Olive Films
1) Thief
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
Russian
Description
In 1946 a soldier fathers a child and dies before his birth. Six years later, the mother and the child meet a handsome soldier in a train. An incredible story of much deceptions, heartbreaks and betrayals ensue.
2) Himizu
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
日本語
Description
Alienated from his family and devoid of hope for the future, Yuichi becomes a vigilante and commits a string of violent acts upon the world's evildoers, including his abusive father. Keiko is a former classmate who has an obsessive fascination with Yuichi, following every move of the disenchanted teen's murder spree.
3) The fool
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Russian
Description
A dramatic tale worthy of Dostoyevsky, The fool tells the story of one man's fight against a corrupt political system. Dima is a young man eking out a living in modern day Russia as a plumber's assistant while working to finish college. Called out late one night to inspect a leak at a derelict housing community, he discovers a major structural problem and a building on the verge of collapse. In his attempt to save lives of the eight hundred residents,...
4) 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...
5) Stay hungry
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A syndicate wants to buy a whole district and rebuild it. The only one not selling is a gym called 'Olympic', where Mr. Austria trains. They send in someone to buy it, but he starts to like the people and falls in love with Mr. Austria's friend.
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Zulu
Description
What happens when an Afrikaans guy and a Zulu girl fall in love and have to navigate their way through the complicated process of lobola? A contemporary romantic comedy about love and tradition in a rapidly evolving society. Funny yet hard-hitting, the film tackles the thorny subject of cross-cultural relationships with humor and honesty.
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Saloon owner Vienna battles the local townspeople headed by Emma, the local sexually repressed, lynch-happy female rancher out to frame her for a string of robberies. Johnny Logan is a guitar-strumming drifter with a dark past who was once in love with Vienna and has been offered a job in her saloon. Nicholas Ray's epic western is considered one of the most original westerns of all time. The women are far tougher than the men and some saw a bizarre...
9) R
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Danish
Description
The prisoner R arrives at Denmark's toughest prison where he is to serve his sentence for a violent assault. R is reduced to a number, a letter, and just another inmate. The prison is a parallel world filled with rules, honor, and debts. A world in which bars cover the windows and blood stains the floor. R is placed in the most hardcore ward. Here he must find his place in the system, learn to navigate, and fight for survival.
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Domineering maestro Leopold exerts a Svengali-like control over Myra, a talented young pianist. Frustrated by Leopold's domineering nature, the girl abandons her professional career and marries a humble farmer. Years later, haunted by regret, Myra returns to face her former mentor, to prove that she was, and continues to be, a better musician than he ever credited her with being.
11) Nothing personal
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Urszula Antoniak's stunningly assured debut is touching, gentle, and playful. An enigmatic beauty drifts from town to town, hitching rides through the Irish countryside. She comes across an isolated cabin and strikes up an uneasy relationship with its owner. Haunted by their pasts, each has something to offer the other: the solace of his cabin and her welcome companionship.
Series
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A comedy of errors surrounding a beautiful college bound girl disturbingly preoccupied with the threat of nuclear destruction. Nevertheless, she falls in love with a handsome ex-con who is rumored to have murdered, many years before, the father of his high school sweetheart.
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A satire on the ups and downs of being a black actor in Hollywood. Bobby Taylor, a young black actor whose attempts to find work are dashed when told that he's not "black enough" for the roles being offered. With jobs limited to stereotypes (gang-bangers, pimps and Uncle Toms), Bobby's struggles are told through a series of comic fantasies and dreams.
14) The dark mirror
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Twin sisters are implicated in a Hollywood murder and a police detective must figure out if one or both were involved in the killing. A psychiatrist approached by the detective to help with the complicated case agrees to see them separately and is immediately attracted to one of them and fears the other one to be the killer, but he's worried that if he's wrong he could end up on a slab in the morgue himself.
15) Baby it's you
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Set it 1966 New Jersey, middle-class high school senior Jill finds herself inexplicably drawn to suave, blue collar bad boy known as 'The Sheik'.
16) Foxy Brown
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A woman goes undercover as a hooker to avenge her brother and boyfriend's deaths at the hands of the mob.
17) Cooley High
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Set in 1960s, a slice-of-life tale of high school students coping with the challenges of everyday life growing up in the Chicago housing projects.
18) Black Caesar
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Tommy Gibbs is a tough kid, raised in the ghetto, who aspires to be a kingpin criminal. As a young boy, his leg is broken by a bad cop on the take, during a payoff gone bad. Nursing his vengeance, he rises to power in New York City's Harlem. Angry at the racist society around him, both criminal and straight, he sees the acquisition of power as the solution to his rage.
19) The enforcer
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A crusading District Attorney is out to convict the head of a vicious murder-for-hire ring. But when his star witness is killed, Bogart must race against time to find the evidence he needs to bring down the mob boss. Told in a series of flashbacks, this tense, tough-as-nails crime thriller on the cutting edge of film noir was based on actual Murder, Inc. trials.
20) Westward ho
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
John Wayne stars as a two-fisted pistol-packing cowboy who vows to avenge the death of his parents at the hands of cattle rustlers. While searching for the brother he has been separated from since childhood he fights to bring law and order to the Wild West as he leads a band of vigilantes bent on rounding up gangs of outlaws.
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