Carandiru

6.4

Swept from the Sea

The film tells the story of Russian emigree and the only survivor from ship crash Yanko Goorall and servant Amy Foster in the end of 19th century. When Yanko enters a farm sick and hungry after the shipwreck, everyone is afraid of him, except for Amy, who is very kind and helps him. Soon he becomes like a son for Dr. James Kennedy and romance between Yanko and Amy follows.

1998-01-23 | en

7.5

Live and Become

In 1980, the black Falashas in Ethiopia are recognised as genuine Jews and are secretly carried to Israel. The day before the transport the son of a Jewish mother dies. In his place and with his name (Schlomo) she takes a Christian 9-year-old boy.

2005-03-30 | fr

7.2

The Edge of Heaven

The lives of six German-Turkish immigrants are drawn together by circumstance: An old man and a prostitute forging a partnership, a young scholar reconciling his past, two young women falling in love, and a mother putting the shattered pieces of her life back together.

2007-09-27 | de

7.5

Training Day

On his first day on the job as a narcotics officer, a rookie cop works with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears.

2001-10-05 | en

7.0

The Lake House

A lonely doctor who once occupied an unusual lakeside home begins exchanging love letters with its former resident, a frustrated architect. They must try to unravel the mystery behind their extraordinary romance before it's too late.

2006-06-16 | en

5.7

The Real McCoy

Karen McCoy is released from prison with nothing but the clothes on her back. Before being incarcerated, Karen was the bank robber of her time, but now she wishes for nothing more than to settle down and start a new life. Unfortunately, between a dirty parole officer, old business partners, and an idiot ex, she will have to do the unthinkable in order to save her son.

1993-09-10 | en

7.2

Open Range

A former gunslinger is forced to take up arms again when he and his cattle crew are threatened by a corrupt lawman.

2003-08-11 | en

6.6

Beyond Rangoon

Dr. Laura Bowman is a young widow who's unwittingly drawn into political turmoil while vacationing in Burma in the late 1980s. Bowman initially left San Francisco with her sister in an attempt to escape painful memories of her husband and son's violent deaths. But her fight to escape to Thailand could prove just as harrowing.

1995-08-25 | en

7.6

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

A couple's attitudes are challenged when their daughter brings home a fiancé who is black.

1967-12-11 | en

7.5

Malcolm X

A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he became a Black Muslim and then a leader in the Nation of Islam. His assassination in 1965 left a legacy of self-determination and racial pride.

1992-11-18 | en

6.8

Salvador (Puig Antich)

The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's Fascist State in 1974.

2006-05-23 | ca

0.0

Shangrao Concentration Camp

Shangrao Concentration Camp is set in the hellish confines of a Guomindang prison, where the brutal officials try to force two female Communist prisoners to reveal their leader's identity and location.

1951-01-01 | zh

7.2

The Last Castle

A court-martialed general rallies together 1200 inmates to rise against the system that put him away.

2001-10-19 | en

6.6

Wasabi

Hubert is a French policeman with very sharp methods. After being forced to take 2 months off by his boss, who doesn't share his view on working methods, he goes back to Japan, where he used to work 19 years ago, to settle the probate of his girlfriend who left him shortly after marriage without a trace.

2001-10-31 | fr

0.0

Anak ni Baby Ama

A boy grows up not knowing his real identity. One day a mysterious lady, claiming to be his real mother, divulges the truth about his roots. He is caught between leaving his past and living his new life.

1991-01-11 | tl

6.8

Bitayin si....Baby Ama!

A story depicting the life of executed murderer and gang leader, Marciál "Baby" Ama. Ama, who became a gang leader with his prison mob while serving a sentence for lesser charges, was executed for murder at the age of 16 via electric chair on 4 October 1961.

1976-08-06 | tl

6.2

Catch a Fire

The true story of anti-apartheid activists in South Africa, and particularly the life of Patrick Chamusso, a timid foreman at Secunda CTL, the largest synthetic fuel plant in the world. Patrick is wrongly accused, imprisoned and tortured for an attempt to bomb the plant, with the injustice transforming the apolitical worker into a radicalised insurgent, who then carries out his own successful sabotage mission.

2006-10-27 | en

7.8

3-Iron

A drifter lives in people's houses while they are away and repays them by doing chores for them. His life changes when he meets a beautiful woman who wants to escape her unhappy marriage.

2004-10-15 | ko

6.8

Four Minutes

Jenny is young. Her life is over. She killed someone. And she would do it again. When an 80-year-old piano teacher discovers the girl’s secret, her brutality and her dreams, she decides to transform her pupil into the musical wunderkind she once was.

2006-06-23 | de

6.5

The Discovery of Heaven

Disappointed with humanity, God wants to revoke his contract with humanity and wants to take back the stone tablets containing the ten commandments. To this end an angel is sent out to affect the personal lives of three humans so an appropriate child may be conceived.

2001-10-01 | en

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Carandiru

Inside here nobody is guilty. Do you believe that?

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Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos

Milton Gonçalves

Ivan de Almeida

Aílton Graça

Maria Luísa Mendonça

Aida Leiner

Rodrigo Santoro

Gero Camilo

Lázaro Ramos

Caio Blat

Wagner Moura

Julia Ianina

Sabrina Greve

Floriano Peixoto

Ricardo Blat

Vanessa Gerbelli

Leona Cavalli

Milhem Cortaz

Dionísio Neto

Antônio Grassi

Enrique Díaz

Robson Nunes

André Ceccato

Bukassa Kabengele

Sabotage

Rita Cadillac

Luis Miranda

Serjão Loroza

Walter Breda

Leopoldo Pacheco

Nill Marcondes

Celso Sim

Oscar Magrini

Cláudia Wonder

Clemente Viscaíno

Gustavo Trestini

Flávio Rocha

Nicolas Trevijano

Marcos Suchara

Marcello Escorel

Vera Mancini

Luciano Quirino

Salete Campari

Eduardo Mancini

Gal Quaresma

Igor Moreira

André Nascimento

Claudio Albuquerque

Angelo Brandini

Caio Cesar

Drago

Guido Campos Correa

Antônio de Andrade

Carlos Junior

Cleide Queiroz

Fabio Ock

Ivan Cápua

Riba Carlovich

Maurício Marques

Kaio Pezzutti

Paulo Ribeiro

Rejane Arruda

Roberto Audio

Kiko Dinucci

Mirtes Mesquita

Pedro Vieira