Hamog sa Bukang Liwayway

Papillon

September 2017 •English

Henri “Papillon” Charrière, a safecracker from the Parisian underworld, is wrongfully convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, where he forges a strong friendship with Louis Dega, a counterfeiter who needs his protection.

Berlin is in Germany

November 2001 •German

When Martin, a former GDR citizen, is released from jail, he lately becomes confronted with the consequences of the German re-unification.

Lakshmi

March 2014 •Hindi

Based on true events, Lakshmi is a story of heroism and untold courage. Lakshmi, a 13 year old girl is kidnapped and sold into prostitution. Thrown into this horrific, inhuman world where she is raped and brutally beaten she barely survives with the help of the other girls and her own will to never give in. Finally she is rescued in a police raid. Against all odds, Lakshmi shows courage where everybody else fails. Resisting all pressure - violent threats, coercion and bribes, she stands up in court and in a landmark case in India, succeeds in putting the traffickers behind bars.

Are You Lonesome Tonight?

January 1992 •English

A desperate socialite seeks her missing husband, troubled by bad investments and debts, with help from a private eye and the high-priced call girl hubby had been seeing.

Ariel

October 1988 •Finnish

A Finnish man goes to the city to find a job after the mine where he worked is closed and his father commits suicide.

Underdogs

July 2008 •German

High Heels

September 1985 •Spanish

A prostitute falls in love with a painter with whom she believes she can save her life.

Young Fugitives

June 1938 •English

A young man befriends the last surviving Civil War veteran, intending to rob him of $50,000.

A Prayer Before Dawn

May 2018 •English

The amazing true story of Billy Moore, an English boxer incarcerated in Thailand’s most notorious prison. Thrown into a world of drugs and violence, he finds his best chance to escape is to fight his way out in prison Muay Thai tournaments.

Hothead

February 1979 •French

François, a miserable football player, becomes a town hero after bringing victory in an extremely important game. He uses his fame for revenge on the team star for the previous mockeries.

Mysterious Skin

March 2005 •English

A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.

Party Girl

August 2014 •French

Angélique is a 60-year-old bar hostess. She still likes to party, she still likes men. At night, she makes them drink, in a cabaret by the French-German border. As time goes by, clients become rare. But Michel, her regular client, is still in love with her. One day, he asks Angélique to marry him.

The Exit Room

April 2013 •English

Imprisoned journalist Joseph Michaels faces a government execution during a future American Revolution.

Kaspar Hauser

September 1993 •German

In May 1828, a feral boy aged around 16 was found in Nuremberg. Kaspar Hauser, as he is called, can only speak a few indistinct words and knows nothing about his origins or family. The film depicts the - presumed - circumstances under which Hauser was held captive in complete isolation in a hiding place from infancy onwards. From this emerges the picture of an intrigue involving high circles of aristocratic society. Five years after his liberation, in December 1833, Kaspar Hauser died as a result of a stab wound inflicted by an unknown perpetrator.

Innocent Girls Abroad

April 1972 •German

"A vivid, exciting look at the lives of vulnerable young girls who are hustled into the promised land of professional glamour"

Parole Girl

March 1933 •English

A woman convicted of fraud aims to take her revenge on the man who put her inside after being released on parole.

The Violators

November 1957 •English

A New York City probation officer, noted for his sympathy with delinquents, put to a severe test when his daughter falls for a boy whom circumstances force into breaking the law.

The Life

April 2004 •Spanish

An anthropology student exploring the nature of prostitution is drawn deeper into that profession than she ever expected.

Sansho the Bailiff

March 1954 •Japanese

In medieval Japan, a woman and her children journey to find the family's patriarch, who was exiled years earlier.

Pigs and Battleships

January 1961 •Japanese

In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occupation period with a goal to be together.