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- DirectorFernando MeirellesStarsRalph FiennesRachel WeiszDanny HustonA widower's transcontinental quest to find answers about his wife's death leads him to explosive secrets.
- DirectorJean-Pierre DardenneLuc DardenneStarsMarion CotillardFabrizio RongioneCatherine SaléeLiège, Belgium. Sandra is a factory worker who discovers that her workmates have opted for a EUR1,000 bonus in exchange for her dismissal. She has only a weekend to convince her colleagues to give up their bonuses in order to keep her job.
- DirectorAlê AbreuStarsVinicius GarciaMarco Aurélio CamposLu HortaA little boy goes on an adventurous quest in search of his father.
- DirectorKen LoachStarsEileen ThompsonJulian Tudor HartDai WaltersA documentary on how the spirit of unity, which buoyed Britain during the war years, carried through to create a vision of a fairer, united society.
- DirectorVincent CarelliTatiana AlmeidaErnesto de CarvalhoStarsCelso AokiMyriam Medina AokiOriel BenitesA analysis about the violence and the struggle suffered by the Guarani Kaiowá group, one of the biggest Indian populations of Brazil.
- DirectorSteve CuttsAn analogy to life on Earth, Happiness tells the story of a rodent's unrelenting quest for happiness and fulfillment.
- DirectorTom TykwerLana WachowskiLilly WachowskiStarsTom HanksHalle BerryHugh GrantAn exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution.
- DirectorAndrea TonacciThe documentary, using re-enactments, traces the steps of an indigenous man from a small Amazon tribe, who may be the sole survivor of a 1970s era massacre.
- DirectorTerry GilliamStarsChristoph WaltzLucas HedgesMélanie ThierryA hugely talented but socially isolated computer operator is tasked by Management to prove the Zero Theorem: that the universe ends as nothing, rendering life meaningless. But meaning is what he already craves.
- DirectorAva DuVernayStarsMelina AbdullahMichelle AlexanderCory BookerAn in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.
- DirectorGleb PanfilovStarsInna ChurikovaVadim MikhaylovNikolai SkorobogatovRuthless millionaire Vassa Zheleznova is the head of a wealthy entrepreneurial family. She can do anything to protect its reputation, even push her husband to suicide.
- DirectorKleber Mendonça FilhoStarsSonia BragaMaeve JinkingsIrandhir SantosClara, 65, lives her life to the fullest with her family and friends. A construction company wants her Recife oceanfront condo, as they've already bought all the other in the 3 story building. Clara's staying.
- DirectorMichael AptedStarsVal KilmerSam ShepardGraham GreeneA young mixed-blood FBI agent is assigned to work with a cynical veteran investigator on a murder on a poverty-stricken Sioux reservation.
- DirectorSebastián BorenszteinStarsRicardo DarínLuis BrandoniVerónica LlinásIn times of the infamous Argentinian Corralito, the neighbors of a little town trace a plan to recover the money they lost after learning that their bank manager and a corrupt lawyer have stolen it.
- DirectorAdam KassenMark KassenStarsChris EvansMark KassenVinessa ShawA David and Goliath law drama about a drug-addicted lawyer who takes on a health supply corporation while battling his own personal demons.
- DirectorDan GilroyStarsJake GyllenhaalRene RussoBill PaxtonWhen Louis Bloom, a con man desperate for work, muscles into the world of L.A. crime journalism, he blurs the line between observer and participant to become the star of his own story.
- DirectorFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsMatt DamonDanny DeVitoClaire DanesAn underdog lawyer takes on a fraudulent insurance company.
- DirectorCaue AngeliCarlos Juliano BarrosMauricio Monteiro FilhoThe work mediated by digital apps and platforms is growing worldwide. But the advance of the "gig economy", called in Brazil "uberization", has aroused debates about the precariousness and intensification of work.
- DirectorSilvio TendlerStarsVagner Freitas de MoraesEduardo FagnaniSamuel Pinheiro Guimarães IIhttps://youtu.be/A8As8mFaRGU
- DirectorRuben FleischerStarsTom HardyMichelle WilliamsRiz AhmedA failed reporter is bonded to an alien entity, one of many symbiotes who have invaded Earth. But the being takes a liking to Earth and decides to protect it.
