Viennese doctor Josef Bruer meets with philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche to help him deal with his despair.
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Ben Cross
Josef Breuer
Armand Assante
Nietzsche
Joanna Pacula
Mathilda
Jamie Elman
Sigmund Freud
Andreas Beckett
Zarathustra
Katheryn Winnick
Lou Salome
Michal Yannai
Bertha
Rachel O'Meara
Frau Becker
On the eve of the Second World War, two of the greatest minds of the twentieth century, C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud converge for their own personal battle over the existence of God. The film interweaves the lives of Freud and Lewis, past, present, and through fantasy, bursting from the confines of Freud’s study on a dynamic journey.
Andrea lives with a girl who looks after him but who forbids him to open a door in the house.
Seduced by the challenge of an impossible case, the driven Dr. Carl Jung takes the unbalanced yet beautiful Sabina Spielrein as his patient. Jung’s weapon is the method of his master, the renowned Sigmund Freud. Both men fall under Sabina’s spell.
An examination of Austrian psychologist Sigmund Freud's career when he began to treat patients diagnosed with hysteria, using the radical technique of hypnosis.
Zurich, 1905. Nineteen-year-old Russian Sabina Spielrein is put by her parents in a psychiatric hospital, suffering from a severe form of hysteria and refusing to eat. A compassionate doctor, Carl Gustav Jung, takes her under his care and, for the first time, experiments with the psychoanalytical method of his teacher Sigmund Freud. Thus is born a sweeping story of love and passion, of body and soul, soaring to the utmost heights, but also plunging to the darkest depths of the 20th century.
Vienna, 1937, on the eve of the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany. The young and inexperienced Franz Huchel begins to learn about both the joys and hardships of life by working as an apprentice to the mutilated war veteran Otto Trsnjek in a small tobacco shop, where he meets the famous psychiatrist Sigmund Freud, a regular customer, who will become a valuable friend in times of chaos and uncertainty.
Mircea Eliade was a traditionalist Romanian novelist and philosopher. Following the disaster of the Second World War, he moved to Paris and Chicago, becoming a respected and influential historian of religions. He acquired something of the status of a guru, as poignantly told in the 1987 documentary Mircea Eliade et la redécouverte du sacré. The film features interviews with Eliade at the end of his life, artfully spliced with cuts to religious imagery on a background of moving spiritual music. It was released in 1987, the year after his death.
A boy who is the only child is faced with his father's abandoning the family home.
A young man dumps his girlfriend without telling her directly, trying to steer the conversation to other topics so that things will end naturally. However, the inner feelings don't simply disappear. The film explores the girl's inner, psychological state during unrequited love.
BMW Shorties 2025 Finalist. A couple's plan to murder the husband's step brother goes awry when they find out he has a family.
A game as old as time faded into the ashes of youth. Travel through this three-part memory as a young boy discovers the decay of his grandfather as they take part in an old game of Chinese chess. With every move he makes, he takes a step closer towards realising the extent of time. This film will explore themes of love, loss and what it really means to grow old in an optimistic way
Siew Bong is, with respect, quite an average person. He’s unexceptional in anything and has not achieved much, which typically isn’t a problem until he has to meet his girlfriend’s ultra-rich, ultra-high-achieving family that believes in flawlessness as the highest form of human value, a value especially upheld and enforced by the tyrannical matriarch of the family, Antoinette. Things turn south over a family dinner when Siew Bong’s beliefs on a person’s value grinds against the family’s facade of perfectionism.
Marooned in a coastal town, Noah yearns to belong somewhere between the blue tides and the raining sun.
On the uniqueness and significance of I.S. Turgenev's theater, and the connection between his dramaturgy and prose.
In a tense waiting room, a group of young people receives a mysterious memory card tied to a forbidden project. When a goverment officer bursts in, old connections resurface and everyone is forced to choose between obedience and rebellion.
Origolab, an internationally renowned genetical engineering company, establishes a new headquarters within the walls of a small medieval town in Istria and Boris, an ambitous up and coming biologist, gets a position in it. However, he discovers a terrifying secret: whilst Origolab might be on the verge of a scientific breakthrough with discovering eternal life, they have been kidnapping local children to achieve this, putting him before a moral dilemma. Should he try to save the most recent kidnapping victim? Or will he bend under the promise of the scientific discovery of a century?
