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- DirectorCristi PuiuStarsDoru AnaMonica BarladeanuAlina BerzunteanuMr. Lãzãrescu, a dying old man, is shuttled from hospital to hospital by a loyal paramedic as doctors refuse to operate and no one can agree on a diagnosis.
- DirectorClaude ChabrolStarsStéphane AudranJean YanneAntonio PassaliaAn unlikely friendship between a dour, working class butcher and a repressed schoolteacher coincides with a grisly series of Ripper-type murders in a provincial French town.
- DirectorDino RisiStarsVittorio GassmanCatherine SpaakJean-Louis TrintignantAn impulsive braggart takes a shy law student with him for a two-day road trip from Rome to Tuscany.
- DirectorErmanno OlmiStarsSandro PanseriLoredana DettoCorrado AprileBursting with big dreams and plans, an Italian teen goes to Milan to work in a big impersonal corporate office, where he becomes disillusioned and drained of all his individualism.
- DirectorWerner HerzogStarsWerner HerzogKlaus KinskiClaudia CardinaleThe love-hate relationship between Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski, the deep trust between the director and the actor, and their independently and simultaneously hatched plans to murder one another.
- DirectorDominique DeruddereStarsJosse De PauwEva van der GuchtWerner De SmedtJean is a family man and factory worker who dreams of becoming a songwriter. Pinning his hopes on his teenage daughter, Marva, he takes her to singing contests in which the awkward and overweight girl struggles to belt out a tune. When Jean is suddenly fired because of cut backs, he is ashamed and even more desperate to have his daughter succeed. In a chance meeting Jean kidnaps the most famous pop star in the country and holds her hostage demanding to be heard by the music industry. Catching the attention of the media and the eyes of the nation, Jean and Marva realize that the show must go on until everyone is famous.
- DirectorAlejandro G. IñárrituStarsBrad PittCate BlanchettGael García BernalTragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, which jump starts an interlocking story involving four different families.
- DirectorAlejandro G. IñárrituStarsJavier BardemMaricel ÁlvarezHanaa BouchaibA man dying of cancer tries his best to leave the world on his own terms.
- DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsToshirô MifuneMisa UeharaMinoru ChiakiLured by gold, two greedy peasants unknowingly escort a princess and her general across enemy lines.
- DirectorNuri Bilge CeylanStarsMuhammet UzunerYilmaz ErdoganTaner BirselA group of men set out in search of a dead body in the Anatolian steppes.
- DirectorWen JiangStarsYu XiaWei ChenShaobo DaiBeijing, 1970s. Now that the CR has driven most adults to the provinces, 14-year-old Monkey and his pals have free reign over the city. They hang around, get up to no good, and discover that unsolvable mystery referred to as "girls."
- DirectorYe LouStarsLei HaoXiaodong GuoXueyun BaiYu Hong leaves her home village and starts university in Beijing, where she develops a consuming and compulsive relationship with another student. The student riots from 1989 then ensue and take a toll on their lives.
- DirectorAgnieszka HollandStarsSolomon PerelMarco HofschneiderRené HofschneiderA boy in Nazi Germany, trying to conceal that he is Jewish, joins the Hitler Youth.
- DirectorKar-Wai WongStarsLeslie CheungMaggie CheungAndy LauA man tries to find out who his real mother is after the woman who raised him tells him the truth.
- DirectorMichael RadfordMassimo TroisiStarsMassimo TroisiPhilippe NoiretMaria Grazia CucinottaA simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet, and then uses this to woo local beauty Beatrice.
- DirectorYasujirô OzuStarsChishû RyûSetsuko HaraYumeji TsukiokaSeveral people try to talk 27-year-old Noriko into marrying, but all she wants is to keep on caring for her widowed father.
- DirectorPedro AlmodóvarStarsPenélope CruzLluís HomarBlanca PortilloHarry Caine, a blind writer, reaches this moment in time when he has to heal his wounds from 14 years back. He was then still known by his real name, Mateo Blanco, and directing his last movie.
