Invitation to a Beheading (1973)

A young art teacher hopes to be transferred to Istanbul after completing his mandatory duty in a remote village school in Anatolia. After accusations of inappropriate contact with a student surface, his hopes of escape fade and he descends further into an existential crisis.

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Two married couples adjust to the vast social and economic changes taking place in China from the 1980s to the present.

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The story follows the social intercourse between a cameraman, Masaya, with a visual impairment, and Misako who disconnects from the world.

Matteo is a young successful businessman, audacious, charming and energetic. Ettore instead, is a calm, righteous, second grade teacher always living in the shadows, still in the small town from where both come from. They’re brothers but with two very different personalities. A dramatic event will force them to live together in Rome for a few months, bringing up the opportunity to face their differences with sympathy and tenderness, in a climax of fear and euphoria.

While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.

Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.

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A bright student in Nigeria takes on the academic establishment when she reports a popular professor who tried to rape her. Based on real events.