A mathematical genius discovers a link between numbers and reality, and thus believes he can predict the future.
With few options, newly pardoned convict Leila agrees to work as an assistant to a blind pastor. Father Jacob spends his days answering the letters of the needy, which Leila finds pointless. But when the letters stop, the pastor is devastated and Leila finds herself cast in a new role.
Set in the years before and during World War I, this epic tale tells the story of a rich Argentine family, one of its two descending branches being half of French heritage, the other being half German. Following the death of the family patriarch, the man's two daughters and their families resettle to France and Germany, respectively. In time the Great War breaks out, putting members of the family on opposing sides.
Ukraine, 1990s. Young Vova, cruel and tenacious, struggles to find his place among the ruthless members of the underworld in a city where crime and corruption reign.
Lacking a traditional plot, the non-linear story follows the path of emotions and sensations. Based on actual events the film shows five acts – Miracle, Atonement, Regret, Prayer, Forgiveness – that might help us overcome the fear of death…
When the Maid Of Honor Katherine Othieno is found dead in her room on the morning of her sister Samantha’s wedding, the invasive Private Investigator James Andera is mysteriously hired by the father of the victim to aid lead Detective Prudence Kaya in solving the murder. Kaya & James will sift through a web of lies and misleading half-truths to uncover the mystery behind Kate’s untimely death. Kaya and James will desperately run down every lead from a wide pool of suspects that consists of the victim’s friends and family. As they uncover the nature of the relationship the victim had with everyone at the wedding, they discover each and every one of them has a deadly secret and a motive for her murder.
Daniel's son "Brian" has an aggressive embolism attack that has him admitted into the ICU; the only way Daniel can save him is to sell a house that doesn't belong to him with the hope the owners default on their loan payment that's due in 3 days. When the owner of the house "Tom" shows up that evening Daniel has him kidnapped to force a default but the kidnap goes horribly wrong and Tom ends up dead.
A filmmaker named Hadi is sent to Croatia to complete his research for a film. Aziz, Hadi’s friend, gives him a cassette tape, a piece of image, and a half a piece of plaque in order to find a girl named Fatima. Alongside a Farsi-speaking Bosnian woman, Hanifa, Hadi begins his quest for Fatima.
Fictional character played by 24 different actresses, Françoise Durocher is altogether small time waitress, hostess and barmaid. Together, according to the author, they represent the archetypical Québec waitress that everyday waits on us with a smile, despite whatever problems she faces in her personal life. First cinematographic experience of the Brassard-Tremblay tandem, this film full of ironic joy details all the nuances of the waitress living conditions.
Based on a Lithuanian folk tale.
A man and woman meet when he pulls her out of an icy fountain that she has just jumped into. But their developing romance is marred by bad friends, money troubles and illegal sex work.
The Heritage
Carla's (Rita Magdalena) sister commits suicide. Devastated, she decides to go to the province.. where she wreaks havoc among the men.
An intimate psychological film which elaborates the Faustian theme about the dispute between the body and the soul - a study on human identity. Two young doctors carry out the surgical exchange of the brains of two women who are dying after a car accident - a young girl and member of a criminal gang, and a lonely seventy-year-old associate professor of oriental studies. The young girl wakes from the operation thinking like the elderly intellectual and tries in vain to live with her new identity. (https://www.filmovyprehled.cz/en/film/22344/double-role)
Something pierces the boredom and unconscious dailiness of life for a young woman working in a dress shop.
25 years ago, four LAPD officers were acquitted in a state court for beating King, sparking three days of rioting that left 53 people dead. Now, around the anniversary, this Spike Lee-produced one-man show (Roger Guenver Smith) will be streaming on Netflix. A complex, semi-tragic figure, King drowned in 2012. His life was rarely smooth, or simple – its telling makes for a sober, moving watch.
Jack Kerouac returns to earth as an angel with the goal of changing the life of a struggling writer.
A former German Army officer, accompanied by his granddaughter, journeys to the Ukraine to find the woman he once loved.
When a PhD student decides to document a real life sex addict for her dissertation in sex psychology, she becomes much more than a curious observer.