Miss Violet (60%)
A drama starring Alexandra Lamy, Grégory Gadebois and Jérôme Kircher
France. End of the 19th century. Louise Violet 40, a Parisian teacher, is sent on a mission to the French countryside. But in a place where the daily life is linked to the seasons, land and crops, she must first convince parents to send their kids to school. With the help of the mayor, she is gradually accepted by the parents and their children. But soon, her past catches up with her ... (more)
Soundtrack to a Coup d'État (73%)
A history movie starring Patrice Lumumba, Louis Armstrong and Dizzy Gillespie
In 1960, United Nations: the Global South ignites a political earthquake, musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crash the Security Council, Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe denouncing America’s color bar, while the U.S. dispatches jazz ambassador Louis Armstrong to the Congo to deflect attention from its first African post-colonial coup.
The Teacher Who Promised the Sea
A drama starring Enric Auquer, Laia Costa and Luisa Gavasa
Ariadna discovers that her grandfather has been searching for the remains of his father, who disappeared during the Civil War. Determined to help him, she travels to Burgos, where a mass grave is being excavated, and where he could be buried. During her stay there, she will learn the story of Antoni Benaiges, a young teacher from Tarragona who was her grandfather's teacher before the war ... (more)
Boléro
A music movie starring Raphaël Personnaz, Jeanne Balibar and Doria Tillier
Boundary-pushing Russian dancer and actress Ida Rubinstein selects renowned French composer Maurice Ravel to compose the music for her next ballet. Ravel ends up creating his greatest success ever: Boléro.
The Promised Land (2024)
A drama from 2024 starring Mads Mikkelsen, Amanda Collin and Simon Bennebjerg
In the mid-1700s, Danish King Frederik V declared that the wild heath of Jutland should be tamed, cultivated and colonized so that civilization could spread and new taxes be generated for the royal house. However, no one dared to follow the King’s decree. The heath meant certain death – a godforsaken place haunted by ravenous wolves, highwaymen and brutal, unforgiving nature ... (more)
Oppenheimer (2023)
A drama from 2023 starring Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt and Robert Downey Jr.
The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer’s role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.