Dabaru (2024)

Menino de sete anos de idade apresenta talento extraordinário para o xadrez. Seu pai, um cronista esportivo, começa a inscrevê-lo em torneios, nos quais é tido como uma revelação. A busca pelo sucesso ameaça tornar-se obsessiva, mas pai e filho têm uma rara oportunidade de reavaliar sua relação.

Two brothers, raised by a chess master, must battle head to head in the world's most competitive chess tournament.

The first documentary feature to explore the tragic and bizarre life of the late chess master Bobby Fischer.

The story of the 1978 World Chess Championship between the Soviet Communist Party's protege, Anatoly Karpov and the traitor and Soviet defector, Viktor Korchnoi. One of those instances in life where truth is stranger than fiction.

Brooklyn Castle is a documentary about I.S. 318 – an inner-city school where more than 65 percent of students are from homes with incomes below the federal poverty level – that also happens to have the best, most winning junior high school chess team in the country. (If Albert Einstein, who was rated 1800, were to join the team, he’d only rank fifth best.) Chess has transformed the school from one cited in 2003 as a “school in need of improvement” to one of New York City’s best. But a series of recession-driven public school budget cuts now threaten to undermine those hard-won successes.

Against the backdrop of Cold War, Glory to the Queen reveals stories of four legendary female chess players from Georgia who revolutionized women’s chess across the globe and became Soviet icons of female emancipation.

A French teacher makes a startling discovery while on a trip to Buchenwald.

Quirky stranger Donovan (Colin Firth) blows into the Scottish village of Port Clyde. There, he rents a room with the Pannick family and ingratiates himself into their lives. Lucy (Katy Murphy) is the long-suffering matriarch of the clan, caring for her senile grandmother (Liz Smith) and mentally disabled brother, Sandy (David Brown). When the town cancels Sandy's train route to school, Donovan suggests starting their own bus line. They do, much to the consternation of local officials.

Mais do que tudo na vida, Grace Anderson sonhava com o dia em que o cara perfeito a pedisse em casamento e prometesse ama-la para sempre. Mas quando pensava que seus sonhos estavam prestes a se realizar com o namorado, as coisas dão errado e sua vida desmorona. Ela embarca, então, na jornada de descoberta do amor verdadeiro na pequena cidade da Carolina, com o apoio de seu pai.

A man who was adopted at birth traces his real parents, and discovers that they have severe learning disabilities and do not know he exists.

In my imagination, she came to me. Jong-moo is happy the calendar model Na-yeong is there smiling for him although they can't be together. One day, the girl of his dreams moves right next door to him and Jong-moo's boring life turns into excitement. Jong-moo learns about how she suffers behind the fanciness and he puts everything he has on the line to comfort her. Na-yeong is caught between his innocence and her work. Meanwhile, Jong-moo's friend Yong-jin dreams of a hot night with his cute girlfriend Ji-hee but every time he tries he stands on the verge of death and in the end Ji-hee confesses something to him... The two couple put their lives on the line for love.

A handful of immigrants make a bittersweet pilgrimage back to the land of their birth in this comedy drama. Ten people who have little in common beyond the fact they were all originally from Puerto Rico and now live in New York, discover they've won a contest giving them each a free, all-expenses paid vacation -- in Puerto Rico. While some are eager to visit the place they once called home, others are nervous about what they will find and wary about confronting the people and things they left behind.

Quando ainda estava na faculdade de cinema, Diego se destacava como um dos alunos mais promissores, dirigindo pequenos trabalhos de sucesso. No entanto, chegando ao mercado de trabalho, ele não consegue se firmar como cineasta, sendo forçado a filmar cerimônias de casamento. Em meio a essa crise, Diego ainda tem que enfrentar sua complicada relação com as mulheres, que despertam nele o desejo e o medo.

The tumultuous relationship between a street singer and a prince.

Jim Gladden, a construction site foreman, is partially responsible for the accidental death of one of his workers, Fred Smith, and makes good on Fred's deathbed request to go to Scotch Valley and take care of his surviving wife and children. When Jim arrives in the small town, he is told that there are two Fred Smith families in Scotch Valley, the rich Smiths and the poor Smiths. Jim assumes that the Smiths he is looking for are the poor ones, and is directed to a house where four children live in poverty.

A female writer bases her newest book on the affair she had with her publisher in this Dutch drama. Lin is the glamorous writer who finds herself pulled out of a canal by two riverboat men. Her story is told in flashback. Her recently published book "Wildgroei"(Dutch for "Wild Growth") chronicled her one-sided passion for her publisher Emile who chose Lin's sister Marot instead.

Three hopefuls -- Shanna Reed, Deborah Geffner and Maureen Teefy -- each wants to be a Radio City Music Hall Rockette, vying for the one open spot the hall's choreographer, Gwen Verdon (in her TV-movie debut), has to fill. Sheree North plays Geffner's ex-Rockette mother and John Heard is a magazine reporter who falls for each of the aspiring dancers. The film was shot partially at Radio City Music Hall and was given a single public showing there several nights before its television premiere.