- DirectorSteven SoderberghStarsGary OldmanAntonio BanderasAJ MeijerA widow investigates an insurance fraud, chasing leads to a pair of Panama City law partners exploiting the world's financial system.
- DirectorIrene Lilienheim AngelicoThe Cola Conquest tells the story of Coca-Cola - the 'sublimated essence' of all that American stands for - and the century-long competition with its rival, Pepsi-Cola. Challenging, fast-paced, irreverent, serious and funny by turns, it explores the delicious paradox at the heart of Coke: How did an innocuous soft drink come to wield such enormous power and assume such significance in so many people's lives? What does it tell us about who we are and what we are becoming?
- DirectorGabriel BitarAndré CatotoGustavo SteinbergStarsPedro HenriqueDenise FragaMatheus NachtergaeleThe film tells the story of a boy who is responsible, along with his father, for finding the cure for an illness that is contracted after the person takes a fright.
- DirectorPeter D. HutchisonKelly NyksJared P. ScottStarsNoam ChomskyAlan GreenspanMalcolm XRenowned academic and author Noam Chomsky elucidates 10 principles of concentration of wealth and power that have led to unprecedented inequality and the hollowing out of the American middle class.
- DirectorKieran Darcy-SmithStarsWoody HarrelsonLiam HemsworthAlice BragaA Texas Ranger investigates a series of unexplained deaths in a town called Helena.
- DirectorDavid FirthStarsDavid FirthCarla SimpsonChristian WebbCream tells the story of Dr. Bellifer, a scientific genius who, after years of smashing particles together, reveals his revolutionary new product: a cream with the power to fix all of the world's problems. - Regent Street Cinema.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UgiJPnwtQU
- DirectorSam VinalIn Honduras, the most dangerous country in the world to be a land defender, Berta Cáceres' death has not silenced the many campesinxs fighting for justice and Indigenous Sovereignty. They mourn Berta's assassination with powerful chants of 'Berta Didn't Die, She Multiplied!' This documentary will show the Indigenous Lenca and Afro-Indigenous Garifuna people of Honduras in their struggle against capitalism, patriarchy, racism and homophobia. The insidious agents of the local oligarchy, the World Bank, and North American corporations continue to kill but that will not stop the social movements. From Flint to Standing Rock to Honduras, the water is sacred and the power is in the people.
- DirectorDavid CronenbergStarsJames WoodsDebbie HarrySonja SmitsA programmer at a Toronto TV station that specializes in adult entertainment searches for the producers of a dangerous and bizarre broadcast.
- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsFrank PowellGrace HendersonJames KirkwoodAn unscrupulous and greedy capitalist speculator decides to corner the wheat market for his own profit, establishing complete control over the markets.
- DirectorFrédéric GarsonStarsLaurent LucasNatacha RégnierDaniel MartinIn northern Nigeria, two French scientists working for an environmental NGO disappear. Hugo Geoffroy, leader of a French police emergency unit, is sent to negotiate the freedom of the hostages.
- DirectorMarina MeliandeStarsMarina ProvenzzanoSandra MariaPedro GracindoRio de Janeiro, 2016. The hottest summer in history. The city is preparing for the Olympic Games. Ana, a 32-year-old public defender, works in the defense of a community threatened with removal by the works of the Olympic Park. Meanwhile, she's been noticing purple fungus-like spots on her body. Strange things begin to happen in the city as well as in Ana's body. The temperature rises, creating a humid and suffocating atmosphere. The sultriness accumulates before giving way to heavy rain.
- DirectorJamie Magnus StoneStarsAdeel AkhtarMatt BerryDanielle BjelicIn a fantasy world where magic is being superseded by technology, an orphaned teen discovers her destiny to become a dragonslayer.
- DirectorAnne SewitskyStarsMiley CyrusAngourie RiceMadison DavenportA lonely teenager yearns to connect with her favorite pop star - whose charmed existence isn't quite as rosy as it appears...
