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.

  6.0

Bathory

2007, Slovakia, Czech Republic, UK, Hungary

• Actors: Anna Friel, Karel Roden, Vincent Regan, Hans Matheson, Deana Horváthová, Franco Nero, Antony Byrne, Bolek Polívka, Jirí Mádl, Monika Hilmerová, Lucie Vondrácková, Jaromír Nosek, Marek Majeský, Andrew Tiernan, Marek Vasut, Jana Olhová, Michaela Drotárová, Sandra Pogodová, Beata Greneche, Eva Elsnerová, Hana Vagnerová, Andrej Hryc, Karel Dobry, René Stúr, Vincenzo Nicoli, Karel Belohradský, Pavel Koci, Pavel Skripal, Pavol Boczárský, Tim Preece
• Genre: Drama, Fantasy, History
• Director(s): Juraj Jakubisko
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Bathory is based on the legends surrounding the life and deeds of Countess Elizabeth Bathory known as the greatest murderess in the history of mankind. Contrary to popular belief, Elizabeth Bathory was a modern Renaissance woman who ultimately fell victim to mens aspirations for power and wealth.

  6.2

Last Holiday

2005, USA

• Actors: Queen Latifah, LL Cool J, Timothy Hutton, Giancarlo Esposito, Alicia Witt, Gérard Depardieu, Jane Adams, Michael Estime, Susan Kellermann, Jascha Washington, Matt Ross, Ranjit Chowdhry, Michael Nouri, Jaqueline Fleming, Kendall Mosby, Chloe Bailey, Halle Bailey, Dan Ziskie, Julia Lashae, Werner Richmond, Emeril Lagasse, Erica Edwards, Brandy Scott, Margaret Mungai, Shirl Cieutat, Donna Denley, Maria Mason, Lana Likic, Camille Hunt, Ellen Savaria
• Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
• Director(s): Wayne Wang
• Available languages:
  • English English.

In morte veritas. Georgia Byrd clerks at a New Orleans department store. She defers pleasure: cooks gourmet meals, eats Lean Cuisine; likes a co-worker in silence; has savings, but hasn't left Louisiana. All that changes when a CT Scan discloses she has three weeks to live. She cashes her savings and heads to Europe's Grandhotel Pupp, where Chef Didier presides. She checks into the Presidential Suite, orders everything on the menu, snowboards, and comes to the attention of the chef and the hotel's powerful American guests: a Congressman, a Senator, a retail magnate, and his mistress. She has nothing to lose, so she tells them what she thinks. Will the truth set them free?

  5.5

The Fine Art of Love: Mine Ha-Ha

2005, Italy, UK, Czech Republic

• Actors: Jacqueline Bisset, Hannah Taylor-Gordon, Natalia Tena, Anna Maguire, Anya Lahiri, Emily Pimm, Mary Nighy, Urbano Barberini, Silvia De Santis, Eva Grimaldi, Enrico Lo Verso, Galatea Ranzi, Tomás Hanák, Zuzana Rihova, Jan Unger, Marek Vasut, Lucie Vondrácková
• Genre: Drama, Mystery
• Director(s): John Irvin
• Available languages:
  • English English.

"Laughing Water - Mine Ha-Ha" is based on "Mine-Haha or Physical Education of Young Girls" by German author Frank Wedekind (Spring Awakening, Lulu, Pandora's Vase). Thuringia, Germany, in the early 20th century. A group of young girls are brought up in a college withinh dark forests and gloomy lakes. Young Hidalla and her friends Irene, Vera, Blanka, Melusine and Rain are brought up in an isolated world: the girls don't know anything about live outside the college's high walls. At the age of 16, some of them start asking questions about their origins, their parents and the true purposes of the Headmistresses strict rules. When two of them disappear mysteriously, the initial fairytale atmosphere grows more and more eerie. Will the inspector from the nearby city discover the real purpose of the college? Will Hidalla be successful in her revolt against the destiny assigned to her by the Headmistress?

