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Disgrace is the story of a South African professor of English who loses everything: his reputation, his job, his peace of mind, his good looks, his dreams of artistic success, and finally even his ability to protect his cherished daughter. After having an affair with a student, he moves to the Eastern Cape, where he gets caught up in a mess of post-apartheid politics.

Milo, a rebellious young child, has been experimenting with different outlets for his angst and budding sexuality. When Milo's worn-out and irritable father discovers a disturbing secret of his son's, he takes his son's punishment too far - creating unfortunate consequences for the whole family. Disgrace is a relentless study of top-down aggression.

Nessa, a young woman, is preparing to tie the knot, but her brother is determined to halt the wedding due to his possession of a significant secret concerning his sister.

Wiktoria, a woman showing early signs of pregnancy learns that her brother just arrived in town. The siblings support each other, both carrying a dark secret.

We admire beauty; we recoil from bodies that are marred, disfigured, different. Didier Cros’ moving, intimate film forces us to question what underlies our notions of beauty as we join a talented photographer taking stunning portraits of several people with profound visible scars which have dictated certain elements of their lives but have not come to define their humanity. The subjects' perceptions of themselves are dynamic, unexpected, and even heartwarming. This is an unforgettable journey to be shared with the world.

In a wintry day of January 1977, Israel's minister of construction commited sucide on Tel Baruch beach in Tel Aviv. In the preceeding months a corruption affair involving two Mapai seniors. Asher Yadlin who was the designated governor of the Bank of Israel, and his good friend Avraham Offer were suspected to have accepted bribe in real estate deals. The affair, that broke out after an investigation by Yigal Laviv, a determined and persistent journalist, was taken care of by police officer Biniamin Ziggel, and Israel's young attorney genral, Aharon Barack. The two, who wanted to eradicate government corruption, initiated an investigation. The results had serious implications: Offer lost his life, Yadlin ended up behind bars, and Mapai had to hand over their power after three decades of governing Israel. The movie Disgrace raises questions about government corruption, that is as relevant as ever.

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Roger Laroque, an honest industrialist, is the victim of a criminal machination by Julia de Noirville, his possessive and jealous mistress allied to the perfidious Paul Luversan, meant to make Roger take responsibility for the crime he himself committed. Laroque is sent to prison, from where he escapes by sea. When he is reported missing, it looks like he drowned. But he reappears with revenge as his objective. He also wants his daughter Suzanne back. For his wife, it's too late, she died of grief.

A high school senior’s life is turned upside down when photos of her naked body are distributed to a revenge porn website. Frustrated by police inaction, her mother takes the investigation into her own hands.

For years Jimmy Savile, Rolf Harris, Stuart Hall and Gary Glitter were adored by fans - but the horrifying truth of how they abused vulnerable fans and junior employees has now emerged. These men were serial abusers, getting away with it in plain sight. With contributions from those who suffered at the hands of these predatory men, this documentary reveals how this was allowed to happen. Did entertainment bosses turn a blind eye to the offences? Were the authorities slow to react? And did the Britain of the time dismiss anyone who dared to 'speak out'?

Andrey Ayrapetov jokes about the relationship with his father, who, unlike the comedian himself, supports the war, about his great-grandfather, who was in prison, and about his own attempts to be different from his family.

Frank Bough was one of the most famous men on British TV until a series of scandalous tabloid exposés ended his career We explore the motivation that led to his fall from grace, his attempt to rebuild a career and his his ultimate ignominious end.

A shocking exposé of the deplorable conditions and abuses from the Willowbrook State School for children with intellectual disabilities.

Andrew and Sarah, once upon a time a handsome, loving couple with the world at their feet. Now everything they get involved in is riddled with scandal. A look at what went wrong for the couple and where they both might end up.

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Married couple Fujijiro and Taeko live at the foot of Mt. Fuji with their 3-year-old daughter Natsuko. One day, Taeko is assaulted and later gives birth to Kanako. Unable to bear village rumors, Taeko commits suicide. 20 years later, Natsuko goes a quest to find the missing Kanako after seeing her picture in a gravure magazine...

Mike Rice is struggling with adult life. He talks about his crippling need to be liked, chatting with a stone, getting into a relationship with a Scottish chip shop and an ongoing feud with an Australian child.

