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A Stowaway on the Ship of Fools
🇷🇸 Serbia The 20th CenturyThe story takes place in the Belgrade mental hospital on Guberevac during the WWI, where notable Serbian writer Petar Kočić spends his last years of life. The safety of mental hospital in a war-torn Belgrade is disrupted when the deputy military governor in occupied Belgrade, Kosta Herman, finds out that Kočić is in the hospital and decides to settle old scores with him.
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Dharam Yudh Morcha
🇮🇳 IndiaDuring a family visit, a devout man tells his grandson about significant events from the history of Sikhs in India.
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The Hidden Sky
🇳🇦 NamibiaHermes is an Argentine anthropologist who is living with the villagers of the Damara ethnic group in Namibia. Researching about the possible origins of mankind and specialized in the cosmogony of some people, he manages to obtain some results. He travels to Argentina searching an answer in San Felix, the last afro-descendant community in the country. Hermes provides a unique bridge that will help to recover the memory of a changed history, with the conviction that mankind descended from amphibious beings. But his desire of knowledge will show him how dangerous it is. Director Pablo Cesar specializes in co-productions between Argentina and Africa.
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Inside the dramatic search for a cure to ME/CFS — Inside the dramatic search for a cure to ME/CFS (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome). 17 million people around the world suffer from what ME/CFS has been known as a mystery illness, delegated to the psychological realm, until now. A scientist in the only neuro immune institute in the world may have come up with the answer. An important human drama, plays out on the quest for the truth.
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Lady of the Dynasty
🇨🇳 China The 8th CenturyThe tragic story of a Tang Dynasty imperial consort who was the favorite of the Emperor Xuanzong.
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Queen of the Desert
England 🇯🇴 Jordan 🇲🇦 Morocco The 1890s The 1900s The 1910s The 1920sOne woman can change the course of history — A chronicle of Gertrude Bell's life, a traveler, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer, and political attaché for the British Empire at the dawn of the twentieth century.
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In the Heart of the Sea
Massachusetts Pacific Ocean The 1820sBased on the incredible true story that inspired Moby Dick — In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex is assaulted by something no one could believe—a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance.
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Macbeth
ScotlandAll hail Macbeth that shall be king — Feature film adaptation of Shakespeare's Scottish play about General Macbeth whose ambitious wife urges him to use wicked means in order to gain power of the throne over the sitting king, Duncan.
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Suffragette
England The 1910s The 1900sMothers. Daughters. Rebels. — Based on true events about the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement who were forced underground to evade the State.
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True Story
New YorkSome mysteries are beyond belief. — A drama centered around the relationship between journalist Michael Finkel and Christian Longo, an FBI Most Wanted List murderer who for years lived outside the U.S. under Finkel's name.
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Everest
Tibet 🇳🇿 New Zealand The 1990sThe Storm Awaits. — Inspired by the incredible events surrounding a treacherous attempt to reach the summit of the world's highest mountain, "Everest" documents the awe-inspiring journey of two different expeditions challenged beyond their limits by one of the fiercest snowstorms ever encountered by mankind. Their mettle tested by the harshest of elements found on the planet, the climbers will face nearly impossible obstacles as a lifelong obsession becomes a breathtaking struggle for survival.
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The Assassin
🇨🇳 China The 9th CenturyA female assassin during the Tang Dynasty begins to question her loyalties when she falls in love with one of her targets.
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California Winter
CaliforniaTo the banks, it's just a house. To them, it's a home. — Young real estate agent Clara Morales encouraged risky loans to her clients during the housing boom. She must now rescue her father’s home from foreclosure - a consequence of the loan she advised him to take.
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Black Mass
Massachusetts California Florida The 1970sKeep your enemies close. — The true story of Whitey Bulger, the brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who became an FBI informant to take down a Mafia family invading his turf.
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Love & Mercy
California The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s The 1960sThe Life, Love and Genius of Brian Wilson — In the late 1960s, the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson stops touring, produces "Pet Sounds" and begins to lose his grip on reality. By the 1980s, Wilson, under the sway of a controlling therapist, finds a savior in Melinda Ledbetter.
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Stonewall
Indiana New York The 1960sWhere Pride Began — Kicked out by his parents, a gay teenager leaves small-town Indiana for New York's Greenwich Village, where growing discrimination against the gay community leads to riots on June 28, 1969.
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Palm Trees in the Snow
🇪🇸 Spain 🇬🇶 Equatorial Guinea The 1960s The 1950s The 2000sBased on thousands of real stories — Spain, 2003. An accidental discovery leads Clarence to travel from the snowy mountains of Huesca to Equatorial Guinea, to visit the land where her father Jacobo and her uncle Kilian spent most of their youth, the island of Fernando Poo.
