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Directed by Mira NairOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
RomanceThemes Films about immigrationActors Marisa Tomei,
Alfred Molina,
Anjelica Huston,
Chazz Palminteri,
Vincent Gallo,
Trini AlvaradoRating60%
Après avoir passé deux ans en prison à Cuba, Juan Perez débarque à Miami pour rejoindre sa famille. Une erreur d'enregistrement le fait passer pour le mari de Dottie Perez, une ancienne prostituée, et tous deux sont jetés dans un camp de réfugiés. Juan use alors de toutes ses ruses pour pouvoir s'évader et retrouver sa famille..., 1h53
Directed by Mira NairOrigin IndeGenres Drama,
CrimeThemes Films about children,
Films about music and musicians,
Films about sexuality,
Erotic films,
Films about prostitution,
L'enfance marginalisée,
Musical films,
Bollywood,
Erotic thriller filmsActors Anita Kanwar,
Shafiq Syed,
Nana Patekar,
Raghubir Yadav,
Irrfan Khan,
Sanjana KapoorRating78%
Before the start of the film, Krishna has set fire to his bullying elder brother's motor-bike. This has landed him in big trouble with his mother. She has taken him to the nearby Apollo Circus and told him that he can only come home when he earns 500 rupees to pay for the damaged bike. Krishna agrees and works for the circus. , 1h40
Directed by Stijn ConinxOrigin BelgiqueGenres Drama,
Biography,
Musical,
RomanceThemes Films about alcoholism,
Films about immigration,
La précaritéActors Luigi Lo Cascio,
Donatella Finocchiaro,
Warre Borgmans,
Jelle Florizoone,
Vincent Grass,
Jappe ClaesRating71%
Salvatore Granata is a rather poor man who lives with his wife, son and daughter in Calabria in Italy. One day Salvatore decides to move to Belgium to work in the coal mine of Waterschei as a gastarbeider. His family will stay in Italy as Salvatore will only be in Belgium for three years. He hopes to earn much money in a rather small timeframe so he can buy a forge for his son Rocco who is now still a 9 year old boy. After a year, Salvatore decides his family should be with him, so they also move to Belgium. They soon discover the life of a gastarbeider is difficult: they have to live in some kind of barracks, they are neglected by the Belgian people and they do not earn much. They are astonished when they hear Salvatore signed a contract of five years and male children of gastarbeiders are ought to work in the mines as soon they leave high school. Rocco meets Helena, the daughter of the local grocer shop. However, the man is a racist and forbids his daughter to play with Italian boys., 1h51
Directed by Mira NairOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Biography,
Adventure,
Historical,
RomanceThemes Seafaring films,
Transport films,
Aviation filmsActors Hilary Swank,
Richard Gere,
Ewan McGregor,
Aaron Abrams,
Christopher Eccleston,
Virginia MadsenRating57%
On July 2, 1937, Amelia Earhart (Hilary Swank) and her navigator, Fred Noonan (Christopher Eccleston), are on the last leg of an around-the-world flight. Moving in vignettes from her early years when Earhart was captivated by the sight of an aircraft flying overhead on the Kansas prairie where she grew up, her life over the preceding decade gradually unfolds. As a young woman, she is recruited by publishing tycoon and eventual husband, George Putnam (Richard Gere) to become the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean, albeit as a passenger. Taking command of the flight results in a success and she is thrust into the limelight as the most famous woman pilot of her time. Putnam helps Earhart write a book chronicling the flight, much like his earlier triumph with Charles Lindbergh's We. Earhart gradually falls in love with Putnam and they eventually marry, although she enacts a "cruel" pledge as her wedding contract., 1h16
Directed by Don BluthOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Adventure,
Musical,
AnimationThemes Films about animals,
Films about immigration,
Seafaring films,
Transport films,
La précarité,
Film d'animation mettant en scène un animal,
Musical filmsActors Phillip Glasser,
Dom DeLuise,
John P. Finnegan,
Nehemiah Persoff,
Cathy Cavadini,
Pat MusickRating68%
