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The Lighthouse
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The Lighthouse
Two lighthouse keepers clash, making their duties difficult even before a freak storms hits and strands them at the lighthouse for months. Based on a true story.
The Lighthouse 2016
Locura de amor
Locura de amor
The passion that Joan of Castile, daughter of the Catholic Kings and heir to the throne, feels for her husband, Philip the Handsome, sovereign of the Netherlands and son of Maximilian of Austria and Mary of Burgundy, is not reciprocated. Her temperament, her jealousy and an unexpected tragedy will throw Joan into the dark realm of madness and obsession with death, the only realm where she will be a true queen…
Locura de amor 1948
Their Way: A Film About the Sex Pistols
Their Way: A Film About the Sex Pistols
A erratic and spontaneous documentary chronicling the Sex Pistols's short reign on London, made completely of footage from the 1970s.
Their Way: A Film About the Sex Pistols 2019
Alidha Ávila's Sucre
Alidha Ávila's Sucre
TV Movie based on the life of Antonio José de Sucre, the Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho
Alidha Ávila's Sucre 2024
Boris I - Part 2 - Word For Letters
Boris I - Part 2 - Word For Letters
Knyaz Boris I reached the most important spiritual insight - the country needed a single language and script. It accepts students of Cyril and Methodius, creating Ohrid and Preslav Literary School. What other nations took centuries, for bulgarians takes place only about 20 years after their baptizing - introduced a Slavonic Alphabet.
Boris I - Part 2 - Word For Letters 1985
Letters.
Letters.
A long-lost love letter between childhood friends is delivered back.
Letters. 2024
Operacja
Operacja "Baxis"
Operacja "Baxis" 2023
Passione
Passione
John Turturro tells, shooting alleys and testimonies of real neapolitan people, the history and musical culture of Napoli, attending every event and tale with a song.
Passione 2010
Dispute in Valladolid
Dispute in Valladolid
Spain conquered the seas, found a new world and different realities than the one known in Europe. But a question needed to be answered with what they found in those new territories: do the Indians have souls? The Church, bound to protect and convert the natives and the conquerors who treated them like slaves and thought they were only merchandising, expose their arguments and reasonings at what would be known as the Vallidolid controversy. Between them, there's a cardinal hearing both parts and trying to get reasonable answers from this critical question.
Dispute in Valladolid 1992
How the Steel Was Tempered
How the Steel Was Tempered
This literary adaptation was one of only two films made during World War II on the subject of the Civil War following the Bolshevik Revolution, as attention by filmmakers and viewers shifted away from past history and toward the current conflict.
How the Steel Was Tempered 1942
Red Radio Over Shanghai
Red Radio Over Shanghai
The story of "Electric Wave" takes place on the eve of the liberation of Shanghai, and is based on the true story of the martyr Li Bai. It is a city card born from the red genes of Shanghai. There is no dialogue in the dance drama film, and the emotional explosion is vividly expressed through the body, conveying the strong love between the two through their dance, eyes, and body movements. The emotional struggle and compromise, as well as the mutual empathy between them, are more intense and lasting than any line of dialogue. The film is adapted from the original dance drama of the same name.
Red Radio Over Shanghai 2024
The 24th
The 24th
The incredibly powerful and timely true story of the all-black Twenty-Fourth United States Infantry Regiment, and the Houston Riot of 1917. The Houston Riot was a mutiny by 156 African American soldiers in response to the brutal violence and abuse at the hands of Houston police officers.
The 24th 2020
The Man Behind The Curtain
The Man Behind The Curtain
After having his one cigarette of the day, Mervyn LeRoy returns to the chaotic scene that is known as the production of "The Wizard Of Oz".
The Man Behind The Curtain 2024
The Landowner's Daughter
The Landowner's Daughter
In 19th century Brazil, young people in the State of São Paulo fight against black slavery and the farmers who support it. Against this backdrop, Sinhá Moça falls in love with a young lawyer, and they get involved in a great love story.
The Landowner's Daughter 1953
Herb Alpert Is...
Herb Alpert Is...
