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Publisher
Momentum Pictures
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
Español
Description
In this steamy, intriguingly complex, psychological thriller the line between reality and fantasy is hopelessly blurred. Cesar tries to make sense of his life after a car crash leaves his once-handsome face grotesquely disfigured. After he is placed into a psychiatric penitentiary for a murder he doesn't remember committing, Cesar's only hope is to delve into the depths of his subconscious mind where the answer to ending his living nightmare lies...
Publisher
Koch Lorber Films
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
Español
Description
An Argentine teacher lives in blissful ignorance of the evils perpetrated by her country's government. Over time, she begins to suspect that her adopted daughter may have been the child of a murdered political prisoner. When she attempts to unearth the truth, her investigation reveals levels of political corruption so abhorrent that the illusions of her past life are irrevocably shattered.
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
℗2010.
Language
Français
Description
A stop-motion animated film about toys come to life, based on the Belgian television series with the same title. Cowboy and Indian give Horse a homemade brick barbecue for his birthday, but too many bricks arrive and they destroy their house. Surreal adventures follow as the trio travels to the center of the earth, treks across frozen tundra, and discovers a parallel underwater universe where dishonest creatures live. With panic a permanent feature...
10) The piano
Publisher
LIVE Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
Description
Erotic passions and vengeful jealousies are aroused when two men desire the same woman, the mute wife in an arranged marriage. Only one realizes that her heart can only be won through her beloved piano.
11) The final master
Publisher
Well Go USA Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
A Wing Chun master has to defeat eight martial arts schools to open his own school, yet he has become a chess piece to the local power dynamics
Set in 1930s China, the last wing chun master arrives in Tianjin to open a school, but becomes entangled in local power struggles.
12) Gloomy Sunday
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
Deutsch
Description
Budapest in the thirties. The restaurant owner Laszlo hires the pianist András to play in his restaurant. Both men fall in love with the beautiful waitress Ilona, who inspires András to his only composition.
Publisher
Wellspring Media
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
Czech
Description
Inspired by the real life heroics of Nicholas Winton who saved hundreds of Czech Jewish children from the Nazis. The Silberstein's are a large and close knit extended family living in Czechoslovakia. Believing in the decency of mankind, they don't pay heed to the Nazi threat. They finally realize the true horror of what is coming, but it is too late. Making the toughest possible decision, they must decide if they will turn their young son, David,...
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Swedish
Description
Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found and her beloved uncle is convinced she was murdered and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family. He employs disgraced investigative journalist Mickael Blomkvist and the tattooed and troubled yet resourceful computer hacker Lisbeth Salander to investigate.
15) Hamsun
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Swedish
Description
The shocking true story of Knut Hamsun, the Nobel Prize-winning author who stunned the world by siding with Hitler and the Nazis.
16) Doña Diabla
Publisher
Laguna Films
Pub. Date
1949
Language
Español
Description
Desde recién casada Ángela descubre que su esposo le es infiel. Por venganza ella decide servirse de los hombres explotándolos pero la llegada de su hija a la hacienda le complica las cosas, pues uno de sus amantes le cuenta la vida de Doña Diabla.
Angela has known of her husband's infidelity since she they were newlyweds. Her plan to take revenge by using and seducing men gets complicated when her daughter comes home.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
Czech
Description
In 1942, Tono and his wife are struggling because of his antipathy towards the fascist regime. His brother-in-law, the local fuehrer, chooses Tono to oversee a button shop owned by a sweet, harmless Jewish widow, Mrs. Lautman. When the Jews are ordered deported, the well-meaning Tono decides to shield her from the Nazis.
18) Downfall
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Language
Deutsch
Description
Takes you into Hitler's bunker, in 1945, during the brutal and harrowing last days of the Third Reich. Seen through the eyes of Hitler's infamous secretary Traudl Junge, optimism crumbles into grim realization and terror as it becomes clear that Germany's defeat is inevitable. As the Russian army circles the city, the dimly lit halls of the underground refuge become an execution chamber for the Fuhrer and his closest advisors.
Series
Criterion collection volume 330
Publisher
Criterion
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Français
Description
Based on the director's life, this film chronicles Malle's experiences during the German occupation of France in World War II.
Series
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Français
Description
A Japanese architect and a French actress engage in a brief intense affair in Hiroshima in 1959. Both deal with their personal memories of World War II--he by articulating his firsthand experience with nuclear disaster, she by remembering her traumatic affair with a German soldier.
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