- DirectorRafael MachadoAt dawn, on February 22nd, 1998, part of the Palace II building collapsed, leaving eight victims and more than 170 families homeless. The building was planned by the Brazilian construction company SERSAN, a company owned by the politician Sérgio Naya. At the time, several reports of precarious material quality and design errors were related. Nowadays, more than 20 years later, most part of the residents did not receive the restitution, which they are entitled. Sérgio Naya was not convicted and died in 2009, leaving millions in debt and the largest civil suit in Latin America. This is one of the biggest tragedies in the history of Brazilian civil engineering and a historical landmark of impunity in the country. The movie seeks to give voice to the victims forgotten by the authorities and the Brazilian society. There is no way to portray the fall of Palace II without thinking of tragedy as the result of social inequality in Brazil. A true portrait that goes far beyond the building shows the drama of how the impunity in the country reaches the common people. It is about the incessant search for profits, politicians who believe to be above the law, the connivance of public power and the slow Brazilian legal system. In the civil sphere, after more than 20 years, the former residents have not yet received all the compensation to which they are entitled. In the criminal sphere, even with technical experts' report pointing out multiple causes that imply guilt for those involved in the construction, no one was arrested. Although revoked in Congress, perhaps due to bureaucratic issues, the technical lead of the construction and former politician Sérgio Naya lived until his last days unpunished for the crimes. The film is made from the point of view of the former residents who just want it all to end. 'Palace II - 3 Quartos com Vista para o Mar" is a co-production between Viralata Produções, Globo Filmes, Globo News, Urca Filmes and distributed by Pagu Pictures.
- DirectorRogério Corrêa
- DirectorAmos GitaiStarsRosamund PikeDiana BespechniHanna Schygulla"Promised Land" tells the story of a group of young unwitting Estonian girls smuggled through Egypt to be auctioned off as prostitutes in Israel, and of their initiation into this trade of flesh, and finally of the accidental freeing of one girl who most fight for her freedom.
- DirectorMaria RamosThe history of mobilizing of a group of 110 employees from Caixa Econômica Federal bank over the course of a year, after being unfairly dismissed in 1991 under the Fernando Collor de Mello government.
- 201853m7.9 (20)TV EpisodeDirectorDaniel CattierFanny GlissantJuan GélasStarsGaël KamilindiNathan WillcocksNikolaj A. Brucker1620 - 1789: From sugar to rebellion: 17th century. The Atlantic has become the battleground of the sugar war. French, English, Dutch and Spanish fight for the Caribbean to grow sugar cane. To satisfy their dreams of fortune, the European kingdoms open new slave routes between Africa and the New World.
- DirectorTaísa EnnesStarsLaís AulerMartha BritoRafael DuarteTwo wacky scientists come up with a plan to help all men on Earth.
- DirectorClaude BerriStarsRenaudGérard DepardieuMiou-MiouIn mid-nineteenth-century northern France, a coal mining town's workers are exploited by the mine's owner. One day, they decide to go on strike, and the authorities repress them.
- DirectorMarcio Isensee e SáStarsPaulo AdárioDaniel AzeredoPaulo BarretoThis documentary covers the change in Brazil's rainforest, where a portion the size of France has been transformed into pastures for grazing cattle.
- DirectorHenry GrazinoliStarsJosé Ignacio AvalosAntonio Ermírio de Moraes NetoClaudio SassakiOXFAM has launched a report showing that the richest 1% of the population owns the same wealth as the other 99%. What could be done to build a fairer world in such a social inequality? Beyond Profit brings stories about Brazilian, Indian and Mexican entrepreneurs that figured out an alternative to this scenario: build a new, fairer and more human capitalism. Owner of companies with social impact, these administrators believe that having a profitable business while fighting poverty around the globe is possible.
- DirectorJean-Marc ValléeStarsMatthew McConaugheyJennifer GarnerJared LetoIn 1985 Dallas, electrician and hustler Ron Woodroof works around the system to help AIDS patients get the medication they need after he is diagnosed with the disease.
- DirectorIcíar BollaínStarsAnna CastilloJavier GutiérrezPep AmbròsA girl, her uncle and a friend start an emotional travel to recover a family tree.
