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Rodin

  This documentary captures both Rodin’s greatest achievements as an artist, as well as his struggles with the critics and within his personal life. In spite of the complexity of Read More

Romantics & Realists: Courbet

  Gustave Courbet loved to present himself as a hard-drinking, radical-thinking peasant artist in mid-nineteenth century Paris, but his public image was largely a creation of his own, yet with Read More

Jack Frusciante Has Left the Band

  Jack Frusciante Has Left the Band tells the story of the relationship between Alex, a 17-year-old rebel, and Aidi, a girl who enters his life out of the blue Read More

Santa Maradona

  Andrea is 27, and he has just graduated from the university with a useless degree and numerous girlfriends. He is full of hope but spends his days looking for Read More

Lying Lips

  Elsie is a popular nightclub singer, who refuses to go out with the customers. When she is framed and convicted for murdering her aunt, her friend Benjamin, a police Read More

Within Our Gates

  Within Our Gates is a 1920 American silent film by the director Oscar Micheaux that portrays the contemporary racial situation in the United States during the early twentieth century, Read More

Underworld

  Boisterous gangster kingpin ‘Bull’ Weed rehabilitates the down-and-out ‘Rolls Royce’ Wensel, a former lawyer who has fallen into alcoholism. The two become confidants, with Rolls Royce’s intelligence aiding Weed’s Read More

A World Without Thieves

  A huge hit in China, this fast-paced drama follows a con man (Andy Lau) and his equally cunning girlfriend (Rene Liu), who head through western China after swiping a Read More

The Woman Next Door

  Bernard lives happily with his wife Arlette and young son Thomas in a village outside Grenoble. One day a married couple, Philippe and Mathilde, move into the house next Read More

Don’t Move

  A prominent surgeon waits anxiously after his 15-year old daughter, while riding her motor scooter one rainy night, was struck by a car and, now, her life hangs in Read More