alongside the only person who might understand his plight, Rei Ayanami, the elusive and frail pilot of Eva Unit 00. Experience not to be missed, Shinji and Rei will struggle to learn a simple truth"--Container

"The story of a simple woman, Evdokiia, her husband and the children they take into their home in the Soviet Union in the 1920s-1940s."

Roz Batiste is a beautiful and dedicated mother of three, who is forced to admit that her family is falling apart due to her philandering husband Louis. Her younger daughter, Eve, witnesses one of her father's infidelities. Struggling to make sense of what she has seen, Eve turns to her older sister Cisely, who dismisses her in fear of the truth, and then to her Aunt Mozelle, a known psychic and rumored black widow. Unable to find the understanding she is looking for Eve decides to take matters into her own hands. For the Batiste family, the ties that bind may not be strong enough to keep them together, and what they learn will change their lives forever.

A young woman of the 16th century stands up to her scheming stepmother and works miracles on the lives of everyone around her, including the crown prince of France.

A young American man, with the help of a local who speaks weirdly broken English, journeys to find the woman who saved his grandfather during World War II in a Ukrainian village that was ultimately razed by the Nazis.

Falcone obsessively targets the Mafia in Sicily when he uncovers mob ties to drug-dealing, pay-offs, and murder. When a godfather decides to expose the inner workings of the multi-family commission, the massive trial threatens all their lives.

"In this nightmare vision of the future, a neo-fascist politician clears the streets of immigrants confining them in a ghetto called Dreamland. But when his adopted son discovers that his real parents are imprisoned refugees, his attempts to help them escape results [sic] in a war in which the brutally oppressed resort to brutal means to win their freedom"--Container.

Five disparate characters become linked to each other's destinies and a strip club called Exotica.

A young woman escapes a rapist, only to have him appear at her house. She fights back and turns the tables.

Raúl Veirabés is the head of the film censorship office in Argentina in 1977, during military rule. He is a man of average tastes, frank, discerning and honest--one whose taste in films conflicts with his duties. He lives with his adolescent daughter in an unremarkable life, other than his secret collection of the most beautiful parts of the films he has censored. Eight years later, democracy reigns and he has difficulty in reconciling his former life with the present reality.

A wife's admission of unfulfilled sexual longings plunges Dr. William Harford, a New Yorker, into an erotic odyssey that could destroy his marriage and ensnare him in a lurid murder mystery.

Powerful story of the disintegration of a marriage of a captain of industry and his wife.

Summer is hot, especially on Falcon Beach, where tension between the locals and rich tourists is just a bikini string away from boiling over. Here is the complete first season of a show where the innocence of summer is threatened by land developers who want to take away the peaceful charm of a beach that represents more than just sun tans and waves. The beach is the center of life for both those who live there year round and the vacationers who settle in each season when the mercury rises. When the two worlds meet, the sun won't be the only thing heating up the sand.

After poisoning the Emperor of the Roman Empire Marcus Aurelius, his supposed son Commodus falls into dissipation and allows Rome to be ravaged by pestilence and the Barbarians.

In the garishly lit latenight world of Hong Kong, the lives of four lonely people briefly intersect: Wong Chi-Ming, a jaded hit man who wants out of his dangerous, solitary business but is leery of emotional involvement; the Agent, the beautiful partner-in-crime he's never met, but who's fallen in love with Chi-Ming anyway; Baby, a bleached-blonde, nightcrawling cookie who's looking for love but will settle for being remembered by Chi-Ming; and He Zhiwu, a mute, overgrown child who, in the wee hours, breaks into closed-up shops, opens them for business and forces customers to shop against their will.

Follows a troubled man, Bill Foster, who has a mental breakdown and embarks upon an increasingly violent crime spree across Los Angeles. A police detective, Sgt. Prendergast, who is working his last day before retiring, is the only one who correctly pieces together the clues. Prendergast races to find and arrest Foster before the dangerous and unpredictable man reaches his destination: his ex-wife and young daughter.

Story about students at the High School of Performing Arts, New York. Dance sequences include an audition, classes, a ballet solo by Antonia Franceschi, and the ensemble numbers "Fame" and "I sing the body electric."

A story about a bureaucrat and landlord family in a big city during the years 1916-1920. The head of the family is a man who insists that his grandchildren behave in the traditional manner, with tragic consequences for all.

A dramatization of William Shakespeare's historical play, which tells of the intrigues during the first part of Henry's reign, his divorce from Katharine of Aragon, and marriage to Anne Bullen, who gives birth to a baby girl, Elizabeth.

Told through the eyes of Alexander and his sister Fanny, we see the exuberant and colorful Ekdahl household in a Swedish town early in the twentieth century. Their parents, Oscar and Emilie, are the director and the leading lady of the local theatre company. Oscar's mother and brother are its chief patrons. After Oscar's early death, his widow marries the bishop and moves with her children to his austere and forbidding chancery. The children are immediately miserable, but befriend a local Jewish merchant whose odd household becomes the children's refuge.

