Janosch ist einer im Dorf, dessen Blick ins All zu schweifen scheint. Gerade hat er ein paar volltrunkene Kneipengäste zu einem kosmischen Tanz animiert, als er auf dem Rückweg die Attraktion anrollen sieht: einen mons-trösen, ausgestopften Wal, der im Ort ausgestellt wird. Janosch sieht in ihm die Macht Gottes die Bewohner dagegen wittern im "stinkenden Kadaver" Unheil. Trotzdem strömen sie in Scharen zum Zirkus. Als der Auftritt eines ominösen "Herzogs" ausbleibt, entlädt sich ihre Wut

Using verite conventions, a young couple with a baby and a child are worn away by the monotony of their lives.

Ein nicht immer einfacher aber mental gesunder junger Mann wird auf Betreiben seines Vaters in eine Nervenheilanstalt eingeliefert. Dort gerät er in den Konkurrenzkampf zweier rivalisierender Ärzte.

This slight skewering of the mindset of the Fascist era when Italy’s “White Telephone” films (conservative minded sophisticated comedy-dramas revolving around the bourgeoisie) were in vogue gives Agostina Belli her best role – an ambitious Venetian girl that goes from chambermaid to prostitute to singer to film-star to mistress of ‘Il Duce’! – for which she received a special David Di Donatello award, the Italian equivalent of the Oscar.

The 1960s was the time of Beatles and Rolling Stones, the time of sexual revolution. These events have their echo in Bulgarian English-learning school. The school order provokes a protest of the students due to the narrow-minded teachers.

In this evocative, atmospheric biography, Roberto Rossellini brings to life philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal, who, amid religious persecution and ignorance, believed in a harmony between God and science.

Családi tüzfészek (aka Family Nest) is an intimate portrayal of a family slowly disintegrating under various pressures in late 1970s communist Hungary. The plot of the film is deceptively simple, with the occasional momentous event--including one that's relatively shocking, but plot in a conventional sense is not the focus here.

The Salesman is Asghar Farhadi's seventh film that won two trophies for the Best Actor and Best Screenplay at Cannes Film Festival in 2016 and the academy award for the best Foreign Language Film in 2017. About The Salesman is a documentary about Farhadi's method of filmmaking: development, pre-production, production, and post-production, with interviews with Asghar Farhadi and the analysis of the renowned Iranian and international film critics about The Salesman and Farhadi's cinema.

A man is wrongly jailed for murder while the real killer roams free. The murderer is an intellectual frustrated with his country’s never-ending cycle of betrayal and apathy. The convict is a simple man who finds life in prison more tolerable, when something mysterious and strange starts happening to him.

Two interwoven stories. The first is a biography of anarchist Sakae Osugi which follows his relationship with three women in the 1920s. The second centers on two 1960s students researching Osugi's theories.

A young woman lives a life filled with bad choices. At a young age she marries and has a child--with an abusive thief who quickly ends up in prison. Left alone, she takes up with the guy's mate, another thief, who seems to give her some happiness but who also ends up locked up. She then takes up with a series of seedy types who offer nothing but momentary pleasure--if that.

A bully browbeats his wife and children until he meets his match in the woman who raised him.

In 1919, Hungarian Communists aid the Bolsheviks' defeat of Czarists, the Whites. Near the Volga, a monastery and a field hospital are held by one side and then the other.

After the failure of the Kossuth's revolution of 1848, people suspected of supporting the revolution are sent to prison camps. Years later, partisans led by outlaw Sándor Rózsa still run rampant. Although the authorities do not know the identities of the partisans, they round up suspects and try to root them out by any means necessary.

Determined to survive at any price, Edith, a young Jewish woman deported to an extermination camp, manages to survive by accepting the role of kapo, a privileged prisoner whose mission is to ruthlessly guard other prisoners.

A switchman at a seaside railway witnesses a murder but does not report it after he finds a suitcase full of money at the scene of the crime.

Seit Tagen fegt ein schwerer Sturm über das karge, kalte Land und wirbelt trockenes Laub auf. Der alte Ohlsdorfer und seine Tochter verlassen kaum mehr ihr einsam gelegenes, halb verfallenenes Gehöft. Sie sprechen kaum und erledigen die immer gleichen Handgriffe: Sie hilft ihm beim Ankleiden, holt Wasser aus dem Brunnen, schürt das Feuer, kocht Kartoffeln. Sie trinken Schnaps, sie essen und schauen abwechselnd aus dem Fenster auf den andauernden Sturm. Doch das Pferd, das gelegentlich das Fuhrwerk zieht, frißt plötzlich nicht mehr. Ein Nachbar hält eine apokalyptische Rede, Zigeuner tauchen auf und werden gleich wieder verjagt. Als der Brunnen am nächsten Tag ausgetrocknet ist, beschließt Ohlsdorfer, den Hof trotz des Sturms zu verlassen ...

Bob Ross begeisterte Millionen von Menschen als der berühmteste Kunstlehrer der Welt. Doch der Kampf um sein Imperium zog wie ein Schatten über seine glücklichen Bäume

Mitch Wayne ist Geologe im Ölkonzern der Hadleys, hat immer die Schläge für seinen Freund, den neurotischen Playboy Kyle Hadley eingesteckt und wird von Kyles Schwester Marylee hoffnungslos geliebt. Kyle schnappt Mitch Sekretärin Lucy weg und gibt das Trinken auf. Marylee wird betrunken aufgegriffen, provoziert Mitch erotisch und führt den Tod des Vaters herbei. Kyle glaubt, Lucy sei von Mitch schwanger, stellt ihn und kommt zu Tode. Marylee überwindet sich, sagt vor Gericht die Wahrheit. Mitch ist frei.

Karrer plods his way through life in quiet desperation. His environment is drab and rainy and muddy. Eaten up with solitude, his hopelessness would be incurable but for the existence of the Titanik Bar and its beautiful, haunting singer. But the lady is married and Karrer is determined to keep her husband away...