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Mark | imdb: 7 |
Genre | fantasy, comedy, drama |
Country | Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Germany |
Duration | 01:38 |
Thomas, a father in his fifties, returns by chance to the town where he grew up. He collapses and wakes up forty years earlier in the body of his teenage self. Thrown back into his past, Thomas will not only have to re-live his first love, but also try to understand the reasons for his father’s mysterious departure. Can you change the past by living it again?
Mark | imdb: 7.1 |
Genre | drama |
Country | Netherlands, Belgium |
Duration | 01:45 |
A 15-year-old girl, assigned male at birth, dreams of becoming a ballerina and will push her body to its limits in order for her dream to succeed.
Mark | imdb: 7.2 |
Genre | drama |
Country | Belgium |
The struggle between two generations and its thin line between trust, friendship and betrayal.
Mark | imdb: 7 |
Genre | horror, drama |
Country | France, Belgium, Italy, USA |
In Justine’s family everyone is a vet and a vegetarian. At 16, she’s a gifted teen ready to take on her first year in vet school, where her older sister also studies. There, she gets no time to settle: hazing starts right away. Justine is forced to eat raw meat for the first time in her life. Unexpected consequences emerge as her true self begins to form.
Mark | imdb: 7.5 |
Genre | fantasy, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, Spain, USA |
Duration | 02:30 |
A boy imagines a monster that helps him deal with his difficult life and see the world in a different way.
Mark | imdb: 6.8 |
Genre | drama, detective |
Country | Belgium, France, United Kingdom, Japan |
Duration | 02:02 |
A look inside an offbeat boarding school for young girls.
Mark | imdb: 7.5 |
Genre | drama |
Country | Serbia, Croatia |
Duration | 01:35 |
The movie is based on the fascinating, true story of a feral boy whom hunters found among wolves in a forest in the mountains of Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) in the mid-1980s. The boy was sent to the institution for children in an attempt to socialize him and got the Muslim name – Haris. Contrary to most predictions, he was developing and making friends quickly. When the war in BiH broke out in 1992, Haris got the letter from local Bosnian authorities which asked for his immediate return. Upon returning to BiH, he had nowhere to go. While wandering aimlessly, he came across a group of soldiers that gave him a gun and took him with them
Mark | imdb: 6.5 |
Genre | drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
Super close mother Lyn and daughter Iona (Dafty One and Dafty Two) are excited for their new life in a new town. Determined to make a success of things after a tricky start, Iona becomes 'best friends' with Keely, Stacey and Chelsea. Used to being Iona's bestie herself, Lyn feels left out. So Lyn also makes friends with Belinda, her neighbour.
Mark | imdb: 6.1 |
Genre | thriller, fantasy, drama |
Country | USA, Belgium, Denmark, United Kingdom, Sweden, China |
Duration | 02:10 |
Sophia, a new high school student, tries to make friends with Barbara, who tells her that “she kills giants,” protecting this way her hometown and its inhabitants, who do not understand her strange behavior.
Mark | imdb: 5.9 |
Genre | horror, thriller, drama |
Country | USA, Canada |
Duration | 01:40 |
A reimagining of the classic horror tale about Carrie White, a shy girl outcast by her peers and sheltered by her deeply religious mother, who unleashes telekinetic terror on her small town after being pushed too far at her senior prom.
Mark | imdb: 6 |
Genre | drama |
Country | France, Belgium |
Duration | 02:45 |
Doctor Knock is a former thug who has become a doctor and arrives in the small village of Saint-Maurice to make his fortune according to a particular method. It will make the villagers believe that they are not as healthy as they might think. It is thus that he will find in each one an imaginary symptom, or not, and thus will be able to exercise his profession lucratively. Under his seductive looks and after gaining the confidence of the village, Knock is on the verge of achieving his ends. But his past catches up with him and an old acquaintance disrupts the doctor's plans.
