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This exhilarating Yakutian action drama film (coming from the Republic of Sakha, in the Arctic Circle) has many international and relatable themes: protecting your family, taking revenge upon a perpetrator. Director Burnashev successfully conveys the pain and emotion of a parent in a hard situation.
Synopsis
A heinous crime is committed in a remote Russian village. The evidence points to Police Officer Afonya. The locals are ready to take matters into their own hands. Investigator Nikolai must quickly find out all of the facts of this case before they do.
Yakut and Russian language, with hard coded English subtitles.
After the death of his mother, Murdo and his father journey from Scotland to North Alabama to visit their relatives. Murdo is an accordion player but has not played in a while. He meets a woman named Queen Monzee-ay who plays accordion. She rekindles his interest in music and invites him to play a gig with her. Music becomes a wedge which drives itself between him and his father, who (out of the best intentions) tries to control him. Eventually, Murdo transcends his father and follows the music.
Aris, despairing and desperate, attempts to leave Greece on a rotting and barely seaworthy boat. After being rescued from drowning by the Coast Guard, he returns to his own ruined country as an outcast. There, he experiences every kind of transgression as an outsider of the new "system", where he now must live as a thief, a slave, and a murderer in this dystopian nightmare.
This in-your-face dark drama follows Dina, a young girl from a small town in Israel who cleans toilets for a living. She falls in love with a man and moves with him to the big city. Little does she know that he’s a pimp who recruits girls for the sex industry.
With its beautiful cinematography and extremely difficult human situations, this unsettling arthouse gem of a film exposes the nitty-gritty ugly side of Tel Aviv, and the sex and drug trade that infests its streets. Hebrew with English hardcoded subtitles.
THOMAS, a quintessential aging virgin decides to attend his high school reunion to win the heart of a girl who never knew he existed. He recruits his two childhood friends to accompany him: DARREL a recently divorced stock-broker who is contemplating suicide and JIMMY a bohemian, alcoholic musician. Together these three uncommon companions embark on a pilgrimage through the American landscape and their own souls. What they find on the way may change them forever.
Featuring Damien D Smith, Celeste Octavia, and tons of other cameo players from Joe Bizarro’s Brides of Satan.
Dark, gripping and morally complex Drama.The life of brilliant judge Micha Alkoby is heading down a promising path, with a promotion coming soon. It all changes after his teenage son, Shay, is involved in a hit-and-run, in which he is the guilty party. Just as Micha is about to turn Shay in, he learns the victim is a member of a crime family, the kind that runs its own system of justice.
Seasons:2
Available exclusively on Amazon Prime Video
Seasons:2
Available exclusively on Amazon Prime Video
