Hostes

Hotels everywhere are similar, yet homestays feature the exclusiveness where the places they are located are irreplaceable. Hosted by Golden Bell-winning Rifat, the show selects five homestays across Taiwan, where the owners specialize in tea ceremonies, cuisines, or devote to environmental protection and promotion of sustainable traveling. Not only can one enjoy a good night’s rest, the homestays in this series also offer a vibrant experience enlivened by the hospitality and life philosophy of the owner, the uniqueness of its location, and the human touch that makes each stay one of a kind.

True account of the six men held hostage by religious extremists in Beirut during the Reagan-Bush era.

Melodrama about the professional and romantic problems of an aspiring singer.

Elisa and her best friends arrive at a stunning home-share rental for their much-needed girls' trip. Their stay takes a dark turn when Elisa starts to suspect the property's charming and gorgeous host may be connected to recent disappearances near the small coastal town.

Gaby and Robby want to have sex, but Gaby's highly moral parents watch over the virginity of her daughter. One day, before going on holiday, Gaby's mother asks the friendly couple Berger to keep an eye of her daughter. What they don't know: the Bergers are swingers ...

Bill Hicks hosts the 1990 Adult Video Awards

Danish photographer Daniel Rye is one of the main characters in a nerve-wracking hostage drama based on a shocking interview with two life-sentenced British ISIS members in a confrontation with journalist Sean Langan.

While investigating her late parents’ involvement with the Anglo Iranian Oil Company (BP), the filmmaker comes across the letters of a petroleum geologist in Iran in the 1930s who was later to embark on a search for the origins of civilisation. The Host sets out on its own exploration, to decipher signs from the fragmented images buried in the BP archive. This journey through the past interweaves a number of stories drawn from both personal memory and the records of an imperial history, which builds a picture of a 20th-century colonial encounter. The Host is a personal essay film about the stories we tell about ourselves and others, the facts and fictions we live by, and their consequences. Followed by a discussion with Miranda Pennell.

Pablo is being pursued by what seems like a mob of fans. However, the truth soon emerges that his assailants are actually the cast of characters from his books who are angry that he won’t continue to write their lives. When Laura, a former student, turns up on Pablo’s doorstep soon after with plans for romance, the two fall into a passionate love affair. But when she starts showing signs of paranoia, Pablo questions whether she may in fact be one of his literary creations.

An out-of-work band singer gets a job at a jukebox company and makes a hit.

April 1945. In a dramatic operation the SS transports 139 special prisoners, and kin of the prisoners, into the Alps. The plan: to use the prisoners as bargaining chips in possible negotiations with the Allies. During the journey a number of prisoners plan their escape and experience six days between liberty and death, their fates in the hands of ruthless and increasingly nervous criminals. But the hostages band together and turn the tables with a clever ploy: they call in the Wehrmacht to aid them…

On the island of Saint Helena, a prisoner Napoleon resisted allies who, through the voice of the English governor, Hudson Lowe, tried to humiliate him, break him, poison him in the figurative sense of the word, and perhaps literally.