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Berkeley is the story of Ben Sweet, an eighteen year old boy who comes to UC Berkeley in 1968 to study accounting and avoid the draft. There begins an odyssey through sex, drugs, rock and roll, and political activism which turns his world upside down and leaves him on a path of exploration and self-discovery, far from the life of his father, Sy Sweet. The film depicts a group of young people protesting the Vietnam War.

From The Shirley Temple Show, a collection of timeless children's tales featuring legendary stars

Scouts Honor is a coming of age movie about a group of boys and girls called adventure scouts who return from a camping trip to discover their small town is being held captive by a gang of motorcycle-riding knuckleheads. Using only their scouting knowledge and camping equipment, the kids take down the gang members one by one, reunite with family members, and restore the community's sense of pride.

Charlie is an unmotivated man in his mid 20s still living at home with his mother and stepfather who falls for a young woman who has a serious boyfriend.

Two geeky teens kidnap the world's most famous boy-band in an attempt to make them play at their high school and thus boost the girls' popularity.

One night, as Nour restrains herself from throwing to the bulky waste her old bed, she finds buried in her mattress a picture bearing the promise of a forebear. This discovery propels this young woman overflowing with desire and her bed in the streets of the city. Le Lit is a generous and gently quirky short film about the city and the poetic ride of a young woman filled with desire. The unusual odyssey of the heroin on her old-style bed and all her unexpected encounters trigger a deep nostalgic longing and leaves you ready to explore new horizons.

Dennis Buckstead has the hardest calling in his church. Not only has he been asked to coach a group of non-basketball players in his church but the bishop has demanded that he lead the team to the Basketball Championship. Word from the top is that this is the last season of church ball and Bishop Linderman isn't about to have his team lose for the 20th year in a row in the last season of church ball history! What was supposed to strengthen the body, invigorate the mind and cultivate brotherly love seems to bring out the worst in these church-going ball players. Dennis must find a way to bring his team together and build unity along the way to win the championship or go down in church ball history as the worst team that ever played.

An weird but witty old woman is forced to deal with an ambiguous future after her country, family and the entire system of values are ruined. She is trying to solve her existential problems catching d trying to sell a rewarded war criminal as he was a rabbit in a wood. The only thing she did not know if he is really him.

A boy rises to the occasion with his best friend (a lovable talking dog) to save his home and family.

A story that follows 8 year old Akosua as she discovers a different world from hers when she learns that her father is hiding his mistress in their home.

In this innovative version of the world famous Christmas story, 12-year-old Clara takes a magical journey on Christmas Eve to find her father in a World War II Prisoner of War camp.

Set in 1990's England, Daniel is an 8 year old boy who dreams of being an Ice Cream Man. Daniel takes us on a short journey of what it is to be an Ice Cream Man and how he will one day be one.

10 y.o. Harriet's divorced mom owns and runs a motel. Harriet's an outsider and wants to leave. A woman stays there with her adult, retarded son who befriends Harriet.

Liz tells her old friend Barbara that she believes her ex-husband is stalking her. She plans to leave town for awhile and stay at a cabin in the mountains. Barbara invites herself along and when it seems that Dale has followed them to the cabin, Barbara discovers she doesn't know Liz as well as she thought.

While she is trapped in a trunk of a serial killer's car,a single mother named Megan,is about to come face-to-face with death,in order to stay alive,she decides to play along with her deranged captor?

An aging out of work clown returns to his small hometown, resigned to spend the rest of his days in a drunken stupor. But when his passion for clowning is reawakened by the local amateur circus he finds his smile.

A dramedy about a recently widowed woman, living on a buffalo ranch in central Kansas, who hires a Norwegian soccer player to be a male au pair and help her raise two sons.

A group of children is searching for the lost treasure of the notorious outlaw Jesse James. They have to be careful and fast as treasure hunters are chasing them. They go above and beyond to find the treasure, solve a 100 year old mystery and save their beloved family and friends.

The story of Barry Minkow, a young charismatic business man who becomes a wealthy CEO by lying, cheating and stealing his way to the top.

