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A cinematographic expedition to the northern and southern extremities of the world, and a road movie from the Dutch capital, Amsterdam, towards two homonymous islands: one in Antarctic, and the other in the Norwegian Spitsberg archipelago.

A tour around England featuring images of nature and various industrialized and militarized settings.

Newlywed Wendy Crews has the shock of her life when her hubby is arrested by the FBI on their honeymoon. When he's convicted of murder and embezzlement, Wendy, frustrated and frightened by his silence, attempts to find out the truth - and ultimately uncovers a conspiracy that connects her husband's business to the mob!

On the day after his fortieth birthday, the family man and computer analyst George Grieves goes to the Mt. Abaddon Hospital for a routine colonoscopy with Dr. Sharazi. At his birthday party, his friends and family tild many cases of medical errors, and George is worried. After the surgery, George finds that his surgery had complications because of a homonymous patient, and he had received a thoracoscopic sympathectomy instead. While interned, George discloses bizarre and dark secrets about the East Wing of the hospital while his wife and family have to make a decision about his fate.

The story of a Los Angeles hit man. Corrado is the best there is in the city of LA. Pimped by his nefarious handler, Frankie, he performs jobs ranging from tune-ups to outright hits. Frankie loves Corrado for his lack of mercy, for his coldness and readiness to do the job no matter what. Now Frankie has a pearl of a job for Corrado - hit the aging kingpin Vittorio Spinello in his own house. Make it look like Vittorio's death is an accident, get out, and $500K is his. Corrado readily accepts. Corrado is about to perform the hit when he is interrupted by Vittorio's brand new live in nurse, Julia, and winds up shooting Vittorio dead and escaping out the window to leave Julia holding the bag. Julia doesn't have to wait long for Vittorio's son Paolo to discover her standing by his father's corpse. In an unreasonable rage he accuses her of killing his father, or at least being complicit in his death. Corrado overhears this on the other side of the window he has escaped from, and somehow can't leave her to die for his sins. In his rage, Paolo murders his father's consigliere, Tommaso. In a split second Corrado rescues her, and now he has an entire crime family hell bent on catching him and Julia. Paolo will stop at nothing to avenge his father's death, even deploying his crooked cops headed by Officer Tony to reel them in. Will Corrado and Julia escape with their lives?

In a neighborhood in Jerusalem during the early 1960s, Aharon Kleinfeld, whose imagination and spirit aspire to refinement and art, is at the dawn of adolescence. Perhaps out of fear of becoming like his parents, two people who display no sign of affection or love, Aharon decides to stop growing up.

Amber is a teenage girl feeling out of place, dreaming to move to "The Windy City" - Chicago. She seeks every opportunity to get away. Convinces all her friends to take a road trip, to look at an apartment that's being held off the market for her sake by an acquaintance. But the car breaks down, making her stressed out about the deadline; to be there, with cash, in less than 20 hours, if she doesn't want the apartment given away to another bidder. Amber tries everything, even stopping the driver of a semi-truck by the road and bribes him, to lend them a lift in the back of his trailer.

Venice Film Fest to honor Vittorio Gassman ROME -- The Venice Film Festival said Wednesday it would honor iconic Italian actor Vittorio Gassman with a special tribute on the tenth anniversary of his death. The tribute, which has been rumored in the Italian press for weeks, will get underway with the Sept. 1 world premiere screening of the documentary "Vittorio racconta Gassman" ("Vittorio tells about Gassman"), based on footage of the actor speaking about his career. That date would have been Gassman's 88th birthday. "The film dispels many of the stereotypes about my father," said Alessandro Gassman, a well-known Italian actor in his own right. The younger Gassman helped make the film, which was produced by Giancarlo Scarchilli.

After yet another mission abroad, the young soldier Lotte returns home, completely disillusioned with life. Lotte's unreliable father offers her a job as a chauffeur for his Nigerian girlfriend, the escort girl Lily.

From hearts and eagles to marks of status and rank, what do our tattoos say about our cultures and about us?

Miguel, ayou young soap opera writer promises Bracho, a fanatic cop that the outcome of the soap will be Gabriela Marrying Domenico. Bracho boasts and shows off about this to his friends and family. No one believes him and he places a bet. The actress playing Gabrilea quits the show and they give her a terminal illness. When Bracho finds out he hunts Miguel down and makes it clear: it's better if Gabriela desn't die.

Sara, 14, is the only daughter of well-off parents. She is often alone at home as her parents are kept very busy with their jobs. Sara is obsessed by her weight and is prepared to do anything to become thinner. She uses all kinds of strategies to avoid eating and when she becomes bulimic she swallows all she finds within her reach and makes herself vomit afterwards. The troubled teenager draws into herself more and more and gradually finds herself cut off from others. Her friends are the first to become aware of her condition...

Overwhelmed by his wife, a postal worker from Northern Italy feigns disability to request a transfer to Milan. When he's unmasked, he is sent to a tiny village near Naples for two years. He moves there alone, scared and full of the typical prejudice about the south. But he meets lovely people who quickly make him feel at home. Now the challenge is to explain this to his wife, so he chooses to make her believe that his life is hell. A remake of the French film "Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis."

A South African video journalist is sent to neighboring Namibia to do a story on a man who has been going around and killing black laborers. The killer, Nhadiep, has an almost mythical status to both the white farmers and the black laborers with his ability to evade capture in the racially segregated country.

Four girls - tempted by the money that can be earned in prostitution - meet men on 'paid dates' in Hongkong and enjoy the thrills and consumerism to the fullest. However, after some time, each of them will have to learn in her own way that nothing comes without a price...

An uptight NYC lawyer takes her two teenagers to her hippie mother's farmhouse upstate for a family vacation. What was meant to be a weekend getaway quickly turns into a summer adventure of romance, music, family secrets, and self-discovery.

Government spies clash against the militant police force known as the Shinsengumi in the streets of Edo. Lies and conspiracy infect the brotherhood just as they are tasked with a mission to prevent a violent incident. The group wavers and shows signs of fracture on the eve of their greatest battle.

Set against the backdrop of the latest craze - ballroom dancing - Maddie Monroe must discover the identity of dangerous kidnappers and bring them to justice before her best friend becomes their next victim.

Anya (Regine Velasquez) accidentally bumps Andrew's (Aga Muhlach) car while backing up and they argue over whose fault it was. Later Anya discovers that Andrew is her client and she apologizes. She offers to treat him to dinner, but it turns into a bumpy ride from there.

Just like thousands of Thai couples, a guy (Chantavit Dhanasevi) and a girl (Nuengthida Sophon), choose to visit Korea during the nine-day Songkran holiday festival, separately, for their own specific reasons--but they end up returning home together, happily in love.