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- A man spends a summer day swimming as many pools as he can all over a quiet suburban town.
- From war-torn Syria to the 2016 Rio Olympics, two young sisters embark on a harrowing journey as refugees, putting both their hearts and champion swimming skills to heroic use.
- Sees the discriminative tendencies in sports against LGBTQ people, and how a sportsman learns to accept and love himself despite that.
- When former pro swimmer Sara and her sister Yusra arrived in Germany from war-torn Syria they were Europe's most celebrated refugees. Now Sara is facing a 20-year prison sentence for volunteering with a Greek NGO, helping other refugees.
- A young man encounters many people while swimming in Britain.
- After falling pregnant to Perth, her boyfriend's best friend, Ice commits suicide. She returns to haunt Perth while Tan seeks out the person who made her kill herself for his own revenge.
- Bai Yongze and Lan Tian are best friends and both of them are genius swimmers. For an unknown reason , Lan Tian broke up with his girlfriend Song Chacha while Bai found out that he's already fallen in love with Song. The two boys then begin to compete in every respect of life, from love to career...
- A documentary about the making of the cult film The Swimmer (1968).
- After an accident in a small Maryland fishing town, 11-year-old Emma begins to question the nature of the adults around her.
- Outside a swimming pool, a car belonging to a sniper is discovered. The police are therefore on site to arrest the owner. But when the man in question refuses to get out of the pool, a situation arises that no one could have predicted. This is a story based on a real event, told with a lot of humor.
- Wanda is a gum-chewing waitress; dim Eddie, the pastry boy at the café, likes her. So does Mr. Hamhocks, the café owner, whose head is also turned by the arrival of Pearl Minnow, a gold digger in town for the annual Catalina Channel Swim, sponsored by Wrigley's. Wanda and Pearl take a dislike to each other; Hamhocks is charmed by Pearl and Eddie stays loyal to Wanda. The day of the swimming contest arrives, the two women compete, and the two men try to help their respective gals. Their trials and tribulations mix with documentary footage of the event. An angry swordfish gets in the act.
- A boy realizes how will his life be in the present and future with or without his crush
- An inside look at the life of Ian Thorpe, his return to professional swimming and journey to the 2012 London Olympics.
- The story of an adrenaline junkie who travels the globe in search of the most tumultuous rivers to swim with no kayak, and no protection. But there's something deeper driving her to risk her life.
- Perth, Western Australia. Shark attacks 10 year-old boy leaving a scar that will never heal.
- A hybrid, poetic documentary interweaving hand-drawn animation and film, which tells the story of a grandfather's perilous swim from China to Hong Kong during the Cultural Revolution.
- At 21 miles wide and very, very cold, the English Channel is regarded the world over as one of the ultimate swimming challenges. Achieving such a goal can push both mind and body to their limits and sometimes beyond. Two Swimmers explores the bond between a young athlete and his coach as they attempt to swim the Channel in the summer of 2005, and the dramatic events that follow.
- The story is about Bemani, a young Iranian woman who arrives in Australia to settle into a new life, marry her fiancé and make the most of the opportunities of a free country. Unfortunately, things start to go wrong and she has to deal with unimaginable problems.
- A supervised visit between mother and son gives hope for reconciliation. Can a trip to the local swimming pool soothe their difficult past?
- On a hot summer night, a recent widow has a surprising encounter with a young woman, and they wind up sharing intimate stories, each affecting the other in a subtle yet meaningful way.
- Swimmer is an unflinching and revelatory look at adolescent sexual obsession at its most darkest and disturbing. This shattering drama opens up with a prologue from the protagonist, a fourteen year old boy, revealing his undeclared crush on a woman twice his age and a harrowing determination venomously penned on making her his own. When he fails to approach her, he seethes with frustrated desires. What follows is an uncompromising portrait of the struggles of a former potential Olympic swimming champion who now lives a reclusive life cloistered in her flat next to the boy's. He, unseen, patiently observing, becomes obsessed with the swimmer, provoking perverted sexual fantasies that lead to intense behaviour within him, bordering on the misogynistic. He ultimately turns her already troubled life upside down when their paths accidentally cross and they make acquaintance. The boy manipulates his way into her heart. Both are emotionally fragile and fetishes abound in the teenagers' mind. It isn't long before his desires become inexorable and he sets out to scupper what he can't have leading to an explosive nail-biting climax.
