Six million Jews died during World War II, both in the extermination camps and murdered by the mobile commandos of the Einsatzgruppen and police battalions, whose members shot men, women and children, day after day, obediently, as if it were a normal job, a fact that is hardly known today. Who were these men and how could they commit such crimes?
A famous surgeon is beaten by drunken bullies, loses his memory and cannot recollect who he was before. He gets to a village, lives in a not so well to do family and becomes the Quack - he slowly regains his talent for medicine and saves the lives of several village patients.
El Mateo s'enfronta a la muntanya més perillosa del planeta, l'Annapurna, complint una antiga promesa. Un accident durant l'ascens el deixa greument ferit. Hores més tard, és rescatat per l'Ione, una alpinista experimentada que està passant l'hivern en un refugi, sola i allunyada del món. Malgrat no entendre les raons que han portat al Mateo fins allà, la Ione l'ajudarà a superar el repte.
After a court order sends him to work at a hospice, an ex-criminal strikes up a friendship with a compassionate priest who changes his life.
Based on the life of Hyakken Uchida, a Japanese author and academic. The film opens with Uchida resigning his job as a German professor at the onset of WWII. The story is told mostly in vignettes as he is cared for by former students in his old age.
Stockholm, in the 1950s. Erik is expelled from the local school for getting into one brawl too many. To protect Erik from his violent stepfather’s reaction to his expulsion, Erik's mother arranges for Erik to spend a year at Stjärnsberg Boarding School, the only school willing to accept him. This is Erik's last chance to graduate to Upper School and he promises his mother, for his and her sake, to do all he can to stay out of trouble.
1960s Turkey countryside. A newly assigned teacher finds out that the solitary village is missing a school. He gets fond of the village people and especially a disabled man. The teacher helps the village to build a new school and educate the children and the disabled man.
Barbara O’Brien, an Irish Catholic mother, has her life turned upside-down when her son, a freshman in college, is involved in a tragic hazing incident. Taking justice into her own hands, she travels across the country recording mothers who have lost sons to hazing in an effort to prove the university’s liability. When she is confronted by corruption and cover ups, she seeks revenge on the one person she finds truly responsible, proving that hell hath no fury like a mother scorned.
Viena, 1938. Els nazis s'acaben d'annexionar Àustria i el notari Josef Bartok sap que està en perill greu. Mentre es prepara per fugir, és detingut per la Gestapo i tancat en un hotel reconvertit a la presó. Només en sortirà si col·labora amb els nazis. Bartok no està disposat a cedir. Però aïllat, la soledat comença a fer efecte fins que aconsegueix robar un llibre d'escacs, que serà el seu punt de suport per mantenir-se assenyat i convertir la resistència en un joc.
Two adopted brothers filled with resentment for each other after the loss of their mother, united in their love of breakdancing, find themselves thrust together as they embark on a journey for the Gold.
When Cheryl visits the Christmas carnival in her hometown, she gets a second chance in life when she is transported to Christmas five years in the past.
After a near fatal car accident, a popular high school student loses her memory and gets a second chance at a more meaningful life.
In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to his career, not his family. Helen Christianson wants to find a new spark in life, while Annette Jennings tries to rebuild hers.
Superproducció sobre el naixement de l'estat d'Israel (1948). Sis-cents onze jueus que han sobreviscut als camps d'extermini nazis, abandonen Alemanya en un vaixell (l'Estrella de David) que atraca a Xipre. Després de superar grans dificultats, aconsegueixen finalment salpar de l'illa a l'Èxode, vaixell de càrrega amb destinació a Palestina. L´objectiu dels refugiats és crear l´estat d´Israel. Akiva, un líder fanàtic, considera que el terrorisme és l'única via per construir la nació, però el seu germà Barek i el nebot Ari Ben Canaan (Paul Newman) no són de la mateixa opinió.
Pietro and Eleonora, both avid gardeners, are strangers who only meet because their two terraces are close to each other. The relationship that grows between them helps them to alleviate the pain each feels over something secret and very serious, a pain both try to hide from themselves and those around them. In this limbo they inhabit, the two make a stab at finding happiness together, until their paths diverge once more.
Robert Hansen, 34, a young police officer from Copenhagen, is transferred against his will to the small town of Skarrild in Southern Jutland as a substitute Marshall. The transfer is Robert’s chance to start over. Whether he is allowed to return to his job in Copenhagen, all depends on how well he performs in this frontier town.
In this biopic about the life and death of Ângela Diniz, Angela meets Raul and believes she has found someone who loves her free spirit as much as she does. The overwhelming attraction makes the couple drop everything and live the dream of rebuilding their lives on the beach. But the relationship declines into abuse and violence, giving rise to one of the most remembered murders in Brazil.
Any 1957. Durant la riuada que ha arrasat la ciutat de València, una dona periodista, de les molt poques que hi havia en l'època, i un polícia investiguen l'aparició dels cadàvers d'uns joves.
When a wealthy businessman learns of his daughter's sudden engagement to a missionary, he embarks on a quest to keep her closer to home, but when his efforts go awry he must reconsider what it means to be a strong father.