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It takes four to six minutes for a human to drown. Talal Khoury's film immerses us in the waters of the Mediterranean for this same duration, asking us to meditate on those who've been lost at sea seeking a better life.

After a student's scholarship falls through, her academic dreams lie in a life-changing offer: marry into a family in exchange for tuition.

Waleed (40) lives in Haifa with his wife and children and dreams of a writing career while suffering from chronic depression. He develops a close relationship with his neighbor (a small-time crook) with an ulterior plot in mind. While the scheme turns into an unexpected friendship between the two men, it leads them into a journey of dark encounters.

The scene of action embraces Tangier, Toulon and the Mediterranean, where Pierre Fresnay, Rolf Wanka and Kim Peacock, cast as captains of French, German and English boats, respectively, unite to rescue the passengers of a neutral boat that is about to be engulfed in a cloud of poison smoke released by a smuggling ship.

An undercover world of wild nature. The largest Mediterranean forest in the world, with an area of one million hectares. The only place still fly heraldic imperial eagles, abounds mythical legendary wolf and lynx hunting. However, this paradise is threatened. Oaks are dying victims of a process called "dry". Scientists estimate that on current trends the forest could disappear. The problem is aggravated due to the overpopulation of herbivores that impede natural forest regeneration. The solution is to restore the ecological balance and leave it to nature itself that recovers the forest.

A 1962 West German documentary film directed by Hermann Leitner and Rudolf Nussgruber.

The old Italian Guido Bruzzio and his granddaughter Mona have ended up in one of the big cities in the Nordic countries, where he runs a plaster business. He has found a couple of tenacious helpers who go to work with life and desire.

A volunteer from a World War II-era Greek resistance group agrees to seduce a German officer in order to gain secrets

A prehistoric shark (named in the books "megalodon") lurks Mallorca, killing a couple of individuals. A professional diver begins the hunt.

The adventures of a secret British agent who undertakes his last mission, with Greece as his destination. His mission will prove extremely dangerous, as foreign double agents, the Greek police, and ruthless killers become involved in a relentless chase that takes us to various parts of Greece, such as Meteora, Athens, and Nafplio.

Sofia's story, the best chef in the world, and the two men who helped her to become a legend.

Two half-brothers have to go on a road trip to find their half-sister and receive a huge inheritance.

The film is about Serbia during the transition. Kruška (Milutin Jeremić), a delinquent and an orphan, after escaping from the correctional facility in Kruševac returns to his old neighborhood - Čubura. He lives with his friend Bata (Jovana Trojanović) and her older brother Pit (Oliver Conić), a failed boxer, who in the meantime has become a petty dealer and drug addict. Pete has problems due to debts to his suppliers, but also heroin addiction. He directly involves Kruška and his younger sister in his problem.

Pictures of the Mediterranean made with bread, oil and wine. In one meal the history, geography, economy, climate, culture and people of the Mediterranean. Close up of threshing floors, threshing floors, mills. Dietary habits, production methods, daily routines together with the natural and built environment make up the cultural body of the most interesting, perhaps, man-made environment in history. A culture that runs as a commonplace even in seemingly different worlds. The Mediterranean emerges in a sea of convergence and meeting without, however, ignoring the dynamics of the different.

The Mediterranean movie directed by Hadi Hajatmand and produced by Rashid Hajatmand, (ShowBox), starring Mehraveh Sharifinia, Behrang Alavi and Pouria Poursorkh, was released in cinemas across the country in 1400. Saberullah Dadian has written this film. Synopsis: Hadi Hajatmand's second feature film has a social theme and deals with the life of a loving couple who are involved in various problems and adventures...

A documentary about Göran Schildt and his relationship with the Mediterranean.

A tour in the spring of 1933 aboard the S.S. Columbus.

Shots of windows across Croatian coastal towns.

A modern tale told by the Mediterranean itself, from the coast to the open sea, from microscopic plankton to gigantic whales. It is a poetic exploration of the Mediterranean and its immense riches, undermined by the irresponsible activity of man. More than a simple animal documentary, this film seeks to raise awareness of the need to preserve this sea, which is also our future. Like an ode to life, this documentary takes us on a discovery of fascinating biodiversity.

