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Silvery Wind
Silvery Wind
Second half of the 19th century. In a small town in South Bohemia, fifth-former Jan Ratkin is living through the confusions of first love together with his classmates.
Silvery Wind 1956
Wir sind doch Schwestern
Wir sind doch Schwestern
Wir sind doch Schwestern 2018
St. Peter's Umbrella
St. Peter's Umbrella
A comedy about a lost inheritance, love and a red umbrella, which, according to a local legend, belonged to St. Peter himself.
St. Peter's Umbrella 1958
Warning Examples for Our Day
Warning Examples for Our Day
Warning examples for our day. Warning examples are what the Apostle Paul spoke about in his first letter to Corinthians. He refers to some events some 3,500 years ago. Then he makes an urgent appeal to all Christians. He says that such examples were written for a warning for us to whom the end of the systems of things have arrived.
Warning Examples for Our Day 2002
Meeting at high snows
Meeting at high snows
Juma Saidov fault of the rich Appanbay got to prison. Years later he returned to his native place and took part in the fight against robber bands. Suddenly it became clear that the leader of the gang Hudayberdi his son, born while Juma was in prison, and brought up Appanbay.
Meeting at high snows 1981
На другом берегу
На другом берегу
1925. There have been unrest in Western Belarus for four years now, there is a guerrilla war going on, and Soviet intelligence agents are working. And attempts by local residents to defend at least their own faith and church end in brutal suppression.
На другом берегу 2023
The Palanquin Carrier Magistrate
The Palanquin Carrier Magistrate
Two cowardly palanquin carriers know the culprit of a murder but are too scared to report it to the police. In the mean time, an innocent man is arrested as the murderer and chaos ensues. Pre-war jidaigeki film.
The Palanquin Carrier Magistrate 1935
The Ponzi Scheme
The Ponzi Scheme
Ponzi, from his arrival in Boston in 1903, to hi death in Rio in 1949. He made himself famous in inventing the first fraud of modern times on a large scale, and inspired Bernard Madoff.
The Ponzi Scheme 2014
The Green Fire
The Green Fire
Based on an ancient story Sang-e Sabor it's the story of a girl Nardaneh who one day hears a voice telling her that soon she will marry with a dead man. One day she enters a castle and in one of it's room finds a dead body with a book beside it. She begins to read the book and follows the instructions step by step.
The Green Fire 2008
The Death of Lazarus
The Death of Lazarus
Marta and Maria mourn the death of their brother Lázaro. A group of Jews try to comfort Maria while Marta leaves to meet Jesus. The disciples try to warn their master about the dangers of returning to Judea. Nearby, a miracle is about to happen.
The Death of Lazarus 2022
Evidence.zip 2
Evidence.zip 2
This video decides the entire fate of the Smash community.
Evidence.zip 2 2021
Kochubey
Kochubey
A story of Kochubey - a hero of Russian Civil War.
Kochubey 1958
Space Tourists
Space Tourists
In his most recent work, Christian Frei turns to an age-old dream of man: to leave our planet as a «normal person» and travel into outer space. For 20 million dollars, the American Anousheh Ansari was able to fulfil this childhood dream. This documentary follows her journey into space and shows everyday life as it is on the International Space Station.
Space Tourists 2010
We the People
We the People
This powerful giant screen historical documentary is the story of America’s founding documents and the people who wrote, shaped and tested them.
We the People 2014
The Last Night
The Last Night
On one of the October nights at the ball, gymnasium pupils and officers scoff at the love of Kuzma Zakharkin, the “cook's son”, to Lena, the daughter of the manufacturer. Cannon volley interrupts the fun. In the city begins the Moscow armed uprising of workers. At the center of the fate of two families is the capitalist Leontyev and the worker Zakharkin, whose sons became the organizers and participants of this uprising.
The Last Night 1937
Nine Hours to Rama
Nine Hours to Rama
José Ferrer and Horst Buchholz star in this fictionalised account of events leading up to the assassination of Indian spiritual leader and independence campaigner Mahatma Gandhi.
Nine Hours to Rama 1963
Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal
Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal
A story of the Second Punic Wars, beginning with Scipio's futile pleas to the Roman Senate to build an army to battle Hannibal, that climaxes with the battle of Zama.
Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal 1937
Les SS de la Das Reich, un parcours de la désolation
Les SS de la Das Reich, un parcours de la désolation
Les SS de la Das Reich, un parcours de la désolation 2016
Terra baixa
Terra baixa
The film raises the contrast between the plain corrupted (the Low) and uncontaminated mountain (High Land). The protagonist, Manelic, a simple, primitive, Marta wants to marry a girl from the Low Country that until then had been forced to be intimate with his master, Sebastian.
Terra baixa 2011
St. Louis Blues
St. Louis Blues
Will Handy grows up in Memphis with his preacher father and his Aunt Hagar. His father intends for him to use his musical gifts only in church, but he can't stay away from the music of the streets and workers. After he writes a theme song for a local politician, Gogo, a speakeasy singer, convinces Will to be her accompanist. Will is estranged from his father for many years while he writes and publishes many blues songs. At last the family is reunited when Gogo brings them to New York to see Will's music played by a symphony orchestra.
St. Louis Blues 1958
Je m'présente, je m'appelle Daniel
Je m'présente, je m'appelle Daniel
Je m'présente, je m'appelle Daniel 2015
Migration and Dominican cinema
Migration and Dominican cinema
Dominican filmmakers explore the most important theme in dominican film history: Migration.
