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This is a portrait of a man at the bottom, struggling to find an answer, when the wrong things happened at the wrong time. This is a story of loss.

A struggling woman and a black American soldier fall in love in post-World War II Italy.

A shoe theft in the ICE is the prelude to a wild kaleidoscope of relationships and dependencies between different urban people who relish as in a cobweb fidget.

Paris, 1956. Three sisters, three actresses willing to do almost anything to make it big. Their lives, their loves, their dramas. A savory satire of the world of show business and cinema in particular.

25 year-old Hippo doesn't have a job, doesn't study either but lives from the money his younger brother earns with dealing and from occasional Poker winnings.

Annabella marries Soranzo. She happens to also be pregnant by Giovanni — who also happens to be her brother. Destiny, and jealousies threaten to expose her past, and Soranzo plots revenge.

Léon, André, Christiane and Monique, who all study drama, decide to go camping together. Unfortunately - although unsurprisingly - their old jalopy breaks down on the road. Chance has it that in the village where they are stranded a historical movie is being shot by famed director Médéric, starring sexpot Barbara Glamour and Latin heartthrob Edouardo Tocato. Two of the young people start flirting with the two film stars until their friends make them see reason : they love each other. The four of them end up being hired as extras and all is well that ends well.

The story of a man who feels happy only when he is unhappy: addicted to sadness, with such need for pity, that he’s willing to do everything to evoke it from others. This is the life of a man in a world not cruel enough for him.

Haunted by their own directionless lives, two pre-adolescent girls reunite while visiting their ailing grandmother. In the midst of her fantasies of a medieval past - one consumed by fear and desire - the two girls are transformed and confront a legacy of oppression, juxtaposing their budding identities to a trial condemning two Moorish homosexuals to burn at the stake.

The wealthy industrialist Alain de Narbois has disappeared. Michel Dunant, an idle man who passed by and who looks exactly like the deceased, is taken for Alain by a young woman and her servant. He jumps at the chance but quickly realizes that, in this hushed little world, masters and servants play comedy and know very well that he is only a double of Alain. In fact, the industrialist was assassinated.

When Amal's father falls on hard times, he sells his land to his neighbor, Mamdouh, who falls in love with Amal. But Amal is in a relationship with Mourad who starts avoiding her after he learns of her father's crisis, prompting Mamdouh to confess his love for Amal and ask for her hand in marriage.

About the young Aarhus businessman Jacob Hansen who is going to a congress in Copenhagen. His competitor in the firm sends his secretary over to spy and bring Jacob into disrepute. The secretary has sympathy for Jacob, creating complications when his wife show up.

Mr. Anastasis, an elderly bouzoukis who suffers from his heart, forbids Liza's daughter to become a singer. When she learns that she has violated her commandments, she leaves the house because she does not want to be her weight and begins to beg. Meanwhile, Lisa knows Michalis, a motorbike acrobat, who makes the "round of death" in an amusement park, and they fall in love with each other. One night, at the center where she sings, she meets a rich thirty-five, who then turns out to be her brother who was lost during the German Occupation. Together they will seek their elder father, find him, and return all together to their home. Near them is Michalis, the old man of the brisk Liza.

The story of the documentary The Sorrow and the Pity (1971), directed by Marcel Ophüls, which caused a scandal in a France still traumatized by the German occupation during World War II, because it shattered the myth, cultivated by the followers of President Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), of a united France that had supposedly stood firm in the face of the ruthless invaders.

A daughter, who had been living abroad for a long time, returns home after a call from her mother about her father's death. Conflict erupts between them when the daughter blames her mother for her father's death, and the mother accuses the daughter of not returning in time. Eventually, seeing her mother in deep emotional crisis, the daughter agrees to a Christian funeral to ease her suffering.

Two village boys are very sick, they are foaming at the mouth, they are sitting near a huge well and they hate each other.

Óskar and Maggi are two brothers, longing for love but seemingly doomed to stay single. Óskar shies from relationships but is secretly in love with his childhood sweetheart Anna, engaged to another and safely out of reach. Maggi on the other hand is overly eager and goes from one relationship to another, hoping for eternal love each time. A film about the complexity of human relations and the searching for love.

In one of the rural villages, lives Saadia, the beautiful and naive girl, true to her nature. Ibrahim, the playful young man, takes advantage of her simplicity and deceives her, robbing her of her honor. Fearing her family's reaction, she escapes and gives birth to an illegitimate child. She seeks refuge with a talented composer, fleeing from her family's pursuit. Love blossoms between them, and a new life begins. Eventually, her family accidentally discovers her whereabouts. Will they forgive her?

Basem goes to a garden to wait for his friends. He falls asleep and a flute sound wakes him up, leading him to encounter a mysterious girl in the garden.

The city of Lydda is known today as the center of drug dealing in Israel.

A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curious reporter.

Aspiring actor Edward undergoes a radical medical procedure to drastically transform his appearance. But his new dream face quickly turns into a nightmare, as he loses out on the role he was born to play and becomes obsessed with reclaiming what was lost.

