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Hvor der er vilje, er der vej

1986

During Christmas week in 1949, escape artist Carl August Lorentzen was on the run after digging his way out of Horsens Prison. The TV movie follows the legendary escape minute by minute.

Nostradamus Says So!

1953

The life of the French seer and some of his selected quatrains are reviewed.

Mother

1991

Henri Verneuil was born Achod Malakian of Armenian parentage on October 15, 1920, in Rodosto, Turkey, and his family fled to France and settled in Marseilles when he was a young child. He later recounted his childhood experience in the novel Mayrig, which he dedicated to his mother and made into this 1991 film with the same name.

A King's Story

1965

A King's Story is a 1965 British documentary film directed by Harry Booth about the life of King Edward VIII, from his birth until abdication in 1936. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

In the Night I Remember Your Name

2018

A gay pastor struggles to reconcile her faith with her advancing Alzheimer's.

Lev Tolstoy

1984

The film consists of two parts: “Insomnia” and “Departure”. We shall meet Lev Tolstoy in the final years of his life at Yasnaya Polyana. We shall see him surrounded by his family, friends, acquaintances and absolute strangers who were coming to the great man and artist from all over the world. We shall hear “the voice of his thoughts”. In his sleepless nights, we shall follow his memory of the happy youthful years and the crucial, hard ones. We shall witness Tolstoy’s tragic departure from Yasnaya Polyana and his death at an obscure little station of Astapovo.

Life Is Not a Fairytale: The Fantasia Barrino Story

2006

A single mother’s American Idol audition helps her rise above a history of poverty, sexual abuse, and illiteracy to achieve national prominence.

Journey Beyond Three Seas

1957

This first co-production of the Soviet and Indian cinematographers is dedicated to the Tver merchant Afanasy Nikitin who in 1466-1472 blazed the trade way from Europe to India. The film is based on Nikitin’s travel notes. Starring in the film are popular Russian actor Oleg Strizhenov and India’s 1950s movie star Nargis.

Prince of Detroit

2023

When his parents are betrayed and conspired against, they’re left with nothing. A young Tony must do away with his entitlement, then use both his parents’ teachings and experiences to regain their fortune and restore his position as the prince of Detroit.

Karel Havlíček Borovský

1931

Augustine of Hippo

1972

A biography of St. Augustine as he enters the episcopacy and deals with heresy and the decline of the Western Roman Empire.

The Invisible Woman

2013

In 1857, at the height of his fame and fortune, novelist and social critic Charles Dickens meets and falls in love with teenage stage actress Nelly Ternan. As she becomes the focus of his heart and mind, as well as his muse, painful secrecy is the price both must pay.

The Helen Morgan Story

1957

Torch singer Helen Morgan rises from sordid beginnings to fame and fortune only to lose it all to alcohol and poor personal choices.

Abzurdah

2015

A disenfranchised 16-year-old girl connects to an older man on the internet and after a brief one-sided affair descends into obsession and anorexia.

The People vs. Fritz Bauer

2015

It is the late 1950s. Flourishing under the economic miracle, Germany grows increasingly apathetic about confronting the horrors of its recent past. Nevertheless, Fritz Bauer doggedly devotes his energies to bringing the Third Reich to justice. One day Bauer receives a letter from Argentina, written by a man who is certain that his daughter is dating the son of Adolph Eichmann. Excited by the promising lead, and mistrustful of a corrupt judiciary system where Nazis still lurk, Bauer journeys to Jerusalem to seek alliance with Mossad, the Israeli secret service. To do so is treason — yet committing treason is the only way Bauer can serve his country.