Oliver Ryan

The Pembrokeshire Murders

overview: Detective superintendent reopens two unsolved murder cases from the 1980s. Forensic methods link the crimes to a string of burglaries. Steve's team has to find more evidence before the perpetrator is released from prison.

character: Andrew Cooper

original_name: The Pembrokeshire Murders

Father Brown

overview: Father Brown is based on G. K. Chesterton's detective stories about a Catholic priest who doubles as an amateur detective in order to try and solve mysteries.

character: Philip Walker

original_name: Father Brown

name: Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman's Butler

overview: The origin story of Bruce Wayne's legendary butler, Alfred Pennyworth, a former British SAS soldier who forms a security company in 1960s London and goes to work with young billionaire Thomas Wayne and his wife Martha, before they become Bruce Wayne’s parents.

character: Roger Hammond

Steeltown Murders

overview: The hunt to catch the killer of three young women in the Port Talbot area in 1973 and the remarkable story of how - in the first case of its kind - the mystery was solved almost 30 years later using pioneering DNA evidence. Contrasting the policing methods of the 1970s with the forensic breakthroughs of the early 2000s, the series portrays a town dealing with the repercussions of an unsolved case three decades on, and asks if justice can ever truly be found.

character: DCS Ray Allen

original_name: Steeltown Murders

Midsomer Murders

overview: The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.

character: Hamlet

original_name: Midsomer Murders

The Bench

overview:
The Bench is an English-language legal drama series set in a Welsh magistrate's court, produced by BBC Wales, initially broadcast on BBC One Wales and later repeated across the BBC network in an afternoon slot.

The series won three BAFTA Cymru awards in 2003, with Eiry Thomas winning Best Actress, Bill Broomfield winning Best Director of Photography - Drama and William Oswald winning Best Editor.

character: Sharkie Treharne

original_name: The Bench

name: Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles De Menezes

overview: London is rocked by terrorist attacks as armed police shoot dead an innocent man on his way to work.

character: Supt. Moir Stewart

The Red King

overview: After informing on fellow police officers for assaulting an alleged rapist, Grace Narayan is posted as a sergeant to the small Welsh island of St Jory, where she begins investigating the disappearance of a local boy named Cai. Along the way, Grace uncovers local secrets and suspects the involvement of a pagan cult named True Way, which the islanders claim no longer exists.

character: Mihangel Pugh

original_name: The Red King

English

iso_3166_1: US

title: A Harlot's Progress

overview: Drama looking at artist William Hogarth and his relationship with the prostitute that inspired his most famous piece.

character: Samuel Scott

original_title: A Harlot's Progress

title: The Last Vermeer

overview: A soldier and member of the Dutch resistance investigates stolen art in the wake of the Second World War, including a Vermeer sold to the Nazis by a flamboyant forger.

character: Jerome Heidjen

original_title: The Last Vermeer

title: All the Money in the World

overview: The story of the kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III and the desperate attempt by his devoted mother to convince his billionaire grandfather Jean Paul Getty to pay the ransom.

character: BBC Reporter

original_title: All the Money in the World

title: Killing Me Softly

overview: A woman grows suspicious of her controlling husband after she discovers secrets about the women in his past.

character: Bookshop Assistant

original_title: Killing Me Softly

title: Dune

overview: Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and his people. As malevolent forces explode into conflict over the planet's exclusive supply of the most precious resource in existence - a commodity capable of unlocking humanity's greatest potential - only those who can conquer their fear will survive.

character: Hawat Specialist

original_title: Dune

title: The Winter's Tale - Live at Shakespeare's Globe

overview: The Winter’s Tale is Shakespeare’s great play of the irrational and inexplicable, illustrating how uncontrollable emotions can range across gender, country, class and age. Its universe is full of monsters, gods and natural disasters with a colossal sweep that takes audiences from the stifling atmosphere of the Sicilian court to the unbuttoned joy of a Bohemian festival. Staged at the beautiful and iconic Globe Theatre in London, this new production is directed by Blanche McIntyre and stars Will Keen (The Crown, Wolf Hall) as Leontes, Priyanga Burford (W1A, Marcella) as Hermione and Annette Badland (East Enders, Father Brown) as Old Shepherd.

character: Polixenes

title: Misper

overview: The employees of a dying seaside hotel have their lives upended when their colleague, Elle, vanishes.

character: Roy Pritchard

original_title: Misper

title: Mr. Burton

overview: In the Welsh town of Port Talbot, 1942, Richard Jenkins lives as a wayward schoolboy, caught between the pressures of his struggling family, a devastating war and his own ambitions. However, a new opportunity arises when Richard’s natural talent for drama catches the attention of his teacher, Philip Burton.

character: Co-op Manager

original_title: Mr. Burton

title: Noise

overview: High from his rise to fame in an industry clamouring to promote him, a composer is privately challenged by his conductor. A film about how artists choose to defend their work, and where the blame falls if it all goes wrong.

character: Adrian Jones

original_title: Noise

title: Golden Boy

overview: 1930s New York, at the height of the Depression. Joe Bonaparte is a gifted young violinist with extraordinary talent and a future in music, until a chance at fame and fortune lures him into the brutal world of professional boxing. Pressured by a ruthless manager, tempted by a forbidden love, and bound by the expectations of his Italian-American family, Joe is a young man torn between the seductive promise of the American Dream and the quiet honor of a decent life. He must confront what he’s willing to sacrifice, who he’s willing to become, and how to find his place in a world that demands he choose a side.

original_title: Golden Boy

title: A Visit to Grandpa’s

overview: A young boy is sent to spend a summer with his charismatic and eccentric grandfather on a remote Welsh farm. Expecting dull days and strict rules, the boy instead stumbles into a world of delightful chaos and imagination – where outrageous stories are spun, and a world of wonder, memory, and mischief unfolds.

character: Mr. Evans

original_title: A Visit to Grandpa’s

title: A Harlot's Progress

title: The Last Vermeer

title: All the Money in the World

title: Killing Me Softly

title: Dune

title: Misper

title: Mr. Burton

title: Noise

title: Golden Boy

title: A Visit to Grandpa’s


Agustín Galiana

Fort Boyard

overview: A game show set and filmed on the real Fort Boyard in France. The contestants have to complete in physical and endurance challenges to win prize money.

character: Self

original_name: Fort Boyard

original_language: fr

The Art of Crime

overview: Fired for insubordination, PJ Antoine Verlay, good cop but a blood strand and having difficulty working as a team, is attached to the OCBC (Central Office for the fight against Traffic in Cultural Goods) thanks to the intervention of the commander Pardo, his friend who becomes, therefore, his new superior. A clever investigator, but a stranger to everything related to culture, Antoine will have to work with Florence Chassagne, renowned art historian, who lives, speaks and breathes culture, to the point that - fruit of her great imagination - it happens to her in the midst of daydreams, to see and talk to the great artists who have disappeared as if they were familiar to her.

character: Esteban Cortes

original_name: L'Art du crime

Salut les Terriens !

overview: Salut les Terriens! is a French talk show hosted by Thierry Ardisson, launched on Canal+ on November 4, 2006, and then moved to C8 on September 10, 2016. The show subsequently changed its name and format in 2018 to become Les Terriens du Samedi! (The Earthlings of Saturday!). Initially conceived as a humorous take on current events with several guests and various games and segments, it later evolved into a more structured format with panel discussions and regular segments. In 2018, Thierry Ardisson sought to revamp the concept, believing the previous version had run its course, hence the transition to Les Terriens du samedi! with a new set and new segments, and a 360-degree turn in the ideology of the guests.

character: Self - Guest

original_name: Salut les Terriens !

Círculo rojo

character: Roberto

original_name: Círculo rojo

original_language: es

Et alors ?

original_name: Et alors ?

Clem

overview: Clem follows the life of a young teenager, Clémentine, who becomes a mother at the age of sixteen, at the centre of tensions between her parents and Julien, the father of her child Valentin. It deals with the problems of teenage life and that of a mother with a strong personality.

character: Adrian Moron

original_name: Clem

The Dancer

overview: "The Dancer Belgium" is a spectacular and extraordinary dance show that will thrill you behind your screen.

character: Juror

original_name: The Dancer

The Unexpected Getaway

overview: In each episode, 3 celebrities who have never met go on a 24-hour break in the countryside. A moment out of time to meet and talk about love, friendship, life with its obstacles and surprises.

original_name: Un dimanche à la campagne

origin_country: CA FR

Starmaker

character: Jury

original_name: Starmaker

Starmaker : la nouvelle chance

original_name: Starmaker : la nouvelle chance

Tous en cuisine avec Cyril Lignac

original_name: Tous en cuisine avec Cyril Lignac

Ici tout commence

overview: This television drama series is centered around the prestigious culinary school of renowned chef Auguste Armand. The show follows the lives of students and staff as they navigate the challenges and pressures of the culinary world—delving into their personal and professional lives, revealing secrets, rivalries, and complex relationships.

character: Lisandro Inesta

original_name: Ici tout commence

Halloween Stories

original_name: Halloween Stories

name: Les 100 vidéos qui ont fait rire le monde entier

name: 100 % logique : La réponse est sous vos yeux

overview: French adaptation of the British quiz show where contestants try to answer a question that only 1% of the country can get right.

