The Honorary Consul
Set in a small politically unstable Latin American country, the story follows the half English and half Latino Dr. Eduardo Plarr, who left his home to find a better life. Along the way he meets an array of people, includ
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Set in a small politically unstable Latin American country, the story follows the half English and half Latino Dr. Eduardo Plarr, who left his home to find a better life. Along the way he meets an array of people, includ
A whale of a comedy thriller. It's a Niagra of roaring laughter Faster Than the Wind!
Words and Music by Gian-Carlo Menotti. Chester Ludgin, Patricia Neway, Evelyn Sachs, Leon Lishner, Regina Sarfaty. Produced by Jean Dalrymple (1960). Dvd copyright 2004.
Year 1973, turmoil between Kosovo Serbs and Albanians in Autonomous province of Kosovo. A story that describes the beginning of the crisis in Kosovo.
Country lawyer Abel Manning is very passionate about his political party. Through the force of his oratory, he helps elect James Kitwell to the U.S. Senate. Kitwell has promised to reward Manning an important post. No jo
The film is liberally inspired by the period when Eça de Queiroz was Portuguese Consul in Cuba, when still a Spanish colony. Eça de Queiroz struggles against local authorities in his defense of Chinese workers, brought t
This is the story of Aristides de Sousa Mendes, a man of conviction who saved 30,000 lives during WWII, in June 1940. Among them were10,000 Jews. As the Portuguese General Consul stationed in Bordeaux, France, he issue
Fascinating journey through the life and work of the prestigious Catalan poet Jaime Gil de Biedma, both marked by sexuality and eroticism. Charismatic and somewhat eccentric, brilliant intellectual with extraordinary sen
In The Consul of Nowhereland, there lives the self-appointed consul of a country that no longer exits: Yugoslavia. Teetering on the threshold between nostalgia and critical distance (and oscillating between digital film
A film portrait of the famous con artist Czesław Śliwa, alias Jack Ben Silberstein, who, posing as the Austrian consul in Wrocław, swindled over half a million zlotys from people in three months. In 1988, Mirosław Bork m
Using photographs and films shot by a French Consul, Auguste François, in turn-of-the-century China, documents the historic events and everyday life he saw around him. Narration uses his letters, diaries, and notes.
The story takes place in Turkestan in the year 1920. Along the narrow and deserted streets of nighttime Bukhara echoes the voice of a watchman: “All is calm in sacred Bukhara!” But how deceptive this calm is! Bukhara is
After spending 30 years in prison, a man comes out to find out he has a son. Together with his son and a newly-acquired friend he resumes his criminal life.
A mysterious consul, blessed with the power to hypnotise, manages to push young women to suicide to cash in their insurance, without having their blood on his hands. At the death of his sister, a young detective decides
Consul Descombes is a married man, but yearns for long nights with female companionship in Paris. As fate would have it, one day he receives a letter from a former acquaintance named Lulu, who wants to take him to Paris.
Who was Otto Engelhardt? Engineer, Pacifist, Diplomat and one of the most important forgotten people of the last century.
A mother's visit to a psychoanalyst who does not belong to the human race. Issues of incest and racial intolerance.
Agent Coulson informs Agent Sitwell that the World Security Council wishes Emil Blonsky to be released from prison to join the Avengers Initiative. As Nick Fury doesn't want to release Blonsky, the two agents decide to s
The first film shot in Egypt.
Helene de Crecy documents the daily consultations within the office of a small-town general physician in France.