Margarita is on her way to taking a holiday on a Greek island. When she misses the boat, she finds herself traveling much further away.
An American scholar in Greece sets about improving the local prostitute with whom he is infatuated.
The consistency of a family with 13 children tested when a childless couple asks Americans to adopt the 14th located in his mother's belly.
Kokovios and his close friend Nikolakis engage in various odd jobs with the hope that they will eventually find success. The kind-hearted Kokovios helps an elderly woman take her paralyzed daughter, Vasso, to Tinos, where the Virgin Mary always performs miracles. On their return to Piraeus, he learns that his father has died and so he becomes the heir to the family business. As he is no longer penniless, he confidently asks for Vasso's hand in marriage, and she agrees. A typical Greek comedy with naive heroes and excessive optimism.
Two young men embark on a woeful trek to the nearest kiosk to get some beverages.
A travelogue from Greece, showing sites in Piraeus and Athens.
After her father’s sudden death, Feride takes on the role of the father in the family. Her mother, Nurcan, desperately tries to replace her lost husband with Feride, while her brother, İlker, starts to drift away from the family. Feride decides to break free, changing everyone’s fate.
In December 1937, during the Second Japanese-Sino War, a Chinese doctor, his Japanese pregnant wife, their teenage daughter and their young son travel from Shanghai to Nanjing seeking shelter in the Capital during the Japanese invasion. The family faces the Rape of Nanking by the Imperial Japanese Army, with rapes, mass murder of prisoners of war and civilians including women, children and elders, and disrespect of international conventions.
A cinema projectionist whose life has lost all meaning decides to go hunting for the fabled red fox in a northern forest in winter. There he meets another who’s been living in the forest six years, and is also in search of the fox.
In 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman.
This sweet musical takes us on a cross-country trip through Senegal, from Dakar to Saint Louis in a battered taxi, as passengers sing their stories.
Purushan, a student on his way to Delhi, becomes obsessed with the tragic suicide of a young drummer. He collects many people to go with him to tell the boy’s mother.
Cheriyachan, a landlord, feels threatened by industrialisation and leftist activities. But when he witnesses police atrocities on poor peasants, a feeling of guilt engulfs him and he feels responsible for the guilt of his entire class. He is last seen up a coconut tree trying to keep away from the police. The film is about a peasant's movement against the feudal system.
A portrait of contemporary China seen through the dreams and choices of a young peasant who has accepted her fate.
The film follows a nurse, Ye Tong (Kong Lin), who also serves as the film's narrator. One day, Ye Tong reunites with some childhood friends, including Peng Wei, a disillusioned and long-haired young man who leads a local rock band. Ye finds herself attracted to Peng Wei's lifestyle, despite the admonitions of her police officer friend, Zheng Weidong. When Zheng is injured by a mutual friend, Ye finds herself increasingly attracted to the strait-laced Zheng, while also finding herself attracted to Peng.
A developer tries to take over a Scottish shepherd's land.
A drama-documentary presented by Alan Yentob, with Benedict Cumberbatch in the lead role. Every word spoken by the actors in this film is sourced from the letters that Van Gogh sent to his younger brother Theo, and of those around him. What emerges is a complex portrait of a sophisticated, civilised and yet tormented man.
Lyrical biography of the classical composer, depicted as a romantic hero, an accursed artist.
After visiting a fortune teller, Zulmira is informed that a blonde woman will threaten her peace. After talking to her husband Toninho, she suspects that her cousin Glorinha may be that blonde.