Wanting to ease the grief of his parents after his older brother passes away, a young Nikola Tesla creates The Ray of Happyness. However, an Austrian general learns of his invention and hires two idea thiefs to steal it from him and use its power to rule the Empire.
September, 1944. A group of soldiers and resistance fighters set to blow up a viaduct of strategic value.
Valedictorian in a flight class, he has to complete 2 years of utility aviation before going into military. He is unhappy about that and he clashes with the old commandant Bărcan.
Saif is a famous TV anchor who has a friendship with director Mahmoud who always solves Saif's problems with his fiancée Hind, one of his fans. Mahmoud discovers that Suad works under different names in many places and steals and escapes.
A failed novelist's inability to pay the bills strains relations with his wife and leads him to work at an escort service, where he becomes entwined with a wealthy woman whose husband is a successful writer.
With the aid of a fellow Auschwitz survivor and a hand-written letter, an elderly man with dementia goes in search of the person responsible for the death of his family.
A 17 year old finds out that his girlfriend is dying, so he sets out to give her an entire life, in the last year she has left.
Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life.
During shopping for Christmas, Frank and Molly run into each other. This fleeting short moment will start to change their lives, when they recognize each other months later in the train home and have a good time together. Although both are married and Frank has two little kids, they meet more and more often, their friendship becoming the most precious thing in their lives.
A car accident and shifting affections test the bond between a married couple.
A rising black painter tries to break into a competitive art world while balancing an unexpected romance with an ambitious law student.
Aza confronts her potential for love, happiness, friendship, and hope while navigating an endless barrage of invasive, obsessive thoughts.
In the reign of emperor Tiberius, Gallilean prophet John the Baptist preaches against King Herod and Queen Herodias. The latter wants John dead, but Herod fears to harm him due to a prophecy. Enter beautiful Princess Salome, Herod's long-absent stepdaughter. Herodias sees the king's dawning lust for Salome as her means of bending him to her will. But Salome and her lover Claudius are–contrary to Scripture–nearing conversion to the new religion.
Paul travels the world to capture the perfect photographic moment. Amid the colour and chaos of a crowded Filipino market, destiny intervenes when Paul’s first love, Anna appears in his lens. The travellers spend the day exploring the beauty of a 16th century town and whilst passions reignite, their principles on relationships, religion and morality clash. The night they spend together will change everything.
A road trip through Louisiana transforms three strangers who were originally brought together by their respective feelings of loneliness.
Muslim prince Ali and Georgian aristocrat Nino have grown up in the Russian province of Azerbaijan. Their tragic love story sees the outbreak of the First World War and the world’s struggle for Baku’s oil. Ultimately they must choose to fight for their country’s independence or for each other.
Miles Montego has it all - cars, boats, good looks, mansion, money, women, but more importantly, he has a past.
Based on the true story of Robin, a handsome, brilliant and adventurous man whose life takes a dramatic turn when polio leaves him paralyzed.
Clare and Aidan make a pact to break up before college — no regrets, no broken hearts. But will one epic goodbye date offer them a last chance at love?
On Christmas Eve, a fighter pilot on his way home becomes lost while flying over water and needs a miracle to land safely.
The year is 1955, and a great flood is coming to Northfork, Montana. A new hydroelectric dam is about to be installed in the mountains above the town, ready to submerge the valley in the name of progress. It is the responsibility of a six-man Evacuation Committee to relocate the townsfolk to higher ground. Most have duly departed, but a few stubborn stragglers remain – among them a priest caring for a sickly orphan, a boy whose fevered visions are leading him to believe he is a member of a roaming band of lost angels desperately searching for a way home.
When illness strikes two people who are polar opposites, life and death bring them together in surprising ways.
An extraordinary look at the lives of a middle-aged couple in the midst of the wife's breast cancer diagnosis.
Raimund Gregorius, having saved a beautiful Portuguese woman from leaping to her death, stumbles upon a mesmerizing book by a Portuguese author, which compels him to suddenly abandon the boring life he has led for years and to embark on an enthralling adventure. In search of the author, Gregorius acts as detective, pulling together pieces of a puzzle that involves political and emotional intrigue and the highest possible stakes. His voyage is one that transcends time and space, delving into the realms of history, medicine and love, all in search of true meaning to his life.
