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The 12th Century and the obsession of Henry II of England to find a successor, after the death of the heir to the throne, causes him, one Christmas, to summon his three remaining sons. Also summoned is his wife, the formidable Eleonor of Aquitaine, who he has kept imprisoned for the last 10 years. The fiery relationship between Henry II and Queen Eleonor is powerfully portrayed; their passions turn from tenderness to hurry as they scheme and cajole,...
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Subtitled “Chronicle of a Present Absentee,” this humorous, heartbreaking film (the final installment in a trilogy that includes Chronicle of a Disappearance and Divine Intervention) is set among the Israeli Arab community and shot largely in homes and places in which Suleiman’s family once lived. Inspired by his father’s diaries, letters his mother sent to family members who had fled the Israeli occupation, and the director’s own recollections,...
5) Afterimage
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Legendary director Andrzej Wajda's final film is a passionate portrait of renowned avantgarde painter Wladyslaw Strzeminski, who challenged Stalinist orthodoxy. In post-war Poland, Strzeminski works as a professor at the National School of Fine Arts in Lodz. His students treat him like the "messiah of modern painting," but university authorities and the Ministry of Culture have a differing opinion. Refusing to comply with Party regulations, he is...
6) Sunshine
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The fortunes of a family of Hungarian Jews are followed over the course of nearly 150 years in this epic historical drama, with leading man Ralph Fiennes playing three different roles.
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Paris, summer 1942. Irene is a 19-year-old aspiring actress without a care in the world. Her family watches her discover friends, new love and a passion for the theater, all the while without her realizing that time is running out. Legendary French actress Sandrine Kiberlain makes her directorial debut with this allegorical coming-of-age drama set in Nazi-occupied France, that is in turns enchanting and devastating, anchored by a star-making lead...
11) Kaddish
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In Steve Brand’s timeless documentary KADDISH – as bracing as any fiction – we witness a candid portrait of a young Jew coming to terms with his father's traumatic history. It is the story of the stormy yet loving relationship between writer and Jewish activist Yossi Klein and his father Zoltan, who had survived the Holocaust’s devastation of Hungarian Jewry by hiding in a hole in the ground for six months while his parents – Yossi’s grandparents...
12) In Harm's Way
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The 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor destroyed American morale. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, risking it all, decided to bomb Japan, bolstering the hopes of the U.S. public for a quick end to the war. However, the pilots, having completed their missions and facing a fuel shortage, had to abandon their aircrafts near Zhejiang, China. A young pilot, Jack Turner (Emile Hirsch), is saved by a young widow named Ying (Crystal Liu), who risks her...
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From Production I.G, the studio behind Ghost in the Shell and Miss Hokusai, and director Mizuho Nishikubo comes the award-winning historical drama, GIOVANNI'S ISLAND.Junpei and Kanta live in Shikotan, a rural fishing village that has been isolated from turmoil during World War II. The brothers are named after Giovanni and Campanella from their father’s favorite book, Night on the Galactic Railroad, which becomes a source of solace in the aftermath...
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Immortal. Mercenary. Kind of a tool. Meet Simonpure, the newest unnamed hero, created by comic all-stars geoff johns (Geiger) And Bryanhitch.
British redcoat and all-around rogue, Simonmysteriously became immortal in 1776 after a run-in with the clandestine cabal known as the founding fathers, which included Georgewashington, Johnhancock, and Manyother prominent american revolutionary war leaders. Since that fateful day, Simonhas...
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L'auteur Park Kun Woong nous conte l'histoire du démocrate Kim Keun-tae. Président de la Fédération de la jeunesse démocratique, puis dirigeant de l'Alliance nationale démocratique de la Corée, il a été emprisonné à Namyong-dong en septembre 1985 et torturé.
Pendant ces 22 jours de captivité, il a pratiquement été laissé pour mort après avoir été battu à plusieurs reprises. à la suite des aveux faits sous la torture, il a été...
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L'auteur Park Kun Woong nous conte l'histoire du démocrate Kim Keun-tae. Président de la Fédération de la jeunesse démocratique, puis dirigeant de l'Alliance nationale démocratique de la Corée, il a été emprisonné à Namyong-dong en septembre 1985 et torturé.
Pendant ces 22 jours de captivité, il a pratiquement été laissé pour mort après avoir été battu à plusieurs reprises. à la suite des aveux faits sous la torture, il a été...
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L'auteur Park Kun Woong nous conte l'histoire du démocrate Kim Keun-tae. Président de la Fédération de la jeunesse démocratique, puis dirigeant de l'Alliance nationale démocratique de la Corée, il a été emprisonné à Namyong-dong en septembre 1985 et torturé.
Pendant ces 22 jours de captivité, il a pratiquement été laissé pour mort après avoir été battu à plusieurs reprises. à la suite des aveux faits sous la torture, il a été...
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Quelle est cette idée, pour le moins saugrenue et pourtant historique, d'enrler un wombat dans la Guerre du Vietnam ?
L'histoire se passe en 1965. En Australie, les jeunes ne se pressent pas dans les bureaux de recrutement de l'armée. Pour pallier ce manque de volontaires, le gouvernement met en place une loterie un peu particulière: elle a pour objectif de désigner les prochains jeunes hommes à envoyer au front en soutien aux troupes américaines...
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19) Lancaster Skies
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Douglas Miller, a broken, solitary Spitfire ace who survived the Battle of Britain, transfers to Bomber Command, determined to take the war to the skies over Nazi Germany. Miller must take the place of a Lancaster bomber crew's cherished and respected skipper, who was killed in action. Though the crew is against him, he will try to gain their trust – and overcome the darkness in his past – to become the leader they so desperately need in the pivotal...
20) The Final Stand
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Tells the story of the Podolsk cadets' heroic stand outside Moscow in October 1941. Cadets from the Podolsk infantry and artillery schools were sent to the Ilyinsky line of defense, fighting alongside units from the Soviet 43rd Army to hold back the German advance until reinforcements arrived. Hopelessly outnumbered, young men in their teens laid down their lives in a battle lasting almost two weeks to obstruct the far superior German forces advancing...
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