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During her wedding ceremony, Rachel notices Luce in the audience and feels instantly drawn to her. The two women become close friends, and when...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Piper Perabo

In 1920s Ireland young doctor Damien O'Donovan prepares to depart for a new job in a London hospital. As he says his goodbyes at a friend's farm,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Cillian Murphy

Joe and Averell are the eldest and youngest of the four Dalton brothers, the worst outlaws in Wild West history...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Eric Judor

Michael Lynch is a notorious criminal with two wives and a flair for showmanship. He's also a huge embarrassment to the local police, who are...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kevin Spacey

On the east coast of New Zealand, the Whangara people believe their presence there dates back a thousand years or more to a single ancestor, Paikea,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keisha Castle-Hughes

A film that describes the love-hate relationship between Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski, the deep trust between the director and the actor, and their...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Werner Herzog

Two childhood friends are recruited for a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Qais Nashif

In 1943, while the Allies are bombing Berlin and the Gestapo is purging the capital of Jews, a dangerous love affair blossoms between two women...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Maria Schrader

After the liberation of Auschwitz, an Italian prisoner of War begins a torturous voyage home to Turin, through a Europe caught between war and peace.

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Turturro

On the outside, Helen has it all – a loving family and a successful career – but when her suppressed mental illness resurfaces, the world...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ashley Judd

David Carr is a British Communist who is unemployed. In 1936, when the Spanish Civil War begins, he decides to fight for the Republican side, a...

Genre: War

Cast: Ian Hart

Angie is a working class woman. After being fired, she decides to set up a recruitment agency of her own, running it from her kitchen with her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kierston Wareing

Two westerners, a priest and a teacher find themselves in the middle of the Rwandan genocide and face a moral dilemna. Do they place themselves in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Hurt

Cologne towards the end of the Second World War. The city is in ruins, everyone is afraid, many are dead. It is a time of great inhumanity....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bela B.

The lives of six German-Turkish immigrants are drawn together by circumstance: An old man and a prostitute forging a partnership, a young scholar...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nurgül Yeşilçay

In the remote and undeveloped eastern Black Sea region, a six-year-old boy (Yusuf) wanders through the woods searching for his lost father, trying to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bora Altaş

A school student and her European-born grandmother share sad stories of their lives.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Claire Danes

The story of a little loggerhead turtle, as she follows in the path of her ancestors on one of the most extraordinary journeys in the natural world....

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Miranda Richardson

When Martin, a former GDR citizen, is released from jail, he lately becomes confronted with the consequences of the German re-unification.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jörg Schüttauf

Santa Claus tries to outrun a gang of knife-wielding youth. It's one of several vignettes of Palestinian life in Israel - in a neighborhood in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Elia Suleiman