Description: A, former U.S. Marine, first-time high school teacher is assigned to a class of tough but smart inner city students, who later change her life forever. Struggling to connect with them, she tries the unconventional approaches by defying all the rules and creating her own curriculum.
Starring: Michelle Pfeiffer, George Dzundza
Director: John N. Smith
Duration: 99 minutes
Year: 1995

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Description: After a plane crash in the snows of Tibet, a wise diplomat and other survivors are guided to Shangri-La, a mythical land where peace reigns and the inhabitants live for hundreds of years. However, they wrestle with the invitation to stay. Could this be a plan instead of an accident?
Starring: Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt
Director: Frank Capra
Duration: 134 minutes
Year: 1937

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Description: When a half-Eskimo boy leaves his Arctic home to seek medical attention in Canada, it marks the first steps in an epic personal journey as he meets a half-Indian girl. Through war and adversity, their relationship becomes a grand romantic adventure of never-ending intensity.
Starring: Jason Scott Lee, Robert Joamie
Director: Vincent Ward
Duration: 109 minutes
Year: 1993

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Description: When a boy loses his sister's only pair of school shoes, they decide to keep it a secret from their parents by sharing his shoes every day. But if they're going to successfully cover their tracks, they must carefully watch their step on what rapidly turns into a funny and heartwarming adventure.
Starring: Mohammad Amir Naji, Amir Farrokh Hashemian
Director: Majid Majidi
Duration: 88 minutes
Year: 1999

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Description: A successful radio talk-show host makes an off-handed remark that causes a man to go on a killing spree, leaving him unhinged with guilt. Later, he meets a homeless man suffering from dementia, who gets him involved in the unlikely quest for the Holy Grail.
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Robin Williams
Director: Terry Gilliam
Duration: 138 minutes
Year: 1991

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Description: : On the Iraqi-Turkish border, an enterprising 13-year-old boy named “Satellite” is the de facto leader of a Kurdish village. He can install satellite dishes, as his name says, and translate news of the pending US invasion. He commands a small army of fellow orphans who search the fields for landmine-collection and sell to the U.N., so they can eke out the living. It is all about business until he finds a beautiful, mysterious girl whose brother lost his arms to the land mines but can foresee the future.
Starring: Soran Ebrahim, Avaz Latif
Director: Bahman Ghobadi
Duration: 97 minutes
Year: 2004

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Description: A filmmaker, pretending to be an archaeologist, from Tehran travels to a remote mountain village secretly planning to record a local ritual ceremony surround an old dying woman. Upon arrival, his crew meets a young boy who becomes their guide and later turns to be their informant on the fate of the old woman. As the rustling wind, golden light and deep shadows of the village cast an alluring spell, the deathwatch drags on and the deathly-ill woman stubbornly clings to life, leaving the crew impatient.
Starring: Behzad Dorani, Noghre Asadi
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Duration: 118 minutes
Year: 1999

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Description: Young government official in the remote kingdom of Bhutan dreams of escaping to America while stuck in a ravishingly beautiful but isolated village. But when he misses his bus to the city, he is forced to hitchhike with an elderly apple seller, a sage young monk, an old man, and his beautiful daughter. Along the way, the mischievous monk tells him a story of another young man who sought a land far away: a tale of lust, jealousy and murder that holds up a mirror to him and his blossoming attraction to the innocent young woman.
Starring: Tsewang Dandup, Sonam Lhamo
Director: Khyentse Norbu
Duration: 108 minutes
Year: 2003

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Description:A brilliant young monk in the Himalayas has just completed three years of solitary meditation, struggling to find spiritual enlightenment, in a remote hermitage. Brought out of a deep trace, he is taken back to his ancient monastery where he slowly recovers his strength. However, his return has unexpected results. Despite his devotion to the rigors of spiritual development, he finds himself experiencing a surprising profound sexual awakening. Thus, he, for the first time, begins to question the spiritual values of his monastic existence.
Starring: Shawn Ku, Christy Chung
Director: Pan Nalin
Duration: 138 minutes
Year: 1999

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Description: This film is the true story of author Neale Donald Walsch from homelessness to best selling author, who, at the lowest point in his life asks God some very tough questions. The answer he receives from God and from himself become the foundation of an internationally-acclaimed, best selling book series that has sold over 7 million copies been translated into 34 different languages. Walsch’s inspirational journey from down and out man to spiritual messenger has changed the lives of millions worldwide.
Starring: Henry Czerny, Vilma Silva
Director: Stephen Simon
Duration: 109 minutes
Year: 2006