- DirectorJulian SchnabelStarsMathieu AmalricEmmanuelle SeignerMarie-Josée CrozeThe true story of Elle editor Jean-Dominique Bauby who suffers a stroke and has to live with an almost totally paralyzed body; only his left eye isn't paralyzed.
- DirectorKore-eda HirokazuStarsHaruka AyaseMasami NagasawaKahoThree sisters who live in their grandmother's home invite their thirteen-year-old half sister, whom they have just met, to join them.
- DirectorWojciech SmarzowskiStarsMarcin DorocinskiAgata KuleszaMalwina BussRose, a German widow, hides from Russian soldiers who like to rape women and fights off Polish refugees who will steal everything she has. She gets help when Tadeusz, a former Polish officer, arrives looking to hide from his past.
- DirectorJerzy SkolimowskiStarsArtur SterankoKinga PreisJerzy FedorowiczA crematorium worker repeatedly breaks into a woman's house at night to help with housework.
- DirectorAndrei TarkovskyStarsAlisa FreyndlikhAleksandr KaydanovskiyAnatoliy SolonitsynA guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes.
- DirectorAndrzej WajdaStarsKrystyna JandaPawel SzajdaJan EnglertIn small-town Poland in the late 1950s, an aging woman married to a workaholic doctor meets a young man who makes her feel young again. Framed around this story, lead actress Krystyna Janda discusses the death of her husband from cancer.
- DirectorBelinda MasonStarsConstanceOne family. Two wars. Three countries. What does it take to forge a new life far from home? Filmed over 10 years, Constance on the Edge is an unflinchingly honest portrayal of one refugee family's resettlement story in Australia.
- DirectorClaude JutraStarsJoseph BottomsKathleen BellerR.H. ThomsonA young girl and her friends set off on an expedition into the wilderness in order to find her missing father.
- DirectorGunhild MagnorStarsGerd BergersenLillemor BerthelsenMary Holst BremstadA documentary about an unusual volleyball team in Hamar, Norway, with ladies aged from 66 to 98. Now they are up for their first match, after 30 years of training.
- DirectorJoão Pedro RodriguesStarsPaul HamyJoão Pedro RodriguesXelo CagiaoFernando, a solitary ornithologist, is looking for black storks when he is swept away by the rapids. Rescued by a couple of Chinese pilgrims, he plunges into an eerie and dark forest, trying to get back on his track.
- DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsToshirô MifuneTatsuya NakadaiKeiju KobayashiA crafty samurai helps a young man and his fellow clansmen trying to save his uncle, who has been framed and imprisoned by a corrupt superintendent.
- DirectorHark TsuiStarsSiu-Ming LauMichelle YimShu-Tong WongA journalist attempting to solve a mystery in "Martial World" enlists the aid of a master fighter and a woman named Green Breeze. They go to a mysterious castle where they come across poisonous butterflies and a black-leather-clad killer.
- DirectorYasujirô OzuStarsShin SaburiMichiyo KogureKôji TsurutaA childless middle-aged couple faces a marital crisis.
- DirectorYasujirô OzuStarsSetsuko HaraChishû RyûChikage AwashimaA family chooses a match for their daughter Noriko, but she, surprisingly, has her own plans.
- DirectorYasujirô OzuStarsSetsuko HaraIneko ArimaChishû RyûTwo sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot take the truth of being abandoned as a child.
- DirectorSergei DvortsevoyStarsSamal YeslyamovaSergey MazurZhipara AbdilaevaA poor migrant woman in Moscow struggles with her life.
- DirectorJacek BorcuchStarsKrystyna JandaKasia SmutniakAntonio CataniaThe stable family life of a poetess begins to fall apart as she makes a controversial speech to appreciation.
- DirectorMilko LazarovStarsMikhail AprosimovFeodosia IvanovaSergei EgorovIn the far north, Sedna and Nanook dream of bringing back their family together. After Sedna's death, Nanook walks a long way to find his daughter Ága, who ran away years ago.
