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Napola (2004)Napola - Elite für den Führer
Berlin, 1942. Friedrich, 16 years old, is a talented amateur boxer who dreams of doing something with his life. He is discovered at a boxing match and is offered the opportunity to attend an elite Nazi school. Among Friedrich's new friends is Albrecht, the son of a high-ranking official. A fragile young man who prefers to train his mind more than his body. Albrecht is very critical of the Nazi ideology being taught in the school and writes an essay condemning the German's barbarity. When Albrecht's father forces him to conform, Albrecht refuses and suffers the consequences. Devastated, Friedrich vows to avenge his friend's fate, even if it means losing everything he's fought for and abandoning his dream of a better life.... - Director:
- Dennis Gansel
- Cast:
- Max Riemelt, Tom Schilling, Devid Striesow
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The Club (2015)El Club
Four ageing men live together in a secluded house on a windswept Chilean coastline. Each has been sent there to purge sins of the past, adhering to a strict regime under the watchful eye of a female caretaker. This fragile stability is disrupted by the arrival of a newly disgraced companion - bringing with him the past they thought they had left behind... - Director:
- Pablo Larraín
- Cast:
- Alfredo Castro, Roberto Farías, Antonia Zegers
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"Joy Division" is a fast-paced story about memory, youth, identity and love amidst a backdrop of war. In the last days of World War 2, a teenager is forced into battle against the advancing Red Army. In a time of ferocious street battles, pillage and unspeakable savagery amidst the shattered towns of the Third Reich, he is captured by the Russians and disappears behind the Iron Curtain which falls across Europe. 17 years later, now a graduate of an elite Soviet school, he is recruited by his former enemies and sent on a mission by the KGB to London at the height of the Cold War. - Director:
- Reg Traviss
- Cast:
- Ed Stoppard, Lucy Walker, Tom Schilling
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Laura and Tyler are two girls who like to party - drink, sex and drugs infuse their days while their careers and lives remain on hold. But when aspiring writer Laura (Holliday Grainger) meets the devilishly handsome musician Jim, sparks fly. Tyler (Alia Shawkat) wants to keep the party going, living a life without limitation, as Laura begins to settle into her relationship with Jim and a more strait-laced approach to life. As the fabric of their friendship begins to fray, the bond between Laura and Tyler starts to implode. Finding themselves at a crossroads as their old lives start to slip away, both begin to encounter new opportunities that might carry them beyond their past hedonism. - Director:
- Sophie Hyde
- Cast:
- Holliday Grainger, Alia Shawkat, Fra Fee
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In upstate New York, three boys tear through their childhood, in the midst of their young parents' volatile love that makes and unmakes the family many times over. While Manny (Isaiah Kristian) and Joel (Josiah Gabriel) grow into versions of their loving and unpredictable father (Raul Castillo), Ma (Sheila Vand) seeks to shelter her youngest, Jonah (Evan Rosado), in the cocoon of home. More sensitive and conscious than his older siblings, Jonah increasingly embraces an imagined world all his own. Framed with a unique visual style, 'We the Animals' taps into a childlike nostalgia whilst seamlessly integrating a range of complex issues such as sexuality, social class division, broken families and racial inequality through a mesmerising and dream-like narrative. - Director:
- Jeremiah Zagar
- Cast:
- Raúl Castillo, Terry Holland, Sheila Vand
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Still Walking (2008)Aruitemo Aruitemo
In this gently probing family drama, 40-year-old Ryota (Hiroshi Abe) arrives with his wife and stepson at the home of his elderly parents to commemorate his older brother, who drowned some years earlier. Hirokazu Koreeda's most Ozu-influenced film is a subtle, moving account of family tensions that delves deep into the differing assumptions and value systems of its generations. This was the director's first film to feature veteran actress Kirin Kiki, who would become a regular collaborator. - Director:
- Hirokazu Koreeda
- Cast:
- Hiroshi Abe, Yui Natsukawa, You
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Who Am I (2014)Who Am I - Kein System ist sicher
Benjamin is a nobody, an outsider, but this changes when he meets the charismatic Max. The two of them couldn't be more different, but they share one mutual interest: hacking. Together with Max's friends, they form the subversive hacker group CLAY (Clowns Laughing At You). For the first time in his life Benjamin feels like he belongs and even the beautiful Marie starts to notice him. But what started out as fun soon turns deadly serious, when Benjamin and CLAY are suddenly investigated by German Secret Service and Europol. With the leading Europol cybercrime investigator at their heels, Benjamin starts to realize that he is no longer a nobody, but one of the most wanted hackers of the world. - Director:
- Baran bo Odar
- Cast:
- Tom Schilling, Elyas M'Barek, Wotan Wilke Möhring
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Set in 1825, Clare (Aisling Franciosi), a young Irish convict woman, chases a British officer (Sam Claflin) through the rugged Tasmanian wilderness, bent on revenge for a terrible act of violence he committed against her family. On the way she enlists the services of Aboriginal tracker Billy (Baykali Ganambarr), who is also marked by trauma from his own violence-filled past. - Director:
