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2) North Face
Pub. Date
2010
Description
In 1936, two German mountain climbers attempt to climb the North face of the Eiger in the Swiss Alps and discover that two Austrian climbers are struggling to reach the top before them.
7) The hunt
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
Lucas is a former school teacher who has been forced to start over having overcome a tough divorce and the loss of his job. Just as things are starting to go his way, his life is shattered when an untruthful remark throws his small community into a collective state of hysteria. As the lie spreads, Lucas is forced to fight a lonely fight for his life and dignity.
8) Les vampires
Pub. Date
2012
Description
An intrepid reporter and his loyal friend battle a bizarre secret society of criminals known as The Vampires.
10) Tanna
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
On a remote Pacific island, a young girl falls in love with the chief's grandson, but during a war she discovers that she is betrothed to another as part of a peace deal.
11) Force majeure
Pub. Date
2015
Description
An idyllic family skiing vacation takes a stunning turn when an avalanche threatens the ski lodge restaurant, sending people fleeing and demanding quick decisions that change the course of the family dynamics and trust.
15) The last king
Pub. Date
[2016]
Formats
Description
Aided by rebel group the Birch Legs, the Norwegian King fights for survival against the Church2s Bishopsmen, who seek to supplant the throne. On his deathbed after falling ill, the King soon welcomes a son, born in secrecy, as half the Kingdom wants him dead. Tasked with guarding the only remaining heir to the throne, two Birch Legs warriors, Skjervald and Torstein, escape with the infant and must traverse treacherous landscapes to protect their future...
16) Son of Saul
Pub. Date
2016
Description
October 1944, Auschwitz-Birkenau. Saul Auslñder is a Hungarian member of the Sonderkommando, the group of Jewish prisoners isolated from the camp and forced to assist the Nazis in the machinery of large-scale extermination. While working in one of the crematoriums, Saul discovers the body of a boy he takes for his son. As the Sonderkommando plans a rebellion, Saul decides to carry out an impossible task: save the child's body from the flames, find...
17) Sugar
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Miguel 'Sugar' Santos is a talented Dominican baseball player who longs to break into the American big league and earn the money needed to support his impoverished family. He is a talented pitcher who might just have what it takes to earn a prized spot on a Major League Baseball team. Before that happens he'll have to prove his worth in the minor leagues. Advancing in baseball's minor league system at the tender age of 19, Miguel is warmly welcomed...
18) Stroszek
Pub. Date
2001.
Description
Three oddly-assorted Berlin misfits hope to escape their problems by going to Wisconsin but their "American dream" doesn't end in a conventional manner.
19) Saint Omer
Series
Criterion collection volume 1212
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
When she travels to Saint-Omer, France, to attend the trial of a young Senegalese woman accused of murdering her infant daughter, novelist Rama finds herself shaken to the core by a case that proves to have profound resonances with her own life. Interweaving complex themes of mother-daughter bonds, immigrant alienation, and postcolonial trauma into a piercing portrait of two mysteriously connected women, Diop forgoes mere questions of guilt and innocence...
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
It tells of a series of reencounters experienced by Salvador Mallo, a film director in his physical decline. Some of them in the flesh, others remembered: his childhood in the '60s, when he emigrated with his parents to a village in Valencia in search of prosperity, the first desire, his first adult love in the Madrid of the '80s, the pain of the breakup of that love while it was still alive and intense.