Roots of wisdom

Explore our selection of movies and TV shows roots of wisdom

poster Harvested Alive
Harvested Alive
62mn - Documentary
As a doctor, Zhiyuan Wang spent 30 years studying how to save lives. He never imagined that he would spend another 10 years investigating how Chinese doctors take innocent lives. 95% of his evidence come…
poster It's a Greek Life
It's a Greek Life
(2.6/5)
7mn - Animation
Mercury, the winged messenger, drops his sandals off with a centaur to be repaired. The centaur, who has coveted wings to the extent that he's used a couple ducks to help him fly, takes the sandals for a …
poster The Pillar of Fire
The Pillar of Fire
1mn - Fantasy
A devil wearing bat-like wings and brandishing a trident dances around a giant pot, conjuring forth flame from his trident to lit a fire beneath the pot. After the devil works the fire with bellows, an an…
poster Opium
Opium
(3.0/5)
93mn - Drama
In China, Professor Gesellius has completed his long research on the many uses of opium. When he is about to return home, he hears about a special variety that produces fabulous sensations because of the …
poster Only in the Way
Only in the Way
12mn - Drama
A crippled little girl lives at home with her parents and her grandmother. She loves her grandmother deeply, but her parents can't get along with the old woman, and the girl is torn between both sides.
poster The Hare and the Tortoise
The Hare and the Tortoise
6mn - Animation
A retelling of the classic Aesop Fable, The Tortoise and the Hare.
poster Beauty's Worth
Beauty's Worth
(3.2/5)
76mn - Drama
Prudence Cole is an unsophisticated Quaker girl being raised by her two aunts. Prudence is flirted with by snobbish Henry Garrison, who actually disdains the girl for her lack of worldliness and savoir fa…
poster Tale the Autumn Leaves Told
Tale the Autumn Leaves Told
2mn - Drama
A handful of short tales of love, framed by leaf masks.
poster The Woodsman
The Woodsman
0mn -
Detective Alex Whiting protects an amnesiac girl who witnessed a series of ritualistic murders, but finds himself drawn into a dark world where ancient superstitions and modern evil collide in the shadows…
poster Love Lessons
Love Lessons
(3.0/5)
97mn - Drama, Short
An older couple are about to retire, when they find out that they're about to be parents all over again.
poster The Tribe
The Tribe
97mn - Thriller, Drama, Sci-Fi
Three sisters survive alone in a pandemic-ravaged world, following their father's strict survival rules until a charismatic stranger appears at their isolated outpost. As trust battles suspicion and hidde…
poster Naya Daur
Naya Daur
(4.0/5)
173mn - Drama
Shankar lives in a remote village in rural India with his mother and sister, Manju, and drives a horse-carriage for a living. The main employer in the region is a kind-hearted businessman Maganlal. When M…
poster Lamb
Lamb
(3.2/5)
93mn - Drama
Lamb, based on the novel by Bonnie Nadzam, traces the self-discovery of David Lamb in the weeks following the disintegration of his marriage and the death of his father. Hoping to regain some faith in his…
poster The Ancient Law
The Ancient Law
(3.6/5)
128mn - Drama
Baruch Mayer, son of an orthodox rabbi from a poor shtetl in Galizia, decides to break with the family tradition and leave the shtetl to become an actor.
poster Fireside Reminiscences
Fireside Reminiscences
8mn - Drama, Fantasy
A broken-hearted husband thinks about the past as he sits by the fireplace.
poster The Eclipse: Courtship of the Sun and Moon
The Eclipse: Courtship of the Sun and Moon
(3.2/5)
9mn - Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
In this film, Méliès concocts a combination fairy- and morality tale about the foolishness of trying to look too deeply into the workings of an unstable and inscrutable universe. At a medieval school, an …
poster Shadows
Shadows
(3.1/5)
68mn - Drama
Yen Sin, a humble Chinese, is washed ashore after a storm and finds himself an outsider in the deeply Christian fishing community of Urkey. Yen Sin elects to stay, despite his status as a despised 'heathe…
poster The Dinosaur and the Missing Link: A Prehistoric Tragedy
The Dinosaur and the Missing Link: A Prehistoric Tragedy
5mn - Animation, Comedy
Two cavemen, The Duke and Stonejaw Steve, call on Miss Araminta Rockface. The hated rivals fight, and Steve wins when he throws The Duke into a pot of boiling water. A title card introduces a third rival,…
poster Deerslayer
Deerslayer
0mn - Adventure
Chingachgook, son of the chief of the Delaware Indian tribe and faithful friend of Hawkeye the Deerslayer is raised by his tribe after being orphaned.
poster Sun Dragon
Sun Dragon
(2.9/5)
92mn - Action
When ruthless assassins massacre a Black farmer's family in the Old West, the sole survivor teams up with a wandering Chinese martial arts master to unleash devastating vengeance across the Arizona desert…
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