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Fifteen-year-old Sophie yearns to break free from her dysfunctional family. After one argument too many, she seizes an opportunity and takes the spare keys to her affluent friend Jade's house. While enjoying the spacious home she thought was empty for summer, she bumped into her friend's older brother Stephane. He, as fate would have it, was also planning on staying. Rather than insisting she leave, Step̌hane lets her into the house and his life....

Still in shock from the sudden death of her husband, Lola makes a snap decision to flee the funeral with her 7-year-old son and sister, Margaux. As the impromptu escapade turns into a road trip through France, the long-estranged sisters are forced to contend with each other's clashing personalities. The responsible and reliable Margaux bristles against Lola's bohemian spontaneity, while the long hours on the road soon resurface unhealed wounds. Buoyed...

A film that explores how a small group of people in Madrid laid the groundwork for catching a dictator 25 years after his rise to power, making him the first to be humbled by the international justice system since the Nuremberg Trials. When Pinochet finally returned to Chile, he faced 200 accusations of his crimes, this time in Chilean courts. In January 2001, Pinochet was placed under house arrest, and the Chilean justice system finally started to...

A brilliant examination of Klaus Barbie, the infamous Nazi 'Butcher of Lyon' and Gestapo chief implicated in 4000 deaths and the deportation of 7000 Jews, during the Nazi occupation of France. Tracing the 40-year hunt for the war criminal, it exposes a complex web of political intrigue, collaboration and deceit. Weaves together historical footage and interviews with former Nazis, American intelligence officers, South American government officials,...

In the summer of 1979, two East German families attempt the impossible. In a makeshift hot-air balloon, they risk their lives and fly towards West Germany with hopes of freedom and a better life. Unfortunately, the balloon crash-lands just before they reach the West German border and the Stasi soon discover evidence of the attempted escape. In a nerve-wracking race against the clock, the two families must now rush to build a new escape balloon before...

Jack Stanton is a virtually unknown Southern governor on a quest for the White House with his strong, savvy and equally ambitious wife, Susan. Running against the odds, the Stantons need all the help they can get from their extremely colorful political team. Together, they take off on a hilarious, heart-wrenching and ultimately history-making roller coaster ride to the top.

Veteran filmmaker Philippe Garrel once again fashions a pinpoint precise and economical study of young love and its prevarications, which ever so gradually blossoms into an emotionally resonant moral tale. Handsome Luc, following in his aging father's footsteps to study the craft of furniture joining, doesn't appear to have any trouble meeting and dating women; as the film opens he's aggressively courting Djemila at a Paris bus stop. Skeptical yet...

Features life in 1960s Ireland and it's clergy, cultural nationalism, and educational system.

During a visit to the cinema in West Berlin, high school students Theo and Kurt see dramatic newsreel footage of the Hungarian uprising in Budapest. Back at school in Stalinstadt, they spontaneously decide to hold a moment of silence in solidarity with the victims of the uprising. The gesture causes bigger ripples than expected.

The first film for an American audience about Gamal Abdel Nasser, one of the Arab world's most transformative leaders. In 1952, as an unknown young Egyptian colonel, Nasser led a coup that became a revolution. Over the next eighteen years, Nasser emerged as a titanic figure, and as a champion of Arab progress and African liberation. But what he could not offer was democracy; instead he established the region's first and much emulated military authorization...