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Dream Life

1972

Dream Life

1972
3
Two twenty-something women dream of the ideal man and slowly realize that reality is very different from their fantasies.
I'm Charlie Walker

2022

I'm Charlie Walker

2022
4.8
1971 post civil rights San Francisco seemed like the perfect place for a black Korean War veteran and his family to realize their dream of economic independence, and a chance for him to be his own boss. Charlie Walker would soon find out how naive he was. In a city full of impostors and naysayers, he refused to take "No" for an answer. That is, until a catastrophic disaster opened a door that had never been open to a black man before. This is a story about what happened when he stepped through that door with both feet.
Running With Crutches

2020

Running With Crutches

2020
Locked down, shielded and isolated, ShoPaapaa hobbles around his tiny universe. In a monologue that has no audience, he rails against racism and bullies, he ponders his existence lying fallen on the floor, and he makes his bed...slowly, miserably, painfully. And he never loses hope.
Fire in the Mountains

2022

Fire in the Mountains

2022
8
A mother toils to save money to build a road in a Himalayan village to take her wheelchair-bound son for physiotherapy, but her husband, who believes that an expensive religious ritual is the remedy, steals her savings.
Piccadilly

1929

Piccadilly

1929
6.4
A young Chinese woman, working in the kitchen at a London dance club, is given the chance to become the club's main act.
Roadkill

1989

Roadkill

1989
5.6
A music promoter sends a young woman on a road trip in search of a band who hasn't been showing up for their gigs.
Psychopathia Sexualis

2006

Psychopathia Sexualis

2006
3.1
Multi-narrative adaptation of Richard v. Krafft-Ebing's notorious medico-forensic study of sexual perversity.
The Christ Slayer

2019

The Christ Slayer

2019
8
Takes place at the Passover and the days that follow the crucifixion. A mix of scripture and Christian legend woven to try and create a more complete picture. It follows Longinus as the Roman soldier who put the spear to Jesus on the cross.
Sweet Country

2018

Sweet Country

2018
6.6
In 1929, an Australian Aboriginal stockman kills a white station owner in self-defense and goes on the lam, pursued by a posse.
England Is Mine

2017

England Is Mine

2017
5.8
A portrait of Steven Patrick Morrissey and his early life in 1970s Manchester before he went on to become lead singer of seminal 1980s band The Smiths.
David and Lisa

1962

David and Lisa

1962
7.2
Teenager David Clemens develops a hysterical fear that he will die if he comes into physical contact with another person. Perturbed, David's overbearing mother places him in a home for mentally disturbed young people, but David remains withdrawn from the other patients and his psychiatrist. Over time, however, David grows interested in 15-year-old Lisa, who suffers from multiple personalities – one who can only speak in rhyme, and the other, a mute.
Mogul Mowgli

2020

Mogul Mowgli

2020
6.4
Zed, a young British rapper, is about to start his first world tour, when a crippling illness strikes him down, forcing him to move back in with his family. He tries to find himself between an international music career and Pakistani family traditions.
Tesla

2020

Tesla

2020
Young people of our time will experience the biggest technological explosion in human history. Storyline follows friends of this generation who are making hypothetical situations all day long and who later become witnesses of accident and are forced to return from digital world to reality.
Maze

2017

Maze

2017
5.9
Inspired by the true events of the infamous 1983 prison breakout of 38 IRA prisoners from HMP Maze, which was to become the biggest prison escape in Europe since World War II.
Miriam Lies

2018

Miriam Lies

2018
5.7
Shy girl Miriam is waiting to celebrate her 15th birthday and she wants to invite her guy. So far they’ve only chatted online, and the anticipated blind date only complicates things.
The Swearing Jar

2022

The Swearing Jar

2022
6
Carey and Simon, an otherwise perfect couple, are trying to kick their swearing habit before their baby arrives. Tumultuous times ensue as Carey meets another man and begins a flirtation.
Take Me Home

2023

Take Me Home

2023
6
After their mother’s death, a cognitively disabled woman and her estranged sister must learn to communicate in order to move forward
The Ancient Law

1923

The Ancient Law

1923
6.3
Baruch Mayer, son of an orthodox rabbi from a poor shtetl in Galizia, decides to break with the family tradition and leave the shtetl to become an actor.
Victor Young Perez

2013

Victor Young Perez

2013
5.9
Victor Perez was a Jewish boxer who became world flyweight champion in 1931 and 1932, but was transported to Auschwitz concentration camp when Paris fell to the Nazi s in 1943. While there he was forced into slave labour and made to participate in violent boxing matches for the amusement of the Nazi guards. Surviving Auschwitz tells Victors astonishing, harrowing, brutal and incredibly moving true story.
Wah-Wah

2005

Wah-Wah

2005
5.8
Set at the end of the 1960s, as Swaziland is about to receive independence from United Kingdom, the film follows the young Ralph Compton, at 12, through his parents' traumatic separation, till he's 14.