
20 Jun 2017

Moko Jumbie
Amidst the ruins of a coconut plantation in rural Trinidad, Asha, a displaced girl seeking her roots, is drawn to a young fisherman who shares her desire to look beyond.

The first feature film to be made by the state of Kuwait. It is a period piece about Kuwait before the discovery of oil when fishing was the predominant occupation. Bas Ya Bahar is the story of a crippled pearl diver who forbids his son Mussaid to go to sea to dive for pearls.

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20 Jun 2017

Amidst the ruins of a coconut plantation in rural Trinidad, Asha, a displaced girl seeking her roots, is drawn to a young fisherman who shares her desire to look beyond.

08 Dec 2006

An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join for two desperate missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son, conscripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed countrywide.

24 Jun 1959

In the early 1900s, the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina serves as home to a black fishing community. Crippled beggar Porgy, who travels about in a goat-drawn cart, loves the drug-addicted Bess, who lives with stevedore Crown, the local bully.

15 Feb 1950

After the end of WWII, a young Lithuanian woman and a young Italian man from Stromboli impulsively marry, but married life on the island is more demanding than she can accept.

04 Nov 2005

Jarhead is a film about a US Marine Anthony Swofford’s experience in the Gulf War. After putting up with an arduous boot camp, Swofford and his unit are sent to the Persian Gulf where they are eager to fight, but are forced to stay back from the action. Swofford struggles with the possibility of his girlfriend cheating on him, and as his mental state deteriorates, his desire to kill increases.

26 Aug 1965

The Kuwaiti short film العاصفة (The Storm) explores Kuwait's social and economic shifts before and after the discovery of oil. Through the perspectives of an older father and his modernized son, it delves into the challenges of tradition versus rapid modernization.

19 Nov 2022

Jakop, a lone fisherman on the coast of lake Peipus has to decide whether refugees brought to his door are his way of redeeming past sins or merely a means to quickly earn much needed cash.

11 Nov 2022

In the twilight of his life, an aging Alaskan fisherman must decide between accepting old age or restarting his life with a mysterious new scientific procedure. The original short film that the 2025 feature film is based on.

13 Sep 2002

Wealthy, aging patriarch Thordur assembles his scattered heirs in his remote Icelandic fishing village to discuss the future of the family fishery. But bringing everyone together unleashes a storm of long-repressed dark family secrets.

22 Sep 1994

Simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet; he uses this to woo local beauty Beatrice.

30 Jul 2004

Years after his squad was ambushed during the Gulf War, Major Ben Marco finds himself having terrible nightmares. He begins to doubt that his fellow squad-mate Sergeant Raymond Shaw, now a vice-presidential candidate, is the hero he remembers him being. As Marco's doubts deepen, Shaw's political power grows, and, when Marco finds a mysterious implant embedded in his back, the memory of what really happened begins to return.

01 May 1941

Comedy of a North Woods clam-digger who journeys to Detroit to earn money for outboard motor by working on auto assembly line.

31 Mar 1953

In the south of France, in a vast plain region called the Camargue, lives White Mane, a magnificent stallion and the leader of a herd of wild horses too proud to let themselves be broken by humans. Only Folco, a young fisherman, manages to tame him. A strong friendship grows between the boy and the horse, as the two go looking for the freedom that the world of men won’t allow them.

22 Jul 1956

A young fisherman wishing for a better life will become a smuggler and even involve his friends if necessary. He will make it even worse with his improper concern for his brother's beautiful wife.

11 Oct 1986

A political and social play in which the old narrator preaches and guides during the Iran-Iraq war, the bombings that occurred in Kuwait and the attempted assassination of the Emir of the State of Kuwait during that period, and the clear difference in opinions between support for stopping the war on Iran and the positions of the President of Iraq.

28 Jun 2024

An exchanged Turkish fisherman finds himself in the middle of Anatolia. While starting a new life here, he will share their home with the Greek family for a while.

04 Mar 2006

In Northeastern Brazil, twelve-year-old Maria is sold to have a better life as a housemaid. However, Maria is resold and sent to a brothel in the Amazon gold fields and put to work by the despicable Saraiva.

03 Dec 1949

In rural Sicily, the fishermen live at the mercy of the greedy wholesalers. One family risks everything to buy their own boat and operate independently.

29 Apr 1986

A dark Kuwaiti comedy that follows "Arab," an idealist who embarks on a fantastical journey with "Marjan the Genie" to unite the Arab world—only to confront a reality far from his hopes.

21 Jan 2021

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