From the success of Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass, through the founding of A&M Records, to giving away more than $150 million to arts and education programs across the country, we’ll witness the humanity and the humility inherent in everything he does, as well as come to understand the power of creativity to entertain, inspire, heal and transform.
Herb Alpert Is... 2020
The Falcon
The Falcon
Banović Strahinja takes place during the middle ages in Serbia. While estate owner Strahinja is hunting, a Turkish bandit, Alija, attacks his castle. The Turks kill his servants and kidnap his beloved Andja. When he discovers what has happened, Strahinja gathers a together a group of scoundrels and chases the bandits.
The Falcon 1983
Gorbachev. Heaven
Gorbachev. Heaven
An immersion into the intimacy of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the USSR. The architect of perestroika and glasnost, who was praised in the West but reviled in his own country, still combative despite his advanced age, loneliness and illness, offers his personal and political testament.
Gorbachev. Heaven 2021
Days of Betrayal
Days of Betrayal
This feature film based on the events of 1938 is a chronicle of the futile efforts of the Czechoslovak president Edvard Benes (Jirí Pleskot), politicians and ordinary citizens, to save the independence and the territorial integrity of the state from the advance of Hitler's Germany. On the 29th of March 1938 the leader of the Sudeten Germans Henlein (Werner Ehrlicher) has a meeting with Hitler (Gunnar Möller). Hitler orders him to intensify pressure on the Czechoslovak government. On the 24th of April in Carlsbad, the Sudetendeutsche Partei (Sudeten German Party) decides upon eight demands that are unacceptable to the Czechoslovak President, since they would ultimately lead to the break-up of the Republic. Benes still shows a certain willingness to negotiate, and Henlein resents this. The Germans are determined to make further negotiations impossible through incidents and violence.
Days of Betrayal 1973
The Empress Dowager
The Empress Dowager
Han Hsiang Li's lush epic re-creates the fascinating life and times of Tzu Hsi, the Manchu Qing dynasty empress who rose from the ranks of Emperor Xianfeng's many concubines to become the de facto ruler of China for nearly 50 years.
The Empress Dowager 1989
Hồng Hà nữ sĩ
Hồng Hà nữ sĩ
Hồng Hà nữ sĩ 2024
93, rue Lauriston
93, rue Lauriston
93, rue Lauriston, in the 16th arrondissement de Paris, is an address of bleak memory. It was indeed the headquarter of the French Gestapo, which was active between 1941 and 1944 and was headed by Henri Lafont and Pierre Loutrel, two wanted criminals. On the day of 1940 he was demobilized, little did well-meaning Léon Jabinet know that he would be associated with such disreputable characters. And yet, some time later, Odile Panzer, the Jewish girl he has been hiding at his parents'place, is arrested by the Gestapo. On this occasion Léon is offered a deal for her release: collaborating with the Carlingue (another name for the French auxiliaries of the Nazi police) and Odile will be free. Or else... What should he do?
93, rue Lauriston 2004
Foxes
Foxes
A young girl’s curiosity brings turmoil to not only her enigmatic relationship with her Father, but also the woods that surrounds their home.
Foxes 2022
Troy: The Resurrection of Aeneas
Troy: The Resurrection of Aeneas
The Journey of Aeneas after the Trojan War. Based on the epic poems of the Aeneid by Publius Vergilius Maro.
Troy: The Resurrection of Aeneas 2018
Vestindo Histórias
Vestindo Histórias
Vestindo Histórias 2023
Adieu De Gaulle, Adieu
Adieu De Gaulle, Adieu
May 1968. Charles de Gaulle is 77. His great career is behind him. Obsessed by France's prestige, he's looking with distance to the student demonstrations. An intimate portrait of the General through the tale of 68'events.
Adieu De Gaulle, Adieu 2009
The Exam
The Exam
Budapest, Hungary, Christmas 1957. The state, insecure after the defeated revolution of 1956 and increasingly put under the influence of a renewed Stalinist atmosphere, has decreed that all security officials must pass an exam to verify their loyalty. But to be actually effective in a shadowy world where suspicion and secrets reign, the subjects must be unaware that they are being tested.
