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1) Seraphine
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Séraphine is the true story of Seraphine Louis aka Séraphine de Senlis, a simple and profoundly devout housekeeper who in 1905 at age 41 - self-taught and with the instigation of her guardian angel - began painting brilliantly colorful canvases. In 1912 Wilhelm Uhde, a German art critic and collector, discovered her paintings while she worked for him as a maid in his lodgings in Senlis outside Paris.
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After a long time in the army, an Afro-American soldier returns to his hometown, where, years ago, his brother was executed for the rape and murder of two white girls. The commando believes his brother to have been innocent and seeks a proof for that, but there are some people in the town who will stop at nothing to hide the secrets of their past. Based on the true story of George Stinney Jr., at 14 years old, the youngest African American to be executed...
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Hildegard von Bingen was truly a woman ahead of her time. A visionary in every sense of the word, this famed 12th-century Benedictine nun was a Christian mystic, composer, philosopher, playwright, poet, naturalist, scientist, physician, herbalist and ecological activist. Vision is a profoundly inspirational portrait of a woman who has emerged from the shadows of history as a forward-thinking and iconoclastic pioneer of faith, change and enlightenment....
6) Our Children
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Based on true events, celebrated director Joachim Lafosse's Our Children is an intense, multi-layered thriller about the breakdown of an unorthodox family unit. Murielle (Emilie Dequenne) falls for Mounir ( Tahar Rahim). The happy couple quickly set about preparing to make a family. With family comes ties, and none come as tight as that between Mounir and his adoptive father (Niels Arestrup).
7) Committed
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Committed is the story of actress and leftist iconoclast Frances Farmer. In 1935, Farmer became an overnight Hollywood sensation; within ten years she was in a state mental hospital. Highly stylized and moodily provocative, Committed offers a multi-layered look at this culturally defiant woman, going beyond the personal to explore the political and social attitudes of the time.
8) Monster
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Charlize Theron abandons her glamorous image for this stark drama, in which she plays a mentally unstable prostitute who becomes a serial killer. Aileen Wuornos (Theron) was a woman who survived a vicious and abusive childhood to become a thick-skinned but emotionally injured adult. Homeless most of the time, Wuornos survived by working as a prostitute; later in Florida, down to her last few dollars and contemplating suicide, she stopped for a beer...
9) Spirit Bear
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Based on a true story, "Spirit Bear" follows 15-year-old Simon Jackson, an outcast who spends time alone in the British Columbia wilderness. During one of his adventures, Simon is attacked by an animal and, out of nowhere, a Kermode bear appears and rescues him. When he learns that the bears are endangered, he vows to fight for their survival, ultimately securing the protection of 2,500 square miles of Princess Royal Island.
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The story covers the highlights of Caesar's life including his exile during the rule of the cruel dictator Sulla, his patronage under the capable General Pompey, his brutal but victorious campaigns against Vercingetorix and the Gauls, and his love affair with the beautiful and scheming Egytian queen Cleopatra. Caesar's great ambition ultimately lead to his own murder by members of the Roman Senate who fear his ascendency, but ironically bring about...
11) Fort McCoy
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In the summer of 1944, Frank Stirn moves with his family to become a barber for the American Army at a Nazi POW camp in Fort McCoy, Wisconsin. But even in rural America, thousands of miles from the battlefield, war can still change people.
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Based on Neale Donald Walsch's best-selling books, Conversations with God chronicles the dramatic true story of a struggling man turned homeless who unexpectedly becomes a spiritual messenger. After breaking his neck in a car accident, Walsch loses his job, his home, and is reduced to begging coins from strangers in the streets. Struggling to get back on his feet, he finds work and a place to live, but life, for him, is still unbearably hard. In the...
13) Gypsy
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Tony Award winning musical of one of most famous stage mothers of all time comes to life in this award winning adaptation. Based on true-life story of gypsy Rose Lee, the famous striptease artist.
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Polish
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A superlative saga of courage and compassion, Run Boy Run tells the extraordinary true story of a young Polish boy's struggle to outlast the Nazi occupation and maintain his Jewish faith through his intrepid will and the kindness of others. Escaping the Warsaw ghetto at the behest of his father, nine-year old Srulik (movingly portrayed by twin child actors Andrzej and Kamil Tkacz) flees to the woods. There, he learns to hide from SS patrols and scour...
15) Ring Of Water
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Italiano
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Two boxers struggle to survive inside and outside of the ring in this contemporary drama set in Sicily among the working class youths and North African immigrants.
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Sam Smith is one of the most diverse performers in modern music. His catchy melodies, and charisma has allured fans all around the world. With hits like "Stay With Me", and " Lay Me Down", Sam has become a international superstar.In this intimate docu-drama we chronicle the life of the musical genius known as Sam Smith.
17) Francesco
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FRANCESCO, starring Mickey Rourke and Helena Bonham Carter, paints an intimate portrait of St. Francis, one of the most beloved, influential and complex figures in the history of religion and civilization.
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From the day she is born, Mary Stuart's hand in marriage is coveted with such "rough wooing" her mother sends the five-year-old Queen of Scotland to France as the betrothed of Dauphin Francois whom she marries at 15. Mary's reign as Queen of France comes to an abrupt end after only a year, upon the death of Francois at the age of 16. Having lost her claim to the French throne, Mary returns alone to Scotland. As a Catholic, she faces the hostility...
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Saviors in the Night (Unter Bauern) is based on the memories of Marga Spiegel. she describes how courageous farmers in southern Münsterland hid her, her husband Siegfried {named Menne} and their little daughter Karin from 1943 until 1945.The film tells this story of survival with a sense for the absurd in daily life and not without the typical Westphalian humor.
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Wayne Montgomery is a surfer living in Lima Peru in 1980. He gets framed on phony drug charges and thrown into Lima's infamous El Sexto prison along with communist dissidents. The American consul won't believe him and along with corrupt cop, Lt. Gutierrez, expect him to call his wealthy parents in California to pay for his release. Wayne refuses. In prison, Wayne befriends Jorge, a pacifistic Hare Krishna, and teaches him to wrestle to defend himself...
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