Drama

Shot in a Roman temple in Baalbek, Lebanon, based on Oscar Wilde’s play, this television film features the drama of Salome, who asks Herod for the head of John the Baptist, whom she loves and who rejected it.Read More »

Synopsis: This crime story centres around Anna, the prisoner, who was drawn into stealing by her lover and that’s what got her in prison. The girl would like to meet Jenő, her sweetheart again. She begs the prison physician until she lets her out for one night. She visits the man, but the womaniser hotel waiter has long forgotten her. He has already coaxed the naive do-all girl, Birdie, courted the chambermaid, and is now planning to rob the cash-register with his new lover, an acrobat. The acrobat falls on the run with an elevator out of order and dies. Anna forgives the disloyal Jenőnek, whom she still loves, but when she learns of Birdie expecting a child from him, she convinces Jenő to marry the girl and then returns to the prison.Read More »

In 1800s Denmark, a farmer has a bad harvest and thus not enough food for his family. He makes a deal, that includes his farm and his daughter getting married, with a nearby rich farmer.Read More »

Nazi war criminal Franz Kessler is an expert in germ warfare living in Hong Kong. In order to maintain his rich lifestyle he does a deal to provide terrorists them with a lethal gas. To protect himself he plants a timebomb in a Hong Kong sewer along with a large sample of his wares. When things don’t go to plan the police find themselves in a desperate search to prevent it from detonating.Read More »

While on sabbatical, Ben Hardin returns home to care for his ailing mother.Read More »

Based on the true story of drugs, satanism, and murder in the upper class town of Northport, Long Island in 1984.Read More »

A young mother caught up in an uncontrollable spiral of passion after meeting a stranger abandons everything and leaves Paris. Clemence lives a happy but predictable life with daughter and husband-to-be in a sleepy town somewhere in the Auvergne. Then one day, she meets Camille, a man who turns her life upside down.Read More »

“A documentary-like drama about an emotionally frozen woman who opens up to life again…” ~Filmdienst

Synopsis:
Forensic biologist Inga is so busy with her work at the institute that it takes her a while to notice how lonely she is after separating from her husband. When it is claimed that she has a half-sister and the falconer asks her to look after a baby falcon, she falls into a vortex of painful feelings.Read More »

Matteo Scuro is a retired Sicilian bureaucrat (responsible mainly for the writing of birth certificates), a widower with five children, all of whom live on the mainland and hold responsible jobs. He decides to surprise each with a visit and finds none as he imagined. The film is a veritable travelogue across contemporary Italy, as Matteo journeys to Napoli, Roma, Firenze, Milano, and Turino to search for each of his children; he even spends one night on the streets among the homeless. Scuro returns to Sicily, visits his wife’s grave, and reports with irony that “stanno tutti bene.”Read More »