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Every day, Jay travels the length and breadth of Tokyo in his taxi, looking for his daughter Lily. In the 9 years since he has separated from his wife, he has never been able to get custody of his daughter. Having given up hope of ever seeing her again, he is about to move back to France when Lily hops in his cab. But she doesn't recognize him.

Veteran filmmaker Peter Kerekes skillfully blends fiction with real emotions, creating a charming hybrid film that explores earthly delights and star-crossed narratives.

When a young, ambitious market researcher finds out her boss is involved in the leaking of a scandalous Prime Minister speech, she decides to investigate the case to gain a position among the big-shots. Based on actual events.

1860s America, a Shoshone band lives peacefully in isolation. As the Civil War rages, Union soldiers and settlers discover them, forcing relocation, constant displacement and threats of extermination, but finds hope for their future.

An astonishing cocktail of friendship, resistance and life set among the unexpected landscape of an elderly care facility.

After a fashion editor is fired from her highpowered job in New York, she has no choice but to go back to her hometown, where she reconnects with her roots and rediscovers her life's passion.

In 1936, Edward VIII abdicated in order to marry the woman he loved, Wallis Simpson, a twice-divorced American. These events caused a scandal around the world. Wallis and Edward is an attempt to portray the romantic aspects of the story from Wallis's point of view. The drama follows the beginning of their affair whilst Edward was Prince of Wales and Wallis was still married to Ernest Simpson.

Uses detailed research and explosive new testimonies by soldiers who have served in Iraq to tell an emotional fictional story of two young men very much out of their depth.

BAD BLOOD, set in the Balkans at the end of the Ottoman Empire. While trying to preserve the independence of his people, Trifun, the Christian minority leader sets off a chain of events causing terrible consequences for his family members.

Henry Rose is a young writer who is on top of the world until his pregnant wife suddenly vanishes while admiring flowers on the side of a Texas highway. Henry races to a nearby town for help but finds the town deserted, save for a few locals who barely acknowledge his existence. Entering the town at the same time with their own agenda is a family of vicious psychotic criminals led by the charismatic yet deadly Toby Haynes. When Toby's sister also disappears, he takes matters into his own hands to find the culprit. The paths of Henry and Toby's gang inevitably cross in this grim portrayal of man's descent into the unknown evils of our world.

During Kangxi's reign in the Qing Dynasty, Chen Xiang enters the palace and meets the maid Liu Li who is the same age as her. The two girls become best friends. Liu Li desires to achieve something in life, and she wants to encounter the prince to become the future queen. Even if it means she has to betray and frame Chen Xiang. Yet as chance would have it, Chen Xiang falls in love with the 13th Prince and after many twists and turns, the two lovers can finally find their happiness together.

With his family struggling to survive in late-1890s Norway and his father leaving on a ship for America to earn much-needed money, 10-year-old Yohan devises his own plans to help his family, but his jealous older brother has other ideas and, unbeknownst to their parents, he signs a contract with an agent for Yohan to become a farm laborer. Now consigned to being a child wanderer, Yohan is sent off to provide cheap labor on a faraway farm. Yohan embarks on a long, rugged journey filled with danger, loneliness, and feelings of abandonment. Along the way, he meets two other child wanderers, 8-year-old Anna and her younger brother. Together with other child wanderers led by menacing boy Aslak, the group makes its way on foot through the countryside until Yohan finally arrives at the farm where he is expected to work. He becomes a shepherd boy, protecting the farmer's livestock from wolves and grizzly bears. His boss Nome is a harsh disciplinarian, impossible to please. Following his heart and with good intentions, Yohan makes decisions that are misunderstood by local adults and sabotaged by other envious children. Unjustly accused, he is punished and beaten by Nome. Events only get worse, with wild animals attacking Nome's herd on Yohan's watch, while Yohan discovers that his friend Anna and her brother have been beaten at a neighboring farm. Using his resourcefulness and ingenuity, a battered Yohan sets out to help Anna and her brother escape from the farm owners.

A terrible storm is raging the night it all begins with a knock on the door. 17-year-old Jim Hawkins helps his widowed mother run their little tavern on the coast of 19th-century England. When the door is opened they are startled by a sight that makes their blood run cold. The figure standing there is covered in scars and has a strange, insane glint in his eye. In the days that follow the grizzled old sailor, Bill Bones, spends hours on end staring out to sea until the day a crazed blind man at the head of a murderous gang of pirates tracks down Bill Bones--and murders him. All for a scrap of paper, Jim discovers to his amazement, but this scrap of paper is a map marking the location of fabulous buried treasure--gold, silver and jewels saved over the years by the ruthless, highly successful pirate, Captain Flint. It is hidden on a distant, mysterious island--and Jim manages to escape the furious pirates with the map. Now the prospect of finding such fantastic wealth exerts a magic spell on all and sundry. Soon Jim is part of an expedition alongside long-legged Long John Silver to find the treasure. At first the sea journey is an unfamiliar new adventure for Jim although he is fascinated by the charismatic Long John Silver. He quickly discovers that the crew Silver recruited is made up of fierce pirates--rough-and-ready brutal bandits who have sailed the seven seas in search of booty. The motley crew also includes 17-year-old Sheila, disguised as a ship's boy. The pretty young girl is pursuing the treasure for her own reasons: as Captain Flint's daughter, she believes that she alone is entitled to it, and she is prepared to go to any lengths to get the loot. But Jim Hawkins knows all too well that her life is worthless if Long John Silver and his men should discover her. As the Hispaniola sails on towards Treasure Island, Jim tries to gain Sheila's trust--to help her find the traces of her deceased father's life in the buried treasure. Thus the thrilling adventure begins, and Jim is exposed to a range of terrible ordeals--starting with mutiny. When our heroes finally reach the mysterious island, they find ample evidence of Captain Flint's gruesome deeds, including a crazed shipmate who was abandoned there years ago and is now intent on violent revenge. As the tale of treachery and pirate treasure unfolds, Jim is forced to grow up quickly--or die. As he survives thrilling adventures by the skin of his teeth, his experiences help him become a man. But will he find the treasure? Will Sheila obtain her inheritance? And how many of them will leave Treasure Island alive?

