The Boy Who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan (2004)
In 2001, the Taliban government of Afghanistan destroyed the Buddhas of Bamiyan, the world's tallest stone sculptures. By the summer of 2002, after the fall of the Taliban, more than 250 Afghans, most of them Hazara refugees, were living in caves beside the rubble. This film, organized chronologically over four seasons, follows a refugee family living there, including...Read all
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Since You Went Away (1944)
With her husband away to fight in World War II, a housewife must care for their two daughters alone.
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Koi ... Mil Gaya (2003)
A developmentally disabled man meets an extraterrestrial after a huge spacecraft leaves it behind.
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The Cat's Meow (2001)
Movie producer Thomas Ince (Cary Elwes) dies after yachting with William Randolph Hearst (Edward Herrmann), Charlie Chaplin and Marion Davies (Kirsten Dunst).
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Olivier Olivier (1992)
Olivier, the nine-year-old son of Elisabeth and Serge, a country veterinarian, vanishes one afternoon on the way to his grandmother's house. The emotional aftermath of his disappearance sends his father packing from France to Africa and nearly destroys his mother, who clings to her remaining child, Nadine, and her devoted neighbor, Marcel. Several years later, having ...Read all
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Kings Row (1942)
The dark side and hypocrisy of provincial American life is seen through the eyes of five children as they grow to adulthood at the turn of the century.
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The Desperate Hours (1955)
Three escaped convicts move in on and terrorize a suburban household.
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The Sea Wolf (1941)
After being fished out of the sea by a sailer, three fugitives find themselves prisoners of the ship's brutal skipper who refuses to put them ashore and they hatch an escape plan during a crew mutiny.
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973)
During the violent chaos of post-War Japanese black market, a young gangster called Shozo Hirono has to keep up with the rapid shifts of power between unscrupulous bosses.
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Muqaddar Ka Sikandar (1978)
When a homeless and orphaned young man finds work in the house of a wealthy man, he falls in love with the daughter of that wealthy man. But things start to change a lot thereafter.
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