Contains three films written by Marcel Pagnol. Marius is a young man torn between his love for his family and his desire to move away from his Marseilles harbor, while Fanny, his shy lover, doesn't know how to hold Marius back to keep him near her. Cesar, Marius' father, does not know his son's intentions. When Marius leaves, Fanny discovers she is pregnant with his son, and struggles with the support of his family, to survive without him.

"In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife faces a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in the outside world." www.imdb.com

"After the death of his mother, a man tries to discover a meaning to his life, to the universe and to rebuild a relationship with the only family he has left: his brother." www.imdb.com

Story that spans more than 50 years in the lives of two men at the Peking Opera, friends since childhood, and the woman who comes between them. Also an absorbing drama of the period in Chinese history from the warlord era through the Cultural Revolution.

A comedy that chronicles the trials and tribulations of several high school students.

A New York attorney has a romantic fling while his wife is out of town, and then shrugs it off. But the woman involved with him won't be ignored, even if it means destroying his family to keep him.

A teenage Jewish boy from Budapest finds himself in turmoil as Hitler's Final Solution becomes policy throughout Europe. Taken from his family and sent to a concentration camp, his existence becomes a surreal adventure in adversity in order to survive.

A father and son live together in a rooftop apartment. They have lived alone for years in their own private world. Sometimes they seem like brothers, at other times they appear to be like lovers. Following in his father's footsteps, the son, Alexei attends military school. He likes sports and has problems with his girlfriend. She is jealous of Alexei's relationship with his father. Alexei's father knows he should maybe accept a better job in another city, maybe search for a new wife. But who will ease the pain of Alexei's nightmares?

An old man leaves his Georgia village and goes off to the front lines to find his son, a soldier.

"The demon Mephisto wagers with God that he can corrupt a mortal man's soul." www.imdb.com

An everyman lured off the streets of Prague finds himself becoming Faust and entering a world of mind-boggling magic and strange encounters. He summons up Mephisto, makes his awful pact and is plunged into a world of laughing devils, dreams and nightmares. Film is a profoundly imaginative combination of live-action, claymation, puppet-theatre, stop-motion animation and special effects.

A young man who survived a plane crash becomes more wildly alive and takes more risks when he discovers that the crash transformed him into a man without fear of death. Meanwhile, his wife struggles to find within him the man she married, and another survivor of the crash believes nothing and no one can heal her pain.

"Set in nineteenth-century New Orleans, the story depicts the gens de couleur libre, or the Free People of Colour, a dazzling yet damned class caught between the world of white privilege and black oppression." www.imdb.com

Urania Cabral returns to Santo Domingo after 30 years to face the past--the horrifying circumstances that changed her life forever when she was a teenager and the brutal dictator Rafael Leónidas Trujillo ("El Chivo") ruled the Dominican Republic.

Fedora, an aging and reclusive film star, dies in Paris, after being struck by a train. At her funeral, a film producer thinks back over the past two weeks and the part he might have played in her death. He travelled to Corfu to track her down, pushing himself into her island villa, where she lived with a nurse, an old countess, and the plastic surgeon whose job was to keep her looking young.

"Hadas Yaron (Fill the Void) returns in ... an unconventional love story between two people living vastly different lives. Meira (Yaron), a young Hasidic wife and mother unhappy in her life, and Félix (Martin Dubreuil), a man lost in mourning the recent death of his father, unexpectedly meet in Montreal's Mile End district. What starts as an innocent friendship becomes more serious as the two find comfort and freedom in one another. As Félix opens Meira's eyes to the world outside of her Orthodox community, her desire for change becomes harder for her to ignore"--Container.

Four films by Fernando Di Leo, a prolific film maker who explored the political extremism and mafia corruption in Italy during the 1970s by showing how the mafia had debased the working class. Contained in this box set is the Milieu Trilogy: Milano calibro 9 (1972), The Italian Connection (La Mala Ordina, 1972), and The Boss (Il Boss, 1973). Exclusive in this box set is Rulers of the city (I Padroni della Città, 1976).

A disturbed insomniac and a slippery soap salesman start a network of "fight clubs" to channel male aggression as a shocking form of therapy.

" A young Hasidic Jewish woman is pressured into an arranged levirate marriage to an older widower." www.imdb.com

A selection of erotic stories from "The Thousand and One Nights". The film is framed by the story of a young man's quest to reconnect with his beloved slave girl.

In the midst of the 2002 riots between the Hindus and the Muslims in Gujarat, the lives of people from different walks of life are all tested, from a couple desperately trying to decide whether or not to stay in their home, to a woman who must deal with the guilt of sending someone away, to a group of men bent on revenge.

In New Delhi Sita, a beautiful and intelligent young woman embarks on an arranged, loveless marriage to a faithless husband, Jatin. The extended family, owners of a video store, live together according to custom. Family tensions escalate. Radha, Sita's sister-in-law, is unable to conceive; her disappointed husband Ashok (Sita's husband's brother) has taken a vow of celibacy, acquired a swami and is often gone. Eventually Jita and Radha develop a physical relationship which is far more emotionally sustaining than they have found with their husbands. Banned in India, this film was the first to confront lesbianism in that country.

