Drama

Gothic film in a monastery, where sensual monks murder the children they receive, with images of fantastic, painted from the author own painting and also from the Hammer films and the Saxon plastic tradition of romanticism.Read More »

Plot
Marquise Berthe de Brabant got married to a French nobleman just before the beginning of World War I. Her husband gets severely injured in an attack against the Germans and hands over the bouquet of Berthe to a German officer, before dying without revealing his name. In turn, the German soldier gets injured and is sent to a military hospital, where Berthe is taking care of war victims. Unexpectedly he tells her everything. Will Berthe take revenge, or will she fulfill her duty as a nurse? (EFG)Read More »

The fifty years old Jean-Claude has a boring life, working in a notary office of his own and as court official evicting tenants or seizing properties, or spending the Sundays afternoons in the retirement home with his sour, rude and bitter father. When he has a minor heart problem, his doctor advises him to exercise, and Jean-Claude begins to have tango lessons in a studio in front of his office…Read More »

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Minimal miniature about a rehearsal of a play text by an actress and a directing actor.

The actress is amazing. An actress and an actor are rehearsing parts of the play Three Travellers Watch Sunrise by Wallace Stevens (1879-1955). The dialogues of the three travellers (Chinese) and the girl (Anna) are spoken by the actress as a monologue. The actor listens and sometimes gives the actress directions.Read More »

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After failing the audition to a prestigious music school because of the rude behavior of one of the testers, a girl takes revenge by gaining the trust of the same woman some years later and becoming indispensable for her.Read More »

Two teenage sisters are about to leave their country forever when they unexpectedly reconnect with an absent father. This relationship will both amplify and ease their pain of change.Read More »

A young, gifted Vincent and his father Tomas run the finest glass workshop in the country. They find their lives upended by an approaching war in which they want no part. The arrival of an army colonel and his young, aspiring violinist daughter Alliz, puts the father-son relationship to the test. As Vincent and Alliz fall in love, they must find courage to confront their fathers.Read More »

Set in Hokkaido, Japan’s outback, an eight-year-old boy discovers a fawn whose mother has been hit by a car. Hiding it in an abandoned railway station, he attempts to raise it by himself.Read More »

Synopsis:
King Ludwig II of Bavaria is frustrated, having to accept parliament’s will to join Bismarck, rather he his cultured Habsburg friends, in wars. His love-life being as fruitless, he seeks comfort in art. But building fairytale castles and an even grander opera for his musical idol Wagner proves so expensive, his cabinet ends up resorting to formally challenging his mental health, plausible as his beloved brother Otto contracted schizophrenia earlier. Tragedy now lurks in Ludwig’s prison-castle.
— IMDb.Read More »