When corrupt Roman leader Tiberius arrives with a giant army to claim the Silk Road, Huo An teams up his army with an elite Legion of defected Roman soldiers led by General Lucius to protect his country and his new friends.

A cop, who falls in love with his best friend's wife, is being tormented by his responsibility for the friend's immobility. Meanwhile, the paralyzed friend (also a cop) is trying to fight for his own dignity.

A distant, slightly dysfunctional family is brought closer together when the father's long-estranged Uncle Nino comes from Italy to Chicago for a surprise visit.

A burdened young man finds a troubled horse and contacts a South African horse whisperer for help. The horse whisperer leads the pair down a path of redemption where they heal one other. Inspired by actual events.

Action comedy, starring John Cleese, Rowan Atkinson and Whoopi Goldberg. An eccentric Las Vegas casino tycoon entertains his wealthiest high rollers – who will bet on anything – by pitting six ordinary people against each other in a crazy dash for $2m, held into a locker on the other side of the country. Breckin Meyer and and Cuba Gooding Jr also feature.

A young woman is found dead after getting involved in an underground fighting ring. Her sister Windsor begins training under a respected ex-fighter as she searches for the killer.

Paul (Yvan Attal) and Claire (Anne Parillaud) are two lonely people who meet because of a cell phone call to a wrong number. Claire send a message and Paul receives it. The man believes that Claire goes through a breakdown and she might commit suicide. Philippe Andre's picture won prizes at festivals in Palm Springs and Nevada.

A shy and sweet college dropout guy, Marco is in love. He lives with his friends and has a playboy dad. Is love art or science? Does it have any rules? Marco's dad thinks it has 10 rules and if a man follows them, he can get any girl he wants. An Italian comedy which was presented at the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival (Chinese Oscar), in the section of foreign films.

An innocent hapless Italian Immigrant finds himself in trouble when he is forced to go undercover as a Sicilian Mobster for The FBI and infiltrate an Asian Gang.

Anne and Francois plan to get hitched in Jaipur. She is tasked with bringing his mother's urn of ashes to India but loses it along the way...

From The Shirley Temple Show, a collection of timeless children's tales featuring legendary stars

10 y.o. Harriet's divorced mom owns and runs a motel. Harriet's an outsider and wants to leave. A woman stays there with her adult, retarded son who befriends Harriet.

One fine morning, Benno finds sand in his bed. While he tries to ignore this at first, he soon must realize that he himself is loosing the sand. Day after day the sand increases and soon his time literally starts running short. Finally he is left no choice but to ask Sandra for help, who runs a small coffee shop under his apartment. Although Benno hates her with a passion, he started having dreams of her every night. What could Sandra and the dreams have to do with the sand?

Tricia's husband Daniel has been missing for seven years. Her younger sister Callie comes to live with her as the pressure mounts to finally declare him "dead in absentia." As Tricia sifts through the wreckage and tries to move on with her life, Callie finds herself drawn to an ominous tunnel near the house. As she begins to link it to other mysterious disappearances, it becomes clear that Daniel's presumed death might be anything but "natural." The ancient force at work in the tunnel might have set its sights on Callie and Tricia... and Daniel might be suffering a fate far worse than death in its grasp.

A female FBI agent is offered millions to help a thief escape from a hijacked airplane.

A hard-working cupcake maker is inadvertently elected mayor of a small town burdened with debt. Uneducated, she relies on her street smarts to clean up the town.

Charlie is an unmotivated man in his mid 20s still living at home with his mother and stepfather who falls for a young woman who has a serious boyfriend.

A railroad worker in China in 1941 leads a team of freedom fighters against the Japanese in order to get food for the poor.