Danse avec les stars

character: Self - Candidate

original_name: Danse avec les stars

Love In Andalusia

overview: Claire lands in Andalusia one week ahead of her sister Laura’s wedding, and promptly finds herself falling head over heels for the handsome husband-to-be!

character: Alvaro

original_name: Coup de foudre en Andalousie

M6 fête le 31

original_name: M6 fête le 31

twitter_id: agustingaliana

facebook_id: agustingaliana

instagram_id: agustingaliana

Français

biography: Agustín Galiana Llorca s'est fait connaître en France avec son rôle d'Adrián Muñoz dans la série télévisée Clem sur TF1.

iso_639_1: fr

iso_3166_1: FR

english_name: French

English

iso_639_1: en

english_name: English

Français

iso_3166_1: CA

普通话

iso_639_1: zh

iso_3166_1: CN

english_name: Mandarin

iso_3166_1: HK

Deutsch

iso_639_1: de

iso_3166_1: DE

english_name: German

title: Les Cobayes

overview: A couple since high school, Charlotte and Adam have just had their first child. But they're not happy, and habits are gradually replacing enthusiasm, to the point of driving them apart... Hoping to recapture the momentum of their early days, they decide to become guinea pigs in a revolutionary treatment designed to strengthen their bond and desire.

character: Nacho

original_title: Les Cobayes

title: They Swapped My Baby

overview: The true story of Sophie Serrano, a single mother whose ex protests paternity of the eldest. The DNA tests will reveal the unthinkable: Manon isn't theirs. Her biological child has been exchanged at birth to the maternity ward's error.

character: Hugo

original_title: Ils ont échangé mon enfant

title: Qu'est-ce qu'on va faire de toi, Maman ?

title: I Love You Coiffure

overview: Liliane and Maud are twin sisters. The first is a modest provincial hairdresser while the second leads the great life in Paris. They both fight over their mother's custody.

character: M. Pizaiolo (segment "La Réunion de chantier")

original_title: I Love You Coiffure

title: Le plus beau dans tout ça

character: Matt

original_title: Le plus beau dans tout ça

title: La Casa Brown

overview: Short film by Isaac Berrokal that tells in a humorous tone the grotesque story of a family of murderers.

character: Brown

original_title: La Casa Brown

title: Clem : La rando en famille

original_title: Clem : La rando en famille

title: 100 Million!

overview: A printing house worker and union leader inherits EUR100m, but the windfall costs him his job and puts his marriage at risk.

character: Juan

original_title: 100 Millions !

place_of_birth: Alicante, Spain

title: Les Cobayes

media_type: movie

title: They Swapped My Baby

title: I Love You Coiffure

title: Le plus beau dans tout ça

title: La Casa Brown

title: Clem : La rando en famille

title: 100 Million!


Sergey Adianov

Pусский

iso_639_1: ru

iso_3166_1: RU

english_name: Russian

also_known_as:
Sergey Adyanov
Sergei Adyanov
Sergei Adianov

title: The Gulls

overview: Elza lives in a small town in the Republic of Kalmykia on the Caspian Sea. Another year comes to an end, it’s cold and the steppe is covered in a thin layer of snow. When her husband, who makes a living from illegal fishing, asks her one night what she did during the day, she lies. She wasn’t at her mother’s, but at the bus stop. She thought of leaving – to find out what it might be to escape the infinite expanse of her dreary small world. But she didn’t dare; instead she stays and withdraws into herself, unconcerned by who might see. One day, her husband doesn’t return from a dangerous boat trip. It is said that a fisherman only returns if he has a woman waiting for him and that seagulls are the souls of the missing. At the start of a somewhat unplanned pregnancy, widowed and alone, Elza wanders ever further through the city, plotting a path between tradition and the contemporary until she’s no longer on familiar ground.

original_title: Чайки

original_language: ru

title: The Horde

overview: It is the word "horde" that had meant, for many countries and nations, bloody raids and being under humilating contribution for centuries - a strange and scary world with its own rules and customs. To be or not to be for Rus (Ruthenia), that is the price of the one-man mission as he is departing to this world to accomplish a feat. The film tells the story of how Saint Alexius, the Metropolitan of Moscow and Wonderworker of All Russia, healed the Tatar Queen Taidula, Jani-Beg's mother, from blindness, in 1357.

original_title: Орда

title: The Gulls

title: The Horde

known_for_department: Acting


Amanda Sthers

biography:
Amanda Queffélec-Maruani (born 18 April 1978), known professionally as Amanda Sthers, is a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter and filmmaker.

Sthers is of Tunisian Sefardi and Breton origins. She has written ten novels which have been translated in more than 14 countries. Sthers has been given the title of "Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres" by the French government.

Her first play, "Le Vieux Juif blonde" is today studied at Harvard University. Her play "Le Lien" has been performed in Paris and at the Avignon Festival in 2013, and was widely performed in Italy in 2016.

Sthers wrote and directed the movie Je vais te manquer in which she directed Carole Bouquet, Michael Lonsdale, and Mélanie Thierry.

In 2015, she wrote an adaptation of Les Terres Saintes / Holy Lands, which she later directed in English.Shooting took place during winter 2017 in Israel.

At the 2017 Zurich Film Festival, Madame, a feature film that she wrote and directed in English was screened, starring Toni Collette, Harvey Keitel, and Rossy de Palma.

Singer and actor Patrick Bruel was Sthers' first husband with who she married on 21 September 2004. The two have two children, Oscar and Léon who was born 28 September 2005. The couple separated in 2007. Sthers moved to Los Angeles with her two children in 2017 where she started a film production company.

Source: Article "Amanda Sthers" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Love in Lapland

job: Writer

overview: When an administrator in Paris is sent to Sweden to close a toy company before Christmas, she meets the manager, who plays with her heartstrings.

department: Writing

original_name: Coup de foudre à Noël

Français

biography:
Amanda Queffélec-Maruani dite Amanda Sthers, née le 18 avril 1978 à Paris, est une écrivaine et scénariste française vivant entre Paris et Los Angeles. Auteure de romans, scénarios, chansons, pièces de théâtre, et de la série Caméra Café, elle est également réalisatrice.

Sa mère, Véronique Queffélec, bretonne d'origine, est lobbyiste et avocate. Elle a pour cousins l'écrivain Yann Queffélec et la pianiste classique Anne Queffélec. Le père d'Amanda, Guy Maruani, est psychiatre et auteur. Elle est l'aînée d'une famille recomposée de huit enfants. Dans Ma place sur la photo, son premier livre, elle parle de son enfance et elle décrit son expérience américaine durant son adolescence dans son ouvrage Les Érections américaines.

Elle étudie à l’École internationale bilingue, au lycée Carnot de Paris puis au lycée Pasteur de Neuilly-sur-Seine. Elle a un frère, Briag Maruani, musicien membre du groupe The Downtown Lights, et journaliste pour Rock & Folk, et une sœur, la chanteuse Orianne.

À 15 ans, elle envoie son premier roman à l'éditeur Jean-Marc Roberts qui le refuse, mais l'encourage dans cette voie (il deviendra par la suite son éditeur). Bachelière à 16 ans, elle s'inscrit en lettres modernes à la Sorbonne tout en faisant de la télé sur TFJ où elle crée l'émission Histoires d'en parler. Elle y recueille les témoignages de rescapés des camps de concentration. Sa maîtrise de lettres modernes obtenue, elle écrit les soixante premiers épisodes de la série télévisée Caméra Café.

Le mercredi 27 août 2014, elle rejoint pour la première fois la nouvelle équipe de Laurent Ruquier dans Les Grosses Têtes sur RTL.

Son premier roman, Ma place sur la photo, sort en 2004.

En 2005, elle publie un deuxième roman, Chicken Street, traduit dans plus de quinze pays et élu meilleur livre de l'année en Italie par le journal La Repubblica.

