Hamka & Siti Raham Vol. 2 2023
This biopic explores Muslim scholar Buya Hamka’s life and hardships alongside his loving wife, Siti Raham, after Indonesia gained independence.
Prorok 2022
Me and the Cult Leader 2020
Atsushi Sakahara, a victim of the 1995 sarin gas attack in Tokyo’s subway system, travels with Hiroshi Araki, an executive of Aleph (formerly Aum Shinrikyo), the attack’s perpetrators, visiting their…
Tetris 2023
The story of how one of the world’s most popular video games found its way to players around the globe. Businessman Henk Rogers and Tetris inventor Alexey Pajitnov join forces…
Titina 2022
Italian airship engineer Umberto Nobile enjoys a quiet life with his beloved dog Titina, who charmed him into rescuing her from the streets of Rome. One day, Norwegian explorer superstar…
Föltámadott a tenger 1953
In 1953, the film evokes the 1848-49 periods up to the revolutionary struggle of the internal and external enemies. Petofi start there in the events, even in the ranks of…
House of Seven Belles 1979
The late director/writer Andy Milligan never completed his antebellum South melodrama, and all he left behind was a single unfinished work print. As he said, “it’s all there, except the…
The Castle of Purity 1973
The story of a disciplined and sexually driven man who keeps his family isolated in his home for years to protect them from the “evil nature” of human beings while…
Willem & Frieda 2023
Stephen Fry investigates the inspiring and moving story of a gay man and a lesbian who led anti-Nazi resistance in Holland
My Favorite War 2020
A personal, animated documentary about the director’s life growing up in Latvia during the Soviet era 1970-1990, where Sovjet used WW2 as an ideological weapon to suppress and scare the…
Shoah 1985
Claude Lanzmann directed this 9 1/2 hour documentary of the Holocaust without using a single frame of archive footage. He interviews survivors, witnesses, and ex-Nazis (whom he had to film…
Battle of Okinawa 1971
Told from the Japanese perspective, this war drama captures the events of World War II’s Battle of Okinawa – a massive amphibious assault by U.S. troops that left more than…
Castle Under Fiery Skies 2009
An achievement-type of story: a builder/carpenter/architect goes through trials and tribulations to construct an impressive castle for his employer, the major Japanese historical figure, Oda Nobunaga.
Lord of the Ants 2022
Italian poet, playwright and director Aldo Braibanti is jailed in 1968 under a law criminalizing grooming. The informant is his partner’s father.
Effigy: Poison and the City 2019
1828 in the German port city of Bremen: Two very different women collide in an age that has no place for either of them. One strives for a career in…
The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1956
Paris, 1482. Today is the festival of the fools, taking place like each year in the square outside Cathedral Notre Dame. Among jugglers and other entertainers, Esmeralda, a sensuous gypsy,…
Iran Is My Land 1999
‘Iran Is My Land’ documents the journey of Sohrab, an itinerant writer, whose latest work, a book of Iranian poetry, requires a permit from Iran’s censors in order to be…
The Hollow Crown – Season 1
The Hollow Crown is a series of British television films featuring William Shakespeare’s History Plays. The first Season is an adaptation of Shakespeare’s second historical tetralogy, the Henriad: Richard II,…
Horse Doctor
The King’s Doctor is a 2012 South Korean television series, starring Jo Seung-woo and Lee Yo-won. It aired on Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation from October 1, 2012 to March 25, 2013…
The Great Seer
The Great Seer is a 2012 South Korean historical television series, starring Ji Sung, Ji Jin-hee, Song Chang-eui, Kim So-yeon and Lee Yoon-ji. Set during the turbulent decline of Goryeo,…
The Hollow Crown – Season 2
The Hollow Crown is a series of British television films featuring William Shakespeare’s History Plays. The first Season is an adaptation of Shakespeare’s second historical tetralogy, the Henriad: Richard II,…
Cha guan 1982
An old teahouse in Beijing serves as the stage for a drama that unfolds over several tumultuous decades of modern Chinese history, from the waning days of the Qing dynasty…
Building Burma’s Death Railway: Moving Half the Mountain 2014
This documents the true stories of the survivors from one of the worst atrocities of the Second World War the brutal use of POWs and forced local labour by the…
Americans Underground: Secret City of WWI 2017
An amazing discovery has been made beneath a farm field in Northern France: a vast underground city where World War I soldiers, on both sides of the conflict, took refuge…
All My Good Countrymen 1969
Stories about seven friends in a small Moravian village following the socialization of Czechoslovakia in 1948, developing gradually into the story of Frantiek, the resister. The film offers some direct…
Boulevard! A Hollywood Story 2021
Dickson Hughes and Richard Stapley, two young songwriters and romantic partners, find themselves caught in movie star Gloria Swanson’s web when she hires them to write a musical version of…