The movie focuses on our common identities : “woman” and “black”, whilst highlighting the diversity of Afropean diasporas. This documentary explores the intersections of discrimination, art and blackness.
A sugar-refinery worker flees his Northern Italy town after a woman refuses his marriage proposal.
Born and raised in the misery of Brazilian slums, Jorge becomes a luxury house burglar in São Paulo and gets nicknamed "The Red Light Bandit" by the sensationalist press. In addition to wearing a red flashlight, he talks to his hostages in an irreverent tone and makes bold breakthroughs to later spend the money extravagantly. His world is the decadent neighbourhood of Boca do Lixo.
A história de Persona 3 realiza-se em uma cidade japonesa moderna, construída e financiada pela Kirijo Corporation. Devido aos acontecimentos ocorridos no passado, há uma "Dark Hour": um período de tempo que existe entre a meia-noite e o próximo dia que só poucas pessoas podem ver; aqueles que não estão conscientes se encontram congelados em caixões. A Dark Hour traz a curva da realidade; a Gekkoukan High School, onde a maioria dos personagens frequentam a escola durante o dia, à noite se torna um enorme torre com labirintos chamada "Tartarus", que possui bestas chamadas Shadows que estão à vagar e proteger certas áreas, às que se encontram fora do Tartarus, predam sobre as mentes das pessoas ainda consciente durante esse tempo, deixando as vítimas em estado quase catatônico fora da Dark Hour.
Sete crianças ficam órfãs após a morte da mãe e tentam convencer o pai, Dirk Bogarde, a ficar. Após longo período fora de casa, ele volta para visitar a família. Mas como Bogarde não sabe da morte da mulher, as crianças tramam a incineração do corpo para despistar o pai.
On the banks of São Paulo's Rio Tietê, a poignant tale unfolds, featuring a tapestry of characters existing on the fringes of society. Prostitutes, a pimp, a mentally disabled man, and others marginalized by fate lead lives mired in hopelessness, devoid of any prospect. Trapped in the relentless cycle of their ordinary yet despairing existence, they yearn for release, anticipating the embrace of death as their only salvation—a collective passage onto the harrowing vessel of damnation.
Iranian musicians Negar and Ashkan look for band members to play at a London concert ... and the visa that allows them to leave Tehran to do so.
Recently divorced career woman Alex Greville begins a romantic relationship with glamorous mod artist Bob Elkin, fully aware that he's also intimately involved with middle-aged doctor Daniel Hirsh. For both Alex and Daniel, the younger man represents a break with their repressive pasts, and though both know that Bob is seeing both of them, neither is willing to let go of the youth and vitality he brings to their otherwise stable lives.
O detetive particular Varg Veum tem a missão de encontrar uma garota de 16 anos que fugiu de sua casa. Localiza a garota prostituindo-se em um bairro de Copenhagen. Quando consegue trazê-la de volta para Bergen, é contratado para investigar o desaparecimento do namorado dela. Varg mergulha no passado da família, cheio de segredos obscuros e que o obriga a enfrentar traficantes de drogas.
Constance and her fiancé hope to one day take over, modernize and expand her father’s farm, on the verge of bankruptcy, to the large-scale farms that share the land and power. She gains the support of the influential and charismatic Sylvain, their fate quickly lying in his hands... When Sylvain's desire for her steps in the negotiations, Constance must face yet another kind of violence.
Del is a song writer for the obnoxious Mr. Mega, and in love with Didi, Mega's secretary. His quest to write a hit tune brings him to the wacky world of Flooby Nooby, where he just might learn to write songs from the heart. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.
A journey through the professional life of innovative film director Richard Linklater: 21 years creating films, carving his signature in pop culture; an analysis of his style and motivations, through the funny and moving testimonies of close friends and collaborators, actors and other filmmakers.
In 1991, the USSR is falling apart and Cuba enters its hardest economic crisis. Sergio, a professor of Marxism who can't provide for his family, and Sergei, a Soviet cosmonaut stranded in the Mir space station, share a common passion: amateur radio. Through this hobby, both men will be able to help each other in facing the dramatic changes of their countries.
Kathy Morrison (Harris), mother of three, who helps run a "color-blind" adoption program, wants to have another biological child. Her husband, Pete (Bologna), the head coach of the Phoenix Suns, finds out he can't produce another child. Kathy thinks about adopting a boy, Frederic "Freddie" Wilcox, and Pete does not want to adopt a boy who happens to be black. When he relents, Freddie's arrival causes an upheaval in the Morrison's neighborhood, their school, and family. Kathy's answer is to adopt another child, in this case two, a war-traumatized half-Vietnamese girl, Quan Tran, and a Hopi boy, Joe. The new extended family must now learn to live together.
A corrupt businessman blackmails the lovelorn reprobate Atsushi into watching over his suitcase full of embezzled cash while he serves a jail sentence.
The film recreates the final events leading to Italian unification in September 1870.
An American scientist is sent by the CIA to East Germany to retrieve a secret microfilm from a Soviet scientist interested in defecting to the West but the Stasi secret police's surveillance complicates matters.
After being released from prison, a young gangster with a chip on his shoulder decides to punish society by making snuff films.
A scientist finds the secret that predispose to the formation of the ideal couple. With this new alchemy, he achieves a pioneering experience: the creation of a perfect androgynous.