C'est en 2006, avec la pièce de théâtre Le Vieux Juif blonde, qu'Amanda Sthers se fait vraiment connaître à l'international. Cette pièce de théâtre est mise en scène par Jacques Weber et interprétée par Mélanie Thierry. La pièce est ensuite rejouée au théâtre Édouard VII par Fanny Valette. Le Vieux Juif blonde est étudié à Harvard (entré au programme en 2008) et la pièce est jouée sur les scènes du monde entier.

Parallèlement, Amanda Sthers continue d'écrire et se diversifie dans les livres pour enfants avec la parution de Le Chat bleu, l'Alouette et le Canard timide en 2006, mais aussi en créant la série des P'tits Légumes en 2007. 2007 est aussi l'année de la sortie de son troisième roman, Madeleine (plus de 100 000 exemplaires vendus), et d'une nouvelle pièce de théâtre, Thalasso, mettant en scène Gérard Darmon et Thierry Frémont au théâtre Hébertot. La pièce est en cours d'adaptation pour le cinéma.

Au-delà de ses activités d'auteur, Amanda Sthers a aussi participé à l'élaboration de l'album intimiste de son mari Patrick Bruel (Des souvenirs devant, 2006), pour qui elle a écrit deux chansons: Lettre au père Noël et Je fais semblant, toutes deux sorties en single. Elle a également écrit des chansons pour Isabelle Boulay. ...

Source: Article "Amanda Sthers" de Wikipédia en français, soumis à la licence CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Italiano

iso_639_1: it

iso_3166_1: IT

english_name: Italian

Latviešu

iso_639_1: lv

iso_3166_1: LV

english_name: Latvian

title: Patrick Bruel: Itinéraire d'un surdoué

original_title: Patrick Bruel: Itinéraire d'un surdoué

job: Director

title: Promises

overview: When Alexander and Laura meet during a party what they feel for each other is obvious, but she’s about to get married and Alexander shares a daughter with his beautiful wife. Thanks in part to the support of his lifelong friends, Alexander's childhood memories constantly resurface, leading him to reflect on what was, what will be, and what could have been.

department: Directing

original_title: Promises

original_language: en

title: Promises

job: Novel

title: Promises

job: Producer

title: Mafia Mamma

overview: A suburban American woman inherits her grandfather’s Mafia empire and, guided by the Firm’s trusted consigliere, defies everyone’s expectations, including her own, as the new head of the family business.

department: Production

original_title: Mafia Mamma

title: Le vieux juif Blonde

original_title: Le vieux juif Blonde

title: Le vieux juif Blonde

job: Author

title: Amis

overview: A comedy about friendship that has many surprises in store for us! How can we find the perfect friend? By connecting to Amitic, the friendly version of Meetic. Pierre, a snobbish Parisian banker, one day sees Serge Brown who claims to be... his best friend! Contrary to all evidence, their friendly compatibility reaches 100% according to the computer program! Brown then turns into a real ball, ready to do anything to live this unexpected friendship, leaves to blackmail Pierre. The latter is not helped in this ordeal by his wife Martine, totally seduced by Marron and very happy with the prospect of a little weekend for three in Creuse.

original_title: Amis

title: Lovebirds

overview: “Love Birds” revolves around a female lovebird who travels the country to find her crush. She travels with an annoying but amusing pigeon, and will discover that all forms of love exists in nature, from gay couples to single moms or stepfamilies, and maybe the one she thinks she is supposed to love may not be “the one.”

original_title: Lovebirds

title: Bonnie

overview: A portrait of casting director Bonnie Timmermann.

original_title: Bonnie

title: You'll Miss Me

overview: In an airport, six destinies, during a short moment, will change, separate and meet. And if these characters were going through, without knowing it, the most important moment of their lives? Olivier and Lila ... Will he miss his love or will she miss the plane? Julia and Marcel ... Will she avoid death or will he mess up his life? Fanny and Max ... Will she lack of courage or will he be out of luck?

original_title: Je vais te manquer

title: Madame

overview: Anne and Bob, a well-to-do American couple, have just moved to a beautiful manor house in romantic Paris. To impress their sophisticated friends, they decide to host a lavish dinner party, but must disguise their maid as a noblewoman to even out the number of guests. When the maid runs off with a wealthy guest, Anne must chase her around Paris to thwart the joyous and unexpected love affair.

original_title: Madame

job: Idea

title: Mafia Mamma

job: Screenplay

title: Madame

title: Conseil de famille

original_title: Conseil de famille

title: You'll Miss Me

title: Promises

title: Holy Lands

overview: When lapsed Jew and former cardiologist Harry suddenly decides to spend his retirement as a pig farmer in Nazareth, Israel, the move deeply shocks his family and his new neighbours. Back in New York, Harry’s ex-wife Monica is trying to manage the lives of their adult children, Annabelle and David, as well as her own.

original_title: Holy Lands

title: Holy Lands

job: Story

title: Lovebirds

title: Patrick Bruel: Itinéraire d'un surdoué

title: Promises

title: Promises

title: Promises

title: Mafia Mamma

title: Le vieux juif Blonde

title: Le vieux juif Blonde

title: Amis

title: Lovebirds

title: Bonnie

title: You'll Miss Me

title: Madame

title: Mafia Mamma

title: Madame

title: Conseil de famille

title: You'll Miss Me

title: Promises

title: Holy Lands

title: Holy Lands

title: Lovebirds


Marco Pannella

title: Giulio Cesare: Class Mates

overview: The history of a great school is the history of a great nation. On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Liceo Giulio Cesare - the historical school of Rome - the journalist and director Antonello Sarno reconstructs its history with a documentary.

original_title: Giulio Cesare - Compagni di scuola

original_language: it

title: Marco Unedited: From Pannella's Last 100 Days

overview: The last days of Marco Pannella’s life - indomitable and disruptive protagonist over 60 years of Italian political life - shown through never before seen repertory materials, as well as unpublished interviews and illustrious interventions. A deserved portrait, dedicated to one of the most independent figures of the 900 Italian.

character: Self (archive footage)

original_title: Marco inedito: Dagli ultimi 100 giorni di Pannella

title: Porn to Be Free

overview: Italy, 1970. An increasing legion of harmless warriors begins a peaceful struggle for sexual freedom through pornography, shaking and shocking religious authorities and conservative political institutions. They are ironic, happy, crazy. They are dreamers, defenders of definitive communion between body and soul. But they were censored and humiliated. They were mistreated and arrested for demanding loud a new cultural renaissance.

character: Self - Politician

original_title: Porno & Libertà

title: Forbidden Grass

overview: All you wanted to know about THC and you were never told. A mix of documentary, comedy and live music to celebrate the Italian movement in favor of the legalization of cannabis.

original_title: L'erba proibita

place_of_birth: Teramo, Abruzzi, Italy

title: Giulio Cesare: Class Mates

title: Porn to Be Free

title: Forbidden Grass


Miro Šifra

Rédl

overview:
Four episodes reveal criminal background of organized crime in post-revolution Czechoslovakia. Who can you trust yet?

Czechoslovakia in 1992 - communist regime has fallen short time ago and soviet occupying army is quickly retreating back to eastern Europe. Wagons leaving the country are full of weapons, ammunition and equipment. Two young students testing new railway control system find out, that some of soviet wagons disappear on their way home. They try to find out the reason, but one of them is found dead and second way is probably on the run. Senior warrant officer Roman Redl with team of investigators is trying to reveal reason for murder and trace the criminal ties, that could leaves east from Czechoslovakia.

original_name: Rédl

original_language: cs

Zrádci

overview: David must join forces with police analyst Petra as they are drawn deep into the tangled web of who controls the flow of meth into Europe.

original_name: Zrádci

We’re on it, Comrades!

overview: David (Jiří Macháček) has one task: to investigate paranormal cases. But he doesn't feel like it. It's the 1980s, and there are a lot of annoying people who call each other "comrade." He doesn't believe in anything paranormal anyway. He prefers to sit in his office, pretending to work on research into satanic references in Western music, and enjoys listening to LPs that no one else in the country has. The world would be beautiful, but his superior assigns him a new colleague, Vojta (Jan Cina). This overzealous newcomer talks about pushing the boundaries of human knowledge and how science doesn't have answers to all the mysteries of the world yet. This mismatched duo has no choice but to cooperate in investigating bizarre cases that all other security forces in the state can't handle. To make it harder, they are constantly monitored by a pair of StB agents – the tough agent Snížková (Anna Fialová) and the sweetheart Hora (Leoš Noha).

