After being released from prison, Dr. Nise da Silveira is back at work in a psychiatric hospital on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro where she refuses to employ the new and violent electroshock in the treatment of schizophrenics. Ridiculed by doctors, she is forced to take on the abandoned Sector for Occupational Therapy, where she would start a revolution through paintings, animals and love.
Karin Oriyama, 16 years old. She is in high school and... she's about to get married!
A fascinating character. Exquisite sets. A wig for every era. The stars, creators and crew reveal how the hit series about a chess prodigy came to life.
En Kurt Barnert és un jove estudiant d'art a l'Alemanya de l'Est. Està enamorat de la seva companya de classe Ellie. El pare d'ella, el professor Seeband, un famós metge, no aprova la relació de la seva filla i està decidit a destruir-la.
The Inguri River forms a natural border dividing Georgia from Abkhazia. One of the spring floods has created a little island in the middle of the river, as if made for the cultivation of corn. At least, this is the belief of an old peasant, whose sunburned face resembles the landscape he has trodden for dozens of years.
Dues persones entren en conflicte a causa de la propietat d'una casa al nord de Califòrnia. Per a Kathy Nicolo, és no només la casa de la seva infància, sinó també la darrera esperança que li queda per reintegrar-se a una vida que gairebé perd per la seva addicció a les drogues. Quan rep una ordre de desnonament per impagament d'impostos, es queda al carrer i no pot impedir que la casa sigui venuda a un preu irrisori. Pel nou propietari, Massoud Amir Behrani, la casa és la plasmació del somni americà que porta perseguint des que va sortir de l'Iran amb tota la família. Antic coronel de les Forces Aèries iranianes, Behrani s'ha vist obligat a treballar en feines molt modestes per poder mantenir les aparences. Ara ha invertit fins a l'últim cèntim en la compra de la casa que, per fi, tornarà a la família la seva antiga prosperitat.
Though a childhood bout with polio left him dependent on an iron lung, Mark O'Brien maintains a career as a journalist and poet. A writing assignment dealing with sex and the disabled piques Mark's curiosity, and he decides to investigate the possibility of experiencing sex himself. When his overtures toward a caregiver scare her away, he books an appointment with sex surrogate Cheryl Cohen-Greene to lose his virginity.
El film parla de Ray i Liz, una parella “especial” que són pares de dos nens, en Richard i en Jason. En Jason té dos anys i els seu germà, deu. Aquesta és la història d'una infantesa miserable...
In 1943, while the Allies are bombing Berlin and the Gestapo is purging the capital of Jews, a dangerous love affair blossoms between two women – one a Jewish member of the underground, the other an exemplar of Nazi motherhood.
Raimund Gregorius, professor suís de llatí, grec i hebreu, salva a una misteriosa jove portuguesa del suïcidi. Aviat, l'home s'apassiona per una petita novel·la portuguesa que l'empeny a deixar el seu treball i viatjar a Lisboa a conèixer més sobre l'autor, un doctor i poeta que va lluitar contra el dictador Antonio d'Oliveira Salazar. A partir d'aquest moment Gregorius es veurà obligat a enfrontar-se a les seves emocions i al passat d'una manera que mai hauria imaginat.
While traveling abroad, a guy falls for a Romanian beauty whose unreachable heart has its origins in her violent, charismatic ex.
A young woman runs away from an abusive home and pre-arranged marriage only to be frustrated in her attempts to find happiness with a handsome engineer.
The story of the WWII project to crack the code behind the Enigma machine, used by the Germans to encrypt messages sent to their submarines.
Set in a seaside resort in the Caucasus, the story centers on n'er do well, Laevsky and his illicit relationship with his mistress Nadya. Laevsky has convinced Nadya to leave her husband for him, but now wants to abandon her.
Londres, II Guerra Mundial. La cantant Vera Phillips troba el seu vell amor de l'adolescència, el poeta gal·lès Dylan Thomas. Els sentiments ja oblidats tornen a aflorar entre tots dos, però Dylan està casat amb Caitlin. Tot i estimar el mateix home, l'amistat sorgeix entre les dues dones.
In this Under Review we look at the genius of Syd Barrett.
Anna’s story takes place on Åland Island in 1666, during the beginning of the most widespread and systematic witch-hunts in Scandinavian history. In all, 16 women were convicted of being in league with the devil, and seven of them were executed. For Judge Psilander, who has mastered the newest witch theories of the time, the trials are meant to cleanse the island of superstition, to have science and common sense prevail. The main character, the intelligent and stubborn Anna, gets an intimate view of the events, having just started working as a maid in the judge’s house. To Anna’s misfortune, she falls intensely in love with her friend Rakel’s husband Elias, but his infatuation with her quickly fades. A hurt and jealous Anna decides to get revenge and falsely reports Rakel to Judge Psilander. It’s only when Rakel is arrested, and things get out of hand, that Anna realizes the gravity of her doings.
Què va destruir el passat d’Erin Bell? Per què no és capaç de reconduir la relació tan difícil que té amb la seva filla? Haurà de ser forta. Només tindrà una darrera oportunitat...
Unconscious soldiers are dropped into a testing site only to discover their memories have been wiped and that once docile machines are the new intelligence.
A young unemployed man finds work at a nuclear power plant and begins an illicit affair with the fiancée of one of his senior workmates.