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Kinostart: 2008

Studio: Blueprint Pictures

Genre: Drama

Länge: 107

Zusammenfassung: London based hit men Ray and Ken are told by their boss Harry Waters to lie low in Bruges, Belgium for up to two weeks following their latest hit, which resulted in the death of an innocent bystander. Harry will be in touch with further instructions. While they wait for Harry's call, Ken, following Harry's advice, takes in the sights of the medieval city with great appreciation. But the charms of Bruges are lost on the simpler Ray, who is already despondent over the innocent death, especially as it was his first job. Things change for Ray when he meets Chloe, part of a film crew shooting a movie starring an American dwarf named Jimmy. When Harry's instructions arrive, Ken, for whom the job is directed, isn't sure if he can carry out the new job, especially as he has gained a new appreciation of life from his stay in the fairytale Bruges. While Ken waits for the inevitable arrival into Bruges of an angry Harry, who feels he must clean up matters on his own, Ray is dealing with his own ...

Kinostart: 1986

Studio: HB Filmes

Genre: Drama

Länge: 120

Zusammenfassung: Luis Molina and Valentin Arregui are cell mates in a South American prison. Luis, a homosexual, is found guilty of immoral behaviour and Valentin is a political prisoner. To escape reality Luis invents romantic movies, while Valentin tries to keep his mind on the situation he's in. During the time they spend together, the two men come to understand and respect one another.

Kinostart: 2007

Studio: Légende Films

Genre: Drama

Länge: 140

Zusammenfassung: An un-chronological look at the life of the Little Sparrow, Édith Piaf (1915-1963). Her mother is an alcoholic street singer, her father a circus performer, her paternal grandmother a madam. During childhood she lives with each of them. At 20, she's a street singer discovered by a club owner who's soon murdered, coached by a musician who brings her to concert halls, and then quickly famous. Constant companions are alcohol and heartache. The tragedies of her love affair with Marcel Cerdan and the death of her only child belie the words of one of her signature songs, "Non, je ne regrette rien." The back and forth nature of the narrative suggests the patterns of memory and association.

Kinostart: 1969

Studio: Société Nouvelle de Cinématographie (SNC)

Genre: Drama

Länge: 120

Zusammenfassung: Lovers Marianne and Jean-Paul spend their vacation in a villa near St.-Tropez. The main feature of the villa is a swimming pool, stage for most of the action. After a visit Marianne invites former lover Harry and his teenage daughter Penelope to stay. Tension between the grown-ups rises especially when Jean-Paul seduces Penelope. The consequences are deadly.

Kinostart: 2006

Studio: Diaphana Films

Genre: Drama

Länge: 85

Zusammenfassung: Mélanie Prouvost, a ten-year-old butcher's daughter, is a gifted pianist. That is why she and her parents decide that she sit for the Conservatory entrance exam. Although Mélanie is very likely to be admitted, she unfortunately gets distracted by the president of the jury's offhand attitude and she fails. Ten years later, Mélanie becomes her page turner, waiting patiently for her revenge.

Kinostart: 2009

Studio: Oï Oï Oï Productions

Genre: Drama

Länge: 7

Zusammenfassung: Thirty years ago, Andrei Simoniovich Filipov, the renowned conductor of the Bolshoi orchestra, was fired for hiring Jewish musicians. Now a mere cleaning man at the Bolshoi, he learns by accident that the Châtelet Theater in Paris invites the Bolshoi orchestra to play there. He decides to gather together his former musicians and to perform in Paris in the place of the current Bolshoi orchestra. As a solo violin player to accompany his old Jewish or Gypsy musicians he wants Anne-Marie Jacquet, a young virtuoso. If they all overcome the hardships ahead this very special concert will be a triumph.

Kinostart: 1998

Studio: Rhombus Media

Genre: Drama

Länge: 130

Zusammenfassung: In present day Montreal, a famous Nicolo Bussotti violin, known as "the red violin," is being auctioned off. During the auction, we flash back to the creation of the violin in 17th century Italy, and follow the violin as it makes its way through an 18th century Austrian monastery, a violinist in 19th century Oxford, China during the Cultural Revolution, and back to Montreal, where a collector tries to establish the identity and the secrets of "the red violin."

Kinostart: 1952

Studio: Celebrated Productions

Genre: Drama

Länge: 137

Zusammenfassung: Chaplin's final American film tells the story of a fading music hall comedian's effort to help a despondent ballet dancer learn both to walk and feel confident about life again. The highlight of the film is the classic duet with Chaplin's only real artistic film comedy rival, Buster Keaton.

Kinostart: 2006

Studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Genre: Drama

Länge: 92

Zusammenfassung: Three stories told simultaneous in ninety minutes of real time: a Republican Senator who's a presidential hopeful gives an hour-long interview to a skeptical television reporter, detailing a strategy for victory in Afghanistan; two special forces ambushed on an Afghani ridge await rescue as Taliban forces close in; a poli-sci professor at a California college invites a promising student to re-engage. Decisions press upon the reporter, the student, and the soldiers.

