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The student council must grapple with a mix of double-entendres and potent teen hormones.

In France, the single translator Diane Siprien adopts an Asian baby named Liu-San in a foundation directed by Sybille Weber. Years later, a weird mark appears on the boy's chest and Diane and Liu share their dreadful nightmares. Diane is assigned for a three-day job in Germany and she leaves Liu with her friend Sybille. However, while going to the airport, Diane finds Liu hidden in the backseat and startles with an eagle flying toward the windshield, crashing her car. Liu falls into a coma and his digital recorder records the boy speaking in an unknown dialect. When Diane searches the translation and the origins of Liu, she is surrounded by mysterious murders. She discovers that the dialect is from the mystic Mongolian Tseven tribe and that Liu is a powerful Observer; further, he is in danger, threatened by sorcerers that need the boy for their Council of the Stone..

The work of Ousai Private Academy's student council is never done. This time, Takatoshi, Shino, Aria and Suzu are back with their very own movie! From TV interviews to a new teacher, there's even more potential for misunderstandings as the double entendres, innuendos and euphemisms reach critical mass.

The Black Council gives a vivid picture of the different levels of society in seventeenth-century Ukraine. The main theme is the need for people to be motivated by high ideals as they engage in the struggle of truth with injustice.

An assassination attempt on the highest dignitary of the Catholic Church? According to providence, this is exactly what is supposed to happen on a certain day in September. When parts of the prophecy actually come true, the Vatican is seriously worried. The highest security measures are therefore in place for the Holy Father's upcoming visit to Cologne. Vatican security officers Andrea Conti and Paolo Naldini, as well as BKA officers Sara Stertz and Frank Dabrock, join forces to protect the Pope. At around the same time, former Foreign Legionnaire and precision marksman Rami Hamdan receives a mysterious assignment. For the horrendous sum of 25 million dollars, he is to take out a high-ranking figure. His destination is the cathedral city of Cologne.

Spin Off from "Broken Embraces"

Based on the records of the Nuremberg trial of the chemical giant IG Farben; a story about the collaboration between international corporations and Nazi scientists, whose research contributed to the death of millions. The chemist Dr. Hans Scholz lives through a tortuous political transformation and maturation process. Eventually, he adopts political neutrality and closes his eyes to the fact that the poison being produced in his factory is being used in the extermination camps. Standing before the judges at the Nuremberg trials, he must face the fact that he is implicated in the deaths of millions in the gas chambers of the concentration camps.

Year 1943. All the members of an anti-fascist council are arrested by the Nazis during a wedding, along with the husband. They are pressured into signing a document against the council, but they refuse, and instead plan to help the husband escape in case of an execution.

Silent film from 1915 which draws on the story of Carmen

A young man opens the window of his attic room and discovers a lunar landscape which submerges him and threatens to imprison him in an eternal sheet of ice. He closes the window to escape this vision and hears from deep inside his soul the sound of a poem being sung.

Svea and Bertil are competing on TV and one of them risks being eliminated.

A 19th century Portuguese wine magnate must prevail over politicians, phylloxera, patriarchy, and especially her own children to ensure the survival of her family's business empire.

Paul Leduc, Rafael Castanedo, Óscar Menéndez and other students filmed the CNH assemblies and took to the streets to record the rallies, demonstrations and confrontations that the various student groups held against the police and the army throughout 1968.

In 1929 music teacher Paul Leinert receives an unexpected letter from his old friend Otto Schiffmann, a young and talented composer who has moved away from Berlin after a failed marriage. The letter is an invitation for Paul to come and visit Otto in his forest cabin – and to become familiar with his new work, a long-awaited symphony. Taking along his wife Anna together with his colleague Willi, the three find Otto’s cabin but their host is nowhere to be seen. As they go looking for him, Paul notices something odd about the song of the local birds...

A cat appeared in the pantry of mice. A group of mice agrees to attach a bell to a cat's neck to warn of its approach in the future. And who will be that brave one?

The film takes place in a Parisian suburb and brings us into the closest possible contact with the people who live here and takes us into the privacy of their lives. A series of personal accounts and shots of the decorated interiors of apartments and houses with no hint as to where we are, no names. No stigma attached, no label given. For these are not the subject of the film, which seeks instead to give a face and a voice – a sort of private landscape – to a space that has come to represent all that is standardized and anonymous.

The film compares scenes from the frescoes of Serbian medieval monasteries with scenes of church councils held in churches. Relying on his pictorial sensibility (he graduated in History of Art), using symbols, real landmarks, without a narrative flow but accompanied by sound and original music, Petrović's short film Sabori, which is also a documentary, becomes a timeless film.

