Profumo di Zagara (2023)

Palermo, Sicily, 1984. Examining magistrate Giovanni Falcone allies with Tomasso Buscetta, a former mobster, to defeat the clan of Corleone, the ruthless Mafia faction that rules Cosa Nostra with an iron hand, cruelly eliminating all those who dare to oppose its immense power: other criminals, policemen, judges, even innocent civilians. One of them wants revenge, the other wants justice. But only one can survive such an unequal fight.

Spurred by a white woman's lie, vigilantes destroy a black Florida town and slay inhabitants in 1923.

三村新之丞は東北の小藩に仕える三十石の下級武士。剣術の覚えもあり、藩校でも秀才と言われながら、現在の勤めは毒味役。張り合いのない役目に不満を持ちながらも、美しく気立てのいい妻・加代とつましくも笑いの絶えない平和な日々を送っていた。ところが、そんな平穏な生活が一変してしまう。貝の毒にあたった新之丞が、一命は取り留めたものの失明してしまったのだ。絶望し、自ら命を絶とうとする新之丞を、加代は懸命に思い留まらせるのだった。しかし、武士としての勤めを果たせなくなった以上、藩の沙汰次第では生きていくことも叶わない。そこで加代は、嫁入り前からの顔見知りだった上級武士の島田藤弥に相談を持ちかけるのだったが…。

カナダの美しい島、プリンス・エドワード島。グリーン・ゲイブルズと呼ばれる屋敷で暮らすマシューとマリラの老兄妹のもとに、児童養護施設から１３歳の少女アンがやって来た。だが、駅に迎えにいったマシューは、彼女の姿を見て困惑。彼らが養子に望んだのは男の子だったのだ。翌日には彼女を孤児院に返そうと考えた２人だったが、おしゃべりで想像好きなアンの無邪気さは２人の心を動かし、彼らはアンを手許に置く決心をする…。

第一次大戦が終わり、生き残った一人の軍曹。彼は1942年、第二次大戦においてグリフら4人の若い兵士を含む狙撃兵分隊を指揮していた。非情な戦場におののく新兵たちに、“殺人ではなく、ただ殺すだけ”といった教えを諭し、戦場で生き残ることの意義を伝えていく軍曹。するとグリフたち4人は、北アフリカ戦線からシシリー島、そしてノルマンディー上陸作戦と戦地を渡り歩く中で不思議と生き残り、それぞれひとりの人間としても成長していく…。

Ferdinando Cefalù is desperate to marry his cousin, Angela, but he is married to Rosalia and divorce is illegal in Italy. To get around the law, he tries to trick his wife into having an affair so he can catch her and murder her, as he knows he would be given a light sentence for killing an adulterous woman. He persuades a painter to lure his wife into an affair, but Rosalia proves to be more faithful than he expected.

今は昔、竹取の翁が見つけた光り輝く竹の中からかわいらしい女の子が現れ、翁は媼と共に大切に育てることに。女の子は瞬く間に美しい娘に成長しかぐや姫と名付けられ、うわさを聞き付けた男たちが求婚してくるようになる。彼らに無理難題を突き付け次々と振ったかぐや姫は、やがて月を見ては物思いにふけるようになり……。

[Period covered: 1616] On May 8th, 1615 the summer campaign of Osaka has reached the climax. This film takes place immediately following 'Ninja 4: Mist Saizo, Last of The Ninja'. Staying one step ahead of the Shogun’s forces, “Mist” Saizo tries to save the Sanada Clan, and avenge the death of his lord by assassinating the first Tokugawa Shogun. Following the first four films in this remarkable series, more previously unknown Ninja skills are shown to the world for the first time. The action heats up as Saizo single-handedly attacks the Shogun’s Palace!