The film is set in a land that has been in the midst of a ravaging drought for ten years. In order to appease Indra the god of rain, a grand fire sacrifice is being conducted at the palace. As this sacrifice draws to a close, begins our story-- a grand tale of lust, seduction, love, betrayal, sibling rivalry and ultimately murder.

"In the closing days of WWII remnants of the Japanese army in Leyte are abandoned by their command and face certain starvation." www.imdb.com

A brilliant and ambitious Harvard Law grad joins a small, prosperous law firm in Memphis, and is soon confronted by FBI agents with evidence of corruption and murder within the firm.

"Carmen is a member of a terrorist gang who falls in love with a young police officer guarding a bank that she and her cohorts try to rob. She leads him on while dragging the two of them closer to their ultimate doom. Jean-Luc Godard intercuts the film with shots of a string quartet practicing Beethoven, and his main protagonist, Carmen, is played by Maruschka Detmers creating a stunning effect in many scenes of extended nudity." www.imdb.com

Dani, a recent widower, flees the Libyan conflict with his one-year old daughter to a small mountain village in Italy where other refugees take him in. Distraught over his wife's death, he finds he can't face raising his daughter and leaves it to the others in the building to do it. Meanwhile, he takes a job as a carpenter's assistant who is also a beekeeper. The old man there lives with his daughter and grandson. They too recently experienced the death of a loved one, the daughter's husband. Michele, the 10-year-old grandson befriends Dani and together they bond to work through the changes in their lives.

Everything changes for 15-year-old Mia when her mum brings home a new boyfriend.

Follows the rise and fall of union leader Johnny Kovak from his beginnings as an idealistic blue collar worker to head of the Federation of Inter-State Truckers.

"The story of Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an extremely determined man who intends to build an opera house in the middle of a jungle." www.imdb.com

" A drop-out from upper-class America picks up work along the way on oil-rigs when his life isn't spent in a squalid succession of bars, motels, and other points of interest." www.imdb.com

Character study of a talented pianist who has given up a promising career and now works on oil rigs. After 20 years he returns home to his father's deathbed perhaps to reconcile himself with his fear of failure and desire for greatness.

Set in the 1950s, Soviet life is examined through the lives of the residents in a communal apartment and a couple separated by the war.

Five young friends are drawn together by music. Their dreams of fame and fortune take them from amateur nights in ghetto clubs to the pinnacle of show business success and personal tragedy. When the vocal group The Five Heartbeats get to the top of music world they learn the hard reality of the music industry.

Interweaves the stories of five characters, each using one of the five senses to make sense of the world.

The story of the five Marines and one Navy corpsman that were forever immortalized as a symbol of WWII by raising the American flag at the battle of Iwo Jima. When Joe Rosenthal's photograph of the event becomes a symbol of hope for the families at home, the three surviving men are pulled from combat and sent on a tour across America to raise desperately-needed bond money. It is a trip that brings out the truths of both that symbolic act, and of their lives during war.

"Flanders tells the story of Demester, a man whose girlfriend cheats on him out of frustration with his lack of emotion." www.imdb.com

"Contemporary Russia. A humiliated bank executive takes revenge on his adulterous wife and corrupt employers." www.imdb.com

Simon is dealing with the increased fragility of his loving yet preoccupied mother, Suzanne. When a Taiwanese film student, Song, is hired to help care for Simon, a unique extended family is formed. The two become completely dependent on each other, yet both are lost in separate dreams mirrored by a delicate, shiny red balloon.

Leo is a successful writer of fabulously popular romance novels, published under the nom de plume Amanda Gris. Needy and demanding, her own romantic life has taken a nosedive since her husband Paco joined the peacekeeping forces in Bosnia in order to escape her. Despising the lucrative fluff she has been writing, she is depressed, drinks too much, tries to commit suicide, and is outraged when her publisher derides the gritty novel she has tried to submit. Her friend Betty suggests that she take up journalism, keeping her other identity secret. Newspaper editor Angel loves her bodice-rippers, but wants her to succeed as a journalist. Can Leo face the truth of her disintegrating marriage? Can she withstand the revelation of her secret?

Russian version of the novel "Drei Kameraden" by Erich Maria Remarque. A love story which ends with death of a woman.

"Set in New York during the height of World War II, Focus recounts the unraveling of an American community when the identity of a man (William H. Macy) and his wife (Laura Dern) are mistaken [as Jewish]. Slowly ostracized at home and work, they learn the value of self and solidarity as they struggle to maintain dignity and find happiness"--Container.

Nicky is a seasoned master of misdirection who becomes romantically involved with novice con artist Jess. As he's teaching her the tricks of the trade, she gets too close for comfort and he abruptly breaks it off. Three years later, the former flame, now an accomplished femme fatale, shows up in Buenos Aires in the middle of the high stakes racecar circuit. In the midst of Nicky's latest, very dangerous scheme, she throws his plans for a loop, and the consummate con man off his game.

Foolish wives: "A fake Russian Count, with the aid of two female accomplices, attempts to seduce and swindle unsuspecting women and citizens of Monte Carlo."
"The man you loved to hate blends revealing interviews, rare photographs and clips from von Stroheim's legendary and lesser-known works to create a fascinating tribute to one of American cinema's most complex artists."

