Bastard (2011)

Durante um desfile na noite de Halloween, um menino de oito anos desaparece misteriosamente. Depois de um ano sem qualquer pista, os pais do garoto começam a sentir presenças estranhas. O casal decide se unir para procurar seu filho em toda a cidade de Nova York. O que ninguém esperava é a descoberta de um espírito vingativo, cheio de segredos antigos que colocam a vida do menino em perigo.

Uma grande onda de sequestros e criminalidade varre a Cidade do México, fazendo com que muitos de seus cidadãos mais ricos contratem guarda-costas para seus filhos. John Creasy é um ex-agente da CIA. Sem emprego e bebendo mais do que deveria, ele aceita a proposta de ser guarda-costas da pequena Pita, uma garota de 9 anos que é filha de um industrial. O sequestro de Pita faz com que ele, mesmo ferido, parta para resgatá-la a qualquer custo.

Um assassino (Ethan Hawke) ganha uma segunda chance quando seu empregador o traz de volta à vida temporariamente, logo após ter sido morto no trabalho. Ele ganha então 24 horas para realizar sua missão e se redimir.

Dois detectives privados procuram uma menina de 4 anos, raptada da sua própria casa, sem deixar rasto, num dos bairros mais degradados de Boston. A investigação policial não consegue chegar a boas conclusões e o caso revela-se mais complexo do que aparentava. À medida que o tempo vai passando, a menina permanece desaparecida e é quase esquecida, até ao dia em que uma segunda criança desaparece...

Karla Dyson (Halle Berry) trabalha como garçonete em uma lanchonete e tem a vida voltada para a criação do filho, o pequeno Frankie (Sage Correa). Um dia, ao atender o telefone em um parque, ela descobre que o garoto simplesmente desapareceu. Ao vê-lo sendo colocado dentro de um carro, Karla parte em seu encalço em uma busca desesperada, perseguindo os sequestradores em seu próprio carro.

Em 1963, no Texas, o fugitivo Butch (Kevin Costner) toma como refém um garoto (o adorável T. J. Lowther), e a dupla dá início a uma viagem pelo interior do Estado para fugir do Texas Ranger Red (Eastwood), que está em seu encalço. No encalço do policial, está a promotora Sally (Laura Dern), que tenta garantir os direitos dos envolvidos na perseguição. Enquanto até o FBI entra na história para deter o fugitivo, ele e seu novo amigo desenvolvem uma relação muito especial, feita de empatia, amizade e proteção. E com tempo limitado.

Dois homens trabalham para uma organização criminosa para limpar a bagunça pós-matemática. Um dia, eles recebem um pedido inesperado.

Um repórter de jornal e um jornalista aposentado e cego tentam resolver uma série de assassinatos ligados a projetos experimentais de pesquisa ultra secreta de uma empresa farmacêutica e, ao fazê-lo, tornam-se alvos do assassino.

Um artista (Ethan Embry) e sua família compram a casa dos seus sonhos, mas com o tempo descobrem que a propriedade tem uma misterioso passado e que o ex-inquilino quer mais do que simplesmente voltar para casa.

Michele (Giuseppe Cristiano) é um garoto de 9 anos que vive ao sul da Itália, em meio aos campos de trigo. Ele encontra em um buraco um garoto escondido, que estava bastante maltratado. Sem contar a ninguém de sua existência.

A serial killer is murdering school girls, and a newbie cop has to track him down before the victim count increases.

Grady (Will Kemp) é um assassino com uma doença genética que o torna imune a sensação física da dor. Após ser enviado para uma missão e ser atacado, ele acorda e descobre que o seu poderoso dom se foi. Agora com o relógio contando as horas, ele precisará vencer seus maiores medos e dominar um mundo antes desconhecido para vencer seus terríveis inimigos que não economizarão esforços para lhe infligirem dor e pânico.

Every 24 hrs. after a child's been kidnapped by a stranger, chances of finding them alive diminishes to almost 100% ... The true and inspiring survival story of kidnapped teen, Anne Sluti, and how she manages to stay alive by manipulating her captor, engineering her own rescue and negotiating her safe release after 6 days of hell.

Um assassinato cruel de um menino de três anos de idade, Saville Kent, em 1860. A polícia local falha na investigação, o que levou o governo a enviar o detetive Jack Whicher da Scotland Yard para a pequena cidade para investigar o caso. Whicher avaliou a situação e rapidamente chegou à chocante conclusão que o assassino deve ter sido um membro da família Kent. Todos, do pai de Saville até as suas babás ficaram sob suspeita. No entanto, Whicher foi levados ao caso quase uma semana depois do assassinato. As provas eram circunstanciais e a maioria das pistas já haviam desaparecido antes mesmo de iniciado o caso.

