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Language
English
Description
Interweaves story and dream, past and present, and philosophy and poetry in a sardonic and erotic tale of two couples--Tomas and Tereza, and Sabina and her Swiss lover, Gerhart. Controlled by day, Tereza's jealousy awakens by night, transformed into ineffably sad death-dreams, while Tomas, a successful surgeon, alternates loving devotion to the dependent Tereza with the ardent pursuit of other women. Sabina, an independent, free-spirited artist, lives...
2) Hit the Road
Language
Persian
Formats
Description
Panah Panahi, son and collaborator of embattled filmmaker Jafar Panahi and apprentice to Iranian master Abbas Kiarostami, makes a striking feature debut with this charming, sharp-witted, and deeply moving comic drama. HIT THE ROAD takes the tradition of the Iranian road-trip movie and adds unexpected twists and turns. It follows a family of four – two middle-aged parents and their sons, one a taciturn adult, the other a ebullient six-year-old –...
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Set in 19th-century China, two master warriors are faced with their greatest challenge when the treasured Green Destiny sword is stolen. A young aristocratic woman prepares for an arranged marriage, but soon reveals her superior fighting talents and her romantic past. As each warrior battles for justice, they come face-to-face with their worst enemy, and the enduring power of love.
4) Utama
Language
Español
Formats
Description
In the arid Bolivian highlands, an elderly Quechua couple has been living a tranquil life for years. While he takes their small herd of llamas out to graze, she keeps house and walks for miles with the other local women to fetch precious water. When an uncommonly long drought threatens everything they know, Virginio and Sisa must decide whether to stay and maintain their traditional way of life or admit defeat and move in with family members in the...
5) Better days
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Produced by the magnificent team that bagged seven Golden Horse Awards nominations for Soul Mate, Better Days is the fruit of the reunion of Golden Horse Best Director nominee Derek Kwok-cheung Tsang and Best Actress Zhou Dongyu, and the addition of Jackson Yee from boy band TFBoys. Aspiring to enter the national top-most school as a way out of poverty, straight-A student Chen Nian (Zhou Dongyu) finds herself entangled in a deadly accident involving...
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Dondup, a young government official who dreams of escaping his rural village for America, misses his bus to the city and is forced to hitchhike with an elderly apple seller, a young monk, and an elderly man and his beautiful daughter. Along the way, the monk tells the story of another young man that mirrors Dondup's ambitions.
7) Delicatessen
Language
Français
Description
In a futuristic society where meat is a rare commodity, a delicatessen serves up its customers as a nutritious replacement.
Language
Italiano
Formats
Description
Shy Vittoria has a close relationship with her loving mother Tina. But their quiet Sardinian life will be upset when the young girl discovers that local party girl Angelica is her birth mother. When Angelica is forced to move away because of financial troubles, she asks to become acquainted with Vittoria. Tina agrees, comforted by the idea that the woman will soon be leaving town. Searching for something deep and inexplicable, Vittoria and Angelica...
Series
Language
English
Description
"Get ready for a BIG adventure, BIG rescues, and BIG trucks! Launching from their new Truck Stop HQ, Ryder, the pups, and their new pup-friend Al will take their brand-new Big Trucks out on the road to save the day. The pups team up with Al to save the Adventure Bay Bridge and also stop a flood, plus so much more! Bigger rescues call for bigger rides and a new friend!"--WorldCat.
Series
Language
日本語
Formats
Description
In this triptych, mundane encounters spin into a world of infinite possibilities. In Episode 1: Magic (or Something Less Assuring), a young woman is startled when she realizes that her best friend's new flame might just be her ex; in Episode 2: Door Wide Open, a disgruntled student plots to trick his college professor, using his friend-with-benefits as bait; and in Episode 3: Once Again, a girl's college reunion leads to an unanticipated run-in with...
11) Isabella
Language
Español
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Description
Mariel longs to play the role of Isabella in a local theater troupe's production of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, but money problems prevent her from preparing for the audition. She thinks of asking her brother for financial help but is worried about being too direct. Her solution is to ask her brother's girlfriend, Luciana, also an actress and a more self-assured one, to convince her brother to give her the money. Luciana agrees on the condition...
Language
Icelandic
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Description
In a remote Icelandic town, an off-duty police chief (a chilling Ingvar Sigurdsson, who received Cannes’ Critics’ Week award for Best Actor for his performance) begins to suspect a local man of having had an affair with his late wife, who died in a tragic accident two years earlier. Gradually his obsession for finding out the truth takes over his life and inevitably begins to endanger himself and his loved ones. Combining classic thriller tropes...
Pub. Date
s2001.
Language
Español
Description
A drama set just after the Spanish Civil War. Dani is a 14-year-old would-be artist who is hired to care for the elderly Captain Blay. Blay convinces the young boy to paint Susanna, a young woman from the local village. Susanna's father, Kim, is a rarely seen but beloved resistance figure, while her mother, Anita, is considered the sexiest woman in town. One of Kim's associates shows up and begins an affair with Anita, while the two teenagers begin...
14) Daddy nostalgia
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Français
Description
A study of reconciliation and family ties. This is the story of a daughter's return to the family villa to spend time with her mother and her dying father. Daddy and daughter have never been close, but they begin to develop a belated bond of intimacy and come to know and understand one another for the first time.
15) Inheritance
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
Danish
Description
Christoffer, who four years earlier abandoned the family steel business for an idyllic life as a restauranteur with the woman he loves, Maria, a rising actress. But when Christoffer's father commits suicide, Christoffer's domineering and manipulative mother compels him to return home to take control. Maria's worst fears for Christoffer are tragically realized as he must contend with a business on the brink of financial ruin and a brother-in-law scheming...
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Türkçe
Formats
Description
Sinan, an aspiring writer, returns home after university hoping to scrape together enough money to publish his first novel. He wanders the town encountering old flames and obstinate gatekeepers and finds his youthful ambition increasingly at odds with the deferred dreams of his gambling-addict father. As his own fantasies mingle with reality, Sinan grapples with the people and the place that have made him who he is. Following in the great tradition...
18) Triple threat
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
A breakneck thriller that teams over half a dozen of the world's biggest action stars for the martial arts film event of the year. When a hit contract is taken out on a billionaire's daughter intent on bringing down a major crime syndicate, a team of wanted mercenaries must take on a group of professional assassins to stop them from hitting their target.
19) Flame and Citron
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Danish
Description
Copenhagen, 1944. A young idealist codenamed Flame and tense family man Citron are two Resistance fighters who become the underground's most proficient killers of collaborators and sympathizers. The Nazi SS is hunting them. They trust only each other. But in a time where fear and mercy must live in the shadows, a mysterious woman and a new assignment to assassinate the head of the Gestapo may lead them to the deadliest place of all. Based on the Holder...
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Lynn is the most meticulous chambermaid in her hotel, leaving no shelf undusted, no sheet untucked. Crippled by shyness, she rummages through guests' belongings and even hides under their beds, vicariously experiencing their conversations, meals and discreet interludes. After clandestinely observing an S&M session, Lynn discovers the phone number of the call girl, Chiara. Bold and unrestrained, Chiara soon draws Lynn out of her shell, opening her...
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