Tarek, a young Palestinian man blackmailed into a suicide mission in Tel Aviv, is given a second chance at life when the fuse on his expolsive vest fails to detonate. Forced to spend the weekend in Tel Aviv waiting its repair, he meets the beautiful Keren, who has cut off contact with her Orthodox Jewish family. As love blooms, so does decision-making.

"A young French girl orphaned in a Nazi air attack is befriended by the son of a poor farmer, and together they try to come to terms with the realities of death." www.imdb.com

The story follows the life of low I.Q. Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks) and his meeting with the love of his life Jenny. The film chronicles his accidental experiences with some of the most important people and events in America from the late 1950's through the 1970's including a meeting with Elvis Presley, JFK, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, fighting in Vietnam, etc. The problem is, he doesn't realize the significance of his actions. Forrest comes to embody a generation.

A woman from Beijing volunteers to teach in a rural village.

An uncompromising architect refuses to change his designs, and when he discovers the plans for one of his buildings has been changed, he blows up the structure and attempts to defend his actions.

Four adopted brothers come back home to avenge their mother's death at what appeared to be a random killing in a grocery store robbery. However, the boy's investigation of the death reveals more nefarious activities involving the one brother's business dealings with a notorious local gangster. Two local cops, who are trying to solve the case, may also not be what they seem.

Political terrorists, in a desperate bid to focus the world's attention on their fight for freedom, kidnap an American ambassador. Now the diplomat's life hangs in the balance. He's helplessly caught between a government unwilling to cooperate and his fear of the captors themselves.

"Four passengers escape their bubonic plague-infested ship and land on the coast of a wild jungle. In order to reach safety they have to trek through the jungle, facing wild animals and attacks by primitive tribesmen." www.imdb.com

A young French boy, neglected at home and treated harshly at school, turns to small-time crime in an effort to find freedom.

In 1987, in Communist Romania, a female college student helps her friend and roommate to get a late-term abortion.

"Violeta (Aminata Kanta), a teen who lives in a riverside village in Mali, has only an arranged marriage with a lascivious old man to look forward to, and decides to run off to a faraway place. Meanwhile, in neighboring Niger, mechanic Buba (Adoum Moussa) is a skilled soccer player; his brother, Mukela (Illiassou Mahamadou Alzouma), suggests he should try his skills in Europe, where 'nobody dies of hunger.' Violeta meets the two boys when they're all loaded on a large truck, with many others, in central Niger. The route is across the pitiless expanse of the Tenere desert toward Morocco, via Algeria. They're dropped off in the desert a four-hour walk from Tamanrasset, in southern Algeria, but end up going round in circles, and the horrors begin to mount."--New York Times website review.

Stirring account of the civil rights struggle in the early 1960s, based on first-hand recollections of veteran activists, burning with realism, commitment, and the urgency of the lives in crisis.

An 83-year-old reminisces about her Depression-era life in the town of Whistle Stop, Alabama.

" The purportedly true story of Oscar Grant III, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident, who crosses paths with friends, enemies, family, and strangers on the last day of 2008." www.imdb.com

"A nymphomaniac can't get satisfaction from any single man or woman." www.imdb.com

Jacob Beer, a man whose life is haunted by his childhood experiences during WWII. As a child in Poland he is orphaned during wartime then saved by a compassionate Greek archaeologist. Over the course of his life, he attempts to deal with the losses he has endured. Through his writing, and then through the discovery of true love, Jakob is ultimately freed from the legacy of his past.

"On March 12, 1956, Basque Nationalist Jesús de Galíndez Suarez disappears from his apartment in New York, never heard from again." www.imdb.com

A young housewife longs for the finer things in life, things she thinks her husband cannot or will not provide her. Looking for some excitement and a way to get the things she wants, the housewife turns to frequenting shady bars and gambling. When the crooked gambling operator cheats the woman into a large debt, he forces her into prostitution to pay off her losses.

"In 1863, Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points area of New York City seeking revenge against Bill the Butcher, his father's killer." www.imdb.com

"A Garifuna language teacher fights to keep his endangered language alive in the face of personal betrayal and tourism's encroachment." www.imdb.com

"After World War II, some Tokyo prostitutes band together with a strict code: no pimps, attack any street walker who comes into our territory, defend the abandoned building we call home, and punish whomever falls in love." (www.imdb.com)

Story about an all-too-human man who dares to defy a system obsessed with genetic perfection.

Identical twins Iara and Marilene like to play games with their boyfriends due to their resemblance. After the death of their mother, Mariline meets and falls in love with Osmar. Her sister Iara becomes obsessed with Osmar, and the jealous Marilene poisons her.

Over the course of one hot summer, a group of children in rural North Carolina are forced to confront a tangle of difficult choices as they discover what it takes to make a modern American hero.

"Germany in Autumn does not have a plot per se; it mixes documentary footage, along with standard movie scenes, to give the audience the mood of Germany during the late 1970s."--www.imdb.com

The story of a coal mining town in northern France during the mid-19th century. The coal miners go on strike against the exploitive mine owner, then the authorities repress them. The strike destroys one family, yet plants the seeds of change for future generations.