original_name: To se vysvětlí, soudruzi!

origin_country: CZ DE

Daughter of the Nation

job: Dramaturgy

department: Crew

original_name: Dcera národa

The Well

overview: The six-part drama directed by Tereza Kopáčová based on a script by Miro Šifra and Kristina Májová returns to a love story that traumatized several generations of Czechoslovaks. What preceded the infamous family tragedy of 1968? What followed it? Where can disrupted relationships in a closed rural community lead? What do we take with us as an inner legacy from our parents?

original_name: Studna

Rédl

job: Creator

department: Creator

Český

iso_639_1: cs

iso_3166_1: CZ

english_name: Czech

Український

iso_639_1: uk

iso_3166_1: UA

english_name: Ukrainian

title: Superžena

original_title: Superžena

original_language: sk

title: We Have Never Been Modern

overview: Helena, is about to give birth and face a rosy future in a modern city, as the pregnant wife of an important factory manager. However, all her illusions soon perish, as the dead body of a newborn intersex baby is found in the middle of their factory. Helena needs to find out what happened here for the safety of her own child, but she runs into her own prejudices.

original_title: Úsvit

title: ČERNÁK

overview: Miki Černák, a boy from Telgárt, became a respected boss of a mafia group. But it is not enough for Černák. He wants to dominate all of Slovakia. Become the boss of all bosses. However, the way to the top is lined with traitors and corpses. And Černák underestimated the strongest mafia that ever ruled Slovakia - politicians and their secret service.

original_title: ČERNÁK

title: Red Captain

overview: Three years after the fall of the Berlin Wall; six months before the split of Czechoslovakia. Despite all warnings, a young homicide detective sets on investigating a convoluted case that involves Catholic clerical elite and high-ranked agents of the former secret service.

original_title: Červený kapitán

title: MIKI

overview: In the 1990s post-communist Slovakia, former woods worker Miki takes his chances to start doing business at a local level and climb up the ladder to become the biggest mafia boss in the country.

original_title: MIKI

title: Superžena

title: We Have Never Been Modern

title: ČERNÁK

title: Red Captain

title: MIKI

Rédl

media_type: tv


Dunstan Bruce

biography: Dunstan Bruce is a British musician and filmmaker most famous for his role as the lead singer and founding member of the anarchist punk band Chumbawamba. He performed the lead vocals on the band's global 1997 smash hit, "Tubthumping," which became a defining anthem of the decade.

The BRIT Awards

overview: The biggest night in the British music calendar, the BRIT Awards celebrate the biggest successes in music & promote new talent.

character: Self

original_name: The BRIT Awards

title: I Get Knocked Down

overview: Part music documentary, part unflinching character study, part a punk version of ‘A Christmas Carol’ - I Get Knocked Down is the funny, surreal, and deeply human untold story of Chumbawamba and its ex-front man Dunstan Bruce.

original_title: I Get Knocked Down

title: A Curious Life

overview: Borne out of the anarcho-squatting free-festival scene of the eighties the Levellers have survived over 25 years of music press vitriol, drink and drug addictions as well as many barren years in the wilderness. But the band had seven consecutive gold albums throughout the 90s, sold out their own festival for the last ten years and run their own creative centre, the Metway. Via the eccentric artist, archivist, whiskey loving bassist Jeremy Cunningham we are taken on a journey; how the band rose to fame and how they survived. A potted history of 25 years of subsidised dysfunctionalism. An uplifting tale of battling demons, that reminds us that behind every band there is always a story of struggle for expression, acceptance and survival.

character: Self - Interviewer

original_title: A Curious Life

title: Chumbawamba : Going, Going — Live At Leeds City Varieties

overview: Filmed at Leeds City Varieties in December 2012 and released in 2013, “Going, Going” records the final gig of anarchist punk band Chumbawumba before they split up, bringing to an end a 30–year career.

character: Self (Vocals)

title: Well Done, Now Sod Off

overview: A potted and often hilarious history of Chumbawamba. Footage and interviews from the last two decades retrace the band's history through its early days of communal living, getting through the Thatchers years, and emerging in the nineties wiser and unrepentant. The story of how they surprised themselves and everybody else by selling 5 million albums in the USA. This is an ongoing punk saga in an age of manufactured bands.

original_title: Well Done, Now Sod Off

title: Aguska

overview: Aguska is an inspirational short film about a young girl called Melissa. Bullied at football, she and her family work together to not only overcome and unite the whole team together but also to ensure everyone wins.

character: Caretaker / Man behind car

original_title: Aguska

title: A Curious Life

title: A Curious Life

title: I Get Knocked Down

title: Clowns

overview: Daisy Asquith investigates the mysterious world of children's entertainers.

original_title: Clowns

title: This Band Is So Gorgeous

overview: In 2009, Sham 69 became the first punk rock band to tour China. Just as the ‘70s British icons were attempting to mount a comeback, Chinese punk singer, tour manager and promoter Ray Yao lured them for two weeks of chaos in an enthusiastic but ever-changing country. With locals No Name as their supports, and former Chumbawamba lead singer turned director Dunstan Bruce capturing their every move, the trip provided more than just an unlikely introduction to the modern music scene. Met by excited new fans screaming “this band is gorgeous!”, they tapped into the enduring, uniting nature of punk anthems

original_title: This Band Is So Gorgeous

place_of_birth: Billingham, County Durham, England, UK

title: I Get Knocked Down

title: A Curious Life

title: Well Done, Now Sod Off

title: Aguska

title: A Curious Life

title: A Curious Life

title: I Get Knocked Down

title: Clowns

title: This Band Is So Gorgeous

known_for_department: Directing


Peter Kam-Cheong Yung

Happy Ever After

overview:
Happy Ever After is a 1999 Hong Kong grand-production television period drama. A TVB production, the drama was produced by Chong Wai-kin, written by Chan Ching-yee and Choi Ting-ting, and stars an ensemble cast. The drama is set during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor of Late Imperial China's Qing dynasty. The drama tells of a story regarding the struggles of a poor chef and his best friend earning an opportunity to serve the Qianlong Emperor, also befriending the emperor along the way. The drama also places an emphasis on Chinese cuisine with documentations concerning the Manchu Han Imperial Feast.

Happy Ever After acclaimed positive reviews from critics and was TVB's third highest-rating drama of 1999, peaking to 40 points. Happy Ever After was re-broadcast on the same channel in 2007 between January and March.

character: 戴东贵

original_name: 金玉滿堂

original_language: cn

Blue Moon

original_name: 藍月亮

Simply Ordinary

original_name: 林世榮

Incurable Traits

overview: Hua Tuo (Lin Wenlong) was extremely intelligent and obsessed with medicine since he was a child. After encountering by fate, he worshipped the famous doctor Zhang Zhongjing as his teacher. Once, Guan Yunchang (Yin Yangming) took a fellow from his hometown to seek medical treatment. Tu found that his illness was different, not ordinary typhoid fever, so he combined "Treatise on Febrile Diseases" with "Yin Nourishing Theory" and successfully developed a cure for plague. It is a pity that the people are superstitious about the ghosts and gods, and the villain's success has harmed Tuo a lot, causing him to be murdered. Zhang Miaoxin (Wu Yongwei), Zhongjing's eldest daughter, is in love with Tuo and is determined to marry and flee with her husband.

original_name: 醫神華佗

Drunken Angels

original_name: 男人四十打功夫

Vampire Expert

overview: Zhang Tian-shi's 18th generation disciple, Mao Xiao-fang, heads south to Hong Kong to track down the zombie king. Along the way, he meets Yang Fei-yun, a master of numerology and fortune-telling. Mao gains recognition for his exceptional Taoist abilities, which attracts jealousy from the head of the Seven Sisters Hall, Chung Kwan. Chung is bitter enemies with Mao, but her younger brother Chung Pong, a prodigious student, takes Mao as his teacher. Mao is unaware that Yang is a cunning and treacherous scoundrel. Yang tricks him into a trap, and eventually becomes the Great Demon King. Chung Pong sacrifices his relationship with his lover, Yuh Pak-sum, to become a great Taoist and help Mao defeat Yang.

character: 阿帆

original_name: 殭屍道長

普通话

容锦昌

biography: 容锦昌,香港前亚洲电视及无线电视艺人，目前已退出娱乐圈。  在香港电影《飞虎雄心》中的出色发挥而荣获1995年第14届香港电影金像奖“最佳新演员”的提名。因其形象健康及身材健美，容曾是1990年代亚洲电视的希望之星，在剧集中大多饰演正直、老实角色。亦曾主持《今日睇真D》、儿童节目《飞虎队》等节目。直至1996年，他转投无线电视。但于1990年代末前后，他逐渐沦为配角。

