In early winter of 1944, as the Nazi army flees the Soviet advance, two Germans Read More »
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Mother India (1957) Mehboob Khan, Nargis, Sunil Dutt, Rajendra Kumar
The film begins with the finishing of a water canal for the village set in the present. Read More »
The Owners / Ukkili kamshat (2014) Adilkhan Yerzhanov, Yerbolat Yerzhan, Aidyn Sakhaman, Aliya Zainalova
25 year-old John, his teenage brother Erbol, and their sickly 12 year-old sister Aliya Read More »
Nero’s Big Weekend / Mio figlio Nerone (1956) Steno, Alberto Sordi, Vittorio De Sica, Gloria Swanson
Nero is on holiday at the seaside. Poppea, Seneca and many other guests are with him. Read More »
The Belovs / Belovy (1992) Viktor Kosakovskiy, Anna Fyodorovna Belova, Mikhail Fyodorovich Belov, Vasiliy Fyodorovich Belov
“Belovy (the Belovs)” is a breathtaking portrait of a troubled peasant family. Read More »
Versatile Lovers / Les belles au bois dormantes (1970) Pierre Chenal, Marisa Mell, Robert Hossein, Ettore Manni
Upperdog (2009) Sara Johnsen, Hermann Sabado, Agnieszka Grochowska, Mads Sjøgård Pettersen
As young children, half-siblings Axel and Yanne are adopted to Norway. Read More »
Ice kiss / Iskyss (2008) Knut Erik Jensen, Ellen Dorrit Petersen, Regimantas Adomaitis, Per Egil Aske
This is a love story. A young Norwegian girl falls in love with a Russian POW during WWII. Read More »
There Will Be No Leave Today / Segodnya uvolneniya ne budet (1958) Aleksandr Gordon, Andrei Tarkovsky, Oleg Borisov, Aleksey Alekseev, Pyotr Lyubeshkin
Soldiers undertake the perilous task of removing a stockpile of World War II bombshells Read More »
Stalker (1979) Andrei Tarkovsky, Alisa Freyndlikh, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy, Anatoliy Solonitsyn
Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, an alien place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers. Read More »