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Can there be a bleaker portrait of a life half-lived? Cinematic treatment of poet R.S. Thomas's story of Twm, the "shy soul" who lives and dies alone in the "grim house nailed to the mountainside", oblivious to the interest shown in him by young girls in the village and to his own isolation as he scratches a living from the farm.
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13 min
1963-07-01
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English
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6
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7.6
Depressed Alain Leroy leaves the clinic where he was detoxified. He meets friends, acquaintances and women, trying to find a reason to continue living.
1963-10-15 | fr
6.0
A poetic story about the first love of the village girl Natasha, loyal to the memory of the deceased fiancé. In peacetime, the heroine's fiancé blew up on a land mine that remained on the collective farm field since the war, and her life turned into a nightmare. But sooner or later, dreams end and the world opens again. Pregnant Natasha goes to the institutions, seeking to be signed with the father of the unborn child who died tragically. At the end, after long ordeals, she comes to the conclusion that writing in the marriage book will not change anything in her life.
1968-08-19 | ru
0.0
2017-04-20 | it
4.5
Set in the final weekend of the year 1995 Ice Hockey World Championships, 95 tells through overlapping stories why Finland became a ice hockey world champion and how it affected the whole nation.
2017-12-25 | fi
8.3
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.
1952-10-09 | ja
0.0
A recluse painter’s careful routine is shaken up when a mysterious young woman knocks on his door. An encounter that will confront him with his past.
2022-11-17 | fr
6.4
A comedy centered on a has-been coach who is given a shot at redemption when he's asked to run his local high school's girls basketball team
2009-01-19 | en
7.1
Norwegian immigrant Marta Hanson keeps a firm but loving hand on her household of four children, a devoted husband and a highly-educated lodger who reads great literature to the family every evening. Through financial crises, illnesses and the small triumphs of everyday life, Marta maintains her optimism and sense of humor, traits she passes on to her aspiring-author daughter, Katrin.
1948-03-09 | en
9.0
A teenage boy is home alone for the weekend but when nocturnal creatures living in his attic escape, he must survive.
2022-05-10 | en
6.5
A touching mother-daughter relationship that reflects the modern South Africa.
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7.0
During a year, a very content couple approaching retirement are visited by friends and family less happy with their lives.
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7.4
A lonely widowed housewife does her daily chores and takes care of her apartment where she lives with her teenage son, and turns the occasional trick to make ends meet. Slowly, her ritualized daily routines begin to fall apart.
1976-01-21 | fr
6.4
The film gets under the skin of a very marginalized group: recent immigrants to Hong Kong from Mainland China. Belying the expectation that they will belong in a territory now returned to China's sovereignty, they find themselves lonely, frustrated, poor, and employable only in the most menial jobs, from elevator service staff to prostitution.
1999-05-17 | cn
7.8
The lives of 7 friends in a small Czech town from 1945 to some time after 1958.
1969-07-04 | cs
7.7
From 1928 to 1946, the lives of 12 young people and their school teacher in a poor Japanese village are profoundly affected by historical events and personal circumstances.
1954-09-15 | ja
6.4
In the late 1890s, the ambitious, innocent Carrie arrives in Chicago’s South Side and stays with her nagging, dullish married sister. She then runs for help to traveling salesman Charles Drouet. She soon becomes his mistress, but falls in love with married restaurant manager George Hurstwood.
1952-07-17 | en
7.3
Once upon a time a wise and kind old woman discovers a baby in her cabbage patch. She brings up the child and, when she dies, the boy, Totò, enters an orphanage. Totò leaves the orphanage a happy young man, and looks for work in post-war Milan. He ends up with the homeless and organizes them to build a shanty town in a vacant lot. But when greedy developers threaten the community’s land, Totò will need all the help he can get in order to find an impossible way out.
1951-02-08 | it
0.0
In a post-apocalyptic world, three strangers are hiding on an abandoned house, learning about each other's past and hoping to stay alive.
2021-12-20 | pt
4.0
Suffering from her mother's recent suicide, a delusional young girl falls for an alluring Goth, against the objections of a life-size talking muslin doll. The Melancholy Fantastic is a psychological thriller set during the holidays.
2011-08-18 | en
7.7
The lives of five sex workers employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation is debating the passage of an anti-prostitution law.
1956-03-18 | ja