普通话

容錦昌

biography:
容錦昌，香港前亞洲電視及無綫電視藝人，目前已退出娛樂圈。

容錦昌於 1988 年參加亞洲太平洋歌唱比賽。後於 1990 年透過 透過 透過 通過亞洲電視舉辦的歌唱大賽進入演藝圈。他在 1994 年憑藉在香港電影《飛虎雄心》中的出色發揮而榮獲 1995 年第 14 屆香港電影金像獎「最佳新演員」的提名。因其形象健康及身材健美，容曾是 1990 年代亞洲電視的希望之星，在劇集中大多飾演正直、老實角色。亦曾主持《今日睇真 D》、兒童節目《飛虎隊》等節目。直至 1996 年，他轉投無綫電視。但於 1990 年代末前後，他逐漸淪為配角。

在 2000 年，香港娛樂圈流傳無綫藝人「Y 君」（化名）患有愛滋病的消息。容錦昌成了點嫌疑人。自此，他被負面新聞纏身，出現精神崩潰症狀。2000 年 8 月，容錦昌於其父經營的麻油廠中，與胞兄容錦龍發生衝突後，用傘將胞兄劫持。隨後警方用胡椒噴霧將其制服。他因打傷兩名警察被警方拘捕。結果法庭裁定他拒捕及襲警罪名成立，被判守行為兩年。此外，媒體亦曾報道容錦昌因服用藥物過量，在家中突然暈倒，需要被迫被送入醫院接受治療。

至 2000 年末，容錦昌不堪醜聞困擾，主動向無綫提出解約要求，退出娛樂圈。

Tiếng Việt

iso_639_1: vi

iso_3166_1: VN

english_name: Vietnamese

also_known_as:
容锦昌
容錦昌
Peter Yung
Yung Kam-Cheong
Peter Yung Kam-Cheung

title: Dangerous Duty

overview: A team of cops has the mission to protect a witness from being killed. After several killing attempts, the cops will realize how dangerous is the duty they have been assigned to.

character: Guo Chenyong

original_title: 危險任務

title: A Killer's Expiry Date

overview: Wayne is a hitman who wants to retire, so that he can provide a safe life for his wife and their soon-to-be-born baby. He also wants to go legit so that he can convince his dying boss to give up the gangster lifestyle. However, Lai finds getting work in post-Handover Hong Kong tough, and decides to take one last job.

original_title: 殺手再培訓

title: Thunderbolt

overview: In order to release his kidnapped sister, sports car mechanic, Chan Foh To, has to defeat a super-criminal street racer.

character: Cheong - Mechanic

original_title: 霹靂火

title: The Final Option

overview: A look at the SDU in the Royal Hong Kong Police Force - how members are selected, how they are trained, their lives, what they think, the relationships between SDU members and their friends and the pressures they face.

character: Ho Chi Wai

original_title: 飛虎雄心

title: City Cop

overview: Two Cops, one young and hotheaded, the other aging and by-the-book, are teamed up to break a case involving a series of Jewel heists by a ruthless young gangster and his illegal immigrant gang.

character: Lau Tse Cheong

original_title: 公僕II

title: S.D.U. - Mission in Mission

overview: The story follows Hunter and Yat, two new hot shot recruits, who under the watchful eye of their commanding officer, Yuk Pai, rise quickly through the ranks, enduring much mental and physical hardship along the way. Their new found skills are put to the test when renegade SDU member returns from seclusion in Thailand to wreak havoc on Hong Kong and the SDU's most secret missions.

character: Hunter / Cheong

original_title: 飞虎雄师之极道战士

title: Love, Guns and Glass

overview: Simon Yam, gang boss, turns himself in to the cops in order to spare his buddies. He spends ten long years in jail during which his no good wife gambles away all his money and raises his little daughter into an ungrateful slutty teen with an attitude. When he returns to his former life. He generously loans money to a high class gal, Cecilia Yip with financial troubles. His wife and daughter leave him. In despair over the mess he has made of his life, he proposes to Cecilia hoping to start over and go straight. In spite of their different class status, the two fall for each other and make a go of her failing factory.

character: Officer Fai

original_title: 玻璃鎗的愛

title: Full Alert

overview: A police inspector becomes obsessed with apprehending a criminal planning a major heist at the Hong Kong Jockey Club in the weeks leading up to Hong Kong's return to China.

character: Lau Chi Yung

original_title: 高度戒備

title: Chinese Midnight Express II

overview: Chan Siu Hong is a lawyer who goes into jail after hitting a vicious policeman. He's welcomed by the inmates because he convinces fellow inmates not to use violence to settle every dispute.

character: Wong Tse Seng

original_title: 黑獄斷腸歌2之無期徒刑

title: Internal Affair

overview: Inspector General Li Tiezhu took over the investigation of a case related to the collusion between police officers and the underworld. The target figures were Huang Zhenxiong, the detective of the serious crime team, and a group of agents under him. Xiong solved many cases with the help of the underworld, but he also accepted the benefits of the underworld and had illegal discipline. Li Tiezhu wanted to collect evidence of Xiong and others, but because Xiong was also a competent policeman and was good at hiding evidence to avoid legal sanctions, Li Yi could not bring Xiong to justice for a while. After that, a new captain named Chang joined the ranks of Xiong. Chang was an upright policeman. Xiong's attempt to buy failed, and Li also took the opportunity to use Chang to collect evidence of Xiong's crime to arrest Xiong, and Xiong committed suicide in fear of crime.

original_title: 重案實錄紙醉金迷

title: Death Rim

overview: An ex-con (Mark Cheng) has to help the police in catching of his former partners in crime.

original_title: Death Rim

original_language: zh

title: Deadly Showdown

original_title: 灭罪先锋

title: The Evil of a Woman Heart

overview: Hong Kong movie

original_title: 最毒婦人心

title: The Dark Rose

original_title: 人間蒸發

place_of_birth: Hong Kong, British Crown Colony [now China]

title: Dangerous Duty

title: A Killer's Expiry Date

title: Thunderbolt

title: The Final Option

title: City Cop

title: S.D.U. - Mission in Mission

title: Love, Guns and Glass

title: Full Alert

title: Chinese Midnight Express II

title: Internal Affair

title: Death Rim

title: Deadly Showdown

title: The Evil of a Woman Heart

title: The Dark Rose


Tomoki Kimura

1122: For a Happy Marriage

overview: Ichiko and Otoya are happily married, despite not having sex for the last two years. The secret to their happiness is Otoya's affair with Mitsuki, which Ichiko approves. Everything is going well until Otoya rejects Ichiko's advances on the night of their seventh anniversary. In shock, Ichiko seeks advice from her friend who suggests she exercise her right to have a boyfriend of her own.

character: Barman

original_name: 1122 いいふうふ

original_language: ja

Shady Job Family

overview: The drama is about five men and women who have gone off the rails in their lives and are trying to start their lives over by playing the role of a fake family based on the underworld part-time job case.

character: Iwanaga

original_name: 闇バイト家族

The Asayama Family

overview: A once-harmonious household unravels as a self-absorbed screenwriter's premiere morning becomes battleground between his viral success obsession and his wife's tireless balancing of family chaos and career ambitions.

character: Odawara Makoto

original_name: こんばんは、朝山家です。

name: Golden Kamuy -The Hunt of Prisoners in Hokkaido-

overview: With two map pieces secured, Sugimoto ans Asirpa continue their hunt for the remaining 22 tattooed convicts whose bodies hold the key to hidden treasure.

character: Nakazawa Tatsuya

original_name: ゴールデンカムイ ―北海道刺青囚人争奪編―

Hirayasumi

overview: At 29 years old, carefree Hiroto Ikuta doesn't have a girlfriend, a full-time job, or a plan for the future—and he couldn't be happier. Hiroto's breezy attitude isn't easy for everyone to understand, though. In a world filled with anxiety, confusion, and grief, Hiroto and the people around him are all just doing their best to figure out this thing called life.

character: Editorial Staff Member

original_name: ひらやすみ

Absolute Zero

overview: Izumi Sakuragi is a new police sergeant with the Special Investigations Office, which was set up within the Metropolitan Police in November last year. The new investigation team uses DNA analysis and the latest in forensics science to investigate cold cases as well as cases suspected to involve missing persons.

