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Poster for A Lucky Day

2002 · ★ 5.5 (4)

Buenos Aires in the year 2002; the economical depression has caught the country. Elsa keeps her head above water through several badly paid jobs and occasional criminal offenses with her friends Walter, Laura and Toni. She's saving money for a ticket to Rome to get out of her life and visit an Italian with whom she had a one night stand several months ago.

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A woman chooses a life enclosed, to face her personal demons as she's challenged to break the walls of morality.

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A group of best friends reconnect on a weekend in Vegas when a hot outsider crashes the party — forcing them to face their messy lives and unraveling friendships.

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Poster for Footprints on Water

2023 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The story travels through the life of the family, who faces a tough time when their daughter goes missing.

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Poster for Unnecessary Fuss

1984 · ★ 7.0 (1)

Transcripts and videotape of traumatic head injury tests at the University of Pennsylvania. Following a PETA campaign, these experiments on baboons were halted. You can read more about this thrilling story in PETA President Ingrid Newkirk’s book “Free the Animals.”

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Poster for Elsa's Land

2020 · ★ 7.0 (1)

Two people meet and fall in love. According to all around them, their love is improper and inconvenient, as our heroes are past 70. Elsa is recently widowed and should be in mourning, even for the husband she never loved. But Elsa and Leonid not only do not hide their love, they’re also going to get married and go travelling to find their own land — Elsa’s Land. Their love story sounds particularly up-to-date as it refers to the elder audience who took the biggest hit of the global pandemic. It encourages them to live and love no matter what.

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Poster for Eight Images from the Life of Nastya Sokolova

2018 · ★ 6.6 (7)

Russia has a surfeit of overqualified graduates. Nastya Sokolova is one of them. Her career, if you can call it that, gave her a plethora of unexpected work experiences: from desk slave in banking to head bookkeeper of an illegal brothel. The film’s eight tableaus detail the various workplaces, colleagues and situations. To finish it off: deadpan commentary.

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Poster for Luther and I

2017 · ★ 4.3 (9)

As a nun, Katharina von Bora lives the life destined for her until she comes into contact with a completely new world of thought in the early 20s through the writings of Martin Luther. She flees with some of her co-sisters and comes without legal status, without income and rejected by her family to Wittenberg, where she meets Martin Luther personally. Katharina decides to marry the reformer and, as his wife, becomes a respected housekeeper, an equal interlocutor and the mother of their children together.

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2004 · ★ 3.4 (5)

Journalist Jakob Goltz visits his parents at Bodenee for the first time in many years. The encounter with his hard-hearted mother Jonah tears up old wounds in Jacob, who has only sad memories of his childhood. When his wife Madlon plunges into an affair with Jonas estate manager Rudolf, Jacob's worst fears seem to be reaffirmed: All those who are close to his mother become unhappy. But Jakob does not suspect that Jonah has a sad secret in him

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Poster for A Bad Debt

2021 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Gun is a loan shark. Having worked hard for years, i.e. intimidating and threatening his debtors, he musters just enough money to purchase a house for the family. The plan is at risk, however, when one of his debtors dies and Gun discovers that he is not the only creditor. Out of desperation, he asks for his daughter’s help, who is unwilling to be involved in her father’s shady business. The simmering tension causes a rift in the family.

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Upcoming animated film based on Mexican television series La Chicharra. It will be part of a new shared universe based on Mexican comedian Chespirito's works.

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Poster for Larysa Kadochnykova. Self-Portrait

2014 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The famous Ukrainian actress Larysa Kadochnikova restored her self-portrait and found out about herself. And not only.

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2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A self-ironic portrayal of a young woman and her secret cigarettes.

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Poster for Akashinga: The Brave Ones

2020 · ★ 5.1 (7)

Single mothers, abandoned wives and survivors of sexual and domestic violence enroll in an intense training selection to join rangers protecting elephants from poachers across Africa.

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Poster for Xulia

2019 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Xulia was getting treatment at a rehab center back in 1985, when something happened that changed her life. Years after that, she published 'Imperfect Future', a memoir turned into a book. This short film is a dive in what's left of all that.

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Poster for So einfach stirbt man nicht

2019 · ★ 4.5 (1)

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Poster for Sesame Street: Singing with the Stars

2012 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Dance and sing along with this star-studded special from Sesame Street! From Alicia Keys to the Dixie Chicks, Andrea Bocelli, Adam Sandler and more, this video will get your child moving!

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Poster for Two Yuliias

1998 · ★ 0.0 (0)

An unusual love triangle. Julia marries a scientist, a biologist, who discovers an unexpected passion... for a flower.

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Poster for Little Fighter

1998 · ★ 4.0 (1)

An orphan boy moves to his grandfather's village, where he finds a great friend, a dog from the forbidden Chernobyl zone.

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Poster for Allegro Pastell

2026 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In the summer of 2018, novelist Tanja Arnheim and web designer Jerome Daimler have a seemingly ideal long-distance relationship in the heat of Berlin, the idyll of an inherited bungalow in the Hessian Main Valley and many train journeys in between. But the carefully cultivated balance of trust and detachment between the two hyper-reflective millennials is shaken when Tanja realizes on the night of her thirtieth birthday that the relationship could become existential.

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