- DirectorFellipe FernandesStarsZoraide ColetoKildery KilderyFábio LealIn the distance, flying over the multiplied volcanoes, an electric storm was generated in silence.
- DirectorVinícius ReisStarsSílvia BuarqueBianca ByingtonEmílio de MelloTwo moments in the life of Pedro. First in 1997, he lives with his family in Rio de Janeiro and works at Gás do Brasil, a company that is undergoing a tough restructuring process, with layoffs and early retirements. Soon, privatization will come. In the second moment, two years later, Pedro lives retired in his hometown Barbosa, in the company of his childhood memories, his dog and his girlfriend. By interweaving these two moments in time, we put ourselves in Pedro's skin and experience his fears and delights.
- DirectorAly MuritibaStarsPaulo MiklosSergio MaroneMaureen MirandaWestern book writer, Eugenio is going through a difficult phase. He is famous for the novels starring the Jesus Kid, but his sales have been going from bad to worse for some time. The light at the end of the tunnel seems to be a film director's invitation: he wants Eugenio to write a film script. However, to write this script, Eugênio must spend three months isolated in a luxury hotel, without being able to go out or have contact with the world he knows. Based on this premise, Mutarelli builds a scathing critique of the publishing market and the film market - where he has been circulating for years. Bringing to Eugênio much of his own personality, the author shows how the commercial part of culture can be perverse to those who work in it.
- DirectorCamila FreitasStarsNatalina Vó CândidaWilmar P.C. FernandesValtenir GomesAn insight into the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement's everyday routine, which is divided up between tilling the land, political activism and talk of what a better future might look like.
- DirectorHelena SolbergStarsDavid Meyer
- DirectorAdam McKayStarsLeonardo DiCaprioJennifer LawrenceMeryl StreepTwo low-level astronomers must go on a giant media tour to warn humankind of an approaching comet that will destroy planet Earth.
- DirectorJoachim LangStarsLars EidingerTobias MorettiHannah HerzsprungAgainst many odds, Bertolt Brecht's "The Threepenny Opera" becomes a phenomenal success. The film industry picks up the scent and seeks to make the master direct a film version of his "play with music". However, Brecht refuses to play by their rules. While the studio wants to censor the "filth" and tuck at the heart strings to cash in on the success, the author wants to make nothing less than a completely new kind of film. A socialist critique on capitalism, staged as a conflict between Mack the Knife, a London gangster, and Peachum, the head of the beggars' mafia. And Brecht does not bow down; he takes the producers to court in order to prove that the moneyed interests are prevailing over his right as an author--and the right of the audience. Provocative, outrageously colorful, and merging fact with the fictional and the visionary, Brecht's "true" Threepennyfilm comes to life before the author's eyes. A film that was never made. An artist who challenges the industry and audience alike. A poet directing reality. That has never happened before.
- DirectorThiago CamargoStarsBruna BritoÉrico BrásJefferson da FonsecaJorge is a private investigator that has a questionable character. He seeks information about the death of a young boy in a small city in the countryside of Brazil, that is full of unfriendly strangers. Nightmares with a woman that he has never seen before, Mariá, torments him. Their meeting, in a haunted woods, will reveal that it is not by chance that Jorge is part of this mysterious investigation.
- DirectorLeon HirszmanStarsLélia AbramoLuiz Inácio Lula da SilvaVinicius de MoraesA detailed look at the events that led to the continuous strikes that shut down many factories during the still repressive days of the military regime. The workers union, led by syndicalist Lula, demanded better work conditions and better payments, fighting not only against their exploitative bosses but also the political establishment of the time. Crowds were gathered, protests and marches were planned, constantly followed by the police but the workers bond and strategy was so strong and efficient that everything turned out in their favor, with peaceful movements and no casualties on both sides.
- DirectorRamon TérmensStarsFrancesc GarridoDaniel FaraldoNatasha YarovenkoIn the middle of the 'Corralito', Argentina's bank freeze, Jordi travels to Buenos Aires in pursuit of a government contract. To enter into the high spheres of political power, he will have to pay something more than money. Just how far is he willing to go?