- DirectorKore-eda HirokazuStarsMakiko EsumiTakashi NaitôTadanobu AsanoA young woman's husband apparently commits suicide without warning or reason, leaving behind his wife and infant.
- DirectorYasujirô OzuStarsChikage AwashimaRyô IkebeTeiji TakahashiA young man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital romance.
- DirectorFlorian Henckel von DonnersmarckStarsUlrich MüheMartina GedeckSebastian KochIn 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.
- DirectorNuri Bilge CeylanStarsMuzaffer ÖzdemirMehmet Emin ToprakZuhal GencerAfter his wife leaves him, a photographer has an existential crisis and tries to cope with his cousin's visit.
- DirectorNuri Bilge CeylanStarsEmin CeylanMuzaffer ÖzdemirFatma CeylanMuzaffer goes to the house where his parents live for the movie he will shoot. He is thinking of starring his relatives in the movie he will shoot. But his father struggles with the forest administration for the oaks he grows. His mother, on the other hand, does not feel well because of the diseases brought by old age.
- DirectorNuri Bilge CeylanStarsEbru CeylanNuri Bilge CeylanNazan KesalDowdy university instructor Isa is an inattentive husband to his younger, TV-business wife Bahar. Self-absorbed, Isa only communicates in the most rudimentary way, while she, similarly, detaches into crying jags and juvenile behavior.
- DirectorAntoni KrauzeStarsHalina Buyno-LozaZofia CegielkowaBarbara ChojeckaWhen a delivery of coffins foreshadows a harsh winter, residents of a retirement home escape their confines and rediscover the world outside.
- DirectorLuc BessonStarsChristopher LambertIsabelle AdjaniRichard BohringerOn improvising a burglary at a shady tycoon's home, Fred takes refuge in the hip and surreal universe of the Paris Metro and encounters its assorted denizens, the tycoon's henchmen and his disenchanted young wife.
- DirectorFrancesco RosiStarsFrank WolffSalvo RandoneFrederico ZardiThe unclear and complicated twists between governal powers, independentist party and Mafia in the Sicily of the '40s culminate with the death of Salvatore Giuliano.
- DirectorPietro GermiStarsMarcello MastroianniDaniela RoccaStefania SandrelliA married Sicilian baron falls in love with his cousin and vows to wed her, but with divorce illegal he must concoct a crime of passion to do away with his wife.
- DirectorMario MonicelliStarsVittorio GassmanMarcello MastroianniRenato SalvatoriA motley quintet of inept small-time thieves attempt the burglary of a local pawnshop in this Italian farce.
- DirectorAlice WinocourStarsEva GreenZélie BoulantMatt DillonAn astronaut prepares for a one-year mission aboard the International Space Station.
- DirectorJuraj HerzStarsRudolf HrusínskýVlasta ChramostováJana StehnováSet in Central Europe during World War II, a demented cremator believes cremation relieves earthly suffering and sets out to save the world.
- DirectorSadaf ForoughiStarsVahid AghapourParnian AkhtariSarah AlimardaniThe life of a high school girl in Iran becomes more complicated after her mother catches her in an act of rebellion.
- DirectorVáclav MarhoulStarsPetr KotlárNina SunevicAlla SokolovaA young Jewish boy somewhere in Eastern Europe seeks refuge during World War II where he encounters many different characters.
- DirectorBong Joon HoStarsBae DoonaLee Sung-jaeKim Ho-jungAn idle part-time college lecturer is annoyed by the yapping sound of a nearby dog. He decides to take drastic action.
- DirectorCatherine DwyerStarsMartha AnsaraSuzanne BellamyShirley CastleyA revealing documentary celebrating the legacy of the bold women of the Women's Liberation Movement who re-ignited the feminist revolution to Australia.
- DirectorKiyoshi KurosawaStarsAtsuko MaedaShôta SometaniTokio EmotoA young Japanese woman finds her cautious and insular nature tested when she travels to Uzbekistan to shoot the latest episode of her travel variety show.
