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A historical drama set in the 1400s, about a young man sent to Italy but is forced back after his father's mysterious death.

Bernie, un alcolizzato autodistruttivo, viene incaricato di vegliare su Winnie. Lui mette alla prova la pazienza delle varie persone che conosce e Winnie è spesso lasciata sola a badare a se stessa.

Raped by her cousin at 17, Tunisian country girl Fatma flees her sexuality, even binding her breasts, She also flees her patriarchal, traditional family by going to Tunis to attend university. There, she unbinds her breasts and opens up to her own sexuality. She quits university to become an elementary school teacher in a small village. There, she meets and falls in love with a young doctor. At first, she rebels against the hypocrisy that requires a bride to be a virgin, but then pays a gynecologist to stitch her hymen so it will break again on her wedding night and make her groom believe she is a virgin.

Jealousy about her boyfriend sends a woman into a night of drinking and introspection, as she comes to self-realizations about her sexuality, shaming by her overbearing mother, and sex with a stranger.

Strange Time: an Azerbaijan film about a young woman nursing her father, when things don't go to plan.

I travagli romantici di due coinquilini disparati, Alex e Max.

Middle-aged war correspondent Ahmet vacations in Urfa, Turkey, to photograph abandoned buildings. Noticing some suspicious men, he follows them, and witnesses and photographs an execution. His own life is threatened. Then he meets the beautiful Arzuhun, who claims to be the daughter of the murderer. Their romance ends when she suddenly disappears.

During years of receiving anonymous hate mail signed "gerilla," a wealthy arms.dealer has attempted suicide three times. His paranoia is not alleviated by his mistress nor his second wife so he hires an ex-policeman to track down his persecutor. As a result, the story of his dark past comes out.

A young filmmaker of Azerbaijani origins decides to fulfill his seven-year obsession to make a docudrama about the short, tragic life of his late mother. Much to his American wife's consternation, the filmmaker decides to travel to Moscow and Azerbaijan to make the film. He casts a young woman to play his mother, who had been forced from her home to live in the artificially created new nation of Azerbaijan. Political and marital problems follow.

An opera company touring rural Vietnam is beset with personal, political and sociological infighting. The company's two lead actresses' friendship is threatened with romantic entanglements involving past and present boyfriends. issues like pregnancy, abortion, gambling, adultery, poverty , women's rights and spousal abuse as well as the relevancy of old, less popular operas and the role of the entertainer during times of economic upheaval are considered. The film uses a parallel stage/realty, "drama-within-a-drama" construct.

Set in Tangier, Morocco, a poor girl is raped by the son of a wealthy lawyer and aspiring politician. What follows is a story of " unpunished injustices, shame and fear, repression and power." After being raped, she is rendered mute. Her 13-year-old-brother is out for revenge.

Based on the novel "Exile," this Chinese historical melodrama depicts the White Lotus Society, a Buddhist religious group that fought an insurrection against the authoritarian and oppressive Manchu rulers of the Qing Dynasty. It centers on the wife of a rebel, a survivor of the insurrection, and her relationship with the commander of the Qing army escort.

Filmmakers Philip Kaufman and his son Peter explore their relationship with China and their Chinese friends to tell Chinese history as it approaches the millennium. Through segments entitled Crossroads, Dream Maker, Deaf Ears, The Sick Man Stands Up, Shanghai's Wild Past, The Return of Hong Kong and Women Unbound, this title investigates the changes in Chinese culture during the past 2,000 years.

The life of controversial Danish artist Hans Henrik Lerfeldt, told in black white documentary footage and in color, semi-fictional reenactment of his boyhood.. Painting mostly nudes, Lerfeldt challenged Nordic sexual suppression with paintings of sadomasochistic sex in the super realism style..

A group of Hong Kong gangsters overrun a movie studio, trying to decide whether or not they want to buy it. Before they can do that, however, they have to wait until the studio's elderly owner dies and confront a private eye who is after them.

Set in 1990 in the city of Baku, in the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan, an extended Armenian family headed by a Russian uncle live together in a crowded, crumbling, old apartment as the Soviet Union is collapsing. When the uncle wants the family to add another family member who has been forced to leave Armenia., turmoil ensues.

Archive footage documents the World War One wartime displacement of ethnically diverse prisoners of war, civilian refugees and orphans. Placed in a labor camp, they are stripped, showered and shaved as they become forced labor. Many die, and their bodies are piled up in mass graves.

An aristocratic Viennese glass factory owner is murdered. His sister suspects the brother-in-law, who will take over the factory as the next heir in line, and she plots revenge. A female tv reporter is also on the trail of the beneficiary, suspecting that he is guilty of tax shelter fraud. In the middle of her investigation, a friend mysteriously dies in Latin America. Her expose is thwarted by a corrupt media and its ties to Viennese high society.

A young bamboo-flutist leaves Tokyo to attend his sister's wedding in their hometown. He stays, and takes a factory job, but soon returns to Tokyo, only to be dumped by his girlfriend and evicted by his landlady. Wandering the streets, he finally joins a band of street musicians.

Sita is a Hindu girl from Suriname who lives with her family in The Netherlands. Trying to assimilate to Dutch culture, she looks for a job, while still learning traditional Hindu classical dance and helping with a Hindu wedding. The different cultures, traditions and religions must all confront each other.

A documentary about Russian emigres in Paris, focusing on eight painters and one sculptor who fled Soviet Russia during the brief thaw inaugurated in all the arts under Nikita Khrushchev. They also fled socialist realism as an art form art to create experimental, avant grade, "underground" art.

During the historic 1935 Long March by Chinese communists, a power conflict between communist Liberation Army chiefs causes a faction to break away from the march in order to set up bases along the Chinese-Tibetan border in Sichuan province. Sent out from this dissident regiment on a misguided mission, a platoon of eight female soldiers finds itself isolated. Trying to rejoin the troops, they endure all kinds of extreme hardships and physical danger, including death.