The Tree of Life

Dobrisa Cesaric - Selected Poems

2013

Narrated collection of the greatest Dobrisa Cesaric's poems.

Build a House, Plant a Tree

1980 · ★ 5.3

Juraj Jakubisko's first feature film after a forced nine-year-long break is a story about an unconventional man, Jozef Matúš. He arrives to a small village in eastern Slovakia to settle down and start a family. He is ready to subordinate everything to his goal. It all starts with stealing building material and ends with him disregarding those close to him to a point where his ambitions are turning against him. Build a House, Plant a Tree is a viewer-friendly film with a plot resembling a western, including several attractive action sequences.

Meek's Cutoff

2011 · ★ 6.5

A group of settlers traveling through the Oregon High Desert in 1845 find themselves stranded in harsh conditions.

BEFORE

2023

Luca, a careless high school student on the verge of failing, drifts through life in the outskirts of the neighborhood with indifference and apathy. As his last chance for redemption, he must take part in a theater course. The challenge lies in avoiding the mistakes of his past, while discovering what it truly means to grow and take responsibility.

Under the Tree

2017 · ★ 6.6

When Baldvin and Inga's next door neighbours complain that a tree in their backyard casts a shadow over their sundeck, what starts off as a typical spat between neighbours in the suburbs unexpectedly and violently spirals out of control.

Mulawin: The Movie

2005 · ★ 7.7

After resolving to live peaceful lives as mortals, enchanted warriors Aguiluz and Alwina are caught in a violent storm and washed away to separate shores, where they struggle to survive without their memories. Meanwhile, the fire maiden Pirena resurrects Ravenum to wreak havoc on the Mulawin race.

Money Tree

2025 · ★ 10

While on a walk through the woods, Daniel, an overwhelmed college student, wishes for something that he believes will solve all of his problems.

Me + Her

2014 · ★ 6.3

Creating a universe between two small pieces of Cardboard. When Jack and Jill of Cardboard City are separated by Jill's torrid illness, Jack must think outside the box to assure they will be together again.

On Borrowed Time

1939 · ★ 7.6

Young Pud is orphaned and left in the care of his aged grandparents. The boy and his grandfather are inseparable. Gramps is concerned for Pud's future and wary of a scheming relative who seeks custody of the child. One day Mr. Brink, an agent of Death, arrives to take Gramps "to the land where the woodbine twineth." Through a bit of trickery, Gramps confines Mr. Brink, and thus Death, to the branches of a large apple tree, giving Gramps extra time to resolve issues about Pud's future.

Treehugger

A Valentine's Day story about a young couple, how they get together, and how they fall apart. All because of one tree.

The Tree

2010 · ★ 6.4

The O'Neills lived happily in their house in the Australian countryside. That was until one day fate struck blindly, taking the life of Peter, the father, leaving his grief-stricken wife Dawn alone with their four children. Among them, eight-year-old Simone denies this reality. She is persuaded that her father still lives in the giant fig tree growing near their house and speaks to her through its leaves. But the tree becomes more and more invasive and threatens the house. It must be felled. Of course, Simone won't allow it.

Biljana Returned from London

1976

A man’s female friend who just came back from London spends time on the river shore.