
This snackbar, owned by Ali, in a suburb of Rotterdam is a refuge for the local Moroccan youth. They are wild, violent and criminal. To them Ali is like an old, trustworthy Turkish uncle, understanding, funny but also strict. But what if Ali, with his addiction to gambling jeopardizes their habitat? SNACK BAR is a film, which is as hard, funny, tragic, wild and unpredictable as life itself.
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Drama
Novinar / Journalist (1979) Fadil Hadzic, Rade Serbedzija, Fabijan Sovagovic, Stevo Zigon, Drama

Stressful life of a journalist in the former Yugoslavia.
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Flat Top (1952) Lesley Selander, Sterling Hayden, Richard Carlson, William Phipps, War, Drama

Group Commander Dan Collier, on an aircraft carrier in Korean waters during the Korean War, starts to think back to the rough days of the air-war against Japan during World War II, when he was in the same squadron.
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Two Alone (1934) Elliott Nugent, Jean Parker, Tom Brown, Zasu Pitts

Mazie, a poor orphan girl, is mistreated by cruel farmer Slag and his wife for whom she works. Read More »
Je vous salue, Marie / Hail Mary (1985) Jean-Luc Godard, Myriem Roussel, Thierry Rode, Philippe Lacoste, Drama

In this modern retelling of the Virgin birth, Mary is a student who plays basketball and works at her father’s petrol station; Joseph is an earnest dropout who drives a cab.
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Life Is Sweet (1990) Mike Leigh, Alison Steadman, Jim Broadbent, Claire Skinner, Comedy, Drama

Just north of London live Wendy, Andy, and their twenty-something twins, Natalie and Nicola. Wendy clerks in a shop, leads aerobics at a primary school, jokes like a vaudevillian, agrees to waitress at a friend’s new restaurant and dotes on Andy, a cook who forever puts off home remodeling projects, and with a drunken friend, buys a broken down lunch wagon.
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The Weak and the Wicked / Young and Willing (1954) J. Lee Thompson, Glynis Johns, Diana Dors, John Gregson, Drama

Had the women-behind-bars drama The Weak and the Wicked been made in Hollywood, the cast would probably have included the likes of Ida Lupino, Marie Windsor, Peggie Castle and Hope Emerson. Instead, the film was lensed in Britain, with Glynis Johns and Diana Dors heading the cast.
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Sanma no aji / An Autumn Afternoon (1962) Yasujirô Ozu, Chishû Ryû, Shima Iwashita, Keiji Sada, Drama

In the early 60’s in Tokyo, the widower Hirayama is a former captain from the Japanese navy that works as a manager of a factory and lives with his twenty-four year-old daughter Michiko and his son Kazuo in his house.
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The Island (1980) Michael Ritchie, Michael Caine, David Warner, Angela Punch McGregor, Action, Adventure, Drama

In New York, the journalist Blair Maynard convinces his editor to travel to Florida to investigate the mysterious disappearance of ships in the Bermuda’s Triangle area. Maynard is divorced and his ex-wife sends their son Justin to stay with him while she is traveling with her boyfriend.
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Dupa dealuri / Beyond the Hills (2012) Cristian Mungiu, Cosmina Stratan, Cristina Flutur, Valeriu Andriutã, Drama

Alina and Voichita have been friends since their orphanage days. And they have been lovers since they became sexually mature. But despite their oath of mutual fidelity, Alina, who could not bear poverty any more, emigrated to Germany where she became a barmaid.
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