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Karl, a 70-year-old Austrian astronomer, is at a crossroads in life and work. After a conference in Greece, he decides not to return home and heads for a small island in hopes of finding a sky dark enough to reconnect with the stars.
Set in 1915 in the Isles of Scilly just off the Cornish coast, a young girl named Lucy is raised by a clan of fishermen she knows not to be hers. However, she remembers little else about her past, and as the Great War rages down on the continent, a chance encounter with the mysterious girl her own age soon helps Lucy put back the pieces of her own life’s story and come to better understand her place in the world.
Follows the life of Lucy Parks, a college photographer that is desperate to find a way to expand her clientele. Her financial trauma, and desperation to take risks, ultimately change everything.
The tales from four regions of Thailand. Stories handed down "from generation to generation" still told to this day: North – Northeast – Central – South.
Eleven-year-old Eunha, the lone survivor of her parents' murder-suicide, finds comfort in a shelter through her friendship with Bora and the imaginary world they call "The Fish Dance." When Bora is forced back to her abusive father, Eunha is left devastated, until her aunt Jayeong offers an unexpected proposal.
Comedy legends Bob Odenkirk and David Cross tackle one of the world's toughest hikes — and each other — in this high-altitude, coca-fueled meditation on friendship, mortality, and profoundly absurd comedy from two icons still magnificently in sync.
A grown-up Masha decides to arrange a personal life for her father, Misha, which leads to a fight with her father, who pries into matters that don't concern her. Masha, upset with her father, runs away into the forest and ends up with a little bear cub whose parents were kidnapped by poachers. Masha's adventures begin, during which she realizes how difficult it is to be a parent, and most importantly, how difficult it is to raise children.
Waking up from a dream he can't seem to forget, Faizan struggles to maintain the newly structured life he's built for himself. As more dreamy memories from his past continue to resurface, he soon learns that the nightmarish ones still refuse to let him go.
Felice is a twenty-year-old boy from a working-class neighborhood. He buys a grand piano with money from a loan shark and with the help of Noemi, a young girl of the same age he met in the library, he plays in the squares of Campania for passers-by and tourists. The security guard Enzo, after an argument, destroys his piano into many pieces. Chased by loan sharks, he finds himself in the back of a church. He is given a jacket and tie and is sent to the altar in front of the dead man's relatives. He begins to make a speech in commemoration of a deceased person he doesn't even know, but the words flow spontaneously, cleanly, moving and exciting. After that speech he will become the funeral boy, the orator.
Hayoung, a successful dog trainer, is visited by her sister, Sora, who has a criminal record for murder. As Sora's bizarre behavior unsettles the training center and Hayoung's daily routine, buried truths and repressed desires start to rise to the surface.
Adaptation of the novel by Rosa Montero and Olivier Truc about a woman with no memory, a police inspector expert in human trafficking and a French agent who will unravel the investigation with her. It's nighttime and a guard is on his rounds at the port of Barcelona when his German shepherd stops in his tracks to desperately sniff a container. On arrival, the mossos find an unconscious and dehydrated woman inside. She has a gash on her temple, burns on her face and body, and she doesn't remember who she is or what her mother tongue is, but she is alive. While she is recovering at the Hospital Clínic, a man tries to kill her.
The Battle of Passchendaele, 1917. For three years the great war has been waging, and the two armies find themselves entrenched along the four-hundred-mile Western Front. At the start of a pivotal allied offensive to break the stalemate, the nine-man crew of a British MKIV Tank set out to destroy a series of heavily defended German bunkers.
Dasha and Sasha are happy newlyweds. A honeymoon and a parachute jump over the foothills of Mount Elbrus should be the beginning of their new life. But fate makes its own adjustments. The pilot turns out to be Artyom, Dasha's ex, whom she didn't even want to remember. When the plane crashes, the three of them have to jump without preparation. The slings get tangled. They miraculously stay alive — but find themselves suspended over a mountain precipice in the midst of raging forest fires. Dasha finds herself between two men, with each of whom her life is connected. One is the present. The other is the unhealed past.
Six contestants compete in a high-stakes live TV quiz show to solve a complex "closed-circle" murder mystery for a 10 billion yen jackpot.
Four young people from Berlin decide to spend their summer in Portugal. They throw away their smart phones, open up their relationships and try to free themselves from any social norms. But just as their utopia comes true, a devastating forest fire breaks out around them.
After stumbling upon 100m yen at work, Kanji finds himself involved in a battle royal for the money. Based on the novel by Keisuke Sone
With fairy-tale inhabitants, everything is the same as with people - when a marriage breaks up, Resentment remains... That is the name of the daughter of the powerful magicians Bolotnitsa and Chernogor, who divorced but continue to share power over the child. On the day of Resentment's coming of age, it turns out that she is deprived of the magical power that was supposed to be inherited from her parents. To fix the situation, Resentment urgently needs to find a groom in the human world, have a wedding and sacrifice the person - turn him into a tree... Together with Resentment, her mysterious friend, Chudo Yudo, goes to the human world. He can transform into anyone: a bird, an animal, and even a handsome prince.
