A highfalutin art movie crumbles into a meta-fictional disaster that betrays its director’s incompetence in real time, and it’s all on film.
Meet the Japanese Mafia's latest son: a 20 year old named Naoki, part of a surging, decade-long wave of juvenile delinquency in Japan. As Naoki rejects school, jobs and family, his desperate mother decides to take one last chance to save him--by handing him over to the Mafia for one year and letting him choose his own path.
Der Stolz der Firma, meaning The Pride of the Business, is a classic German silent film from 1914. The film tells the story of a shrewd apprentice and is filmed in the comical style of director Lubitsch. This is one of the few Lubitsch films from World War I that wasn’t lost.
One of the many German "report" sexploitation films from the early 1970s, with the only distinction that it focuses on female apprentices instead of schoolgirls.
A young tradesman learns that money doesn't necessarily bring happiness. Drama.
Join high school-aged girls from around the world as they try to better their community through technology and collaboration in this thrilling, heartfelt documentary. By 2017, the app market will be valued at $77 Billion. Over 80% of these developers are male. The Technovation Challenge aims to change that by empowering girls worldwide to develop apps for an international competition. From rural Moldova to urban Brazil to suburban Massachusetts, CODEGIRL follows teams who dream of holding their own in the world’s fastest-growing industry. The winning team gets $10K to complete and release their app, but every girl discovers something valuable along the way.
Breathtaking in its subtle beauty, Harvest is an achingly romantic tale of an innocent but ever increasingly passionate affair that develops between two simple farmhands. Life on a farm is all that sullen teen Marco knows- leading a perfunctory and quiet life of working, going to school and avoiding the advances of girls. However, his self-imposed solitude ends when curly-haired Jakob, rejecting the banking world for farming, arrives to train on the farm. Although initially cautious and tentative with each other, it is soon obvious that the unspoken sexual tension is becoming increasingly hard to resist - something a spontaneous trip to Berlin. Proving that true love can blossom in even the most unlikely of places, Harvest is as rich and rewarding as it is heart-warming.
After her long, arduous training, our young Apprentice is now a fully fledged Master of cosmic origins, exploring an alien planet rich with water and life. But something familiar crosses her mind. Memories from her training and Rosetta’s historic journey to catch a comet. She returns to the archives. The epilogue to the award-winning 2014 short film Ambition, released as the Rosetta spaceship is set to complete its historic mission in a controlled descent to the surface of its comet on September 30, 2016.
A young apprentice (Aisling Franciosi) struggles to master nanotechnology on an alien world and prove herself to her enigmatic master (Aidan Gillen). Will her herculean goals remain tantalizingly out of reach, or will she fulfill them and in the process, change life as we know it? Tomek Bagiński’s short film Ambition is a collaborative project between the European Space Agency and Platige Image highlighting Rosetta, ESA’s real mission to rendezvous with, escort and land on a comet.
Carlos sweeps and mops the floor of an old-time barbershop. The day before Independence Day, among the customers is Julio. Their eyes meet, and when the barbershop closes Julio comes back for Carlos. They spend the night together, eating, chatting and even dancing, knowing full well that this encounter will be brief and short-lived.
In this fascinating adventure of the England of the 1750s, the huge Frenchman Black Jack (Jean Franval) miraculously survives a hanging by the British authorities in Yorkshire and escapes from the grim jaws of "justice." He takes to the countryside in the company of Tolly, a teenaged boy who is able to translate Black Jack's odd speech into something comprehensible. They join up with Belle, an aristocratic teenager who has escaped from the madhouse her family imprisoned her in when she grew troublesome. Together, the three join a carnival. However, as it becomes clear that the girl is far from crazy, love between Tolly and Belle grows. This story, set in the mid-18th century, is based on a novel by Leon Garfield.
The younger son of a working-class Jewish family in Montreal, Duddy Kravitz yearns to make a name for himself in society. This film chronicles his short and dubious rise to power, as well as his changing relationships with family and friends. Along the way the film explores the themes of anti-semitism and the responsibilities which come with adulthood.
Čarovný príbeh o Krabatovi, pochádzajúci pôvodne z Indie a objavujúci sa neskôr v rôznych verziách súboja čarodejníkovho učňa a majstra v mnohých krajinách sveta, je príbehom chlapca, ktorý sa na prahu dospelosti priblížil temným silám a je nimi fascinovaný, kým nespozná, že ho môžu zabiť. Príbeh je o sile srdca, ktorú nie je možné zmeniť a ktorá ovláda naše city a jednanie a môže byť zdrojom nenávisti aj lásky, zla, závisti či radosti. Je možné ju využívať k dobrému či zlému (čiže k biele aj čiernej mágii, ako sa kedysi hovorievalo).
Revered sushi chef Jiro Ono strives for perfection in his work, while his eldest son, Yoshikazu, has trouble living up to his father's legacy.
A 14-year-old orphan named Krabat flees the horrors of the 30 Years War by becoming an apprentice to an ominous master of a mysterious mill. Krabat is not only taught the craft of milling, but is also instructed in the sinister world of the darker arts. When the life of his friend and protector is threatened, Krabat must struggle to free himself from an evil sorcerer's control in a gripping fight for freedom, friendship and love.
Asher is a former Mossad agent turned gun for hire, living an austere life in an ever-changing Brooklyn. Approaching the end of his career, he breaks the oath he took as a young man when he meets Sophie on a hit gone wrong. In order to have love in his life before it's too late, he must kill the man he was, for a chance at becoming the man he wants to be.
In 1965, passionate musician Glenn Holland takes a day job as a high school music teacher, convinced it's just a small obstacle on the road to his true calling: writing a historic opus. As the decades roll by with the composition unwritten but generations of students inspired through his teaching, Holland must redefine his life's purpose.
Victor Maynard je jedným z najobávanejších a najdrahších nájomných vrahov v krajine. Zároveň je najstarším zabijakom, ktorý pokračuje v rodinnej tradícii založenej už jeho starým otcom. Problém však tkvie v tom, že práve toto rodinné remeslo so sebou nesie príliš málo príležitostí na stretnutie vysnívanej ženy. Rosie je zase nezávislá, škodoradostná a veselá zlodejka, ktorá prišla na dokonalý podfuk. Po tom, čo sa neúspešne pokúsi okradnúť bohatého Fergusona, stane sa Victorovým terčom. Victora však okamžite zasiahne jej zlodejská drzosť, šokujúca zmyselnosť a nakoniec aj vlastné zistenie, že nie je schopný zabiť ju. V tej chvíli sa z neho stáva ochranca, ktorý sa so svojou korisťou vydáva na nekonečnú bezcieľnu cestu, aj keď sa im ju pokúsi skrížiť nejeden neprajník – či už Victorova matka, úhlavný nepriateľ, prípadne potenciálny Victorov nástupca.
Život nájomného /neľútostného/ zabijaka Joa sa obráti hore nohami vo chvíli, keď je vyslaný na“ kšeftík“ do Thajska, kde má za úlohu zlikvidovať nepriateľov bossa miestneho podsvetia Surata. Ako pomocníka si najíma známu „firmu“, pouličného zlodeja a výtržníka Konga, ktorého sa rozhodne na záver zbaviť. Zo začiatku ide všetko bez problémov. Ale len do chvíle, kedy sa Jou, do tej doby zarytý vlk samotár, nečakane zblíži s mladou dievčinou…