Released Date:
2009-06-18
Languages:
German, Italian
Countries:
Germany
Runtime:
119 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.6 (2340 Reviews)
Director:
Maren AdeWhile on a Mediterranean vacation, a seemingly happy boyfriend and girlfriend find their connection to one another tested as they bond with another couple.
Released Date:
2011-09-22
Languages:
German, French
Countries:
Germany, Switzerland
Runtime:
89 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
5.9 (9850 Reviews)
Director:
Tim FehlbaumTim Fehlbaum (screenplay)
Oliver Kahl (screenplay)
Thomas Wèbke (screenplay)
In the not too distant future, people struggle to survive their greatest enemy, the sun.
Released Date:
2011-09-29
Languages:
Dutch, English
Countries:
Denmark, Netherlands
Runtime:
81 min
IMDB Ratings:
5.7 (629 Reviews)
Director:
Urszula AntoniakGenres:
DramaUrszula Antoniak (screenplay)
Marian, a middle aged nurse, devotes herself to her patients like a saint. Sometimes she even takes on the role of a redeemer, by helping the gravely ill to the soothing order of ultimate silence. When she gets linked to a neighbor in an act of common voyeurism, she becomes fascinated by him. Faced with the fragility of these newfound emotions, Marian surrenders to her human needs...
Released Date:
2015-04-10
Languages:
English, French, German, Swiss German
Countries:
France, Germany, Switzerland
Runtime:
124 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (11774 Reviews)
Director:
Olivier AssayasGenres:
DramaOlivier Assayas (screenplay)
At the peak of her international career, Maria Enders is asked to perform in a revival of the play that made her famous twenty years ago. But back then she played the role of Sigrid, an alluring young girl who disarms and eventually drives her boss Helena to suicide. Now she is being asked to step into the other role, that of the older Helena. She departs with her assistant to rehearse in Sils Maria; a remote region of the Alps. A young Hollywood starlet with a penchant for scandal is to take on the role of Sigrid, and Maria finds herself on the other side of the mirror, face to face with an ambiguously charming woman who is, in essence, an unsettling reflection of herself.
Released Date:
2015-03-19
Languages:
Albanian, Italian
Countries:
Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Albania, Kosovo, France
Runtime:
84 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.4 (186 Reviews)
Director:
Laura BispuriGenres:
DramaElvira Dones (novel)
Laura Bispuri (screenplay)
Francesca Manieri (screenplay)
Hana Doda, still a girl, escapes from her destiny of being wife and servant which is imposed on the women in the inhospitable mountains in Albania. She appeals to the old law of the Kanun and swears her eternal virginity thus becoming a "sworn virgin". She turns into a man, takes up a rifle and becomes Mark, Mark Doda. It is in exchange for this sacrifice that Hana is allowed to be considered at the same level as other men. Her battle does not only mean that she must rebel against what destiny has been writing on her body for centuries, but she must also reject, in name of this rebellion, every form of love. A refusal that becomes her prison. After more than ten years spent in solitude in the mountains as a man, she becomes brutish and she transforms to survive the hardship, the cold and misery, until something returns to awaken her again... Hana decides to change life and painstakingly regain her body. She knows that leaving the mountains is the price she will have to pay to be able to go back to living. A journey drags her away from her arid land, a journey that will mean she will have to revisit her past and exhume memories and feelings that she was made to bury in oblivion. Following a path that is a continuous and subtle crossing of two different and distant worlds, of the past and the future. In a modern Milan metropolis, she struggles to leave her man's clothes and learns to be woman. She experiences the heady sensation of physical contact with others, and she finds dear and beloved people that life had taken from her and there opens an unexpected and forbidden possibility of love. Mark not only returns to being Hana, but she is also able to piece the two souls back together that for years have lived inside her body and she is reborn as a new, free and complete.
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