- DirectorMarcelo GomesA small village in the Brazilian outback is considered the nation's capital of jeans. It's also a microcosm that depicts modern day capitalism and its transgressions.
- DirectorMarie KreutzerStarsValerie PachnerPia HierzeggerMavie HörbigerA high-powered business consultant struggles to keep her professional and personal lives from colliding after her schizophrenic sister attempts suicide.
- DirectorMarco DutraJuliana RojasStarsHelena AlbergariaMarat DescartesNaloana LimaYoung housewife Helena is on the verge of fulfilling a dream as she prepares to open her own business: a neighborhood grocery store. She hires a maid, Paula, to take care of her house and daughter. But when her husband Otavio is suddenly fired from his job as an insurance executive, Helena is left to support the family alone. As Otavio fails to find work and becomes increasingly alienated, business struggles to take off and the pressure on Helena mounts. To make things worse, she discovers that one of the building's brick walls seems to be crumbling. Helena begins to wonder if that may be the cause of all her problems.
- DirectorRavi KumarStarsMischa BartonMartin SheenKal PennInterwoven stories of people in India and the US as they face dilemmas of life in the months leading to the biggest industrial disaster in human history that claimed 10,000 innocent lives within a few hours. Inspired by real events.
- DirectorEstevão CiavattaStarsAlidra AkayRilliete AkayJorge ApiakaA documentary film about the Amazon Forest deforestation and its implication not only to the human rights of Indigenous and traditional peoples who live there, but also to the entire planet's ecosystem.
- DirectorAndré D'EliaStarsJuliano CazarréReynaldo GianecchiniValéria PontesThe residents of Chapada dos Veadeiros, concerned about the end of the Cerrado in Goiás, are looking for new ways to develop the region without harming the environment in which they live.
- DirectorVictor LopesSerra Pelada's discovery in 1979 precipitated one of the world's largest contemporary gold rushes. In a matter of days miners could make hundreds of thousands of dollars as chunks of gold kilos in weight were found.
- DirectorGuillermo García LópezStarsPepe MujicaA Japanese executive in Tokyo. A sub-Saharan community. A family in Madrid. Three stories of contradictions that unfold in different places on the planet, in different socio-cultural spheres.
- DirectorStéphane BrizéStarsVincent LindonMélanie RoverJacques BorderieAfter promising 1100 employees that they would protect their jobs, the managers of a factory decide to suddenly close up shop. Laurent takes the lead in a fight against this decision.
- DirectorFelipe BragançaStarsHigor CampagnaroIsabél ZuaaCatarina WallensteinHow to make a film in a country that is losing its identity? This is the question facing Fernando: a bankrupt, thirty-something-white-male filmmaker from Brazil.
- DirectorCarla DaudenStarsJuca KfouriJamil ChadeFernanda GentilThe story of four Brazilians who had their lives transformed by the 2014 FIFA World Cup and an in-depth look at FIFA, mega-events and their long-term impacts on the host countries.
- DirectorAdam McKayStarsChristian BaleAmy AdamsSteve CarellThe story of Dick Cheney, an unassuming bureaucratic Washington insider, who quietly wielded immense power as Vice President to George W. Bush, reshaping the country and the globe in ways that are still felt today.
- DirectorLana WachowskiLilly WachowskiStarsChanning TatumMila KunisEddie RedmayneA young woman discovers her destiny as an heiress of intergalactic nobility and must fight to protect the inhabitants of Earth from an ancient and destructive industry.
- DirectorVladimir CarvalhoStarsPaulo PontesEchio ReisDocumentary about a region in Northeast Brazil, situated in an area subject to severe drought, and the evolution of its economic activities.
- DirectorRhys Frake-WaterfieldStarsNikolai LeonMaria TaylorNatasha Rose MillsAfter Christopher Robin abandons them for college, Pooh and Piglet embark on a bloody rampage as they search for a new source of food.
- DirectorAurélio MichilesStarsStephen ReaIn 1910 Irish diplomat Roger Casement, fresh from seeing Belgian atrocities in the Congo,is sent by Britain to report on rubber extraction by a Brazil company. What he records in his diary is a milestone in the history of human rights.