In the Sicilian town of Taormina, Italy, an aspiring writer in search of inspiration meets a folk singer trying to write a follow up to her breakout hit. Their chemistry sparks collaboration, challenging each other to express their thorniest secrets.
In 1980, Queens, New York, a young Jewish boy befriends a rebellious African-American classmate to the disapproval of his privileged family and begins to reckon with growing up in a world of inequality and prejudice.
A middle-aged theater director is about to stage a play from Dostoevskji's unfinished novel. He lives in a large house similar to a maze that hides a secret. Attracted to young women, he has had many in his life, but he has loved very few and to these few, he dedicates a constant and mysterious cult.
Everything Ivy Morgan thought she knew has been turned on its head. If she doesn't figure out who she can trust-and fast-it's not only her heart that will be torn apart, but civilization itself.
Adapted from a sensational real-life case in 2013, the intricate story begins when a young man partners with his friend to murder and dismember his parents. Pleading not guilty, the defense attorneys soon turn on each other, as the defendants play the devil and idiot game. Meanwhile, heated debates emerge inside the jury room, where nine jurors grapple with the truth.
As a forestry student doing an internship, Anja Grimm ends up in that remote area in the Upper Palatinate Forest, where she went on vacation with her parents as an eight-year-old girl and her father disappeared without a trace. Her job is to take soil samples to create a soil map. At one point in the forest floor she comes across abnormal irregularities. Not long after their arrival, a brutal murder occurs. Anja soon arouses suspicion and hostility not only among the villagers with her suspicion that the perpetrator knows something about her father's fate and with her questions about the atypical soil composition in the forest clearing. Even the police react extremely reservedly to their investigations. And when it turns out that the young woman can read the signs of the forest like an open book, forces mobilize in the village who are apparently ready for anything because there is a dark secret that needs to be kept.
Xatar’s way from the ghetto to the top of the charts is as dramatic as it is daring: Fatih Akin’s new film is based on the autobiographical novel »Alles oder Nix« (»All or Nothing«) of the probably most authentic exponent of German gangsta rap. From the hell of an Iraqi jail, Giwar Hajabi (Emilio Sakraya) emigrated to Germany as a young boy with his family in the mid-1980s and has to start right at the bottom. There are opportunities, but far more obstacles. Giwar’s rise from petty criminal to major dealer is swift. Until one shipment goes missing. In order to clear his debts with the cartel, he plans a legendary gold heist. But just as everything goes wrong, another door opens for Giwar thanks to his passion for music …
A married woman with an unwanted pregnancy lives in a time in America where she can't get a legal abortion and works with a group of suburban women to find help.
Scarpedicemente is a claustrophobic, dark comedy based on the play written by the two leads, husband and wife team John Vamvas and Olga Montes. Luigi (John Vamvas) is a delusional gangster madly in love with his ditzy gangster moll wife Holly (Olga Montes). The larger-than-life couple are celebrating their one-year wedding anniversary at a low rent Las Vegas motel. While deeply in love, Luigi and Holly share an inability to live in the present. Luigi a walking film projector, playing out the favorite gangster movies of his mind. While Holly's exuberant exterior hides a troubled past bubbling to the surface of their relationship. Sparks fly in this tale of two troubled souls mired in their hefty emotional baggage. —Donato Totaro
A car bomb explodes in front of a Berlin cinema as an Israeli film celebrates its premiere there. The trail leads to the video blog of 18-year-old Jana. What might have made her do it? Jana herself can no longer give any information about it, because she was killed in the attack. So all that remains is her blog on the social networks.
In a family-owned bowling alley, tension arises between two brothers following their father's death. Meanwhile one of them, a cop, is investigating a series of disturbing murders. Both brothers soon find themselves trapped in a looming darkness.
Pil-ju, an Alzheimer's patient in his 80s, who lost all his family during the Japanese colonial era, and devotes his lifelong revenge before his memories disappear, and a young man in his 20s who helps him.
A man attempts to break off an affair he’s been having with an unstable woman while his fiancée has been away sheltering with her family during the COVID-19 pandemic. Now as the restrictions are lifting, his time is running out and this woman is getting more and more volatile.
After reuniting, Sarah tells her brother Stephen that she's pregnant. Stephen will do his best to help raise it with her, even with many obstacles in the way.
After a Bishop dies, a new senior pastor, pastor Moore, inherits the church, it's congregation, and assets. Soon, pastor Moore's lies, lust, and greed entangle everyone and everything around him into his world of crime.
Flight 811, including Azra and Cengiz couple, who carry a $2 million worth of emerald to the auction in the United States, takes off from Istanbul to New York, while a suspicious death changes the fate of all passengers. In this tension-filled atmosphere taking place in a passenger plane over the Atlantic Ocean, all passengers become suspects and in the end all the pieces of the puzzle come together when the audience faces the shocking reality which is never expected. Bringing together award-winning actors of Turkish theater and popular faces of television and cinema, the production also has the distinction of being the first film shot in Turkey to take place entirely on an airplane.
Karen Williams, a trauma therapist, has witnessed firsthand the special courage that shapes those who work in emergency services. But when her husband, a career firefighter, returns from a life-changing blaze, and she discovers that a degree and years of counseling first responders has done little to personally prepare her to help her husband’s battle with PTSD. Unable to see a path to save her marriage, she turns to God and celebrates the truth that through Him all things are possible. Perhaps no one knows this better than the brave men and women who provide emergency services: the ones we call “first responders.”
Two terminally ill hospice residents conspire to make their spouses fall in love with each other to lessen the impact of their death. Things go awry when they themselves fall in love and one of them begins to feel better.