Around 1910, a woman who is unhappily married to a lawyer meets a famous poet whom she had loved, has an affair with a young composer and finally decides to live alone in Paris.

Best friends Enid and Rebecca are excited to finally be exiting that stupid, shallow, phony morass called high school. This summer they expect to: defy adult expectations, torment their friend Josh, shop at thrift stores and garage sales, follow strangers around, and pursue their private catalog of pranks and obsessions. Instead, they take an exquisite tour of the twilight zone between high school and the so-called real world, with an ironic running commentary from Enid - another memorable obsessive, compulsive, maladjusted searcher for authenticity spawned by the even stranger culture of America at large.

"A female Senator succeeds in enrolling a woman into Combined Reconnaissance Team training where everyone expects her to fail." www.imdb.com

Bick Benedict, his society-gilded wife, and three generations of land-rich Texas sons and daughters love, swagger, connive, and clash in a monumental drama of family strife, racial bigotry, and conflict between cattle barons and newly-rich oil tycoons.

"Based upon the short but fruitful life of illness-racked Italian poet and philosopher Giacomo Leopardi." www.imdb.com

"Fed up with her abusive family situation, lack of school prospects and the 'boys' law' in the neighborhood, Marieme ... starts a new life after meeting a group of three free-spirited girls. She changes her name, her style, drops out of school and starts stealing to be accepted into the group. When her home situation becomes unbearable, Marieme seeks solace in an older man who promises her money and protection"--Container.

A popular high school girl finds out that a boy she slept with is HIV positive.

A long-suffering gypsy sets out to steal from the rich to provide sustenance to his fellow gypsies, all of them desperate and treated like trash by French society. Constatly outwitting the authorities as he moves deftly from place to place with the help of accomplices, this king of beggars ultimately cannot break the chain of displacement.

"Brilliantly written and directed by Carlo Carlei (FLIGHT OF THE INNOCENT, FLUKE, ROMEO & JULIET), this suspenseful and highly emotional miniseries is crafted with a visual quality that doesn't pale in comparison with the most successful U.S. cable series praised today by audiences all over the world. Italian superstar Luca Zingaretti (of MONTALBANO's fame) shines as a washed out judge from Calabria who finds the courage to fight back the Mafia's Young Turks after they murder his best friend. Benefitting from the unexpected advice of Don Mico Rota (a great Maurizio Marchetti), an old godfather who's been rotting in jail for years, the prosecutor puts together all the pieces of a puzzle that leads him to discover one surprising truth after another. In the heart of Mafialand you can trust no one and even your closest friends can become your worst enemies." www.imdb.com

A Roman general refuses to transfer his loyalty to the new Emperor, Commodus. He becomes a slave and then a gladiator, fighting in the Roman Colosseum in defiance of the Emperor.

A powerful story of desperation and betrayal set in the world of real estate. Times are tough in a New York real-estate office; the salesmen (Shelley Levene, Ricky Roma, Dave Moss, and George Aaronow) are given a strong incentive by Blake to succeed in a sales contest. The prizes? First prize is a Cadillac Eldorado, second prize is a set of steak knives, third prize is the sack! There is no room for losers in this dramatically masculine world; only "closers" will get the good sales leads. There is a lot of pressure to succeed, so a robbery is committed which has unforeseen consequences for all the characters.

A pretty, young girl from a coal-mining town comes to Moscow with dreams of becoming a supermodel in this satirical look at the fashion industry

Set in Budapest in the 1930s. Restaurant owner Laszlo hires the pianist András to play in his restaurant. Both men fall in love with the beautiful waitress Ilona, who inspires András to write his only composition. The song becomes a hit but its fame comes with consequences, as a Nazi officer who is stationed in the city also becomes captivated by Ilona.

An ex-gun moll and showgirl is suddenly forced to protect a child whose parents have been rubbed out by the mob.

Two idealistic young Bostonians lead the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, America's first Black regiment in the Civil War.

Lucas, a 15-year-old- time bomb of hormones, boredom and family alienation, hangs out with his hunky and horny best friend, Nacho, and bespectacled, mousey gal pal Andrea. The threesome cope with the trials of burgeoning adolescence by getting high and getting off, mostly with each other.

"Awaiting their inevitable deaths at one of the worst concentration camps, a group of Jews make a rabbinical court to decide whether G-d has went against the holy covenant and if He is the one guilty for their suffering." www.imdb.com

"Elisa--the soon-to-be-wife of a wealthy industrialist--is eager to shed her working-class background in favor of the opulence of her fiancé's elite lifestyle." www.imdb.com

"Street walker by night, devoted mother by day, a woman fights to get her young son an education amid criminal and social injustice in China." (www.imdb.com)

A woman detective searches for a missing girl, and dreams of her dead mother.

Two down and outers leaves an economically depressed region in Nova Scotia to seek their fortunes in Toronto.

"Millionaire turned composer Dick Powell rescues unemployed Broadway people with a new play." www.imdb.com

A young copywriter moves to Rome after his father dies and works with a publisher to release his dad's autobiography.