In 1939, former New York City stock broker Richmond Hobson, a man with a privileged past, has become a cowboy, which is his dream job. With his partner, an experienced but sarcastic cowpoke named Panhandle Phillips, Rich has a three-year old fledgling ranch in northern British Columbia near Vanderhoof. Beyond the grief he gets from local banker Roland Tewkesbury who wants to ruin Rich so that he can buy the land for a pittance, Rich may be facing difficult times with the onset of the war. Of late, he has been having dreams of an unknown beautiful blond woman. His dreams become reality when he spots her. She is headstrong Gloria McIntosh, a Vancouver aspiring débutante who is the dream girl of many a man in her own social circle, most specifically Connor McCann. But Gloria is literally swept off her feet by first sight of the mysterious cowboy. Impetuously, they get married as Gloria is willing to give up her current life to become a rancher's wife, something about which she knows nothing, except perhaps riding a horse English-styled. But with all the young men being sent to war, Rich is forced to hire boys, inexperienced as cowboys at that, and use Gloria as a cowgirl if he and Pan and now Gloria are to survive financially on this ranch. One of the young hands, Kit, is keeping a secret. And one of his more experienced new hired hands, Robert McDaniels, is a black man with a rumored infamous past.

A cop, who falls in love with his best friend's wife, is being tormented by his responsibility for the friend's immobility. Meanwhile, the paralyzed friend (also a cop) is trying to fight for his own dignity.

An weird but witty old woman is forced to deal with an ambiguous future after her country, family and the entire system of values are ruined. She is trying to solve her existential problems catching d trying to sell a rewarded war criminal as he was a rabbit in a wood. The only thing she did not know if he is really him.

10 y.o. Harriet's divorced mom owns and runs a motel. Harriet's an outsider and wants to leave. A woman stays there with her adult, retarded son who befriends Harriet.

Dennis Buckstead has the hardest calling in his church. Not only has he been asked to coach a group of non-basketball players in his church but the bishop has demanded that he lead the team to the Basketball Championship. Word from the top is that this is the last season of church ball and Bishop Linderman isn't about to have his team lose for the 20th year in a row in the last season of church ball history! What was supposed to strengthen the body, invigorate the mind and cultivate brotherly love seems to bring out the worst in these church-going ball players. Dennis must find a way to bring his team together and build unity along the way to win the championship or go down in church ball history as the worst team that ever played.

In this innovative version of the world famous Christmas story, 12-year-old Clara takes a magical journey on Christmas Eve to find her father in a World War II Prisoner of War camp.

A man returning to his childhood home for the reading of a will is met by hostility. Do the townsfolk know more about him than his new wife?

Summertime. Everybody is excited to go on vacation to Italy. Everybody but Jasmin. Jasmin is yearning something. She wants to be with Eva, her mother, from whom she had to live seperately for a long time. For weeks, Jasmin is trying to get close to Eva. She does not give up, even if she's rejected. After an argument, Jasmin runs away from her fosterhome and convinces Eva to leave the city together and go on a trip. The two get closer -- sometimes as friends, sometimes as mother and daughter. A first joint cigarette, a dance in the village disco, wanderings through the woods. But expectations and needs of the girl and her mother are diverging repeatedly, especially when a man attracts Eva's attention and disturbs the growing closeness between mother and daughter.

62 year old Jeremiah Wilson is truly the Train Master of Willamette Western Railroad. He lives, breaths, and eats railroad. When Brett Banner, 32 year old heir to New York Eastern talks his dad into purchasing Willamette Western, there is immediately a clash between himself and Jeremiah. Jeremiah is fired by Brett two years from retirement and turns into a angry, depressed grandfather. When Brett's nine year old son Justin realizes Jeremiah's grandson Thomas can drive a locomotive, he kidnaps and holds Thomas' favorite dinosaur ransom. Justin, Thomas and 3 other children board an old engine in for repairs and accidentally turns it into runaway engine causing a chain reaction of events.

A story that follows 8 year old Akosua as she discovers a different world from hers when she learns that her father is hiding his mistress in their home.

When corrupt Roman leader Tiberius arrives with a giant army to claim the Silk Road, Huo An teams up his army with an elite Legion of defected Roman soldiers led by General Lucius to protect his country and his new friends.

At the beginning of 1991, after the Romanian Revolution, an old barber meets by chance his former torturer who came in for a shave. Quickly, the parts are inverted though the client refuses to acknowledge that he has been recognized. He says that it is a mistake but to no avail because the barber is convinced he is right. And while latter holds the razor against the client's neck, he gets scarier and scarier wishing for revenge and payback time. Will the victim spare his former torturer?

