HIDDEN GEMS you probably never heard about!
A recommendation of good movies that never has gotten the world wide praise they should have. Please feel free to recommend others in a comment!
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- DirectorAlain MinierStarsOlivier MarchalSmaïnCatherine MarchalJo gets out of prison after 15 years after a big heist, and most is changed in his old neighborhood. New gangs and different lives. He's even got a son, which he didn't know about. He is back, and that stirs up the neighborhood.
- DirectorErnesto DaranasStarsAlina RodríguezYuliet CruzArmando Miguel GómezAging teacher Carmela has a special heart for pupils from broken homes and is challenged by the headmaster to follow up 12 year old Chala which is infatuated in Yeni. They are both poor, and has severe home troubles.
- DirectorSara JohnsenStarsTuva NovotnyRuby DagnallLaila GoodyThe bride finds a baby on the toilet floor of a hotel. 16 years later the girl turns upon her doorstep needing to find her biological family. A funny, touching story about how sex, lies, and biology created the beautiful flower Rosemari.
- DirectorGiacomo MartelliStarsMichael ParksMaya SansaAndrea TidonaEstranged by the degree of corporate influence within the largest U.S. listening station in the world, an aging NSA officer defects and mounts a clandestine counter-listening station high in the Italian alps.
- DirectorArild AndresenStarsVebjørn EngerKristoffer JonerCecilie A. MosliJarle Klepp gets a message that forces his mind back to something he'd rather forgotten - his childhood with his father in Stavanger. When "Orheim" was his surname.
- DirectorPhilip SmithStarsClaire FoyNeil GaimanRichard HolmesA drama-documentary telling the story of the celebrated gathering in Geneva, 1816 which led to the creation of both Frankenstein and the first modern vampire story.
- DirectorHalkawt MustafaStarsAli AhmedSoran EbrahimSoran IbrahimThe teenagers Shirin and Soran are in love, and want to marry, but Shirin's father has arranged her marriage, and forbids them. On her wedding night Soran kidnaps her for them to be together.
- DirectorGyda ChristensenTancred IbsenStarsHans Jacob NilsenUnni TorkildsenJan VaageA postal clerk is robbed and threatened to his life, giving up the money. In his community he is seen upon as a coward, ruining his family. After moving he meets a man who seems to knows it, wanting to help him regain his life and honor.
- DirectorMaria von HelandStarsPernilla AugustAnders EkborgLia BoysenThe alcoholic teacher Anna wakes up one morning in her house and finds a dead 16-year old boy in her bedroom. She's clueless to what's been happening, but is soon convincing herself that she caused his death. Her brother thinks otherwise.
- DirectorEva DahrEva IsaksenStarsTorstein HølmebakkLise FjeldstadKaroline WaalThe film is about the teenager Hermann (Hølmebakk) who develops a relationship with the middle-aged Rosa (Fjeldstad).
- DirectorHarald Østgaard LundStarsGeir Birk NilsenYasmin SyedPeter GardenBeat up punk rock legend Otto, of "Otto's Speedway Action Organ", finally gets another gig in Haugesund on Norway's west coast. He gets his father's car, a 1969 model Opel Diplomat, out of hock, and proceeds to drive from Oslo to Haugesund. But he never gets to Haugesund. In Telemark, in Norway's heartland, he meets up with Pakistani "roots researcher" Farida. Who, complete with a broad Telemark accent, a Telemark surname, a cellular phone, and a laptop computer, makes a business out of finding Norwegian relatives in Telemark, for Americans desperately searching for roots. His car gets stolen by locals lusting for its Chevy V8 engine, and he ends up with an old Chevy Impala, traveling the labyrinths of roads that make up Telemark.
- DirectorDavid MortinStarsNikolaj Lie KaasGil BellowsLine VerndalA poor young Scandinavian immigrant couple winds up in Canada in search of prosperity, but the hardship of the Great Depression takes a toll in a way they never feared when they went in search of the dream.
- DirectorErik LøchenStarsEspen SkjønbergPer Theodor HaugenKari RasmussenA meta-film about a film and the common man in our own political reality. A reality that is just scenes of a film without any cinematic development, but which might be plain reality tomorrow.
