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20 years earlier the director, Makhmalbaf, assaulted a policeman during the Iranian revolution. Now, that ex-policeman asks him to make a film about the event.

A private detective specializing in missing children is charged with the task of finding a special child that dark forces want to eliminate. (imdb)

A newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from remarrying. (imdb)

A romantic comedy about a daughter struggling to understand her mother's heart, which ultimately allows her to understand her own. A story of unspoken loves, contemporary and cultural taboos, and the journey of two women towards living their lives honestly. (Sony Pictures Classics)

Beloved and devoted priest from a small town volunteers for a medical experiment which fails and turns him into a vampire.

A chronicle of the life of a middle-class French girl's sexual adventures, her then fall into prostitution, and her ultimate redemption. (imdb)

Lilting is a touching, intimate film about finding the things which bring us together. In contemporary London, a Cambodian Chinese mother mourns the untimely death of her son. Her world is further disrupted by the presence of a stranger. We observe their difficulties in trying to connect with one another without a common language, as through a translator they begin to piece together memories of a man they both loved.

A bumbling bionic police inspector stumbles about on his cases, while his niece and dog secretly do the real investigative work. (imdb)

When Prince John and the Norman Lords begin oppressing the Saxon masses in King Richard's absence, a Saxon lord fights back as the outlaw leader of a rebel guerrilla army. (imdb)

References/parodies soviet montage cinema of the 1920s, German Expressionism of the 1920s, and silent melodrama film.