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Assassination: An October Murder in Munich

1995 · ★ 7

The film covers the period from 1947, when UPA troops broke with fights abroad, and to autumn of 1959, when in Munich KGB agent Bohdan Stashynskyi killed Stepan Bandera.

The Pact

2025 · ★ 5.8

Yoon Ji-hee played with the ouija board in childhood. As she grew, she sank deeper into the occult using ritual to change her appearance, manipulate events, enchant people - her ultimate aim: to rule Korea. Meanwhile, Kim Seok-il, a sturdy presidential candidate, is being investigated by a journalist who discovers things best kept hidden.

NGK

2019 · ★ 4.8

An educated do-gooder is forced to enter politics in order to serve the society. But, will the old guard make way and allow him to do that?

Amrutham

2004 · ★ 8

A story about two brothers, Gopi who is a farmer and Dinesh, a college student. Gopi's hopes for his younger brother are dashed when Dinesh joins campus politics and a world of violence. Things start to fall apart when Gopi, a Hindu marries Sainaba, a Muslim girl against her family's wishes. The intense political rivalry between Sainaba's brother and Dinesh brings matters to a boiling point after the marriage.

La part du lion

2023 · ★ 6

Jacky is a lion tamer in a traveling circus. He was born there, he has lived there, and he intends to die there. But today, he received a letter. The government is going to ban the breeding of wild animals. Soon, only animals considered domestic will be allowed in the ring. With his back against the wall, Jacky searches for a solution, but the threat looms large.

Morning for the Osone Family

1946 · ★ 6.7

A Japanese family weathers much hardship after their military uncle comes to live with them during WWII.

The Kashmir Files

2022 · ★ 7.2

Based on a true tragedy, the emotionally triggering film sheds light on the plight of Kashmiri Pandits (Hindus), a religious minority in the 1990s Kashmir valley, who were compelled to flee their homes by the Islamic militants.

Animal Farm

Award-winning political playwright Tatty Hennessy (A Hundred Words for Snow, F*Off) adapts George Orwell’s classic as an allegory for our own times exploring themes of revolution, the price of sovereignty and power with humour and sharp wit. When the downtrodden animals of a farm overthrow their master to run the show themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of independence and equality. But gradually a cunning, ruthless élite among them start to take control. Soon the other animals discover that they are not all as equal as they thought, and find themselves hopelessly ensnared as one form of tyranny is replaced with another and independence isn’t what they were promised it would be Directed with playful invention by Ed Stambollouian (Pinter at the Pinter, West End), this Made in Northampton production, in association with Kneehigh Theatre, will star Britain’s best young performing talent from the 2020 National Youth Theatre REP Company.

Pigs Have Wings

1977 · ★ 4.2

Rome, 70s. Rocco and Antonia, high school students, meet during a political rally. The two young people share age, political ideas, dissatisfaction with their parents. Moreover, by attending, they realize they have fallen in love. It is the discovery of sex and passion. After some time, however, their relationship goes into crisis.

The Joke

1969 · ★ 6.5

In the 1950s, Ludvik Jahn was expelled from the Communist Party and the University by his fellow students, because of a politically incorrect note he sent to his girlfriend. Fifteen years later, he tries to get his revenge by seducing Helena, the wife of one of his accusers.

Golden Rose

1997 · ★ 9

The story revolves around a young boy who later becomes an outlaw and dacoit, but remains a hero to the poor, after his father is killed by a crooked politician.

The Promise

1995 · ★ 6.6

East-Berlin, 1961, shortly after the erection of the Wall. Konrad, Sophie and three of their friends plan a daring escape to Western Germany. The attempt is successful, except for Konrad, who remains behind. From then on, and for the next 28 years, Konrad and Sophie will attempt to meet again, in spite of the Iron Curtain. Konrad, who has become a reputed Astrophysicist, tries to take advantage of scientific congresses outside Eastern Germany to arrange encounters with Sophie. But in a country where the political police, the Stasi, monitors the moves of all suspicious people (such as Konrad's sister Barbara and her husband Harald), preserving one's privacy, ideals and self-respect becomes an exhausting fight, even as the Eastern block begins its long process of disintegration.