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Asuran (Demon) is a Tamil language action drama written and directed by Vetrimaaran and produced by Kalaipuli S. Thanu.

Flamboyant silent film star Alla Nazimova, acclaimed Russian actress, accomplished violinist, major Broadway luminary, the diva of multiple films as actor, producer, director, editor and costume designer is all but forgotten today, though there was a time when she ruled Hollywood and earned more money than Mary Pickford - $13,000 a week on a five-year contract with Metro Pictures in 1917. Nazimova was born Miriam Edez Adelaida Leventon in 1879 in Czarist Russia to Jewish parents.

Rome, Italy, the early 1980s: four friends, Giulio, Gemma, Paolo and Riccardo are 16 and have their whole life ahead of them. The Best Years, co-written and directed by Gabriele Muccino, is a heartfelt story about a friendship among four people that starts when they are teenagers in the tumultuous early 1980s.

In Tara Miele's Wander Darkly, which premiered this year in Sundance and finally is becoming available in the US, Sienna Miller plays a wife and mother who finds her life suddenly disrupted after she suffers a big car crash along with her husband (Diego Luna). Afterward, her character, Adrienne, walks a fine line between reality and what's going on in her mind, forcing her to explore all kinds of feelings.

Had someone not robbed a 13-year-old Scott Adkins, his two passions in life, martial arts and movies, might have taken a little longer to converge. But when the incident took place, it made the Birmingham, England native ramp up the training as he turned his dad’s garage into a dojo and basically never left till he was able to defend himself.

What happens in Bangkok, won’t stay in Bangkok. Kaley Cuoco stars and is an executive producer on HBO Max’s limited series The Flight Attendant that is based on Chris Bohjalian's novel.

Most eight-year-olds don’t have the benefit of a master film class from one of the most renowned filmmakers in cinematic history. But then again, most people’s dad isn’t Academy and Golden Globe-winning director Martin Scorsese.

Three-time National Award winner, Dr. Bijukumar Damodaran’s film, Trees Under the Sun is a saga of a deprived and underprivileged family belonging to the Dalit (untouchable) community of India.

The Goddess of Fortune (La Dea Fortuna), by Turkish-Italian director Ferzan Ozpetek, is the story of a gay couple in crisis, whose daily routine is upended when their best friend Annamaria (Jasmine Trinca) asks them to take care of her children, Martina, 12, and Sandro, 9, while she is undergoing diagnostic tests for migraines in a Rome Hospital. Arturo (Stefano Accorsi) is a frustrated writer working from home as a translator, Alessandro (Edoardo Leo) a successful plumber who goes out to his job every day and supports the family.

For any enthusiast of space exploration, Yuri Gagarin will forever be known as the first man ever to journey into space. His fame was such that after his 1961 orbital voyage, the Soviet cosmonaut travelled around the world to receive kudos.