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1) The exiles
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Documentary filmmaker, Christine Choy, tracks down three exiled dissidents from the Tiananmen Square massacre in order to find closure on an abandoned project she began shooting in 1989. Driven by Choy’s iconoclastic voice, THE EXILES is about the enduring love for one’s home, the fragility of historical record and remembrance, and the power of film to intervene and bear witness.
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
Français
Description
A young couple, both of Arabic descent, leave Paris with no money, jobs, or connections, and travel to their ancestral home of Algeria. In search of re-connecting to their roots, they cross three countries by foot, bus, train, and hitched rides.
Publisher
Eagle Vision
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
In the spring of 1971, the Rolling Stones reluctantly departed the U.K. to take up residence in France. Keith Richards settled at a villa called Nellcote in Villefranche-sur-Mer and this became the venue for the recording of much of the band's masterpiece, Exile on Main Street. Tells the story in the band's own words and through extensive archive footage of their time away from England and the creation of this extraordinary double album, which many...
5) Exile
Series
Publisher
Distributed by BFS Entertainment & Multimedia
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
After his successful London career implodes, journalist Tom Ronstadt returns to his hometown in Lancashire for the first time in 18 years and finds his father Sam in the grip of Alzheimer's. Tom is trying to unravel the mystery that drove him away from home. He persists, unaware that a devastating crime that will reveal unimaginable secrets.
Publisher
Pioneer Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
日本語
Description
Go to an imaginary world where retro-futuristic sky vehicles permeate the skies. Against this background lives the young and heroic Vanship sky porters, Claus and Lavie, who are forced to take on the mission to deliver a mysterious girl, Alvis, to the battleship Silvana. Before they know it, they become entangled in an aerial adventure between two countries gripped in an eternal war of magnificent air battleships.
Language
中文
Description
"This film portrays the relationship between Dad and Boy, an eternal tale of Father and Son. Addicted to gambling, Dad eventually loses Mom who runs away for a new life, leaving Boy behind. Dad sinks further into gambling debts and drags Boy in. Upset by Dad's new romance, Boy tries to turn to Mom but only to find Mom remarried and expecting a child. Deeply hurt, Boy goes back to stay with Dad. Without means to repay the gambling debts, they can only...
Publisher
Marty Gross Film Productions
Pub. Date
2006
Language
日本語
Description
Penniless clerk Chubei embezzles public funds to release his lover, the prostitute Unegawa, from her contract at the teahouse. This is the entire plot of "The Lovers' Exile," by classic Japanese dramatist Monzaemon Chikamatsu (1673-1724), the Shakespeare of Bunraku theatre. Bunraku combines the arts of puppetry, a particularly Japanese form of dramatic recitation called joruri, and musical accompaniment by the shamisen. This performance is by the...
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
In the early 1930's Hitler began firing Jewish musicians across Europe. Overcoming extraordinary obstacles, violinist Bronislaw Huberman moved these great musicians to Palestine and formed a symphony that would become the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. With courage, resourcefulness and an entourage of allies including Arturo Toscanini and Albert Einstein, Huberman saved nearly 1000 Jews-and guaranteed the survival of Europe's musical heritage.
10) Exiled
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Language
中文
Description
The time is 1998. The setting is Macau. Every living soul jumps at every chance to make quick money before the Portuguese colony ushers in a new era under the Chinese rule. A relationship is formed between an ex-gangster trying to turn over a new leaf with his wife and newborn baby and two groups of hitmen - those who want to protect him and those who were sent to kill him.
Series
Publisher
FUNimation Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011?]
Language
日本語
Description
It's the dawn of the golden age of aviation on planet Prester, and retro-futuristic sky vehicles known as vanships dominate the horizon. Claus Valca - a flyboy born with the right stuff - and his fiery navigator Lavie are fearless racers obsessed with becoming the first sky couriers to cross the Grand Stream in a vanship. But when the high-flying duo encounters a mysterious girl named Alvis, they are thrust into the middle of an endless battle between...
13) Exile
Publisher
Electric Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Just prior to his release from prison, Ted Evans receives a threat from the man whose family he killed in a DUI 'if you make contact with your family, I'll kill them'. Believing that the danger is real, Ted exiles himself to a reclusive life to protect his family. However, Ted's wife knows the threat is merely a manifestation of her husband's profound guilt. Determined to rebuild their family, Sara tracks Ted down to confront him with hard evidence...
14) The exiles
Publisher
Milestone Film & Video
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
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Description
Chronicles one night in the lives of young Native American men and women living in the Bunker Hill district of Los Angeles. Based on interviews with the participants and their friends, the film follows a group of exiles--transplants from Southwest reservations--as they flirt, drink, party, fight, and dance.
15) 24: Redemption
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
"After sacrificing everything for his country, Jack Bauer is wanted by the U.S. government and now stands to lose the only thing he has left: his freedom. Working as a missionary in Africa, Bauer is called upon to stop a ruthless warlord from drafting innocent children into his murderous militia. First, Bauer must confront his own torturous past and face an impossible decision that will change his life forever"--Publisher.
Publisher
Hao ke chang pian you xian gong si zong dai li
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
中文
Description
Graduating from a university in Britain, Xiaoen returns home to attend her sister's wedding but quickly finds herself in social and emotional odds with her seemingly imperious mother. The turbulent homecoming revives Xiaoen's memories of the changed atmosphere of her childhood in Macao. Xiaoen reluctantly agrees to accompany her mother on a visit to her once rich and prominent family in Japan. There, she begins to understand that she and her mother...
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Français
Description
In 2012, jihadists took control of northern Mali, imposing one of the harshest interpretations of sharia law in recent years, and crucially for Mali, banning music. Radio stations were destroyed, instruments were burned, and overnight, Mali's musicians were forced into hiding or exile where many remain even now. Follow Mali's musicians as they fight to keep music alive.
18) The Mahabharata
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
1989
Language
English
Description
The world of The Mahabharata is of profound storytelling power and spiritual import; within it a civilization rises, falls and is reborn.
Publisher
BBC America
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The story of author P.G. Wodehouse who came to face a charge of treason during the Second World War. The master of fanciful plots had become a pawn in one of the biggest propaganda battles of the war between Germany and the Allies over the entry of the United States into the conflict.
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