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Poster for School for Coquettes

1958 · ★ 1.3 (3)

A young Parisian woman attends a school for coquettes in order to rise in society.

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Poster for The London Story

1986 · ★ 5.2 (5)

A mysterious woman recruits a Cabinet doorman and an ex-civil servant for a plot to bring down the British government.

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Poster for What Darwin Never Knew

2009 · ★ 9.0 (1)

Earth teems with a staggering variety of animals, including 9,000 kinds of birds, 28,000 types of fish, and more than 350,000 species of beetles. What explains this explosion of living creatures—1.4 million different species discovered so far, with perhaps another 50 million to go? The source of life's endless forms was a profound mystery until Charles Darwin brought forth his revolutionary idea of natural selection. But Darwin's radical insights raised as many questions as they answered. What actually drives evolution and turns one species into another? To what degree do different animals rely on the same genetic toolkit? And how did we evolve?

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Poster for Was lebst Du?

2004 · ★ 7.0 (1)

I followed the everyday lives of Ali, Kais, Ertan and Alban with my camera for over two years. The time was characterized by disappointments, conflicts and also great successes. It all began with a visit to the "Klingelpütz" youth center in the middle of Cologne. Young migrants have been meeting here for many years.

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— · ★ 0.0 (0)

A grieving journalist leaves the city, buying a rundown cabin in a close-knit, boat-access community. While coping with loss, she finds solace in new friendships and a potential romance.

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Poster for Samedi Soir

2009 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Actress and director Zoe Cassavetes films cross-dressing, the desire to seduce, and pokes fun at her characters' taste for romantic games.

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2019 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A woman comes home when she senses trouble in her home.

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Poster for Such A Girl Like Me

2012 · ★ 0.0 (0)

'...is unsuitable for any man's love.' (Xi Xi, A Woman Like Me) Sum-yin patches up wounds, masks scars and performs other beautician services that, when done well - as she always does - bring comfort to her and appreciation from grateful families. But inside she's hurting. Her job as a mortuary cosmetologist makes her self-conscious about the smell of death that seems to be seeping through and under her skin and looming over her stagnant relationship with Kwan, her oblivious boyfriend. No amount of cigarettes and perfume and cleaning will rid of it. At some point, a decision has to be made.

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Poster for Prelude

2023 · ★ 6.3 (3)

A grandfather who holds bitter memories of the war. A mother who lives in sorry. A best friend who lives with painful members. A woman who aspires to be a ballerina. A story of family and friends who carry with painful memories in their peaceful daily lives.

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Poster for Qadir - An Afghan Odysseus

2008 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The journey of Qadir, an Afghan refugee, who fled to Greece because of the Taliban. He left behind his family, his siblings, his parents, his friends. He walked thousands of kilometers. He crossed four countries on foot until he reached Greece, where he lives today. When after nine years he returns to his homeland to find his family, he has mixed emotions, anxiety, joy and fear.

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Poster for Code Red

2016 · ★ 0.0 (0)

What's a girl to do when she gets an unwelcome visit from Aunt Flo? A self-conscious teenager uses technology to combat the stigma around menstruation. Inspired by a real-life story.

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Poster for Singer Who Fell

2016 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Meet A 105-year-old Olga Markovna Kolyadenko, a former Bolshoi theater opera singer and the only remaining student of director Konstantin Stanislavsky. She still teaches vocals in her Moscow apartment. Konstantin Stanislavsky, who taught Olga Kolyadenko, created the famous acting system that was later adapted in the USA by Lee Strasberg.

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Poster for The Infidels

1997 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The story takes place in an around Lebanon. It concerns Farid, a repentant Islamic fundamentalist and Charles, a French diplomat. Farid is prepared to give the French secret service a list of names of terrorists operating in France on the condition that they liberate a friend of his imprisoned in France. The deal is complicated by the fact that Farid and Charles are irresistably attracted to each other, which inflames great jealously in Charles' wife, Juliette, estranging the couple.

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Poster for Courts mais Gay : Tome 1

2001 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A collection of gay and lesbian short films. The 8 short films are: My Friend Rachid [Mon copain Rachid] (1998); I Can Just Imagine [Je vois déjà le titre] (1998); Troubled Waters [Ô trouble] (1999); The Abandon [L'abandon] (1996); Paulo and His Brother [Paulo et son frère] (1997); Emma & Louise (2000); The Life of Others [La vie des autres] (2000); Aniel (1998).

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Poster for Entre vents et marées

2014 · ★ 5.5 (7)

In Brittany, a notary is killed with shots to the head. His wife Joséphine is a suspect. Her husband had just sold part of their property to two shady real estate developers who wanted to transform the little fishing village into an ultra-modern marina for wealthy clients.

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Poster for Quand tu disais, Valéry

1976 · ★ 9.0 (1)

Divided into five parts, this film traces the long strike by workers at the Caravelair caravan factory in Trigniac, near Saint-Nazaire, led by the C.G.T. and C.F.D.T. unions. Shot in 1975, the film achieved the strange feat of being produced entirely by workers' producers - 15,000 of them paid in advance for their tickets - and of being amortized, and even made profitable, by being shown outside the commercial circuit alone.

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Poster for We Go Way Back

2006 · ★ 4.8 (11)

A tragic-comic tale with surrealistic tendencies about a lost 23-year-old who is haunted by her disappointed 13-year-old self.

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Poster for Slice of Luna

2026 · ★ 10.0 (1)

Raka (27), a wedding photographer, was deceived by a woman named Luna (26), a woman who loves creating collage artworks from pieces of images and photos. Raka assembled pieces of other people's wedding photos that he had captured over time, turning them into a complete collage as an expression of his love for Luna.

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Poster for Talents and Admirers

1971 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Based on the play by A. N. Ostrovsky.

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Poster for Nikolai Bukharin

1989 · ★ 0.0 (0)

About Nikolai Bukharin and his comrades, about Stalin’s repressions of the 30s.

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