The story of Barry Minkow, a young charismatic business man who becomes a wealthy CEO by lying, cheating and stealing his way to the top.

A mother falls for a younger man while her daughter falls in love for the first time. Mother Nature messes with their fates.

Action comedy, starring John Cleese, Rowan Atkinson and Whoopi Goldberg. An eccentric Las Vegas casino tycoon entertains his wealthiest high rollers – who will bet on anything – by pitting six ordinary people against each other in a crazy dash for $2m, held into a locker on the other side of the country. Breckin Meyer and and Cuba Gooding Jr also feature.

A dystopian thriller set in the year 2030 that sees the world in a permanent state of economic recession and facing serious environmental problems as a result of global warming.

A young woman on the run allows grieving parents to believe she is their late son's wife.

An aging out of work clown returns to his small hometown, resigned to spend the rest of his days in a drunken stupor. But when his passion for clowning is reawakened by the local amateur circus he finds his smile.

A distant, slightly dysfunctional family is brought closer together when the father's long-estranged Uncle Nino comes from Italy to Chicago for a surprise visit.

Widowed, successful Californian sports journalist King is a great catch. His pride and joy, son David, suddenly says he's giving up baseball, and hence his scholarship. Actually he's leaving college, aspiring to go to arts school. King finds out through his lover, hearts columnist Peyton McGruder. She refuses to commit to marriage, rather concentrating on trying to catch up after finding Christine, the daughter she gave up as fickle young mother. A reader's letter inviting her to exchange stories on unconditional passion and true love sets Peyton thinking, just when King gets a dream job offer in New York.

In 1939, former New York City stock broker Richmond Hobson, a man with a privileged past, has become a cowboy, which is his dream job. With his partner, an experienced but sarcastic cowpoke named Panhandle Phillips, Rich has a three-year old fledgling ranch in northern British Columbia near Vanderhoof. Beyond the grief he gets from local banker Roland Tewkesbury who wants to ruin Rich so that he can buy the land for a pittance, Rich may be facing difficult times with the onset of the war. Of late, he has been having dreams of an unknown beautiful blond woman. His dreams become reality when he spots her. She is headstrong Gloria McIntosh, a Vancouver aspiring débutante who is the dream girl of many a man in her own social circle, most specifically Connor McCann. But Gloria is literally swept off her feet by first sight of the mysterious cowboy. Impetuously, they get married as Gloria is willing to give up her current life to become a rancher's wife, something about which she knows nothing, except perhaps riding a horse English-styled. But with all the young men being sent to war, Rich is forced to hire boys, inexperienced as cowboys at that, and use Gloria as a cowgirl if he and Pan and now Gloria are to survive financially on this ranch. One of the young hands, Kit, is keeping a secret. And one of his more experienced new hired hands, Robert McDaniels, is a black man with a rumored infamous past.

Summertime. Everybody is excited to go on vacation to Italy. Everybody but Jasmin. Jasmin is yearning something. She wants to be with Eva, her mother, from whom she had to live seperately for a long time. For weeks, Jasmin is trying to get close to Eva. She does not give up, even if she's rejected. After an argument, Jasmin runs away from her fosterhome and convinces Eva to leave the city together and go on a trip. The two get closer -- sometimes as friends, sometimes as mother and daughter. A first joint cigarette, a dance in the village disco, wanderings through the woods. But expectations and needs of the girl and her mother are diverging repeatedly, especially when a man attracts Eva's attention and disturbs the growing closeness between mother and daughter.

A shy and sweet college dropout guy, Marco is in love. He lives with his friends and has a playboy dad. Is love art or science? Does it have any rules? Marco's dad thinks it has 10 rules and if a man follows them, he can get any girl he wants. An Italian comedy which was presented at the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival (Chinese Oscar), in the section of foreign films.

An innocent hapless Italian Immigrant finds himself in trouble when he is forced to go undercover as a Sicilian Mobster for The FBI and infiltrate an Asian Gang.

A group of children is searching for the lost treasure of the notorious outlaw Jesse James. They have to be careful and fast as treasure hunters are chasing them. They go above and beyond to find the treasure, solve a 100 year old mystery and save their beloved family and friends.