Kinostart: 1936

Studio: Selznick International Pictures

Genre: Drama

Länge: 102

Zusammenfassung: After the death of Cedric ('Ceddie')'s English father, he and his mother live together in Brooklyn. Cedric's grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, had disowned Cedric's father when he married an American. But when the Earl's remaining son dies, he accepts Cedric as Lord Fauntleroy, his heir, and the Earl sends for Cedric and his mother. Cedric uses the first of his newly found wealth to do some favors for his old friends, and then heads to England, where he must try to overcome the Earl's dislike for Cedric's mother.

Kinostart: 2004

Studio: HBO Films

Genre: Drama

Länge: 101

Zusammenfassung: In a small village in Colombia, the pregnant seventeen years old Maria supports her family with her salary working in a floriculture. She is fired and with a total lack of perspective of finding a new job, she decides to accept the offer to work as a drug mule, flying to USA with sixty-two pellets of cocaine in her stomach. Once in New York, things do not happen as planned.

Kinostart: 2016

Studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Genre: Drama

Länge: 110

Zusammenfassung: Lou Clark knows lots of things. She knows how many footsteps there are between the bus stop and home. She knows she likes working in The Buttered Bun tea shop and she knows she might not love her boyfriend Patrick. What Lou doesn't know is she's about to lose her job or that knowing what's coming is what keeps her sane. Will Traynor knows his motorcycle accident took away his desire to live. He knows everything feels very small and rather joyless now and he knows exactly how he's going to put a stop to that. What Will doesn't know is that Lou is about to burst into his world in a riot of color. And neither of them knows they're going to change each other for all time.

Kinostart: 2016

Studio: Rita Productions

Genre: Drama

Länge: 66

Zusammenfassung: Courgette (Zucchini) is an intriguing nickname for a 9-year-old boy. Although his unique story is surprisingly universal. After his mother's disappearance, Courgette is befriended by a police officer Raymond, who accompanies him to his new foster home filled with other orphans his age. At first he struggles to find his place in this strange, at times, hostile environment. Yet with Raymond's help and his new-found friends, Courgette eventually learns to trust and might find true love.

Kinostart: 2003

Studio: Universal Pictures

Genre: Drama

Länge: 140

Zusammenfassung: It's the Depression, and everyone needs to hold onto a dream to get them through the bad times. Car maker Charles Howard is no different, he who is trying to rebuild his life after the tragic death of his only child and the resulting end of his first marriage. With second wife Marcela at his side, Charles wants to get into horse racing and ends up with a team of underdogs who are also chasing their own dream. The first is trainer Tom Smith, who has a natural instinct to spot the capabilities of horses. The second is the horse Tom chooses for Charles, Seabiscuit, an unconventional choice as despite his pedigreed lineage, Seabiscuit is small at fifteen and a half hands tall with a slight limp. But Tom can see something in Seabiscuit's nature to make him a winner, if only Seabiscuit can be retrained from his inbred losing ways. And third is the jockey they decide to hire, Johnny "Red" Pollard, so nicknamed because of his hair color. Like Tom, Red has always shown a natural way with ...

Kinostart: 2005

Studio: OLC / Rights Entertainment

Genre: Drama

Länge: 7

Zusammenfassung: For 25 years in Invercargill at the south end of New Zealand, Burt Munro (1899-1978) has been working on increasing the speed of his motorcycle, a 1920 Indian. He dreams of taking it to the Bonneville Salt Flats to see how fast it will go. By the early 1960s, heart disease threatens his life, so he mortgages his house and takes a boat to Los Angeles, buys an old car, builds a makeshift trailer, gets the Indian through customs, and heads for Utah. Along the way, people he meets are charmed by his open, direct friendliness. If he makes it to Bonneville, will they let an old guy on the flats with makeshift tires, no brakes, and no chute? And will the Indian actually respond?

Kinostart: 1996

Studio: Channel Four Films

Genre: Drama

Länge: 103

Zusammenfassung: In existence for a hundred years, Grimley Colliery Brass band is as old as the mine. But the miners are now deciding whether to fight to keep the pit open, and the future for town and band looks bleak. Although the arrival of flugelhorn player Gloria injects some life into the players, and bandleader Danny continues to exhort them to continue in the national competition, frictions and pressures are all too evident. And who's side is Gloria actually on?

Kinostart: 2016

Studio: Mandarin Films

Genre: Drama

Länge: 119

Zusammenfassung: The life story of Rafael Padilla, a former slave in Cuba, who unexpectedly became a star clown in the Paris of the Belle Epoque. Discovered in a small country circus in the North of France by George Footit, a British clown and acrobat, he formed a successful duo with him, 'Footit and Chocolat'. For two decades, and despite conflicts between the two artists, Footit as the authoritarian white clown and Chocolat as the Auguste Black drudge filled crowds with enthusiasm. But nothing lasts forever and the glory of Chocolat, despite his high ambitions, started to decline until his premature death in 1917.

Kinostart: 1956

Studio: Columbia Pictures Corporation

Genre: Drama

Länge: 90

Zusammenfassung: In a futuristic, state-run society controlled by "Big Brother" in which love is outlawed, employee of the state Winston Smith falls for Julia, and is tortured and brainwashed for his crime.