" On a dark, wet night a historic and regal Chinese cinema sees its final film. Together with a small handful of souls they bid "Goodbye, Dragon Inn." www.imdb.com

Alex's proud, socialist mother falls into a coma for eight months. When she wakes, her heart is weak, so Alex has to keep the secret that the Berlin Wall has fallen and capitalism has triumphed. What begins as a little white lie turns into a major scam.

A couple's relationship breaks down along with the images, which in its second half takes a dog's-eye view of the world. It is a meditation on history and illusion, figures merging and weaving across the screen along with the film's ideas about romantic love and being-in-the-world.

A Sicilian farmer falls in love with a worldly British woman while both are attempting to immigrate to America.

The story of a young woman assumes a life of domesticity to conceal her true identity as a member of the Red Brigades, Italy's terrorist underground.

"Broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow looks to bring down Senator Joseph McCarthy." www.imdb.com

A young working-class genius is hauled back from the brink of self-destruction by a gifted counselor.

"The life of Jesus Christ according to the Gospel of Matthew. Pasolini shows Christ as a marxist avant-la-lettre and therefore uses half of the text of Matthew." www.imdb.com

A recent college graduate from an affluent family is seduced by the wife of his father's business partner, then subsequently falls in love with her daughter.

Walt Kowalski is a widower who holds onto his prejudices despite the changes in his Michigan neighborhood and the world around him. Walt is a grumpy, tough-minded, unhappy old man, who can't get along with either his kids or his neighbors. He is a Korean War veteran whose prize possession is a 1972 Gran Torino he keeps in mint condition. When his neighbor, Thao, a young Hmong teenager, becomes pressured by his gang member cousin to steal Walt's Gran Torino, Kowalski sets out to reform the youth. Drawn against his will into the life of Thao's family, Walt is soon taking steps to protect them from the gangs that infest their neighborhood.

In this classic tale of adventure, duty and honor conflict in a German prisoner-of-war camp when an aristocratic French officer becomes friends with the German commandant, a fellow aristocrat, while simultaneously cooperating with his French comrades, who are commoners, in a daring escape.

Nine races. One champion. Formula One drivers compete to be the best in this tale of speed, spectacle, and intertwined personal lives. American Grand Prix driver Pete Aron is fired by his Jordan-BRM racing team after a crash at Monaco critically injures his teammate, Scott Stoddard. Pete begins to drive for the Japanese Yamura team. As Scott recovers, Pete becomes romantically involved with Scott's estranged wife. At the same time, drivers Jean-Pierre Sarti and Nino Barlini also have chronicled love affairs.

"A poor Midwest family is forced off of their land. They travel to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression." www.imdb.com

Two orphans in war-time Kobe, Japan, face fire-bombs, hunger, homelessness, and despair as the war and their lives come to an end.

"A drama based on the true story of Melvin B. Tolson, a professor at Wiley College Texas. In 1935, he inspired students to form the school's first debate team, which went on to challenge Harvard in the national championship." www.imdb.com

" A Midwestern war veteran finds himself drawn to the past and lifestyle of his millionaire neighbor." www.imdb.com

"The Great Moment" tells the story of Dr. William Morton, a dedicated physician who discovers ether in 1846 when he successfully anesthetizes Eben Frost, who barely lives to talk about it. Until that time, all surgeries were performed with the patient fully conscious. The doctor's great contributions to humanity, and later tribulations as he shares his knowledge, are laced with typical Preston Sturges humour and insight.

Majime (Ryuhei Matsuda) is, by all accounts, a word person. Physically clumsy and socially awkward, he only truly feels at home within the rules and confines of lexicography. After struggling in the sales division of the Genbu Books publishing company, he manages to land his dream job in the Dictionary Editorial Department, where he can use his talents to compile a new dictionary, called "The Great Passage." Partnering with Majime is a callow young man (Joe Odagiri) who is slow to develop an appreciation for the challenging task ahead. Majime's love of language, however, leaves him speechless when he meets Kaguya (Aoi Miyazaki), his landlady's granddaughter, who moves into his building and beguiles him with her obsession with cooking knives and fine cuisine. Majime soon finds that the words he has studied his whole life are inadequate to express his true feelings for Kaguya. Meanwhile, complications begin piling up as the dictionary department descends into chaos.

A series of biblical stories are told from a black perspective. Unlike many Hollywood biblical epics, this sensitive, thoughtful film brings to the scriptures a profound level of understanding. Featuring the joyful gospel sounds of the Hall Johnson Choir.

The film describes the experience of a Peruvian Indian family that moves to Lima in search of work. Following the death of his father, Gregorio is expected to help support the family. As time passes, he becomes caught up instead in the street life of Lima.

Ivan is eight-years-old and loves New York, but his parents have decided to move to Chile. His mother is pregnant so that he is about to lose his privileged status as an only child. His unhappiness in Chile is compounded when everyone starts calling him "Gringuito" or little Gringo. He opts to run away and fend for himself on the streets of Santiago.

