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Vitus is a boy who almost seems to be from another planet: He has hearing like a bat, plays piano like a virtuoso and studies encyclopedias at the age of five. His parents anticipate a brilliant future for him as a great concert pianist. Ho...
PIERREPOINT is the devastating, true-life story of Albert Pierrepoint, Britain's most notorious hangman....
Writer-director Olivier Dahan (Crimson Rivers 2) helmed La Vie en rose (AKA La Môme), the premier screen biopic of tragic French songstress Edith Pia...
An original mix of both magical and provocatively authentic visuals, turns the classic tale of coming to America into a wondrous and soulful experience. It is a romantic fable that takes audiences into the very heart of this quintessential ...
The Guy (Glen Hansard) works part-time helping his father run a small, vacuum cleaner repair business, but dreams of one day having his songs recorded and landing a record deal. Emotionally vulnerable, he is still coming to terms with the r...
"Duck" is a sad-funny story of hope and survival, set in Los Angeles' as-of-yet avertable future. In 2009, when Los Angeles' last city park is closed to the public, a dispossessed man (Philip Baker Hall)-and the duck who follows him as a m...
644, Paris, and 22-year-old Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, also known as Molière, is not yet the writer that history recognizes as the father and true master of comic satire, author of The Misanthrope and Tartuffe, and a dramatist to rank alongsid...
At the start of the new college semester, Eloi and Alexandre encounter André, the most brilliant student in the lecture hall. Fascinated by his ease and charisma, they quickly fall under his spell. André then offers them his friendship in e...
an, a solider recently discharged from the army, takes refuge in alcohol to escape from life and other people. Despite his tortured state, his fiancee Nicole still believes their a solid couple. Gaelle is desperately looking for love, but w...
The true story of the Vietnamese refugees who fled their land after the fall of Saigon -- and those who were forced to stay behind -- sets the stage for this powerful drama from independent filmmaker Ham Tran....
Two lonely misfits embark on a bizarre journey of romance and revenge after meeting at a "come as your favorite animal" costume party in Academy Award nominee Taika Waititi's quirky romantic comedy. Jarrod (Jemaine Clement) is a clerk at th...
Penned by Russian screenwriter Rustam Ibragimbekov, Nomad tells the tale of 18th-century Kazak military strategist Ablai Khan -- a forward-thinking visionary whose efforts to unify his country eventually helped to define Kazakhstan's border...
Jessica's customers include a popular TV actress (Valérie Lemercier) who is courting a major Hollywood director (Sydney Pollack) for her first serious film role; a wealthy art collector (Claude Brasseur) who is about to liquidate a lifetime...
29 year old Dr. Atsuko Chiba is an attractive but modest Japanese research psychotherapist whose work is on the cutting edge of her field. Her alter-ego is a stunning and fearless 18 year old ?dream detective,? code named PAPRIKA, who can e...
Romántico is a feature-length documentary portrait of Mexican musician Carmelo Muñiz. The film follows Carmelo as the troubadour returns home to scratch out a living after years of trying to get ahead in San Francisco...
Jacob Petersen has dedicated his life to helping street children in India. When the orphanage he heads is threatened by closure, he receives an unusual offer. A Danish businessman, Jørgen, offers him a donation of $4 million dollars. There ...
An opus in three parts, Iraq In Fragments offers a series of intimate, passionately-felt portraits: A fatherless 11-year-old is apprenticed to the domineering owner of a Baghdad garage; Sadr followers in two Shiite cities rally for regional...
In this critically acclaimed study of Israeli women and compulsory military service, two diametrically opposed women are thrown together on patrol in Jerusalem: Mirit is respectful of her military superiors, while Smadar barely conceals her...
Two outsiders become witnesses to bloody genocide in Rwanda in this fact-based drama from director Michael Caton-Jones....
Francis Veber ("The Dinner Game" and "The Closet"), the living master of French farce, has combined his classic elements of hilarious slapstick with quick-witted dialogue in the new film THE VALET. The tale begins when François Pignon, (Gad...
As Gang-du walks out to the riverbank with a delivery, he notices that a large crowd of people has gathered, taking pictures and talking about something hanging from the Han River Bridge. The otherwise idyllic landscape turns suddenly to be...
André, a down-on-his-luck con man who owes way too much money to a smoother, more fashionable criminal that André can only dream of emulating, is ready to end it all by leaping off a bridge into the Seine. Fate intervenes, however, in the f...
From Gobelins (the French school that brought the world Le Building last year) comes the new animated short Sébastien, Le Film. Directed, designed and adorably animated by Mourad Seddiki, Carole Carrion, Samuel Wambre and Geneviève Godbout ...
Clint Eastwood is interviewed about his Academy Award Nominated film "Letters from Iwo Jima". Two exclusive clips from the film follow this interview....
Black Book" is based on true events that span nearly a year around Rachel Stein (Carice van Houten) a young, pretty Jewish woman who falls for a high?ranking Gestapo officer (Sebastian Koch) while seeking revenge for her family?s murders....
Set in the 1930s during the rise of the independence struggles against British colonial rule, the film examines the plight of a group of widows forced into poverty at a temple in the holy city of Varanasi. It focuses on a relationship betwe...