Kinostart: 1956

Studio: Columbia Pictures Corporation

Genre: Drama

Länge: 90

Zusammenfassung: In a futuristic, state-run society controlled by "Big Brother" in which love is outlawed, employee of the state Winston Smith falls for Julia, and is tortured and brainwashed for his crime.

Kinostart: 1984

Studio: Umbrella-Rosenblum Films Production

Genre: Drama

Länge: 113

Zusammenfassung: After The Atomic War the world is divided into three states. London is a city in Oceania, ruled by a party who has total control over all its citizens. Winston Smith is one of the bureaucrats, rewriting history in one of the departments. One day he commits the crime of falling in love with Julia. They try to escape Big Brother's listening and viewing devices, but, of course, nobody can really escape...

Kinostart: 1975

Studio: Fantasy Films

Genre: Drama

Länge: 133

Zusammenfassung: McMurphy has a criminal past and has once again gotten himself into trouble with the law. To escape labor duties in prison, McMurphy pleads insanity and is sent to a ward for the mentally unstable. Once here, McMurphy both endures and stands witness to the abuse and degradation of the oppressive Nurse Ratched, who gains superiority and power through the flaws of the other inmates. McMurphy and the other inmates band together to make a rebellious stance against the atrocious Nurse.

Kinostart: 1965

Studio: Compton Films

Genre: Drama

Länge: 105

Zusammenfassung: A Belgian girl, Carol, works as a manicurist at a London beauty salon. While having lunch, a good looking young man, Colin, spots her and makes a date for another evening. She shares a flat with her sister Helen. Her sister's married lover, Michael, brings out her dislike of men which she cannot explain to Colin. Michael takes Helen abroad for a holiday. Left alone in their flat, Carol's moments of catalepsy and hallucination increase and deepen into madness.

Kinostart: 1995

Studio: Avenue Pictures Productions

Genre: Drama

Länge: 117

Zusammenfassung: An aspiring young physician, Robert Merivel found himself in the service of King Charles II and saves the life of a spaniel dear to the King. Merivel joins the King's court and lives the high life provided to someone of his position. Merivel is ordered to marry one of the King's mistresses in order to divert the suspicions of another one of his mistresses. He is given one order by the king and that is not to fall in love. The situation worsens when Merivel finds himself in love with his new wife. Eventually, the King finds out and relieves Merivel of his position and wealth. His fall from grace leaves Merivel where he first started. And through his travels and reunions with an old friend, he rediscovers his love for true medicine and what it really means to be a physician.

Kinostart: 1954

Studio: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation

Genre: Drama

Länge: 91

Zusammenfassung: Matt Calder, who lives on a remote farm with his young son Mark, helps two unexpected visitors who lose control of their raft on the nearby river. Harry Weston is a gambler by profession and he is racing to the nearest town to register a mining claim he has won in a poker game. His attractive wife Kay, a former saloon hall girl, is with him. When Calder refuses to let Weston have his only rifle and horse, he simply takes them leaving his wife behind. Unable to defend themselves against a likely Indian attack, Calder, his son and Kay Weston begin the treacherous journey down the river on the raft Weston left behind.

Kinostart: 1968

Studio: BHE Films

Genre: Drama

Länge: 138

Zusammenfassung: Shakespeare's classic tale of romance and tragedy. Two families of Verona, the Montagues and the Capulets, have been feuding with each other for years. Young Romeo Montague goes out with his friends to make trouble at a party the Capulets are hosting, but while there he spies the Capulet's daughter Juliet, and falls hopelessly in love with her. She returns his affections, but they both know that their families will never allow them to follow their hearts.

Kinostart: 2004

Studio: Sonet Film AB

Genre: Drama

Länge: 132

Zusammenfassung: A successful international conductor suddenly interrupts his career and returns alone to his childhood village in Norrland, in the far north of Sweden.It doesn't take long before he is asked to come and listen to the fragment of a church choir, which practises every Thursday in the parish hall. Just come along and give a little bit of good advice. He can't say no, and from that moment, nothing in the village is the same again. The choir develops and grows. He makes both friends and enemies. And he finds love.

Kinostart: 2010

Studio: Walt Disney Pictures

Genre: Drama

Länge: 123

Zusammenfassung: Housewife and mother Penny Chenery agrees to take over her ailing father's Virginia-based Meadow Stables, despite her lack of horse-racing knowledge. Against all odds, Chenery -- with the help of veteran trainer Lucien Laurin -- manages to navigate the male-dominated business, ultimately fostering the first Triple Crown winner in twenty-five years.

Kinostart: 1998

Studio: Intermedia Films

Genre: Drama

Länge: 99

Zusammenfassung: In London, the public relation Helen is fired from her position in a PR company. While returning home, she does not catch the train in the subway. But in another possibility of her life, she catches the train in the subway. The story shows two parallel lives of Helen: in one life, she stays with her boyfriend Gerry, and in the other life, she finds that Gerry cheats her with Lydia and falls in love with James Hammerton.