character: Reporter

original_name: 絶対零度

twitter_id: kimotoramuki

日本語

iso_639_1: ja

iso_3166_1: JP

english_name: Japanese

title: Where is the Mind

overview: Atsushi limps and escapes from a closed facility for drug addicts. He has only one goal: to kill his wife. Straying around, he is hit on a country road at night. When the driver gets out to check on him, Atsushi takes the opportunity and steals his car. Completely surprised, he notices the middle school student Nanako in the passenger seat. Actually on the way to a hotel room with her customer, the young girl desperately clings to her key ring: the only thing she has left of her mother. Deeply wounded by life, the unequal couple embarks on a journey into the unknown.

original_title: 希望のゆくえ

title: Maniac Driver

overview: A Japanese giallo about a murderous driver roaming the street in search of prey.

character: Mr. Fujinaga

original_title: マニアック・ドライバー

title: Beyond the Night

overview: Brooding outsider Mikiro catches Sotoko just as she reaches a breaking point in her claustrophobic rural life. Their encounter introduces an eroticism with a violent edge that threatens to slash apart her toxic marriage with the abusive Atsuya and his web of small town corruption.

original_title: 夜のそと

title: Hizume

overview: "I am a cow... this is my naked body... a water buffalo...". A young woman leaves her boyfriend behind with this strange confession. Flower shop owner Yu is faced with a mystery. After the disappearance of his girlfriend, he travels to his old home in the south of the island of Okinawa and visits the family of his brother Akihiro, who works as an entomologist on the coast, in search of answers. During their conversations, Yu learns about a strange sea moth, the "cow moth", into which his girlfriend begins to transform in dreamlike visions.

original_title: 蹄

title: I’m Glad to Be Alive

overview: Professional boxer Sota Kusunoki has gained popularity for his fighting style, where he goes headlong into his opponents. However, years of fighting have taken their toll on his body, and he is forced to retire by a doctor's stoppage. He takes the opportunity of his retirement to marry his girlfriend, Sachiko, and start a new life, but he is completely useless in society and is made acutely aware of the harsh reality of his situation. One day, a mysterious man who claims to be a fan of Sota's receives an offer to fight in an underground martial arts tournament, where he will fight for a large sum of money and where his desires are thriving... The prospect of fighting once again revives his almost forgotten excitement, and his adrenaline surges as if to fill the emptiness in him. Will the madness and honesty of a man obsessed with fighting have a happy ending or a bad one?

original_title: 生きててよかった

title: Sayonara Monotone

overview: Shuta Seno is a university student living by himself in Tokyo. Despite being assailed by loneliness and regrets, he decides to start working with a “family agency service” and soon begins to learn about what family can mean. Meanwhile, his employer has secrets…

original_title: さよならモノトーン

title: SEE HEAR LOVE

overview: Manga artist "Shinji Izumoto" has secured a movie deal. He should be celebrating, but he's going blind, his manga series has been canceled, and he can no longer care for his grandmother. All alone, Shinji makes the devastating decision to jump off a balcony. When "Hibiki Aida", a deaf fan of his, saves Shinji, they begin an unusual life together.

character: Daisuke's Chauffeur

original_title: SEE HEAR LOVE 見えなくても聞こえなくても愛してる

title: Love Will Tear Us Apart

overview: Wakaba saves her classmate Koki who was being bullied. From then on, people who are involved with Wakaba are killed one after another. When the murderer is found out, Wakaba realizes what true love is.

original_title: Love Will Tear Us Apart

title: Uminari

overview: This is Uminari

original_title: 海鳴りがきこえる

title: Suncream and Windchimes

overview: A couple falls in love again through strange encounters and awkward situations during a hot summer. Hajime sees his wife in the street wearing strange clothes. When asked, she says it wasn’t her. Hajime then installs cameras to monitor his wife and that’s just the start of his paranoia. His interactions with people become more twisted, leading him to question reality. Whimsical, odd and surreal, with great black-and-white cinematography.

original_title: ホゾを咬む

title: Scapegoat

overview: Akashi, a solitary man with no family, does the dirty work for Hiramoto, a yakuza boss. His life changes when he meets Yo, a Chinese restaurant worker who has no place to live. As a fellow struggler, Akashi opens up and offers her his home but soon realizes that this decision will bring unforeseen consequences.

original_title: スケープゴート

title: Faraway Family

overview: Kanata and his mother relocate from Fukushima to a new area where he finds trouble to connect with his peers, being uncertain of how to deal with the death of his father which was caused by an earthquake when he was younger. But Kanata slowly opens up when he meets Riku, the son of his much-admired homeroom teacher. However a troubling relationship dwells between father and son, and the two boys gradually grow closer.

character: Riku's Father

original_title: 彼方の家族

title: Afterword

original_title: あとがき

title: Bridal, my Song

original_title: ブライダルマイソング

title: Night Skirt

overview: Mika is a single woman in her 40s living in a corner of Tokyo. While sorting through her mother's belongings after she died of cancer, she finds a skirt that her mother loved as a child. One day, a divorced man with a child, Akio, comes to the beauty salon where Mika works. He is Mika's elementary school classmate, and the two exchange contact information when they meet again for the first time in 30 years. That night, Mika gets into trouble on her way home and asks Akio for help, but for some reason, he comes running to her wearing the skirt.

original_title: 夜のスカート

title: REVOLUTION+1

overview: Tatsuya Kawakami's mother becomes a member of a religious group after her husband commits suicide, and makes a large donation to the organization. Her three children are forced to live in poverty, and her eldest son, who is blind in one eye due to illness, takes his own life. Kawakami comes to believe that the religious group has ruined his life, so he creates a homemade gun and carries out an assassination plot against former prime minister Shinzo Abe, who has close ties to the religious group, which has been accused of siphoning off money from its members.

character: Family Friend

title: Futari No Kizuato

overview: Mina, a high school student who lost her best friend Hal to suicide before the school festival, lives with self-loathing. She finds hope in a new student, Haruka Kuroda, a drummer, and attempts to give form to Hal's unfinished music. They are about to perform at the festival, and their memorable summer is about to begin.

original_title: ふたりの傷跡

title: Hakobune

overview: This is Hakubune

original_title: はこぶね

title: Hard Boiled Recipe

original_title: ハードボイルド・レシピ

title: Slum-Polis

overview: 2041 - The west of Japan was destroyed in an earthquake. In between the slums within the rubble autonomous areas form with their own currency and administration. In the third communal district, known as Slum-Polis, criminals terrorize the poor population. In the daily struggle for survival the three friends Asu, Joe and the young prostitute Anna search for a little bit of security, but ultimately their strong bond is put to trial.

original_title: SLUM-POLIS

title: Journey of the Tortoise

overview: A road trip with a rebellious son, a reckless brother, and an uncontrollable pet turtle goes crazy.

original_title: トータスの旅

title: Sweating the Small Stuff

overview: Ryutaro Ninomiya, 27 years old, lives a fairly simple life. He works at an auto-repair shop, reads books and drinks a few beers. One day, he receives a phone call from Yusuke, his childhood friend whose mother, Ryuko, is dying from Hepatitis C. Despite knowing for a while that Ryuko was sick, Ryutaro hasn’t visited her, but today he decides to go.

original_title: 枝葉のこと

title: The Limit of Sleeping Beauty

overview: Aki is an unsuccessful 29-year-old actress who eventually became a magician's assistant. While pretending to be hypnotised on the stage, Aki finds the boundary between reality and illusion becoming increasingly vague. For Aki, the only beautiful memory she has was the time spent with her lover Kaito.

character: Fukusan

original_title: THE LIMIT OF SLEEPING BEAUTY －リミット・オブ・スリーピング ビューティ－

title: Ambiguous Places

overview: Konoko wakes up on the beach and goes looking for a barber to take out the bug stucking on her head. Doi, who will soon be a father, goes to make gloves for her wife as a gift, Kazuko wakes up at the theater, and goes home where she finds a blue monster. She goes to a shop to get rid of the monster.

character: Dumpling clerk #1

original_title: うろんなところ

title: Shell and Joint

overview: Nitobe and Sakamoto are childhood friends who now work at the front desk of a capsule hotel. Nitobe has a particular fondness for philosophy and crustaceans. Sakamoto, meanwhile, is fixated on suicide. The capsule hotel draws a variety of guests, including a Finnish mother who has lost her child, a fugitive woman, and a researcher studying Daphnia. None of their lives ever intersect. They exist, but never cross, like cells in a capsule hotel. The themes of life and death are explored through a fragmentary view of the characters’ lives.