- DirectorRuthy PribarStarsAlena YivShira HaasTamir MulaDespite living together, Asia barely interacts with her daughter Vika. Their routine is shaken when Vika's health deteriorates rapidly. Asia must step in and become the mother Vika so desperately needs
- DirectorIan DaviesStarsAmber DaviesOlivia DaviesAmber has Down's syndrome and is about to start school together with her twin sister, Olivia. Olivia is keen to keep her twin sister in the same class and so begins the struggle of keeping the girls together at school.
- DirectorFernando TruebaStarsJavier CámaraNicolás Reyes CanoJuan Pablo UrregoAn author recalls life with his father, a university professor who fought against oppression and social inequality in Colombia in the seventies.
- DirectorPat CollinsStarsHenry GlassiePravina ShuklaSamuel RodriguesThe worldwide travels and unique cultural finds of renowned American folklorist Henry Glassie are enthralling chronicled in this portrait by director Pat Collins.
- DirectorRoman ZaluskiStarsGrazyna Blecka-KolskaEwa KasprzykZdzislaw WardejnA country girl Kasia Solska is forced by her family to marry the man she finds unattractive. She secretly gets to university, escapes from her village to Warsaw and starts working as a babysitter there.
- DirectorAyten AminStarsBassant AhmedBasmala ElghaieshHussein GhanemThe film revolves around the relationship of two teenage sisters in one of Egypt's Nile Delta cities, one of them holds a secret life in the virtual world.
- DirectorCécile DucrocqStarsLaure CalamyNissim RenardBéatrice FacquerMarie, an independent and militant woman, has never needed anyone's help, including when it comes to raise her son. When the latter is expelled from his certificate of professional competence training class, Marie cannot accept it. Dreaming of a brighter future for him, she decides to enroll him in one of the best cooking schools in France. But her income does not allow her to pay the school fees. She has to find a solution, at any cost.
- DirectorBrett HarveyStarsKate EdneyChloe EndeanSusan PenhaligonA reluctant father and his estranged daughter are forced to make a long eventful car journey home after she leaves university under tragic circumstances.
- DirectorTreasa O'BrienTOWN OF STRANGERS is a documentary of the imagination, with many scenes transcending the genres of documentary and fiction, going deep into the experiences of migration and home through cinematic methods.
- DirectorThe Myanmar Film CollectiveHow does it feel to be forgotten by the world? After the military coup in 2021, these film diaries of young opposition activists in Myanmar use the cinema screen to communicate with the world in a different way than allowed TV news.
- DirectorDina AmerStarsLorenza GrimaudoIlonna GrimaudoMouna SoualemWhen two young sisters are torn apart, the eldest loses her identity and transforms into someone new in the name of belonging and resistance.
- DirectorMariano BiasinStarsMartín MillerTeo Inama ChiabrandoAzul MazzeoManuel lives in a small coastal town. He plays bass in a band with his best friends. One of them is Felipe, with whom he shares a strong friendship. Unbreakable bond. Until the time comes to put it to test.
- DirectorEmily AtefStarsMarlene BurowFelix KramerCedric EichSet in a warm summer in 1990 in former East Germany, it follows a young woman who begins a relationship with a charismatic farmer who is twice her age.
- DirectorNira BursteinStarsUri BursteinRaya BursteinJudy BursteinA glimpse into the lives of an eccentric New York family at the brink of estrangement when the youngest daughter announces her upcoming polyamorous wedding.
- DirectorKrzysztof ZanussiStarsMaja KomorowskaHalina MikolajskaJan KreczmarA young engineer is called back home, which he had left years before. The house is a crumbling, old mansion in which his father still works, illegally distilling vodka, much of which he drinks himself. He is alcoholic and unhappy. His sister is cynical and disturbed, had attempted suicide. His aunt is tired and sour. Their purpose to bring him there is to play on his sympathies and eventually make stay, to make him work and take care of them. He refuses and returns back to the city.
- DirectorJonas CarpignanoStarsSwamy RotoloPio AmatoCarmelo CaccamoFollows the story of 15-year-old Chiara whose close-knit family falls apart after her father abandons them in Calabria.
