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A Short Film About Love
$23.95 | 83 minutes
In this complex character study about desire and obsession, young Tomek (Olaf Lubaszenko) becomes fixated on his neighbor Magda (Grazyna Szapolowska). After his spying on her leads to more dangerous activities, like prank calls and taking her mail, Tomek decides to confess his desire to her. Though Magda at first feels repelled by Tomek's&hellip…
A White Dress - ON DEMAND
$1.99 | 10 minutes
A young man visits his mother to introduce him his wife. But in this cloudy world that is the family, are we always those whom we pretend to be?…
A White Dress - DOWNLOAD
$7.99 | 10 minutes
A young man visits his mother to introduce him his wife. But in this cloudy world that is the family, are we always those whom we pretend to be?…
Aberdeen
$21.95 | 113 minutes
Writer-director Hans PetTer Molland (ZERO KELVIN) deftly combines two traditional cinematic genres--the road movie and the dysfunctional family drama--to create a moving character study that is entirely his own. Kaisa (Lena Headey) is a successful, hard-edged career woman living in London. Days after receiving a promotion, she is asked&hellip…
Adam Resurrected
$11.95 | 106 minutes
The trouble with Holocaust movies is that they're about the Holocaust; they resurrect an illustrious horror, habited by history's most reliable demons, with little to say except that, yes, this was a tragedy. ADAM RESURRECTED isn't likely to fit anyone's definition of a Holocaust movie. As director Paul Schrader (AFFLICTION) summarized…
Adoption
$23.95 | 89 minutes
Kati is a 43-year-old widow who wants a child by her married lover, but he refuses. Through her friendship with another woman, they help each other - the friend gets a marriage she wants and Kati adopts a child&hellip…
Aimee & Jaguar
$23.95 | 125 minutes
In 1943, as World War II's Battle of Berlin rages, with air raids forcing families into their cellars for shelter and bombs exploding all over the city, Felice Schragenheim (Juliane Köhler) and Lilly Wust (Maria Schrader), fall in love. Director Max Färberböck's AIMEE & JAGUAR tells the true story of this passionate, forbidden love…
Akiko - ON DEMAND
$1.99 | 11 minutes
Akiko is standing in an endless, black, and empty space. Finding herself in a different sense of being, she reconstructs herself and her surroundings. Different elements from her surroundings come into view; the road, the grass and the streetlights. Akiko watches and experiences everything in a very intense way, as if she has never seen…
Akiko - DOWNLOAD
$7.99 | 11 minutes
Akiko is standing in an endless, black, and empty space. Finding herself in a different sense of being, she reconstructs herself and her surroundings. Different elements from her surroundings come into view; the road, the grass and the streetlights. Akiko watches and experiences everything in a very intense way, as if she has never seen…
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
$34.95 | 93 minutes
A deceivingly simple film about the uncomfortable romantic relationship between a 60-year-old German cleaning woman named Emmi and a 40-year-old Moroccan immigrant named Ali, ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL is one of director R.W. Fassbinder's most powerful pictures. Brought together by a jeering barmaid, Emmi and Ali are surprised to find that&hellip…