original_title: Shell and Joint

title: Sharing

overview: Memories can be blocked, but they can also be invented. Psychology professor Eiko works with people who were traumatized by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster. But the topic affects her more personally than she wants to admit. Narrative structures begin to intertwine, reality becomes ambiguous. Like a surgeon, SHINOZAKI dissects the human mind in this complex yet moving film.

character: Daisuke

original_title: Sharing

title: Unfinished

overview: The yakuza have their best days behind them and are only a shadow of themselves. The old rituals seem out of date and their tattoos make them outcasts of society. The inexperienced student Ryō stumbles into their ranks by chance, and before he knows it, he becomes entangled in dark machinations. He quickly succumbs to the fascination of omnipotence fantasies and hedonistic decadence and sinks deeper and deeper into a parallel world of prostitution, blackmail and violence. However, there is one thing that Ryō has not considered in his naivety: once yakuza, always yakuza!

original_title: すじぼり

title: A Beast in Love

overview: On the bus passing through a quiet countryside, picks up a weird woman dressed man who turns out to be a cutthroat starting to kill the passengers one by one aiming to achieve the love from the guy on board whom he had a crush on.

original_title: 恋するけだもの

title: Cornflakes

overview: Insurance salesperson Miho feels cozy living with her boyfriend Yuya who, refusing to give up on his musician dreams, lives a self-indulgent lifestyle. But she wonders to herself if things will be OK like this. One day, an e-mail exchange between Yuya and his co-worker Shuri leads to an argument resulting in Miho throwing Yuya out of the house. Yuya has no place to go; Miho is all alone. After living together for seven years, the couple will spend this night apart.

original_title: コーンフレーク

title: A Balance

overview: While documenting a controversial tragedy that shook her community, a filmmaker must put her morals to the test when a perverse secret in her own life is revealed.

original_title: 由宇子の天秤

title: The Modern Lovers

overview: A married Japanese man living in the country agrees to meet with an ex-lover in Tokyo, leading him to question his life choices.

title: Kaba

overview: In 1985, in Japan, which was about to enter the bubble economy, there was a region where contradictions in the world seemed to gather.  Nishinari Ward, Osaka. Origins, prejudices, school violence, sloppy homes ...  There were many children who dreamed of a better tomorrow in a harsh environment, worried, suffered, and stubbornly sought their way of life.  A moving story that depicts the way of life of a real teacher, Kaba Masuo, who faced them and collided head-on.

title: Small, Slow But Steady

overview: Keiko surprises everyone when she overcomes adversity to win her first two boxing fights. But when an unexpected incident threatens the closure of her gym, she is pushed further than she thought possible.

title: TUESDAYGIRL

overview: A comedy about marriage versus break-up, honesty versus lies. Sekiguchi and Takagi are a young couple about to get married. Meanwhile Kimura can't tell his girlfriend Tashiro that he got laid off her of his job. One day, Tashiro dumps Kimura and Sekiguchi meets his ex-girlfriend to inform her of his upcoming marriage...

title: Ranshima Bound

overview: On a street in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Yoshio, a musician bachelor, is drunk. Then he gets a phone call from his brother Satoshi, who tells him that his mother Michiko has attempted suicide and is in a coma. Yoshio decides to head for his hometown where he has not been back for years. He takes Maki, a woman he met that night at the Tama River.  They get off at the unmanned station, Ranshima. Yoshio and Maki walk in silence to the hospital where Michiko is. Michiko, however, is unconscious and asleep. Yoshio introduces Maki to his brother, Satoshi, as his own wife. Unlike Satoshi, who works for a company, Yoshio has no money, so it is all he can do to show his face. Yoshio and Maki's fake married life begins.

title: Knuckle Girl

overview: Following the story of Ran, who confronts a mysterious organization by participating in a no-rules deathmatch after discovering her missing younger sister Yuzuki is involved in a crime. With danger at every corner, Ran must trade in her boxing gloves for brass knuckles. Will she save her sister?

title: Poca Pon

overview: Inspired by a bizarre murder case, this is the story of a family and the voice "POCA PON" — a voice that sometimes heals people, and sometimes destroys them.

title: Truth or Lies

overview: Risa Tanaka is a 30-something who is super sincere and hates lies, but after her mother dies and her boyfriend cheats on her, she takes up work with a human rental service. Despite reservations, she begins to play girlfriends, talent managers, and other roles for people across Tokyo who she is hired by. All the while, between experiences with her clients and life lessons from her laidback boss Teramura, her experiences begin to heal her heart while her wholsomeness rubs off on them.

title: Let Me Hear It Barefoot

overview: Student dropout Naomi befriends happy-go-lucky Maki, who lives with his blind adoptive mother Midori. When Midori becomes seriously ill and is hospitalized, Naomi and Maki send her tapes from an imaginary trip around the world. Their relationship grows while recording, but they only dare engage in rough, painful horseplay.

title: Karappo

overview: 23‑year‑old Machi Watarase, a perpetual part‑timer, works multiple odd jobs. One day, she’s asked by 19‑year‑old painter Okazaki Yoshito to be his model. Captivated by his sketch of her, she begins living with him. Meanwhile, a 27‑year‑old art writer, Itokawa Hiroshi, appears in her life. Although both Yoshito and Hiroshi let her be just as she is, strange feelings grow as her discomfort with her own image in the painting increases.

title: Rotting

overview: Taro and Chie Yoshida live on the fifth floor of an apartment complex with no elevator.  76-year-old Taro, confined to a wheelchair, has a walking disability.  72-year-old Chie suffers from dementia.  They struggle with the challenges of elderly caregiving in a harsh world that is falling apart.  With no means of escape and no one to help them, they are left to fend for themselves.  Can Taro and Chie survive on their own?

title: Innocent 15

overview: Gin is a 15-year-old boy. He knows that his father is a gay and he wonders if he might be the same. Narumi is a 15-year-old girl. Her mother tells her she should prostitute herself. Narumi decides to go to her father in Tokyo. Gin tells Narumi that he is going as well. The two 15-year-olds set out on a trip to Tokyo.

title: Astral Abnormal Suzuki

overview: Suzuki Rara is left behind in the countryside due to mischief. She becomes a YouTuber, goes both crazy and offbeat. Wearing an eye-patch, loose track pants and often holding a sledgehammer she begins interacting with the locals, families and visitors.

original_title: アストラル・アブノーマル鈴木さん

title: The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine

overview: In the wake of the social unrest caused by the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, two female sumo athletes, Kiku and Tokachi, and an anarchist group called the Guillotine Society, spark an unlikely connection.

title: Since Then

overview: On March 11th 2011, a massive earthquake strikes eastern Japan. Shoko (TAKEKOU Aya), who works at a shoe store in Tokyo, is unable to contact her boyfriend Masashi (ISOBE Yasuhiro) who lives in the worst-hit region. As aftershocks continue, she finally gets through to his brother who tells her that Masashi has become mentally unstable. Despite her desire to go to his side, she is urged to break up with him for her own sake. As Shoko struggles to come to terms with her feelings for Masashi, he suddenly appears before her...

title: Capturing Dad

overview: Part-time worker Hazuki lives with her younger sister, high school student Koharu, and their mother Sawa. One day they receive word that their estranged father is on his deathbed, so Sawa asks Hazuki and Koharu to visit him and take one last photo to remember him by.

title: I Catch a Terrible Cat

overview: Mr. Takada is a successful mature writer who falls into a creative blockade following the death of her wife. Incapable of finishing the novel his fans demand anxiously, and about to turn seventy, he starts wandering several pubs in the city, until he meets Sayo, a beautiful young waitress with sentimental issues she doesn’t hesitate to share with her clients.

title: Qualia

overview: Yuko Tanaka, who "married into" the Tanaka family, a family running a poultry farm, led a modest life despite being mistreated by her sister-in-law, Satomi Tanaka. One day, Saki Watanabe, the mistress of Yuko's husband, Ryosuke Tanaka, applies for a live-in employee position at the poultry farm. Unaware that Saki is her husband's mistress, Yuko, who conducts the interview, decides to hire her. Thus begins a strange cohabitation, including the husband's mistress.

title: Being Natural

overview: A rural gentleman's peaceful life takes a turn for the worse when a couple from Tokyo move to his neck of the woods.

title: Beyond the Blood

overview: One year after the unresolved murder of his wife, Shinji receives a mysterious message putting him on the right track to find the assassin. He follows his revenge instinct and disappears into the darkness of Tokyo, where he meets Tomoko, a young woman on the lam. During that night, they come across yakuza and lost souls, and their lives change drastically.

