Drama

Synopsis:
“The White Sickness”, a leprosy-like disease, ravages the world during a war.Read More »

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Arne, Calle, and Gunnar are friends, probably in their twenties. One telephones the others, and they decide to visit a nightclub. They hope to meet women and have sex. After they arrive at the club, each man meets with a certain degree of success or failure. Calle particularly is frustrated, for no woman agrees to dance with him. Meanwhile, Arne and Gunnar are busily conversing with women. Eventually the friends all leave with lady friends in tow, and spend the night in various apartments. In the morning, the couples depart differently. One couple has bonded amicably, another tenuously, and the third not at all. The next day, the men reconnect, and decide to try their luck again.Read More »

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21-year-old Hideo Ishida is a reckless young man. Today again, he took part in a car race with a stolen driver’s license and a car belonging to the junkyard. But unfortunately, things go wrong and after a collision with another car, the seriously injured Hideo is taken to the hospital. Here he meets the nurse Yuki Kobayashi. Yuki is the opposite of Hideo. During the day she works as a nurse and in the evening she studies hard. However, Hideo’s behavior leaves an unforgettable impression on Yuki and the two soon develop an intimate friendship …Read More »

Fall 1989: Jan is almost 16. Caught while trying to escape to the West, he is now in a reformatory. Here, he meets Jana … and what starts as a bet, becomes true love. When Jana gets pregnant, the situation spirals out of control. In the summer of 1990, Jana and Jan flee from the reformatory into the unknown, insecure future of a new Germany.Read More »

A deported gangster’s plan to re-enter the USA involves skulduggery at a Mexican resort, and gambler Dan Milner is caught in the middle.Read More »

Synopsis:
Austria, 1942: A deserter hides from his pursuers in the caves near a small mountain village. He only ventures outside at night to get food from his wife in the village. But the Gestapo and the local police are hot on the fugitive’s heels.

“In contrast to the fashionable bells and whistles and pleasing arts and crafts, in contrast to the average that is becoming more and more widespread in cinema, this quiet, dense “little” film is a feast for the eyes. Predominantly static shots, clear and simply structured black and white images remind us of what cinema actually is or should be about.” – (Süddeutsche Zeitung)Read More »

Bint El-Harass (Arabic: بنت الحارس) AKA The Guard Daughter is a Lebanese musical-drama directed by the Egyptian director Henry Barakat (known for Doa al karawan AKA The Nightingale’s Prayer) story, dialog and musical score by the Rahbani brothers Assi & Mansour and starring the greatest voice ever lived Fairuz.
This is the third and maybe the last film starring Fairuz after Biya el-Khawatim AKA The Ring Seller and Safar Barlek and the second collaboration between the director and the Rahbani brothers and Fairuz.Read More »

Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka the one-ideaed Hungarian painter was thought to be crazy by his peers, but he eventually became a significant artist.Read More »

The story of a narcissist actor who loses himself under the skin of the great lover he portrays. Based on the on-screen romances of Rudolph Valentino and Pola Negri.Read More »