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A multinational company owned by Mrs Judit Angst is facing financial difficulties: she decides to hire a group of young anarchists to fake her "kidnapping". After a couple of weeks spent in confinement she will be able to justify the downfall of her company before the people and at the same time to gain the status of the opponent to the destruction and chaos.

HIV positive comic Steve Moore talks about his world view, his life and the disease that has become a major part of his life.

Made in 1957, this zany movie is like a lighthearted recap of Un Chien Andalou. Adam is a vegetarian, and sits there sucking grapes or watching television, but Eve is a flesh-eater and, with amiable ferocity, is determined to overcome the stout defence of his sexual innocence which he wages with every gimmick and gadget he can lay his hands on, including such unusual weapons as egg-whisks, broomsticks, and wheelbarrows. What it says about modern marriage has been said, in Hollywood movies, by Jerry Lewis and others, in more circumspect terms, but the very intensity of derision is quite enough to vex our dear censor and elevate this movie to the spiritual heights of the underground.

A cartoon character discovers the reality of it's own existence.

　A mother, daughter, and their fiancé are enjoying a vacation at a villa near the ocean when suddenly a trio of people - a middle-aged man, a woman, and a young man - break in. Three outsiders and three ordinary people feel what it means to "live" through abnormal behavior. All of them are antisocial. Although the outlaws seem to be repeating antisocial acts, the film makes you feel the emptiness of such acts and the director's appeal to call it a "comedy".

A burned-out paramedic tries to survive his last 24 hours on the job while training a new recruit.

Rosencrantz and Guildensterm, minor characters from the play 'Hamlet', find themselves on the road to Elsinore Castle at the behest of the King of Denmark. The duo encounter a band of players before arriving to find that they are needed to try to discern what troubles the prince Hamlet. Meanwhile, they ponder the meaning of their existence.

Orkhan is Jeyran's fiancé. However, one day, after he leaves Jeyran alone with a bear at the zoo and runs away, they have a falling out. Jeyran falls in love with Zaur, who works at the zoo in the guise of a bear. When it comes to marriage, Orkhan decides to take revenge on Zaur and Jeyran on their wedding day. And with the help of his friend, he steals the groom on the wedding day. But in the end, good triumphs over evil.

Japan, February 1868. As the Tokugawa shogunate declines and the power of Emperor Meiji grows, Gonzo, a soldier of the Restoration Army, returns to Sawando, his hometown, to announce the end of tyranny.

A dance of death between a mother and daughter ignites when the daughter attempts to install a new stove in her mother’s house in Dún Laoghaire, Ireland.

A tragicomedy that follows Valerie, a young girl who seeks solace in the company of the vampire Chrysanthemum to escape her trauma.

Soon after Marius's departure, Fanny learns that she is pregnant with his child, to the disappointment of her mother and of Marius's father, César. To secure a better life for her unborn child, she accepts a marriage proposal from the aging widower Honoré Panisse.

A husband, a wife and another woman. Only three are in the frame.

After the story of the same name of Natig Rasulzadeh.

Following the unexplained suicide of his wife Liza, website designer Wilson Joel turns to huffing gasoline fumes and remote control gaming while avoiding an inevitable conflict with his mother-in-law.

Gafar wants to celebrate the anniversary of the death of Feyzulla, a man who has been dead for a year, and tries to bring the relatives together again...

Woman-god prepares for a much-needed vacation. Meanwhile, a nameless cast of characters go about their day, unbeknownst to them that a flick of a switch will cause them their lives, and possibly, the whole of humanity.

In this gentle comedy, an unpopular resident in a Russian village has his life completely changed when he announces, entirely on a whim and just to upset things a bit, that he's moving to the Pacific coast.

The de Smet brothers created a system to live their lives as singles in the most comfortable way. When a new woman moves into their street, their synergy turns out to be a house of cards.

Paris, France, during the First World War. While thousands of soldiers die every day on the battlefields, Henri Landru, a seemingly respectable furniture dealer, married and father of four children, relentlessly feeds his own sinister factory of death.

An inventor who creates a time machine to correct his past mistakes encounters an unusual situation. One day, souls wanting to return to life begin to flock to his house...

Taptal is the name of the main character, a middle-aged woman played by Tatyana Legantieva. She lives in a village with her parents and her brother's family. For the past 5 years, she has been dreaming of changing her life, but she doesn't know where to start... On her birthday, she makes a wish to get married. That same evening, she hears a horoscope that says she needs to act right now! And then she sees an ad for the reality show "The Bachelor" on NVK "Sakha". Love decides to go to Yakutsk and find her soulmate on the reality show. She is not stopped even by the fact that her vacation was suddenly cancelled...

The film is about people who don't like national traditions and being Azerbaijani after returning from Europe.

A grief-stricken dysfunctional family goes camping.

Two young documentary filmmakers follow an up and coming musician by the name of JØHN through his life, creative process, and journey towards becoming the biggest pop star in the world