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21) Hit the road
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Persian
Description
Panah Panahi, son and collaborator of embattled filmmaker Jafar Panahi and apprentice to Iranian master Abbas Kiarostami, makes a striking feature debut with this charming, sharp-witted, and deeply moving comic drama. HIT THE ROAD takes the tradition of the Iranian road-trip movie and adds unexpected twists and turns. It follows a family of four - two middle-aged parents and their sons, one a taciturn adult, the other a ebullient six-year-old - as...
22) Try harder!
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
"San Francisco's Lowell High, one of the best public schools in the country, draws high achievers, nearly 70% Asian Americans, from across the city into a fiercely competitive universe. The camera follows seniors through the hallways and into classrooms as the pressure intensifies toimpress admissions officers at elite universities with their report cards, test scores, and overall awesomeness. The students proudly own their identity as nerds and tell...
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Français
Description
Pascal, a well-digger and widower, lives with his six daughters in the Provence countryside during World War I. Pascal dreams of marrying his daughter off to his loyal assistant, but his dream is dashed when she is impregnated by a wealthy young pilot who abandons her for the war front.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Bored New Jersey housewife Roberta fills her days by reading the personals and following an ongoing romance between Jim and Susan, mysterious drifters who appear to lead the kind of free-spirited life she can only dream about. And dream she does, until the day she actually shows up at the couple's pre-arranged rendezvous in New York City. After a bump on the head, a bout of amnesia turns Roberta into Susan.
25) All together
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Français
Description
Jean is a romantic revolutionary, yet enjoys the spoils of a bourgeois lifestyle with his wife, Annie, a retired psychiatrist. Albert is a friendly yet senile man, which is in contrast with his energetic American wife. Widower Claude is an aging womanizer who suffers a heart attack from walking up too many flights of stairs on a visit to one of his lady friends. Rather than see him in a retirement home, his friends decide they should all live together...
26) Tikkun
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
עברית
Description
After dying for 40 minutes, a scholar is revived. After he comes back to life, suddenly feeling strange, he suspects God is testing him.
27) 3 faces
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Persian
Description
Actress Behnaz Jafari is distraught when she comes across a young girl's video plea for help after her family prevents her from taking up her studies at the Tehran drama conservatory. Behnaz abandons her shoot and turns to filmmaker Jafar Panahi to help with the young girl's troubles. They travel by car to the rural Northwest, where they have encounters with the charming and generous folk of the girl's mountain village. But Behnaz and Jafar also discover...
28) Modus: Season 1
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Swedish
Description
The case leads her to team up with local detective Ingvar Nymann and together they set about uncovering the clues to these shocking crimes. As the number of mysterious murders starts to increase, Inger Johanne is driven by her need to protect her daughter and starts noticing a pattern. But her discovery of the killer's weakness and the connection to a ruthless international network unintentionally turns the entire threat towards herself and her family....
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Tragedy ignites a group of teens to find a legendary landmark hidden in the wilderness. Together, they navigate the adventure while confronting the darkness within themselves. Channeling teen classics like The Goonies and The Breakfast Club, the story wrestles with depression, anxiety, doubt, and identity. What Rhymes with Reason sparks a fun and emotional tale of hope for the whole family.
30) Bear nation
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"While the LGBT community has long had to struggle with sterotyping by outsiders, gay men also have to deal with widely held perceptions from their peers that they're supposed to fit a certain image--men who are stylist, carefully groomed, trim and to a certain degree effeminate. But not all gay men fit this profile, and this has led in part to the rise of 'Bears'--gay men who are stocky, hirsute, outwardly masculine and proud of it. As gay culture...
31) Two in the wave
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Français
Description
Directors Jean-Luc Godard and Francois Truffaut changed the face of cinema forever as members of the French New Wave. They also happened to be best friends. This film documents their intensely combative and creative relationship during their time at Cahiers du Cinéma, their trumphant work on The 400 Blows and Breathless, and their dramatic falling out following the worker and student strikes of May 1968. It also presents the unique bond both filmmakers...
32) Persian Lessons
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Deutsch
Description
Occupied France, 1942. Gilles is arrested by SS soldiers alongside other Jews and sent to a camp in Germany. He narrowly avoids sudden execution by swearing to the guards that he is not Jewish, but Persian. This lie temporarily saves him, but Gilles gets assigned a life-or-death mission: to teach Farsi to the Head of Camp Koch, who dreams of opening a restaurant in Iran once the war is over. Through an ingenious trick, Gilles manages to survive by...
33) Buoyancy
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Central Khmer
Description
This story of a Cambodian teenager sold into forced labor on a Thai fishing boat is a passionate testimony against social injustice and a moving coming-of-age tale about a boy whose humanity is put to the test.
34) Custody
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Français
Description
A broken marriage leads to a bitter custody battle with an embattled son at the center in this thrilling domestic drama. Miriam and Antoine Besson have divorced, and Miriam is seeking sole custody of their son Julien to protect him from a father she claims is violent. Antoine pleads his case as a scorned dad whose children have been turned against him by their vindictive mother. Unsure who is telling the truth, the appointed judge rules in favor of...
35) Back in crime
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Français
Description
When a detective is injured in the course of a criminal investigation, he is transported twenty years into the past, and has a second chance at solving the most frustrating mystery of his career.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Reveals the untold stories of Nicaraguan women warriors and social revolutionaries who shattered barriers to lead combat and social reform during Nicaragua's 1979 Sandinista Revolution, the ensuing US-backed Contra War, and documents their leadership in the continuing struggle for justice today. The film reveals a magical moment in world history when thousands of female rebel fighters transformed society's definition of womanhood and leadership.
37) Littlerock
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A sleepy Los Angeles exurb and its shiftless young residents are seen through the eyes of two Japanese tourists in an intimate evocation of a small town in Southern California where everyone's talking but no one really understands.
38) More than honey
Pub. Date
2013
Language
Deutsch
Description
An unprecedented global examination of endangered honeybees spanning from California to Switzerland, China and Australia. With all the hallmarks of a great nature documentary, the film employs the latest in cinematic technology to observe phenomena undetectable by normal eyesight, beautifully portraying the dramatic story of the disappearance of millions of bees in the last decade.
39) There is no evil
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Persian
Description
Mohammad Rasoulof delivers a piercing drama about a subject he knows well: the costs of living under a repressive, brutal government. Winner of the Golden Bear, the top prize at the Berlin Film Festival, There Is No Evil is a film in four chapters, each telling a different story related to the death penalty in contemporary Iran. The first story concerns a family man who, as we come to see, pays a grave moral price for his comfortable middle-class...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A master thief conceives a brilliant plan to steal a fortune in gold bars from a railroad payroll car. To pull off the most daring heist in history, he must join forces with a safecracker and his own beautiful girlfriend in a series of intricately plotted thefts that will test all of their nerve, camaraderie, and larcenous skill.
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