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An on-the-scene documentary following the events of September 11, 2001 from an insider’s view, through the lens of two French filmmakers who simply set out to make a movie about…

In Northern Norway during the 1860s, a little girl named Dina accidentally causes her mother’s death. Overcome with grief, her father refuses to raise her, leaving her in the care…

Arriving in Helsinki, a nameless man is beaten within an inch of his life by thugs, miraculously recovering only to find that he has completely lost his memory. Back on…

Matt Sullivan’s last big relationship ended in disaster and ever since his heart’s been aching and his commitment’s been lacking. Then came Lent, that time of year when everybody gives…

After a brutal attack, a 19-year-old girl falls into a self-destructive cycle.

Kurt Gerstein—a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS—is horrified by what he sees in the death camps. he is then shocked to learn that the process he…

An old man in dressing gown and slippers is abandoned by his family on an area of highway while on vacation. He later finds himself in a hospital where a…

Being addicted to alcohol, single mother Anna had to give her son to foster parents, but they would “sell” him back if she offers enough money. When she gets to…

Eight women gather to celebrate Christmas in a snowbound cottage, only to find the family patriarch dead with a knife in his back. Trapped in the house, every woman becomes…

The Egyptian Queen Cleopatra bets against the Roman Emperor, Julius Caesar, that her people are still great, even if the times of the Pharaohs has long passed. She vows (against…

A group of British students embark on summoning spirits on a Ouija board after a night of clubbing. But someone breaks the link before they have finished and now a…

During the Nazi occupation of France as two filmmakers attempt to navigate their careers without compromising their ideals. Facing pressure from the Vichy government, assistant director Jean Devaivre uses his…

Four hardened crooks break out of prison. Hunted down, with nowhere to run, they seek refuge in the only place the police cannot follow, a Cistercian monastery. Cut off from…

Edmund Kemper, cannibal and necrophiliac, mercilessly murdered his grandparents at the age of 15. Rejected by his parents and hating his mother, he killed eight more victims a few years…

A New York drug dealer is kidnapped, and his wife must try to come up with the money and drugs to free him from his abductors before Christmas.

This documentary follows various migratory bird species on their long journeys from their summer homes to the equator and back, covering thousands of miles and navigating by the stars. These…

Two angels, one from the heaven and one from the hell, come to earth to save the soul of a boxer.

Tanguy is 28 years old and still living with his parents. They think it’s time he moves out. He doesn’t, so they hatch a plan.

On the day of his retirement, a veteran CIA agent learns that his former protégé has been arrested in China, is sentenced to die the next morning in Beijing, and…

A down-and-out businessman travels to a seaside town, where he meets a woman with unusual sexual powers.

Hubert is a French policeman with very sharp methods. After being forced to take 2 months off by his boss, who doesn’t share his view on working methods, he goes…

Vicky recalls her romances with her exes Hao Hao and Jack in the neon-lit clubs of Taipei.

Abbas Kiarostami shoots a documentary about the AIDS crisis in Uganda.

Zaza is a 31-year old Israeli bachelor, handsome and intelligent, and his family wants to see him married. But tradition dictates that Zaza has to choose a young virgin. She…

A counselor, an expert on depression, and two attorneys try to help a couple who have marital problems.

She is almost deaf and she lip-reads. He is an ex-convict. She wants to help him. He thinks no one can help except himself.

On October 9th, 1963, at 10:39 pm, 260 million cubic meters of rock fell down from Mount Toc to the artificial lake formed by the Vajont dam, the higher dam…

The first days of WWI. Adrien, a young and handsome lieutenant, is wounded by a piece of shrapnel. He will spend the entire wartime at the Val-de-Grâce Hospital, in Paris….

Michèle, 20 years old, feels terrible after having broken up with her boy-friend. She meets Francois, who’s a veterinarian and jewish. Michèle decides to convert into Judaism because she has…

Paris, 1830. In the heart of the town, Vidocq, a famous detective, disappears as he fights the Alchemist, an assassin that he has been pursuing for a few months. His…

2001 French documentary about the murder trial of a 15 year old black teen accused of murder in Jacksonville, Florida. Winner of 2002 Academy Award for Best Documentary.

Obsessive scientist Nathan and his lover, the naturalist Lila, discover Puff: a man born and raised in the wild. As Nathan trains the wild man in the civilized ways of…

Grace Dalrymple Elliot is a British aristocrat trapped in Paris during the French Revolution. Determined to maintain her stiff upper lip and pampered life despite the upheaval, Grace continues her…

A woman in her thirties gets tired of life in Paris and decides to leave and become a farmer.

Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young man who starts romantically pursuing her.

As the romantic monsoon rains loom, the extended Verma family reunites from around the globe for a last-minute arranged marriage in New Delhi. This film traces five intersecting stories, each…

China’s rapid changes from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, as seen through the lives of four performers in a theater troupe.

Serge is a long distance lorry driver between Morocco andEurope. In Tangier, he tries to reconcile with his former girlfriend, Sarah. She has refused to have anything to do with…

In 1939, Kalman, an ambitious young businessman, leaves Europe to join his sister Samantha in Palestine. She lives with Dov, an idealistic architect obsessed with the Bauhaus style. With their…

An aging thief hopes to retire and live off his ill-gotten wealth when a young kid convinces him into doing one last heist.