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- A troubled fashion designer strikes up a romance with a much younger woman.
- A captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from a German prison in France.
- A letter is addressed to three wives from their "best friend" Addie Ross, announcing that she is running away with one of their husbands - but she does not say which one.
- Józef visits his dying father at a remote mental institution, where time itself doesn't seem to exist, and the line between dreams and memories becomes indistinguishable.
- A heartbreaking record of the thirteen-month struggle between a community fighting to survive and a corporation dedicated to the bottom line.
- Upon finding a book that relates his grandfather's story, an officer ventures through Spain meeting a wide array of characters, most of whom have a story of their own to tell.
- Set at the turn of the century, the story concerns a Polish poet living in Cracow who has decided to marry a peasant girl. The wedding is attended by a heterogenous group of people from all strata of Polish society, who dance, get drunk and lament Poland's 100-year-long division of Poland under Russia, Prussia, and Austria. The bridegroom, a painter friend, and a journalist each in turn is confronted with spectres of Polish past. In the end a call to arms is called but turns out to be a hoax.
- Set in the 1890s on the Hungarian plains, a group of farm workers go on strike in-which they face harsh reprisals and the reality of revolt, oppression, morality and violence.
- The documentary recounts Tarkovsky's life and work, letting the director tell the story himself, as he shares with us his memories, his view of art and his reflections on the destiny of the artist and the meaning of human existence.
- During a police raid on a youth center, the biogeneticist Hoffmann is shot in the head. When he awakes from a coma, he can't remember anyting. The police accuse him of being a terrorist.
- When teenage boy Karol Kremer becomes an eyewitness of a brutal murder, he is not aware of how much influence that event will exert on his future.
- An elderly farmer befriends a woman whose family believe is possessed.
- The film opens with the mad rush of haphazard freedom as the concentration camps are liberated. Men are trying to grab food, change clothes, bury the tormentors they find alive. They are then herded into other camps as the Allies try to devise means to control the situation. A young poet, who cannot quite find himself in this new situation, meets a headstrong young Jewish girl who wants him to run off with her to the West. He cannot cope with her growing demands for affection, and still feels hatred for the Germans and disdain for his fellow men, who quickly revert to petty enmities.
- The aging, conservative population of a small, sleepy village in the Italian Alps are surprised to see that a former French professor has settled there with his young wife and their three children to produce goat cheese, in order to escape the wrongs of civilization. At first they are suspicious of his unconventional ideas and lifestyle, then are conquered by the enthusiasm, kindness, helpfulness of the young family and start to see in them a possible rebirth of the place. But little by little misunderstandings, envy and conflicts take over.
- Danny Chanoch (74), survivor of several concentration camps, convinces his reluctant children to retrace his steps through the holocaust, eventually spending a night in Auschwitz-Birkenau.
- A 39 year old transsexual sex worker goes about her daily life inside her home, where she receives her clients.
- When Sergio learns that he will soon have a baby brother, his imagination kicks into gear in devious and alarming ways. But when his mother suffers a miscarriage, Sergio's feelings of guilt are all too real.
- While Puccini is totally engrossed with the composition of his opera La fanciulla del West, sexual intrigue swirls around him.
- The trial of a woman in San Miniato accused of witchcraft in 1594.
- The finding of an autobiographical manuscript written by Giovanni Pastrone, the most relevant figure of Italian Silent film, prompts a researcher to reopen the historically closed case on the director.
- Each night, in the most historical and important milongas of Buenos Aires, the most famous Milongueros tell and explain, not only how Tango is a wonderful and sensual dance, but how it is a "way of life".
- A documentary that follows the rock group Verdena in their private life and in the preparation of the tour of "Volevo Magia", an album that marks their return to the scene after seven years of silence. A unique work for its ability to enter the intimacy of the protagonists, within their families, in the depths of the simple lives they lead and the isolated places where they live, but also able to tell their life as a rock band.
- Milan, august 2009. Four workers climb a 20 meters high gantry crane inside the hangar of the INNSE, the last active factory in Milan. They threaten to throw themselves down to stop the dismantling of the machineries and the closure of the factory they work in. The hangar is surrounded by dozens of policemen and supporters from all over Italy. It is not a simple struggle. They have a clear strategy. They have an organized army. They know perfectly their territory and their enemy. There are clear rules, it is a war with a workable paradigm for all forms of struggle.
- The people who live in the Gaza Strip have to deal with extreme situations and significant constraints every day. This film however shows that their lives consist of much more than this and gives us an insight into their day-to-day experiences.
- Haitian couple who work on a sugar cane plantation in the Dominican Republic escape the desperate conditions of the 'bateyes' (cane cutters' communities) and make their way back to Haiti.