Aoi is a seventeen-year-old mother living in Okinawa who drops out of school so she can work an illegal job as a nightclub hostess for rent money. Struggling to protect her child while trapped in a seemingly never-ending cycle of poverty and violence with her deadbeat husband, she turns to ever m...

Under a strict military curfew, Salah (Kais Nashif), a grieving Palestinian father, sets out towards the Israeli border carrying the body of his recently deceased son in a duffel bag. While fending off the terrible heat, Miri (Shany Verchik), a pregnant single woman, decides to help him no matter...

Italy, 1900. Agata gives birth to a stillborn baby girl. According to Catholic doctrine, the souls of unbaptized infants are condemned to Limbo. Hearing about a place in the mountains where infants can be brought back to life, Agata sets out on a perilous journey to reach the mysterious sanctuary...

Outspoken, manipulative, independent thinking and oftentimes controversial, Artie Shaw (1910-2004) was one of the most popular stars of the Swing Era, who famously broke the color barrier by hiring the legendary Billie Holiday, Hot Lips Page and Roy Eldridge for his bands. His complex love-hate r...

Before their next gig, Spanish punk rock band The Killer Barbies endure a setback when their van breaks down in the backwoods. Stumbling through the gloomy wilderness, they eventually end up in the eerie castle of Countess Von Fledermaus. But can the unsuspecting visitors survive the hours of dar...

It's equal parts splatter and laughter in this doomsday romp with a decidedly Cuban touch. When Havana begins filling up with the living dead and the government claims that the bloodthirsty zombies are US-funded dissidents, forty-year-old slacker Juan is left with no other choice than to protect ...

Tough delinquent Myggan escapes from juvenile custody, steals a gun, reunites with an old flame, and goes on a crime spree while on the run from the police. Billed as the "Swedish Orson Welles," Arne Ragneborn both directs and stars in this classic 1950s social drama filled with sex, booze and br...

Considered one of the first true fly-fishing films, TARPON brings together famed American authors Richard Brautigan, Tom McGuane, and Jim Harrison with legendary flats guides Woody Sexton, Gil Drake, and Steve Huff as they muse about life, art, nature, and fishing the majestic tarpon.

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Fifteen-year-old Lulu (Francesca Neri) has a crush on Pablo (Oscar Ladoire), the best friend of her older brother, and loses her virginity to him. Years later, as an adult, they meet again in Madrid, where Pablo introduces her to a dangerous world of uninhibited desire. Based on the controversial...

Zahara lives on a deserted island off the coast of Malaysia with her ten-year-old niece Nika, eking out a living by gathering turtle eggs. Determined to enroll Nika in school, Zahara canoes to the mainland only to be met with indifference by a local bureaucrat. Returning to the island, she meets ...

A series of robberies committed by Japanese ninjas and bearing the stamp of the Shihs, a once-notorious family of burglars, attracts the interest of Kuan Te-hsing (Wang Yu) and Richard Burt (Mai Te-lo), two lowly assistants in the Yang Detective Agency. Meanwhile, a Japanese girl hires them to un...

Like many impoverished villagers at the end of the Qin Dynasty, Ma Yong Zhen (Takeshi Kaneshiro), a pugilist from Shantung, moves to big city with his brother to seek his fortune. Initially finding work as a manual laborer, Ma becomes enamored by the lifestyle of local gang boss Tam See (Yuen Bia...

1938. Happy to leave the Spanish Civil War behind, a movie troupe travels to Hitler’s Berlin to shoot an international production at UFA studios. They soon discover that they have escaped one war only to end up in another, and that the hospitality of Joseph Goebbels, the German Minister of Propag...

With the help of a crime syndicate, Chang Chun-chiu travels from Canton to New York’s Chinatown by way of Hong Kong. There, he enters into a sham marriage with the sister of a friend in order to obtain a green card and works at a Canal Street sweatshop to pay off his debts. Immigration authoritie...

During demonstrations in apartheid-era South Africa, the police arrest Panic (Thomas Mogotlane), a “mapantsula” or petty gangster, while rounding up activists. His interrogation reveals the motivation for his involvement in the township riots. Once only concerned with partying, alcohol and his ow...

In the mid-19th century, Okiku lives in a tenement row house in the sprawling city of Edo. There, she cares for her father, Genbei, a former samurai, whom she supports by teaching children in a temple school. Yasuke and his newly recruited partner, Chuji, regularly visit the tenement to collect t...

Cheng Dieyi (Leslie Cheung) and Duan Xiaolou (Zhang Fengyi) grow up enduring the harsh training of the Peking Opera Academy, where instructors regularly beat the students to instill in them the discipline needed to master the complex physical and vocal techniques of this ancient art. As the two b...

Explore the unbridled life and kaleidoscopic filmography of Piero Vivarelli, who not only was a director of Italian B-movies but also penned the screenplay for the Sergio Corbucci spaghetti-western Django (which famously provided the inspiration for Quentin Tarantino's own Django Unchained). An u...

Nana (Happy Salma), the beautiful wife of a wealthy plantation owner, values her safety and material comforts but carries out a haunted existence, dreaming of her lost love who was murdered years ago during the Indonesian Revolution. Forced to confront her husband’s blatant infidelity, Nana makes...

Mikami (Koji Yakusho), a middle-aged yakuza, gets released from prison after serving a 13-year murder sentence. Hoping to find his long lost mother, who abandoned him as a child, he agrees to be the subject of a television documentary. But his impulsive, adamant nature and ingrained beliefs cause...

Mustafa, a Palestinian construction worker, lives in a West Bank home a mere 200 meters away from his wife and children, on the other side of the Israeli border wall. Though eligible for an Israeli ID, Mustafa sacrifices living with his family in resistance to what he believes are unjust laws enf...

Andrés Bravo (Jesus Nunes), the frontman of the fledgling alternative rock band Los Pijamistas, looks to start a solo career, seeking inspiration with the help of “The Beasts,” two mysterious masked beings. Combining hazy pop dreams and crisp indie realism, this fantasy-tinged musical drama mirro...

Trapped in a cycle of oppression, Chinese immigrant Jin Xia (Fan Bingbing) works in customs at South Korea's Incheon Airport, where she encounters a mysterious green-haired girl (Lee Joo-young) acting suspiciously at the security checkpoint. Overcome by the unspoken attraction between them, she t...

Twelve-year-old Pablo (Salvador Insunza) receives a scholarship to attend school at the mysterious Colonia Dignidad, an isolated community established in Chile by German settlers. He quickly becomes one of the favorite pupils of the colony's leader, Uncle Paul (Hanns Zischler). Over time, however...