Migration and Dominican cinema 2017
The Other Way
The Other Way
Russian front, January, 1943. It's hell: the flurries of sleet take the breath away and Sergeant Bisi can make out nothing in the landscape in front of him.
The Other Way 2023
Newark USA: Far from the American Dream
Newark USA: Far from the American Dream
The story of the city of Newark, in the state of New Jersey, USA; unlikely capital of the struggle for civil rights in the legendary sixties of the convulsive twentieth century, told through the eyes of writers Philip Roth and Amiri Baraka, who were born and grew up there, in the ominous shadow of the immense New York.
Newark USA: Far from the American Dream 2023
Samon’s Hell Revenge: Unauthorised Jutte Records
Samon’s Hell Revenge: Unauthorised Jutte Records
Samon Kamiyama, a skilled yoriki under Toyama Saemon-no-jō Kagemoto is feared and known to the villains as “Samon from the Hell.” Samon suspects that the drowning incident at the raw silk wholesaler Shinano-ya was the work of Maruya Rihei, a kimono wholesaler favored by the Ōoku, but has no evidence to prove his allegation. The elder Arao Tsushima-no-kami who is colluding with Maruya plan on building a gold mine on an uninhabited island using prisoners. Arao gives the supervision charge to Samon, who along with his comrades and Horikawa takes up his post on the island but is attacked by assassins one after another.
Samon’s Hell Revenge: Unauthorised Jutte Records 1982
The Martens Brothers
The Martens Brothers
Historical movie based on the "The Martens Brothers" (Romanian: Frații Jderi) novel. The movie is in the top 20 most watched Romanian movies.
The Martens Brothers 1974
Latinos Beyond Reel
Latinos Beyond Reel
Filmmakers Miguel Picker and Chyng Sun explore and analyze the stereotypical portrayal of Latinos in U.S. news and media.
Latinos Beyond Reel 2013
Boquerón
Boquerón
Boquerón 2015
The Palace and the Fortress
The Palace and the Fortress
An adaptation of Olga Frosh's novel about the life of Mihail Beideman.
The Palace and the Fortress 1924
The Shogun's Vault I
The Shogun's Vault I
Tomizo, a master storehouse-breaker who has been released from prison in Denmacho after serving five years plans to break into the Edo Castle gold storehouse to avenge the death of his father, who died a violent death at a gold mine on Sado Island. With the help of Hanji, a playboy who took care of him in prison, as his partner, Tomizo decides on the night of fireworks to be held in Edo Castle as the day to carry out his plan. Kanpei, a wise man, is suspicious of the plan.
The Shogun's Vault I 1981
Morning Star
Morning Star
Christina, a British singer, arrives in Malta in 1937 to entertain the troops. She meets and falls deeply in love with daredevil RAF pilot, Warby, as the Second World War draws ever closer to their island paradise. Based on a true story.
Morning Star 2024
Mu-Lan
Mu-Lan
Freely inspired by a poem called "Mu-Lan-Ci" narrated during the Soong dynasty (960-1279 AD). Mu-Lan is the legend of a young girl who convinces her old father to send her to war to keep the family honor intact, as there were no adult sons ready to fight at home. In his wanderings Mu-Lan will meet Chang, a nice boy who hides an incredible secret: in fact he is none other than a dragon with a heart of gold. With her help, Mu-Lan will become a brave, wise and respectful heroine in a story that will thrill you!
Mu-Lan 1998
The Legend of the Gold Train
The Legend of the Gold Train
In the endgame of WWII a few hundred bank employees and their family members rescued Hungary's entire gold reserves on a train from the Soviet army and were hiding it in a small Austrian village until the end of the war.
The Legend of the Gold Train 2022
The Portrait
The Portrait
A musical tale about two impoverished sisters' anguish over whether or not to sell the final masterpiece of their recluse father days before the second world war, in Manila.
The Portrait 2017
Srimadvirat Veerabrahmendra Swami Charitra
Srimadvirat Veerabrahmendra Swami Charitra
The story is based on the life of Pothuluri Veerabrahmam (N. T. Rama Rao), a well-known saint and astrologer of the 17th century. A brief life of Gautama Buddha, Ramanuja, Adi Shankara and Vemana (all essayed by NTR) are shown at the beginning of the film.
Srimadvirat Veerabrahmendra Swami Charitra 1984
An Extraordinary Assignment
An Extraordinary Assignment
The second film of the trilogy about Armenian Bolshevik revolutionery Simon Ter-Petrosyan (1882-1922) known as Kamo.
An Extraordinary Assignment 1966
Black Far West
Black Far West
Did you know that the first cowboys were black? Using magnificent archives and testimonies from historians, Cécile Denjean restores justice to African-Americans in the story of the conquest of the West.
Black Far West 2022
The Battle
The Battle
21 sequence shots depict moments in a defining night of the Battle of Rua Maria Antônia, in October 1968, from the point of view of the students and professors of the Left-wing Student Movement, in the Philosophy Faculty building of USP.
The Battle 2023
Francesco
Francesco
Francesco 2002
Kandahar Journals
Kandahar Journals
Kandahar, Afghanistan, April 2006. Photojournalist Louie Palu, who is covering a suicide bombing, suddenly finds himself in the middle of a pile of corpses, shocked by the smell of burning flesh. Louie does not yet know that he will spend the next five years documenting the tragedy of war.
Kandahar Journals 2015