In May 2025, artist filmmaker Saeed Taji Farouky collaboratively devised scenarios and filmed with people arrested and tried for pro-Palestinian activism. Together they built sets and performed idealised re-enactments of their police interviews and trials, re-enactments in which they said what they weren’t allowed to say in their real interviews and trials. In July 2025, the group with which some of those participants took action was banned as a terrorist organisation and an unprecedented crackdown on the language of Palestinian liberation began.

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Thirty-four days before she's sent to prison, notorious Silicon Valley founder Elizabeth Holmes invites a skeptical film crew to document her every move. What begins as an intimate portrait of an enigmatic felon becomes a mind-bending three-year journey into the abyss.

A daughter seeks to restore the reputation of her disgraced father, a wronged college professor. With help of a professional student, she must overcome an ambitious sorority bitch and corrupt college dean.

Don Sallust is the minister of the King of Spain. Being disingenuous, hypocritical, greedy and collecting the taxes for himself, he is hated by the people he oppresses. Accused by The Queen, a beautiful princess Bavarian, of having an illegitimate child to one of her maids of honor, he was stripped of his duties and ordered to retire to a monastery.

A disgraced former cop, fresh off a six-year prison sentence for attempted murder, returns home looking for redemption but winds up trapped in the mess he left behind.

Docudrama following the downfall of BBC Presenter Huw Edwards.

The film presents the tale of Agnese Ascalone, daughter of prominent miner Vincenzo Ascalone, and takes place in a small town in Sicily. Agnese is seduced by her sister Matilde's fiancé, and has a tryst with him for which she confesses and tries to repent, only to be discovered by her mother and father.

A fisherman and a rising lawyer who grew up together as brothers fall in love with the same woman.

A pregnant teen allows her mother to pass her secret baby off as her own.

Frances Ferguson is discontent. Like a lot of us, she does a bit of “acting out” and pays the price —an arrest, a trial, incarceration. And then a new identity, one that’s not terribly comfortable.

Walton, the District Attorney, yearns to have children. Soon after defending an author on trial for publishing indecent literature, Walton discovers a secret his wife and her socialite friends have been hiding from him.

Itto Ogami- High Executioner to the Shogun- has been betrayed by his political enemies and sentenced to a dishonorable death. Seeking to restore the honor of his name, Ogami- The Wolf- must flee the Shogun's grasp and live long enough to prove his innocence. Taking only his sword and his son, Ogami embarks on a bloody journey of righteousness and revenge as he seeks to destroy those who would disgrace his family's name. Hunted mercilessly by the Shogun's troops, by his enemies, and by those who seek the reward put on his head, Ogami must fight his way through feudal Japan, challenging and defeating all who stand in the way of his quest for honor. Can Ogami- a true Samurai Warrior- endure the ceaseless violence which surrounds him?

A young woman and her doctor husband are victims of a blackmail scheme when it is discovered that she was born in prison.

A disgraced monster movie actor decides to make his magnum opus but needs a victim to do it.

An electric collection of the latest, award-winning lesbian and feminist short films exploring fantasies, dreams, desires, love and transgression. Featuring chance encounters, teenage lust, girl fighters, self-conscious dolls and rampant zombies alongside journeys of self-discovery, the fight for equality and a playful take on stereotypes. GIRLS ON FILM 2: BEFORE DAWN takes you on an incredible adventure from America to Australia through Iceland, the UK and Algeria into worlds beyond.

A re-imagination of a lesbian cruising ground, in direct response to Annette Kennerley’s Sex Lies Religion.

An erotic narration of a lesbian date unfolds packed with fantasy, expectations and unnecessary emotional baggage, whilst we watch from a face-sitting, boob smothering point-of-view.

Poverty stricken lovers Eden and Matilda have enough trouble just getting through the days, but when Eden buys a pet spider the real troubles start.

Three groups of hikers embark on a hike across the beautiful countryside, they quickly discover the local inhabitants are anything but friendly.

Richard Titties, an out-of-shape martial arts wannabe, is shot into an alternate dimension after his girlfriend Cynthia is kidnapped. Her captors are a group of tittie obsessed madmen led by Zeefros, the master of the supernatural realm. Zeefros kidnaps women for the sole purpose of seeing their titties. Richard joins up with his sister Raine Brown, a Gorilla and a gaggle of other strange characters, in order to save his girlfriend. He must search inside, overcome his futile martial arts skills, and find the kung fu fighter within if he is to save himself and all those that dwell in the alternate world.