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Jessy, age 12, dreams of becoming a wrestler. Already, life is a daily fight; home is chaotic and his innocence is quickly disappearing. Reality hits hard in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, a poor area of Montreal, but it can’t compete with the Friday night wrestling that gives Jessy the courage to escape his destiny. “Le Ring” tells the story of a little fighter determined to make his own way.Read More »
In 1961, a Soviet medical officer is conflicted about his position overseeing the health of future cosmonauts.Read More »
Synopsis : Somewhere in Manila, a crime boss rules with an iron fist. He uses religion and violence to stay in power. What superstition and razzle dazzle don’t accomplish, his goons do. To his most loyal henchman he gives the task of guarding his woman, who is headstrong and impulsive, and often gets into trouble. Before long, she falls in love with the henchman, and the star-crossed lovers decide to leave town. Fighting ensues. It is while on the run that they finally get to know each other for the first time…Read More »
The film is based on a book by Sawako Agawa of the same title and stars Maki Sakai (40)
Sakai plays Rui, a 35-year-old single woman forced to live alone after the aunt who raised her suddenly decides to get married and move out. Through an unexpected set of circumstances, she winds up becoming roommates with an aging ladies’ man named Tony (Tatsuya Fuji) and a timid younger man named Kosuke (Takahiro Nishijima).Read More »
In a war-torn post-apocalyptic region, a bunch of kids, who suffer from deformed limbs due to a toxic explosion, embark on an adventure.Read More »
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For summer vacation, Marc and Béatrix take their two kids to the seaside house of Marc’s youth, where their daughter takes up with a biker and their sons roams the beach with his best friend, who is in love with him. Things get steamier when Béatrix’s lover Mathieu shows up, and Marc’s old flame appears.Read More »
The White Rose – the first comprehensive documentary of Munich ‘s resistance work Students in the war years 1942 and 1943: companions, friends and siblings tell, as they supported leaflets, as they surrendered the Gestapo and the People’s Court, some that no one has asked before. The first talks for the documentary film were conducted in 2000, a part of the time witnesses is not alive anymore. Their irretrievable testimony makes the resistance work of the friends comprehensible and transforms the heroes into political people. Impressive and with a sensitive Aesthetics are the self-pronouncements of the participants and original documents combined. Your part unpublished youth photos, photos of the cops, the Gestapo officials, judges and the executioner add to an authentic portrait of the White Rose beyond legends.Read More »
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In Austria, Katrin is lonely after her sister’s marriage and she agrees to marry her father’s research associate Dr. Walter Fane. Fane takes her to China but constantly ignors her in favour of his medical research. Lonely Katrin has an affair with Jack Townsend of the British Embassy. When it is discovered by Walter he becomes very bitter. Fane travels to fight a cholera epidemic and Katrin goes with him and helps. They grow closer together than ever before but Walter is knifed in a riot incited by the burning of a cholera infested town. Now their new found happiness will depend on Walter’s survival.Read More »
