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White Elephant (2012)Elefante Blanco
From one of Argentina's most exciting and original directors Pablo Trapero (Carancho, Lion's Den) and starring Ricardo Darin and Jeremie Renier, WHITE ELEPHANT is a compelling and highly charged film about courage and human triumph. What should have been South America's largest hospital sits half-finished in the shanty towns of Buenos Aires, home to thousands. Amidst rising tensions between residents, striking laborers and warring drug cartels, two Catholic priests strive to defend the rights of the community while confronting brutal gangs and a church hierarchy skeptical of their unconventional methods.
Inspired by the true story of Argentinian priest and activist Father Carlos Mugica, WHITE ELEPHANT traces the moral tightrope these men must walk in their bid to stand up for the victims of a corrupt system. Tense, superbly constructed and ultimately uplifting, WHITE ELEPHANT is a transfixing story of will, violence and survival.- Director:
- Pablo Trapero
- Cast:
- Ricardo Darín, Jérémie Renier, Martina Gusman
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Redemption Day (2021)Operation Redemption
"Redemption Day" follows a US. Marine Captain Brad Paxton (Gary Dourdan) who's on a rescue mission to save his wife Kate (Serinda Swan), kidnapped by a terrorist group leader Jaafar El Hadi (Samy Naceri), Paxton with the help of the American Ambassador in Morocco (Andy Garcia) has Io go against the manoeuvres of his own government and a mysterious powerful man who will undermine his mission to save his life. - Director:
- Hicham Hajji
- Cast:
- Gary Dourdan, Serinda Swan, Andy Garcia
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The Music of Silence (2017)La musica del silenzio
Before he was Andrea Bocelli, he was Amos Bardi. Based on a true story, Amos is born with the gift of superb quality of voice, yet he is also nearly blind. Eventually, he is separated from his family to enter an institute for the visually impaired but while there he suffers a terrible accident, resulting in total blindness. Driven by great ambition, Amos does not give up despite repeated challenges until he manages to achieve his first great success on stage. From there, he begins a life studded with victories and becomes one of the most world renowned opera singers. - Director:
- Michael Radford
- Cast:
- Antonio Banderas, Jordi Mollà, Toby Sebastian
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In Memory of Me (2007)In memoria di me
Andrea is an intelligent, handsome young man, who seems to have everything necessary to succeed. But, disoriented by the world's infinite possibilities he finds himself in an existential crisis and decides to undertake the novitiate, a period of spiritual training leading to priesthood. He enters a Venetian monastic order but instead of the anticipated silence, prayer and introspection, he is instead confronted by suspicion, surveillance and distrust as the fellow brethren seem almost eager to find him a flaw that will disqualify him from ordination. - Director:
- Saverio Costanzo
- Cast:
- Christo Jivkov, Filippo Timi, Marco Baliani
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An action-packed epic set in the pre-civil war south. This is the seldom told story of 19th century freedom fighter and forgotten hero, Shields 'Emperor' Green (Dayo Okeniyi). Fighting to free his family and race from tyranny, Emperor - a descendant of African kings turned outlaw slave - fights his way north, joining forces with abolitionist John Brown (James Cromwell) for the daring raid on Harper's ferry and helping to alter the course of American history. An inspirational and timely story of courageous black history... - Director:
- Mark Amin
- Cast:
- James Cromwell, Harry Lennix, Kat Graham
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Oscar nominee Margot Robbie (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood) "is fantastic" in this "dazzling" love story set amidst America's struggle during the Great Depression. Eugene Evans (Finn Cole) dreams of escaping his small Texas town when he discovers wounded, fugitive bank robber Allison Wells (Robbie) hiding closer than he could ever imagine. Torn between claiming the bounty for her capture and his growing attraction to the seductive criminal, nothing is as it seems, and Eugene must make a decision that will forever affect the lives of everyone he's ever loved. - Director:
- Miles Joris-Peyrafitte
- Cast:
- Finn Cole, Margot Robbie, Travis Fimmel
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Pixie (Olivia Cooke) wants to avenge her mother's death by masterminding a heist, but her plans go awry and she finds herself on the run with two young men (Hardy, McCormack) who are way out of their depth being chased across the Wild Irish countryside by gangsters. She has to pit her wits against everyone, taking on the patriarchy to claim the right to shape her own life. - Director:
- Barnaby Thompson
- Cast:
- Olivia Cooke, Fra Fee, Rory Fleck-Byrne
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Best-selling crime novelist Charles (Dan Stevens) is struggling with catastrophic writer's block and a stressful deadline for his first screenplay. His picture-perfect second wife Ruth (Isla Fisher) is doing her best to keep him focused in the hope of fulfilling her dream of heading to Hollywood. Charles' desperate search for inspiration leads him to invite Madame Arcati (Judi Dench), a medium recently exposed as a fraud, to perform a séance in their home. They all get more than they bargained for when Arcati accidentally summons the spirit of his deceased first wife: the fiery and jealous Elvira (Leslie Mann) who embarks on a mission to kill Charles so she can spend eternity with him which leads to an increasingly comical and deadly love triangle. - Director:
- Edward Hall
- Cast:
