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1935 · ★ 0.0 (0)

This short ends with a warning that the birds helped "to preserve the leafy loveliness of our English countryside. We should therefore protect the warblers."

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Poster for The Violent

2023 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Zhenya is 15. Besides being a quiet and sensible boy, he is a promising violinist. Behind the door of Zhenya’s bedroom he daily hears his tyrannical stepfather being violent with the boy’s mother, but cannot find the courage to intervene. One sunny morning Zhenya comes to a decision to radically change his family’s life.

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Poster for How Do You Spell God?

1996 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Children from diverse religious and cultural backgrounds offer candid views on God, miracles, prayer, angels and faith.

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Poster for Undressing a Legacy

2021 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In this interview, conducted in spring 2021, scholar Nick Rees-Roberts traces the influence of La Piscine on the worlds of film and fashion in the half century since its release.

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Poster for On the Other Side of the Woods

2014 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Fairytale full of light, magic and nostalgia. A clay doll awakens her surroundings that become a surreal world in constant flow of change. Shot with natural light, the visible changes of daylight emphasize the passage of time in the film.

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Poster for Göta Canal 4: Win or Disappear

2022 · ★ 4.3 (7)

When the owners of the boatyard are going to divorce, they can not decide who will get it. They agree to make the division of property through a competition on the Göta Canal, where the winner gets the boatyard.

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Poster for State of Elevation

2021 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Aboard a high-altitude balloon the secret of which she possesses, a young girl has a strange encounter in space.Two investigations, undertaken in both the past and the present, endeavour to distinguish truth from falsehood. Isabelle Prim interweaves fiction with the formidable archives of the National Center for Space Studies.

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2004 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Samuel, 10, learns the sudden death of his father and must keep the secret from his younger brother Lucas, 5 years old.

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Poster for Gull

2021 · ★ 5.2 (4)

O-bok’s eldest daughter is about to get married to an educated, well-off young man, but she’s far from happy. It’s not just hot weather, hot flushes, her daughters’ materialism, her mother’s dementia, her husband’s drinking, or the impending gentrification of the food market where she sells fish – although all of that will push her to take a stand. After trying to cover it up, O-bok reveals to her daughter that she was raped by a fellow stallholder, the man organising the traders against their landlords. Increasingly furious, O-bok eschews the useless police to pursue her own justice, even if it means a physical fight.

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Poster for Poor Liza

1978 · ★ 7.3 (3)

The film is put on the motives of a well-known story of Nikolay Karamzin about the tragic love of the poor girl to the rich young man.

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Poster for The Right to Love: An American Family

2012 · ★ 1.0 (2)

Chronicling one story of courage born out of the highly mediatized and controversial Prop 8 2008 election results in California. A Californian married gay couple and their two adopted children fight back against discrimination, ignorance and hate through home videos posted on their YouTube channel, Gay Family Values. As they pursue their American Dream, the opposing political, social and religious opinions that pervade society attempt to strip it from them.

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Poster for Buntàta

— · ★ 0.0 (0)

When a poisoned potato kills cinema employee Chip Chapman, it's up to his friends to find the murderer.

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Poster for The Barber

2014 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Told partly through the eyes of a dementia sufferer, populated by 'ghosts' from his past, The Barber portrays a father and son at a crossroad. As Miles struggles to shave the elderly and unloving father he's planning to put in a home, the physical closeness unleashes emotions and a bond that neither of them had thought was there.

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Poster for Would You Kill for Me? The Mary Bailey Story

2023 · ★ 7.6 (10)

After a lifetime of abuse from the same man, three women - a grandmother, her daughter, and her granddaughter - conspire to get rid of him once and for all.

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Poster for The Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker

2023 · ★ 6.2 (154)

After Kai saves a woman's life, he turns into an overnight hero and viral sensation — until disturbing truths about his erratic behavior come to light. This shocking documentary chronicles a happy-go-lucky nomad's ascent to viral stardom and the resulting steep downward spiral.

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Poster for Newsboys

1979 · ★ 0.0 (0)

During the Japanese occupation, a group of communists are publishing a newspaper

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Poster for Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood

2019 · ★ 5.7 (7)

A history of anti-Asian racism and yellowface in Hollywood after the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack.

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Poster for Martha und Karl

2012 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The smart pensioner and newspaper carrier Martha disposes of her advertising papers on Karl's property. However, the old man doesn't like this at all and so he loudly voices his displeasure. Martha promptly strikes back. With enchanting consequences.

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Poster for For the Love of Ruth

2015 · ★ 5.2 (4)

Ruth Summerling has spent the majority of her life struggling to find her way and comes to some understanding of where exactly it is she belongs.

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Poster for The Knife That Killed Me

2014 · ★ 6.8 (2)

A journey through the memories of teenager Paul Varderman as he reflects on the events leading to the fatal moment his life is cut short. Paul moves to a new school and becomes involved with 'The Freaks', a group on the periphery of school life, those who don't fit in: scene kids, emo kids, indie kids. Outsiders. At the same time he attracts the attention of the schools twisted and manipulative bully, Roth. When Paul delivers a message from Roth to the leader of a gang at a rival school, it sparks a dangerous feud. Faced with growing pressures from both groups, Paul must decide where his friendship lies, a decision that may cost him his life.

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