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The Happening(2008)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 31min | Thriller, Science Fiction
2.7/5 (with 1,515 votes)

When a deadly airborne virus threatens to wipe out the northeastern United States, teacher Elliott Moore and his wife Alma flee from contaminated cities into the countryside in a fight to discover the truth. Is it terrorism, the accidental release of some toxic military bio weapon -- or something even more sinister?

10(1979)

FSK: 16+ years
| 2h 2min | Comedy, Romance / Love
2.8/5 (with 102 votes)

A Hollywood songwriter goes through a mid-life crisis and becomes infatuated with a sexy blonde newlywed.

Inside Job(2010)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 49min | Documentary
3.9/5 (with 403 votes)

A film that exposes the shocking truth behind the economic crisis of 2008. The global financial meltdown, at a cost of over $20 trillion, resulted in millions of people losing their homes and jobs. Through extensive research and interviews with major financial insiders, politicians and journalists, Inside Job traces the rise of a rogue industry and unveils the corrosive relationships which have corrupted politics, regulation and academia.

Directed by Charles Ferguson - With Matt Damon

The Horse Whisperer(1998)

FSK: 6+ years
| 2h 50min | Adventure, Drama, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 495 votes)

The mother of a severely traumatized daughter enlists the aid of a unique horse trainer to help the girl's equally injured horse.

An Inconvenient Truth(2006)

FSK: 0+ years
| 1h 40min | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 377 votes)

A documentary on Al Gore's campaign to make the issue of global warming a recognized problem worldwide.

Directed by Davis Guggenheim

Forget Paris(1995)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 41min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
3.1/5 (with 67 votes)

Mickey Gordon is a basketball referee who travels to France to bury his father. Ellen Andrews is an American living in Paris who works for the airline he flies on. They meet and fall in love, but their relationship goes through many difficult patches.

Breathe In(2013)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 38min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 139 votes)

When a foreign exchange student arrives in a small upstate New York town, she challenges the dynamics of her host family's relationships and alters their lives forever.

The Reluctant Fundamentalist(2013)

FSK: 16+ years
| 2h 10min | Thriller
3.4/5 (with 95 votes)

In New York, a Pakistani native finds that his American Dream has collapsed in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Nostalgia(1983)

3.9/5 (with 212 votes)

A Russian poet and his interpreter travel to Italy to research the life of an 18th-century composer.

War Photographer(2001)

1h 36min | Documentary
3.8/5 (with 28 votes)

Documentary about war photographer James Nachtwey, considered by many the greatest war photographer ever.

Directed by Christian Frei - With James Nachtwey, Christiane Amanpour

Bitcoin: The End of Money as We Know It(2015)

3.3/5 (with 19 votes)

A documentary exploring how money and the trading of value has evolved, culminating in Bitcoin.

Soy una buena persona(2023)

1h 48min | Comedy
2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

Sabina lives with and from her parents in her thirties. Another "artist" who drags herself through a Madrid in crisis, surrounded by people even sadder and worst than herself. Chance gives him the opportunity to "kill it" - and why not?

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Detropia(2012)

1h 33min | Documentary
3.3/5 (with 17 votes)

Detroit’s story has encapsulated the iconic narrative of America over the last century – the Great Migration of African Americans escaping Jim Crow; the rise of manufacturing and the middle class; the love affair with automobiles; the flowering of the American dream; and now… the collapse of the economy and the fading American mythos.

The Hole in the Fence(2021)

1h 40min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 5 votes)

As every year, the Los Pinos school, a prestigious school of the confessional type, sends its students on retreat to the countryside. Under the watchful eye of teachers and priests, the children are led on the path of their physical and moral development. Through the gaze of several middle and upper class teenagers, the film shows how their upbringing affects the future of society itself.

Directed by Joaquín del Paso

At Your Doorstep(2016)

1h 33min | Drama, Music
2.6/5 (with 13 votes)

Three stories intertwine as different people deal with the challenges of living through times of crisis. An evicted mother, a banker with a conscience and a police officer who has to do his job no matter what, sing and dance in this Brechtian musical drama about the economic crisis, people’s struggle with daily life, solidarity and hope.

Flow: For Love of Water(2008)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 24min | Documentary
3.4/5 (with 8 votes)

From both local and global perspectives, this documentary examines the harsh realities behind the mounting water crisis. Learn how politics, pollution and human rights are intertwined in this important issue that affects every being on Earth. With water drying up around the world and the future of human lives at stake, the film urges a call to arms before more of our most precious natural resource evaporates.

