Far From Home

As Far As My Feet Will Carry Me / So weit die Füße tragen (2001) Movies

Posted by fekmax at Oct. 17, 2014

As prisoner of war Clemens Forell, a German soldier during WW II, is sentenced to a labor camp in far east Siberia. After four years working in the mines he escapes from the camp (in 1949) and tries to get home to his wife and children. For three years he journeys through Siberia. An odyssey of 14,000 kilometers, set against a backdrop of desolate and inhospitable landscape, beset by danger (from both animals and humans). Constantly battling the worst nature can throw at him, Forell makes his way, step by step towards Prussia and the longed-for freedom.

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All That Heaven Allows (1955) [The Criterion Collection #095] Movies

Posted by Someonelse at March 18, 2016

Jane Wyman is a repressed wealthy widow and Rock Hudson is the hunky Thoreau-following gardener who loves her in Douglas Sirk’s heartbreakingly beautiful indictment of 1950s small-town America. Sirk utilizes expressionist colors, reflective surfaces, and frames-within-frames to convey the loneliness and isolation of a matriarch trapped by the snobbery of her children and the gossip of her social-climbing country club chums. Criterion is proud to present this subversive Hollywood tearjerker in a special edition.

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The Far Country (1954) Movies

Posted by ChumPaa at Nov. 1, 2015

In 1896, Jeff Webster sees the start of the Klondike gold rush as a golden opportunity to make a fortune in beef…and woe betide anyone standing in his way! He drives a cattle herd from Wyoming to Seattle, by ship to Skagway, and (after a delay caused by larcenous town boss Gannon) through the mountains to Dawson. There, he and his partner Ben Tatum get into the gold business themselves. Two lovely women fall for misanthropic Jeff, but he believes in every-man-for-himself, turning his back on growing lawlessness…until it finally strikes home.

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BBC - Lost Home Movies of Nazi Germany (2019) Movies

Posted by Tutorial at Nov. 12, 2020

A candid look at what life was really like for those living in, and under Hitler's Swastika - at home - and abroad, a record not only of what they saw, but of what they knew.

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BBC - Russia : A Journey with Jonathan Dimbleby (2008) Movies

Posted by Tutorial at Dec. 17, 2019

Across nine time zones and through all extremes of weather, the resourceful Jonathan Dimbleby makes an epic journey from one end of Russia to the other, disproving clichs and revelling in the unpredictable.

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Com' è bello far l'amore (2012) Movies

Posted by edi1967 at July 13, 2012

La tranquilla vita di Giovanni, ingegnere elettronico che ha finalmente trovato lavoro grazie alla sua nuova fidanzata, viene spezzata una mattina dall'arrivo a sorpresa di Jonny, una vera mina vagante che vive solo per passare le notti in discoteca e che, per volere del padre Michele, maresciallo della Guardia di Finanza, deve sostenere a Milano…

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BBC - Dan Cruickshank: At Home with the British (2016) Movies

Posted by notbanned at June 5, 2016

From medieval cottages and Victorian terraces to high-rise flats, Dan Cruickshank looks at the place we are all familiar with but never question - our home.

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Billy Liar (1963) [The Criterion Collection #121 - Out Of Print] [ReUp] Movies

Posted by Someonelse at Feb. 26, 2015

Tom Courtenay gives a flawlessly nuanced performance as Billy Fisher, the underachieving undertaker’s assistant whose constant daydreams and truth-deficient stories earn him the nickname “Billy Liar.” Julie Christie is the handbag-swinging charmer whose free spirit just might inspire Billy to finally move out of his parents’ house. Deftly veering from gritty realism to flamboyant fantasy, Billy Liar is a dazzling and uproarious classic.

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Get Low (2009) Movies

Posted by Someonelse at Feb. 4, 2011

Felix Bush (Robert Duvall) is a hermit who has no regard for anybody in the town or anyone who wants to get to know him. But one day, after a fellow old hermit as died and he hears people in the town telling stories about him, he decides that he needs to get these stories out in the public. He recruits Frank (Bill Murray) the local funeral home director to host his own funeral. This way he can hear what everyone is saying about him, and get the truth to his past out in the open. But will he be able to get anybody to come? And will he be able to reveal his secrets?

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Arte - New Zealand from Above (2012) Movies

Posted by notbanned at July 8, 2019

New Zealand From Above presents an aerial journey of New Zealand, flying from the deep south of the South Island to the northern tip of the North Island. This documentary series reveals the natural beauty of New Zealand, and its astonishing diversity of landscapes, while introducing us to the colorful locals who talk about their work, interests and culture.

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