Movies: 2005

Missie's surprise pregnancy sets her on a new course that is both thrilling and terrifying. After all the planning and dreaming, she and her husband Willie are headed west in a covered wagon, leaving behind the prairie home of Missie's parents. Now, ...

The complex relationship between master and servant is explored in director João Botelho's adaptation of Denis Diderot's popular novel Jacques le Fataliste et Son Maître. As Tiago (Rogério Samora) drives his master (André Gomes) through the Portugues...

1969. A young chef takes a job on a ship with a friend. However, there they have to cope with the dangerous daily routine in the kitchen under a domineering head chef....

Charles, an attorney, and Helen, his devoted wife, seem to have everything – money, a beautiful mansion – the American Dream. However, as Helen prepares to celebrate their 18th wedding anniversary, her life takes an unexpected twist when she comes ho...

Documentary by Eckhart Schmidt....

Ramji Tiwari and his sister, Parvati, had their parents pass away at an early age. Ramji is a skilled cook and is familiar with all aspects of vegetarian cooking. He arranges Parvati's marriage with the Mishra family, promises to pay a large sum of d...

Based on the true story of a family who opened the first videocassette rental stores in St. Louis in 1980. The family was ruined by a corrupt prosecutor who had been blackmailed by a religious group because the family refused to remove Martin Scorses...

The rich peasant Solopii Cherevyk goes to the Sorochyntsi fair to sell wheat. His quarrelsome wife Khivria and daughters Paraska, Horpyna and Motria go with him. At the fair, Paraska meets a guy named Hrytsko and falls in love with him. But her stepm...

Pressured by a greedy uncle and a pile of debt, lovable loser Steve Barker resorts to an unthinkable, contemptible, just-crazy-enough-to-work scheme. He pretends to be mentally challenged to rig the upcoming Special Olympics and bring home the gold. ...

The tenants of a seedy rooming house in Hong Kong think they're seeing a vengeful ghost when a strange girl arrives claiming to be the twin sister of a missing occupant. Wracked by guilt, they begin to die one by one, and the detective investigating ...

Based on a true story, the film presents events similar to those in the Lukić indictment....

The story takes place in a small village on the beach of Sea of Azov at the beginning of 1960s. Adolescents passionately dream of love about which they have heard from their elder experienced friends. 16 year-old Ignat is the first to find out what t...

Artist Marianne Lindberg De Geer thinks about her old friends from the 70s, where did they all go?...

When he wasn't duking it out in the boxing ring, Roy "Pretty Boy" Shaw terrorized Britain as one of the country's most feared gangsters, as revealed in this documentary. The program chronicles Shaw's shady history, a criminal career that includes arm...

A woman dies after learning that her husband is having an extra-marital affair. This creates a rift between the entire family as all the children start blaming their father for their mother's death....

The Chumscrubber is a dark comedy about the lives of people who live in upper-class suburbia. It all begins when Dean Stiffle finds the body of his friend, Troy. He doesn't bother telling any of the adults because he knows they won't care. Everyone i...

Documentary on the making of Marco Bellocchio's first film as a director, 'Fists in the Pocket'....

Schnitzel Paradise is a Dutch film about a young Moroccan man working in the kitchen of popular Dutch restaurant....

A man and woman have great success in all of their dating pursuits. The woman uses her dating rules and fakes a car accident to capture the guy's attention, but she can't get him to succumb to her charm....

A thug, with his partners, is chosen to work for a criminal gang and he becomes the left-hand man of the leader. The leader declares a war against another criminal and the thug has to protect him despite losing his friends....