A film that depicts the everyday life and the beauty of Portela’s Old Folk – a group of veteran samba musicians who belong to one of Rio’s most revered samba schools, the one with the most first places and accolades in Rio’s Carnaval pageant. These old gentelmen’s and ladies’ musicality and poetry are unveiled through their simple, but rich and meaningful, every day life in Oswaldo Cruz, a quaint neighborhood in Rio’s North Zone, that serves both as set and as a main character in this story.
America has been fighting the war on terrorism for two decades, and there are more terrorists today, not fewer. The day after 9/11, experts estimated there were around 400 members of al-Qaida. Today, those same experts put that number at over 100,000, including affiliate groups. The question we must now ask ourselves is not only how to prevent more men from joining these groups, but can we deradicalize those who already have?
A lesbian couple calls upon a donor by internet to have a child. The relationship that develops between the future biological mother and the donor will not be without consequences for the couple.
Christopher Powell is in Malaysia with his fiancée and her father, capturing wild animals. While out hunting, he is attacked by a tiger, and his native guides run away, leaving him for dead. But the tiger is the pet of Ulah, a beautiful young woman who grew up by herself in the jungle. She rescues Chris and takes him back to her cave, where she nurses him to health and falls in love with him. When he eventually returns to camp, she follows. The fiancée is jealous, and the natives don't like Ulah or her pet tiger either, all of which leads to a lot of trouble.
고관장성의 아들인 마태오는 친구가 없다. 고아원 출신인 유글레나와 아메바에게 돈과 아이스크림을 내밀며 접근하는 태오. 그날이후, 세 사람은 친구가 된다. 20년 후... 도피성 해외 유학을 중단하고 귀국한 태오. 미술에 재능이 있는 유글레나는 그림을 팔아 살아가고, 머리를 다쳐 지능이 멈춰버린 아메바는 먹을 것만 밝히는 거구가 되었다. 여전히 돈으로 우정을 소유하는 태오. 그를 불만스럽게 바라보는 유글레나, 마냥 좋기만한 아메바... 유글레나, 아메바와 함께 양주를 진탕 마시고, 차를 몰다 음주 단속에 걸린 태오. 경찰관을 차 문짝에 매단 채 거리를 질주하는 그들. 살려 달라는 경찰관을 내려놓는 순간, 길 옆에 놓인 쓰레기 콘테이너에 머리를 부딪친 경찰관이 즉사하는데... 도망치려 하지만 들려오는 싸이렌 소리... 세 친구는 긴장한다. 경찰차에서 내린 사람은 죽은 경찰관의 동료인 배경위. 그러나 그는 세 친구를 그냥 풀어주고 며칠 뒤 전화를 걸어온다. 2억을 달라는... 아버지에게 돈을 부탁하지만 무참히 거절당하는 태오. 친구들과 아버지를 납치해 몸값을 뜯어낼 계획을 세운다. 머리를 맞대고 세부적 사항들을 상의하는 그들. 그러나 서로를 바라보는 시선에 위험한 살기가...
A young woman's encounter with a mysterious lover. This short film is an extra on the BFI Flipside DVD The Pleasure Girls.
Dr. Satish travels from the big city to a small village, where he can serve the poor who cannot afford to go to the city for medical treatment. Once in the village, he meets with Shanti, who lives with her dad, Radhekiran, a watchman. Both Shanti and Satish fall in love, and exchange vows to be married. Radhekiran has an accident, and dies, leaving Shanti to re-locate, without notifying Satish. Satish is devastated at losing Shanti, and tries to locate her, to no avail. His parents want him to marry Kamini, and he agrees to do so. It is then he comes across Shanti, and he is shocked to see that Shanti has given birth to baby-boy, but will not disclose who the father is.
For the first time ever on DVD you can now sit back and take a twisted trip back to the glory days of the sleazy 60s and 70s for a roaring rampage through a two-hour hand-picked collection of some of the most insane examples of trailer trash ever to slash and burn their way through a Grindhouse cinema projector.
Fatma is kidnapped several times by a wild man because she cannot be persuaded to marry. A third attempt at forced submission ends tragically for both, due to the young girl's fatal rebellion.
Set in 1930s China, the film details the trials of a group of athletes who desire to compete in the Olympic Games. There’s a snag, however. The full amount required to send them abroad for the games is 600,000 dollars, and the government is only sponsoring half. It falls to the athletes to raise the rest themselves, and they start by saving every last penny they earn. They also attempt to raise the money through a variety of fund-raising activities, including street performances, networking for donations, and probably a bake sale, too. After deciding to fund their own way to the games, the athletes take to the streets to perform all manner of athletic demonstrations and martial arts moves in an energetic and impromptu street fair.
John Candy has to team up with Donald Duck to star together in blockbuster movie.
재력가인 쿄헤이는 ‘흑장미 여관’이라는 이름의 남성전용 고급클럽을 열고, 여장남자 가수 류코를 영입해 단독으로 클럽 무대에 출연시킨다. 하지만 쿄헤이의 사고뭉치 둘째 아들이 여성적인 류코의 모습에 반해 사랑에 빠지게 되면서 ‘흑장미 여관’이 점차 흔들리기 시작한다. 괴도 검은 도마뱀의 활약을 그린 후카사쿠 긴지의 흥행 액션물 의 외전판으로 불리는 작품. 일본의 유명 추리작가 에도가와 란포의 단편을 미시마 유키오가 각색하였다. (부산 영화의 전당 포럼 2012 - 영화, 혹은 정치의 기억)
Regis Sauder returns to his childhood pavilion at Forbach. Thirty years ago, he fled this city to build against violence and in the shame of his environment. Between demons of extremism and social determinism, how do those who have remained? Together, they weave individual and collective memories to question the future at a time when fear seems stronger than ever.
In this offbeat thriller, Ann is a young woman trying to put her life back together after she lost her child in a car wreck. Formerly a single mother, Ann has recently started dating a man named Tom, and one day Tom asks Ann for a favor -- would she be willing to baby sit for his boss' daughter? Ann agrees, and she soon finds herself becoming quite fond of the little girl. However, before long, Ann discovers Tom has something less than honest up his sleeve
A heavy rain hits a dike, leaving it on the verge of a collapse. There is no safety and it is not possible to predict when it’s gonna end.
This Classic Seductive tale of two snakes who assume human forms will send chills of pleasure down viewers' backs. The Lovely Linda Lin Dai (Les Belles, The Kingdom And The Beauty) and margaret Tu Chuan (The Dream of The Red Chamber) play the two sister serpents, Pak Su-cheng and Ching Ching. Su-cheng meets Hsu Hsien (Chao Lei) one day and recognizes him as her savior in another life 1,000 years ago. She marries him to reward him but the snake-human union brings about problems beyond imagination.