Before the Devil Knows You're Dead(2007)

Bang Bang You're Dead(en)

A troubled and bullied high school student fights against judgement from his community after threatening to bomb the football team.

Sörensen's Fear(de)

Detective Chief Inspector Sörensen is anxious. More precisely, he suffers from a chronic anxiety disorder that makes life difficult for him. That is why he is moving from Hamburg to the Frisian village of Katenbüll, where he hopes for a more peaceful working life. But that is not how the cookie crumbles. The place is grey and bleak, it rains continuously, and the locals are not very enthusiastic in welcoming him. He also finds his new colleagues, Jenni Holstenbeck and Malte Schuster, somewhat suspect. And then things go from bad to worse. Mayor Hinrichs is found dead in his stables. Sörensen quickly realises that there is a lot of bad blood hidden behind the small town's tranquil facade and some well-founded reasons for anxiety...

Girls on Top(de)

The adventures of three teenage girls - Inken, Vicky and Lena - and their quest to have their first orgasm.

The Soul Keeper(it)

Zurich, 1905. Nineteen-year-old Russian Sabina Spielrein is put by her parents in a psychiatric hospital, suffering from a severe form of hysteria and refusing to eat. A compassionate doctor, Carl Gustav Jung, takes her under his care and, for the first time, experiments with the psychoanalytical method of his teacher Sigmund Freud. Thus is born a sweeping story of love and passion, of body and soul, soaring to the utmost heights, but also plunging to the darkest depths of the 20th century.

To a Land Unknown(el)

Cousins Chatila and Reda are saving to pay for fake passports to get out of Athens. When Reda loses their hard-earned cash to his drug addiction, Chatila hatches an extreme plan to pose as smugglers in an attempt to get them out of their desperate situation before it is too late.

Nocturnal(en)

Laurie, a cynical schoolgirl, builds a secret friendship with Pete, an older handyman who is obsessed with her.

Mum Is Wrong(fr)

Do we really know our parents? Fourteen-year-old Anouk suddenly discovers another side to her mother during an observation workshop that she carries out in the insurance company where her mother works. An immersion week in the company's adult world, with its little compromises and many cowardly acts, which soon put a seal on her young life. Between an initiation, rift, and assuming responsibility for the first time, the experience is a form of adieu to childhood.

Samson and Delilah(en)

Samson, a cheeky 15-year-old boy, and Delilah, live in an isolated Aboriginal community in the Central Australian desert. The two teenagers soon discover that life outside the community can be cruel. Lost, unwanted and alone they discover that life isn’t always fair, but love never judges.

Whatever(fr)

It is a story of a depressed, isolated man stuck in a tedious but well-paying programming job.

Strip Search(en)

Strip Search follows several parallel stories examining personal freedoms vs. national security in the aftermath of 9/11; two main subplots involve an American woman detained in China and an Arab man detained in New York City.

Dossier 51(fr)

A French diplomat is surveilled by a secret service to find a weakness for political control, his private life becoming 'File No. 51'.

The Witches' Sabbath(it)

The freshly graduated psychiatrist David shall deliver an opinion about young Maddalena, who's on trial for murdering a hunter. She claims she's a witch and acted on behalf of the devil.

A Liar's Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman(en)

John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam pay tribute to their late Monty Python colleague Graham Chapman in this hilarious, 3-D animated adaptation of Chapman's brazenly fictionalized life story.

La torre de Suso(es)

Cundo emigrated to Argentina to seek a new life. Ten years later he returns home, to the funeral of an old friend, Suso. The film chronicles the reunion with family and friends and how Cundo wants to fulfill the ultimate dream of Suso. The film is a tribute to friendship. And above all friendship in a age where it is not so clear why you should remain friends with your childhood friends.

The Dark Corner(en)

Ex-con turned private investigator Bradford Galt suspects someone is following him and maybe even trying to kill him. With the assistance of his spunky secretary, Kathleen Stewart, he dives deep into a mystery in search of answers.

Filmed in Supermarionation(en)

The definitive documentary about the iconic television series developed by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and their production companies (AP Films and Century 21 Pictures). Supermarionation was a revolutionary technique used in all their programmes throughout the 1960s including Stingray, Captain Scarlet and, most famously, Thunderbirds.

With the Grace of a God(it)

Back in Genoa for the first time in twenty-five years, to attend the funeral of his best friend from when he was growing up, Luca reunites with the old gang of yore. All of them are sure that the late lamented had brought it on himself, with his dissipated lifestyle. Not Luca: he wants to know, investigate, understand. He searches his memory, in a city as changed as he is, as characters and situations reemerge ghost-like from a buried past, along with Luca’s own true nature, which he thought he had definitively tamed.

The Cook(en)

Over a long holiday weekend, unable to escape the confines of their sorority house, a handful of unsuspecting girls are left behind to enjoy the quiet sanctuary. The normal house staff has taken off for the weekend, leaving the girls to fend for themselves. Thankfully someone was kind enough to send them a temporary replacement chef to cook their meals.