Exploring the complex motives of individuals who engaged in espionage, offers an insider's perspective on their decision-making.

Forced Love is a romantic comedy based on Shakespeare's 'Taming of the Shrew'. It centres on two people falling in love despite their serious misgivings about one another. Kat and Nonlhe Minola are two Cape Town socialites who rule the social scene with an iron fist. After Kat and Nonhle find themselves in jail, Mbulelo decides to hatch an outrageous plan to get Kat away from Cape Town and in touch with her traditional roots.

Mika, who suffers from a mental disorder, suddenly has a visit from her young brother who has always been a pain in her life. However, by going to all kinds of places in Ukiha city, Japan with her brother, she regains her self back.

The Twilight Saga movies, based on the bestselling book series, has become one of the most successful film franchises of recent years. This film documents the inside story of actors Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner, how they shot to fame and what to expect from them next.

Sabina has traveled from Romania to the small Swedish town Holmsund with her Roma brothers. They work in a garage and Sabina is looking for a job. Elin, born and raised in Holmsund, is in the church singing at the graduation ceremony. A summer is about to start and Sabina will get to know Elin. Together they will revolt against the old ways and find something new in each other. At the same time as the society around them collapses in fear and Elin's dad becomes insane by sorrow. Because there is a madness growing in the Swedish idyll. This is a urgent contemporary story about the friendship between teenage girls in the shadow of the European debate on immigration and EU migrants. A story that portrays daily life in a small East-European town where the locals share the EU migrants longing for a more hopeful future.

After spending 18 months in Syria, Jamal is back in Sydney and wants to see his terminally ill mother, however he has to deal with his strong minded older brother Omar, his wife Heidi and son, but most importantly his unforgiving father.

The Who's historic third album, Sell Out was a bold new direction for the band and dictated a new vision for popular music. This documentary investigates the cultural upheaval of 1967, how The Who explored this through the album's concepts of pirate radio and the band 'selling out' to the world of commercial advertising. Featuring exclusive interviews with Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey, the program explores this era through the lens of classic tracks such as I Can See For Miles, Tattoo, and Relax.

The film contains three Jan Werich's fairy tales, each directed by one artist. The first story sets out to the Sumava mountains in Southern Bohemia to find out whether Ogres ever lived there. The middle tale The Hat and the Little Jay Feather concerns a king who sends his three sons to bring back a hat he left at a tavern when he was young. The third and longest fairy tale Reason and Luck is about the two virtues of the title try to prove their importance by changing the life of a pig herder named Louis.

A paranoid prison guard moves into a village flanked by a state motorway. He befriends his new neighbour, an unemployed hypochondriac supported by his wife, working in the local grocery. Weary of life and caring for her two sons, she develops an attraction to the nightclub bouncer, but he is in love with the club stripper, who is in turn waiting for the father of her child to return from the same prison where our prison guard works. A story about the demons of our day.

"Legacy: In the Shadow of Greatness" chronicles the lives of athletically gifted young people, who play different sports, live in different cities, but all have one thing in common - they're the children of famous athletes, and they're working toward building their own athletic identity.

There was house in a cave under little hill and that was a place where Little Man lived. He was quite well there until one night - when he had a mysterious dream. He dreamed about a house with provoking sign above its door: "YOU WILL FIND HERE WHAT YOU MISS". Little Man was confused. What was he missing? And what shall he find then? And where exactly? He could not get rid of a weird feeling since he woke up that one morning. He suddenly knew he is missing something really important in his life and he had to go out for it and find it. But his journey was not easy at all. He had to complete many difficult quests, overcome his fears and above all, keep moving forward no matter what was happening to him! During his journey he showed his good heart when he helped someone who needed it, he also proved considerable bravery when he faced dangerous creatures he had never seen before. He learned lots of things not just about the forest, but chiefly about himself. And did he finally reached the house he searched for? And what did he find there?

A group of friends - a tomb raider, a chatty salesman, a naughty journalist, a lazy nerd and the shy assistant of a mysterious blind and silent shopkeeper - meet again in the quiet small town where they had shared a terrible secret. When a skeptical policeman discovers the link between a weird animals slaughter and some occult practices, strange things start happening. Together, they will discover the ancient curse of Kaisha and have to face the demons of the past. Literally.