Meier, a paperhanger in East Berlin, inherits from his father in West Berlin. With this money he wants to fulfil himself the dream of his life: a journey around the world. He buys a forged West German passport and pretends to go on a trip to Bulgaria while he really is off to see the free world. When he wants to return to East Berlin he finds himself in an unbelievable predicament and his double life begins. He can't keep away from his East German friends. As with all the best comedies, the action builds up to an eventual crisis. It's a light comedy, which won several national Film Academy Awards. The film is very political, with lots of political jokes/innuendos which only Germans will understand. One is left feeling what a total obscenity that stupid Wall was, dividing one people for 30 years (1-2 Generations) simply by the coincidence on where you just happen to be in the early morning on the 13th August 1961.

The film is a historical melodrama about a high government official who wants to marry a woman who is engaged to marry another man.

It's 1875 and a young street urchin wants to see Queen Victoria...

The film dramatizes November 11, 1919- a crucial date in the battle for Latvian independence. A year after the end of the official hostilities of WWI, a renegade German general and troops remain outside the Latvian capital. Latvian riflemen, most of them inexperienced volunteers, somehow managed to defeat a larger, better-armed force of German and Russian mercenaries.

Angela, an Italian-American woman, after many years returned to Sicily to attend the funeral of her father. During the ferry trip she meets Salvo, a teenager boy who claims to be hunted by the Mafia, because of a quantity of drugs he stole to some criminals. She decides to give him a ride and the two embark on a journey through Sicily. His amorous attentions are soon obvious, and leads to a fairly obvious ending.

明治40年、日本地図完成のために立山連峰、劔岳への登頂に挑む、陸軍測量手の柴崎芳太郎ら７人の測量隊。山の案内人、宇治長次郎や助手の生田信らと頂への登り口を探すが、生田が足を滑らせけがを負ってしまう。大自然の厳しさを見せつけられた測量隊だったが、柴崎と宇治はある言葉を思い出す。

When eight-year-old Tistou is sent home from school after being unable to stop falling asleep at lessons, his father decides that he will continue his education by learning from observation of real life, and where better to start than in the garden! With the gardener Mr. Moustache, Tistou discovers he has a remarkable gift—the green thumbs: everything he touches grows into beautiful plants. His next lesson is with the stern Mr. Turnbull, manager of his father's armament factory who takes Tistou to visit the town to learn about "order." Over the course of the next few days Tistou learns many new things as he visits the town prison, the slums, and the hospital, and everywhere he tries to change the world into a better place with his new extraordinary power. Finally, he learns about war, and upon visiting his father's factory, he finds out that they supply the two countries at war with their weapons...

Upon his father's death, Florante, a classically trained guitarist returns to the Philippines after 12 years of absence. During his stay he rediscovers the music of harana - a long-forgotten tradition of Filipino serenading when men sang under the window at night to fearlessly declare their love for a woman. Intent on unearthing these unheralded songs, Florante travels to the remote provinces where he discovers three of the last surviving practitioners - a farmer, a fisherman and a tricycle driver. Astounded by their golden voices, Florante asks them to travel with him to perform and record these unknown songs. During their travels, the haranistas meet Brian, a shy young man who for years has been secretly in love with a schoolmate. The haranistas, who have not serenaded in the last thirty years, offered their services to serenade Brian's object of affection, resulting in one of the most tender moments of genuine harana captured on film.

In the late-80s and early-90s, two prosecutors went after the mob in Sicily. Archival footage, gruesome photographs and new interviews are shown.

Colosseum: Rome's Arena of Death aka Colosseum: A Gladiator's Story is a 2003 BBC Television docudrama which tells the true story of Verus a gladiator who fought at the Colosseum in Rome.

A rich, jet-setting playboy has a secret life: he's also a professional Mafia hitman. When he decides it's time to retire from that life, he finds that his former employers don't like the idea that someone who knows so much about them won't be under their control anymore, and decide to send their own hitmen to eliminate him.

A cornucopia of early - and, in many cases, extremely rare - baseball films, offering privileged peeks into early twentieth century American lifestyles and values. It includes newly remastered and scored versions of two important early baseball features: The Busher (1919), a delightful comedy-drama featuring silent cinema legends Charles Ray, Colleen Moore, and John Gilbert; and Headin' Home (1920), spotlighting a young, shockingly svelte Babe Ruth in his first motion picture starring role.