A Treat of Coutinho(pt)

Would have one of the masters of Brazilian cinema always made the same film? From an encounter with documentarian Eduardo Coutinho recorded in 2012 and a vast amount of archive footage, this film offers a general look at Coutinho's work and testifies how the filmmaker’s thinking still stand the test of time to this day and age.

Kim Cattrall: Sexual Intelligence(en)

This documentary explores the mysteries and origins of sexual desire.

exposer(en)

A man battling drug addiction is stalked by an ominous masked photographer.

Nurse 3-D(en)

Abby Russell, a beautiful, dedicated nurse with a sinister side, has a secret life in which she targets and punishes dishonest men.

Just One More(en)

After an unsuspected called Daniel is informed his father won't make it through the night, he is conflicted on whether or not he should go since they haven't spoken in years.

Todd Tarantula(en)

A psychedelic journey across Los Angeles to find his stolen motorbike leads antihero Todd Tarantula through a time-bending experience where he must uncover the secrets of his past.

Aliento(es)

Ragged Heart(en)

When his estranged daughter Miranda tragically dies, a retired musician sets out to complete the last song she wrote.

Bad for Each Other(en)

A doctor returned from the Korean War must choose between joining a glamorous practice and helping the poor.

122(ar)

During a bloody night, a young man and his lover are struggling, not to get to the hospital, but to escape and survive.

Nirvana(ru)

Young Alisa is fed up with her life in Moscow, and moves to St. Petersburg. Her roommates in the collective flat are two junkies, Vel and her boyfriend Valera the Dead Man. First they fight, but soon the two women form a friendship. Together they even go after the Petersburg underworld when Dead Man is abducted because he can't pay his debts.

Romantic Blue(th)

Mai quits school to go work as a mechanic while his brother stays in school and chases girls. However his need for money increases as his father gets sick and ends up in the hospital with bills no one can afford. The mechanic there knows of his financial problems and teaches him how to break into cars. He introduces him to a professional car theft gang and he starts working for them.

Johanna(hu)

Johanna, a young drug addict, falls into a deep coma after an accident. Doctors miraculously manage to save her from death's doorstep. Touched by grace, Johanna cures patients by offering her body. The head doctor is frustrated by her continued rejection of him and allies himself with the outraged hospital authorities. They wage war against her but the grateful patients join forces to protect her. This is a filmic and musical interpretation of the Passion of Joan of Arc.

Living with Cockroaches(hr)

Film about two sisters, Morana and Ela.

Janie Jones(en)

When a fading musician (Alessandro Nivola) learns he has a teenage daughter (Abigail Breslin) from a long-ago tryst, he’s forced to take her on tour after her mother checks into rehab.

Cyril(en)

Using a framework of the contemporary divide on racial justice, Cyril explores famed forensic pathologist Dr. Cyril Wecht’s observations on some of the most high-profile American murder cases of the 20th century. This docudrama combines the fictionalized story of a conservative white TV host (David Whalen) and a liberal black cameraman (Sam Lothard) interviewing the former Allegheny County medical examiner for a TV show with Dr. Wecht’s actual observations on real events. The film uniquely dissects the cases of JonBenet Ramsey, Nicole Brown Simpson, and the Kennedy assassination, among others. Based on a play by August Wilson protégé Mark Clayton Southers, Cyril offers a timely look at racism in America.

Family Blood(en)

Ellie, a recovering drug addict, has just moved to a new city with her two teenage children. She has struggled to stay sober in the past and is determined to make it work this time, finding a stable job and regularly attending her meetings. Unfortunately, new friends, a new job, and the chance of a new life, can’t keep Ellie from slipping once again. Her life changes when she meets Christopher – a different kind of addict – which forces her daughter and son to accept a new version of Ellie.

The Sentinel(fr)

A medical intern finds himself drawn into a world of international intrigue after discovering a shrunken human head in his luggage.

Secret Ceremony(en)

A penniless woman meets a strange girl who insists she is her long-lost mother and becomes enmeshed in a web of deception, and perhaps madness.

Extramarital(en)

An aspiring writer gets involved in the investigation of her best friend after she is killed while having an affair.

Rusty Knife(ja)

Udaka is a new, post-war city where corruption has already taken hold. A persistent district attorney wants to arrest and convict Katsumata, a laughing, self-confident thug. The D.A. gets an anonymous letter about the suicide five years' before of a city council member. Evidence about the case leads the D.A. to Tachibana, struggling to go straight after involvement with the mob and a prison sentence for killing the man responsible for the rape and suicide of his fiancée. One of Tachibana's friends is Keiko, the daughter of the dead councilman and the ward of another powerful official. How do these stories connect?

Lottery(en)

Lee's life changes when he wins the lottery, only for his new girlfriend's ruthless ex to steal the ticket. As lust, greed, and vengeance collide, this love triangle plunges into a deadly showdown.