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Through both personal and political conflicts, the film tells the story of emperor Diocletian's rise to power and his complicated place in ancient Rome's court politics.
In 1944, after years of longing, the Golian family finally welcomes a child-just weeks before the beginning of Slovak National Uprising led by Ján Golian. In Nazi-allied Slovakia, they must choose-fight for the nation or protect their son.
Gracias, equipo follows a struggling Spanish cheese company whose rural team-building retreat spirals into betrayal and layoffs, satirizing office politics and corporate absurdity.
Emma's life violently unravels as she is both the obsession of a narcissistic addict, and the fault line between identical brothers.
Years after a global collapse caused by a strange pandemic, a former healthcare worker testifies in court about an illegal transplant operation that may have triggered the outbreak. What began as an illegal heart transplant ended up releasing a virus capable of turning those infected into violent, cannibalistic creatures.
1797, and flashbacks of a story before it. How far can a lie go until time converges with time? How deep can truth be clouded in delirium, in sorrow, in gold? I tell ya, the details are important; pay attention to the timestamps.
The horrors of New Orleans history reverberate down to the present in this docudrama combining Southern Gothic terror with investigations into the city's real-life folklore.
Lucila leaves Mexico with her younger brother to reunite with their mother in Madrid, who had left a few years earlier to chase a better future. When they finally arrive, the bitter, suffocating reality that awaits them proves far harsher than Lucila had imagined. Still, she is determined to make the most of this fragile new life.
A concert film documenting Cameron Winter's sold-out performance at Carnegie Hall.
In Palermo (Italy), a group of supporters found a grassroots football club to oppose the commercial model of modern football and return the game to its community, while the daily lives of members, players, and volunteers intertwine through personal sacrifices, dreams, and resistance.
He is exuberant, loud, and charismatic. She is courageous, delicate, and warm. Jacek and Grażyna Kuroń are utterly in love and convinced that together they can change the world. They give up their privacy to dedicate their lives to the fight for freedom. Their apartment becomes the "headquarters" of the opposition; a meeting place for people willing to risk everything in the name of a better tomorrow.
When her best friend accidentally drinks her truth serum, a driven young scientist must reverse the effects before the unfiltered honesty between them burns down everything they've never said to each other.
When a young man named Henry wakes up from a coma on New Year's Eve 1999, he discovers that the world has changed drastically while he slept. People are no longer allowed to set foot on his city's beaches, and every night unnatural lights streak through the sky towards a destination unknown.
Three stories of faith and hope, intertwined through time with the life of faith-healing priest Emiliano Tardif.
The story of four dads, their six children and a bachelor takes the audience on a summer hiking trip to the mountains. The Galejník expedition has two basic rules: Survive! And no women. From the very start, however, nothing goes to plan…
Set in Malaysia, the film follows a young woman named Du Li An who falls in love with a man named Lin Sang in 1969 before he mysteriously disappears. Years later, after marrying a gangster and becoming stepmother to a teenage girl, Du Li An encounters a man who looks exactly like her vanished lover. The decade-spanning narrative blends elements of romance, mystery and coming-of-age storytelling.
Zac Power’s position as the top teenage spy is compromised after a brilliant new agent arrives. When his recklessness allows an ostentatious supervillain to steal a high-tech weapon, Zac is forced to confront his own flaws and team up with his rival.
The tale of an amnesiac clown lost in the Ireland of the 1960s. A silent historical fantasy that utilises elements of fact and conjecture and mixes them in a hybrid of expressionism, surrealism and pantomime.
In the distant future, in a monastery on the lonely Neptune moon of Athos, a mysterious crime unfolds. An artificial intelligence responsible for life support comes under suspicion of murder. An inquisitor specializing in artificial intelligence is sent to solve this mysterious case.
