KARANDIKA

Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, in order to finance his project, he embarks on an epic adventure to collect rubber, a very profitable product, in a remote and unexplored region of the rainforest.

Runtime

2h 37m

Director

Werner Herzog

Cast

Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale, José Lewgoy

In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners train for the 1924 Paris Olympics. Eric Liddell, a devout Christian born to Scottish missionaries in China, sees running as part of his worship of God's glory and refuses to train or compete on the Sabbath. Harold Abrahams overcomes anti-S...

Runtime

2h 3m

Director

Hugh Hudson

Cast

Ben Cross, Ian Charleson, Cheryl Campbell

A high school teacher meets his match in an over-achieving student politician.

Runtime

1h 43m

Director

Alexander Payne

Cast

Matthew Broderick, Reese Witherspoon, Chris Klein

Aging wrestler Randy "The Ram" Robinson is long past his prime but still ready and rarin' to go on the pro-wrestling circuit. After a particularly brutal beating, however, Randy hangs up his tights, pursues a serious relationship with a long-in-the-tooth stripper, and tries to reconnect with his estranged daughter. But he can't resist ...

Runtime

1h 49m

Director

Darren Aronofsky

Cast

Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood

Else Riedel (Lissy Arna), locked out by her authoritarian father, seeks refuge with her boyfriend Hans. Complications threaten when Hans's roommate Max falls in love with her, but the situation is resolved: the three remain friends, and decide to form a music hall act. They want to ascend, but how? A way out beckons when a theatrical a...

Runtime

2h 12m

Director

Gerhard Lamprecht

Cast

Lissy Arna, Gerhard Dammann, Mathias Wieman