In different parts of rural China, various people explore what makes their communities unique.
Zhang Beijing (segment "A Beijing Good Person")
Ling Zi (segment "A Beijing Good Person")
Lao Fan (segment "The Last Class")
Huang Dabao (segment "A Mystery of UFO")
Jiang Qianfang (segment "The Last Class")
Lao Tang (segment "A Mystery of UFO")
Xiao Qin (segment "A Mystery of UFO")
Ma Liang (segment "The Magical Touches")
Meng Meng (segment "The Magical Touches")
Qiao Shulin (segment "The Way Back to Hometown")
Xiao Fan (segment "The Last Class")
Yan Feiyan (segment "The Way Back to Hometown")
Qiu Xia (segment "The Magical Touches")
Emma Meier (segment "The Last Class")
Jessica (segment "The Way Back to Hometown")
Chief Wei (segment "The Magical Touches")
Policeman (segment "A Beijing Good Person")
Wang Shou Zheng (segment "A Mystery of UFO")
Teacher Han (segment "The Way Back to Hometown")
Dong Ahua (segment "A Mystery of UFO")
11 May 2022
In the Bolivian altiplano, Virginio and Sisa, an elderly Quechua couple who have lived a quiet life for years, face an impossible dilemma during an unusually long drought: resist or be defeated by the hostile environment and the relentless passage of time.
05 Dec 2003
Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and the honorable principles that rule them. Pressed to destroy the samurai's way of life in the name of modernization and open trade, Algren decides to become an ultimate warrior himself and to fight for their right to exist.
17 Sep 2002
The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.
01 Dec 1956
Sissi is now the empress of Austria and attempts to learn etiquette. While she is busy being empress she also has to deal with her difficult new mother-in-law, while the arch-duchess Sophie is trying to tell the emperor how to rule and also Sissi how to be a mother.
18 Dec 1957
After a wonderful time in Hungary Sissi falls extremely ill and must retreat to a Mediterranean climate to rest. The young empress’ mother takes her from Austria to recover in Madeira.
27 Sep 2007
The lives of six German-Turkish immigrants are drawn together by circumstance: An old man and a prostitute forging a partnership, a young scholar reconciling his past, two young women falling in love, and a mother putting the shattered pieces of her life back together.
12 Nov 2013
Coming home to make amends with her estranged father, Eleni finds herself confronted with an unexpected kinship.
20 Jul 1931
Elisabeth of Austria is a German movie with Lil Dagover as royalty Elisabeth who has many men to choose from.
04 May 2020
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02 Sep 2015
After spending two decades in England, Bill Bryson returns to the U.S., where he decides the best way to connect with his homeland is to hike the Appalachian Trail with one of his oldest friends.
02 Jan 1987
Two countrymen meet by chance in a big city. One of them left the village long ago and settled in the city. The other just arrived in town...The clash of characters and life circumstances can dramatically change a person's destiny. How to find your place in this world? How to hear the voice of your heart?
18 Jun 1998
To save her father from certain death in the army, a young woman secretly enlists in his place and becomes one of China's greatest heroines in the process.
25 Feb 2019
In rural Kosovo, identical houses are built for family members working abroad, in the hope that they will one day return to settle in their old homeland.
24 Sep 2023
Intimate discussion with the inhabitants of Kfarbaal, a village tucked in the mountains above Byblos. We hear them share their experiences, deceptions and dreams.
22 Jun 2013
Chaja Florentin and Mimi Frons have been best friends for 83 years. Born and raised in Berlin, they had to escape from the Nazis to Palestine with their families in 1934. They talk about their complicated relationship with Berlin in a Tel Aviv café where they meet everyday. A film about friendship, homeland and identity.
24 Apr 2013
In New York, a Pakistani native finds that his American Dream has collapsed in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
11 May 2023
In pursuit of a better future, a young girl decides to emigrate. She leaves her homeland behind along with her belongings and her loved ones. In the new country she realizes the depth of her venture and discovers that the only thing she carries with her from her homeland, is a symbol of love.
27 Jan 2009
The words have run out long ago in Nils's and Ingegärd's marriage. But even though they don't show it, they love each other. In the opposite flat Suleiman lives, a divorced man longing for his daughter. When Suleiman discovers that he has a common interest with Nils, tennis, hopes of friendship awake.
14 Jun 1974
Police find a girl with a bleeding face in a small town park at night. First the girl, a textile factory worker Jana, refuses to talk, and then she decides to tell the truth. After her father's death she, by herself, takes care of her younger brother called Pinda. She does not like the influence that a gang of older boys from the factory exercise over her brother. The gang leader Jirka, called King, is admire by local girls whose number exceeds boys in the town because there are many textile factories where only girls are working. They easily yield to him and then he easily gets rid of them. Jana is a hard nut for him. She refuses his purposeful courtesy and thus she unintentionally gets his attention. King inspires the gang on how to get money by stealing textile from the factory warehouse.
08 Jun 2018
No overview found