The Exam 2011
A Jupatarama
A Jupatarama
A Jupatarama 2024
« Le Chevalier au dragon », le roman disparu de la Table ronde
« Le Chevalier au dragon », le roman disparu de la Table ronde
« Le Chevalier au dragon », le roman disparu de la Table ronde 2023
Sianviathan
Sianviathan
In the late years of the Sui Dynasty, chaos reigned across the land. On the tenth day of the third month of the fourteenth year of Daye, a mutiny broke out in Jiangdu, Emperor Yang was killed, and the divine beast Kui Ox was left ownerless. Rebel forces from all directions and local powers mobilized to Jiangdu in search of the legendary divine sword that could subdue the Kui Ox. A scholar journeyed to Jiangdu for the imperial examination and, by twist of fate, arrived at the mysterious Caohang Ferry Inn. Within the small inn, there were aspiring scholars like him who possessed ambitions but were scattered across the world, as well as a delicate and enigmatic mute woman, and seemingly unreliable free-spirited martial artists.
Sianviathan 2024
God Loves Caviar
Prime Video
God Loves Caviar
The true-life, stranger-than-fiction tale of eighteenth-century Greek pirate turned merchant Ioannis Varvakis, who rose from humble beginnings to become the head of one of the largest mercantile empires in Europe.
God Loves Caviar 2012
Burke & Hare
Burke & Hare
Two men go into business supplying medical colleges with cadavers by robbing graves.
Burke & Hare 1972
Visiting the Minotaur
Visiting the Minotaur
Visiting the Minotaur 1987
We Go in at Dawn
Prime Video
We Go in at Dawn
When a high-ranking war planner is captured and held in a German prisoner of war camp, a team of specialists take on the dangerous mission of trying to break him out. Trouble is, he doesn't want to be rescued.
We Go in at Dawn 2020
Christian IV
Christian IV
The film depicts the last hours in the life of great Danish King Christian IV, told exclusively from a horse carriage. The focal point is Christian's tempestuous relationship to his second wife, Kirsten Munk, involving accusations of infidelity and attempted murder.
Christian IV 2018
DC 9/11: Time of Crisis
Prime Video
DC 9/11: Time of Crisis
This is the story of the days directly after 9/11, and the president's whereabouts. Scheduled to air shortly before the second anniversary of the September 11 attacks, DC 9/11 takes an inside look at the Bush Administration, beginning with the day of the attacks, and following the President's journey to Ground Zero, culminating with his now famous national address nine days after the attacks.
DC 9/11: Time of Crisis 2003
Des croix sur la mer
Des croix sur la mer
On August 5, 1944, in Brittany, civilians fell into the hands of the German army. Among them, Jean Palu, a man like the others, who looks back on his life. Between failure and illness, he paints a bitter picture of his life.
Des croix sur la mer 2001
Taj Mahal
Taj Mahal
Based on the historical legend, this commercially successful film delves into the context of why Mughal emperor Shah Jahan built the Taj Mahal in fond remembrance of his wife, Mumtaz Mahal.
Taj Mahal 1963
Working Slowly (Radio Alice)
Working Slowly (Radio Alice)
Bologna, 1976. The paths of two aimless young friends intertwine with those of Radio Alice, a pirate radio politically aligned with the leftist student movement.
Working Slowly (Radio Alice) 2004
Jonestown: Paradise Lost
Prime Video
Jonestown: Paradise Lost
Jonestown: Paradise Lost is a documentary on the final days of Jonestown, the Peoples Temple, and Jim Jones. From eyewitness and survivor accounts, it recreates the last week before the mass murder-suicide on November 18, 1978.
Jonestown: Paradise Lost 2007
Skin
Skin
In the late Seventies, a Dutch teenager named Frankie, who is the son of a holocaust survivor, lives in a working class area in Holland. Frankie’s mother is taken to hospital in a terminal condition, causing a bigger rift between him and his father. This leads to Frankie becoming the interest of the local Nazi skinhead group.
Skin 2008