A common man kidnaps the son of the Home Minister of India to get answers about the loss of his own son, caused by the illegal acts committed by corrupt government officials.

Quando a filha de um diplomata chinês é sequestrada em Los Angeles, o cônsul chama o inspector Lee em Hong Kong para ajudar o FBI com o caso. O FBI não se importa com Lee e o deixa de lado no Departamento de Polícia de Los Angeles, pedindo ao detetive James Carter que o vigie. Apesar de Lee e Carter não se suportarem, eles resolvem trabalhar juntos para resolver o caso por conta própria ao descobrirem que foram abandonados tanto pelo FBI quanto pela polícia.

One day, the only son of famous news anchor HAN Kyung-bae, disappears without a trace. Soon, the kidnapper calls the mother demanding a $100,000 ransom. The police assign a veteran inspector to the case and assemble a top-notch task force to work under his command. But the kidnapper constantly outwits the police and continues calling the parents with yet more instructions for the money drop.

A boy kidnapped by two mismatched hitmen puts them at each other's throats while being driven to their employers, possibly to be killed. Cohen, an older professional becomes increasingly irritated with his partner Tate, a brutish killer, when their prisoner uses unnatural guile and resourcefulness to play them off against each other.

O engenheiro norte-americano Bill Markham está no Brasil com a família, trabalhando na construção de uma grande hidrelétrica na Floresta Amazônica. A obra exige a devastação de áreas verdes, expulsando as comunidades da região. Uma tribo indígena conhecida como "Invisible People" sequestra Tommy, filho de Bill com apenas sete anos de idade. Passam-se 10 anos e o engenheiro não desistiu de procurar pela criança, que, por sua vez, vive com a tribo e adotou seu idioma e seus costumes.

Alton (Jaeden Lieberher) é um garoto de oito anos que desenvolve poderes especiais, fazendo com que o pai (Michael Shannon) faça de tudo para protegê-lo. O que começou como uma corrida contra os religiosos extremistas e forças locais da lei, logo a notícia ganha proporções maiores, se espalhando pelos altos níveis do Governo Federal. O pai fará de tudo para proteger Alton e ajudar o mundo a ter um destino que pode mudá-lo para sempre.

A violent quarrel breaks out between a couple at midnight. Being at a relative's house in the north of Iran, they depart for Tehran in the middle of the night, but they do not bring along their son. Something terrible happens on their way...

Shy working class 15 year-old Antoine, bored with life and school, breaks a leg and has young higher class Olivia help him with his studies. As he silently falls in love with her, he also falls in love with books and his will to become a writer.

An engineer moves into a bungalow on the beach next to a widow and her two boys. The older boy has a bit of an Oedipal complex and seems to like his mom. Of course, that means that no other man can come and break up their "happy" family.

The fictional town of Villa Romero is the set upon which the events of Spain's civil war play out. Villa Romero is home to Vandale (Mariangela Melato) a witch, count Cerralbo (Bento Urago) a powerless land baron, and his four sons. Three of Cerralbo's sons are ruthless sadists who pillage the countryside, but the fourth, Goya (Ron Faber), is an artist challenging authority and the church.

Two teenage friends spend their summer break preparing for the sexual conquests they hope to experience. That is, until one of the boys is visited by his older, more sexually aggressive cousin, Azucena. Ushering her naïve cousin into the world of sex could take more work than Azucena realized.

10-year-old Nori is obliged to grow up at a very young age after the early death of his mother and then being abandoned by his father Gezim in the Kosovo of the 1990s.After a dangerous and eventful journey, Nori finally arrives in Germany and is reunited with his father, but he cannot understand how Gezim could just have left him. And chances of them being able to stay in Germany look bleak when Gezim’s application for asylum is rejected.

The boy Vito is a portrait of beauty and wide-eyed innocence spawned from a violent family of kidnapers and murderers in the South of Italy. When his entire family is murdered by a rival clan of kidnapers, Vito must flee for his own life and in the end attempts to make atonement for some of his family's sins.

Vincent is recovering from a nervous breakdown in a seaside village on the Costa Brava. He enters into an affair with nightclub owner Jenny, but their relationship changes when she falls for alcoholic author Pascal Regnier, who is struggling to resume his writing career. Vincent eventually returns home, leaving Jenny to stay on with Pascal and his young son Daniel.

