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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, su…

Rouen, Normandy, 1431, during the Hundred Years' War. After being captured by French soldiers from an opposing faction, Joan of Arc, the Maid of Orléans, is unjustly tried by an ecclesiastical court overseen by her English enemies.

Den franske modstandsaktivist Fontaine dømmes til døden af nazisterne og bruger al sin vågne tid på at planlægge sin flugt ud af fængslet. En dødsdømt flygter af Robert Bresson vandt instruktørprisen i Cannes. Hans minimalistiske og nervepi…

The heroes of the film: ordinary matches. A quarrel that breaks out over nothing turns into a real battle in which both warring sides are burned.

Emigholz presents the buildings of the great American architect Louis Sullivan (1856–1924). “In everything that men do they leave an indelible imprint of their minds. If this suggestion be followed out, it will become surprisingly clear ho…

Cornell employs clips from 1931's jungle melodrama East of Borneo – more specifically, clips of its lead actress, Rose Hobart – to disquieting effect. Through Cornell's collage editing, Hobart becomes a singular object of desire and dread, …

Rebecca Thalberg escapes from a psychiatric ward to finally clear up the dark history of her husband Henry's family in the Ore Mountains. The locals turn out to be secretive and hostile. However, the local forester immediately falls in love…

This movie portrays three women living in today's Algeria between modern society and Islamic fundamentalism, self-determination and dependence. Goucem, a young woman who works for a photographer and mistress of a rich doctor, her mother Pap…

A road trip across five countries to explore the social and political movements as well as the mainstream media's misperception of South America while interviewing seven of its elected presidents.

Lindsay Andersons film fra 1963 er en af de sidste af betydning fra perioden omkring "The British New Wave". Den foregår i Nordengland og følger en ung rugbyspiller (Richard Harris), hvis romantiske liv ikke helt er på højde med hans sports…

Dr. Eric Vornoff, with the help of his mute assistant Lobo, captures twelve men for a grisly experiment; His goal to turn them into supermen using atomic energy. Reporter Janet Lawton, fiancée of the local lieutenant, vows to investigate Vo…

Newspaper men compete against each other to find a serial killer dubbed "The Lipstick Killer".

Francesca, an Italian-American writer who lives in New York, must return to Rome to retrieve her aging mother. There, the ghosts of her childhood will come to her through her mother's art.

This film documents the coal miners' strike against the Brookside Mine of the Eastover Mining Company in Harlan County, Kentucky in June, 1973. Eastover's refusal to sign a contract (when the miners joined with the United Mine Workers of Am…

I en lille spansk by arrangerer en gruppe rige gamle damer i juleferien en særpræget begivenhed, der består i at invitere en hjemløs person til at sætte sig til middag ved deres velhavende bord. Plácido, en ydmyg arbejder, bliver hyret af a…

Hvert eneste år bliver 13 millioner unge udsat for mobning i USA. I denne rystende dokumentarfilm følger vi hverdagen hos fem børn og deres familier gennem et helt skoleår. Deres beretninger, sammen med optagelser fra klasseværelset, skoleb…

A group of scientists is sent to the planet Arkanar to help the local civilization, which is in the Medieval phase of its own history, to find the right path to progress. Their task is a difficult one: they cannot interfere violently and in…

The story of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who led a rebellion against the corrupt, oppressive dictatorship of president Porfirio Díaz in the early 20th century.

En rigmandskone som har nok i sig selv rammes af skyld efter hendes søns pludselige død. For at håndtere hendes sorg og finde mening i livet beslutter hun sig for at kaste sig ud i velgørenhed. Denne besættelse fører til konflikter med hend…

An uncompromising look into urban life from the eyes of a voyeuristic photographer, a rebellious teenager, and a married couple teetering on the edge of adultery.