- DirectorJulia DucournauStarsVincent LindonAgathe RousselleGarance MarillierFollowing a series of unexplained crimes, a father is reunited with the son who has been missing for ten years.
- DirectorMichel FrancoStarsNaian González NorvindEligio MeléndezMónica Del CarmenA lavish high-society wedding unexpectedly turns into a class struggle that leads to a violent coup.
- DirectorKrzysztof ZanussiStarsZbigniew ZapasiewiczKrystyna JandaTadeusz BradeckiA cynical doctor, who is dying of cancer, would like to know the meaning of his life. He has to fight for it or just get ready for death.
- DirectorElwira NiewieraPiotr RosolowskiStarsSlavik GavianetsKatia KotliarovaRoman KrivdikA group of young Ukrainians is preparing a modern stage version of Hamlet. Their goal is to use their own wartime experiences and traumas to relate to Shakespeare's play.
- DirectorAnna MaliszewskaStarsEryk LubosKlaudia KurakPolina GromovaA lonely dad, facing the sudden death of a Ukrainian babysitter, takes his daughter and her friend on a journey by the truck. Will trucker and two scamp girls handle the transport of frozen fish, body smuggling and life without a home?
- DirectorPawo Choyning DorjiStarsSherab DorjiUgyen Norbu LhendupKelden Lhamo GurungAn aspiring singer living with his grandmother in the capital of Bhutan dreams of getting a visa to move to Australia.
- DirectorMarie LidénAn intimate window into William's isolated world and a moving and poignant depiction of a family, devoted to finding a way to save their son.
- DirectorCamilla HallJennifer TiexieraStarsEvgeny AfineevskyArthur AgeeMukunda AnguloFilmmakers examine the impact that well-known documentaries and their commercial success have had on the lives of their subjects. They focus on the ethics and responsibility inherent in documentary filmmaking.
- DirectorSylvaine DampierreOn Guadeloupe, an archipelago in the Caribbean, the past speaks up. Sylvaine Dampierre has the workers of an old sugar refinery read passages from the transcripts of an 1842 court case, while the machines roar and groan in the background. The testimonies of the slaves from back then in the rusty halls of today give rise to a polyphony both explosive and poetic in nature.
- DirectorMarcus MarkouStarsLaura BaystonLaurence SpellmanPeter BarrettAs Cassie and Matthew come to the end of a divorce, a letter from their past selves surfaces suggesting guidance in the "event of separation". They agree to do the first thing on the list, only to find themselves drawn back together.
- DirectorAli RayMary Cassatt's artworks portray intellectual, feminine women. Her contradictory career, overlooked art contrast representations of women in her era. Explores her prints, pastels, paintings depicting real women through objective portrayals.
- DirectorAnders EmblemStarsAmalie Ibsen JensenMaria AgwumaroLars Halvor AndreassenWhen uncovering a story about injustice at work, young journalist Asta sees her personal life in a new light.
- DirectorEstibaliz Urresola SolagurenStarsSofía OteroPatricia López ArnaizAne GabarainDuring a summer in a village house linked to beekeeping, an eight-year-old and her mother experience revelations that will change their lives forever.
- DirectorSaim SadiqStarsAli JunejoRasti FarooqAlina KhanThe youngest son in a traditional Pakistani family takes a job as a backup dancer in a Bollywood-style burlesque and quickly becomes infatuated with the strong-willed trans woman who runs the show.
- DirectorGeorg GötmarkJohn Erling UtsiIn the northernmost part of Sweden and Norway, a conflict over land and borders seems to be eternally ongoing. Simon and Beatrice Marainen and their three kids are a part of an indigenous Sami semi-nomadic community of reindeer herders, that have traditionally always moved freely across northern Scandinavia, following the natural movement of their herds. But today, nationalism, bureaucracy and politics are a threat against their traditional way of life.
- DirectorNicolas PhilibertStarsMamadi BarriWalid BenzianeSabine BerlièreFollows patients and caregivers at a psychiatric centre with a unique floating structure located in the middle of the Seine river in central Paris.
