The sweetest of them is a poor girl, but her father is a stingy man. She has been dreaming for a long time of social advancement, and she meets a nightclub owner who works as an artist. The stingy father tries to extort her money, so she meets a young man in the hall, and a love story grows between them, but the young man does not agree to marry her, so the girl returns again to the popular neighborhood, and the young man follows her after he learns about her true nature.
Mohamed Kamal ElMasry
Mimi Chakib
Stephan Rosti
Laila Fawzy
Zaki Toleimat
Hassan Fayek
Zaky Saleh
Zeinat Sedki
Mohamed Edriss
The sweetest of them is a poor girl, but her father is a stingy man. She has been dreaming for a long time of social advancement, and she meets a nightclub owner who works as an artist. The stingy father tries to extort her money, so she meets a young man in the hall, and a love story grows between them, but the young man does not agree to marry her, so the girl returns again to the popular neighborhood, and the young man follows her after he learns about her true nature.
Director Mario Van Peebles chronicles the complicated production of his father Melvin's classic 1971 film, "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song." Playing his father in the film, Van Peebles offers an unapologetic account of Melvin's brash and sometimes deceptive conduct on the set of the film, including questionable antics like writing bad checks, tricking a local fire department and allowing his son, Mario, to shoot racy sex scenes at the age of 11.
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
Based on the writer/director's childhood, FARMING tells the story of a young Nigerian boy, 'farmed out' by his parents to a white British family in the hope of a better future. Instead, he becomes the feared leader of a white skinhead gang.
Middle-aged widow Beatrice Hunsdorfer and her daughters Ruth and Matilda are struggling to survive in a society they barely understand. Beatrice dreams of opening an elegant tea room but does not have the wherewithal to achieve her lofty goal. Epileptic Ruth is a rebellious adolescent, while shy but highly intelligent and idealistic Matilda seeks solace in her pets and school projects, including one designed to show how small amounts of radium affect marigolds.
After the lewd and frenetic Dance of the Seven Veils, and with the solemn pledge from the very lips of Herod himself that she could have whatever her heart desires up to half his kingdom, wanton and proud young Salomé comes before her king with an unreasonable demand. Beguiled by John the Baptist, and then scorned for the sake of his god, lascivious Salomé—encouraged by her mother, the vindictive, Herodias—commands that John be executed and his head delivered on a silver platter.
A man struggles with the tragic memories of his past to make sense of his present, but soon realizes that time isn't the enemy he thinks it is.
Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles with family problems and has his friendships tested by racism.
Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.
A 21-year-old reformed gangster's devotion to his family and his future is put to the test when he is released from prison and returns to his old stomping grounds in Watts, Los Angeles.
An optimistic, talented teen clings to a huge secret: she's homeless and living on a school bus. When tragedy strikes, can she learn to accept a helping hand?