Movie List for "short"

In old Shanghai, two sisters, a prostitute and a singer, tried to escape from the local scoundrels with the help of a trumpet player and a newspaper seller. Year 1937.

Twelve year old Li Wan (Zhang Xueying) has lost her mother long ago. When she grew up, her father remarried. Not long after, Li played with a half brother. This series of events lead to … Year 2013.

An intimate look at the life and work of Greek-American opera singer Maria Callas, as told in her own words. Year 2017.

The case of a missing girl takes us through a journey of human greed and brushes upon the egos and repressed emotions of the characters. Year 2013.

In the Soviet Union in 1936, shadow of Stalin’s repressions lie on a famous revolution hero. The accusations of being him a foreign spy are nonsense, and all known that, but a slow process of his life’s downfall is already running. Year 1994.

Andrey goes to Paris to visit the grave of his great-grandfather, who had been an officer in the White Army. On the headstone of the next grave, he notices the face of a young woman. He will see this face again. Year 2016.

Two men attempt to prove they committed the perfect crime by hosting a dinner party after strangling their former classmate to death. Year 1948.

A rich man’s daughter is held captive in an abandoned apartment by two former convicts who abducted her and hold her ransom in exchange for her father’s money. Year 2009.

An aspiring director targets a ruthless gangster because he wants to make a violent gangster film. His discreet attempts to research the gangster fail miserably. Finally when he gets caught snooping, things hit the fan. Year 2014.

A couple travels to Eastern Europe to visit a rural hometown’s fabled Swedish mid-summer festival. What begins as an idyllic retreat quickly devolves into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult. Year 2019.

September 1941. In a turn of events young lovebirds Kostya and Nastya find themselves on board of a barge that will evacuate people from sieged Leningrad. At night the barge gets into the … Year 2019.

Based on “The Kreutzer Sonata” by Leo Tolstoy. Year 2008.

At the start of the 1950s, four student friends live in the suburban dormitory of an art school. They are cheerful, although often hungry, play pranks on each other and many of the other … Year 1995.

A female lawyer becomes mesmerized by a self-made millionaire during an encounter in Rio setting off a series of erotic encounters. Year 1989.

Wrongfully convicted for murder, Henri Charriere forms an unlikely relationship with fellow inmate and quirky convicted counterfeiter Louis Dega, in an attempt to escape from the notorious penal colony on Devil’s Island. Year 2017.

A super-stylized, surreal biography of Armenian troubadour Sayat Nova, whose life is depicted through non-narrative amalgamations of poetic images. Year 1969.