In his feature directorial debut, director Andrei Kravchuk addresses with intelligence and poignancy the urgent issue of illegal adoption in Russia, which has become a well-documented international crisis. THE ITALIAN is based on the true s...
A highly stylised Thai movie that has been winning fans at film festivals across the globe that combines the retro style of 60s Thai movies, with graphic violence and the look of a western pop video....
Helen Mirren stars as Queen Elizabeth II who retreats unable to comprehend the public response to the tragedy if Diana. For Tony Blair, the people need reassurance from their leaders. Blair reconnect the Queen with the British public....
This beautiful Chinese film features three different stories of love and memory through three time periods, 1966, 1911 and 2006....
A 1963 Italian classic about a Sicilian family and the corrupt world around them.
A man who has devoted his life to ferreting out "dangerous" characters is thrown into a quandary when he investigates a man who poses no threat in this drama, the first feature from German filmmaker Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck....
Actor Ihara is interviewed about the importance of the film "Letters from Iwo Jima" directed by Clint Eastwood. An exclusive clip follows....
Clint Eastwood is interviewed about his work on Letters From Iwo Jima
From the director of "The Circle" and "Crimson Gold" comes a smart comedy illustrating the fight for women's rights in Iran....
Centers around a father and his son, both of whom are lawyers. The son can't put together his own identity because he works with his father, who is a perfect lawyer. He can't reproach his parents on anything: they are perfect. Having such h...
A harrowing and ultimately human story of two very different families. Leo Waters (Lapaglia) is an idealistic architect and patriarch of an affluent, suburban Chicago family. Tonya Neeley (Davis) is a pragmatic activist who is trying to kee...
The ill-fated romance between an imperial bodyguard and a prince takes the lovers on a dangerous journey where royal family secrets are revealed....
Takashi Shimizu, the director of "The Grudge" and "The Grudge 2" comes Reincarnation, a suspenseful psychological horror film that deals with the topic of reincarnation....
Espinoza is a shy taxidermist who secretly dreams of executing the perfect robbery. On his first ever hunting trip, in the calm of the Patagonian forest, his dreams are made reality with one squeeze of the trigger. Espinoza accidentally kil...
Adapted from the novel by W. Somerset Maugham, John Curran's The Painted Veil stars Naomi Watts and Edward Norton as Kitty and Walter, a couple living in China in the 1920's. When Walter discovers that Kitty has been unfaithful, she makes h...
In the 1970s, Michaela Klingler (Sandra Hueller) leaves her strict Catholic parents' house to go to a boarding school. At first, Michaela enjoys her newfound freedom, but she soon believes she is possessed by the devil after she has strange...
CLIMATES is internationally acclaimed writer-director Nuri Bilge Ceylan?s sublime follow-up to his Cannes multi-award winner DISTANT....
Following the death of her drug-addicted mother, a whimsical young girl follows her chemically dependent father to a remote prairie house to discover a wondrous world of magical fireflies and nocturnal bog men in this hallucinatory childhoo...
Mockumentary mastermind Christopher Guest turns his satirical eye away from dog shows, small town theater, and folk music to offer a hilarious take on Hollywood award season in this comedy focusing on trio of actors whose lives turn upside-...
Set in Spain, this is a generational story of three women: a good mother who is desperately in love with a man who is far from being a saint....
"Infamous" is a compelling study of the complex and tortured relationship that resulted between Truman Capote and convicted murderer Perry Smith (Daniel Craig), a bond formed in a prison cell that brought the destruction of Capote's career,...
Set in Spain, this is a generational story of three women: a good mother who is desperately in love with a man who is far from being a saint....
As Inge buries her husband Olaf on their Minnesota farm in 1968, we relive her life story as she tells her grown grandson about how she arrived from Norway in 1920 as Olaf's postal bride and of the epic obstacles they overcame in order to m...
This hilarious doc about one man's unceasing battle against the Right tracks Al Franken's transformation from mild-mannered comedy writer to full-on political player. Featuring Ann Coulter, Michael Moore, Al Gore, John Kerry, and Henry Kiss...
A revealing interview with actress Gong Li and insight to the mastery of her craft.
Another fascinating look at director Zhang Yimou's visually stunning epic featuring Gong Li and Chow Yun-Fat. ...
A documentary which celebrates the work of Pedro Amoldovar.
Throughout its history, India has kept a profound sense of the sacred. Hindu tradition offers a privileged place to 'great souls' (Mahatma), to spiritual guides. As a travel diary deep inside the heart of India and Hinduism, 'Darshan' focus...
A warm, vivacious comedy about love, life, laughter and the compromises we make for family. When Emila, (Gracina) an Argentinian grandmother is invited to be the 'matron of honor' at the wedding of a distant niece she invites her whole fami...
A young orphan is raised to be a deadly assassin in AZUMI. With Japan at war the only hope is for the murder of the deadly warlords who wreak havoc on the country, leading to some fearsome battle scenes as the young, female assassin goes to...