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Admiral
England 🇳🇱 Netherlands The 17th CenturyWars are fought by many. History is made by few... — When the young republic of The Netherlands is attacked by England, France and Germany and faces its own civil war no less, only one man, Michael de Ruyter, can lead the county's strongest weapon, the Dutch fleet.
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Field of Lost Shoes
Virginia The 1860sSend the boys in... and may God forgive me — A group of teenage cadets sheltered from war at the Virginia Military Institute must confront the horrors of an adult world when they are called upon to defend the Shenandoah Valley.
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The 33
🇨🇱 Chile The 2010sHope Runs Deep — Based on a true story about the collapse at the mine in San Jose, Chile that left 33 miners isolated underground for 69 days.
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Francofonia
🇫🇷 France The 1940sAn elegy for Europe — Master filmmaker Alexander Sokurov (Russian Ark) transforms a portrait of the world-renowned museum into a magisterial, centuries-spanning reflection on the relation between art, culture and power.
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Experimenter
Connecticut New York The 1960s The 1970sThe Stanley Milgram Story — Yale University, 1961. Stanley Milgram designs a psychology experiment that still resonates to this day, in which people think they’re delivering painful electric shocks to an affable stranger strapped into a chair in another room. Despite his pleads for mercy, the majority of subjects don’t stop the experiment, administering what they think is a near-fatal electric shock, simply because they’ve been told to do so. With Nazi Adolf Eichmann’s trial airing in living rooms across America, Milgram strikes a nerve in popular culture and the scientific community with his exploration into people’s tendency to comply with authority. Celebrated in some circles, he is also accused of being a deceptive, manipulative monster, but his wife Sasha stands by him through it all.
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The Witch
Massachusetts The 17th CenturyEvil takes many forms. — In 1630s New England, William and Katherine lead a devout Christian life with five children, homesteading on the edge of an impassable wilderness, exiled from their settlement when William defies the local church. When their newborn son vanishes and crops mysteriously fail, the family turns on one another.
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Sword of Vengeance
England The 11th CenturyReturning to his homeland after years of slavery, a Norman prince seeks revenge on his father's murderer – his ruthless uncle, Earl Durant. Gaining the trust of a band of exiled farmers, he leads them into battle against Durant, exploiting them in his inexorable quest for vengeance. As one by one they are slaughtered in the brutal battle, will the prince sacrifice everything an everyone to fulfil his quest for blood?
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Spotlight
Massachusetts The 2000s The 1970sBreak the story. Break the silence. — The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core.
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Wondrous Boccaccio
🇮🇹 Italy The 14th CenturyIt's 1348. The plague has brutally hit Florence. A group of then young people, seven women and three men, rebel against the feeling of death that is about to swallow them. They flee the city and find refuge in an abandoned villa in the Tuscan hills. Here, between moral doubts and the tasks needed to survive, they kill time by telling each other stories until they will decide to return. The stories are varied - tragic, bizarre, funny or erotic - but common and central to all of them is the female presence.
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The Emperor in August
🇯🇵 Japan The 1940sIn July 1945, during the end of World War II, Japan is forced to accept the Potsdam Declaration. A cabinet meeting has continued through days and nights, but a decision cannot be made. The U.S. drops atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. General Korechika Anami is torn over making the proper decision and the Emperor of Japan worries about his people. Prime Minister Kantaro Suzuki leads the cabinet meeting, while Chief Secretary Hisatsune Sakomizu can't do anything, but watch the meeting. At this time, Major Kenji Hatanaka and other young commissioned officers, who are against Japan surrendering, move to occupy the palace and a radio broadcasting station. The radio station is set to broadcast Emperor Hirohito reading out the Imperial Rescript on the Termination of the War.
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Rudhramadevi
🇮🇳 India The 13th CenturyRudraba, daughter of Ganapatideva, the emperor of the Kakatiya dynasty, was officially designated a son through the ancient Putrika ceremony and given the name Rudradeva so that she could succeed her father after his death. Despite opposition, she became of the most prominent rulers of the Kakatiya dynasty and one of the few ruling queens in Indian history.
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Above and Beyond
🇮🇱 Israel The 1940sIn 1948, a group of World War II pilots volunteered to fight for Israel in the War of Independence.
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Muhammad: The Messenger of God
🇮🇷 Iran The 7th CenturyThe events, trials and tribulations of the city of Makkah in 7th century AD.
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The Eichmann Show
🇮🇱 IsraelThe behind-the-scenes true life story of a groundbreaking producer, Milton Fruchtman, and blacklisted TV director Leo Hurwitz who, overcoming enormous obstacles, set out to capture the testimony of one of the war's most notorious Nazis, Adolf Eichmann, who is accused of executing the 'final solution' and organising the murder of 6 million Jews. This is the extraordinary story of how the trial came to be televised and the team that made it happen.