Short by Makavejev.

Invited and uninvited guests come to the Barguzins' house for a housewarming party. The languid evening is suddenly interrupted by events that are inexplicable from the point of view of common sense, creating an atmosphere of tension and drama. At the same time, Shai, a friend of Yust Barguzin, who supposedly witnessed the council of the winds during his travels, is painfully worried about the rising storm, which, according to him, is supposed to take him away. What is happening on the screen draws the viewer into a frightening phantasmagoria. Changes in mood, sudden turns, the appearance of unexpected characters create the illusion of the intersection of different worlds and an atmosphere of mystery. An unexpected ending clarifies the situation, but leaves the viewer with even more questions.

From the Association for Young Danish Art: The Student Council's premises, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, 6 December. 1967

A rebellious student and a perfectionist overachiever form an unlikely alliance in their race for student body president, discovering unexpected feelings along the way.

A prequel to "Stone Cold", the story picks up after Jesse Stone is fired from the Los Angeles Police Department. He becomes an unlikely candidate recruited by a town council to become police chief of Paradise, MA, a small fishing town on Boston's North Shore. The board hopes his failed experience will keep him from digging too deep into the town's secrets. His first assignment is to investigate the murder of his predecessor whose death may be tied to a local domestic disturbance case, with connections to money laundering and murder involving some of the town's most affluent names as possible suspects.

When a willful young man tries to venture beyond his sequestered Pennsylvania hamlet, his actions set off a chain of chilling incidents that will alter the community forever.

Deals with the establishment of the Italian republic and Italy’s foreign affairs, particularly how Italy regained national sovereignty and appreciation from the USA and Western Europe after the Second World War. It explains in what way Italy benefits from integration into a Western alliance system (NATO, Council of Europe, European Coal and Steel Community) during the Cold War.

The story kicks off on Hartcliffe council estate in Bristol during the early 1980s. It follows Steven Knight, a working-class boy who has his motorbike stolen the day he buys it. Teaming up with his scoundrel friends he desperately tries to track it down before it's gone for good.

Darren Barrenman, an unwavering optimist and native Angeleno, spends his days looking after the pool of the Tahitian Tiki apartment block and fighting to make his hometown a better place to live.

After 20 years abroad, Mark Renton returns to Scotland and reunites with his old friends Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie.

A peaceful alien planet faces annihilation, as the homeless remainder of the human race sets its eyes on Terra. Mala, a rebellious Terrian teenager, will do everything she can to stop it.

Aspiring director Corky St. Clair and the marginally talented amateur cast of his hokey small-town musical production go overboard when they learn that Broadway theater agent Mort Guffman will be in attendance.

The Draymen Estate has become an urban legend. Amongst the sinister stories of unsavoury locals and brutal violence, several people have apparently gone missing. Even the police won't go there. Enter two naive student filmmakers with a well-meaning plan to make a sympathetic documentary of life on the estate. The unlucky duo quickly discovers that problems of drugs and crime in this community go way beyond the norm. This is a community which is about to present the students with material of unimaginable horror - turning their final project int their darkest nightmare.

Using verite conventions, a young couple with a baby and a child are worn away by the monotony of their lives.

Unemployed and unemployable, Tony is a sympathetic recluse with severe social problems, an addiction to VHS action films and a horrible moustache. Occasionally he snaps and murder is the result…

Six friends, who've known each other from childhood, break into the tower block they lived in as kids, now deserted and condemned, to rig-up a pirate radio station, get high and party. When one of the group goes missing, her friends begin to search the dark interior of the tower and soon realize that they are not alone: a resident psychopath lurks in the shadows and is hunting them down, taking them out, one-by-one.

An acerbic high school student prone to panic attacks runs for class president to get closer to his teacher.

Prior to a city council election, the collapse of a building leaves a land developer and his political backers defending themselves against a scandal.

On the outskirts of Birmingham and the margins of society the Billingham family perform extreme rituals and break social taboos as they muddle through a life decided by factors beyond their control. At times shocking and laced with an unsettling humor, three episodes unfold as a powerful evocation of the experience of growing up in a Black Country council flat.

The story of Joseph, a man plagued by violence and a rage that is driving him to self-destruction. As Joseph's life spirals into turmoil a chance of redemption appears in the form of Hannah, a Christian charity shop worker. Their relationship develops to reveal that Hannah is hiding a secret of her own with devastating results on both of their lives.

Details the virtually unknown story of the Council On Foreign Relations and how this think tank is responsible for defining the U.S. globalist agenda.

Two South Africans set out to discover what happened to their unlikely musical hero, the mysterious 1970s rock 'n' roller, Rodriguez.

