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Man from the Restaurant AKA Chelovek iz restorana (1927) Yakov Protazanov, Michael Chekhov, Mikhail Klimov, Mikhail Narokov
An elderly man works as a waiter at a luxurious restaurant. He’s content and full of hope, and treasures his family more than anything. Read More »
The Syrian Bride (2004) Eran Riklis, Hiam Abbass, Makram Khoury, Clara Khoury
In Majdal Shams, the largest Druze village in Golan Heights on the Israeli-Syrian border Read More »
Beyond Mombasa (1956) George Marshall, Cornel Wilde, Donna Reed, Leo Genn
During the 1950s, American adventurer Matt Campbell arrives in Kenya to join his brother George. Read More »
Ayka (2018) Sergei Dvortsevoy, Samal Yeslyamova, Zhipara Abdilaeva, Sergey Mazur
A poor migrant woman in Moscow struggles with her life. Read More »
Infection AKA Kansen (2004) Masayuki Ochiai, Michiko Hada, Mari Hoshino, Tae Kimura
In a general hospital near bankruptcy, the reduced staff is working under a severe stress. Read More »
The Helen Morgan Story (1957) Michael Curtiz, Ann Blyth, Paul Newman, Richard Carlson
The 1920’s and 30’s career of singer Helen Morgan is followed from her early days singing outdoors in a carnival Read More »
Road to Life AKA Putyovka v zhizn (1931) Nikolai Ekk, Nikolay Batalov, Yvan Kyrlya, Mikhail Dzhagofarov
Young hobos are brought to a new camp to become good Soviet citizens. Read More »
Trial on the Road (1986) Aleksey German, Rolan Bykov, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Vladimir Zamanskiy
Film is set in the winter of 1942 during the Nazi occupation of Russia in WWII. Read More »
Heart of a Dog AKA Sobache serdtse (1988) Vladimir Bortko, Evgeniy Evstigneev, Vladimir Tolokonnikov, Boris Plotnikov
Old Prof. Preobrazhensky and his young colleague Dr. Bormental inserted the human’s hypophysis into a dog’s brain. Read More »