Mark | imdb: 7.3 |
Genre | drama |
Country | West Germany, France |
At an Austrian boys' boarding school in the early 1900s, shy, intelligent Törless observes the sadistic behavior of his fellow students, doing nothing to help a victimized classmate—until the torture goes too far. Adapted from Robert Musil's acclaimed novel, Young Törless launched the New German Cinema movement and garnered the 1966 Cannes Film Festival International Critics' Prize for first-time director Volker Schlöndorff.
Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | drama, adventure, family |
Country | Netherlands, Belgium, United Kingdom, Spain, France |
Duration | 01:35 |
Nono, a Dutch kid lacking two days being thirteen, runs away from problems at home and, disguised as a girl, takes up with the world's cleverest thief, who unbeknownst to Nono, may hold the bizarre key to his true identity.
Mark | imdb: 6.5 |
Genre | thriller, drama, detective |
Country | France |
Pierre Hoffman joins a prestigious school as a substitute teacher and soon notices, among some of his students, an unjustified hostility and a spark of violence in their eyes. Is it because the unspeakable tragedy they have just experienced? Is it because they seem to be extraordinarily gifted children? Is it because they have lost all hope for the future? From curiosity to obsession, Pierre will try to unlock their secret.
Mark | imdb: 7.6 |
Genre | drama |
Country | Russia, France, Belgium, Germany |
Duration | 02:08 |
Zhenya and Boris are going through a vicious divorce marked by resentment, frustration and recriminations. Already embarking on new lives, each with a new partner, they are impatient to start again, to turn the page – even if it means threatening to abandon their 12-year-old son Alyosha. Until, after witnessing one of their fights, Alyosha disappears...
Mark | imdb: 6.8 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime |
Country | Italy, Germany, France |
Duration | 02:08 |
Based on the bestselling novel by Donato Carrisi, THE GIRL IN THE FOG is a gripping and chilling thriller that brings us to a hazy mountain village where enigmatic Detective Vogel is investigating on the sudden disappearance of fifteen-year-old Anna Lou. But with the case at the heart of a media storm, the fine line between the police and criminals begins to blur and soon everyone becomes a suspect.
Mark | imdb: 4.2 |
Genre | thriller, melodrama, drama, adventure |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:06 |
Set in the wake of unknown catastrophe which has resulted in an adult-free community being led by a cabal of former high school jocks. After two members set out on a dangerous journey into the unknown to find family and hope for the future, Caleb and his vicious underling Gentry follow in hot pursuit.
Mark | imdb: 6.9 |
Genre | drama, western, crime |
Country | France, Spain, Romania, Belgium, USA |
Duration | 01:56 |
Oregon, 1851. Hermann Kermit Warm, a chemist and aspiring gold prospector, keeps a profitable secret that the Commodore wants to know, so he sends the Sisters brothers, two notorious assassins, to capture him on his way to California.
Mark | imdb: 7.4 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | France, Belgium |
Victor, a disillusioned sexagenarian, sees his life turned upside down on the day when Antoine, a brilliant entrepreneur, offers him a new kind of attraction: mixing theatrical artifices and historical reconstruction, this company offers his clients a chance to dive back into the era of their choice. Victor then chose to relive the most memorable week of his life: the one where, 40 years earlier, he met the great love.
Mark | imdb: 7.6 |
Genre | drama |
Country | United Kingdom, France, Belgium |
A story exploring the issue of hardship in modern-day Britain through a young couple scraping to get by in a casual jobs market. A hard-up delivery driver and his carer wife are pushed to breaking point as they struggle to keep their family afloat in a world of zero-hour contracts and gig work.
Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, biography, history |
Country | United Kingdom, India, Sweden |
Duration | 02:21 |
In 1947, Lord Mountbatten assumes the post of last Viceroy, charged with handing India back to its people, living upstairs at the house which was the home of British rulers, whilst 500 Hindu, Muslim and Sikh servants lived downstairs.