- DirectorStanislaw BarejaStarsKrzysztof KowalewskiWojciech PokoraJanina TraczykównaModest editor, has shipped his wife and kids for the weekend, and is trying to relax in his house at the outskirts of Warsaw. His quiet evening is only disturbed by the accidental forecast made by a Gypsy woman, that at evening time he will murder a mysterious brunet. He is trying to escape the destiny, but to no avail...
- DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsToshirô MifuneYutaka SadaTatsuya NakadaiAn executive of a Yokohama shoe company becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped by mistake and held for ransom.
- DirectorDenis VilleneuveStarsLubna AzabalMélissa Désormeaux-PoulinMaxim GaudetteTwins journey to the Middle East to discover their family history and fulfill their mother's last wishes.
- DirectorWolfgang PetersenStarsJürgen ProchnowHerbert GrönemeyerKlaus WennemannA German U-boat stalks the frigid waters of the North Atlantic as its young crew experience the sheer terror and claustrophobic life of a submariner in World War II.
- DirectorMasaki KobayashiStarsTatsuya NakadaiAkira IshihamaShima IwashitaWhen a ronin requesting seppuku at a feudal lord's palace is told of the brutal suicide of another ronin who previously visited, he reveals how their pasts are intertwined - and in doing so challenges the clan's integrity.
- DirectorKeith FultonLouis PepeStarsTerry GilliamJohnny DeppJeff BridgesTerry Gilliam's doomed attempt to get his film, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018), off the ground.
- DirectorKeith FultonLouis PepeStarsAdam DriverTerry GilliamJonathan PryceThe culmination of a trilogy of documentaries that have followed film director Terry Gilliam over a 25 year period. Charting Gilliam's final, beleaguered quest to adapt Don Quixote, this documentary is a potent study of creative obsession.
- DirectorTerry GilliamStarsJosé Luis FerrerIsmael FritschiJuan López-TagleToby, a disillusioned film director, is pulled into a world of time-jumping fantasy when a Spanish cobbler believes himself to be Sancho Panza. He gradually becomes unable to tell dreams from reality.
- DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsVictor SjöströmBibi AnderssonIngrid ThulinAfter living a life marked by coldness, an aging professor is forced to confront the emptiness of his existence.
- DirectorAndrzej WajdaStarsDaniel OlbrychskiWojciech PszoniakAndrzej SewerynThree friends hope to build a factory but their plans are quickly jeopardized by local politics and one of the partner's dangerous love affair.
- DirectorTomasz WolskiIn 1970, protests broke out in several coastal cities in Communist Poland. Workers went on strikes to object to price increases. Growing numbers of protesters walked out onto the streets. As the situation became tense, a crisis team gathered in the capital. With the help of animations combined with telephone recordings, we can peek behind the closed doors of dignitaries' offices. Hundreds of cigarettes are smoked. Conversations get cut off. Strategies to break up protesters and future repressions are planned. Propaganda activities are thought up. The protests get out of control.
- DirectorKasia AdamikStarsMateusz KosciukiewiczLukasz SimlatZofia WichlaczA man is murdered, but the person responsible avoids being discovered and arrested. A few years later a police inspector suspects he has found evidence in a newly-published book entitled "Amok".
- DirectorAndrzej WajdaStarsZbigniew CybulskiEwa KrzyzewskaWaclaw ZastrzezynskiAs World War II and the German occupation ends, the Polish resistance and the Soviet forces turn on each other in an attempt to take over leadership in Communist Poland.
- DirectorStanislaw BarejaStarsKrzysztof KowalewskiBronislaw PawlikStanislaw TymWhat Will You Do When You Catch Me? is a parody of comunist times in Poland. A state-owned company director is having an afair during his delegation. Later on, his mistress turns out to be the daughter of a Communist party bigwig and pregnant. He knows he'll have to marry her to save his reputation and his job. But divorce is never simple...
- DirectorFanny LiatardJérémy TrouilhStarsAlseni BathilyLyna KhoudriJamil McCravenYuri fights to save his home town - which he shares with his namesake, Yuri Gagarin - from demolition.