A musician who lost his hands falls for a woman whose technologically adept friends help him make a comeback.

Neil Patrick Harris hosts a variety show that features stand-up comedy, magic acts, juggling, sword-swallowers, puppets, ventriloquists and trapeze artists. Taped at Montreal's Just for Laughs Festival in July 2015.

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Madagascar, nowadays. Kwame, 20, struggles to make a living in the clandestine sapphire mines. An unexpected event takes him back to his hometown. As he reunites with his mother and old friends, he finds himself confronted with the rampant corruption plaguing his country. He will have to choose between easy money and loyalty, between individualism and political awakening.

Free adaptation of Horacio Quiroga's story "El Solitario"

A legendary hungarian documentary about the hungarian rap scene of the early 2010's

A maid in a Thai-Chinese family's household is about to relocate back to her hometown. She spends her final night with her employer's daughter, who grew up with her throughout her life.

Vano is the son of a Georgian wine maker, but he lives in Moscow from early childhood, and therefore he has completely forgotten family traditions. When luck turns its back on him, and the bandits from the bank demand payment, Vano has to start making the wine in the bath of a rented apartment. Starting to press the grapes, he hears the voices of the ancestors and begins to relate to his work with all his heart. And the young wine begins to respond to him. Soon Vano realizes the wine is magical and it starts to affect his life.

A detective interrogates three suspects in a heist gone wrong, but the case takes an unconventional turn when all confess to the same murder. The Reel Crew: Hector Cuarón, Spike, and Sergei each recount their conflicting stories in cinematic styles reflective of the iconic directors whose names they bear.

French nuclear tests irradiate an iguana into a giant monster that viciously attacks freighter ships in the Pacific Ocean. A team of experts, including Niko Tatopoulos, conclude that the oversized reptile is the culprit. Before long, the giant lizard is loose in Manhattan as the US military races to destroy the monster before it reproduces and it's spawn takes over the world.

Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.

Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it.

A teenage girl is home alone and asks her boyfriend to accompany her for the night. It all starts as an innocent conversation about each other's body to touching, and then, a more revealing game. The girl tempts him to play a strip game.

The music and sounds from the tour of infamous country singer Yodluk Salakchai fills the air. Villagers stop to stare, listening to the announcement of the concert taking place tonight. Somwang still looks on until the tour vanishes out of sight but left the inspiration behind to him “You must be a country singer…You will be the next superstar”.

Mai quits school to go work as a mechanic while his brother stays in school and chases girls. However his need for money increases as his father gets sick and ends up in the hospital with bills no one can afford.

An Italian diplomat's son follows and seduces English lovers in Venice.

A bankrupt restaurateur on the brink of suicide is suddenly treated with deference and kindness by a bizarre group of strangers — who welcome him in their home, no less! Truth is they have mistaken him for the tax man they're waiting for, desperate to save their floundering ostrich-breeding business.

The story of a love born in the strangest of circumstances between two long-suffering survivors of the hell that was the Holocaust. Their love overcomes all obstacles in its path, including death – when it eventually comes. Set in the Swedish rehabilitation camps during the autumn and winter of 1945.

Máté’s moving out of Luca’s place is not easy, as they are unable to face a suddenly appearing shadow of their past.

Three years after Jurassic World was destroyed, Isla Nublar now sits abandoned. When the island's dormant volcano begins roaring to life, Owen and Claire mount a campaign to rescue the remaining dinosaurs from this extinction-level event.

World-famous detective Benoit Blanc heads to Greece to peel back the layers of a mystery surrounding a tech billionaire and his eclectic crew of friends.

A police shootout leaves four thieves dead during an explosive armed robbery attempt in Chicago. Their widows have nothing in common except a debt left behind by their spouses' criminal activities. Hoping to forge a future on their own terms, they join forces to pull off a heist.

An obsessive and almost surreal love story between Alessandro, a young model of rare beauty, and Sofia, an Argentine girl who has ended up in Rome for a strange game of destiny. Young couple having to adapt at all costs to the logic of this new world, are increasingly forced to live in a dramatic detachment from reality.

After his mother's death, Luca finds he has hit rock bottom. Living on the streets among the homeless, to somehow feel closer to her, he finally decides to go back home for his father's birthday where something magical just might happen.

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Three years after his sister's death, Yak relentlessly searches for the dark spirit that killed her in hopes of seeking revenge.

Strange things begin happening to Kouy, the beloved son of Taew, prompting her to seek help from Panda, the calm twin of the mischievous ghost Pancake.

In a fight for their lives, two dancers infiltrate a high-profile social club and seek the help of a newfound ally to unmask traitors to Siam.

A visually stunning documentary that reflects human's relationship to other species on Earth as humanity becomes more and more isolated from Nature.

Dive into our planet's greatest mysteries with a team of international underwater cinematographers as they explore the breathtaking bond between humanity and the ocean.

Documentary by Yann Arthus-Bertrand about the Mediterranean sea.