6.4

Largo Winch

2008, France, Belgium

• Actors: Tomer Sisley, Kristin Scott Thomas, Miki Manojlovic, Mélanie Thierry, Gilbert Melki, Karel Roden, Steven Waddington, Anne Consigny, Radivoje Bukvic, Nicolas Vaude, Benedict Wong, Gérard Watkins, Wolfgang Pissors, Theodore Thomas, David Gasman, Elizabeth Bennett, Eddy Ko, Bojana Panic, Ivan Marevich, André Oumansky, Digger Mesch, Emmanuel Avena, Micaelle Mee-Sook, Benjamin Siksou, Kerian Mayan, Jake Vella, Aidan Aquilina, Andre Agius, Léo-Paul Salmain, Julian De Gorgio
• Genre: Adventure, Thriller
• Director(s): Jérôme Salle
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Billionaire Nerio Winch is found dead, drowned. An obviously suspicious death as Nerio is the founder and majority shareholder of the powerful and sprawling W Group. Who will inherit this financial empire? Officially, Nerio had no family. But he had a secret he kept well-hidden: a son, Largo, adopted nearly thirty years before from a Bosnian orphanage. The only problem is this young heir has just been thrown in prison deep in the Amazon. Accused of drug trafficking, he claims he's innocent. Nerio murdered. Largo in prison. What if these two events were part of a plot to take control of the Winch empire?

  5.3

Babylon A.D.

2007, USA, France, UK

• Actors: Vin Diesel, Michelle Yeoh, Mélanie Thierry, Lambert Wilson, Mark Strong, Jérôme Le Banner, Charlotte Rampling, Gérard Depardieu, Joel Kirby, Souleymane Dicko, David Belle, Radek Bruna, Jan Unger, Abraham Belaga, Gary Cowan, David Gasman, Lemmy Constantine, Peter Thias, Curtis Matthew, Magda Vavrusova, Filip Matejka, Robert Polo
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
• Director(s): Mathieu Kassovitz
• Available languages:
  • English English.

In a near future, the mercenary Toorop is hired by the powerful criminal Gorsky to bring a woman named Aurora from a Noelite Convent in Central Asia to New York. In return, he would receive a large amount of money and a clear passport. Toorop joins Aurora and her guardian Sister Rebeka as they cross the dangerous Russian landscape chased by mercenaries that also want Aurora. Along their journey, Toorop discovers that Aurora has special abilities and once in New York, they see on the news that the Noelite Convent has just been bombed. When Aurora discloses that she is virgin and pregnant with twins, Toorop realizes that there is something sinister behind his mission and that he and Sister Rebeka are not part of Gorsky's plans.

  7.9

La leggenda del pianista sull'oceano

1998, Italy

• Actors: Tim Roth, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Bill Nunn, Clarence Williams III, Mélanie Thierry, Gabriele Lavia, Peter Vaughan, Niall O'Brien, Alberto Vazquez, Luigi De Luca, Femi Elufowojo, Nigel Fan, Roger Monk, Leonid Zaslavski, Bernard Padden, Wilson Di Bois, Easton Gage, Cory Buck, Norman Chancer, Sidney Cole, Harry Ditson, Andrew Dunford, Eamon Geoghegan, Steven Luotto, Gianluigi Molteni, Noriko Aida, Vernon Nurse, Bryan Pringle, Ivan Truol Troncoso, Heathcote Williams
• Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Music, Romance
• Director(s): Giuseppe Tornatore
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Shortly after the Second World War, Max, a transplanted American, visits an English pawn shop to sell his trumpet. The shopkeeper recognizes the tune Max plays as one on a wax master of an unreleased recording, discovered and restored from shards found in a piano salvaged from a cruise ship turned hospital ship, now slated for demolition. This chance discovery prompts a story from Max, which he relates both to the shopkeeper and later to the official responsible for the doomed vessel, for Max is a born storyteller. Though now down on his luck and disillusioned by his wartime experiences, the New Orleans-born Max was once an enthusiastic and gifted young jazz musician, whose longest gig was several years with the house band aboard the Virginian, a posh cruise ship. While gaining his sea legs, he was befriended by another young man, the pianist in the same band, whose long unlikely name was Danny Boodman T.D. Lemons 1900, though everyone just called him 1900, the year of his birth. Abandoned in first class by his immigrant parents, 1900 was found and adopted by Danny, a stoker, and raised in the engine rooms, learning to read by reading horseracing reports to his adoptive dad. After Danny's death in an accident, 1900 remained on the ship. Increasingly lured by the sound of the piano in the first-class ballroom, he eventually became a gifted pianist, a great jazz improvisationist, a composer of rich modern music inspired by his intense observation of the life around him, the stories passengers on all levels of the ship trusted him enough to tell. He also grew up to be a charming, iconoclastic young man, at once shrewd and oddly innocent. His talent earned him such accolades that he was challenged by, and bested Jelly Roll Morton in an intense piano duel that had poor Max chewing paper on the sofa in agonies of suspense. And yet for all the richness and variety of his musical expression, he never left the ship, except almost, once, in the aftermath of his infatuation with a beautiful young woman immigrant who inspired the music committed to the master Max discovers in the pawnshop. Max realizes that 1900 must still be on the ship, and determines to find him, and to find out once and for all why he has so consistently refused to leave.