"The plot centers around a poacher (Lüder Lüdersen), a game warden (Walter Rainer) hunting the poacher, the murder of another game keeper, and two love affairs." www.wikipedia.org

"It is a satire about life in Cuba. The members of a funeral procession and some truckdrivers who have to take the same route begin to talk about god and the world ending up in discovering that life for both groups has many similarities as well as a lot of differences depending on the point of view." www.imdb.com

A docudrama about the East Indians imported through indentureship by British plantation owners in Guyana to replace the freed African slaves in the sugar cane fields.

"An Orthodox Jewish couple's faith is tested after praying to the Lord for a child on the Succoth holiday." www.imdb.com

Classic film noir based on a short story by MacKinlay Kantor. A greedy sideshow sharp-shooter marries an ex-army man, then leads him down the road to crime for easy money.

Set in late 19th century Bessarabia, several interwoven love lines are played out in a gypsy camp. Golden-haired Yishka is in love with the horse thief Loiko who is bewitched by the dark beauty Rada.

"Trapped in Puerto Rico, a beautiful young Swede is torn between her passionate, but mildly abusive South American oligarch husband and her longing for her European homeland." www.imdb.com

In a private clinic, Barco and Benigno strike up a friendship while caring for comatose women.

Based on Dostoyevsky's fable of a holy fool, this story which takes place in Hokkaido in the winter is about a man who returns home after a stay in an asylum. He is being drawn toward Christianity, his antagonist is an anarchist.

Everyday life of two acquainted couples in Frankfurt on the Oder. For no apparent reason, one of the husbands falls in love with the other man's wife. The betrayed partners are furious, helpless, hurt.

Three short stories by the American expatriate, Paul Bowles, are brought to sinister life - Merkala Beach; Call at Corazon; and Allal. All are haunting films that capture the essensce of Bowle's vision of humanity and his love of strange, colorful locals.

An inner-city junior high school teacher struggles with issues of addiction and his relationships with his students. One association becomes especially remarkable, perhaps even questionable.

An adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet incorporating themes from Os sertões, by Euclides da Cunha, with music, filmed in theatrical performance.

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark! The King has been murdered by his scheming brother Claudius, in order to gain the throne. When the ghost of the King appears to his son - Prince Hamlet-and tells him to kill Claudius, Hamlet is torn between his desire for revenge and his reluctance to shed blood.

"Prince Hamlet struggles over whether or not he should kill his uncle, whom he suspects has murdered his father, the former king." www.imdb.com

Hamlet, a prince of medieval-era Denmark, senses treachery behind his royal father's death. His mother is all too dangerously entangled in that treachery. This film portrays Shakespeare's immortal tale of high adventure and evil deeds.

In this first-ever full-text film of William Shakespeare's work, the Prince of Denmark, Hamlet, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother remarrying the murderer. Meanwhile, war is brewing.

This production of Shakespeare's masterpiece from Britain's renowned Royal Shakespeare Company was filmed on location rather than in the theatre. No recent stage production in Britain has attracted the excitement and nearly unanimous critical praise as this Hamlet. Dynamic, exciting, and contemporary, it breathes new life into Shakespeare's greatest play.

"Modern-day New York City adaptation of Shakespeare's immortal story about Hamlet's plight to avenge his father's murder." (www.imdb.com)

"Considered by many the finest screen adaptation of Shakespeare's greatest work, Grigori Kozintsev's Hamlet is a spare, haunting interpretation based on a translation by novelist Boris Pasternak." Container

The historic production of Hamlet filmed on location at Elsinore, Denmark, the actual location where the play is set. The only production of Shakespeare's masterpiece ever filmed at Elsinore.

A Danish prince avenges the murder of his father, the king, by killing his uncle Claudius who murdered the king, usurped the throne, and married Hamlet's mother, Gertrude. Hamlet, considered the most complex of all Shakespeare's characters, examines the fundamental issues of justice, guilt, and death.

"After the Nazi administrator of Czechoslovakia is shot, his assassin tries to elude the Gestapo and struggles with his impulse to give himself up as hostages are executed." www.imdb.com

"Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly." www.imdb.com

Two young couples in New York - one black and gay, one white and heterosexual - find their lives intertwined as they create new relationship norms, explore sexual identity, and redefine monogamy. Armed with art and unbridled optimism, Stan brunches with his girlfriend Annie, a schoolteacher, only to discover that she wants to take a break. Aaron confronts his boyfriend Marcus about their open relationship. The lives of these two couples become intertwined when Stan and Marcus meet online and hook up. Apparently, Stan has a bi-side, and Aaron walks in on the aftermath of Marcus and Stan's afternoon tryst. Meanwhile, Annie goes on a blind date with an older man David who makes his living writing scripts for reality TV shows, which feels more real than Stan's afternoons spent in the rehearsal space with his band. Annie confides in her fellow teacher Mandy about her relationship troubles. Mandy and Annie engage in some flirtation and decide to try a lesbian relationship, which, in turn, reminds Annie that perhaps she was in love with Stan all along. Eventually all of these characters must face the consequences of their choices and decide what matters to them most.

Yiu Fai and Po Wing left Hong Kong for a great waterfall in South America, but in the end are stuck on the streets of Buenos Aires. Yiu Fai's life takes on a new spin, while Po Wing's life shatters continually.