In 1885, Shostka, Russia, the Mousekewitzes—a Russian-Jewish family of mice—who live with a human family named Moskowitz are having a celebration of Hanukkah where the father gives his hat to his son Fievel and tells of a wonderful place called America, where there are no cats. The celebration is interrupted when a battery of Cossacks ride through the village square in an arson attack and the Cossack cats likewise attack the village mice., 1h55
Directed by Marco Tullio GiordanaOrigin ItalieGenres Drama,
Musical,
RomanceThemes Films about alcoholism,
Films about children,
Films about immigration,
Seafaring films,
Transport films,
La précaritéActors Alessio Boni,
Michela Cescon,
Adriana Asti,
Ana Caterina MorariuRating66%
A young Italian boy accidentally falls overboard while yachting with his father on the Mediterranean. He is rescued by a boatload of undocumented immigrants attempting to reach Italy by sailing across the Mediterranean. On the ship, he is befriended by a young Romanian man and his sister. The film follows the relationship of the Italian boy with the Romanian once they reach the Italian shores., 2h7
Directed by Richard DonnerOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Martial arts,
Comedy,
Comedy thriller,
Action,
Adventure,
Crime,
Martial artsThemes Films about alcoholism,
Pregnancy films,
Films about immigration,
Films about sexuality,
Sports films,
La précarité,
Martial arts films,
Buddy films,
Gangster filmsActors Mel Gibson,
Danny Glover,
Joe Pesci,
Rene Russo,
Chris Rock,
Jet LiRating65%
Lorna Cole (Rene Russo) is pregnant with LAPD sergeant Martin Riggs' baby; they are not married, but both are thinking about it. Police sergeant Roger Murtaugh's daughter Rianne (Tracie Wolfe), is also pregnant, and Riggs later learns from Lorna that Rianne has secretly married Lee Butters (Chris Rock), a young detective who works at the same station as Murtaugh and Riggs – secretly because Roger had made it clear that he does not want his daughter to marry a police officer. Due to the many disasters caused by both sergeants while on duty, the police department has lost its insurance carrier, and cannot get a new one while they're still out on the streets. Because firing them is not an option, the Chief uses a special privilege and they get temporarily promoted to captains, given that there aren't any lieutenant spots available., 1h57
Directed by Abdellatif KechicheOrigin FranceGenres Drama,
Comedy-drama,
RomanceThemes L'adolescence,
Films about alcoholism,
La banlieue française,
Films about children,
Films about immigration,
Théâtre,
La précaritéActors Sara Forestier,
Osman Elkharraz,
Sabrina Ouazani,
Rachid Hami,
Carole Franck,
Olivier LoustauRating68%
A group of teenagers from the housing projects of the Paris suburbs practice a passage from the play Games of Love and Chance by Marivaux for their French class. Abdelkrim, or Krimo, who initially does not act in the play, falls in love with Lydia. In order to try to seduce her, he accepts the role of Arlequin and joins the rehearsal. But his timidness and awkwardness keeps him from participating in the play as well as succeeding with Lydia., 3h40
Directed by Michael Cimino,
Brian W. CookOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Action,
Historical,
Romance,
WesternThemes Films about immigration,
Politique,
Films about sexuality,
Rape in fiction,
La précarité,
Erotic films,
Films about prostitution,
Political films,
Erotic thriller filmsActors Kris Kristofferson,
Christopher Walken,
Isabelle Huppert,
Jeff Bridges,
John Hurt,
Sam WaterstonRating67%
In 1870, two young men, Jim Averill and Billy Irvine, graduate from Harvard College. The Reverend Doctor speaks to the graduates on the association of "the cultivated mind with the uncultivated" and the importance of education. Irvine, brilliant but obviously intoxicated, follows this with his opposing, irreverent views. A celebration is then held after which the male students serenade the women present, including Averill's girlfriend., 2h10
Directed by Cédric KlapischOrigin FranceGenres Drama,
Comedy-drama,
MusicalThemes Films about immigration,
Medical-themed films,
La précaritéActors Juliette Binoche,
Romain Duris,
Fabrice Luchini,
François Cluzet,
Albert Dupontel,
Mélanie LaurentRating67%
The film is set principally in Paris, with one thread of the story set in Africa. Over the course of several months, various stories are intertwined, with different characters and plot threads intersecting.