In 1977, a book of photographs captured an awakening - women shedding the cultural restrictions of their childhoods and embracing their full humanity. This documentary revisits those photos, those women and those times and takes aim at our culture today that alarmingly shows the need for continued change.
The passionate love between a former boxer and a beautiful blind woman.
Una processó de dones de negre va cap al cementeri. Mentre afronta en silenci la calor del sol, estrenyen contra si les fotos dels marits, els pares o els fills, tots ells morts a la guerra. Algunes de les dones duen vel, unes altres s'aferren a una creu.... però hi ha alguna cosa que totes compartixen: el dolor que ha dut la guerra.
Meet Chala, an eleven year-old boy with a hard life and strong respect for Carmela, his sixth grade teacher. The pair develops a solid bond, but after Carmela suffers an accident, things get complicated…
The true story of an 84 year-old Kenyan villager and ex Mau Mau freedom fighter who fights for his right to go to school for the first time to get the education he could never afford.
Despite her sheltered upbringing, Jenny is a teen with a bright future; she's smart, pretty, and has aspirations of attending Oxford University. When David, a charming but much older suitor, motors into her life in a shiny automobile, Jenny gets a taste of adult life that she won't soon forget.
A musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic ghost tale starring Albert Finney.
As a privileged teenager living in an affluent suburb of Rio de Janeiro, Jean has little to worry about beyond games, grades and girls. But as his overbearing father drags the family into debt, Jean is forced into a change of lifestyle which opens his eyes to the world beyond his 'casa grande' - not least that of the feisty, mixed-race firecracker Luiza. Cultures, classes and generations collide in this engrossing coming-of-age drama from Brazil.
La dramàtica història d'amor que durant tres anys van mantenir el poeta anglès John Keats i Fanny Bawne; una intensa història tràgicament interrompuda per la sobtada mort de Keats als 25 anys.
May 1944, a group of French servicewomen and resistance fighters are enlisted into the British Special Operations Executive commando group under the command of Louise Desfontaines and her brother Pierre. Their mission, to rescue a British army geologist caught reconnoitering the beaches at Normandy.
In this true story, Veronica Guerin is an investigative reporter for an Irish newspaper. As the drug trade begins to bleed into the mainstream, Guerin decides to take on and expose those responsible. Beginning at the bottom with addicts, Guerin then gets in touch with John Traynor, a paranoid informant. Not without some prodding, Traynor leads her to John Gilligan, the ruthless head of the operation, who does not take kindly to Guerin's nosing.
Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story is told through two unique perspectives: Charles Eastman, a young, white-educated Sioux doctor held up as living proof of the alleged success of assimilation, and Sitting Bull the proud Lakota chief whose tribe won the American Indians’ last major victory at Little Big Horn.
La Rose i el Bennett són dos adolescents veïns des que eren nens. S'han vist cada dia durant anys, però cap dels dos s'ha decidit a confessar el seu amor per l'altre. L'últim dia de classe, el Bennett es declara a la Rose i passen la nit més meravellosa de les seves vides, però quan el Bennett torna a casa té un accident de cotxe i mor. Els pares del noi, destrossats, no saben com superar la pèrdua; és llavors quan Rose apareix i els diu que espera un fill d'en Bennett.
Summer 1943, Piedmont, Italy. Milton loves Fulvia who plays with his love: she only likes the depth of his thought and the letters he writes to her. One year later, Milton has joined the Resistance and fights beside other partisans. He learns during a conversation that Fulvia was secretly in love with his best friend Giorgio, a partisan like him. Milton decides to go find Giorgio in the Langhe region of Italy with all its misty hills...But Giorgio has just been arrested by the Fascists.
Enrico Giusti works for a big corporation: his job is to save dying companies by persuading young scions to sell. However, his latest assignment is proving more difficult than anticipated, since it concerns two teens whose parents just died in a car accident.
Adolescents rics i desenganyats, festes sense alegria, pares absents, una mica de droga i al mig de tot això, en White Mike, un estudiant modèlic que se n'acaba d'anar de l'escola privada on estudiava a l'Upper East Side de Manhattan es fa camell. En White Mike no fuma, no beu, no va a les festes, excepte per vendre-hi la droga. La història comença quan assassinen en Charlie, el cosí d'en White Mike.
Meryl Streep és Ricki Rendazzo, una heroïna de la guitarra que va cometre innombrables errors perseguint el seu somni d'aconseguir la fama en el Rock and Roll. En tornar a casa, la Ricki albira una guspira de redempció, i l'oportunitat de reconciliar-se amb la seva família mitjançant la música.
A 12 year old girl and her 8 year old brother live one week with their mother and the next week with their father. The girl blamers her mother, a super businesswoman for the divorce and turns all her anger on her. She prefers the weeks with her father who is flat broke after leaving his bank job to give people free hugs on street corners. Her brother channels his sense of injustice into the battle to save the planet. As the school year progresses and her parents struggle to mend their lives and as the girl approaches her 13th birthday, she learns to see the world in a new way.
És l'aniversari d'en Tom, i ha convidat a gent al seu confortable apartament a Nova York. El seu col·lega en Clyde ve acompanyat d'una noia que coneix des de fa poc anomenada Alice. Ella és molt atractiva i aviat enlluerna a tots amb el seu humor i brillantor. No obstant això, en Tom l'observa silenciosament, intentant recordar alguna cosa d'ella...
Sophie is far from being the model little girl one would like her to be, unlike her friends Camille and Madeleine. She always insists on having her own way, often getting into trouble, to the despair of one and all. But her mother is unbending and otherwise inclined. She will not let her get away with anything, and poor Sophie will often have to live with the consequences of her bad behaviour and learn her lesson.