Drama

Daan is the story of a young boy desperate to find work to help support his family and heroin addicted parents. Moving from employer to employer, Daan, aged only 9 and illiterate, faces an almost impossible task without an identity card. Part of the Iranian New Wave, Abolfazl Jalili’s use of non-actors gives the film the feeling of a documentary, as performers recreate lives so close to their own. From Don’s point of view, the world is a tough place, but his determination to make the most of his situation is heartwarming.Read More »

In May 1948, shortly before the creation of the State of Israel, hundreds of immigrants from across Europe arrive in Palestine – only to risk arrest by British troops.Read More »

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Burkina Faso, West Africa. Poverty and misery breaks out with a vengeance in Gourga, a village within the borders of the Sahel. For the people of the country, a choice has to be made: either await international assistance or travel further inland to the richer preas of the country. Salam, a peasant, and his family opt for the second solution, with all the sacrifices that this entails. A new life can now begin for them. They discover love, joy, hate, violence, feelings which hunger and thirst had made them forget.Read More »

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Somewhere in the remote region, the war ends. In the midst of ruined cities and houses in the streets, in rural hamlets, everywhere where people still live, are children who have lost their homes and parents. Abandoned, hungry, and in rags, defenseless and humiliated, they wander through the world. Hunger drives them. Little streams of orphans merge into a river which rushes forward and submerges everything in its path. The children do not know any feeling; they know only the world of their enemies. They fight, steal, struggle for a mouthful of food, and violence is merely a means to get it.Read More »

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Nere-do-well Jerry Corbett finally meets and marries the right girl, Joan Prentiss. Unfortunately their wedded bliss is interrupted when Jerry’s play becomes a hit and he hooks up with the wrong woman from his past. Joan decides that turn-about is fair play and she picks another man to escort her around to various parties around New York. Eventually Jerry quits drinking and sends his girlfriend packing, just in time for Joan to take him back.Read More »

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Meet Saotome Ai, a high school girl from a well-to-do family. When she was a small child, she was in an accident that resulted in a young boy being permanently scarred between his eyes while she emerged unscathed. The young boy saved her life and although she never knew who he was, she never forgot him. Meet Taiga Makoto, a young man with a scar between his eyes who has had a rough life, but has emerged as a rough, tough bully – a thug and a brawler and about as rude as they come – all of which he blames on the incident that gave him his scar. When Ai and Makoto run into each other again, Ai feels guilt for what Makoto has become and decides to intervene and rehabilitate him. But is he a diamond in the rough, or just a bully?Read More »

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The aristocratic families of Rossitz and Warwand, who are relatives, have started to treat each other with mistrust and hatred, since a testamentary contract has stated, that the complete goods will be inherited to the respective surviving line. At the same time the young generation is in love, how can the tender ties between Agnes of Warwand and Ottokar of Rossitz be protected? Killed by their own fathers, they lie in their blood. A radical drama about the term “family”.Read More »

A perfect red-colored violin inspires passion, making its way through three centuries over several owners and countries, eventually ending up at an auction where it may find a new owner.Read More »

The story of a man who has memorized the Holy Quran. In this movie, life of the famous poet from Shiraz (Hafez Shirazi) is presented symbolically.Read More »