A sport like football is primarily a passionate celebration, but one that is so massive (economically, politically and socially) that it, of course, also brings many problems. Olallo Rubio's third documentary (and fourth film in total), Ilusión Nacional, is a take on how the world's most popular sport relates to Mexican society and politics.
The film presents the tale of Agnese Ascalone, daughter of prominent miner Vincenzo Ascalone, and takes place in a small town in Sicily. Agnese is seduced by her sister Matilde's fiancé, and has a tryst with him for which she confesses and tries to repent, only to be discovered by her mother and father.
Scary Godmother is the whimsical all-ages story that follows the first trick-or-treating adventure of Hannah Marie, a young girl whose rotten older cousin is babysitting her one dark Halloween. Unhappy to be saddled with Hannah, her cousin cooks up a scheme to frighten her. But his scheme backfires when Hannah gets help from her Scary Godmother.
Beirutissa sijaitseva kauneushoitola on neljän ystävättären pakopaikka arjelta ja sodan uhalta. Jokainen heistä yritää selviytyä mutkikkaan elämäntilanteen ja konservatiivisen yhteiskunnan törmäyksestä. Layal on suhteessa naimisissa olevaan mieheen, Nisrine ei ole enää neitsyt ja menee pian naimisiin, Rima on lesbo ja Jamal on huolissaan vanhenemisestaan. Naapurissa ompelimoaan pitää ensimmäistä kertaa rakastunut Rose.
Paris, 1977. Eleven year old Stella knows poker better than grammar when she starts the year at a prestigious new school. There, she discovers the possibilities of a whole new world outside her parents' bar.
It is evening. Tarek is seventeen years old and is on his way to see his friends, who have asked him on the telephone to pass by the park first and buy a few grams of dope: nothing much, just enough for some fun. The boy buys the stuff in the dark park, but when he emerges finds that someone has seen him: a policeman in plain clothes, sitting in his own car. The man could simply confiscate the hash, intimidate him a little and then let him go, or he could decide to take him to the station and call his parents. But he opts for neither of these things. He tells the young man to get in the car and starts the engine. Where does he want to take him? The policeman is ambiguous, mysterious. What does he want from the teenager? Tarek is in check, he can’t just leave. The policeman makes him stay with him the whole night, driving around in apparently aimless fashion, stopping first in one place, then in another.
Three days into his Miami honeymoon with needy and unsophisticated Lila, Lenny meets tall, blonde Kelly. This confirms his fear that he has made a serious mistake and he decides he wants to be with Kelly instead.
Young Jim Hawkins, while running the Benbow Inn with his mother, meets Captain Billy Bones, who dies at the inn while it is beseiged by buccaneers led by Blind Pew. Jim and his mother fight off the attackers and discover Billy Bones' treasure map for which the buccaneers had come. Jim agrees to sail on the S.S. Espaniola with Squire Trelawney and Dr. Livesey to find the treasure on a mysterious isiand. Upon arriving at the island, ship's cook and scaliwag Long John Silver leads a mutiny of crew members who want the treasure for themselves. Jim helps the Squire and Espaniola officers to survive the mutiny and fight back against Silver's men, who have taken over the Espaniola.
Kilpakumppanit Chazz Michael Michaels ja Jimmy MacElroy tappelevat päädyttyään jaetulle ykkössijalle taitoluistelun MM-kilpailuissa ja saavat elinikäisen kilpailukiellon miesten yksinluisteluun. Kumppanukset löytävät kuitenkin porsaanreiän, jonka avulla he pääsevät jälleen kilpajäille – pariluistelussa.
Alex ja Nancy ovat menestyvä pariskunta, joka onnistuu löytämään todellisen unelma-asunnon: hurmaava kaksikerroksinen talo Brooklynissa. Kauppaan tosin kuuluu myös yläkerran iäkäs vuokralainen rouva Connelly, joka ensi silmäyksellä vaikuttaa harmittomalta mummelilta. Herttainen rouva osoittautuu kuitenkin varsinaiseksi maanvaivaksi. Nuoripari yrittää päästä eroon simputtavasta mummusta hinnalla millä hyvänsä mutta tehtävä osoittautuu odotettua vaikeammaksi.
A rural couple in crisis, who have a brother and sister with urban problems, and all of them trying to find a solution.
A container truck driver, Hùng, lives an idyllic life with his little daughter, An. The father and daughter become the closest companions in every journey with their orange container truck. Life goes on like that until An has to leave her father to go to school. One day, Hùng is informed that An is suffering from severe depression. Relying on his old skills in the past and finding out the truth, Hùng becomes enraged and painful to know that his little girl was kidnapped by a male stranger. Starting his lone and intense journey looking for and chasing after the unknown abuser, Hùng realizes that to hunt down that psychopath he has to counter the massive underground forces behind him.
Heillä menee täydellisesti – he ovat vastanaineet ja häämatkalla Havaijilla. Minkä takia jokin tuntuu silti olevan vialla? Ehkä siksi, etä morsiamen isä on mafiapomo, joka järjestää häät miehen kanssa, jota hänen tyttärensä ei edes tunne. Lisäksi harvinaisen sitkeät kidnappaajat jahtaavat morsianta. - Pienissä häissä on nopeatahtinen, hysteerisen hauska ja todella superromanttinen komedia Sen Oikean löytämisestä väärässä tilanteessa.
A successful Savannah defense attorney gets romantically involved with a sexy, mysterious waitress troubled by psychopaths and dark family secrets.
A composer—who suspects his wife of cheating—plots to kill her and frame it on her lover, but things don't turn out as planned.
Roger toimii pysäköinninvalvojana ja on etäältä rakastunut unelmiensa tyttöön, mutta hän on ahdistunut ja hänellä on huono itsetunto. Päästäkseen yli riittämättömyyden tunteesta, hän alkaa käydä itseluottamuskurssilla, jonka opettaja on Dr. P. Kaikesta tulee hyvin hankalaa, kun osoittautuu, että kurssin opettajalla on tähtäimessään sama tyttö.
When two American girls on a bike trip in a remote part of Argentina split up and one of them goes missing, the other must find her before her worst fears are realized.
A pair of well-meaning, but socially inept brothers try to find their perfect mates in order to provide their dying father with a grandchild.
A bachelor named Faun with a Don Juan complex, seized with a hypochondriac's fear of the ineluctable approach of death, enters a race against time's passage. Faun's sexual love is imbued with the narcissistic vanity of a self-satisfied bacchant who even towards old age can't manage to forgo his lifelong pose as an irresistable seducer of women. He desperately searches for meaning in superficial, fleeting sex.
A helicopter charter turns deadly when the pilot finds that she is on a building held by terrorists. It is up to her and her husband to save the hostages.