23 000 Lives

The Australian Aborigines (in this film anyway) believe that this is the place where the green ants go to dream, and that if their dreams are disturbed, it will bring down disaster on us all. The Aborigines' belief is not shared by a giant mining company, which wants to tear open the soil and search for uranium.

Runtime

1h 40m

Director

Werner Herzog

Cast

Wandjuk Marika, Roy Marika, Ray Barrett

Laurent van Horn is the leader of a band of Dutch refugees on a ship seeking freedom in the Carolinas, when the ship is wrecked on the coast of Cartagene, governed by Don Juan Alvardo, a Spanish ruler. Alvarado has Laurent thrown in prison, but the latter escapes, and five-years later is a pirate leader. He poses as the navigator on a ...

Runtime

1h 40m

Director

Frank Borzage

Cast

Paul Henreid, Maureen O'Hara, Walter Slezak

An anti-Nazi refugee on the run and a young Jewish couple race across Europe trying to escape Hitler's ever powerful influence.

Runtime

1h 57m

Director

John Cromwell

Cast

Fredric March, Margaret Sullavan, Frances Dee

Victoria is a thirty-something divorced lawyer who's struggling to raise her two daughters. She is canny and cynical but on the verge of an emotional breakdown. At a friend's wedding she reconnects with Vincent, an old friend, and Sam, an old client. Her life is about to take a new turn.

Runtime

1h 37m

Director

Justine Triet

Cast

Virginie Efira, Vincent Lacoste, Melvil Poupaud

Fatma and her mother are Kurdish refugees living in Italy. One day at the hospital, Fatma learns her mother has breast cancer.

Runtime

15m

Cast

Fatma Alakus, Cahide Ozel, Valentina Carnelutti