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Van Duylen, representative of a diamond syndicate, brings to Amsterdam the Koh-I-Noor II , the largest diamond ever found. In one of the city's oldest diamond-cutting establishments it is cleft and the nine small stones are polished. Escorted by detectives, Van Duylen takes the stones home and puts them in his burglar-proof safe. He tells his wife that its doors are electrically charged and that anyone opening them in the wrong way will immediately be electrocuted. Two suspicious persons, Jack the Acrobat and the lion-tamer Feenstra, prowl around Van Duylen's villa, inspecting the doors and windows.

Pressured by his dad since childhood and by his boss at work, a man has a breakdown, but finds his rehabilitation at the unlikeliest of places.

In 1926, Buster Keaton was at the peak of his glory and wealth. By 1933, he had reached rock bottom. How, in the space of a few years, did this uncontested genius of silent films, go from the status of being a widely-worshipped star to an alcoholic and solitary fallen idol? With a spotlight on the 7 years during which his life changed, using extracts of Keaton’s films as magnifying mirrors, the documentary recounts the dramatic life of this creative genius and the Hollywood studios.

The story of golf icon and legend, Bobby Jones, who retired from competition at the tender age of 28.

Chi-guk and Kan-to prepare for bar exam, dreaming of becoming a prosecutor and judge, respectively. When they fail their first attempt at the bar exam, they take comfort in their senior Pak who has taken the exam and failed nine times. And they decide they win both love and bar exam so they go girl hunting. Chi-guk meets with the college student Keum-rye. Oh Ki-dae, Kan-to's room mate, introduces him to the beautiful Hong Su-ja but she rebuts him. The poor Kan-to anguishes over his ill father and younger sister, Young-ja. While wandering the streets, Kan-to meets the barmaid Suk-ja and they fall in love. On the other hand, the female law student Ji Hwa-ja is more interested in love than her studies but things don't quite go the way she wants them to. Chi-guk, Kan-to, and their senior Pak all pass the bar exam. Hwa-ja, who failed the exam, earns the love of Ki-dae. Behind Kan-to's success, the corruption of his sister.

An independent film director visits his family's home in Taiyuan, where he discusses love, marriage, and family with his mother and shows Pasolini's DECAMERON to his father. He returns to Beijing after the Chinese New Year celebrations and pursues sex and love.

Ricardo, a 30 year old mechanic nicknamed 'the genius' because he can fix any small electronics he touch, lives alone with his mother in the tiny suburb of Quintino north of Rio de Janeiro Brazil. When a mysterious young boy shows up one morning at his garage with a strange broken fish toy, Ricardo is suddenly thrown head on faced with his forgotten past. He must now embark on the journey for the answers within that will give him the strength to face a man's ultimate responsibility.

A biopic of soprano Maria Malibran (1808–1836). A beautiful singer, Maria Malibran, is forced to turn to the stage after her husband takes to gambling, and goes to Paris where she falls in love with a famous violinist. When her money-seeking husband reappears, the couple go to London, where they find happiness. A composer falls in love with Maria but when his affections are unrequited, he becomes broken, takes to drinking and dies.

Swedish/Estonian writer Mare Kandre (1962-2005): "It's about life and death and it must always be." "She brought her the truth," says Johan von Sydow, referring to the rock mythos and artistic romantic law that is about to die young.

1990 Taiwan film, directed by Li-Kuo Yang.

A tribute to the human and artistic greatness of a genius that continues to surprise us.

The life of a brilliant scientist who managed to live in the era of “developed” socialism in accordance with his own ideas about freedom and morality did not leave indifferent either his colleagues or the authorities.

Peter Pan for Steven Spielberg, heavenly tramp for Terry Gilliam ("The Fisher King"), mentor in "Will Hunting" and crazy genius in Disney's Aladdin: Robin William leaves the image of a big brother warm, at the protective and rebellious, advocating a joyful revolt against stupidity and resignation. It is this familiar genius that millions of fans of all ages have praised on social media after his suicide on August 11, 2014. Some of those who worked with him, including his former TV partner Pam Dawber , evoke the friend and the actor. A tribute punctuated by numerous excerpts, drawn from TV, cinema and on stage, some unknown in France.

A documentary that restores to the world, five hundred years after his death, the universal and sensitive genius of one of the greatest artists of the Italian Renaissance: Raphael Sanzio. Guided by the art historian Luca Tomìo, we decided to start our journey from the Renaissance atmosphere of Raphael’s birthplace, the Duchy of Urbino, to retrace, from the very beginning, Raphael's artistic education. From a young age, he found himself confronted with giants of the Renaissance art such as Piero della Francesca and Antonio del Pollaiolo, in the workshop of his father Giovanni Santi, also an excellent painter of the Urbino court.

Francisco de Goya (1746-1828) was ahead of his time and in his works we find the germ of the great artistic currents of the 19th century. His first paintings had a light and everyday life character, but the deafness he suffered from 1792 and the impression caused by the War of Independence profoundly marked his life and his work. In the paintings of his mature years, expressive force prevails over formal beauty and his audacity heralds the freedom that would characterize modern art.

Animation by Manabu Himeda.

Sadeq Saba travels to Iran to explore the life and work of Omar Khayyam, the great medieval mathematician and poet whose philosophy continues to resonate with modern Iranians.