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Browse 8 movies from Crescendo Films
A salesman and his son sexually abuse several generations of an indigent family's women as payment for debt. Janni must see his mother, sister, niece and wife all being exploited, and the family grow with the abuser's kids.
Dec 1986
Over the past twenty-five years, director Michael Haneke has established himself as a towering figure in modern cinema whose rigorous focus on the craft of filmmaking has produced works of profound artistry. This career-spanning documentary gives unprecedented access and covers the body of Haneke’s work, offering insight into his creative process through on-set footage and interviews with the man himself and collaborators including Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert and Juliette Binoche.
Mar 2013
Nov 2019
A Swedish journalist in Buenos Aires is about to reveal the circumstances surrounding the young Swedish-Argentine woman Lena Melin's disappearance. The military junta of Argentina is threatening to deport him.
Apr 1987
January 4, 2004, Haiti. Celebration of the bicentennial of the declaration of independence. For months, students and the general public have been protesting against the dictatorship of the "Prophet," President Aristide. Lucien, a philosophy student convinced of the success of the march toward democracy, is diametrically opposed to his younger brother Little Joe, a thug recruited by the Chimères to suppress the student march. This day will seal the fate of the two brothers.
Jul 2015
Kurdistan, partitioned between Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Syria, could play a major role in a torn Middle East. But who are the Kurds? What influence do they have? Who exactly is Abdullah Öcalan, the leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party? An enlightening investigation by Luis Miranda.
Feb 2015
May 2012
Aug 2011