Kinostart: 1995

Studio: Columbia Pictures Corporation

Genre: Drama

Länge: 136

Zusammenfassung: When Mr. Dashwood dies, he must leave the bulk of his estate to the son by his first marriage, which leaves his second wife and their three daughters (Elinor, Marianne, and Margaret) in straitened circumstances. They are taken in by a kindly cousin, but their lack of fortune affects the marriageability of both practical Elinor and romantic Marianne. When Elinor forms an attachment for the wealthy Edward Ferrars, his family disapproves and separates them. And though Mrs. Jennings tries to match the worthy (and rich) Colonel Brandon to her, Marianne finds the dashing and fiery John Willoughby more to her taste. Both relationships are sorely tried.

Kinostart: 2003

Studio: Columbia Pictures Corporation

Genre: Drama

Länge: 128

Zusammenfassung: Harry Sanborn is an aged music industry exec with a fondness for younger women like Marin, his latest trophy girlfriend. Things get a little awkward when Harry suffers a heart attack at the home of Marin's mother Erica. Left in the care of Erica and his doctor, a love triangle starts to take shape.

Kinostart: 1979

Studio: Film Finance Group

Genre: Drama

Länge: 117

Zusammenfassung: Set against the urban jungle of 1963 New York's gangland subculture, this coming of age teenage movie is set around the Italian gang the Wanderers. Slight comedy, slight High School angst and every bit entertaining with its classic 1950's Rock n' Roll soundtrack such as "Walk Like a Man", "Big Girls Don't Cry" by The Four Seasons and "My Boyfriend's Back" by The Angels. Focusing around a football game where the different gangs play with and against each other, then at its grand finale, come together in a mass of union to defend their honour and their turf. Nostalgic stuff and above all a Rock n' Roll retrospective on a grand musical era. Timeless.

Kinostart: 2017

Studio: American Zoetrope

Genre: Drama

Länge: 93

Zusammenfassung: Three years into the senseless American Civil War, in 1864, the dilapidated mansion of Miss Martha Farnsworth's Seminary for Young Ladies is still running, occupied by the matriarch, a teacher and five students in Spanish moss-draped Virginia. However, when a young student stumbles upon Corporal John McBurney, a wounded Union deserter on the verge of death, the already frail balance of things will be disrupted, as the hesitant headmistress decides to take him in to heal from his injury. Little by little, as the unwelcome guest arouses an uneasy sexual excitation among the women of the secluded boarding school, it is not before long that they will find themselves competing for the alluring man's favour. Undoubtedly, this handsome devil is a manipulator, nevertheless, will the ladies stay forever beguiled by his charm?

Kinostart: 1990

Studio: Erre Produzioni

Genre: Drama

Länge: 107

Zusammenfassung: An English couple holiday in Venice to sort out their relationship. There is some friction and distance between them, and we also sense they are being watched. One evening, they lose their way looking for a restaurant, and a stranger invites them to accompany him. He plies them with wine and grotesque stories from his childhood. They leave disoriented, physically ill, and morally repelled. But, next day, when the stranger sees them in the piazza, they accept an invitation to his sumptuous flat. After this visit, the pair find the depth to face questions about each other, only to be drawn back into the mysterious and menacing fantasies of the stranger and his mate.

Kinostart: 1982

Studio: British Film Institute (BFI), Channel Four Television

Genre: Drama

Länge: 108

Zusammenfassung: Ein junger Künstler wird von der Frau eines wohlhabenden Landbesitzers beauftragt, während der Abwesenheit ihres Mannes eine Reihe von Zeichnungen des Nachlasses anzufertigen.

Kinostart: 1980

Studio: Brooksfilms

Genre: Drama

Länge: 124

Zusammenfassung: John Merrick (whose real name was Joseph, as this is based on a true story) is an intelligent and friendly man, but he is hated by his Victorian-era English society because he is severely deformed. Once he is discovered by a doctor, however, he is saved from his life in a freak show and he is treated like the human being that he really is.

Kinostart: 1991

Studio: Columbia Pictures Corporation

Genre: Drama

Länge: 137

Zusammenfassung: A madman carries out a massacre in a popular New York bar, after hearing the popular DJ Jack Lucas rail against Yuppies. Dejected by remorse, the DJ strikes up a friendship with Perry, former professor who became unhinged and then homeless after witnessing his wife's violent death in the bar shooting. Jack seeks redemption by helping Perry in his quest to recover what he believes is The Holy Grail, from the private Library of a New York Socialite and to win the heart of Lydia, the girl Perry has fallen in love with.

Kinostart: 1967

Studio: Lawrence Turman

Genre: Drama

Länge: 106

Zusammenfassung: Ben has recently graduated college, with his parents now expecting great things from him. At his "Homecoming" party, Mrs. Robinson, the wife of his father's business partner, has Ben drive her home, which leads to an affair between the two. The affair eventually ends, but comes back to haunt him when he finds himself falling for Elaine, Mrs. Robinson's daughter.

Kinostart: 1974

Studio: Paramount Pictures

Genre: Drama

Länge: 144

Zusammenfassung: Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifestyle of his neighbor, the nouveau riche Jay Gatsby. He is drawn into Gatsby's circle, becoming a witness to obsession and tragedy.

