Visiting the Minotaur

7.3

Bob le Flambeur

August 1956 •French

In Paris, Bob Montagne is practically synonymous with gambling -- and winning. He is kind, classy and well-liked by virtually everyone in town, including police inspector Ledru. However, when Bob's luck turns sour, he begins to lose friends and makes the most desperate gamble of his life: to rob the Deauville casino during Grand Prix weekend, when the vaults are full. Unfortunately, Bob soon learns that the game is rigged and the cops are on to him.

6.7

Music of the Heart

October 1999 •English

Story of a schoolteacher's struggle to teach violin to inner-city Harlem kids.

5.0

Drewniany różaniec

January 1965 •Polish

A young girl sent to an orphanage run by nuns gets confronted with the cruel and outdated methods used by the staff.

6.7

Silver Streak

December 1976 •English

A somewhat daffy book editor on a rail trip from Los Angeles to Chicago thinks that he sees a murdered man thrown from the train. When he can find no one who will believe him, he starts doing some investigating of his own. But all that accomplishes is to get the killer after him.

6.6

Half Nelson

August 2006 •English

Despite his dedication to the junior-high students who fill his classroom, idealistic teacher Dan Dunne leads a secret life of addiction that the majority of his students will never know. But things change when a troubled student Drey makes a startling discovery of his secret life, causing a tenuous bond between the two that could either end disastrously or provide a catalyst of hope.

6.4

Harsh Times

September 2005 •English

Jim Davis is an ex-Army Ranger who finds himself slipping back into his old life of petty crime after a job offer from the LAPD evaporates. His best friend is pressured by his girlfriend Sylvia to find a job, but Jim is more interested in hanging out and making cash from small heists, while trying to get a law enforcement job so he can marry his Mexican girlfriend.

6.3

The Little Thief

December 1988 •French

In a small town in post-WWII France, 16-year-old Janine tries to improve her conditions by any means necessary. Three people—Michel, a married lover; Raoul, a fellow thief; Mauricette, a photographer she meets in prison—will help her learn from her mistakes.

5.9

Adoration

April 2009 •English

For his French-class assignment, a high school student weaves his family history in a news story involving terrorism, and goes on to invite an Internet audience in on the resulting controversy.

5.8

The Forger

September 2014 •English

A former child art prodigy and second generation petty thief arranges to buy his way out of prison to spend time with his ailing son, only to be forced to alter his plans and commit one more job for the man who financed his release.

8.0

Second Offender

November 1977 •Spanish

Ramon Antonio Brizuela is a criminal whose life passes between rounds, parties and showdowns. Recognized by a witness during an assault, he is taken to jail where he becomes aware of the unfair and corrupt judicial system.

6.4

Barbershop

April 2002 •English

A day in the life of a barbershop on the south side of Chicago. Calvin, who inherited the struggling business from his deceased father, views the shop as nothing but a burden and waste of his time. After selling the shop to a local loan shark, Calvin slowly begins to see his father's vision and legacy and struggles with the notion that he just sold it out.

6.5

Topkapi

September 1964 •English

Arthur Simon Simpson is a small-time crook biding his time in Greece. One of his potential victims turns out to be a gentleman thief planning to steal the emerald-encrusted dagger of the Mehmed II from Istanbul's Topkapi Museum.

5.3

No Good Deed

June 2002 •English

While doing a friend a favour and searching for a runaway teenager, a police detective stumbles upon a bizarre band of criminals about to pull off a bank robbery. The screenplay by Christopher Cannan and Steve Barancik is based on the short story "The House in Turk Street" by Dashiell Hammett.

6.8

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

May 2002 •Chinese

During the Cultural Revolution, two young men are sent to a remote mining village where they fall in love with the local tailor's beautiful granddaughter and discover a suitcase full of forbidden Western novels.

7.5

And the Violins Stopped Playing

January 1988 •English

This is the true story about a group of Romani's (gypsy) in occupied Poland during World War II as they confront the atrocities and tragedies of a forgotten holocaust.

6.8

The Thomas Crown Affair

June 1968 •English

Young businessman Thomas Crown is bored and decides to plan a robbery and assigns a professional agent with the right information to the job. However, Crown is soon betrayed yet cannot blow his cover because he’s in love.

7.7

The Ox-Bow Incident

December 1942 •English

A posse discovers a trio of men they suspect of murder and cow theft and are split between handing them over to the law or lynching them on the spot.

7.5

How to Steal a Million

July 1966 •English

A woman must steal a statue from a Paris museum to help conceal her father's art forgeries.

2.0

Body and Soul

July 1997 •Italian

Ljuba, a woman who has recently become a model, gets involved with a uranium thief.

5.8

The Heart Is a Dark Forest

December 2007 •German

A woman's life is destroyed when she discovers that her husband has another family.

Visiting the Minotaur

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Cast

Sergey Shakurov

Vladimir Samoylov

Laimonas Noreika

Valentin Gaft

Lev Borisov

Grigoriy Lyampe

Rostislav Plyatt