Mark | imdb: 7.7 |
Genre | drama, crime, detective |
Country | Belgium |
Duration | 01:40 |
Hotel Beau Séjour. Kato, covered in blood, wakes up without any recollection of what happened the night before. Moreover, nobody seems to see or hear her. Slowly it sinks in: she's dead. Who did this to her? And how come a handful of people can still see her, as if she's among the living? Why them specifically? In her search to uncover the truth Kato will discover that a lot of secrets lie dormant under the surface of her supposedly peaceful village community.
Mark | imdb: 6.6 |
Genre | thriller, drama, western |
Country | USA |
After crossing the border illegally for work, Miguel, a hard-working father and devoted husband, finds himself wrongfully accused of murdering a former sheriff’s wife. After learning of his imprisonment, Miguel’s pregnant wife tries to come to his aid and lands in the hands of corrupt coyotes who hold her for ransom. Dissatisfied with the police department’s investigation, the former sheriff tries to uncover the truth about his wife’s death and discovers disturbing evidence that will destroy one family’s future, or tear another’s apart.
Mark | imdb: 6 |
Genre | drama, biography |
Country | Belgium, France |
They loved each other with the ardor of thirteen-year-old boys. Rebellion and curiosity, hopes and doubts, girls and dreams of glory – they shared it all. Paul was rich, Emile poor. They went skinny-dipping, drank absinthe, starved, only to overeat. Sketched models by day, caressed them by night... Now, Paul is a painter and Emile a writer. Glory has passed Paul by. But Emile has it all: fame, money, the perfect wife, whom Paul once loved. They judge each other, admire each other, confront each other. They lose touch, meet up again, like a couple who cannot stop loving each other.
Mark | imdb: 6.2 |
Genre | drama, crime |
Country | Belgium, France |
Duration | 01:42 |
Frank Valken, high-flying robber, has just made a final masterful break. At least that’s what he believes… Ideal suspects, Valken and his gang find themselves involved in a criminal case of thirty years. It seems that the crazy killers are back.
Mark | imdb: 5.9 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime |
Country | France, Brazil, Spain, Belgium |
Havana, Cuba, 1990. René González, an airplane pilot, unexpectedly flees the country, leaving behind his wife Olga and his daughter Irma, and begins a new life in Miami, where he becomes a member of an anti-Castro organization.
Mark | imdb: 7.2 |
Genre | comedy, drama, adventure, crime |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:31 |
Malcolm is carefully surviving life in a tough neighborhood in Los Angeles while juggling college applications, academic interviews, and the SAT. A chance invitation to an underground party leads him into an adventure that could allow him to go from being a geek, to being dope, to ultimately being himself.
Mark | imdb: 6.6 |
Genre | thriller, drama, history |
Country | France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Romania, Canada, USA |
Duration | 02:02 |
Barents Sea, August 12th, 2000. During a Russian naval exercise, and after suffering a serious accident, the K-141 Kursk submarine sinks with 118 crew members on board. While the few sailors who are still alive barely manage to survive, their families push for accurate information and a British officer struggles to obtain from the Russian government a permit to attempt a rescue before it is late. But general incompetence are against all their efforts.
Mark | imdb: 6.9 |
Genre | drama |
Country | Russia |
Duration | 01:37 |
Veniamin, a teenager in the midst of a mystical crisis, has his mother, schoolmates and entire high school turned upside down by his questions. - Can girls go to their swimming classes in bikinis? - Does sex education have a place in school? - Should the theory of evolution be taught as part of the Natural Sciences? The adults are soon overwhelmed by the certitudes of the youngster who swears only by Scripture. No one but Elena, his biology teacher, will alone challenge him on his own ground.
Mark | imdb: 6.5 |
Genre | drama, biography |
Country | United Kingdom, Belgium, USA, Canada |
The story of American poet Emily Dickinson from her early days as a young schoolgirl to her later years as a reclusive, unrecognized artist.