- Dan Stevens, Isla Fisher, Aimee-Ffion Edwards
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Khuda Kay Liye (2007)In the Name of God
This film is about the difficult situation in which Pakistani's in particular and the Muslims in general are caught up since 9/11. There is a war going on between the Fundamentalists and the Liberal Muslims. This situation is creating a drift not only between the western world and the Muslims but also within Muslim community. The educated and modern Muslims are in a difficult situation because of their approach towards life and their western attire. They are criticized and harassed by the fundamentalists on the other hand the western world sees them as potential suspects of terrorism just because of their Muslim names. The interesting thing about film is how it connects the happenings in three continent, unlike the usual Indian and Pakistani films based on romantic sagas, dances and songs, this film is based on some very serious issues, raising controversial questions engaging Muslim minds these days. - Director:
- Shoaib Mansoor
- Cast:
- Shaan Shahid, Fawad Khan, Iman Ali
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Fourteen-year-old Tyler (Conrad Khan) attends a pupil referral unit, where he is isolated and bullied. At home he must look after his younger sister Aliyah (Tabitha Milne-Price) while his mother, Toni (Ashley Madekwe), works nights. When the preoccupied and exhausted Toni loses her job, she thrusts the family into a desperate financial situation, leaving Tyler vulnerable to a 'recruiter' who targets children to promote a drug-dealing enterprise out of the city. This powerful drama about a mother and her son who is groomed into a lethal nationwide drugs network - a 'county line' - is inspired by Henry Blake's first-hand experience as a youth worker on the frontline of child exploitation and drug trafficking in the UK. - Director:
- Henry Blake
- Cast:
- Harris Dickinson, Ashley Madekwe, Conrad Khan
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The Fencer (2015)Miekkailija
Klaus Haro's "The Fencer" is a touching true life drama about Endel Nelis, a young man who arrives in Haapsalu, Estonia, in the early 1950s. Having left Leningrad to escape the secret police, he finds work as a teacher and founds a sports club for his students. Endel becomes a father figure to his students and starts teaching them his great passion - fencing, which causes a conflict with the school's principal. Envious, the principal starts investigating Endel's background... Endel learns to love the children and looks after them; most are orphans as a result of the Russian occupation. Fencing becomes a form of self-expression for the children and Endel becomes a role model. The children want to participate in a national fencing tournament in Leningrad, and Endel must make a choice; risk everything to take the children to Leningrad or put his safety first and disappoint them. - Director:
- Klaus Härö
- Cast:
- Lembit Ulfsak, Kirill Käro, Märt Avandi
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The County (2020)Héraðið
Inga (Arndís Hrönn Egilsdóttir) runs a dairy farm with her husband in a remote valley of Iceland where they work long hours for a tight income due to their buyers, a money-grubbing monopoly known as the co-op. However, when Inga's husband tragically dies she learns her debts are even greater than she thought and takes it upon herself not to repay them but to expose the co-op's greed and corruption by any means necessary. - Director:
- Grímur Hákonarson
- Cast:
- Arndís Hrönn Egilsdóttir, Sveinn Ólafur Gunnarsson, Þorsteinn Bachmann
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Following the loss of their son, retired sheriff George Blackledge (Kevin Costner) and his wife Margaret (Diane Lane) leave their Montana ranch to rescue their young grandson from a dangerous family living off the grid. They soon discover that the Weboy family has no intention of letting the child go, forcing George and Margaret to fight for their family. - Director:
- Thomas Bezucha
- Cast:
- Diane Lane, Kevin Costner, Kayli Carter
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Based in the heart of Lahore, the story takes place in a house full of daughters, teeming with the vibrancy of life but restricted to bloom. It is the story of a girl who challenges the mind set that closes all doors of Light on women of the house and considers them nothing more than a machine that produces children. "Bol" is a roller-coaster of emotions. It questions the worth of a human being, be it a woman or a person born with a birth defect. It questions the authority of reproducing human beings into this world without taking responsibility of acknowledging their worth. - Director:
- Shoaib Mansoor
- Cast:
- Humaima Malik, Manzar Sehbai, Iman Ali
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My Golden Days (2015)Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse
"My Golden Days" is a semi-autobiographical prequel to Desplechin's My Sex Life...Or How I Got into an Argument. Paul Dedalus looks back on his early years with newcomer Quentin Dolmaire as Paul the adolescent. He (Mathieu Amalric) remembers a trip to the USSR, where a clandestine mission led him to offer up his own identity to a young Russian, whom he considers a phantom twin for the remainder of his life. He remembers himself at nineteen in Roubaix, his sister Delphine (Ivy Dodds), his cousin Bob (Theo Fernandez), the parties with Penelope (Clemence Le Gall), Mehdi (Yassine Douighi) and Kovalki (Pierre Andrau), the friend who was to betray him. He remembers University life in Paris, but most of all, he remembers Esther (Lou Roy-Lecollinet), a beautiful, rude, haughty soul and the love of his life. - Director:
- Arnaud Desplechin
- Cast:
- Quentin Dolmaire, Lou Roy-Lecollinet, Mathieu Amalric
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