Kinostart: 1998

Studio: Touchstone Pictures

Genre: Drama

Länge: 170

Zusammenfassung: A teenage girl riding a horse is hit by a truck. To help heal her troubled/injured daughter, and horse, the mother takes them to Montana to recuperate at the ranch of a 'horse whisperer', a horse healer of mystical talents. The mother proceeds to fall in love with him, as well.

Kinostart: 1939

Studio: RKO Radio Pictures

Genre: Drama

Länge: 117

Zusammenfassung: King Louis XI is a wise and old king and Frollo is the Chief Justice. Frollo gazes on the gypsy girl, Esmeralda, in the church during Fool's Day and sends Quasimoto to catch her. Quasimoto, with the girl, is captured by Phoebus, Captain of the Guards, who frees the girl. The courts sentence Quasimoto to be flogged, and the only one who will give him water while he is tied in the square is Esmeralda. Later, at a party of nobles, Esmeralda again meets both Frollo, who is bewitched by her, and Phoebus. When Phoebus is stabbed to death, Esmeralda is accused of the murder, convicted by the court and sentenced to hang. Clopin, King of the Beggars, Gringoire the Husband of Esmeralda, and Quasimoto, the bellringer, all try different ways to save her from the gallows.

Kinostart: 2014

Studio: Amblin Entertainment

Genre: Drama

Länge: 122

Zusammenfassung: The family of talented cook, Hassan Kadam, has a life filled with both culinary delights and profound loss. Drifting through Europe after fleeing political violence in India that killed the family restaurant business and their mother, the Kadams arrive in France. Once there, a chance auto accident and the kindness of a young woman, Marguerite, in the village of Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val inspires Papa Kadam to set up a Indian restaurant there. Unfortunately, this puts the Kadams in direct competition with the snobbish Madame Mallory's acclaimed haute cuisine establishment across the street where Marguerite also works as a sous-chef. The resulting rivalry eventually escalates in personal intensity until it goes too far. In response, there is a bridging of sides initiated by Hassan, Marguerite and Madame Mallory herself, both professional and personal, that encourages an understanding that will change both sides forever.

Kinostart: 1976

Studio: British Lion Film Corporation

Genre: Drama

Länge: 139

Zusammenfassung: Thomas Jerome Newton is a humanoid alien who comes to Earth to get water for his dying planet. He starts a high technology company to get the billions of dollars he needs to build a return spacecraft, and meets Mary-Lou, a girl who falls in love with him. He does not count on the greed and ruthlessness of business here on Earth, however.

Kinostart: 2008

Studio: Columbia Pictures

Genre: Drama

Länge: 115

Zusammenfassung: A sumptuous and sensual tale of intrigue, romance and betrayal set against the backdrop of a defining moment in European history: two beautiful sisters, Anne and Mary Boleyn, driven by their family's blind ambition, compete for the love of the handsome and passionate King Henry VIII.

Kinostart: 2006

Studio: WIP

Genre: Drama

Länge: 125

Zusammenfassung: This love story has Kitty meeting young, intelligent, shy and somewhat dull Dr. Walter Fane, whose forte is the study of infectious diseases, and the convenient marriage that she finds herself committed to. It is in this web of intrigue that they head for China, only after Walter discovers Kitty's infidelity with one dashing and witty diplomat Charlie Townsend. So much as to hide her from herself and to help thwart a cholera outbreak, this is a marriage more than on the rocks. This is a cold, indifferent and loveless partnership in a vast unknown and deadly environment that will test both these flightless lovebirds and with the hardships and tolerances more than any had ever anticipated. A visual delight amid the pain and suffering of a dying people and failing marriage. Will a cure be found for both, before it's too late?

Kinostart: 1996

Studio: Columbia Pictures Corporation

Genre: Drama

Länge: 129

Zusammenfassung: Larry Flynt is the hedonistically obnoxious, but indomitable, publisher of Hustler magazine. The film recounts his struggle to make an honest living publishing his porn magazine and how it changes into a battle to protect the freedom of speech for all people.

Kinostart: 2002

Studio: R.P. Productions

Genre: Drama

Länge: 150

Zusammenfassung: A brilliant pianist, a Polish Jew, witnesses the restrictions Nazis place on Jews in the Polish capital, from restricted access to the building of the Warsaw ghetto. As his family is rounded up to be shipped off to the Nazi labor camps, he escapes deportation and eludes capture by living in the ruins of Warsaw.

Kinostart: 2015

Studio: Bloom

Genre: Drama

Länge: 110

Zusammenfassung: Arthur Brennan treks into Aokigahara, known as The Sea of Trees, a mysterious dense forest at the base of Japan's Mount Fuji where people go to commit suicide. On his journey to the suicide forest, he encounters Takumi Nakamura, a Japanese man who has lost his way after attempting suicide. The two men begin a journey of reflection and survival, which affirms Arthur's will to live and reconnects him to his love for his wife.

Kinostart: 1994

Studio: Castle Rock Entertainment

Genre: Drama

Länge: 142

Zusammenfassung: Chronicles the experiences of a formerly successful banker as a prisoner in the gloomy jailhouse of Shawshank after being found guilty of a crime he did not commit. The film portrays the man's unique way of dealing with his new, torturous life; along the way he befriends a number of fellow prisoners, most notably a wise long-term inmate named Red.