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Overflow Psychiatric hospital. Lighting in a stormy night's sky. With almost 12 years without seeing each other, Marcos Ferro (36) and Ivan Manusovich (37) meet the morning after having heard the news about Martin Tayal's death, Who was once a member of Journalism and writing workshop in the hospital. They were both part of the workshop's creation and of a very recognized and conflict magazine which one generated therapeutic, institutional and social effects that proved to be too much for it. The words heard through the phone the day before make them need to find out what happened to Martin and his body. While discussing about this very same subject a word makes them remember about the beginnings of the workshop.
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Best of Enemies
The 1960sBuckley vs. Vidal. 2 Men. 10 Debates. Television Would Never Be the Same. — A documentary about the legendary series of nationally televised debates in 1968 between two great public intellectuals, the liberal Gore Vidal and the conservative William F. Buckley Jr. Intended as commentary on the issues of their day, these vitriolic and explosive encounters came to define the modern era of public discourse in the media, marking the big bang moment of our contemporary media landscape when spectacle trumped content and argument replaced substance. Best of Enemies delves into the entangled biographies of these two great thinkers, and luxuriates in the language and the theater of their debates, begging the question, "What has television done to the way we discuss politics in our democracy today?"
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The Russian Woodpecker
🇺🇦 Ukraine The 1980s The 2010sAs his country is gripped by revolution and war, a Ukrainian victim of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster discovers a dark secret and must decide whether to risk his life and play his part in the revolution by revealing it.
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Aferim!
🇷🇴 Romania The 19th CenturySet in early 19th century Wallachia, Romania, a policeman, Costandin, is hired by a nobleman to find a Gypsy slave who has run away from his estate after having an affair with his wife.
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Chronicle of a Blood Merchant
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950sSet in a village right after the Korean War, poor but good-hearted Heo Sam-gwan sets out to win the most beautiful girl in the village, Heo Ok-ran, by selling his blood to earn money. Years later, the two are happily married with three children, but their family undergoes a crisis when Sam-gwan's eldest son doesn't resemble him and rumors spread about the boy's paternity.
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Steve Jobs
California The 1980s The 1990sCan a great man be a good man? — Set backstage at three iconic product launches and ending in 1998 with the unveiling of the iMac, Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution to paint an intimate portrait of the brilliant man at its epicenter.
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Concussion
New York Pennsylvania District of Columbia California The 2000sEven Legends Need a Hero — A dramatic thriller based on the incredible true David vs. Goliath story of American immigrant Dr. Bennet Omalu, the brilliant forensic neuropathologist who made the first discovery of CTE, a football-related brain trauma, in a pro player and fought for the truth to be known. Omalu's emotional quest puts him at dangerous odds with one of the most powerful institutions in the world.
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The Fencer
🇷🇺 Russia The 1950sFleeing from the Russian secret police, a young Estonian fencer is forced to return to his homeland, where he becomes a physical education teacher at a local school. The past however catches up and puts him in front of a difficult choice.
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The Battalion
🇷🇺 Russia The 1910sFirst. Women's. Immortal. — Russia, 1917, WWI. This is the story of the 1st Russian Women's Battalion of Death, formed as part of an ill-conceived propaganda ploy by the Russian Provisional Government in late May of 1917.
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Beyond My Grandfather Allende
🇨🇱 ChileMarcia, granddaughter of Salvador Allende, the first democratic socialist president who was overthrown by the Army in September 1973, seeks to reconstruct the personal and familiar image of her grandfather, buried by his historical person, her exile and the family pain.
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The Anarchists
🇫🇷 France The 1890sSet in 1899 Paris, a young police sergeant is chosen to infiltrate a group of anarchists, an opportunity he sees to rise through the ranks. However, he soon finds himself becoming attached to the group.
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The Girl King
🇸🇪 Sweden The 17th CenturyA portrait of the brilliant, extravagant Kristina of Sweden, queen from age six, who fights the conservative forces that are against her ideas to modernize Sweden and who have no tolerance for her awakening sexuality.
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Marguerite & Julien
🇫🇷 France The 17th Century The 1970sJulien and Marguerite de Ravalet, son and daughter of the Lord of Tourlaville, have loved each other tenderly since childhood. But as they grow up, their affection veers toward voracious passion.
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We Will Be the World Champions
🇷🇸 Serbia 🇸🇮 Slovenia The 1970sThe story about the founders of the famous "Yugoslav Basketball School" and the first gold medal at the Championships in Ljubljana in 1970, is based on real events and is dedicated to personalities who have contributed to the emergence and development of basketball in their country.
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1915
California100 years after the Armenian genocide. — Exactly 100 years after the Armenian Genocide, a theatre director stages a play to bring the ghosts of the past back to life.
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Killing Jesus
🇮🇱 Israel 🇮🇹 Italy Ancient HistoryJesus of Nazareth’s life and ministry were subject to seismic social and political events that led to his execution and changed the world forever.
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