Bad Hostage
2024-06-13In a investigation into the pernicious origins of Stockholm Syndrome, a thrilling family story intersects with a dramatic bank robbery in Sweden (1973...
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Moonlight on Second Spring
1979-11-01Dramatization of the life of blind musician ABing (Huà Yànjūn).
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Pavlopetri: The City Beneath the Waves
2011-10-09Just off the southern coast of mainland Greece lies the oldest submerged city in the world. It thrived for 2,000 years during the time that saw the bi...
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One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo
2017-11-03This documentary explores key moments in the life of writer Juan Rulfo, with artists such as Werner Herzog and Eduardo Galeano reflecting on his work.
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Nightingale
1937-11-05The struggle of Belarusian peasants against the oppression of Polish lords during the reign of Paul I.
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Star of the East
1999-06-07The film presents a part of the biography of legendary artist Umm Kulthum since 1944, shedding light on her unfinished romance like her relationship w...
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The Hungry Stones
1960-08-02A tax collector posted to a small town puts up at a mansion feared by the locals because it is haunted. As time passes he grows more consumed by the m...
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Down and Out in America
1986-12-01The recession of the 1980s split the country into the haves and have-nots, from family farmers to factory workers and homeless people forced to live i...
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Bribes are Smooth
2008-06-06The film is a modern adaptation of Alexander Ostrovsky's unforgettable play "Profitable Place".
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1936. The beginning
2021-01-01December 1936. The elite First House of Soviets, the House of the Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR (now ...
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I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians
2018-09-28"I do not care if we go down in history as barbarians." These words, spoken in the Council of Ministers of the summer of 1941, started the ethnic clea...
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Egypt's Golden Empire
2001-11-03In 1570 B.C., Rome was a marsh, the Acropolis an empty rock, but Egypt was 1,000 years old. The pyramid-builders were gone, yet Egypt still awaited it...
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Silent Night in Algona
2022-12-09A depiction of a small Iowa town hosting a prisoner of war camp during World War II in 1944.
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Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision
2013-10-03Follow-up to the TV trilogy “Heimat”, this time for cinemas, set again in the fictional village Schabbach in the Hunsrück region of Rhineland-Palatina...
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Ganga Zumba
1963-04-16The life of a runaway slave who founded the Quilombo dos Palmares, an outlaw community of Brazilian slaves.
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Pane e libertà
2009-03-15About comunist politician and labor union leader Giuseppe Di Vittorio.
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