Kinostart: 2008

Studio: DreamWorks Pictures

Genre: Drama

Länge: 118

Zusammenfassung: Grief, recovery, and human contact. Brian is a great guy - a sweet father, a good husband, and a loyal friend to his boyhood pal Jerry who's a junkie. When tragedy strikes, Jerry tries to help Brian's wife and children cope, and Audrey, Brian's widow, tries to help Jerry kick the habit. Loss and addiction are stubborn. The story starts on the day of the funeral, with Brian appearing in flashbacks. A neighbor's divorce, a dinner party that includes a young woman from the Narcotics Anonymous group Jerry attends, and thinking back to a fire in Brian and Audrey's garage give the story texture.

Kinostart: 1958

Studio: Universal International Pictures (UI)

Genre: Drama

Länge: 95

Zusammenfassung: Mexican Narcotics officer Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas has to interrupt his honeymoon on the Mexican-US border when an American building contractor is killed after someone places a bomb in his car. He's killed on the US side of the border but it's clear that the bomb was planted on the Mexican side. As a result, Vargas delays his return to Mexico City where he has been mounting a case against the Grandi family crime and narcotics syndicate. Police Captain Hank Quinlan is in charge on the US side and he soon has a suspect, a Mexican named Manolo Sanchez. Vargas is soon onto Quinlan and his Sergeant, Pete Menzies, when he catches them planting evidence to convict Sanchez. With his new American wife, Susie, safely tucked away in a hotel on the US side of the border - or so he thinks - he starts to review Quinlan's earlier cases. While concentrating on the corrupt policeman however, the Grandis have their own plans for Vargas and they start with his wife Susie.

Kinostart: 1989

Studio: Gracie Films

Genre: Drama

Länge: 116

Zusammenfassung: The Roses, Barbara and Oliver, live happily as a married couple. Then she starts to wonder what life would be like without Oliver, and likes what she sees. Both want to stay in the house, and so they begin a campaign to force each other to leave. In the middle of the fighting is D'Amato, the divorce lawyer. He gets to see how far both will go to get rid of the other, and boy do they go far..

Kinostart: 1998

Studio: TV-60 Filmproduktion

Genre: Drama

Länge: 115

Zusammenfassung: Trapper Lars is living on Spitsbergen, an island far north of Norway. His life consists mainly of hunting and fishing for survival. Being in peace with his environment, the sudden arrival of Ellen, a student, is quite a disturbing event. Lars, who permitted her to visit and live with him during the dark and cold winter in the first place, soon is challenged by her attraction and also by her strict will only to gain experience. The relation between the two unalike persons - who don't even have a language in common - is stressed from the beginning, and when Ragnar, another trapper, comes over, the situation is about to change.

Kinostart: 1997

Studio: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Genre: Drama

Länge: 118

Zusammenfassung: The story of Oscar Wilde, genius, poet, playwright and the First Modern Man. The self-realization of his homosexuality caused Wilde enormous torment as he juggled marriage, fatherhood and responsibility with his obsessive love for Lord Alfred Douglas, nicknamed Bosie. After legal action instigated by Bosie's father, the enraged Marquise of Queensberry, Wilde refused to flee the country and was sentenced to two years at hard labor by the courts of an intolerant Victorian society.

Kinostart: 2001

Studio: Anhelo Producciones

Genre: Drama

Länge: 106

Zusammenfassung: In Mexico City, late teen friends Tenoch Iturbide and Julio Zapata are feeling restless as their respective girlfriends are traveling together through Europe before they all begin the next phase of their lives at college. At a lavish family wedding, Tenoch and Julio meet Luisa Cortés, the twenty-something wife of Tenoch's cousin Jano, the two who have just moved to Mexico from Spain. Tenoch and Julio try to impress the beautiful Luisa by telling her that they will be taking a trip to the most beautiful secluded beach in Mexico called la Boca del Cielo (translated to Heaven's Mouth), the trip and the beach which in reality don't exist. When Luisa learns of Jano's latest marital indiscretion straight from the horse's mouth, she takes Tenoch and Julio's offer to go along on this road trip, meaning that Tenoch and Julio have to pull together quickly a road trip to a non-existent beach. They decide to head toward one suggested by their friend Saba, who seems a little confused himself of ...

Kinostart: 2016

Studio: Petit Film

Genre: Drama, Horror

Länge: 99

Zusammenfassung: Justine is a first-year veterinary student. Her elder sister is studying the same course at the university. Justine was raised a strict vegetarian but, as part of the hazing rituals, is forced to eat meat. Initially this has adverse effects but she soon develops a craving for meat...particularly human flesh.

Kinostart: 1956

Studio: Sunset Productions (III)

Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Länge: 71

Zusammenfassung: One of several remaining members of its race, an alien from Venus is guided to Earth by disgruntled scientist Tom Anderson, who tells it which humans it should attach mind control devices to. Among them is his old friend, fellow scientist Paul Nelson. Nelson, after killing a flying bat-thing which carries the device, finally persuades the paranoid Anderson that he's been wrong to ally himself with an alien bent on world domination. They hurriedly leave when they discover Tom's wife has picked up a rifle and gone to the alien's cave to try to kill it.