In associative montages of images and conversations with people in Germany, Poland and ultimately in Israel, this film explores persistent traumas, mechanisms of repressing the pain, and attempts at reconciliation. What kind of dialogue is possible between relatives of perpetrators and victims? How does one’s identity or membership in a community mould one’s awareness and perception? With these questions in mind after his return, Avnon also takes a different view of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which is visibly inscribed in the social space of his home town of Haifa.

When Dr. Indiana Jones – the tweed-suited professor who just happens to be a celebrated archaeologist – is hired by the government to locate the legendary Ark of the Covenant, he finds himself up against the entire Nazi regime.

A young linguist named Milo Thatch joins an intrepid group of explorers to find the mysterious lost continent of Atlantis.

In Italy in the 1930s, sky pirates in biplanes terrorize wealthy cruise ships as they sail the Adriatic Sea. The only pilot brave enough to stop the scourge is the mysterious Porco Rosso, a former World War I flying ace who was somehow turned into a pig during the war. As he prepares to battle the pirate crew's American ace, Porco Rosso enlists the help of spunky girl mechanic Fio Piccolo and his longtime friend Madame Gina.

Instead of enjoying her vacations in a peaceful peninsula of Turkey, Anna feels stuck in a strange torpor, while her boyfriend, Thomas, doesn't seem to notice it at all. Later in the afternoon, when a little girl suddenly disappears on the beach, Anna awakens and decides to go and find her, despite the unknown and the nightfall.

Mike Hamilton, a Philadelphia lawyer, comes to Naples to settle the estate of his long estranged "black sheep" brother. Once there, he discovers that the deceased has left an 8 year old boy who is being raised by Michael's sister-in-law Lucia Curcio. To complicate matters, Lucia happens to be a sexy nightclub performer.

A year after Sheila is killed in a hit-and-run, her multimillionaire husband invites a group of friends to spend a week on his yacht playing a scavenger hunt-style mystery game—but the game turns out to be all too real and all too deadly.

Explore the mysterious giant rings of the Mediterranean, buried at a depth of 120m, with the world-famous Laurent Ballesta, world-renowned diver and his team, to understand the origin of these unique and unknown formations.

Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run.

Everything you need to know is telegraphed by the title of this Spanish-language drama. The story takes place in a hothouse Mediterranean setting and combines lust, intrigue and murder in the overheated sexploitation style that was popular during the late 1950s and early '60s.

The story of a female German spy who willingly sacrifices her life for her country.

Omar, a young man, lives a simple life with his family and suffers from loneliness. His life changes when he tries to bond with a girl he barely knows.

Fanny Hobichler, a young promising actress, moves to Vienna in the 1920s in order to pursue her big break. She draws inspiration and seeks help from the popular stage actor Albert Kortz who once started out from the same provincial town as she did and was a close friend of her late father. Kortz, however, dreams of retiring as he is tired of his fame and having to deal with the short-tempered theatre director Jason. Together, they try to outwit Jason.

When a disenfranchised, world-famous photographer is interviewed by university students and presented with a portfolio of his life's work he is transported back to his very first photoshoot with a special yet mysterious subject.

Rachid is a young man who survives in Morroco boxing in clandestine fights in order to save enough money with which to pay a smuggler, and be able to cross the Strait of Gibraltar with his two friends.

A food-loving and scientific tribute to the Mediterranean diet and, not least, the liquid gold: olive oil.

The Mediterranean. Because people have been travelling there for thousands of years, it is believed to be without secrets. And yet, far below its surface, lie vast unexplored territories, luxurious gardens worthy of the finest tropical coral reefs. These natural wonders are inaccessible to the traditional diver, in a twilight zone, between 60 and 120 m, where there’s less than 1% of sunlight. If diving at such depths is always a challenge, staying there is a fantasy, a utopia that becomes reality in Planet Mediterranean. In the tradition of Commander Cousteau and his "houses under the sea," the team of diver-photographer Laurent Ballesta is undertaking a new world-record setting mission in complete freedom and without time limit.

On a Mediterranean shore, a Syrian father's decision to give his daughter a better life puts her in danger of losing it.

Kath & Kim turn more than just heads when they go on an overseas trip and end up being the centre of their very own fairytale.

On the Pacific coast of Los Angeles, Ali and Yaffa struggle to remember the Arab Mediterranean cities they have left behind.