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After her mother has died, Caroline befriends a woman who was looking after her mother, but events take a mysterious turn.
A federal agent is kidnapped while he is trying to track a weapons cartel.
Rites of passage drama about a youngster on a summer break with her family.
A family tale of conflict between the urban and rural worlds, past and present, parents and children.
Stop-motion tale of a man who struggles to connect with other people.
The tale of a man desperate to escape the faith passed down from his parents as he looks back over his past, his scars, the marks left by guilt and desire.
Action, drama and romance set during the Tang Dynasty.
When a young woman discovers she isn't well, she tries to persuade her parents to have another baby.
Three children decide to leave their homes looking a better life.
The true story of violent criminal turned FBI informant Whitey Bulger in Boston.
A runaway human boy becomes apprenticed to a supernatural beast.
Exploration of disaffected youth in Japan.
The true story of the Puccio Clan. A family who kidnapped and killed people in the 80s.
A group of priests of various ages lives together with Mónica, a nun, in a house on the Chilean coast. When they are not praying and atoning for their sins, they train their greyhound for the next race.
Fifteen distinct but interconnected chapters, shot in locations from Russia to New York City to Istanbul. Together, these build to a reckoning at the intersection of city symphony, diary, and essay film.
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The story of the relationship between an Amazonian shaman and two scientists who, decades apart, search the Amazon for a sacred healing plant.
Eva Peron's embalmed body becomes the focal point of clashes lasting a quarter of a century.
On a remote island inhabited solely by women and young boys, Nicolas and the other boys are subjected to mysterious and sinister medical treatments.
A family starts to disintegrate after the mother and father leave the children home alone.
True story of a terminally ill gay cop who fought for the rights of her partner to receive her pension.
Class war breaks out in a tower block.
Filmmakers talk about the influence of Truffaut's book Cinema According To Hitchcock.
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On a small town college campus, a philosophy professor in existential crisis gives his life new purpose when he enters into a relationship with his student.
A woman and her teenage son return to the place she was born to seek refuge from a violent gang.
Story of a teenage girl living in the foothills of a volcano, who faces an arranged marriage but is won over by the charms of a plantation worker.
Recently escaped from reformatory, young Reinaldo tries to get by in the streets of Havana in the late 90s, one of the worst decades for Cuban society.
Still the big daddy of all monster movies.
A man returns home after a 17 year absence because his only son is gravely sick.
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The adventures of mountain climber and photographer Adam J. Winkler, who fought in Afghanistan with the mujahedin against the Soviets in the 1980s.
A documentary about the ascent of an unconquered mountain.
How to be a teenager without losing your life and why helping a friend who is sick need not be an exercise in sentimental wishwash
A man tries to rebuild his life after a stint in jail but finds his younger brother can't stay out of trouble.
A young woman chooses between two men as China is torn between its traditional values and a capitalist future.
Part prequel to My Sex Life. Paul remembers his youth and the consequences of true love.
Tragicomedy, a filmmaker tries to cope with crises.
A journey through the stark post-tsunami landscape around Fukushima.
Three sisters take their 15-year-old half sister into their home and hearts.
A young woman survives a rape and her response confounds everyone around her.
A man helps a child fly a kite and tells him a story.
A couple's fledgling relationship comes under pressure as they struggle to find time alone.
Unfaithfulness dogs a couple on the verge of marriage.
Water, the longest border in Chile, also holds the secret of two mysterious buttons which were found on its ocean floor.
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A father is accused of a crime he has no memory of committing.
Ethnic tensions complicate working class lives in the industrial town of Kofu.
A young woman struggles to save her family's ailing clam-packing business.
A young female FBI agent joins a secret CIA operation to take down a Mexican cartel boss, a job that ends up pushing her ethical and moral values to the limit.
A stalker at the end of phone line listens as a married woman lives out sexual fantasies.
A coming-of-age story about the 16-year old boy Ari, who has been living with his mother in Reykjavik and is suddenly sent back to the remote Westfjords to live with his father Gunnar.
In the horror of 1944 Auschwitz, a prisoner forced to burn the corpses of his own people tries to save a body from the flames.
The true story of how a cinema legend would risk almost everything in pursuit of his dream.
The daughter of a Scottish farmer comes of age in the early 1900s.
An Iranian director forbidden to make movies works as a taxi driver, and installs hidden cameras in his cab…
A terminally ill man spends four days with an old friend.
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Dramatisation of the Zoe's Ark controversy.
A young boxer struggling in a violent world becomes the inspiration for a comic.
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