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The story of human beings who know perfectly what they would do in someone else's place but don't do very well in their own. (Sony Pictures Classics)

A man is reunited with a mermaid who saves him from drowning as a boy and falls in love not knowing who/what she is. (imdb)

The son of an eccentric detective steps into his father's shoes after his mother is wrongly arrested for stealing a baby panda. (imdb)

Mushishi is a story about a travelling vagabond named Ginko set in Edo era Japan who deals with the supernatural phenomenon known as Mushi. The Mushi are not out to hurt anyone, rather, they aim to survive just as anyone else is. The series are a set of stories of those who have come into contact with Mushi.

On January 23, 2002, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl is to fly from Karachi to Dubai with his pregnant wife, Mariane, also a reporter. On the day before, with great care, he has arranged an interview in a café with an Islamic fundamentalist cleric. When Danny doesn't return, Mariane initiates a search. Pakistani police, American embassy personnel, and the FBI examine witnesses, phone records, e-mails, and hard drives. Who has him? Where is he? (imdb)

A year after Animals, Ricky Gervais comes back with his second stand up comedy tour: Politics. (imdb)

World War I seems far away from Ireland's Dingle peninsula when Rosy Ryan Shaughnessy goes horseback... (imdb)

This lavish small-screen adaptation of Homer's ancient epic--replete with exotic Maltese and Turkish locations, state-of-the-art special effects, and many bronzed muscles gleaming with sweat--chronicles the voyage home of a Trojan hero, Odysseus King of Ithaca, and includes many more scenes of his faithful, beautiful wife Penelope dodging leering suitors at home than Homer ever composed! (imdb)

A 'pleasantly plump' teenager teaches 1962 Baltimore a thing or two about integration after landing a spot on a local TV dance show (imdb)

This film tells the story of a shepard who repairs the ruined ecosystem of a secluded valley by singlehandedly cultivating a forest over a thirty year period. (imdb)