Scouts Honor is a coming of age movie about a group of boys and girls called adventure scouts who return from a camping trip to discover their small town is being held captive by a gang of motorcycle-riding knuckleheads. Using only their scouting knowledge and camping equipment, the kids take down the gang members one by one, reunite with family members, and restore the community's sense of pride.

Set in 1990's England, Daniel is an 8 year old boy who dreams of being an Ice Cream Man. Daniel takes us on a short journey of what it is to be an Ice Cream Man and how he will one day be one.

This is the true story of the students of the Virginia military academy who are sent to the front during the American Civil War by the desperate leaders of the Southern Confederacy.

Julian Michaels (Bruce Willis) has created Vice, the ultimate resort. His clients pay great sums of money to indulge in uninhibited hedonism and their most violent fantasies. The victims, however, are androids that are barely distinguishable from humans. When one of the androids becomes self-aware, she breaks out from the resort and makes her escape. She finds herself caught in the crosshairs of Michaels’ mercenaries and is helped by Roy, a cop who is determined to take down Vice once and for all.

A boy rises to the occasion with his best friend (a lovable talking dog) to save his home and family.

A South Central, LA con-artist finds that his rhyming skills can pay off in the least likely of venues after winning a poetry contest staged by a financially strapped Irish town in this fish out of water comedy starring Eddie Griffin and Mo'Nique. Ballywood, Ireland is a town with a cash flow problem; but the citizens aren't about to go down without a fight. With the banks set to foreclose and the future looking grim, the citizens of Ballywood decide to save their town by staging a poetry contest and using the entry fees to keep the moneymen at bay. Meanwhile in Los Angeles, hustler Jimmie (Griffin) is having a hard time shaking off hungry bill collectors and a jilted lover with a mind for marriage. His options dwindling and his future looking increasingly grim, Jimmy determines to use his gift for gab to take home the top prize at the Ballywood poetry contest and leave both the collectors and his clingy girlfriend at a loss for words.

In this innovative version of the world famous Christmas story, 12-year-old Clara takes a magical journey on Christmas Eve to find her father in a World War II Prisoner of War camp.

"Raspberry Magic" is a coming-of-age story about 11-year-old Monica Shah, who thinks she must win the science fair in order to bring her father back after he runs out on the family. She blames herself for her parents' problems, and takes charge when her mother falls into a deep depression. Set behind the backdrop of a beautiful forest, Monica's experiment uses touch therapy to help raspberries grow faster. She asks, is it nature or nurture that can truly help a being grow? Does it even matter? Through her ups and downs with her family, she learns that it's a complex question, and the answer isn't so simple.

10 y.o. Harriet's divorced mom owns and runs a motel. Harriet's an outsider and wants to leave. A woman stays there with her adult, retarded son who befriends Harriet.

Anne and Francois plan to get hitched in Jaipur. She is tasked with bringing his mother's urn of ashes to India but loses it along the way...

Dennis Buckstead has the hardest calling in his church. Not only has he been asked to coach a group of non-basketball players in his church but the bishop has demanded that he lead the team to the Basketball Championship. Word from the top is that this is the last season of church ball and Bishop Linderman isn't about to have his team lose for the 20th year in a row in the last season of church ball history! What was supposed to strengthen the body, invigorate the mind and cultivate brotherly love seems to bring out the worst in these church-going ball players. Dennis must find a way to bring his team together and build unity along the way to win the championship or go down in church ball history as the worst team that ever played.

Attila Szasz's political thriller portraying the events of the hostage taking of the Hungarian ambassador to Switzerland in the aftermath of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. The film was presented at numerous festivals all over the world. It won the Frederico Fellini Award at Tiburon International Film Festival.

A dramedy about a recently widowed woman, living on a buffalo ranch in central Kansas, who hires a Norwegian soccer player to be a male au pair and help her raise two sons.

A boy and a girl fall in love. But on the night they met, she was drunk and stoned and he toke advantage of her. Although she does not remember almost anything from that night, she remembers something that may compromise their relationship.