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1937, Spain is in the midst of the brutal Spanish Civil War. A "Happy" circus clown is interrupted mid-performance and forcibly recruited by a militia. Still in his costume, he is handed a machete and led into battle against National soldiers, where he single handedly massacres an entire platoon. Fast forward to 1973, the tail end of the Franco regime. Javier, the son of the clown, dreams of following in his father's career footsteps, but has seen too much tragedy in his life-he's simply not funny and is only equipped to play the role of the Sad Clown. He finds work in a circus where he befriends an outlandish cast of characters, but as the Sad Clown he must take the abuse of the brutish Happy Clown Sergio, who humiliates Javier daily in the name of entertainment. It is here that he meets Natalia, a gorgeous acrobat, and abused wife of Sergio. Javier falls deeply in love with Natalia and tries to rescue her from her cruel and violent husband, unleashing Sergio's jealousy. But Natalia is torn between her affection towards Javier and her lust for Sergio.

The story of a single mother who suffers from double vision; caring for her baby is a nerve-wrecking task that eventually leads her to a nervous breakdown. She is suspected of being a child abuser when things get out of control and her baby is taken away.

One morning, Maud, a middle-aged film director, wakes up and realizes that half of her body is paralyzed. At the hospital, she falls into a coma. When she wakes up again, she is helpless. Her mind is alert, but her body has become the subject of medical treatment. Gradually, her condition improves, and she is discharged. Aside from occasional visits from her family, Maud is mostly alone. On TV, she sees a program featuring Vilko, a convicted million-dollar con artist who has been released from prison and became a celebrity thanks to a scheme in which he swindled 135 million. Vilko may be a criminal, but he has an undeniable charisma. When Maud meets him, she sees him as the perfect choice for the lead role in her next film - a film that, however, will ultimately never be made. For Maud falls for the con artist, who fleeces her like a church mouse. Although she is aware that he is cheating her, she cannot bring herself to resist. For Vilko and his family, who take care of Maud, bring a joy she has never known before into her life. Vilko's wife, Andy, becomes like a sister and a mother to her. Although she - the well-known director - should actually be the dominant figure, Maud helplessly faces her financial ruin. For ultimately, only her downfall will restore her freedom.

Having first met today, the man and woman dash towards a one-day-long intimacy. Maybe it was just an accident to accept a proposal from a total stranger to go out for just one day for this "woman" who will get married next month.

Upon losing his most treasured toy a young boy journeys into his imagination to live out its new-found existence. In this world he encounters other lost toys whose internal misery has begun to shape the world around them. To escape and return home he will not only need to forgive himself but to convince the others of something long since lost.

Julian Assange is one of the most significant figures of the twenty first century. But before he was famous, before WikiLeaks, before the internet even existed, he was a teenage computer hacker in Melbourne. This is his story. In 1989, known as 'Mendax', Assange and two friends formed a group called the 'International Subversives'. Using early home computers and defining themselves as 'white hat hackers' - those who look but don't steal - they broke into some of the world's most powerful and secretive organisations. They were young, brilliant, and in the eyes of the US Government, a major threat to national security. At the urging of the FBI, the Australian Federal Police set up a special taskforce to catch them. But at a time when most Australian police had never seen a computer, let alone used one, they had to figure out just where to begin. Police ingenuity and old-fashioned detective work are pitted against nimble, highly skilled young men in this new crime frontier. What follows, is a tense and gripping game of cat and mouse through the electronic underground of Melbourne.

Diamantes Negros tells the long journey undertaken by two young boys from Mali who arrive in Spain after being persuaded to pursue their dream of escaping from poverty by becoming professional football players.

At an isolated cottage, two couples crack open fortune cookies that prophesize their imminent death. After one of them dies suddenly, all hell breaks loose.

On January 18, 2003, police, alerted by a frantic 911 call from a distraught pair of teenage girls, arrived at the girls Toronto area town house to find their mother dead. It appeared the 44-year-old alcoholic, having slipped into a booze-and-pill stupor, drowned in her own bathwater. The death was ruled accidental by the authorities. In the months that followed, however, police were alerted to rumours and reports that the teenagers had been gossiping to friends about the accident. Police began piecing together rumours that suggested the teens might have had a hand in their mother's death. In fact, rather than an accident, the story that emerged portrayed the two teens as cold-blooded, premeditated killers.

Working class and middle-upper class worlds come together in this interesting look at class conflict within the gay world from the German director Reiner Werner Fassbinder. Fassbinder plays Fox, he is working class, a former circus performer who wins the lottery of DM 500,000. His life starts to look up and doesn't have to struggle financially. Fox can now have the life and things that he has always wanted. He begins a new relationship with Eugen, creates a business partnership, and his life is looking bright. While he wants to climb up the social ladder, it isn't without turmoil, and being torn between his old working class roots, and the shiny new facade of middle class consciousness.

A Senegalese woman is eager to find a better life abroad. She takes a job as a governess for a French family, but finds her duties reduced to those of a maid after the family moves from Dakar to the south of France. In her new country, the woman is constantly made aware of her race and mistreated by her employers. Her hope for better times turns to disillusionment and she falls into isolation and despair. The harsh treatment leads her to consider suicide the only way out.

Ran directs a successful international investment company. He is married to Dana and they have two children. Keren, a musician, is married to Leon, an attorney. David is a successful gynecologist, who lives with his boyfriend Gal. No one knows his true sexual identity, so Ran sets him up with Daniella, his secretary. A quiet evening together is interrupted by the unexpected arrival of a fortune teller. Her prophecies disturb the group's fragile harmony and each of these people's lives begins to unravel. Ran is faced with an unnerving request: his 82-year-old mother is suffering from Alzheimer's and asks her son to help her end her life. Dana must decide whether to keep the child she is carrying and tell her husband that he is not the father. Keren and Leon are at a crossroads; Leondoesn't want to have children, Keren does. David needs to choose between Gal and his desire for a conventional family and children. Daniella is tired of looking for love and must decide whether David is the one.The emotional chaos in these people's lives forces them to account for their actions. Will they be able to live with their decisions?