Directed by Irena Salina

Meant to Be(2012)

1h 28min | Drama
2.6/5 (with 3 votes)

When 20-year old Nathan loses his career and his girlfriend, he questions his purpose in life. Compounding his struggle, Nathan grew up in a foster home and never met his birth mother. He sets out on a quest to find his mother and somehow come to terms with her rejection of him. His journey begins by flying to the city where he was born. Upon his arrival, Nathan checks into a hotel and meets Mave the hotel's housekeeper. Encouraged by Mave's wisdom and the help of hotel guest Shelly, Nathan finds the address of his mother, Linda. Linda is a social worker who agonizes over the decision she made with Nathan 20 years ago. In an effort to admonish the guilt of giving up her son, Linda is caught up in the life of a teenage mother-to-be, Tori, who is conflicted by the decision to abort her baby. When Nathan gathers the courage to meet his mother, he uncovers a terrible secret that totally redefines what was meant to be for his life.

The Heart Is a Dark Forest(2007)

1h 26min | Drama
2.8/5 (with 5 votes)

A woman's life is destroyed when she discovers that her husband has another family.

Making Up!(1993)

2.5/5 (with 3 votes)

An original satire about women of the 90s in search of the men of their dreams. Franzy believes she's through with men, but desperately needs new amorous story lines for the comic strip she writes for a newspaper. So she observes her friend Maischa struggling to satisfy her need for love -- and someone who knows how to install her new shelf. Since joiner Klaus demands too much attention, she sets her eyes on the good-looking footballer Rene.

Rey gitano(2015)

1h 52min | Comedy
2.0/5 (with 21 votes)

Two unemployed detectives with conflicting ideologies meet a rogue and seductive gypsy who proposes them a crazy mission. After that, their luck will change for the worse.

Laboratory Greece(2019)

2h 45min | Documentary, History
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A journey through Greece and Europe’s past and recent history: from the Second World War to the current crisis. It is a historical documentary, a look into many stories. «If Democracy can be destroyed in Greece, it can be destroyed throughout Europe» Paul Craig Roberts.

Burn(2012)

1h 26min | Documentary
3.7/5 (with 12 votes)

A character-driven, action-packed documentary about Detroit, told through the eyes of the Detroit firefighters, the men and women charged with the thankless task of saving a city that many have written off as dead.

Directed by Tom Putnam

Garantía personal(2017)

1h 45min | Drama, Thriller
2.8/5 (with 1 vote)

- No description / details available yet. -

Vers Madrid! (The Burning Bright)(2012)

2h 30min | Documentary
2.6/5 (with 4 votes)

This film is a newsreel, which presents some views, scenes and mo-ments of the class struggle in Madrid. The “Movimiento 15-M” is the first major “movement” in the beginning of the 21st century. A deep movement, trans-border and trans-historical which reactivates and works ideas and concepts that were long thought to be forgotten: demos, logos, revolution ...

Directed by Sylvain George

Taistelukenttä 2020(2020)

19min | War, Action

- No description / details available yet. -

Summer Crisis(2013)

1h 37min | Drama, History
2.5/5 (with 3 votes)

In the summer of 1969, Bernard, a Gaspesian fisherman's son, arrive in Perce to fin work. He meets Paul, Jacques and Francis, Quebec Independence activists who have come to open the 'Fisherman's House'. They aim to organize public conferences and offer lodgings to young travelers. A motley crowd of Quebecers from all over the province soon flocks to Perce: artists, hippies, rockers, hitchhikers and the like shake local authorities. Bernard is won over by the trio's ideas and gets increasingly involved in their project. The following year, the will join the Front de liberation du Quebec (FLQ) and play a pivotal role in the Summer Crisis 1969.

Standing Firm(2010)

1h 20min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

David, a widower, is working himself to death. Late nights doing paperwork and running on fumes is normal. Bills are piling up by the week, and foreclosure looms on the horizon. Blaming God for his wife's death, he ends his relationship with the church. Steven, the remaining Christian of the household, has been watching his father's unhealthy lifestyle with great concern. With help from his grandpa and best friend Maggie, Steven reaches out to his father in any way he can. Despite his grieving and worsening financial problems, David begins seeking an answer to the question haunting him since his wife's death...WHY? STANDING FIRM is a story of suffering, God's purpose in it, and being joyful despite it.

Secrets of a Married Man(1984)

1h 40min | Drama
1.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A man (Shatner) going through a mid-life crisis, starts patronizing prostitutes. Eventually, he meets a very expensive one (Shepherd) and he thinks he has it all. That is until her pimp starts hounding him.

A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity(2016)

1h 19min | Documentary
3.3/5 (with 1 vote)

A feature-length documentary that follows a community in Australia who came together to explore and demonstrate a simpler way to live in response to global crises.

Directed by Jordan Osmond

The Trouble with Money(1936)

1h 29min | Drama, Comedy
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Respected banker Karel Brand is seen as a marketable emblem of probity. When he loses 350,000 guilders, his reputation is tarnished – without the respect attached to it, he loses his job. Brand becomes unemployable, and his creditors suddenly start calling in their debts. His young daughter Willy suffers the same fate.

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