Elise, or Real Life

The Last 10 Years

2022 · ★ 7.2

Twenty-year-old Matsuri Takabayashi learns that she only has ten years to live due to an incurable disease. She decides to not dwell on her life and not to fall in love—until she meets a man named Kazuto Manabe at a school reunion.

Record of a Tenement Gentleman

1947 · ★ 7.2

A hard-hearted old woman in a bombed-out Tokyo neighborhood reluctantly takes in an abandoned boy, leading to a heartwarming bond between them.

Kicks

2007 · ★ 6

A shooting accident in which a dutch police officer shoots a young Moroccan rapper creates polarization about the issue of racism among citizens of a multicultural society.

Ambaradan

2017

Ambaradan is the story of a need: the need to feel accepted, integrated, and acknowledged by others - Luca has only one belief - hate - he does not recognize the color of his skin, but only the "black" of his ideology. His life is an ambaradan, a chaos of violence and hypocrisy.

The Street

A feature adaptation of the 2022 Ann Petry novel about a young Black woman and her spirited struggle to raise her son amid the violence, poverty, and racial dissonance of late 1940s Harlem.

Maximum Velocity (V-Max)

2002 · ★ 5.9

In search of purpose, 17-year-old Claudio helps easygoing mechanic Stefano build a car capable of winning a street race that could solve his financial problems, but gets himself involved with the latter's former girlfriend.

Letter To Jail

1969 · ★ 6.8

In 1970, Tahar, a young Tunisian, travels to France for the first time to help his older brother, who is wrongly accused of murder and incarcerated in Paris. He first stops in Marseille, where he meets Tunisians very different from those familiar to him; enigmatic French people; and a strange atmosphere that makes him doubt his brother’s innocence, his own innocence and his own mental integrity.

Community Patrol

2018 · ★ 10

It’s been widely reported that Detroit is making a comeback, but long-term residents of Detroit’s mostly black neighborhoods aren’t seeing much benefit. Crime, lack of opportunity and infrastructure problems still persist. Community Patrol explores neighborhood self-policing through the eyes of Minister Malik Shabazz, a long-time Detroit activist and community organizer. Determined that more black men don’t end up in jail or killed, the minister confronts drug offenders directly rather than reporting them to the police.

Combat Girls

2011 · ★ 6.6

Marisa, a 20-year-old German girl, hates foreigners, Jews, cops, and everyone she finds guilty for the decline of her country. She provokes, drinks, fights and her next tattoo will be a portrait of Adolf Hitler. But Marisa's convictions begin to crumble when she meets a young Afghan refugee, and she learns that the black and white principles of her gang are not the only way.

The Groom Gets A Bride

1984 · ★ 6

A rigid families' employees turn the family house into a home by making their employers relax their wonted discipline.

Anything For Love

1987 · ★ 6.5

Rama, a suspicious woman, lands herself in hilarious situations while trying to impress her husband, Madhav. Meanwhile, Dr Bagaram, a failed doctor, is in love with Ratan, Rama's sister.

Sergeant Rutledge

1960 · ★ 7

Respected black cavalry Sergeant Brax Rutledge stands court-martial for raping and killing a white woman and murdering her father, his superior officer.