25 years ago, Louis Sarno, an American, heard a song on the radio and followed its melody into the Central Africa Jungle and stayed. He than recorded over 1000 hours of original BaAka music. Now he is part of the BaAka community and raises his pygmy son, Samedi. Fulfilling an old promise, Louis takes Samedi to America. On this journey Louis realizes he is not part of this globalized world anymore but globalization has also arrived in the rainforest. The BaAka depend on Louis for their survival. Father and son return to the melodies of the jungle but the question remains: How much longer will the songs of the forest be heard?

“My best friend, Anna, asked me if I would mind taking her fifteen-year-old son Itvan to Berlin with me. I accepted immediately.” An elegant, refined man in his forties sets off with Itvan on a long, enjoyable journey, his Winter Journey. They cross snowbound Germany by car. As the man drives the boy through cities and countryside, Itvan discovers the past and the vast job of reunification now underway. Poetry and culture are also part of the journey, which is accompanied by classical German music. When their paths cross with the man's former lovers or the journey provides unexpected encounters, Itvan also gets to know more about the man's own life. When they finally arrive in Berlin, their ways must part. Itvan watches the man leave, taking the melancholy of his existence with him. However their journey together has created an unbreakable tie between the two men. Itvan will never be the same again.

A young Jewish boy travels europe in search of the grave of his Great Grandfather who was killed by the Nazis in the War.

Jay is the name of the two protagonists in the film, one is living, the other dead. The living Jay is producing a documentary of the dead Jay, a gay teacher who was brutally killed. As Jay recreates and examines the life of his subject, his own life is affected when he unravels his subject's hidden life and secret love.

The screen story of four teenagers, on whom the horrors of war had left an indelible mark. Their relatives’ deaths and their yearning for fighting the Nazis led them, one way or another, to a sea cadet school that had been opened on Solovetski Islands at the start of the war. This film tells of men’s friendship, the boys’ first baptism of fire, and the victory…

In 1939, José Garcés is in French prison camp after the defeat of Spain's Republicans. To entertain and inspire his fellow prisoners, he tells the story of becoming a man in 1919, the year he realized that learning to live is the same as learning to die. His stiff and demanding father loses a fortune in German war bonds, takes a job in Caspe, and leaves José on his own in Zaragoza to finish high school while apprenticing in a pharmacy. José courts his beloved Valentina via letters, becomes intimate with Isabel, a maid he meets in a cinema who shares his ideas of free love, and comes under the influence of El Checa, an anarchist and gentle teacher who leads a doomed revolt.

Matei lives with his grandfather in Romania. His parents have gone to work in Italy. After arguing with his grandfather, he leaves. A poignant, beautifully shot film on the illusions and disillusionments of childhood.

In Paris, in 1942, on a Thursday, the Parisian police herded together some 13,000 Jews for deportation to German territory. In this story, Paul (Christian Rist) is a teenager who tries to prevent this from happening. At first he attempts to save two elderly Jews, but they are resigned to their fate and comply with the order to assemble. For a short while, he is able to keep Jeanne (Christine Pascal) from joining them, but, after a long and strenuous day, she finally escapes from him he is too tired to chase after her.

If the scorpion could see and the viper could hear, there would be no escape". The viper is deaf and the scorpion can't see, so it is and so shall be, the same way the countryside is peaceful and the city bustling and the human being impossible to satisfy. Lacrau demands the return "to the curve where man got lost" in a journey from the city towards nature. The escape from chaos and emotional void we call progress; matter without spirit, without will. The search for the most ancient sensations and relationships of mankind. The amazement, the fear of the unknown, the loss of basic comforts, loneliness, the meeting with the other, the other animal, the other vegetable. A dive looking for a connection with the world. Where beginning and end are the same, but I am not.

Martine tem 25 anos e acaba de se separar de François. Desesperada, persegue o ex-marido pela rua para obter uma última explicação mas, completamente alucinada, provoca um acidente que a conduz às urgências de um hospital psiquiátrico. Acometida por uma amnésia momentânea, decide ficar no hospital para se recompor. Durante esse tempo, desenvolve uma grande atividade: ocupar-se das vidas sentimentais dos outros. Cheia de energia e uma sufocante e desajeitada boa vontade, ela faz tudo o que pode para juntar pessoas que não exigem tanto…

Albanian teenager, Saimir, emigrates to Italy to start a new life with his father. His father tries to make a living transporting illegal immigrants. When this fails to make his father any money, he is drawn into an insidious prostitution ring. Saimir helps his father, but a love interest makes him question his life and future.

In this grim German drama, a troubled 14-year-old boy's pent-up rage and frustration leads him to involvement with a bad crowd and gets him caught up in an inescapable spiral of increasingly self-destructive and deadly violence.