- When the pressures of procreating can bust a specimen cup, a baby-fevered couple tries to keep the temperature and spirits high with the union of biology, Latinx culture, and love.
- Experimental film, based on the life of a suburb boy.
- Chloe is a bit lost, working for her father's company, unsure of her direction in life. Warren is a hopeless romantic, in love with Chloe; but he can't get her to appreciate him until an accident brings them together. Swimmers is a Romantic Comedy about these two pool cleaners, how they find each other, and how they deal with the repercussions of a one night stand.
- Two world-worn men from Munich, the mailman Heinz and the lifeguard Herbert, look for an escape from their day-to-day lives and participate in a swimming contest across the Atlantic Ocean in the hopes of winning a 100,000 mark award.
- Popeye and Bluto are in a swimming race across the English Channel. As usual, Bluto has a million ways to cheat, and Popeye overcomes all of them to win. Some of the bits: Popeye's suit is connected to a fish hook; the fish unravels it and Popeye knits it back together. Bluto is on a raft and blows sneezing powder at Popeye. Bluto attaches a magnet to Popeye which attracts a mine (which ends up blowing Popeye much closer to the line). Bluto dumps a load of cement on Popeye.
- This movie follows California deaf athletes Jazmin Hernandez and Matt Klotz, both 15 on the road to the most unique, yet underfunded, sporting event in the world. A groundbreaking look at the state of deaf culture, the film unveils a deeply-rooted deaf world that Matt and Jazmin never knew existed.
- An aquatic athlete falls overboard unconscious during a boat crash and awakes to a mysterious underwater world.
- Searching for a better life, a bombing survivor with unresolved trauma risks a dangerous border crossing from Serbia into the EU to help a struggling addict he's fallen in love with. Based on a true story.
- A family of swimmers distinguish themselves in sport but run into trouble with Stalin's police, in this period portrait of how even the light side of life was poisoned by terror.
- A love story between two residents of a seaside town: a pearl fisherman and a shadow theater actress.
- He was a consummate swimmer of his time who decided to swim a record from Batumi to Poti city in Georgia. A distance of sixty kilometers. It is double La Mancha.
- The story behind the unmasking of Mark Kennedy, the undercover police officer who infiltrated environmental campaigning organizations over a period of seven years.
- Swimmer takes the act of swimming as an emotive subjective experience. Drawing from the psychological and symbolic the film creates an event where fear and pleasure exist side by side and intertwined. A film at the juncture of formal speculation and psychological distanciation.
- Will one man's hidden secret destroy his marriage or has it already been destroyed by his own brother? Things just never seem to be what they appear when you have defective swimmers.
- An up-close and personal look at Coast Guard rescue swimmers, an elite sea rescue unit that is the toughest, most dangerous, and most sought-after position in the U.S. Coast Guard. Footage of real-life cases brings these compelling stories to life in vivid detail.
- To Kai swimming keeps the noise of her dead end town out. As long as she is the best she can stay above it all. When her best Friend Ash dies the noise begins to seep in. The swimming, the town, and her lost friendship all begin to blur.
- For four decades, William W. Warner's Pulitzer Prize-winning best-seller, Beautiful Swimmers, about the Atlantic blue crab has delighted readers everywhere. Now, award-winning Chesapeake Bay writer Tom Horton picks up where Warner left off to find out what's happened to crabs, crabbers and the Chesapeake Bay...and what's next. The lessons learned about maintaining a sustainable fishery are applicable worldwide.
- Roger, a young man conflicted by the death of his friend, tries to outrace his inner demons by fantasizing himself as an Olympic swimmer. Roger's only hope is his psychologist Dr. Shealds, who slowly crumbles beneath the tremendous guilt he feels about the accidental drowning of his daughter. The two stories intertwine when, in a fit of mania, Roger destroys the psychologist's office and with it, the last memento Shealds has of his daughter. Shealds' mind dissolves in grief and he throws Roger out setting off a chain reaction of death and despair.
- About a young man who falls in love with a prostitute while avoiding his pregnant wife in an attempt to sabotage their marriage.
- The physical and the aesthetic intertwine in this group portrait of San Francisco bay swimmers.