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The First King

2019

The First King

2019
7.1
Romulus and Remus, two shepherds and loyal brothers, end up taking part to a journey that will lead one of them to be the founder of the greatest nation ever seen. However, the fate of the chosen one will pass from killing his own brother.
Shooting the Darkness

2019

Shooting the Darkness

2019
7.8
The testimony of the men who unwittingly became war photographers on the streets of their own towns in Northern Ireland, when violence erupted around them. Instead of photographing weddings and celebrities, as they expected, they produced the images that crudely show the suffering of ordinary people between 1968 and 1998, the worst years of the conflict.
The Gandhi Murder

2019

The Gandhi Murder

2019
5.5
Three Senior police officers in different parts of India, who, well aware of the intelligence that Gandhi’s life in under threat, must take key decisions that would eventually either save the Mahatma, or the country.
The First Motion of the Immovable

2019

The First Motion of the Immovable

2019
6.3
It all begins with a childhood memory: that day when the father of the future filmmaker Sebastiano d'Ayala Valva forces him to listen to certain music that initially terrifies him; a distant echo from the past that leads him to follow the trail of his mysterious ancestor, the Italian composer Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988), who claimed that his music was directly inspired by the gods.
15 Minutes of War

2019

15 Minutes of War

2019
6.8
February 1976. Somalian rebels hijack a school bus carrying 21 French children and their teacher in Djibouti City. When the terrorists drive it to a no-man’s-land on the border between Somalia and French territory, the French Government sends out a newly formed elite squad to rescue the hostages. Within a few hours, the highly trained team arrives to the crisis area, where the Somalian National Army has taken position behind the barbed wire on the border. The French unit is left with very few options to rescue the hostages. As the volatile situation unravels, the French men quickly come up with a daring plan: carry out a simultaneous 5 men sniper attack to get the children and the teacher out safely. A true story.
The Last Supper

2019

The Last Supper

2019
7
On the day Hitler assumes power, the German-Jewish Glickstein family come together for dinner. Most of them—like many Germans at the time—do not take the Nazis seriously. When Leah announces her plans to emigrate to Palestine, her family talks her down. But when Michael indicates he’s actually an admirer of the National Socialist Movement, the family is on the brink of being torn apart.
The Leader: Karl Marx

2019

The Leader: Karl Marx

2019
A story about Karl Marx and his controversial love for Jenny, his near-lost friendship with Engels, the evolution of philosophy and dialectics, the thought of transforming the world through political economics and his contribution to the revolution of the working classes.
Moonface: A Woman in the War

2019

Moonface: A Woman in the War

2019
7
A walk through the life and career of the legendary French photojournalist Christine Spengler, known as Moonface, one of the few female war reporters in the seventies, also a writer and surrealist painter, who worked in Chad, Northern Ireland, Vietnam, Cambodia, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Iran, Iraq and other places where unfortunately war and death prevailed for years.
The Great Fire of London: Hour by Hour

2019

The Great Fire of London: Hour by Hour

2019
Dan Jones, Suzannah Lipscomb and Rob Bell take viewers back to one of the most momentous events in English history - the devastating fire of September 1666 that obliterated almost every building inside the city walls of medieval London. They follow the blaze as it rampaged out of control, to reveal what actually happened, hour by hour, and street by street.
Mute Fire

2019

Mute Fire

2019
6.1
On 6 March 1906, four men were executed for the attempted murder of Colombian president Rafael Reyes. The event was photographed, and the photos were later used for a fictionalised film on the failed coup. From then on, cinema in this South American country has been inextricably linked to its violent history. Moving images have been used for historiography, propaganda, disinformation and to instil unity in a nation that refuses to come together. Falsos positivos, murdered youths disguised as guerrillas by the army to simulate military success, are a common element.
Malinche's Dream

2019

Malinche's Dream

2019
The tragic story of the encounter between the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés and the emperor Moctezuma, lord of the Mexica Empire, through the words and mediation of a woman called Malinche.
Claude Chabrol, the Maverick

2019

Claude Chabrol, the Maverick

2019
6.2
An account of the life and work of French filmmaker Claude Chabrol (1930-2010), a sybarite Buddha, a furtive anarchist, an insolent lover of life.
The Challenger Disaster

2019

The Challenger Disaster

2019
5.9
On the eve of the Challenger explosion in 1986 one engineer goes to the extreme to stop the launch. This hot-headed engineer makes a desperate race against the clock to call off the billion dollar multi-delayed Challenger launch, convinced the O-ring seals will fail and kill everyone on board. The Company, Marshall Space Flight and NASA made a business decision. He made a human decision.
Thackeray

2019

Thackeray

2019
5.1
Based on the life of Keshav Thackeray, an Indian politician who is also known as Balasaheb Thackeray.
Verdi: Macbeth

2019

Verdi: Macbeth

2019
After winning in battle, Commander Macbeth receives a prophesy that he will one day become King of Scotland. Influenced by the whisperings of his wife, he literally stops at nothing to fulfil the prophesy. But racked by guilt, the Macbeths soon sink into delusions and become victims of their own thirst for power. Anna Netrebko reprises her electrifying portrayal of Lady Macbeth opposite Plácido Domingo at the Berlin State Opera. Maestro Daniel Barenboim leads the opera icons along with the Staatsopernchor and Staatskapelle Berlin.
The Great Darkened Days

2019

The Great Darkened Days

2019
5.4
While a world war rages, Philippe, a draft-dodger from Quebec, takes refuge in the American West, surviving by competing in Charlie Chaplin impersonation contests. As Philippe makes his long journey home, he encounters various characters under the sway of a destructive madness borne of the chaotic times. His voyage, both violent and fascinating, is a hallucinatory initiation to the darker side of the American dream.
Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi

2019

Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi

2019
6.6
Story of Rani Lakshmibai, one of the leading figures of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 and her resistance to the British Rule.
Black Bus Stop

2019

Black Bus Stop

2019
5.7
Students reclaim a popular gathering spot on the campus of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville.
Narušitel

2019

Narušitel

2019
2.8
A powerful and thrilling story of a Czech flying ace, his friends, and their boundless love of flying. Four friends and their aviation mentor fly together and serve in the army for twenty years. But then, after a long time, the death of a former RAF pilot during an attempt to fly to the West begins to unravel, and the main character has no choice but to try to imitate him. "You are a trespasser, follow me," are the words he often reports into the radio when forcing those who are flying west in search of freedom to land. Now he too must attempt the same desperate escape.
Forbidden School

2019

Forbidden School

2019
7.5
Mixing dramatizations and real-life interviews, this film tells the story of four Jewish children who endured the brutal anti-Semitism of fascist Italy.