Despite never aspiring to be a mother, Dita finds herself compelled to raise her girlfriend’s two daughters. As their individual wills clash, a heartwarming story unfolds about an unlikely family’s struggle to stay together.
8 wins, 7 nominations.Read More »
Max Baumstein is a reputable businessman, a rich self-made man with a conscience – he founded a highly visible and active international organization fighting against violations of human rights. Why would he commit an act that apparently negates the principles he has striven for so long to uphold? Eventually, he reveals a secret about himself that he kept hidden from his younger wife Lina, and that in a roundabout way concerns her as well. It is the conclusion of a struggle that started many decades earlier, when Elsa Wiener, a German singer exiled in Paris, without money or relations, a refugee among many others, faced two daunting problems: surviving in a foreign city, and saving her husband Michel from the clutches of the Nazis.Read More »
Synopsis: Upper-class Tony hires servant Hugo Barrett, who turns out to have a hidden agenda.Read More »
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Time and Tide (時代屋の女房 Jidaiya no nyobo) is a 1983 Japanese film directed by Azuma Morisaki and based on a novel by Muramatsu Tomomi. It involves a woman, her cat, and an antique shop owner.
Stars the beautiful Masako Natsume who passed away a mere 2 years after this film’s release from leukemia.Read More »
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Mike Hama is a private investigator who has been reduced to combing the mean streets of the Yokohama waterfront on a borrowed bicycle.Read More »
Ivan Vladimirovich Dykhovichny (Russian: Иван Владимирович Дыховичный, 16 October 1947 – 27 September 2009)[1][2] was a Russian film director and screenwriter.
He directed ten films between 1984 and 2009. His film Muzyka dlya dekabrya was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival.
His father Vladimir Abramovich Dykhovichny (1911–1963) was a well-known Soviet song writer, mother Alexandra Iosifovna Sinani was a ballerina. Dykhovichny was a close friend of Vladimir Vysotsky who dedicated a long poem to himRead More »
“Violette (Isabelle Adjani) is fascinated with the shabby background and low-down ways of her boyfriend Francois (Jacques Dutronc), and despite her middle-class family’s objections, she marries him. Unable to keep a job, and without any real skills, he has a hard time supporting them, especially after the birth of their baby. He turns to shoplifting, and she briefly leaves him when she discovers this. Sometime after they get back together, with money still in short supply, she takes a turn at shoplifting too, and gets a kick out of it. “Read More »
The story follows the life of Leni Gruyten, a regular German woman during the 1930s and 40s. Through her interactions with friends, family, and other people she knows, the regular folks’ perception of the Nazi era is shown.Read More »
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Farukh, (17) wants to go away. He takes a train with his little brother Azamat (7) to visit their father. Farukh intends to leave Azamat at his father’s before leaving. This is the story of their journey.Read More »