A testament to NASA's Apollo program of the 1960s and '70s. Composed of actual NASA footage of the missions and astronaut interviews, the documentary offers the viewpoint of the individuals who braved the remarkable journey to the moon and back.
Two con artists try to swindle a stamp collector by selling him a sheet of counterfeit rare stamps (the "nine queens").
Nick (Peter Falk), un home de la construcció, ha de carregar amb la responsabilitat de cuidar la seva dona (Gena Rowlands) que pateix inestabilitat emocional. Contínuament lluita per mantenir la normalitat davant del seu comportament estrany, fins que aquest afecta els seus fills i caldrà que prengui mesures.
Don Jaime, un vell gentilhome espanyol, viu retirat i solitari a la seva hisenda des de la mort de la seva dona, ocorreguda el mateix dia del casament. Un dia rep la visita de la seva neboda Viridiana, novícia en un convent, que té una gran semblança amb la seva dona.
Actress Myrtle Gordon is a functioning alcoholic who is a few days from the opening night of her latest play, concerning a woman distraught about aging. One night a car kills one of Myrtle's fans who is chasing her limousine in an attempt to get the star's attention. Myrtle internalizes the accident and goes on a spiritual quest, but fails to finds the answers she is after. As opening night inches closer and closer, fragile Myrtle must find a way to make the show go on.
This film documents the coal miners' strike against the Brookside Mine of the Eastover Mining Company in Harlan County, Kentucky in June, 1973. Eastovers refusal to sign a contract (when the miners joined with the United Mine Workers of America) led to the strike, which lasted more than a year and included violent battles between gun-toting company thugs/scabs and the picketing miners and their supportive women-folk. Director Barbara Kopple puts the strike into perspective by giving us some background on the historical plight of the miners and some history of the UMWA. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with New York Women in Film & Television in 2004.
Alice Sycamore, l'única persona amb una mica de seny en una família plena de llunàtics, s'enamora del seu cap, Tony Kirby, que pertany a una família molt rica i molt cursi. La diferència entre l'estil de vida i la mentalitat d'ambdues famílies s'aguditzen quan els pares en soparan a casa, i el sopar acaba amb l'arribada de la policia i la detenció de tots els presents, acusats d'anarquistes.
A principis dels anys 70, Bess, una jove ingènua d'un poble costaner d'Escòcia, s'enamora de Jan, un home que treballa en una plataforma petrolífera. Tot i l'oposició de la rígida comunitat puritana a què pertany, Bess i Jan es casen.
El matrimoni format per Zhenya i Boris està decidit a divorciar-se: l'amor s'ha acabat entre ells i l'han trobat en altres persones. Vivint encara junts, les discussions i la poca comunicació són normals en aquesta 'família'. Mentre el seu fill Ayoshya viu aquesta situació davant de la pantalla del seu ordinador i amagant les llàgrimes. Durant una darrera baralla, el nen desapareix. Units pel que els importa més a tots dos, hauran de lluitar per trobar Ayoshya en una recerca que suposa un punt d'inflexió en la relació de la parella.
Jack Beauregard, an ageing gunman of the Old West, only wants to retire in peace and move to Europe. But a young gunfighter, known as "Nobody", who idolizes Beauregard, wants him to go out in a blaze of glory. So he arranges for Jack to face the 150-man gang known as The Wild Bunch and earn his place in history.
A passenger on a cruise ship develops an irresistible infatuation with an eccentric paraplegic's wife.
The relationship between Lelia, a light-skinned black woman, and Tony, a white man is put in jeopardy when Tony meets Lelia’s darker-skinned jazz singer brother, Hugh, and discovers that her racial heritage is not what he thought it was.
Paris, 1967. Disillusioned by their suburban lifestyles, a group of middle-class students, led by Guillaume (Jean-Pierre Léaud) and Veronique (Anne Wiazemsky), form a small Maoist cell and plan to change the world by any means necessary. After studying the growth of communism in China, the students decide they must use terrorism and violence to ignite their own revolution. Director Jean-Luc Godard, whose advocacy of Maoism bordered on intoxication, infuriated many traditionalist critics with this swiftly paced satire.
When a young boy's family is killed by the mob, their tough neighbor Gloria becomes his reluctant guardian. In possession of a book that the gangsters want, the pair go on the run in New York.
During a hot Sunday afternoon in a small Southern Italian town, a school serving as a polling place is occupied by a group of three locals and an Eritrean immigrant, all unemployed, desperate and armed.
Davey Gordon, a New York City boxer at the end of his career, falls for dancer Gloria Price. However, their budding relationship is interrupted by Gloria's violent boss, Vincent Rapallo, who has eyes for Gloria. The two decide to skip town, but before they can, Vincent and his thugs abduct Gloria, and Davey is forced to search for her among the most squalid corners of the city, with his enemy hiding in the shadows.
Plastic surgeon Larry Roberts performs a series of minor alterations on a group of models who are seeking perfection. The operations are a resounding success. But when someone starts killing his beautiful patients, Dr. Roberts becomes suspicious and starts investigating. What he uncovers are the mysterious - and perhaps murderous - activities of a high-tech computer company called Digital Matrix.
Virginia is proud that she belongs to a clique. The best students at a private school. But before her 18th birthday, a gruesome set of murders take place and her friends are the ones who are falling prey. Could it be her? She suffers from blackouts due to a freak accident one year earlier. We soon learn the truth behind her accident and what is going on.
Don Alfonso plays marimbas, the traditional Guatemalan instrument. Facing extortion and without work due to the population's lack of interest for his instrument, he seeks refuge with his godson Chiquilín. Blacko is a pioneer of the Heavy Metal Guatemalan underground stage. He is also a doctor in the public hospital but nobody wants to be treated by him because of his long hair and his tattoos. Chiquilín makes connections for Don Alfonso and Blacko to combine their talents and create a brand new band called Marimbas from Hell.
After his father's death, a young man is introduced to a world of hedonism and depravity by his amoral mother.