- DirectorLine HalvorsenStarsAbdullah Al-ArianLaila Al-ArianLama Al-ArianUSA vs AL-ARIAN is a close portrait of an Arab-American family facing terrorism charges leveled by the U.S. Government. The film shows a personal story of a family living in a society where fear of terrorism has resulted in increasing stigmatization and discrimination against Muslims.
- DirectorPaul LazarusStarsLaura LeightonTim DalyOlivia d'AboA guy proposing is told that he has no idea how to have a relationship. On the way to the funeral of another ex, he goes on a road trip to find out what went wrong with the 7 girlfriends in his life by contacting them.
- DirectorArne SkouenStarsIvar SvendsenKari ØksnevadRolf KirkvaagFrom his secret radio transmitter in the tower of a woman's hospital in Oslo during WW2, Per keeps contact with London, while being sought after by the German occupiers. Based on true events about war-hero Knut Haugland.
- DirectorEarl BellamyStarsJoe Don BakerTyne DalyRichard JaeckelAfter a wave of unsolved car thefts, an insurance company calls in private investigator Pete Novick to solve the case. While the chief of police isn't thrilled about having an outsider come and show up his men, one of the officers is a former girlfriend of Novick's who's more than willing to help him out in any way she can. After a long and convoluted investigation with false leads, psychics and the mafia, Novick at last unravels the identity of the thief.
- DirectorFenton BaileyRandy BarbatoStarsCarl LevinRobert GatesMike MullenThe strange history of the now abandoned American 1993-bill, «Don't ask, don't tell» where sexual orientation was a "non-talk" policy in the American forces, leading to 13.368 getting kicked out before 2011.
- DirectorMargreth OlinStarsAnna Maja AndersenJim Rune AntonsenKristiane Nerdrum BøgwaldMargreth Olin has filmed 22 persons i their meeting with the well known voluntary healer Joralf Gjerstad. For 65 years more than 50.000 has gone to him to be healed from illnesses and ill-doings. He has never asked for a penny for this.
- StarsDavid NivenMichael YorkBarbara HersheyDuring World War II, a wealthy Canadian uses his own money to help the Allies form an espionage network.
- DirectorMaro ChermayeffMicah FinkStarsWayne MannFollows the Ramapough Indians and their legal team as they take on Ford and the EPA.
- DirectorLeslie WoodheadStarsKevin SpaceyJohn F. KennedyJacqueline KennedyCaptures the frantic rush to the local hospital, the public chaos that ensued, the quickly mobilized manhunt by law enforcement looking for a suspect after witnesses identified the source of the gunshots as the Texas Book Depository, and the clash and confusion of media and authorities as Oswald is brought in for interrogation.
- DirectorFrances CauseyDonald GoldmacherStarsElizabeth WarrenNomi PrinsFranklin D. RooseveltHeist: Who Stole the American Dream? reveals how American corporations orchestrated the dismantling of middle-class prosperity through rampant deregulation, the outsourcing of jobs, and tax policies favoring businesses and the wealthy. The collapse of the U.S. economy is the result of conscious choices made over thirty five years by a small group: leaders of corporations and their elected allies, and the biggest lobbying interest in Washington, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. To these individuals, the collapse is not a catastrophe, but rather the planned outcome of their long, patient work. For the rest of the country, it is merely the biggest heist in American history.
- DirectorTancred IbsenStarsAlfred MaurstadLars TvindeGuri StormoenAn orphan, Josefa, runs away from her threatening uncle with whom she is living, and stows away on traveller Fændrik's boat. She is no better off with him, however, as he forces himself on her and makes her steal and beg for a living. Meanwhile Fændrik's sister, who has been left penniless on shore by her deceitful brother, joins forces with Josefa's fiancé, Oscar, in a search for the missing pair.
- DirectorNishtha JainTorstein GrudeStarsSampat Pal DeviRam DulariDevratiIn Bundelkhand, India, a revolution is in the making among the poorest of the poor, as the fiery women of the Gulabi Gang empower themselves and take up the fight against gender violence, caste oppression and widespread corruption.