Kinostart: 2017

Studio: First Point Entertainment

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, TV Movie

Länge: 111

Zusammenfassung: Gordon Dunn, a famed scientific pioneer, is mysteriously found dead just after the unveiling of his newest work, a groundbreaking device able to extract, record and play a person's unfiltered memories. After his death, Gordon's reclusive wife, Carolyn, delves deeper into her own private world when a mysterious man shows up claiming to be from Gordon's past. With questionable motives he takes the machine and uses it to try and solve the mystery, beginning an investigation of memories that lead him down a path of guilt, grief, and betrayal to an unexpected answer.

Kinostart: 2019

Studio: Bona Film Group

Genre: Drama, Quentin Tarantino

Länge: 161 min

Zusammenfassung: Quentin Tarantinos ONCE UPON A TIME… IN HOLLYWOOD spielt im Los Angeles von 1969, zu einer Zeit, als alles im Umbruch ist. Auch TV-Star Rick Dalton (LEONARDO DICAPRIO) und sein langjähriges Stunt-Double Cliff Booth (BRAD PITT) müssen sich in einer Branche zurechtfinden, die sie kaum mehr wiedererkennen. Der neunte Film von Kultregisseur und Drehbuchautor Quentin Tarantino wartet mit einer großen Ensemble-Besetzung und zahlreichen Erzählsträngen auf und huldigt den letzten Momenten von Hollywoods goldenem Zeitalter.

Kinostart: 2019

Studio: Columbia Pictures

Genre: Drama, Romance

Länge: 135

Zusammenfassung: In the years after the Civil War, Jo March (Saoirse Ronan) lives in New York City and makes her living as a writer, while her sister Amy March (Florence Pugh) studies painting in Paris. Amy has a chance encounter with Theodore "Laurie" Laurence (Timothée Chalamet), a childhood crush who proposed to Jo, but was ultimately rejected. Their oldest sibling, Meg March (Emma Watson), is married to a schoolteacher, while shy sister Beth (Eliza Scanlen) develops a devastating illness that brings the family back together.

Kinostart: 2017

Studio: Paramount Pictures

Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi

Länge: 135

Zusammenfassung: "Downsizing" follows a kindly occupational therapist who undergoes a new procedure to be shrunken to five inches tall so that he and his wife can help save the planet and afford a nice lifestyle at the same time.

Kinostart: 1990

Studio: Castle Rock Entertainment

Genre: Drama, Thriller

Länge: 107

Zusammenfassung: Best-selling novelist Paul Sheldon is on his way home from his Colorado hideaway after completing his latest book, when he crashes his car in a freak blizzard. Paul is critically injured, but is rescued by former nurse Annie Wilkes, Paul's "number one fan", who takes Paul back to her remote house in the mountains (without bothering to tell anybody). Unfortunately for Paul, Annie is also a headcase. When she discovers that Paul has killed off the heroine in her favorite novels, her reaction leaves Paul shattered (literally)...

Kinostart: 2009

Studio: Animist Films

Genre: Drama, Thriller

Länge: 96

Zusammenfassung: A medieval reenactment game turns into a Shakespearean tragedy when a non-player crashes the event to win back his girlfriend.

Kinostart: 1960

Studio: Rialto Film

Genre: Edgar Wallace

Länge: 92

Zusammenfassung: Eine deutsche Verfilmung eines gruseligen Edgar Wallace-Romans über den Geist eines gehängten Kriminellen, der zurückkehrt, um seinen Fluch zu erfüllen. Alle seine Ankläger sollen sterben.

Kinostart: 1967

Studio: Rialto Film, Independent-International Pictures

Genre: Edgar Wallace

Länge: 87

Zusammenfassung: In und um den Landsitz der Familie Emerson, treibt ein, scheinbar wahnsinniger Mörder, mit einer äußerst ausgefallenen Mordwaffe sein Unwesen.

Kinostart: 1964

Studio: Gloria-Film GmbH, Central Cinema Company Film (CCC)

Genre: Edgar Wallace

Länge: 89

Zusammenfassung: In London ist ein Theaterstück über Jack the Ripper sehr erfolgreich. Zur gleichen Zeit wird die Stadt jedoch auch von einem Ripper ähnlichen Mörder heimgesucht.

Kinostart: 1963

Studio: Central Cinema Company Film (CCC)

Genre: Edgar Wallace

Länge: 94

Zusammenfassung: Eine Gruppe von Vigilanten hängt Missetäter auf.

Kinostart: 1972

Studio: Central Cinema Company Film (CCC), Fénix Cooperativa Cinematográfica, Tele-Cine Film- und Fernsehproduktion

Genre: Edgar Wallace

Länge: 81

Zusammenfassung: A London slasher pack the suitcases of his victims before stabbing them to death in this adaptation of Edgar Wallace's 'Secret of the Black Suitcases.'

Kinostart: 1963

Studio: Central Cinema Company Film (CCC), Mosaik Film

Genre: Edgar Wallace

Länge: 87

Zusammenfassung: Gestohlene Rohdiamanten scheinen das Motiv eines maskierten Würgers zu sein, der rund um das Anwesen des Lucius Clark zuschlägt.