A sometimes hilarious, sometimes emotionally gripping, realistic look at the world of prostitution that convincingly demonstraes that we are all looking for the same things--self-respect, love and happiness. ...
THE PROTECTOR is the highly anticipated full bodied action film starring International Martial Arts superstar, Tony Jaa (Ong Bak). His world shaped by ancient traditions, a young Thai fighter (Jaa) is called to defend his people and their h...
An apolitical South African oil-refinery worker and soccer player is forced into terrorism as a means of fighting back against the brutality of the apartheid regime in director Phillip Noyce's dramatic look at the life of one-time political...
Filled with easy money, fast cars and beautiful women, Frank's life as a drug dealer is perfect until the police catch him en route to deliver a large bag of heroin. Just before he is arrested, Frank dumps the smack into a lake. But even th...
Sebastian, a young man, has decided to follow instructions intended for someone else, without knowing where they will take him. Something else he does not know is that Gerard Dorez, a cop on a knife-edge, is tailing him. When he reaches his...
A unique comedy, Leni has come home to introduce her fiancé Rafi to her idiosyncratic Jewish family for the first time. Everything goes smoothly until the lovers belatedly reveal that Rafi is Palestinian....
The early 1980s hardcore punk rock scene gave birth to much of the rock music and culture that followed. There would be no Nirvana, Beastie Boys or Red Hot Chili Peppers were it not for hardcore pioneers such as Black Flag, Bad Brains and M...
A Japanese man travels to China with his dying son to learn the local opera of Yunnan Province. Set during the 1920s, once there, the son meets falls in love with a girl. The film also examines human values and ordinary lives....
A vibrant telling of the story of Marie Antoinette by Sophia Coppola. Kirsten Dunst plays the naive Austrian princess who becomes France's most infamous queen....
Georges (Daniel Auteuil) and his wife Anne (Juliette Binoche) live comfortable Paris life, where Georges is the host of a literary TV show. Georges begins receiving videos in the mail. Someone has been filming their family -- but why? And w...
Set in Spain, this is a generational story of three women: a good mother who is desperately in love with a man who is far from being a saint....
A couple whose reunion at a wedding reception ignites a mysterious attraction for each other that is deeper and more emotionally perilous than they are willing to admit....
'Brothers of the Head' is the feverish, mind-bending odyssey of conjoined twins Tom and Barry Howe who were plucked from obscurity by a 1970s music promoter and groomed into a boy band...
Nick Nolte and Maggie Cheung. Emily is arrested for possession of drugs and put into prison. When she is released six months later, she decides to start her life over in Paris where she once lived....
Jet Li is Huo Yuanjia?a fighter who represented Chinese martial arts to a nation; a man who fought his way out of darkness and into history...
Steamy Brazilian film "Lower City" is about Deco and Naldinho, buddies since childhood. Now they own a motorboat, which they use for their illicit dealings. One day, they meet the stripper Karinna and both fall in love with her....
'The Namesake' is the story of the Ganguli family whose move from Calcutta to New York evokes a lifelong balancing act to meld to a new world without forgetting the old....
Sydney Pollack profiles enigmatic architect Frank Gehry.
Brad Pitt narrates this PBS series on sustainable architecture and design.
Al Gore's fascinating documentary about the impact of global warming.
With rising oil prices and expanding greenhouse gases, who wouldn't want an eco-friendly, non-polluting car? Who Killed the Electric Car? takes a lively look at the now defunct electric car of the mid-nineties....
The story of Elvis Sandow (Gael Garcia Bernal) a young man just released from the Navy, who seeks out the father he never knew (William Hurt), only to find he is now the evangelical pastor of a church in a prosperous Texas community....
While living on the streets of Europe, Sherry, a young runaway meets the radical street collective 'SPARK': Street People Armed with Radical Knowledge...
Paris, 2010. An isolation wall surrounds the ghetto cities. Without rules or laws, gangs reign here as absolute masters, and he who does not die first wins a reprieve, while awaiting his turn....
George Clooney and his father on a personal trip to Darfur.
Inspired by Woman of the Dunes, this epic tale of love and loss follows the fate of three generations of headstrong women who all, at some point, lived in the same desert house full of sand....
An inspiring documentary about New York City teenagers who transform their life stories into powerful works of art, led by a formerly homeless teen turned rap mentor. On this journey of self-discovery and empowerment, hip-hop is the key tha...
Set in 1938 Colonial India, against Mahatma Gandhi's rise to power, WATER begins when 8-year-old Chuyia is widowed and sent to a home where Hindu widows must live in penitence....
Filmmaker Caveh Zahedi has made a cult career of his unabashed willingness to be vulnerable on camera. A comic reconstruction of his ten-year struggle with sex addiction, is one of his most ambitious, hilarious confessions yet....
From the director of "Raise the Red Lantern" comes this epic, visually stunning tale from Chen Kaige....
United 93 is the story of the discovery by passengers with cell phones that other hijacked planes had been steered into the World Trade Center towers, and the realization that their plane was being steered toward Washington D.C....
(Spain) Zoe, an attractive woman, after almost 10 years of marriage discovers that life as a married person lacks passion and surprise, and is seduced by the possibility of love with her husband's brother....