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The Crying Steppe is a film based on real events that happened in the early years of the Soviet communist regime, when artificially imposed hunger on the native population of Kazakhstan during the 1920s and 1930s cost the lives of 8. 5 million people – 70% of native Kazakhs.

This Bangladeshi movie from director Rubaiyat Hossain is the story of a group of garment workers who work in tyrannical conditions to produce cheap clothing for westerners. Wages are withheld, sexism, violence and abuse are the norm.

A remake of the popular 2013 South Korean film of the same name Miracle in Cell No. 7 is directed by Mehmet Ada Oztekin.

Pinocchio, written and directed by Matteo Garrone, is based on the 1883 Italian children classic The Adventure of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi.   The familiar story, popularized worldwide by the Disney cartoon of 1940, is retold with renewed accuracy to the original version.

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.