The Brightest Star
Recommendations Movies
Bouzouki Strumming(el)
One day, while Grigoris is working and singing at a construction site, a conductor, Vangelis, and two bouzouki musicians happen to pass by. They listen, enchanted by his limpid voice, and suggest that he becomes a member of their orchestra. Thus, the newly-wed day laborer gets a second job at Mr. Lefteris’ night club. His wife, Marina, soon joins him at the club, and, before long, she too goes on stage, cuts capers and charms everyone. Her success, however, has a negative impact on the couple’s relationship, since Marina’s admirers as well as those of Grigoris’, turn one away from the other.
Modern Cinderella(el)
Katerina, a poor girl, finds a job as a secretary and falls in love with her boss on a trip to Rome.
Help! Vengos Visible Agent '000'(el)
Vengos studies in a secret agents' academy, dreaming of becoming a great spy like 007. Unfortunately, he can't do anything right, so he wreaks havoc during his final exams.
The Clear Eyes(fr)
Fanny is a schizophrenic woman in her early thirties living under the care of her brother Gabriel, a schoolteacher. Following a violent altercation with his wife, Fanny steals her brother's car and sets off on a road trip to Germany to visit the grave of their father, whose funeral she was not allowed to attend...
Box(en)
The execution was scheduled and the last meal consumed. The coolness of the poisons entering the blood system slowed the heart rate and sent him on the way to Judgement. He had paid for his crime with years on Death Row waiting for this moment and now he would pay for them again as the judgment continued..
Project Wild Thing(en)
PROJECT WILD THING is an ambitious, feature-length documentary that takes a funny and revealing look at a complex issue, the increasingly disparate connection between children and nature.
The Nimitz Encounters(en)
November 2004, 90 miles off the coast of Mexico near San Diego, California, the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group was conducting routine training and aerial defense exercises when unexplained events occurred. Aerial craft would appear that forever changed all those that encountered them. Based on the true story, official US government docs, witness statements, and news reports.
The Face of Birth(en)
An inspiring look at how wonderful birth can be when your right to choose how, where and with whom you give birth is respected & protected. Every woman has the right to be informed about their options in childbirth. Through an exploration of home birth, this 87 min film looks at what natural, physiological childbirth really is. Is birth a medical emergency waiting to happen or a profound, natural and physiological event that women are designed for? The most comprehensive film ever made on home birth and a voice of reason in the debate, The Face of Birth outlines the importance of education in birthing and the right of a woman to choose the best and safest birth method for her and her baby.
Jack Taylor of Beverly Hills(en)
Jack Taylor of Beverly Hills examines the dying art of men's custom tailoring through the eyes of one its most colorful characters on the eve of his retirement.
Playboy: Farrah Fawcett, All of Me(en)
At fifty years of age actress Farrah Fawcett reveals her body to the camera in this one off special.
Faust and Mephistopheles(fr)
A re-telling of the classic tale of Faust in all of two minutes by French filmmaker Alice Guy.
The Good Judge(en)
A family living in poverty, in a tiny house with no furniture. When mama goes to sleep, the youngsters head out to rustle up some firewood. Apparently that's illegal, so some forest rangers seize them and the wood to bring to a well-dressed man.
A Johnny Gargano Documentary: Volume 2(en)
This short documentary follows Johnny Gargano as he works Absolute Intense Wrestling's biggest event of the year - Absolution IX. In this second volume, Johnny gives a little background into how he got started wrestling and what keeps him going.
Long Live with Dearly Departed(cs)
Wealthy and ill Petr Kornel (Karel Hasler) is not pleased with the carousing lifestyle of his nephew. He stops supporting him financially and demands that he change his name. Out of gratitude Kornel bequeaths a substantial sum of money to his nurse Alice (Adina Mandlová) with the condition that she marries. Petr Suk (Hugo Haas), as the nephew is now named, visits the doctor. In the waiting room his X-ray is mistakenly switched with one of another patient's. On the basis of this he presently learns that he is seriously ill and has only one day of life left to him.
The Distant Home(en)
Government authorities incarcerate a girl whose extraterrestrial origin is discovered after an accident with a car.
The Big Knights(en)
The height of two men, the weight of four, the strength of sixteen; Sir Boris, finest swordsman in the world, and his brother Sir Morris, not the finest swordsman in the world, but the most enthusiastic, and their noble pets, Sir Horace the dog, and Sir Doris the hamster; the Big Knights!