" An (sic.) tale of revenge, honor and disgrace, centering on a poverty-stricken samurai who discovers the fate of his ronin son-in-law, setting in motion a tense showdown of vengeance against the house of a feudal lord."

Reggae singer Jimmy Cliff plays a country boy who is ruthlessly exploited, first by his employer, then by the producer of his hit record, and who at last becomes a marijuana-pushing desperado in an effort to live up to the code of his favorite movie heroes.

This mesmerizing debut by the great Swedish director Jan Troell (The Emigrants, The New Land) is an epic bildungsroman and a multilayered representation of early twentieth-century Sweden. Based on a series of semi-autobiographical novels by Nobel Prize winner Eyvind Johnson, the film follows a working-class boy's development, from naive teenager to intellectually curious young adult, from logger to movie projectionist to politically engaged man of the people--all set against the backdrop of a slowly industrializing rural landscape. With its mix of modernist visual ingenuity and elegantly structured storytelling, this enchanting film--presented here in its original nearly three-hour cut--is a reminder that Troell is one of European cinema's greatest and most sensitive illuminators of the human condition.

Based on a true story, The Harmonists portrays the rise and fall of a successful vocal group in Germany that was disbanded in 1934 as part of the mounting persecution of Jews. The Comedian Harmonists did comic and romantic songs in intricate harmony, and were extremely popular, but as the Nazis became more powerful, the group were forbidden to sing songs by Jewish composers--and finally, because three of their members were Jewish, they were banned from performing in public.

Working at a collective farm as a tractor operator, Antonina suddenly finds herself having to support her young sons and husband - after the latter returns from the warfront without his legs.

Two suicidal Germans of Turkish background marry to enable her to escape her conservative family, but she wants complete freedom as far as men are concerned.

Set in the 18th-century, this film tells of a Bavarian village that loses the secret of making its unique ruby glass. The townspeople turn to madness, murder, and magic in a desperate effort to recover the pure ingredient they have lost. During the filming, Herzog hypnotized his actors in order to help convey the atmosphere of hallucination, prophecy and the visionary.

"A psychologist discovers troubling links between Nazism and modern-day big business." www.imdb.com

"Two girls have an intense fantasy life; their parents, concerned the fantasy is too intense, separate them, and the girls take revenge." www.imdb.com

A lawman and a hitman are in love with the same woman. All three are caught up in a devastating class war, when ruthless ranchers decide to kill off the starving immigrants who have been stealing their cattle.

Frustrated by the pointlessness of her middle class, married life, the strong-willed Hedda realizes her only satisfaction comes from manipulating others. Casting an insidious net of influence over both her passive husband and a volatile former lover, Hedda is soon overwhelmed by her own cynical schemes as they spiral out of control -- with tragic results.

Presents Henrik Ibsen's play, Hedda Gabler, the story of a woman's tormented search for self-fulfillment in a world dominated by men.

During World War II, an old man and a young gril ran a tavern in a remote mountain area in China. When a group of carriers entered the mountain and visited the tavern, the life around the quiet area was all changed. The story developed interwinding with the conflicts and loves between the young girl and one of the carriers, and with the fight against the invasion of Japanese soldiers later.

One woman chronicles her ups and downs during her quest for fulfillment spanning four decades.

Drama set in Germany in 1885 about a woman who left a home where she was repressed, and comes back eight years later as a famous opera singer, but is then threatened by a bank director who wants to marry her.

A fictional chronicle of life in Germany, from 1919 to 1982, as reflected in the fluctuating fortunes of the members of one family, initially peasant-farmers, in the fictitious village of Schabbach in the Rhineland. An extraordinary succession of mostly ordinary events and characters--history seen from ground level--vividly acted by a huge cast of both professional and nonprofessional actors.

In the little village of San Francisco de Paula, Hemingway touches the life of a young girl who lives in a shack near La Vigia farm where he lived for 20 years. Taking place in 1956, the story relates events in the lives of Larita, her family and friends.

In 1960s Mississippi, Skeeter, a southern society girl, returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives, and a small Mississippi town, upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen, Skeeter's best friend's housekeeper, is the first to open up, to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community.

Part I. The boisterous Falstaff leads Prince Hal, the heir to the throne, through London's lowlife taverns. While the young prince wastes his youth, a civil war threatens the monarchy. When the battle of Shrewsbury results, Prince Henry redeems himself at last. Part II. A panorama of Medieval English life. The passage of time brings the older generations closer to the grave, and the young closer to leadership. The play ends with the death of Henry IV, banishment of Falstaff and the coronation of Prince Hal as Henry V.

Adaptation of Shakespeare's patriotic historical drama that celebrates the English nation and the greatness of its King. Includes medieval battle sequences with a recreation of the Battle of Agincourt.

"A lonely writer develops an unlikely relationship with his newly purchased operating system that's designed to meet his every need." www.imdb.com

"Pedro returns home to a small mountain village in Guerrero, Mexico after years of working in the US, and struggles to rebuild his family and follow his dream of starting a band: the Copa Kings." (c) Official Site