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Description:When the plane carrying a maverick bush pilot and a sick, young, Inuit woman crashes hundreds of miles from civilization, they are at the mercy of nature’s worst. While search parties try to find the downed plane the arrogant pilot decides to trek over land. However, she follows him and nurses him back to health when insects, cold and starvation threaten to kill him shortly after he leaves. She teaches him the skills he will need to survive and he comes to respect her wisdom and love her valiant spirit as they each set out into the wilderness.
Starring: Barry Pepper, Annabella Piugattuk
Director: Charles Martin Smith
Duration: 103 minutes
Year: 2003

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Description: The fascinating story takes place in five distinct episodes, but sometimes many years separate the seasons. A Buddhist monk and his disciple, a young boy, live in an enchanted setting, a temple set at the center of a very still lake high in the mountains of Korea. While the elderly monk teaches a boy the lessons of life, the boy grows up, makes mistakes, and receives punishments from his master, but all is calm and orderly until a young woman enters the scene-a disruption that leads to violence and, eventually, to renewal.
Starring: Yeong-su Oh, Ki-duk Kim
Director: Ki-duk Kim
Duration: 102 minutes
Year: 2003

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Description: A boy at Tehran's institute for the blind waits for his dad, who is sadly ashamed of him, to pick him up for summer vacation. The father comes and takes him to their village where his sisters and gentle granny who adore him await his arrival. Because of the shame of his own son, the father gets himself deeper and deeper into misery and misfortune. However, finally for the first time, he feels his heart for his son. The entire film shows different unforgettable moments that are beautiful, touching, simple, sad, and truly inspirational.
Starring: Shawn Ku, Christy Chung
Director: Pan Nalin
Duration: 90 minutes
Year: 1999

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Description: A successful radio talk-show host makes an off-handed remark that causes a man to go on a killing spree, leaving him unhinged with guilt. Later, he meets a homeless man suffering from dementia, who gets him involved in the unlikely quest for the Holy Grail.
Starring:Jeff Bridges, Robin Williams
Director: Terry Gilliam
Duration: 138 minutes
Year: 1991

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Description: A distinguished lawyer who is also a widower father of two in a small Southern town Alabama chooses to defend a black man wrongly accused of raping a white woman. However, his compassion and courage in the face of the town's unjust rage win him the admiration of his two young children.
Starring:: Gregory Peck, John Megna
Director: Robert Mulligan
Duration: 130 minutes
Year: 1962

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Description: : A husband and wife endure tumultuous events in China as their personal fortunes move from wealthy landownership to peasantry. He is pressed into both the nationalist and communist armies, while she is forced into menial work. However, they raise a family, survive, and manage just "to live.”
Starring:: Gong Li, Niu Ben
Director: Zhang Yimou
Duration: 133 Minutes
Year: 1994

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Description: : An educated woman is sent off to become the newest wife of a feudal nobleman in 1920s China. Nearly isolated in his spooky, palatial home, she develops relationships with several of the other wives and slowly becomes aware of a hideous legacy of punishment toward more willful women.
Starring::: Gong Li, Caifei He
Director: Zhang Yimou
Duration: 125 minutes
Year: 1991

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Description: : Two orphan men grow up together in the Peking Opera training school. During training, one is chosen to play the transvestite role and the other plays the royal role in a ritualized play. However, they are unexpectedly caught in a passionate love triangle with the woman who comes between them.
Starring:::Leslie Cheung, Fengyi Zhang
Director:Kaige Chen
Duration: 172 minutes
Year: 1993

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Description: A longtime bureaucratic chief in a city office along with the rest of the office spends his entire working life doing nothing. He learns he is dying of cancer and wants to find some meaning in his life. He finds himself unable to talk with his family, and spends a night on the town with a novelist, but that leaves him unfulfilled. Finally, he decides to make a difference through his jobs.
Starring: Takashi Shimura, Shinichi Himori
Director:Akira Kurosawa
Duration: 143 minutes
Year: 1952

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Description: A history professor is dying of cancer, and his successful, but stubborn son returns to care for the old man. With the power of money, the son cuts through bureaucracy to give his father some comfort that the father accepts with reluctance. the father and son find themselves gathering with their family to confront their differences, confess their secrets, and celebrate life!
Starring: Remy Girard, Stephane Rousseau
Director: Denys Arcand
Duration: 99 minutes
Year: 2003

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Description: A bad day gets worse for a promising young homicide detective when a pickpocket steals his gun, once used in a robbery and murder, on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he struggles to retrieve his stolen pistol and goes undercover, scavenging Tokyo?s sweltering streets for the stray dog whose desperation has led him to a life of crime.
Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Duration: 122 minutes
Year: 1949

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