Weekly overview
16 Aug – 22 Aug
TMDB 49 The Other Hell
A priest investigates paranormal activity at a nuns' convent where a deep, dark secret is about to resurface in the guise of murder! Could the devil be behind this, or is that just what Mother Superior wants everyone to believe?
- Horror
- Thriller
The Prey
Colombia. Here lives a couple now destroyed: Betsy, alcoholic and Daniel, spianed, who is in love with an indigenous, the beautiful Nagaina, the beautiful prey with which he plans to escape.
- Drama
- Romance
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The Fighting Men
Saverio Luparello is the manager of Sicilian baron Occipinti's estate. The cunning greedy man intentionally lets the land turn into a wasteland, hoping that his employer, discouraged by its low returns, will sell his earth to him for next to nothing. His plans are thwarted by a share cropper, Diego Costa, who farms his lot zealously and to good results.
- Drama
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TMDB 64 One on Top of the Other
A San Francisco doctor encounters a prostitute who bears a striking resemblance to his late wife.
- Mystery
- Thriller
TMDB 59 California
At the end of the Civil War, a Union soldier is released from prison and travels with a fellow prisoner to Missouri where his travelling companion is shot and hung for horse stealing. California decides to take the dead companion's belongings to his family's ranch, where he falls in love with his friend's sister. But then the "ghosts" of the war return in an unexpected way haunting him again.
- Western
TMDB 75 I Knew Her Well
A young woman from the Italian countryside experiences the dark side of the business after she moves to Rome to become a star.
- Drama
TMDB 75 Jules and Jim
In the carefree days before World War I, introverted Austrian author Jules strikes up a friendship with the exuberant Frenchman Jim and both men fall for the impulsive and beautiful Catherine.
- Drama
- Romance
A Sad and Beautiful World
In this sweeping love story that spans three decades of passion, heartbreak, and hope, Nino and Yasmina find themselves drawn together by a magnetic relationship. As they face an impossible choice between love and survival, they must decide if they want to build a family and chart a path to happiness in Lebanon, despite the tragedies ravaging the country.
- Romance
- Drama
- Comedy
The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez
A man and a woman share their musings on love and freedom one summer night. The couple’s conversation meanders through memories, unspoken desires and passion through poetic dialogue.
- Drama
TMDB 73 Quiz Show
Herbert Stempel's transformation into an unexpected television personality unfolds as he secures victory on the cherished American game show, 'Twenty-One.' However, when the show introduces the highly skilled contestant Charles Van Doren to replace Stempel, it compels Stempel to let out his frustrations and call out the show as rigged. Lawyer Richard Goodwin steps in and attempts to uncover the orchestrated deception behind the scenes.
- History
- Drama
TMDB 75 Au Hasard Balthazar
The story of a donkey Balthazar as he is passed from owner to owner, some kind and some cruel but all with motivations beyond his understanding. Balthazar, whose life parallels that of his first keeper, Marie, is truly a beast of burden, suffering the sins of humankind. But despite his powerlessness, he accepts his fate nobly.
- Drama
Cotton Queen
In a cotton-farming village in Sudan, teenage Nafisa is raised on heroic tales of battling British colonizers told by her grandmother, the village matriarch Al-Sit. But when a young businessman arrives from abroad with a new development plan and genetically engineered cotton, Nafisa becomes the center of a power play to determine the future of the village. Awakening to her own strength, Nafisa sets out to save the cotton fields – and herself. Neither she nor her community will ever be the same again.
- Drama
TMDB 73 Blood and Black Lace
Isabella, a young model, is murdered by a mysterious masked figure at a fashion house in Rome. When her diary, which details the house employees' many vices, disappears, the masked killer begins killing off all the models in and around the house to find it.
- Horror
- Thriller
- Mystery
My Giraffe
Dikkertje Dap was born on the same day as Raf the giraffe. Dikkertje can often be found at the zoo, because Raf is his best friend. They are inseparable, until Dikkertje goes to school for the first time and finds out giraffes can’t go to school. Dikkertje dearly misses Raf, but also experiences exciting new things. He even makes a new friend: Yous. Raf misses Dikkertje too. So Dikkertje devises a plan to bring the giraffe to school and introduce his two friends to each other.
- Drama
- Family
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TMDB 61 The Electric Horseman
A former champion rodeo rider is reduced to using his saddle skills to promote a breakfast cereal in a gaudy Las Vegas show. When he's asked to perform with a $12 million horse, he discovers it is being doped to remain docile. He flees into the desert astride the beast in an act of defiance. A story-hungry female reporter gives chase.
- Drama
- Romance
- Comedy
- Western
TMDB 65IMDb 7.0 Romería
With her mother's diary in hand, Marina's search for official documents for university leads her to her biological family on the Atlantic coast. What starts as an administrative quest reveals long-buried family secrets.
- Drama
TMDB 59 Zardoz
In the far future, a savage trained only to kill finds a way into the community of bored immortals that alone preserves humanity's achievements.
- Fantasy
- Action
- Thriller
- Science Fiction
TMDB 70 A River Runs Through It
The Maclean brothers, Paul and Norman, live a relatively idyllic life in rural Montana, spending much of their time fly fishing. The sons of a minister, the boys eventually part company when Norman moves east to attend college, leaving his rebellious brother to find trouble back home. When Norman finally returns, the siblings resume their fishing outings, and assess where they've been and where they're going.
- Drama
TMDB 86RT 94IMDb 8.4 Project Hail Mary
Science teacher Ryland Grace wakes up on a spaceship light years from home with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. As his memory returns, he begins to uncover his mission: solve the riddle of the mysterious substance causing the sun to die out. He must call on his scientific knowledge and unorthodox ideas to save everything on Earth from extinction.
- Science Fiction
- Adventure
PINA - TANZT, TANZT SONST SIND WIR VERLOREN (3D)
Regie: Wim Wenders | Darsteller: Ales Cucek, Anna Wehsarg, Pina Bausch, Regina Advento, Malou Airoudo, Ruth Amarante | 106 Min. | Dokumentarfilm Deutschland/Frankreich 2011. R: Wim Wenders. Dokumentarfilm. 106 Min. DCP. 3D Filmreihe: Wim Wenders Schon lange wollte Wim Wenders einen Film über die Choreographin Pina Bausch drehen, doch erst 2008 konnte er mit den Vorarbeiten beginnen; gemeinsam mit der Protagonistin wählte er die Stücke für den Film aus: „Café Müller“, „Le Sacre du Printemps“, „Vollmond“ und „Kontakthof“. Nach dem Tod der Choreographin im Sommer 2009 hat Wim Wenders sein Projekt nicht beendet, sondern änderte seine Konzeption. Er drehte mit dem Ensemble des Tanztheaters Wuppertal auf der Bühne und in der Stadt Wuppertal PINA (2011), einen Film für Pina Bausch. Die…
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