Documentary about the French public welfare system.

When Lauren Reynolds, a beautiful girl with a painful home life, breaks it off with her drug-addict ex, Matt, she is ready to give up on dating all together. Between raising her two younger brothers, working a meaningless nine-to-five with her best friend, and trying to talk sense into her physically abused mother, Lauren doesn't have much time or desire for a new man. Things change when Lauren meets a seemingly perfect match, Brandon Phillips. Lauren doesn't know that she is about to learn the hard way that Brandon's charm has a limit and that this new Loverboy has a much darker, sinister side...

A gay Australian man reflects on the immigration problems of his young Russian boyfriend.

Four teenagers on a road trip decide to take a detour and find them selves at at haunted house halloween scream park deep in the woods of southern Kentucky. After witnessing an assortment of torture and gore. they start wondering if what they are experiencing is not a little too realistic. Before they know it each one of hem is captured and made part of the horrific attraction they originally thought was all fun and games.

A Harvard professor is lured back into the courtroom after twenty-five years to take the case of a young black man condemned to death for the horrific murder of a child.

When the past catches up to Trevor, a businessman and husband, he becomes haunted by his repeated betrayal of loved ones.

A satire involving two obsessive characters, Lucy and Jude, and Lucy's best friend Liz. Themes involve cyclical patterns, toxic relationships, and loyalty.

After a fundraiser for a black politician is robbed, Detroit police put two detectives, one white and one black, on the case, who try to work together under boiling political pressure.

A reporter refuses to reveal his source in the case of the murder of a young girl. As a result, he and his family are shunned by the residents of the small town in which they live. Virtually no one comes to his daughter's wedding, and at his office, the police search his desk, and his boss threatens to fire him.

A U.S. Marine plots a terrorist attack on a small-town American mosque, but his plan takes an unexpected turn when he comes face to face with the people he sets out to kill.

A young woman falls in love and marries, but withholds from her husband information about her family.

The truth of the past come to light in a series of haunting visions in this drama. The strange visions grow more vivid with each passing day, a young woman of Native American heritage begins piecing together a Catholic priests diabolical plot to prevent her mother from revealing the atrocities that unfolded at a Native Indian boarding school.

An orphaned teenage girl struggles to survive as America is ravaged by a grisly civil war.

When Zach gets a message from his biological father on social media, he and his friends venture to Death Valley to meet him. No one was prepared for what they find

In 1973, when Frank Bledsoe and his 18-year-old niece Beth take a road trip from Manhattan to Creekville, South Carolina for the family patriarch's funeral, they're unexpectedly joined by Frank's lover Walid.

In the near future, a politician fresh off an electoral loss escapes to his family's summer lake house. His vacation is disrupted by the appearance of his first love, who has just returned from a 20-year space voyage and hasn't aged a day.

An ordinary man makes an extraordinary discovery when a train accident leaves his fellow passengers dead — and him unscathed. The answer to this mystery could lie with the mysterious Elijah Price, a man who suffers from a disease that renders his bones as fragile as glass.

New York detective John McClane is back and kicking bad-guy butt in the third installment of this action-packed series, which finds him teaming with civilian Zeus Carver to prevent the loss of innocent lives. McClane thought he'd seen it all, until a genius named Simon engages McClane, his new "partner" -- and his beloved city -- in a deadly game that demands their concentration.

Free after years in prison, Carlito Brigante intends to give up his criminal ways, but it's not long before the ex-con is sucked back into the New York City underworld. Reconnecting with his dancer girlfriend, Carlito gets entangled in the shady dealings of his friend Dave Kleinfeld, who also serves as his lawyer. An encounter with shifty gangster Benny Blanco sets the duo on a dangerous path.

David, a middle-aged, man visits a dermatologist, and it gets extremely bizarre.

Are you plagued by nocturnal visitations by amphibious, predatory humanoids dressed as Fishermen? Milford Luster is a renowned survivalist and pioneer in the field of Fishermen safety, a topic so important the government has done everything in their power to hide all record of the Fishermen Invasion of 1992.

Born inside a glass enclosure, a young scientist discovers there’s more to life when she meets a man from the outside.

A high school girl must confront the people whose opinions have molded her in order to reclaim her identity.

In a forgotten roadside mine attraction, RICKY, a daydreaming tour guide, must answer the call to adventure to thwart treasure hunters and uncover the truth behind a mysterious artifact: The Mirror of Montezuma.

A health inspector's presence at a mysterious drug deal reveals a dark truth.

When a man without a family or a home arrives at a mysterious tower in a mysterious land to request to meet ‘The Law’, he is confronted by two of humanity’s greatest enemies: Time and the Truth.