Rebellious Yu Yuan-gi becomes a Taoist priestess in order to avoid traditional roles designated to her as a woman by the society and focus on her studies and poetry. However, her trysts with both her maid and a ronin lead to trouble.
A widower and his two children lead a content life until a dead woman's body is found in their garden. As they try to figure out the truth behind the mysterious corpse, a snake, a poetess, an audition, an aspiring singer, and an eccentric neighbor further complicate their lives.
Waltzes from Vienna is a romantic comedy that revolves around a series of misunderstandings and romantic rivalries in the city of Vienna. The story is based on true events and is filled with classical music, love triangles, and hilarious situations.
In 1920s Paris, a struggling artist gets caught in a love triangle while navigating the glamorous art scene. He becomes involved in forgery and must navigate love, wealth, and trust.
Ardh Satya is a gritty crime drama that follows an honest police officer who becomes disillusioned with the corruption within the criminal underworld. As he investigates a powerful crime boss, he faces personal and professional challenges that test his integrity and ideals. The film explores themes of anger, death, and the complexities of human nature.
Premature is a coming-of-age drama set in Harlem, New York City. It follows the life of a 17-year-old African-American girl named Ayanna who falls in love with an aspiring musician. The film explores themes of love, family relationships, and the challenges of navigating adulthood.
In It's a Wonderful World, a private detective is mistaken for a killer and must go on the run to clear his name. Along the way, he teams up with a news reporter and together they uncover a plot involving a wrongful conviction. With comedic twists and turns, this film will keep you laughing until the very end.
Winter Meeting is a drama/romance movie that follows a woman as she embarks on a soul-searching journey to Connecticut after a traumatic experience. There, she finds herself connecting with a spinster poetess, a war hero, and a priest, as she navigates through life-lessons, loss of faith, forgiveness, and abandonment. Set against the backdrop of winter and New York City, this movie explores themes of love, survival guilt, and the search for meaning.
Doll is a movie set in a gypsy camp during World War II. A poetess residing in the camp writes a book, exploring themes of poetry, love, and survival. The movie follows her journey as she navigates the chaos of war and the challenges faced by the Romani people. The nonlinear timeline adds depth to the storytelling, highlighting the struggles and resilience of the gypsy community. Amidst the harsh realities of war, the poetess finds solace in her writing, making her voice heard in a world filled with violence and destruction.
Umrao Jaan is the story of a poetess and singer who is kidnapped and sold into a brothel. She finds herself in a world of love, heartbreak, and hypocrisy as she navigates her way through the courtesan lifestyle. Based on the novel by Mirza Hadi Ruswa, Umrao Jaan is a musical drama that explores themes of love, betrayal, and identity.
Is Alixe and Gwen's sexual disagreement the cause of their problems, or are their problems the cause of their sexual disagreement? And how should an artist nurture her vision: by seeking adventures on the edge or by staying home and writing poems? What's more real, our fantasies, or what we actually do? In Who's the Top? there are no right answers, just musical numbers.
A fascinating biography of the poet Agnieszka Osiecka. The series presents her life from her early youth in the 1950s until her death in the 1990s. The background of this biographical story is the artistic, moral and political realities of those times, starting with education in a communist school, through studies at the Film School in Łódź, and the colorful world of student theaters - Warsaw's STS and Gdańsk Bim-Bom. It is a story about Osiecka's spectacular successes and failures, both in the fight against censorship and as a result of difficult life choices. The photos were taken in Warsaw, but also in Masuria, Kraków, Tricity, Łódź, Kazimierz Dolny, Opole and Zakopane.
Meera, a devotee of Lord Krishna, believes she is married to the lord and rejects her marriage to a Rajput prince. However, her spirituality leads her to face many hardships.
51-year-old Herbert Strehlow, a furniture restorer, falls in love with 21-year-old Lea, who has not spoken a word since childhood when her father killed her mother. She bears a striking resemblance to Herbert's dead wife. They get married, but their relationship seems doomed, until gradually each one manages to penetrate the mysterious world of the other, and they begin to realize that they are bound by a kind of spiritual relationship. For Lea it is the death of her mother, for Herbert it is the death of his first wife. His hard exterior slowly beings to thaw, and he starts to show feelings and responses that soften Lea's initial hatred and fear of him, and which put their relationship in a more positive light.
Petya of My Petya is a drama movie that delves into the life of Petya, a talented poetess who battles with depression and suicidal thoughts while trying to make a name for herself in the literary world. The film explores her journey of self-discovery, love, and the pursuit of her passion, as she grapples with her inner demons and tries to find hope and purpose in a tumultuous world.
Crump directed the feature-length documentary film Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff + Robert Mapplethorpe, which premiered in North America at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival and in Europe at Art Basel. It explores the influence curator Sam Wagstaff, photographer Robert Mapplethorpe and musician/poet Patti Smith had on the 1970s art scene in New York City.
The Barretts of Wimpole Street is a fictionalized biopic set in the 1840s in Surrey, England. Elizabeth Barrett, an invalid, lives a life of social isolation under the tyrannical rule of her father. She finds solace in her poetry and forms a forbidden romance with Robert Browning, a persistent suitor. The film explores their whirlwind courtship, their elopement to Italy, and the challenges they face due to societal and family expectations.
Documentary about Polish poet and Nobel Prize winner Wisława Szymborska.
father of four girls of marriageable age brings home a prospective suitor. One daughter agrees to see him but the rest are trying to persuade the. The three friends of the groom are also trying to prevent the ap`to marriage, but eventually fall in love with the three girls and get married.
The main motive of the film - a tragic love of Lesya Ukrainka to Marxist revolutionary Sergei Merzhinskiy. The film is about the poetess' trip to her beloved, in the literal and metaphorical sense at the same time.