Paul Bäumer (Felix Kammerer) is excited to enlist in the Imperial German Army in the Spring of 1917 alongside his friends from school: Albert Kropp (Aaron Hilmer), Franz Müller (Moritz Klaus), and Ludwig Behm (Adrian Grünewald). The three young boys gleefully suit up in their field uniforms, listen to a speech about how they will serve…
Tag: International Cinema
Ponniyin Selvan: I
The Chola Dynasty is in power in India during the 10th century, and leading the country to prosperity is Emperor Sundara Chozhar (Prakash Raj). His sons, Aditha Karikalan (Vikram) and Arulmozhi Varman (Jayam Ravi), referred to affectionately by the people as the titular Ponniyin Selvan, are expanding the reach of their father’s rule in hopes of…
Nosferatu the Vampyre
Jonathan Harker (Bruno Ganz) is a real estate agent in the employ of Renfield (Roland Topor) tasked with making the four-week journey from Wismar to Transylvania to review the sale of a large, empty estate home back in Germany with Count Dracula (Klaus Kinski), coincidentally enough the neighboring lot to Jonathan’s own home. Despite the…
Chup
Arvind (Sunny Deol) is called in to investigate the gruesome murder of film critic Nitin Shrivastav (Pyarali Nayani), who was found dead in his bathroom, and his body covered in deep, carefully arranged cuts. The search for clues quickly becomes a hunt for a serial killer as the following week, after the new films have…
Private Desert
After being suspended from his job as a police officer due to a violent incident during training, Daniel (Antonio Saboia) decides to travel and meet his long-distance, online girlfriend, Sara (Pedro Fasanaro) as a surprise for her. No one seems to know anything about her until Daniel meets Fernando (Thomas Aquino), a friend of Sara’s. …
Moneyboys
Fei (Kai Ko) works as an illegal hustler, but despite his affairs, he has one true love: Xiaolai (J.C. Lin). When Xiaolai’s apartment is raided by police, Fei runs away and falls out of contact with Xiaolai as he creates a new life for himself in a new city. A family emergency finds Fei returning…
Our Eternal Summer
With high school behind them and just waiting to start their adult lives in a few short weeks, a group of friends spend their days hanging around the coastal Mediterranean town of Marseille. With the sun setting on their beach day, Malo (Matthieu Lucci) and Lola (Marcia Feugeas) go back for one final dip in…
Shamshera
Tricked by Shudh Singh (Sanjay Dutt), a military general aligned with the British armies invading India during the 1870’s, Shamshera (Ranbir Kapoor) forfeits his ancestral home and sentences his entire tribe to life in exile as slaves in the walled city of Kaza. Refusing to accept defeat, he tries to find a way to escape…
Playground
Nora (Maya Vanderbeque) is nervous about starting school as she hugs her father (Karim Leklou) goodbye in the schoolyard. Things do not go well for the young girl when she sees her older brother, Abel (Günter Duret), getting bullied during recess. Despite her pleas, she cannot get an adult to step in and rectify the…
The Marquee Topic 