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Anatomy of an Illness 1984 Biopic of Saturday Review editor and political journalist Norman Cousins who developed and promoted a self made health therapy consisting of intake of large quantities of vitamin C and making oneself laugh as much as possible

Sharaku 1995 A crippled kabuki player is taken into a strolling company of itinerant actors An influential publisher notices his honest, bold drawings, and nurtures him despite persecution and betrayal The film explores the eternal relationship between artist and producer, and describes the emanicip

Guns at Batasi 1964 Regimental Sergeant Major Lauderdale Sir Richard Attenborough is a by the book, strict disciplinarian, who seems like an anachronism in a sleepy peacetime African outpost of the modern British commonwealth Ridiculed behind his back by his subordinate N C O s, he must play host to

Nunta muta 2008 The enigmatic mayor of a deserted village somewhere in Romania commissions a small film crew specialised in unexplained paranormal phenomena to make a brief documentary on his village, just before the upcoming elections Pretty soon, their hopes will be fulfilled, as the crew witness

A Radiant Girl 2021 Paris, summer 1942 Irene is Jewish and French She is 19 and living a life of passions Her friendships, her new love, her desire to be an actress Nothing suggests that Irenes time is running out

Lord of the Ants 2022 Italian poet, playwright and director Aldo Braibanti is jailed in 1968 under a law criminalizing grooming The informant is his partners father

Filiberto 2017 The deeds of a professional musician who abandons his trumpet and family to live the clandestine life of an armed revolutionary for Puerto Rican independence

The Last Goldfish 2017 Manfred Goldfish tried to put a lid on the trauma that made him a refugee in 1939 When his daughter unearths Manfreds extraordinary story, she finds where she belongs, and we touch on the truth for millions of others

Himiko 1974 A freestyle, imagined telling of the life of shaman queen Himiko, who falls in love with her half brother, making her powers weaken thus putting her position to risk

Hanussen 1988 A mans story parallels Hitlers rise Austrian Klaus Schneider, wounded in World War I, recovers in the care of Dr Emil Bettleheim Bettleheim discovers that Schneider possesses powers of empathy and of clairvoyance, such that could aid suicidal patients After the war, with one friend as

Royal Shakespeare Company Henry IV Part II 2014 King Henrys health is failing but he is uncertain Hal is a worthy heir Meanwhile, Falstaff is sent to the countryside to recruit fresh troops, where he gleefully indulges in the business of lining his own pockets As the Kings health continues to worsen

Olympic Pride, American Prejudice 2016 In 1936 when 18 African American athletes participated in the Berlin Olympic Games, history forgot all except one This is the story of the other 17

Ganz normale Manner Der vergessene Holocaust 2022 The Nuremberg Einsatzgruppen trial of 19471948 is considered the largest murder trial in history against members of four death squads from the security police and SD the security service of the SS During World War II, six mill

I rollerna tre 1996 The trio of actresses have ostensibly gathered to pay tribute to Mai Zetterling, but also reminisce about their own careers and the illustrious figures, including Ingmar Bergman, they have worked with

Old Gringo 1989 When school teacher Harriet Winslow goes to Mexico to teach, she is kidnapped by Gen Tomas Arroyo and his revolutionaries An aging American, Ambrose Old Gringo Bierce also in Mexico, befriends Gen Arroyo and meets Harriet Bierce is a famous writer, who knowing that he is dying, wishe

Soul of the Game 1996 Satchel Paige and Josh Gibson are the greatest players in the Colored leagues, and everyone expects that one of them will make the leap to the Major Leagues, now that there is talk of integration But, unexpectedly, its the rookie with the army record, Jackie Robinson, that gets

Destiny 1997 The story is set in the 12th century in Arab ruled Spanish province Andalusia, where famed philosopher Averroes is appointed grand judge by the caliph and his liberal court judgments are not liked by everyone The caliphs political rivals, centered around the leader of a fanatical Islami

The Son of Cleopatra 1964 In Roman dominated Egypt, the corrupt administration of a governor named Petronius has sparked a revolt headed by El Kabir, a young man who learns that hes actually the son of Cleopatra and Julius Caesar When Petronius daughter, Livia, newly arrived from Rome, falls into hi

Infiltration 2022 Ivan sets off on a dangerous mission into Syria to save his ex commander Grey after his capture by ISIS With the help of U S military patrols, he succeeds in freeing Grey and attempts to escape the country while being hunted by terrorists

Unfrosted The Pop Tart Story 2024 Michigan 1963, business rivals Kelloggs and Post compete to create a cake that could change breakfast forever

Baratometrajes 2 0 El Futuro del Cine Hecho en Espana 2014 Baratometrajes 2 0 is a more than a documentary that radiograph the cinema in Spain, giving a lead role and voice to filmmakers of low budget films, to cultural promoters which make things differently, and to distribution and exhibition prof

Friedkin Uncut 2018 Oscar winning, Chicago born director William Friedkin achieved fame with his 1973 horror blockbuster The Exorcist But this illuminating documentary shows the directors unwavering commitment to rawness and realism across his career, from The French Connection 1972 to Killer Joe 20

The Last Days of Pompeii 1959 Mount Vesuvius looms ominously over the doomed city of Pompeii, a city in turmoil Its citizens are being terrorized by a group of black hooded thieves on the rampage, murdering entire families, and looting their homes Strangely, theyre also leaving a calling card The si