Kinostart: 1966

Studio: Rialto Film

Genre: Edgar Wallace

Länge: 90

Zusammenfassung: Eine junge Frau wird von einer Gaunerbande entführt und durch eine andere ersetzt, um an ihre Vermögen zu kommen.

Kinostart: 1961

Studio: Rialto Film

Genre: Edgar Wallace

Länge: 93

Zusammenfassung: Der wohlhabende Peter Clifton gerät unter den Verdacht, ein berüchtigter Banknotenfälscher zu sein. Als auch noch ein Verehrer seiner Ehefrau ermordet wird, steht er zusätzlich noch unter Mordverdacht.

Kinostart: 1963

Studio: Central Cinema Company Film (CCC)

Genre: Edgar Wallace

Länge: 98

Zusammenfassung: Eine chinesische Sekte strebt die Weltherrschaft an und benutzt dazu die sogenannte "Gelbe Schlange", ein Schmuckstück, das ihnen die Macht verleihen soll, ihr Ziel zu erreichen.

Kinostart: 1959

Studio: Rialto Film

Genre: Edgar Wallace

Länge: 89

Zusammenfassung: London zittert vor der Frosch-Bande und ihrem Anführer, dem geheimnisvolle Frosch mit der Maske.

Kinostart: 1962

Studio: Rialto Film

Genre: Edgar Wallace

Länge: 92

Zusammenfassung: Inspektor Wade macht Jagd auf den Hai, einen mit Taucheranzug und Harpune ausgestatteten Verbrecher. Erste Spuren führen in die verrufene Themes-Kneipe "Mekka".

Kinostart: 1961

Studio: Omnia Pictures Ltd., Rialto Film

Genre: Edgar Wallace

Länge: 94

Zusammenfassung: Ein chinesischer Ermittler lässt einen Drogenschmugglerring auffliegen und will den ""Narzissenmörder"" finden. Die Drogenschmuggler hatten sich die geniale Methode ausgedacht, Heroin aus Hongkong in den Stängeln von Narzissen zu ...

Kinostart: 1968

Studio: Rialto Film

Genre: Edgar Wallace

Länge: 94

Zusammenfassung: Scotland Yard verfolgt eine Bande, die ihre Opfer wegen der Versicherungssumme ertränkt.

Kinostart: 1964

Studio: Rialto Film

Genre: Edgar Wallace

Länge: 90

Zusammenfassung: Eine Ganovenbande hat es auf das versteckte Vermögen eines alten Spielclubbesitzers abgesehen. Dabei ist ihnen die junge Frau, die dieser als Erbe eingesetzt hat, im Weg.

Kinostart: 1964

Studio: Rialto Film

Genre: Edgar Wallace

Länge: 82

Zusammenfassung: Als seine Schwester einem Mord zum Opfer fällt, kehrt der Hexer, eine selbsternannter Rächer und Meister der Verkleidung, nach London zurück, um mit ihren Mördern abzurechnen.

Kinostart: 1968

Studio: Rialto Film

Genre: Edgar Wallace

Länge: 92

Zusammenfassung: Rund um Blackwood Castle fallen, nach und nach, plötzlich auftauchende mysteriöse Personen, einem mordenden Hund zum Opfer.

Kinostart: 1968

Studio: Rialto Film

Genre: Edgar Wallace

Länge: 88

Zusammenfassung: Ein unheimlicher Mörder mit Totenkopfmaske scheint es auf Menschen aus dem Umfeld von Lord Cecil zu haben. Schon bald kommt das Gerücht auf, sein toter Bruder sei von den Toten auferstanden um sich zu rächen.

Kinostart: 1963

Studio: Rialto Film

Genre: Edgar Wallace

Länge: 87

Zusammenfassung: Um eine Erbschaft an zu treten, versammeln sich die Erben auf einem abgelegenen Schloß. Als sie, durch einen Sturm, von der Außenwelt abgeschnitten werden, fällt Einer nach dem Anderen einem geheimnisvollen Halstuchmörder zum Opfer.

Kinostart: 1969

Studio: Rialto Film

Genre: Edgar Wallace

Länge: 87

Zusammenfassung: Ein Billardsaal wird als Front für einen weißen Sklavenring verwendet.

Kinostart: 1967

Studio: Rialto Film

Genre: Edgar Wallace

Länge: 88

Zusammenfassung: Ein mit einer Peitsche bewaffneter Mönch und mehrere, eine Giftwaffe benutzenden Personen treiben ihr dunkles Spiel in und um einem Mädcheninternat.

Kinostart: 1965

Studio: Rialto Film

Genre: Edgar Wallace

Länge: 95

Zusammenfassung: Arthur Milton aka Der Hexer muss nach London zurückkehren, nachdem seine Visitenkarte am Tatort eines Mordes zurückgelassen wurde, den er nicht begangen hat.

Kinostart: 1962

Studio: Rialto Film

Genre: Edgar Wallace

Länge: 84

Zusammenfassung: Rivalisierende Gangster aus Chicago ziehen nach London und versuchen, Geld von reichen Briten zu erpressen.