This film tells the story of the president of a fictitious African nation who spends a sleepless night playing checkers with a pot-smoking vagabond who claims to be the all-round champion. However, the rules of the game entail the opponents howling vulgar and foul obscenities at one another. The champion proceeds to insult, and trounce, the President. His reward, and his fate, will not surprise anyone.
Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved t...
On the one hand, there’s the desert eating away at the land. The endless dry season, the lack of wat...
A failed track coach finally finds someone who he believes has what it takes to win. The Comrades Ma...
A couple sets up an African game preserve, only to have British and Italian armies fight over the wa...
In honor of his birthday, San Francisco banker Nicholas Van Orton, a financial genius and a cold-hea...
Fatima and the group of her high school friends will get their bachelor degrees. A question arises i...
Young Scottish doctor, Nicholas Garrigan decides it's time for an adventure after he finishes his fo...
The Randolph family have a tradition of working in the British colonial service. Clive comes home fr...
Two adventurers and best friends, Roland and Manu, are the victims of a practical joke that costs Ma...
Inspector Rizzo in Napoli gets a message from a policeman from South Africa who wants to meet him. I...
Fast Eddie Felson is a small-time pool hustler with a lot of talent but a self-destructive attitude....
An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sie...
Two prisoners, a white racist and a black man escape. They discover that the only way to survive is ...
An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the Sout...
A slick serial seducer bets his friends that he can bed three old flames in six weeks, in this risqu...
An enigmatic tale of four people whose lives are intertwined by destiny are subject to the laws of f...
The point-of-view of a street dog in relation to the world around her. She runs into adversity and f...
In Trinidad and Tobago, a six-year-old dreams of being a superhero.
A suicidally disillusioned liberal politician puts a contract out on himself and takes the opportuni...
William Thatcher, a knight's peasant apprentice, gets a chance at glory when the knight dies suddenl...