The Spanish Dancer 1923 A love story between Don Cesar de Bazan and a beautiful Gypsy dancer

Petain 1993 During second world war,Philippe Petain gets absolute powers The war ends with the arrival of allied forces by Petainism has not been put on trial

Shot Heard Round the World 2001 Playoff game between New York Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers

Gabo The Creation of Gabriel Garcia Marquez 2015 Gabo, The Magic of Reality is a story about the incredible power of human imagination, which follows the interwoven threads of Gabriel Garcia Marquezs life and work Gabo to all of Latin America with the narrative tension of an investigation

Dr Crippen 1963 A dramatization of Britains notorious Crippen murder case American born Hawley Harvey Crippen nicknamed Peter, a mild mannered, middle aged doctor who made his living in London selling quack remedies, was convicted and hanged in 1910 for poisoning his wife, Belle, dismembering her bo

Henry VII Winter King 2013 Author Thomas Penn takes an extraordinary journey into the dark and chilling world of the first Tudor King, Henry VII From his victory over Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth, to his secret death and the succession of his son

Freedoms Path 2022 After a Union soldier flees from battle, rescue comes from a free black man operating a section of the Underground Railroad But when a ruthless slave catcher discovers the secret network, he conspires to bring it burning to the g

The Lady and the Highwayman 1988 The young lady Panthea Vyne falls in love with the handsome highwayman who saves her from her brutal husband He kills him in a fair duel Later, when Charles the 2nd is reinstated as King of England, she attends the royal court But here she becomes the enemy of the ki

Man of Iron 1981 A worker becomes a man of iron forged by experience, a son comes to terms with his father, a couple fall in love, a reporter searches for courage, and a nation undergoes historic change In Warsaw in 1980, the Party sends Winkel, a weak, alcoholic TV hack, to Gdansk to dig up dirt on

Budapest Noir 2017 A murder mystery set in Budapest, 1936 Just as Hungary was preparing to allign itself with Hitler, a young beautiful girl is found dead and no one wants to investigate except Gordon a crime reporter who has a gut feeling that t

Bonnie Prince Charlie 1948 In 1743, James Francis Edward, Prince of Wales, son of deposed King James II of England and Ireland and VII of Scotland decides he is too old to return to England to reclaim the English, Scottish and Irish crowns Living in exile in continental Europe, he summons his son Pr

Our Platinum Queen 70 Years on the Throne 2022 70 years of service and duty to her people Our record breaking platinum Queen Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II has devoted herself to her people since 1952, following the early death of her father, King George VI As her platinum

The Last Queen 2022 Insipired in the legendary Princess Zaphira, wife of the last King of Algiers Salim Toumi, and his fight to defend her community from pirate Barbarossa

Nazi Hunter The Beate Klarsfeld Story 1986 Farrah Fawcett plays real life Beate Klarsfeld, a German Protestant housewife who, with the help of her Jewish law student husband, Serge, began an unrelenting campaign after World War II to bring Nazi war criminals to justice, most of which is centered on

Executive Action 1973 A dramatization about how the high level covert conspirators in the JFK assassination might have planned and plotted the assassination based on the data and facts of the case It posits that a covert group of rogue intelligence agents, ultra conservative politicians, unscrupulou

Walk Invisible The Bronte Sisters 2016 In 1845 at Haworth on the Yorkshire moors sisters Anne, Charlotte and Emily Bronte and their father, a retired parson with failing eye sight, are continually troubled by their drunken, irresponsible brother Branwell, who wastes every opportunity given him to be

We dont like Captain Sausage 2015 A journey back to the 80s, to the origins of the video games industry, through the story of a group of teenagers in their quest to create the most original game

The Hero 2016 Sara Silverstein suddenly finds herself involved in various violent attacks She realizes she needs to unravel her fathers past to stop this threat

Terrors Advocate 2007 An examination of the career of Jacques Verges, attorney for members of Algerias FLN, Palestines FPLP, the Khmer Rouge, Carlos and associates, Klaus Barbie, and other revolutionaries and outcasts Archival footage, news articles, and photographs mix with contemporary interviews

Abdul the Damned 1935 In 1908, Sultan Abdul Hamid rules the Turkish Empire, but he is faced with the threat of revolt by the Young Turk party He allows Hilmi Pasha, the leader of the Young Turks, to return from exile and form the countrys first constitutional government With tensions still growing,

The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu 2010 During the summary trial that he and his wife were submitted to, Nicolae Ceausescu is reviewing his long reign in power 1965 1989 From a formal point of view, The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu proves that it is possible to only use existing images to

The Boer War 1992 Journey back in time to a different age, when the sun never set on the British Empire and her armies were great in number The Boer War 1899 1902 was a turning point in British military history and would revolutionize tactics, battlefield strategy, equipment, and training Well known

Victoria Albert The Royal Wedding 2018 Historian Lucy Worsley and a team of experts re stage Victoria and Alberts wedding It was regarded as the wedding of the century at the time

Death of a Tea Master 1989 Years after the death of legendary tea master Rikyu, his disciple Honkakubo attempts to resolve the mystery of the masters death Years before Sen Rikyu is a ceremonial tea master who advises warlord Hideyoshi in sixteenth century feudal Japan His daughter, the beautiful La

The Peasants 2023 Jagna is a young woman determined to forge her own path in a late 19th century Polish village a hotbed of gossip and on going feuds, held together, rich and poor, by adherence to colorful traditions and deep rooted patriarchy