Nikola’s children are taken away from him after social services decide that he is too poor to provide them with a decent living environment. He sets off on foot to lodge a complaint in Belgrade.
Elephant seuraa afrikannorsu Shania ja tämän vilkasta poikaa Jomoa heidän laumansa eeppisellä satojen kilometrien matkalla valtavasta Kalaharin autiomaasta. Johtavan matriarkkansa Gaian johdolla lauma kohtaa paahtavan kuumuuden, hiipuvat voimavarat ja väsymättömät saalistajat, kun he seuraavat esivanhempiensa jalanjälkiä matkalla rehevään, vihreään paratiisiin.
A bright student in Nigeria takes on the academic establishment when she reports a popular professor who tried to rape her. Based on real events.
After completing jail time for beating up a man who tried to seduce his mentally-handicapped teenage daughter, The Butcher wants to start life anew. He institutionalizes his daughter and moves to the Lille suburbs with his mistress, who promises him a new butcher shop. Learning that she lied, The Butcher returns to Paris to find his daughter.
Ricky ja hänen perheensä ovat olleet jo pitkään pulassa velkojensa kanssa. Kun lupaava tilaisuus tehdä lisätienestiä lähettinä ilmaantuu, Ricky tarttuu oljenkorteen. Mutta itsenäiseksi mainostettuun työhön franchise-yrittäjänä kuuluu lukuisia sudenkuoppia. Myös Rickyn vaimon työ hoitajana on raskasta, ja paineiden alla perheen välit alkavat rakoilla.
Hornblower and his comrades come under the command of a revered but mentally unstable captain and are forced to mutiny in order to save their ship, the HMS Renown.
Tositarinaan perustuva elokuva nuoresta asianajajasta Thurgood Marshallista, josta tuli Yhdysvaltojen ensimmäinen afroamerikkalainen Korkeimman oikeuden tuomari. Vuonna 1940, uransa alussa, Marshall ottaa yhdessä Sam Friedmanin kanssa hoitaaksen haasteellisen oikeudenkäynnin, jossa he puolustavat mustaa autonkuljettajaa Joseph Spelliä. Spellin valkoinen työnantaja Eleanor Strubing syyttää tätä raiskauksesta ja murhayrityksestä.
In Munich 1955, German film star Veronika Voss becomes a drug addict at the mercy of corrupt Dr. Marianne Katz, who keeps her supplied with morphine. After meeting sports writer Robert Krohn, Veronika begins to dream of a return to stardom. As the couple's relationship escalates in intensity, Veronika begins seriously planning her return to the screen -- only to realize how debilitated she has become through her drug habit.
An old leper who owned a remote sorghum winery dies. Jiu'er, the wife bought by the leper, and her lover, identified only as "my Grandpa" by the narrator, take over the winery and set up an idealized quasi-matriarchal community headed by Jiu'er. When the Japanese invaders subject the area to their rule and cut down the sorghum to make way for a road, the community rises up and resists as the sorghum grows anew.
In the year 1856, Nawab Wajid Ali Shah is the King of Awadh, one of the last independent kingdoms of India. The British intend to control this rich land and send General Outram to clear way for an annexation. Pressure is mounting amidst intrigue and political maneuvers, but the Nawab whiles away his time in pursuit of pleasure and religious practice. The court is of no help either — noblemen Mir and Mirza ignore all duties and spend their days playing endless games of chess. Based on Munshi Premchand's short story of the same name. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation in 2010.
JUVENILE COURT shows the complex variety of cases before the Memphis Juvenile Court: foster home placement, drug abuse, armed robbery, child abuse, and sexual offenses. The sequences illustrate such issues as community protection vs. the desire for rehabilitation, the range and the limits of the choices available to the court, the psychology of the offender, and the constitutional and procedural questions involved in administering a juvenile court.
Marianne Winckler relocates to the port city of Caen in order to pass herself off as a member of a large community of itinerant workers desperate to make ends meet. She gains employment as a cleaner on a ferry travelling between Ouistreham and Portsmouth, recording the drudgery of the work she and her colleagues are required to do.
Takumi and his daughter Hana live in Mizubiki Village, close to Tokyo. One day, the village inhabitants become aware of a plan to build a camping site near Takumi's house offering city residents a comfortable "escape" to nature.
A doctor uses special eye drops to give himself x-ray vision, but the new power has disastrous consequences.
Zenia is an industrious Ukrainian migrant worker in Poland who makes house calls as a masseur to the needy and aspirational residents of a middle-class gated community near Warsaw. He is privy to all of their problems, anxieties and secrets – and something of an unwitting guru figure. Zenia’s grounded spirituality, apparent healing powers and broad shoulders make him an object of lust for many of the lost souls in the community.
On a Kenyan safari, white hunter Victor Marswell has a love triangle with seductive American socialite Eloise Kelly and anthropologist Donald Nordley's cheating wife Linda.
When his young daughter's beloved companion — an android named Yang — malfunctions, Jake searches for a way to repair him. In the process, Jake discovers the life that has been passing in front of him, reconnecting with his wife and daughter across a distance he didn't know was there.
A man and his sister meet at a seaside village to discuss their relationship.
A young sociologist researching criminal women selects a captivating inmate as his subject. As he conducts interviews in prison, her troubled past and justifications for her actions intrigue him. His growing interest soon blurs professional boundaries, testing his ability to resist her charm.
Kaliforniassa idealistinen professori yrittää innoittaa oppilastaan ottamaan elämästään kaiken irti samanaikaisesti, kun karismaattinen senaattori syöttää uutta lähi-idän politiikkaansa Washington D.C:ssä epäluuloiselle TV-toimittajalle. Maailman toisella laidalla, Afganistanissa, kaksi professorin entistä oppilasta ovat loukussa vihollisen maaperällä, taistellen vapauden – ja henkensä – puolesta. Retoriikan lentäessä kilpaa luotien kanssa, nämä kolme tarinaa nivoutuvat yhteen piirtäen hiuksenhienon rajan, joka erottaa leijonan ja lampaan meissä jokaisessa...