Retrieval

Retrieval 2006

5.90

19 year old Wojtek lives in a poverty stricken Polish town. He is in love with an older woman, an illegal emigrant from Ukraine. He boxes in illegal matches to get money and is spotted by a man running a security business. Accepting this man's offer means becoming a gangster, but this could allow him to a residence permit for his girlfriend Katya.

2006

Hearts of Salt

Hearts of Salt 1970

1

As a British ornithologist arrives in Sicily to research the climate change effects on migration, he witnesses a series of dramatic events. Relinquishing his role of a detached observer will be more challenging than it seems.

1970

Isaac Asimov: A Message to the Future

Isaac Asimov: A Message to the Future 2022

6.60

With over 500 publications to his name, from the 50’s to the 80’s, he had anticipated computers and electronic gadgets invading the household, autonomous vehicles and man’s withdrawal from nature. Science fiction and anticipation stories have never been as popular as today. It inspires literature, drama series, films, even politics and the military. As the world we live in faces an unprecedented technological acceleration, we are more concerned than ever by the issue of our future.

2022