Every school day, African-American teenagers William Gates and Arthur Agee travel 90 minutes each way from inner-city Chicago to St. Joseph High School in Westchester, Illinois, a predominately white suburban school well-known for the excellence of its basketball program. Gates and Agee dream of NBA stardom, and with the support of their close-knit families, they battle the social and physical obstacles that stand in their way. This acclaimed documentary was shot over the course of five years.
La història de tres travestis que es guanyen la vida com a artistes de cabaret. Un dia els contracten per actuar durant quatre setmanes en un hotel d'Alice Springs, enmig del desert australià. Felicia, Mitzi i Bernardette condicionen un autobús, que bategen amb el nom de Priscil·la, i es llencen a una aventura sorprenent.
The fastest gun in the West tries to escape his reputation.
Segona Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). Matt T. Sherman i Nicholas Holden són el capità i el primer oficial d'un submarí on tenen lloc diverses aventures, especialment quan un grup de dones de la Marina americana es veu obligat a formar part de la tripulació.
Griffin Mill, productor cinematogràfic de Hollywood, rep amenaces escrites d'un guionista a qui va rebutjar un projecte. Intenten arribar a un acord, però després d'una terrible discussió, Griffin el mata. Donada la crisi econòmica per la qual travessen els estudis, aquests faran tot el possible perquè eludeixi la responsabilitat dels fets.
Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain – a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family.
Anne Elliot, the daughter of a financially troubled aristocratic family, is persuaded to break her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a young sea captain of meager means. Years later, money troubles force Anne's father to rent out the family estate to Admiral Croft, and Anne is again thrown into company with Frederick -- who is now rich, successful, and perhaps still in love with Anne.
When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet. Eliza moves into Higgins's home and begins her rigorous training after the professor comes to a financial agreement with her dustman father, Alfred. But the plucky young woman is not the only one undergoing a transformation.
Mike is a lonely Australian boy living in a coastal wilderness with his reclusive father. In search of friendship he encounters an Aboriginal native loner and the two form a bond in the care of orphaned pelicans.
En Jason McCullough viatja cap a un port on ha d'agafar un vaixell que el porti a Austràlia. Allà accepta fer de xèrif en una petita ciutat de cercadors d'or, però comet l'error d'arrestar al fill del malvat cacic local. Aquest reacciona enviant-li una sèrie de pistolers a sou, que derrota un per un gràcies a una barreja d'habilitat i fortuna.
A group of 12 teenagers from various backgrounds enroll at the American Ballet Academy in New York to make it as ballet dancers and each one deals with the problems and stress of training and getting ahead in the world of dance.
Al nord d'Austràlia abans de la Segona Guerra Mundial, Lady Sarah Ashley hereta un gran ranxo i pacta de mala gana amb el ramader Drover per conduir 2.000 caps de bestiar per paisatges implacables. La profunda antipatia que es professen se suavitza quan Sarah es fa càrrec d'un jove mestís, orfe i marginat.
After his crew breaks up, a gifted but insecure hip-hop dancer teaches at a top ballet school in Paris, where he falls for an aspiring ballerina.
Una família americana s'instal·la en una mansió sense saber que allà, uns anys abans, va tenir lloc una tragèdia sagnant. Tot i això, aviat detecten la presència d'uns éssers malèfics. Horroritzats i impotents davant d'aquesta situació, acaben buscant l'ajuda d'un exorcista peculiar.
París, 1900. Gaston és un jove milionari que s'avorreix, tot i ser el solter més perseguit de tota la ciutat. Gigi és gairebé una nena, no té encara edat per a balls i amors. Però Gaston és amic de la família i la visita sovint. L'àvia de Gigi somia un casament entre Gastón i la seva néta. Però els plans de Gaston pel que fa a Gigi no tenen res a veure amb el matrimoni.
Barbara Novak (Zellweger) és una jove escriptora feminista el primer llibre del qual, titulat precisament "A baix l'amor", s'ha convertit en un model que segueixen les dones de tot el món. El llibre parteix del principi: les dones poden gaudir del sexe sense que l'amor sigui un obstacle. Convençut que Novak és un frau i que, en el fons desitja allò que qualsevol dona (amor i matrimoni), el reporter estrella d'una revista de cavallers (Ewan McGregor) intenta desemmascarar-la, fent que se n'enamori, per a això adopta la tímida personalitat de l'astronauta Zip Martin.
Sole, an university student bored of her daily routine, meets graffiti artists Pierpaolo and Alex and her life changes until she falls in love with one of them.
Albert Einstein is the son of a Tasmanian apple farmer, who discovers the secret of splitting the beer atom to put the bubbles back into beer. When Albert travels to Sydney to patent his invention he meets beatuiful French scientist Marie Curie, as well as several unscrupulous types who try to take advantage of the naive genius and his invention.
The film is set in the year 2000 following not only Helga and Traudi's journeys but the next two generations and how Beth, Helga's daughter and Emily her granddaughter are confronted with the long-term effects of Traudi's leaving. When Helga receives a letter telling her that Traudi is close to death, it is Emily with whom Helga shares the truth. Emily volunteers to accompany her to Vienna to meet the great-grandmother she thought was dead, and experience the unraveling of the darkest of family secrets.
In an early 20th century village, a painter with an unusual commission finds two pretty girls two model for him. The girls slowly come of age while exploring their sexuality and finding liberation in a repressed society.