- Jennifer Kent
- Cast:
- Aisling Franciosi, Jeremy Ambrum, Baykali Ganambarr
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From the visionary director of the modern cinema classics Nikita, The Big Blue, Subway and Leon comes a compelling romantic fable set in Paris, the world's most beautiful city. Angel-a begins when two strangers meet on a bridge one morning. Looking to escape his past Andre accepts the help of the mysterious Angela and sets in motion a chain of events that will change his life forever. Beautiful in its simplicity, Angel-a is a striking, supernatural love-story and the first film Besson has directed for over seven years. - Director:
- Luc Besson
- Cast:
- Rie Rasmussen, Jamel Debbouze, Gilbert Melki
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The Last Battle (1983)Le Dernier Combat
The sky is raining fish. Skyscrapers sit in mountains of sand. Bandits sleep in trunks of used cars. It's a world of the future. A world called Planet Earth. And he's one man just trying to survive. In Besson's haunting, beautifully realised vision of a post-apocalyptic world, few have held onto life, and fewer still to humanity. An unknown trauma has robbed mankind of their ability to speak, and they remain, mute, in the unexplained wreckage of what once was. The Man (Pierre Jolivet) is an isolated survivor wandering the hostile streets of a collapsed civilization. He lives in a long-abandoned office building, fighting off attacks from nearby thugs and gathering together disused car parts for a makeshift airplane, hoping to fly away from his sombre prison. Escape, however, offers little respite, as he leaves one dead city for another. In the midst of this new wasteland, "The Man" encounters his nemesis, "The Brute" (Jean Reno); a violent aggressor who becomes determined to destroy him. By chance he stumbles into a derelict hospital, and finds there an old doctor who is hiding from The Brute. Together, the two seek sanctuary from The Brute, and gradually, in the grey and sterile world, a friendship begins to grow. - Director:
- Luc Besson
- Cast:
- Pierre Jolivet, Jean Bouise, Fritz Wepper
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"Anthropoid" is based on the extraordinary true story of the 1942 WWII operation to assassinate Nazi commanding officer Reinhard Heydrich. Nicknamed "the butcher of Prague", Heydrich was the Reich's third in command after Hitler and Himmler; the main architect behind the final solution and the leader of Nazi forces in Czechoslovakia. - Director:
- Sean Ellis
- Cast:
- Jamie Dornan, Cillian Murphy, Charlotte Le Bon
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After Life (1998)Wandâfuru raifu
"After Life" revolves around an intriguing premise. At a half way station between heaven and earth, guides greet the newly dead. Over the next three days, they will help them sift through their memories to find the one defining moment of their lives - an old woman remembers dancing for her older brother's friends as a child; a man recollects the breeze felt on a tram ride the day before summer vacation; a young girl wants to ride the Splash Mountain at Disneyland. The chosen moment will be recreated on film and relieved for eternity. - Director:
- Hirokazu Koreeda
- Cast:
- Arata Iura, Erika Oda, Susumu Terajima
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From Golden Globe Nominee Director Paul Schrader, 'First Reformed' is a brooding, thriller-drama centred around Ernst Toller (Ethan Hawke), a troubled priest of a small, historical church in upstate New York, who starts to spiral out of control after a soul-shaking encounter with Mary (Amanda Seyfried) and her husband Michael, an unstable environmental activist. Consumed by thoughts that the world is in danger and motivated by the church's lack of action, Toller embarks on a perilous self-assigned undertaking with the hope that he may finally restore the faith and purpose he's been longing for in his mission to right the wrongs done to so many. - Director:
- Paul Schrader
- Cast:
- Ethan Hawke, Cedric the Entertainer, Amanda Seyfried
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Mr Duval, a country vet and his wife, live deep in provincial France. Their two children are 9 year old Olivier, the apple of his mother's eye and his older sister Nadine. Mrs Duval sends Olivier to deliver food to her ailing mother in law. The child goes missing and the loss breaks up the already fragile family in a mass of recriminations, Mr Duval taking a post in Africa. Six years later the policeman who had unsuccessfully investigated the case, now in the Paris vice squad, comes across a teenage rent boy who could be the lost son. The parents take him back unquestioningly lavishing presents upon him much to the alienation of Sister Nadine, for whom, Olivier's attention now is definitely sexual. - Director:
- Agnieszka Holland
- Cast:
- Brigitte Roüan, François Cluzet, Jean-François Stévenin
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The Third Murder (2017)Sandome no satsujin
Leading attorney Shigemori (Masaharu Fukuyama) takes on the defence of murder-robbery suspect Misumi (Koji Yakusho) who served prison time for another murder 30 years ago. Shigemori's chances of winning the case seem low - his client freely admits his guilt, despite facing the death penalty if he is convicted. As he digs deeper into the case and hears the testimonies of the victim's family and Misumi himself, the once confident Shigemori begins to doubt whether his client is the murderer after all. - Director:
- Hirokazu Koreeda
- Cast:
- Masaharu Fukuyama, Kôji Yakusho, Shin'nosuke Mitsushima
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