title: Where is the Mind

title: Maniac Driver

title: Beyond the Night

title: Hizume

title: I’m Glad to Be Alive

title: Sayonara Monotone

title: SEE HEAR LOVE

original_title: SEE HEAR LOVE 見えなくても聞こえなくても愛してる

title: Love Will Tear Us Apart

title: Uminari

title: Suncream and Windchimes

title: Scapegoat

title: Faraway Family

title: Afterword

title: Bridal, my Song

title: Night Skirt

title: REVOLUTION+1

title: Futari No Kizuato

title: Hakobune

title: Hard Boiled Recipe

title: Slum-Polis

title: Journey of the Tortoise

title: Sweating the Small Stuff

title: The Limit of Sleeping Beauty

title: Ambiguous Places

title: Shell and Joint

title: Sharing

title: Unfinished

title: A Beast in Love

title: Cornflakes

title: A Balance

title: The Modern Lovers

title: Kaba

title: Small, Slow But Steady

title: TUESDAYGIRL

title: Ranshima Bound

title: Knuckle Girl

title: Poca Pon

title: Truth or Lies

title: Let Me Hear It Barefoot

title: Karappo

title: Rotting

title: Innocent 15

title: Astral Abnormal Suzuki

original_title: アストラル・アブノーマル鈴木さん

title: The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine

title: Since Then

title: Capturing Dad

title: I Catch a Terrible Cat

title: Qualia

title: Being Natural

title: Beyond the Blood

The Asayama Family

original_name: こんばんは、朝山家です。

original_name: ゴールデンカムイ ―北海道刺青囚人争奪編―


Namrata Shrestha

biography:
Namrata Shrestha (born June 14, 1985) is a highly acclaimed Nepalese actress and model who has been a prominent figure in the entertainment industry since her debut in 2008. She quickly rose to fame with her role as Ritu in the romantic comedy Sano Sansar. She followed this success with the hit film Mero Euta Saathi Chha in 2009, establishing herself as a leading talent in Nepali cinema. Known for her dedication to her craft, she has taken on diverse and challenging roles, such as playing a mute woman in Maun and performing her own stunts for the action film Xira, for which she even shaved her head.

Her career is marked by several prestigious awards, including the National Film Award for Best Actress for her performance in the movie Classic (2016). She also received widespread critical acclaim for her role as Narayani in the film Prasad (2018), which earned her multiple "Best Actress" honors at the Dcine Awards and other major ceremonies. In addition to her film work, Shrestha is an accomplished theater performer, with lead roles in plays like Jalpari and Yerma. As both an actor and filmmaker, she remains one of the most influential and respected personalities in the Nepali arts, recognized for her ability to bring depth and authenticity to every character she portrays.

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iso_639_1: ne

iso_3166_1: NP

english_name: Nepali

title: November Rain

overview: Unusual rain in November brings change into the life of Aayush and Sheetal.

character: Sheetal

original_title: November Rain

original_language: ne

title: Marionettes (and the virtue of a lotus flower)

overview: Unaware of the strings of suffering that manipulate her world, a young girl seeks to understand why her mother is the way she is.

character: Aama (voice)

title: Sambodhan

overview: A determined investigative journalist is on a thrilling quest to uncover the truth behind a mysterious murder, reflecting the complex, gritty realities of Nepali society.

character: Parahu Shakya

original_title: सम्बोधन

title: Mero Euta Saathi Chha

overview: Jay, who is the heir to the property, is raised by his grandparents after the death of his parents. Being the rich guy he abuses his wealth. One day he skips class and while riding on his bike, he gets challenged from another bike rider in black helmet. He gets ahead of him and blocks his way. He acknowledges that the black helmet person was chased by Nepal Police for crime of robbery.

character: Sikha

original_title: मेरो एउटा साथी छ

title: Tandav

overview: When an arms deal on the Nepal India border goes south, a group of traveler's in a border hotel must band together to survive the resulting siege.

character: Maya

original_title: ताण्डव

title: Chhadke

overview: The film tells the story of three childhood friends. The trio all had dreams to fulfill 'when they grew up', but time and destiny seem to have other plans for them. A difficult life is forced upon them when the elder brother of one of these three men is hit by the vehicle of a shady character called Chewang  and left completely paralyzed. The three friends then find themselves in the way of a criminal gang called 'Royal', of which Chewang is the leader.

character: Soli

original_title: छड्के

title: Sano Sansar

overview: A young man helps a drunk woman get home safely, then learns that she is the same friend with whom he's been chatting online.

character: Reetu

original_title: सानो संसार

title: Prasad

overview: Newly married couple face a lot of challenges when they find out they can't conceive.

character: Narayani

original_title: प्रसाद

title: Parva

overview: A character continuously carries out attacks for his self satisfaction, after an incident occurred at a festival.

character: Ritu

original_title: पर्व

title: Xira

overview: Martial arts, Xira embarks on a relentless path of vengeance and justice after a notorious mob kingpin murders her police officer husband.

character: Xira

original_title: जाइरा

title: Classic

overview: Two visually impaired musicians navigate a tumultuous romance, where their bond is tested by professional success and personal insecurities.

character: Dristi

original_title: Classic

title: Maun: a loud silence

overview: Aman and Barsha— both deaf and mute— navigate their budding love in Kathmandu while Aman battles a dark past and seeks revenge on the man who caused his trauma

character: Barsha

original_title: मौन

place_of_birth: Dharan, Nepal

title: November Rain

title: Sambodhan

title: Mero Euta Saathi Chha

original_title: मेरो एउटा साथी छ

title: Tandav

title: Sano Sansar

title: Chhadke

title: Prasad

title: Parva

title: Xira

title: Classic

title: Maun: a loud silence


Dinesh Raut

biography:
Dinesh Raut (born March 17, 1982) is a critically acclaimed Nepali film director, and writer, who has significantly influenced the modern era of Nepali cinema with his emotionally resonant and socially conscious storytelling. He began his journey in the arts as a theater artist and assistant director—most notably on the hit film Mero Euta Sathi Cha— before making his directorial debut in 2012 with the romantic drama I Am Sorry. He quickly established himself as a master of the romantic genre with back-to-back hits like November Rain (2014) and Classic (2016), which earned him several Best Director awards and solidified his partnership with actors like Aaryan Sigdel and Namrata Shrestha.

Raut’s career is defined by his successful transition from commercial romances to gritty, realistic narratives that tackle complex societal issues. His 2018 film Prasad was a major turning point, exploring the struggles of a childless couple within the caste system, while his 2022 film Prakash received widespread acclaim for its authentic portrayal of rural struggle and political disillusionment, earning him the National Film Award for Best Director. In 2024, his film Pujar Sarki achieved massive commercial success, becoming one of the highest-grossing Nepali films in recent years. In his personal life, he is married to Rashmi Timilsina. Known for his meticulous approach to filmmaking and his talent as a lyricist for his own movies, Raut continues to be a leading figure in pushing the artistic boundaries of Kollywood.

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title: November Rain

title: Pujar Sarki

overview: Three individuals unite against societal norms perpetuating caste discrimination, facing challenges in their collective struggle to defy the existing caste-based social order.

original_title: पुजार सार्की

title: I am Sorry

overview: Gaurav and Shruti love each other unconditionally, but both share some secret about their past.

original_title: आई एम सरी

title: Prasad

title: Parva

title: Mahabhoj

overview: Mahabhoj is a social drama set in the backdrop of Nepal’s political system. It tells the story of everyday people who stand up against those who exploit them for selfish interests. The film highlights themes like rebellion, justice, and the struggle against political corruption and social inequality.  At its core, the story follows a bank loan manager in urgent need of money. When he turns to his father for help, he learns that his father’s lifelong savings have been stolen by a corrupt cooperative and a group of greedy individuals. This discovery sets off a powerful journey of resistance and truth.

original_title: महाभोज

title: Prakash

overview: An educated young boy from remote Nepal who dreams of becoming a teacher in a government school, the story of his struggle to fulfill his dream amidst economic hardships.

original_title: प्रकाश

title: Kumari

overview: A tender romantic drama about two young hearts brought together by fate. Kumari explores love, emotions, and the courage to choose the heart despite life’s challenges. A soulful Valentine-season love story.

original_title: कुमारी

job: Assistant Director

title: Mero Euta Saathi Chha

original_title: मेरो एउटा साथी छ

title: Classic

title: November Rain

title: Pujar Sarki

original_title: पुजार सार्की

title: I am Sorry

title: Prasad

title: Parva

title: Mahabhoj

title: Prakash

title: Kumari

title: Mero Euta Saathi Chha

original_title: मेरो एउटा साथी छ

title: Classic