Released Date:
2004-03-11
Languages:
German, Turkish, English
Countries:
Germany, Turkey
Runtime:
121 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
(38723 Reviews)
Director:
Fatih AkinIn 'Gegen die Wand' Cahit, a 40-something male from Mersin in Turkey has removed everything Turkish from his life. He has become an alcoholic drug addict and at the start of the movie wants to end it all. Sibel a 20-something female from Hamburg wishes to please her Turkish parents yet yearns for freedom. She has had her nose broken by her brother for being seen holding hands with a boy and yet she can not break her mother's heart and run away. She too attempts suicide and she first approaches Cahit there at the Hospital. Sibel asks Cahit to marry her, as she believes this to be the way out of her parent's house. She promises Cahit that their relationship will be like roommates, not like a married couple. The film follows Sibel and Cahit as they get married, become closer and eventually fall in love.
Released Date:
2006-10-04
Languages:
French, Romanian, English, Hungarian, Italian, Turkish
Countries:
France
Runtime:
103 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (1958 Reviews)
Director:
Tony GatlifGenres:
DramaZingarina, who is two-month pregnant, travels from France to Transylvania with her friend Marie to seek out her lover Milan Agustin that was deported from France. They hire the guide and interpreter Luminitsa to help them to find the musician Milan. When she finds him, she is rejected and Milan tells that he was not deported, but left her. Zingarina has a breakdown and leaves Marie on the road, wandering with a street boy. Soon she meets the traveling trader Tchangalo and she joins him in a road travel without destiny.
Released Date:
2007-04-26
Languages:
German
Countries:
Germany
Runtime:
80 min
IMDB Ratings:
(222 Reviews)
Director:
Birgit MèllerGenres:
DramaMilena Baisch
Ilja Haller
Birgit Mèller
Ruth Rehmet
Elke Sudmann
When a photo model gets replaced by a batch of new younger prettier girls, her life of riches melts in front of her eyes and she's forced to live like a homeless person in a parking lot of a high class hotel she once lived in.
Released Date:
2008-11-14
Languages:
German
Countries:
Germany
Runtime:
99 min
IMDB Ratings:
5.1 (224 Reviews)
Director:
Vadim GlownaVadim Glowna
Yasunari Kawabata (novel)
Edmond, a man in his sixties whose wife has recently passed away, is told about a secret establishment where men can spend an entire night in bed alongside beautiful, sleeping young women, who stretch, roll over and dream, but never awaken. Bedazzled by their seductive yet innocent tenderness, but distressed about the reason for their deep sleep, he delves into the mystery of the house of sleeping beauties.
Released Date:
2008-05-29
Languages:
English, French, Hebrew, Arabic, German
Countries:
Israel, France
Runtime:
80 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (351 Reviews)
6 days in the lives of Eyal , an Israeli living in a kibbutz, and Rana , a Palestinian living in Paris, which starts with an accidental meeting in the Berlin Subway during the World cup finals, will change them completely. Eyal, who came to meet his accidental girlfriend, and Rana who came to cheer the French team, are forced to share as apartment and spend three intensive days together. As the final match approaches, their relationship tightens and they fall in love. Towards the final game, Rana is forced to leave Eyal who remains in Berlin on his own. Things get complicated as the Israel-Lebanon war breaks, and Eyal full of hope, decides to search for Rana, in spite of it all. An intimate encounter of two strangers in a strange city during World Cup and the second Israel-Lebanon war. A Story that touch's the profound wounds, created by years of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, of a young generation asking to reconnect and even reconcile.
Released Date:
2008-05-29
Languages:
English, French, Hebrew, Arabic, German
Countries:
Israel, France
Runtime:
80 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (354 Reviews)
6 days in the lives of Eyal , an Israeli living in a kibbutz, and Rana , a Palestinian living in Paris, which starts with an accidental meeting in the Berlin Subway during the World cup finals, will change them completely. Eyal, who came to meet his accidental girlfriend, and Rana who came to cheer the French team, are forced to share as apartment and spend three intensive days together. As the final match approaches, their relationship tightens and they fall in love. Towards the final game, Rana is forced to leave Eyal who remains in Berlin on his own. Things get complicated as the Israel-Lebanon war breaks, and Eyal full of hope, decides to search for Rana, in spite of it all. An intimate encounter of two strangers in a strange city during World Cup and the second Israel-Lebanon war. A Story that touch's the profound wounds, created by years of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, of a young generation asking to reconnect and even reconcile.
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