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Polite, mild-mannered Dan Mahowny (Hoffman) is an assistant bank manager with a head for numbers, a knack for making decisions, and a devastating appetite for gambling. Dan Mahowny is the unlikely hero who takes on two of the financial institutions everyone loves to hate, the bank and the casino, and, for a brief while, he wins. (Sony Pictures Classics)

Morning reveals New York harbour, the wharves, the Brooklyn Bridge. A ferry boat docks, disgorging its huddled mass. People move briskly along Wall St. or stroll more languorously through a cemetery. Ranks of skyscrapers extrude columns of smoke and steam... (imdb)

Reporter Ernest Hemingway is an ambulance driver in Italy during World War I. While bravely risking his life in the line of duty, he is injured and ends up in the hospital, where he falls in love with his nurse, Agnes von Kurowsky. (imdb)

An uplifting story about the unusual dynamic between an isolated author and the confident teenager who changes his life.

The two Turks living in Australia provide their livelihood by selling ice-cream with a wheelbarrow. In 1915 they learned that there was a war in the country. They decide to go to Çanakkale. However, the authorities do not allow them to leave the island. At that time, propaganda against the Turks in Australia began to be made. They learn that the British are distributing leaflets to recruit soldiers in Australia. And they decide to give their struggle in Australia. (imdb)

"The noted dancer, who goes through her graceful act exactly as she does at Koster & Bial's, New York." (from Edison's Latest Wonders, 1894) (imdb)

Jakob arrives at the Institute Benjamenta (run by brother and sister Johannes and Lisa Benjamenta) to learn to become a servant... (imdb)

A Greek boy grows up in Istanbul. His grandfather, a culinary philosopher and mentor,teaches him that both food and life require a little salt to give them flavor ... a Touch of Spice. Fanis becomes an excellent cook and uses his cooking skills to spice up the lives of others. 35 years later he leaves Athens and travels back to his birthplace to reunite with his grandfather and his first love; he then realizes that he forgot to put a little bit of spice in his own life (IMDB)

A television news anchorman, ?smet Berkan goes on a journey with his wife. Along the journey, out of the blue they start fighting. When he confesses that he cheated on her, she gets mad. Enraged, Leyla gets out of the car, enters a gas station and takes off with a man in a red sports car. Trying to track down his wife, the anchorman finds himself trapped in a bizarre world in the midst of murderers, cops and beautiful women. (imdb)

Edna Spalding finds herself alone and broke on a small farm in the midst of the Great Depression when her husband the Sheriff is killed in an accident. A wandering black man, Moses, helps her to plant cotten to try and keep her farm and her kids together. She also takes on a blind border, Mr. Will, who lost his sight in the first World War. She must endure storms and harsh labor to try and make her mortage payment on time. (imdb)