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From her place in the store, Klara, an artificial friend with outstanding observational qualities, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the street outside. She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her.
The film centers on a young woman named Sawa who is taken off the streets after the murder of her parents by a Svengali-like detective. The man, who employs homeless children to do his dirty work, forces her to kill his chosen targets until she is able to break free of his control.
Set right after WWII, Otto Frank struggles to find a publisher for the diary written by his daughter Anne Frank before she perished in the Holocaust. He is aided by an ambitious young woman who, fresh out of the Doubleday typing pool, becomes a junior editor trying to find her way by combing through the slush pile for publishable manuscripts. She and Otto Frank find each other and their perseverance leads to the publication of one of the most enduring documents of the Holocaust. The woman, Barbara Zimmerman, becomes a publishing legend at Doubleday and is the founder of the New York Review of Books.
About an up-and-coming book editor with a past he'd rather forget. It's when his former best friend is discovered stabbed to death in their hometown of King of Prussia, Pennsylvania that he returns home after an eight-year absence.
Kit Lambert discovers the rock band The Who while he is trying to make a film about the band, known then as the High Numbers. Instead, he decides to manage the band and to launch their musical career, and with Chris Stamp -- brother of Terence Stamp -- Lambert pushes Townshend to take The Who into more experimental avenues. The result is the seminal rock opera album "Tommy," which later becomes a Ken Russell film. Lambert also works with Jimi Hendrix and other artists, and is as known for self-destruction as they are.
Follows the affair between Swedish pop star Anita Lindblom and European boxing champ Bosse Hogberg.
Set after the Civil War, the Ku Klux Klan rises in the South in 1865 and Major Lewis Merrill leads the U.S. Army's K Troop against the KKK in 1871. However, the group surfaces again in 1915 and in the 1950s.
An alcoholic former boxer turns to Detroit's illegal fighting circuit to earn money to pay for his ex-wife’s medical treatment. Once in the lucrative underground fighting scene he must face old demons and defeat a merciless rival from his past if he is to save his family and reclaim his lost destiny.
Described as an unusual/Charlie Kaufman-esque project.
The story centers on the life of German philosopher and revolutionary Karl Marx during the time period of 1830-1848, including Marx's time in Paris before being expelled to Brussels and culminating with the publication of the Communist Manifesto. It will also focus on Marx's love for his aristocratic wife Jenny von Westphalen, and his friendship with Friedrich Engels, with whom he co-authored the Manifesto.
A biopic on the life of iconic singer Boy George.
Story concerns a 17-year-old who thinks she's got it all figured out until she falls for a guy who has nothing to lose.
Set at a moment when European countries are racing to find ways to carve up the natural resources of Africa, Belgium's King Leopold II becomes the world's richest man with billions stashed in secret bank accounts by gaining private ownership of the Congo Free State, and inserts a mercenary army to cruelly plunder rubber and ivory. He forces the locals to harvest it. Those who refused are dismembered or worse, and as many as 8 million are killed in this ruthless pursuit. The Congolese defy Leopold II and fight back. Their heroic plight sparks a daring and unlikely alliance between a black American missionary, an English investigative journalist and an Irish spy that shine a light on the horrors and give birth to the first human rights movement.
A young man living a sheltered life develops a crush on a stripper and joins her Alcoholics Anonymous group just so he can be in the same room with her.
Katharine Hepburn recreates herself from outsider into one of the greatest stars of Hollywood’s Golden Age.
The story about legendary backyard brawler Kimbo Slice who rose to mixed martial arts fame after his brutal backyard fights drew a huge YouTube audience.
Former NASA programmer John McAfee develops the first commercial anti-virus program which is eventually acquired by Intel in 2010 for $7.68 billion. McAfee's personal fortune takes a significant hit in the wake of the financial crisis, forcing him to sell almost everything he owns. While leaving in Belize, Belizean authorities seek him out to question him about the murder of American expatriate and neighbor Gregory Viant Faull in Orange Walk Town. McAfee seeks political asylum in Guatemala, but his plea is denied and he is designated for deportation after allegedly entering the country illegally. While at a detention center, McAfee fakes a heart attack in order to give his attorney time to file a series of appeals that prevents his deportation to Belize, and on December 12, 2012, he was deported to the United States.
Tough and incorruptible Lieutenant Theodore Kojak, a bald, dapper policeman, is stubborn and tenacious in his investigation of crimes—and also displays a dark, cynical wit, along with a tendency to bend the rules if it brings a criminal to justice.
Retraces the life of a real-life figure, Karmele Urresti, a nurse forced into exile during the Spanish Civil War.
A high-living twentysomething ex-Manhattanite gains notoriety for her lack of restraint with credit cards. With a taste for Gucci, Prada and the finer things in life, the woman eventually decideds to rein herself in with credit counseling. But then she loses her job as a segment producer on TV show. With no immediate job prospects, and having moved to Brooklyn and taken on a roommate to save money, she decides the way out of debt is to create a Web site that begs for cash from the general public. Directing donors to her Web site through the city specific, cut-rate version of eBay, www.craigslist.com, her online appeal quickly, and astonishingly, gains momentum. Though not all of the messages are positive her Web site appeal raises more than enough to pay off her creditors and she even lands a book deal after a lit agent sees her site mentioned in USA Today.