  5.9

The Brothers Grimm

2004, UK, Czech Republic, USA

• Actors: Petr Ratimec, Barbora Lukesová, Anna Rust, Jeremy Robson, Matt Damon, Heath Ledger, Radim Kalvoda, Martin Hofmann, Josef Pepa Nos, Harry Gilliam, Miroslav Táborský, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Marika Sarah Procházková, Mackenzie Crook, Richard Ridings, Alena Jakobova, Rudolf Pellar, Dana Dohnalova, Petra Dohnalova, Hanus Bor, Ota Filip, Audrey Hamm, Annika Murjahn, Lukás Bech, Karel Kohlicek, Peter Stormare, Julian Bleach, Bruce MacEwen, Jonathan Pryce, Martin Kavan
• Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Thriller
• Director(s): Terry Gilliam
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Folklore collectors and con artists, Jake and Will Grimm, travel from village to village pretending to protect townsfolk from enchanted creatures and performing exorcisms. They are put to the test, however, when they encounter a real magical curse in a haunted forest with real magical beings, requiring genuine courage.

  7.1

Hitler: The Rise of Evil

2003, Canada, USA

• Actors: Robert Carlyle, Stockard Channing, Jena Malone, Julianna Margulies, Matthew Modine, Liev Schreiber, Peter Stormare, Friedrich von Thun, Peter O'Toole, Zoe Telford, Terence Harvey, Justin Salinger, Chris Larkin, James Babson, Patricia Netzer, Harvey Friedman, Nicole Marischka, Julie-Ann Hassett, Thomas Sangster, Simon Sullivan, Robert Glenister, Ian Hogg, Filip Hess, Brendan Hughes, Howie Lotker, Robert Russell, David Fisher, Hana Frejkova, Wolfgang Müller, Christopher Ettridge
• Genre: Biography, Drama, History
• Director(s): Christian Duguay
• Available languages:
  • English English.

The movie describes the life of Adolf Hitler from childhood to manhood, and how he became so powerful. It describes his poor childhood in Austria, it describes the first world war from his point of view, and how he became the strongest man in Germany. The movie show us how turned Hitler from a poor soldier into the leader of the Nazis, and how he survived the attempts to kill him. It describes his relationship with his mistress Eva Braun, and his decisions and enemies inside Germany and inside the Nazi party.

  6.7

Joan of Arc

1999, Canada

• Actors: Leelee Sobieski, Chad Willett, Jacqueline Bisset, Powers Boothe, Neil Patrick Harris, Maury Chaykin, Olympia Dukakis, Jonathan Hyde, Robert Loggia, Shirley MacLaine, Peter O'Toole, Maximilian Schell, Peter Strauss, Ron White, Jaimz Woolvett, Ted Atherton, Chandra Engstrom, Jaroslav Fricek, Robert Haley, Matt Hoffman, Jirina Klinkova, Kris Lemche, Gregory Linington, Chris Hoffman, Daniel Brown, Zlatan Camo, Hynek Cermak, John Comer, Richard H. Cutting, David Dunbar
• Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
• Director(s): Christian Duguay
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Ten years before her death, Joan hears voices. Six years later, from the village of Domremy, she begins her mission to unite France under King Charles. First she leads a defense of Vaucouleurs against the Burgundians, then obtains safe passage to Charles, the Dauphin. He uses her, as the embodiment of the mythical "Maid of Lorraine," to raise an army, and he sends her to the rescue of Orléans. After Charles is crowned, Joan leads a disastrous campaign in Paris, where her brother dies. Then she's the victim of Charles's manipulations: she's captured in Burgundy, sold to the English, examined by Bishop Cauchon, found a heretic by the Inquisition, and burned at the stake.

  7.3

Les misérables

1998, UK, Germany, USA

• Actors: Christopher Adamson, Tim Barlow, Timothy Bateson, Veronika Bendová, David Birkin, Reine Brynolfsson, Patsy Byrne, Kathleen Byron, Václav Chalupa, Ian Cregg, Ben Crompton, Claire Danes, Zdenek David, Paola Dionisotti, Edna Doré, Louis Hammond, Gillian Hanna, Janet Henfrey, Shane Hervey, Zdenék Hess, Gerard Horan, Kelly Hunter, Lennie James, Toby Jones, Jon Kenny, Pavel Koci, Sylvie Koblizkova, Jan Kuzelka, Peter Mackriel, Margery Mason
• Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Romance
• Director(s): Bille August
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Jean Valjean, a Frenchman imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a police officer named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.