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21) Sidewalls
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Español
Description
Director Gustavo Taretto pays homage to the city of Buenos Aires as he reflects on how urban chaos, as well as new technologies, can unite people but also keep them apart (as the sidewalls of the title). Mixing animation, photography and graphic art he reveals the characters' isolation and anxieties that are a staple of modern life in a noisy city that nonetheless has an irresistible charm.
22) Summer of 85
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Français
Description
When 16-year-old Alexis capsizes off the coast of Normandy, 18-year-old David heroically saves him. Alexis has just met the friend of his dreams. But will the dream last for more than one summer?
23) Baghdad Messi
Publisher
Magnet Film
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Kurdish
Description
Iraq, 2009. Little Hamoudi (10) is totally obsessed with football. Just as the rest of the world, he and his friends are eagerly looking forward to the Champions League finale FC Barcelona-Manchester United. The long awaited clash between Messi and Ronaldo. But then Hamoudi’s television breaks down ...
24) Piggy
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
In a rural Spanish town, a teenage girl's weight makes her the target of incessant bullying from a clique of mean girls. After fleeing them at the town pool, she stumbles upon her tormentors being kidnapped by a mysterious stranger.
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Français
Description
**WARNING:** This film contains mature content & nudity. A highly cinematic and atmospheric look at the final days of a turn of the century brothel, tracking the lives of the Madam (Noemie Lvovsky) and close to a dozen girls. Despite the fact that desire often mixes with danger and disease rears its ugly head, the film is filled with moments of intimacy and camaraderie amongst the girls. Also known as House of Tolerance.
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Français
Description
Set in the high courts of 16th century France, a beautiful young aristocrat is married to a young prince she does not love, haunted by a rakish suitor from her childhood, and advised by an aging nobleman who also desires her. The Princess of Montpensier must struggle passionately to stay alive in the intrigue of this corrupt political and romantic web of duty, passion, religion and war.
27) L'Immensita
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Italiano
Description
Clara (Penélope Cruz) and Felice struggle to raise their three children in 1970s Rome. The eldest, Andrew, is transgender and yearns for another life where he gets to live as the boy he knows himself to be. Clara instinctively strives to protect her son by escaping into their imaginations to defuse family tensions. L'IMMENSITA is a creative and moving film about growing up and breaking the mold.
28) Heroic Times
Publisher
Deaf Crocodile Films
Pub. Date
1983.
Language
Hungarian
Description
“A crime is a crime, even if committed by kings,” intones the narrator of director József Gémes’ animated portrait of the supposedly “heroic” age of medieval knights and kings, a sprawling and bloody tapestry of ruthless combat to rival Game Of Thrones. Based on an epic narrative poem by 19th century Hungarian writer János Arany, HEROIC TIMES has a unique visual style combining gorgeous oil paintings and 2-D animation, similar to the...
30) Moffie
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
1981. South Africa's white minority government is embroiled in a conflict on the Angolan border. Nicholas Van der Swart must complete two years of compulsory military service to defend the apartheid regime. The threat of communism and "die swart gevaar" (the so-called black danger) is at an all-time high. But that's not the only danger. Nicholas must survive the brutality of the army – something that becomes even more difficult when a connection...
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Français
Description
D’Artagnan arrives in Paris trying to find his attackers after being left for dead, which leads him to a real war where the future of France is at stake. He aligns himself with Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, three musketeers of the King.
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Danish
Description
Strong and dramatic sequel to "Into the Darkness" which follows the Skov family from 1943 to the end of WWII. The growing opposition to the occupation and the increased brutality of the Germans have fatal consequences for the family.
33) La Syndicaliste
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Français
Description
An investigative thriller set in the world of nuclear power and politics, LA SYNDICALISTE follows the true story of Maureen Kearney (Isabelle Huppert), the influential head union representative of a French multinational nuclear powerhouse. A deft navigator of elite political and financial circles, Maureen becomes a whistleblower when she discovers international backroom dealings, exposing secrets that shook the French nuclear sector. Fighting against...
34) Shaolin Temple
Publisher
All Channel Films
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
The Shaolin Temple is the last place to resist defeat by the Manchu Dynasty, mostly because of their unique fighting style.
37) I… For Icarus
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1979.
Language
Français
Description
Following the assassination of President Marc Jarry, a member of the investigation committee refuses to sign off on the committee's final findings.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1961.
Language
Français
Description
Welcome to the charming and colorful world of Tintin! Hergé’s classic comic book characters leap to the silver screen in two spirited adventures starring the intrepid boy-reporter and his faithful dog Snowy. In Tintin’s first-ever live-action adaptation, TINTIN AND THE MYSTERY OF THE GOLDEN FLEECE, Captain Haddock sets sail to Istanbul, accompanied by our cow-licked hero and his cohorts. There they collect a strange bounty from the late Captain...
Publisher
Greenwich Entertainment
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Français
Description
After a Jewish couple (Jérémie Renier and Bérénice Bejo) sells their basement to a former history teacher (François Cluzet), they discover his secret life as an anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist. As the couple struggles to rescind the sale, the buyer befriends their naive teenage daughter.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
Français
Description
Pierre Niemans is a tough city cop assigned to investigate a brutal murder at a college in the Alps, Max Kerkerian a young investigator trying to find out why the grave of a ten-year-old girl was desecrated. As their parallel investigations start, slowly they converge and the duo find themselves with more bodies leading them to a dark secret in Mathieu Kassovitz's dark, cerebral thriller.
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