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The story of a jaded Chicago homicide detective who wakes up in the body of an ex-con three days before his murder. He has 72 hours to unravel the conspiracy behind the victim’s death, or he’ll meet his own demise.
Vidar Haarr is a 33 year old, sexually frustrated, bachelor farmer who leads a monotonous and strenuous Christian life on his mother’s farm, located on the outskirts of Western Norway. In a desperate attempt to break free of his shackles, Vidar prays to the Lord to grant him a life without boundaries. Instead, he wakes up as the Prince of Darkness!
or some thirty years, from the 1980s until their decline in the 2010s, video shops were crucial arenas for film culture – and both highbrow and lowbrow American cinema has documented their rise, fall and changing meanings. Alex Ross Perry’s Videoheaven, a labour of love ten years in the making, retraces this history using solely appropriated footage from a vast array of films, ranging from huge Hollywood productions to non-professional no-budget affairs, sold solely at their neighbourhood video shop.
Jason Mewes stars as an in-your-face filmmaker known for his web videos of an urban avenger known only as ‘The Vigilante’ (Paul Sloan). But when The Vigilante terminates a creep with deep connections, it’ll trigger a live-feed bloodbath between the Armenian mob, Mexican cartels, a rogue team of Special Forces commandos, and an international black ops conspiracy that’s about to make things very personal.
Princess Helle of Volsung is forced to flee her kingdom after being framed for the murder of her father, the King. Under the guidance of Odin she travels the world gaining wisdom and building the army she needs to win back her throne of the Viking Kingdom. In order to seize her legacy, she must cultivate the predatory instincts of a hellcat and the skills of a ruthless warrior.
- 1 / 5.0
Set in the world of the horned-helmeted warriors, savage Norsemen bring Irish slaves to Iceland.
Follows three generations of women in the final years of the People’s Republic of Bulgaria and the transition to democracy. The film focuses on reluctant mother Boryana and her daughter, Viktoria, who in one of the film’s surreal, magical touches is born without an umbilical cord. Though unwanted by her mother, Viktoria is named the country’s Baby of the Decade, and is showered with gifts and attention until the disintegration of the East Bloc. Despite throwing their worlds off balance, the resulting political changes also allow for the possibility of reconciliation.
- 3 / 5.0
A thriller about a forest-fire spotter living in the remote wilderness of the Pacific Northwest who is visited by his mentally disturbed brother.
Two small time robbers become prisoners when they break into a house and discover a young girl chained up in the basement.
The story of Facist leader Mussolini's secret lover, Ida Dalser, and their son Albino.
- 4 / 5.0
Aging rock group use a young fresh faced punk band to front new recordings to fool the music industry.
A man and his two oldest friends try to build a criminal empire in a contemporary Chicago where he feels crime might be the most honest job around.
A 1957-set tale about a couple who attend a neighbor’s New Year’s Eve party where buried secrets are revealed.
The true story of a group of brave people risking their lives to build a better future in a part of Africa the world's forgotten and a gripping expose of the realities of life in the Congo. In the forested depths of eastern Congo lies Virunga National Park, one of the most bio-diverse places in the world and home to the last of the mountain gorillas. In this wild, but enchanted environment, a small and embattled team of park rangers - including an ex-child soldier turned ranger, a caretaker of orphan gorillas and a Belgian conservationist - protect this UNESCO world heritage site from armed militia, poachers and the dark forces struggling to control Congo's rich natural resources. When the newly formed M23 rebel group declares war in May 2012, a new conflict threatens the lives and stability of everyone and everything they've worked so hard to protect.
- 4.5 / 5.0
The 12th-century Benedictine nun who was a Christian mystic, composer, philosopher, playwright, poet, naturalist, scientist, physician, herbalist and ecological activist.
- 3.5 / 5.0
The German-Jewish philosopher Hannah Arendt caused an uproar in the 1960s by coining the subversive concept of the "Banality of Evil" when referring to the trial of Adolph Eichmann, which she covered for the New Yorker magazine. Her private life was no less controversial thanks to her early love affair with the renowned German philosopher and Nazi supporter Martin Heidegger. This thought provoking and spirited documentary, with its abundance of archival materials, offers an intimate portrait of the whole of Arendt's life, traveling to places where she lived, worked, loved, and was betrayed, as she wrote about the open wounds of modern times.
- 4.5 / 5.0
A female Chicago homicide cop arrives at a prison to provide transfer for a dangerous criminal she helped put behind bars, but the transfer doesn't go as planned.
The small Bahamian island of Norman's Cay is turned into the fulcrum of cocaine smuggling and a hedonistic paradise by Carlos Lehder, the right-hand man of Medellin Cartel leader Pablo Escobar. Lehder takes over the island by force, payoffs and bribery. The U.S. government launches a full-scale assault -- and Lehder and Escobar turn against each other. Escobar is killed and Lehder is captured.
A retro futuristic pop-up travel agency plans vacations to space for the public.
A female contract-killer has an addictive attraction to risk and violence. She becomes a liability to everyone she has ever met.