Olive Films
1) The thief
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
2010
Language
Russian
Description
"Superb! Intimate and epic!"--Los Angeles Times.
In 1946, a soldier fathers a child and dies before his birth. Six years later, while on a train, the mother and the child meet a handsome soldier. The three pose as a family to get a room in a boarding house. The soldier instantly becomes everyone's favorite due to his good looks and generous spirit. After the mother falls in love with the soldier she ends up in a fight for her own life when his true...
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Daisy is a hen who manages to escape the horrible conditions of an egg production line. After surviving a harrowing encounter with a one eyed weasel and being rejected by the barnyard animals where she grew up, a chance encounter see's her becoming the guardian of a duckling. Despite the child being a duck, Daisy is willing to learn and make the sacrifices she needs in order to ensure the happiness of her adopted son.
3) Despair
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and successful chocolate magnate, starts to experience hallucinations. One day, he meets Felix and is sure that this man is his doppelganger. His delusional thinking leads him to hatch a plan to relieve him of his mental anguish.
4) Broderskab
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Danish
Description
Former Danish servicemen Lars and Jimmy are thrown together while training in a neo-Nazi group. Moving from hostility through grudging admiration to friendship and finally passion, events take a darker turn when their illicit relationship is uncovered.
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
2010
Language
Español
Description
Fausta suffers from 'The Milk of Sorrow,' an illness transmitted through mother's milk by women who've been raped during Peru's civil wars. Stricken with the fear that she's contracted the illness from her mother's breast milk, Fausta goes to extreme lengths to protect her own sexuality and safety. After her mother's sudden death, she finds herself compelled to embark on a frightening journey for re-awakening, freedom, and wholeness.
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Français
Description
Jean-Luc Godard transformed the face of cinema with his prolific, influential, and revolutionary body of work, which includes such classics as Breathless; Weekend; and Contempt, just to name a few. Consisting of eight episodes made over a period of ten years, this is an extraordinary look at the medium through the eyes of this unique filmmaker. The series covers a wide range of topics, from the birth of cinema to Italian neo-realism to Hollywood and...
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
2011
Language
Finnish
Description
Leila, who's serving a life sentence for murder, is pardoned and offered a job in a secluded parsonage reading and composing letters for Father Jacob, a blind priest. She reluctantly accepts the job and resents the man at first, but gradually grows to admire him for his positive outlook and his continued help to those seeking prayers and counsel. Two completely different lives are unexpectedly intertwined in this heartwarming tales of personal redemption.
"The...
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
2011
Language
Deutsch
Description
After surviving a horrific car accident a young man can't even remember his own name. In an attempt to cure him from his amnesia, his quirky grandfather travels to Germany and organizes a spiritual journey for his grandson, back to the country of his birth. While traveling with his grandfather across time and place on a tandem bicycle, the young man begins to reconnect with his forgotten past. Based on Ilija Trojanow's autobiography.
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
2011
Language
Deutsch
Description
A German-born woman flees from her oppressive marriage in Istanbul, taking her son with her. She hopes to find a better life with her family in Berlin, but her unexpected arrival creates intense conflicts. Her family is trapped in their conventions. They are torn between their love for her and the traditional values of their community.
10) Borderless
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Persian
Description
A young boy lives alone on an abandoned ship harbored along the stretch of an unnamed war-torn border. The boy's solitary existence is torn apart when a young refugee appears in search of shelter, carrying an infant.
12) Blanche
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Français
Formats
Description
An elderly noble baron and his much younger bride welcome a visiting King and his handsome page, Bartolomeo to their castle, which sets in motion accusations of disloyalty and marital infidelity, turning what should be a fairytale into a nightmare.
13) Mammuth
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
2011
Language
Français
Description
After turning 60, working-class man Serge decides to retire and is ready to reap his pensioner's rewards. He runs into the implacable wall of bureaucracy after finding out that his former employers have neglected to declare his earnings. To receive full benefits he needs to go back to them and gather the missing affidavits. Encouraged by his wife, our hero climbs his old 1970s Mammoth motorcycle and sets off on a trip to recover lost wages and buried...
14) Evelyn
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Inspired by a custody case brought before the Irish courts in 1955, Desmond Doyle is a father fighting for the custody of his three children after abandonment by their mother. Due to the Irish law of the time, children could not be raised by one parent in what the courts considered a broken home, thus allowing the Doyle children to be placed in church run orphanages, where neglect and cruelty were not out of the ordinary. Desmond will take his fight...
15) Caught
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A tale of Leonora, an aspiring carhop who meets and marries a mysterious millionaire, Smith Ohlrig. Soon after the wedding, Laura realizes she's trapped in a loveless marriage with a ruthless workaholic husband who torments her with twisted mind games. Unable to obtain a divorce from Smith, she moves out of the mansion and goes to work for a dedicated doctor, Larry Quinada. The two quickly fall in love but the romance comes to an abrupt halt when...
16) Ophelia
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Français
Description
Ivan, a high-strung and intense young man of means, suspecting that his mother, Claudia, and Uncle Adrian are responsible for the death of his father, sets out to reveal their foul deed. Concocting a clever ruse to unmask the accused, Ivan's fever dream of revenge takes a unexpected turn.
17) Sterile cuckoo
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A relentlessly kooky coed falls in love with a reserved young college student. She actively pursues the shy boyish-man and helps him through the tough first months in school. They both benefit from the relationship; he gains self-confidence and she's now able to come to grips with her unhappy home life.
18) Iphigeneia
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Greek
Description
Believed to be cursed by a powerful and angry goddess for his slaying of a deer, Agamemnon must sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia to remove the curse which has prevented the winds from blowing and his ships from moving forward on their mission to Troy.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A group of James Dean devotees reconvene at their teenage hangout, a rural Texas drugstore, twenty years after the death of their beloved idol. But much has changed in the intervening years, and the reunion provides them one final opportunity to expose the secrets and heal the emotional wounds that have lingered among them for two decades.
20) Vincent and Theo
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Language
English
Formats
Description
This is a passionate story of an obsessive artist driven by inexorable demons and his alternately devoted and despairing younger brother, who seems unable to live with him or without him.