'Tiger' Haynes is a respected trapper of jungle beasts for zoos and circuses and a doting father to his beautiful young daughter Toyo. When he finds out that she's fallen in love with Bobby Bailey, the son of a wealthy circus owner he frequently deals with, Haynes is initially suspicious of the young man's motives. However, Bailey's sincerity soon wins him over, and they take the river boat to Saigon together to see the young man's father. While on board Bobby meets the femme fatale cougar, Mme. de Sylva, who immediately desires the young man and easily seduces him. In reality, she is Toyo's mother and a notoriously predatory seductress. Tiger adamantly insinuates himself between de Sylva and her latest conquest and seemingly breaks up the romance and returns home to oversee Toyo and Bobby's wedding, but Toyo's mother unexpectedly arrives with the objective of vamping Bobby. In order to avoid having Toyo's heart broken by her mother, Tiger resorts to the 'law of the jungle.'

Mr. Schmidt's costume store is bankrupt because he spends his time on Rube Goldberg-style inventions. The creditors send a young manager who falls for Schmidt's niece Louise, but she'll have none of him. Schmidt's friends Ted, Queenie, and some goofy firemen try to help out, and things come to a slapstick head when Louise needs rescuing from a fire.

A struggling musician sets out to find the legendary guitar maker Elmore Silk, with whom he hopes to strike a deal to make himself rich and famous.

A crisis line worker searches for an abused woman who calls the hotline proclaiming her revenge against her abusive ex-husband. In a second story, a teen who declined help from the crisis center is attacked by her boyfriend.

Grab a six-pack, gather your closest friends and settle in for a night of solace and cheer-and of course, a few Drinking Games. Joseph Lawson's critically acclaimed debut film centers on six friends in Portland, Oregon, who come together following the funeral of one of their best friends. Packed with many laughs and moments of touching sincerity, the night unfolds through a series of odd visitors, unusual conversations and anything to keep their minds off the pain and remorse that haunt them.

Lester is an occasional substitute teacher and he's very jealous. He is jealous about the last boyfriend of Lester's slightly wacky current partner Ramona - arrogant best-selling author Dashiell. Lester joins Dashiell's therapy group under an alias to find out if Dashiell still has any feelings for her.

When Emil travels by bus to Berlin to visit his grandmother and his cousin, his money is stolen by a crook who specializes in digging tunnels. Emil must get the money back as it is for his grandmother. While following the thief, Emil runs into Gustav, an enterprising young boy who gathers up all his friends to help Emil find the money. Emil's cousin also gets involved and they get into more trouble than they bargained for when Emil's pickpocket turns out to be mixed up with a couple of notorious bank robbers.

Roguish, Indiana Jones-like, fedora and leather jacket-wearing American adventurer and black marketeer Jeff Williams is hired to steal a priceless, jewel-encrusted, gold statue of Buddha, the only possession of a small recently-orphaned Chinese boy called Wei Lin, who arrived in Hong Kong with a group of refugees escaping the Chinese Civil War that Mao's Communists are winning. Jeff cold-heartedly does his job and ends up being stuck with the kid, who sees him as a surrogate father and refuses to let go of him. When Jeff meets Julie McQuade, a pretty schoolteacher and daughter of a missionary, his tough shell begins to break as he grows fond of both her and the kid and realizes that he must help them escape the city while there's still time. However, his non-sentimental employees double-cross him and he must use all his skills and wits to survive this adventure.

Thomas and David two Chinese cousins run a fast food van in Barcelona and both of them r good with martial arts which helps them with local biker gangs. They are friends with a wannabe Chinese private investigator. During a visit to David's insane father in a mental institution, they both bump into Sylvia. Later they inadvertently discover that Sylvia is a pickpocket and they get involved in unnecessary trouble and uncalled misadventures.

Harold is a tour bus driver. While visiting a good friend in a trendy Hollywood cafe, Harold spots his favorite actress, Amanda Clark. She is with her agent Sidney Stone who is repeatedly getting up to make phone calls. When Harold sees Amanda sitting alone, he decides to introduce himself. Instructed not to mention his profession to her, Harold doesn't correct Amanda when she mistakingly assumes he is a writer. When she asks who his agent is, Harold innocently throws out the name of super-agent Arthur Blake. Amanda is impressed and charmed, and to Harold's amazement she proposes a date to discuss her next movie with him. As their relationship grows, so must Harold's charade to keep Amanda from discovering he is a Beverly Hills tour guide and not a hot-shot writer. He promises Amanda a script rewrite and convinces Arthur Blake to represent him. Harold's father is not so easily swayed, and tells Harold to snap out of it, "We show people movie star's homes, we do not date them!" With a rewrite deadline looming, an actress swooning, and his whole world rocking, Harold must choose what to write as well as do what is right.

Following two characters, Marianne and Johan, the film, in typical Bergman style, examines ontological questions of love, loneliness, being and what it means to be 'fulfilled'. As with all of Bergman's films, 'Scenes From a Marriage' is not simply a narrative about a married couple and their 'ups and downs'. Bergman successfully probes into what it means and feels like to need the love and/or security, validation of another person and the consequences of life-changing decisions.

A factory worker (Lisa Daniely) falls for her boss' son (Brian Worth) but enlists the aid of her girlfriend to keep it a secret.