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1981 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Documentary about guest workers in the Ruhr area. Part of the seven-part film cycle "Prosper/Ebel. Chronik einer Zeche und ihrer Siedlung".

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Poster for Celts

2022 · ★ 5.3 (10)

Belgrade in 1993. The pent-up tension of uncertain times is released at a children’s birthday party. While the kids celebrate in the living room dressed up as Ninja Turtles, the adults discuss, flirt, smoke and drink in the kitchen.

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Poster for La ciudad perdida

1955 · ★ 5.0 (3)

Rafa, a Communist Republican exiled after the Spanish Civil War, returns to his hometown to carry out an attack against the imposed tyrannical regime, but the mission fails and, in his attempt to escape, he kidnaps a lady of high society.

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Poster for Louis Theroux: The Night in Question

2019 · ★ 6.9 (16)

Louis Theroux heads to American college campuses and comes face-to-face with students whose universities are accusing them of sexual assault.

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Poster for Black Holes: Messages from the Edge of the Universe

2017 · ★ 5.0 (1)

It is the birth of neutrino astronomy. For the first time, astrophysicists can detect extra-terrestrial neutrinos in ice on the South Pole. The fundamental questions of science remain unanswered., how did the universe come to be? What keeps our world together? The newly discovered extra-galactic neutrinos may hold the keys to answering these questions.

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Poster for Ebony Goddess: Queen of Ilê Aiyê

2010 · ★ 10.0 (2)

Ebony Goddess: Queen of Ilê Aiyê follows three women competing to be the carnival queen of Ilê Aiyê, a prominent and controversial Afro-Brazilian group with an all-black membership. The selection is based on Afro-centric notions of beauty, in counterpoint to prevailing standards of beauty in Brazil, a country famous for slim supermodels and plastic surgery. Contestants for the title of Ebony Goddess dress in flowing African-style garments, gracefully performing traditional Afro-Brazilian dances to songs praising the beauty of black women.

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Poster for Dranem Performs The True Jiu-Jitsu

1905 · ★ 4.7 (12)

Armand Dranem performs The True Jiu-Jitsu ("Le Vrai Jiu-Jitsu", by P. Briollet & G. Fabri / C. D'Orviet) in this phonoscene by Alice Guy. This early form of music video was created using a chronophone recording of Dranem, who was then filmed "lip singing". Guy would film phonoscenes of all three major Belle Époque celebrities in France: Polin, Félix Mayol, and Dranem.

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Poster for Letter of Forgiveness

2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In the household of a wealthy Romanian noblewoman in 1855, Maria, a Roma-Gipsy slave, fights to obtain freedom for her son Dinca. Part of a future full-length project, the short film presents a day in the household in which Maria and her son, Dinca, serve as slaves. As important guests arrive for dinner and all the slaves are making preparations, Maria and her son see this day as a chance to take a step to change their fate. During slavery time, up until 1856, the Romanian equivalent of the word "forgiveness" was used when referring to freeing someone from slavery (the Roma slave was "forgiven" from slavery).

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Poster for The Better Man

2023 · ★ 0.0 (0)

At a parole board hearing, James Carter asks for a freedom he is not certain that he deserves.

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Poster for 12 Dares of Christmas

2023 · ★ 5.4 (17)

High school teacher Elara’s quiet holiday season gets a jolt of spice when she accepts a 12 Dares of Christmas challenge from her sister while scrambling to ready her town for a Christmas exchange program with suave, opinionated French teacher Gabriel.

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Poster for Quadrilaterals

2017 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A portrait of a family of Overseas Filipino Workers seen through the objects in their home.

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Poster for Otenki-caster: Hare nochi nurete

2015 · ★ 2.0 (2)

Hanako, a weather forecaster, is extremely nervous, but after undergoing hypnotic therapy just before the show, she overcomes her nervousness and performs confidently in front of the camera. Rinko, a senior who is jealous of Hanako's popularity, plots to bring her down...

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Poster for Murder Case in Chinatown

1961 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Chan Sipui sought refuge with relatives who owned a restaurant in New York. He later entered a relationship with his colleague, A-Heung. Sipui met Wong Yukfan, the laundry shop owner, and was captivated by her business. He devised a plan to marry Yukfan to obtain control of the laundry shop. Furthermore, Sipui aimed to deceive A-Hueng and take her money. He set up a scheme to kill Yukfan and dismember her body. However, Yukfan's daughter discovered the bloodstains and reported the incident to the police, leading to Sipui's arrest and subsequent trial.. Based on a real murder case in 1930s New York Chinatown.

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Poster for Farewell, the spy who loved France

2019 · ★ 8.7 (3)

"The Farewell Affair" is one of the greatest espionage stories of the Cold War that will result in the accelerated fall of the USSR. It involves Vladimir Vetrov, a KGB agent put in the closet, who decides to contact the DST and deliver several lists of technological and scientific agents and secrets, which the KGB has been stealing from the countries of the Western Blocs for decades.

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Poster for Myself When I Am Real

2017 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A man and a woman see a therapist together in a last ditch effort to save their marriage. Their story has wider implications.

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Poster for Ed Gein: The Ghoul of Plainfield

2004 · ★ 5.9 (7)

Examination of real life inspiration behind Psycho and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre who is the serial killer Ed Gein.

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Poster for Is It Easy To Be...? After 10 Years

1997 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The film is a sequel of the legendary documentary “Is It Easy To Be Young?”, which was created in the year 1986 by Juris Podnieks. You once again meet the heroes from the first film. How their lives have changed, have their dreams fulfilled? The film received prize in Leipzig film festival, FIPRESSI prize, nominated for Prix Europa.

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Poster for Baronesa

2018 · ★ 6.0 (10)

The everyday life of a Belo Horizonte lower class neighborhood.

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Poster for Meu Passado Me Condena 2: O Filme

2015 · ★ 6.3 (179)

The life of Fabio and Miá falls into the rut when differences, which are not few, need to be faced. After Fábio forget the third wedding anniversary, Miá decides to ask for a time in the relationship. When Fábio's grandfather, who lives in Portugal, tells him that he was a widower, he sees on this trip to the funeral an opportunity to save his marriage.

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Poster for Spplat Attack

2002 · ★ 8.0 (1)

Part sci-fi adventure, part reality TV survival game and part extreme sports, William Shatner takes on a familiar role as commander of earth's forces in a galactic confrontation fight with real paintball weapons.

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