When a child steals candles from the cemetery, in order to provide some light means for his family sheltered into a damp basement of a block of flats, this circumstance can say a lot about the sufferance imposed by transition period of time in Romania. This child is one of the seven that Maria has got. She is a 33 years old ordinary woman, whose husband (Ion) is unemployed and has become a drunkard and violently acting, maybe because of his despairing and lack of prospective.
Injustice and the demands of the world can cause stress for many people. Some of them, however, explode. This includes a waitress serving a grouchy loan shark, an altercation between two motorists, an ill-fated wedding reception, and a wealthy businessman who tries to buy his family out of trouble.
After a bloody invasion of the BOPE in the High-Security Penitentiary Bangu 1 in Rio de Janeiro to control a rebellion of interns, the Lieutenant-Colonel Roberto Nascimento and the second in command Captain André Matias are accused by the Human Right Aids member Diogo Fraga of execution of prisoners. Matias is transferred to the corrupted Military Police and Nascimento is exonerated from the BOPE by the Governor.
Two Moldavian friends begin a journey full of adventures and suspense trying various business ideas in order to earn enough money to achieve their dreams.
In the midst of a civil war, former violinists Jan and Eva Rosenberg, who have a tempestuous marriage, run a farm on a rural island. In spite of their best efforts to escape their homeland, the war impinges on every aspect of their lives.
Romania, 1987. El país es troba sota el ferri règim comunista de Ceaușescu. Otilia i Gabita són estudiants i comparteixen habitació en una residència. Gabita està embarassada, però no vol tindre-ho. Les joves acorden una trobada amb un tal Sr. Bebe perquè li practique un avortament il·legal a l'habitació d’un hotel.
In 1994 a 13-year-old boy disappeared without a trace from his home in San Antonio, Texas. Three-and-a-half years later he is found alive thousands of miles away in a village in southern Spain with a horrifying story of kidnap and torture. His family is overjoyed to bring him home. But all is not quite as it seems.
Two young officers are marked for death after confiscating a small cache of money and firearms from the members of a notorious cartel during a routine traffic stop.
In 1988, Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet, due to international pressure, is forced to call a plebiscite on his presidency. The country will vote ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to Pinochet extending his rule for another eight years. Opposition leaders for the ‘No’ vote persuade a brash young advertising executive, René Saavedra, to spearhead their campaign. Against all odds, with scant resources and while under scrutiny by the despot’s minions, Saavedra and his team devise an audacious plan to win the election and set Chile free.
Un jove agent de l'FBI investiga uns robatoris comesos per una peculiar banda d'assaltants. Per seguir les seves indagacions s'infiltra en un grup de surfistes el líder dels quals és una mena de místic.
Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither money nor prospects.
The life of Tao, and those close to her, is explored in three different time periods: 1999, 2014, and 2025.
Composed of 6 unconventional short stories, each one dealing with the late communist period in Romania, a narrative is told through its urban myths from the perspective of ordinary people. The title refers to the alluded "Golden Age" of the last 15 years of Ceauşescu's regime.
El 1865, a les acaballes de la Guerra de Secessió, el president dels Estats Units Abraham Lincoln es proposa aprovar l'esmena constitucional que posarà fi a l'esclavitud, però ho ha de fer abans que arribi la pau per evitar que els estats del sud reincorporats en bloquegin la ratificació. Per aconseguir els vots necessaris haurà de recórrer a mitjans qüestionables i haurà de triar entre posar fi a la guerra o posar fi a l'esclavitud.
Amalia is an adolescent girl who is caught in the throes of her emerging sexuality and her deeply held passion for her Catholic faith. These two drives mingle when the visiting Dr. Jano takes advantage of a crowd to get inappropriately close to the girl. Repulsed by him but inspired by an inner burning, Amalia decides it is her God-given mission to save the doctor from his behavior, and she begins to stalk Dr. Jano, becoming a most unusual voyeur.
Al cim de la seva carrera com a director, Alfred Hitchcock decideix rodar una pel·lícula de terror aparentment de segona categoria. Com que els estudis es neguen a finançar-la, Hitchcock decideix tirar endavant el projecte ell sol. Però no li resultarà gens fàcil, ja que estarà sotmès a una enorme pressió per no excedir-se del pressupost, per superar la censura del codi Hays i, un cop acabada la pel·lícula, per aconseguir fer-ne publicitat sense el suport dels estudis que la distribueixen. A més, la seva vida personal també passarà per moments difícils. El resultat, però, acabarà sent ser una de les pel·lícules de més èxit d'aquest interessant director i una de les més famoses i influents de la història del cinema.
Chris wants to show girlfriend Tina his world, but events soon conspire against the couple and their dream caravan holiday takes a very wrong turn.
In this sparkling romance, Ruby, a Chinese American toy designer from LA, visits Hong Kong for the first time on business. Finding herself stranded, she meets Josh, an American expat who shows her the city.
Five people travelling by camper crash into a tree. When they recover, the road they were driving on has been replaced by an impenetrable forest and a wooden house.
Ariane and Simon met down by the water. Simon has managed to prize Ariane away from her friends, a bunch of free and arrogant girls, and move her into his place, with her own room at the end of the hall and her own bathroom next to his. He has taken on Andrée, one of the girls from the bunch by the water, to watch over Ariane, escort her wherever she goes and report back to him on everything she does. Andrée becomes Ariane’s accomplice. She’ll tell lies for her, and with her, and most likely they’ll make love together when the mood takes them.