Out of Life

Sympathy

A bank robber and his hostage spend the night in a hotel where they are visited by a man who sends the story on an unexpected path full of twists and

2007

The White Sun of the Desert

The setting is the east shore of the Caspian Sea (today's Turkmenistan) where the Red Army soldier Fyodor Sukhov has been fighting the Civil War in Ru

1969

Surrounded

After her stagecoach is ambushed, a woman is tasked with holding a dangerous outlaw captive and must survive the day when the bandit’s gang tries to

2023

Ivan's Woman

Ivan keeps a 15-year-old Natalia hostage since she was a little girl. The repressive regime seems not to refrain them from forming a sort of family bo

2011

Otage

Inspired by the detention of Jean-Paul Kauffmann and Michel Seurat in Lebanon, hostages and improbable currency for terrorists...

1989

House in the Snow-Drifts

An adaptation of Evgenii Zamiatin’s short story “The Cave,” about a musician dying of hunger in his large, unheated Petersburg apartment because he wa

1927

The Fast and the Furious

A framed man escapes prison and takes a wealthy woman's Jaguar with her in it. After she tries to escape numerous times, they begin to develop feeling

1954

Lost Son

A modern retelling of the parable of the prodigal son.

2021

The Warlords

A heroic tale of three blood brothers and their struggle in the midst of war and political upheaval. It is based on "The Assassination of Ma," a Qing

2007

Inam

Rajini, a Sri Lankan Tamil girl, narrates the horrific tale of why she had to leave her homeland and become a refugee in India.

2014

JCVD

Between his tax problems and his legal battle with his wife for the custody of his daughter, these are hard times for the action movie star who finds

2008

The Great Man's Whiskers

A young girl writes to President Abraham Lincoln to advise him to grow a beard.

1972

Restraint

Two fugitives land in hot water when they take a hostage who poses a threat to their well-being.

2008

Screaming in a Bottomless Ocean

A couple living together in an apartment in the city face a hard decision after an ambiguous turn of events.

2020

Mad City

A misguided museum guard who loses his job and then tries to get it back at gunpoint is thrown into the fierce world of ratings-driven TV gone mad.

1997

The Last Man

Each morning Beirut awakens to a new murder seemingly committed by a serial killer, with victims found emptied of their blood. At the same time a doct

2006

A Perfect World

A kidnapped boy strikes up a friendship with his captor: an escaped convict on the run from the law, headed by an honorable U.S. Marshal.

1993

Monos

On a faraway mountaintop, eight kids with guns watch over a hostage and a conscripted milk cow.

2019

Rachí

2024

Enough!

Set amidst the civil war of Algeria in the 1990s, Enough! is the story of two women. Emel is a Westerner whose husband, a journalist, is missing - per

2006