A young man is bogged down by his family, farm and school life, but after the baseball coach convinces him to play, he finds a bit of comfort in the sport--which he also excels in
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A young man is bogged down by his family, farm and school life, but after the baseball coach convinces him to play, he finds a bit of comfort in the sport--which he also excels in
Life imitates art when two Manhattanites — pompous teacher Willie and quiet photographer Phil — become friends after a thought-provoking screening of "Jules et Jim," Truffaut's classic film about a decades-long ménage à trois. Soon, the men meet Jeanette, a sexually liberated southern transplant who promptly falls for both of them. Frustrated passions curdle into jealousy as Jeanette entertains love affairs with each in the ensuing years.
"La Marie-Vison" tells the perversely fascinating tale of Marie, a transvestite prostitute who lives in elegant squalor with her dedicated servant. Every day, for eighteen years, Marie releases an exotic butterfly into the open fields of the living room. Every day for eighteen years the beautiful boy, imprisoned in her den, catches and kills it. The beautiful boy is tempted with visions of the outside world, free from the wiles of wicked Marie, but maybe the boy wasn't made for the outside world. Maybe none of us were.
Bram Bahrumsyah, a career diplomat, has a wife, Marsya, a successful interior designer. Marsya’s higher financial success makes Bram depressed. Even though he has a good career, he is financially dependent on Marsya. But Marsya’s business ambition is merely to help her husband’s career. In this state of mind, Bram meets Romina who is also in a similar state of depression. Both of them have an affair.
A young woman, unable to handle the stress of raising a family, runs out on her husband and young daughter. 12 years later, she returns in hopes of rekindling a bond with them.
A teenage girl has to terms with her family and herself when her mother falls critically ill. She decides to leave school to look after her family, which turns outto be an enormous challenge, as she has to deal with her father’s fanatical religion, her brother’s experimentation with drugs and homosexuality, her desire for the wrong boy, and her younger brother and sister’s inability to cope with the family’s instability.
A man married to a Christian, but from a shamanistic upbringing, attempts to come to terms with the spirit of his mother who visits him in dreams.
The life of the protagonist of the film, Farid, changes completely after what happened in a mountain village, where a pedestrian escaped from the responsibility, which he thought was dead.
Aygül is an unhappy woman who is trying to raise her four children without the help of her unemployed, no-good husband. She starts working in a factory and this becomes the igniter of her consciousness-raising process.
Based on the short story by Leonid Andreev "Ivan Ivanovich". A Perestroika look at the events that took place after the 1905 Revolution. The young defender of the barricades shows weakness and releases the captured gendarme. After a while, he is not spared in a similar situation.
A Filipino dancer performing for the US Filipino community
A study of middle class life in Jakarta.
This downbeat, grim drama about three brothers who are reunited at their mother's funeral is actually visually as dark as its story, making it difficult at times to clearly distinguish a scene. These brothers are not particularly exceptional as people go, but at least they have branched out into separate vocations in their lives. One brother is a doctor, another is a criminal, and the third is a bus driver. Like others in Europe, they suffered through World War II, yet no matter what their backgrounds and experiences, their interpersonal relationships are not exactly gripping drama.
Erotica/Wip/Brazil: Also known as "Le Porno Detenute" in Italy...Fans of the legendary Brazilian Women-in-Prison send-up will be instantly at home with this sexploitation masterpiece.Plot-Our heroine is wrongly set up for a heist by her boyfriend...she is found guilty sent to prison where living conditions are intolerable.Added to that all jail female staffs are lesbian by default trying to lay the poor inmates.The male staffs are also trying to sneak in their snake in some hole too...Hence the inmates rebel...enjoy!
A trio of American students vacationing in Finland cross the border into the USSR and are soon imprisoned following a skirmish with Soviet soldiers.
A 47-year-old real estate salesman gets trapped in the insidious web of cocaine addiction.
This is the story of the dramatic journey of Victoria, a struggling but talented singer whose search for a "career" leads her to an adventure that will change her life forever. She is introduced to a celebrated songwriter, Joel, who makes her his protege and who later falls madly in love with her. Torn between her booming career and Joel's proposal of love, Victoria turns her back on love and chooses a successful singing career. Joel, whose heart is broken, marries Sandra, the heiress of a recording company. The three characters are caught in a web of pride, deception, and lies.
The unlikely friendship between a 10-year-old boy, Leonid, recovering from a broken arm in a hospital, and a young, paraplegic actor. As the actor, disillusioned with life, struggles with his condition, he begins to tell Leonid an elaborate and adventurous pirate story. Their shared fantasy world, in which they play the main roles, gradually intertwines with the realities of their hospital life.
Marko is a boy whose family finds himself in a difficult situation after his mother is severely ill. Although doctors perform a successful operation, the father abandons wife and son. In such a situation, Marko must be too early to grow up.
Stonemasons take part in the restoration of a historic tomb.
Teenage girl is in total denial about her mother's drinking problem.
A story of a Family that was been broken for the reason of the mother making an affair with her boss. Their Father became paralyze. The main character Irma Alegre decided to be a prostitute and so is her sister Angela Perez but their father suicides.
Its about Suresh, an union leader.
Yeong-Ae, who is grown up poorly, marries the elite salary earner in his thirties, Wu-Hyeon, happily. In-Tae, who loved Young-Ae before her marriage, appears to her and persuades her to come back to him. In-Tae is traced by the police on charge of murder. He threatens Wu-Hyeon, and Young-Ae miscarries of her baby from the shock. When Wu-Hyeon finds out the truth, he expels her, spends days drinking. The sick Young-Ae goes to find Wu-Hyeon in the snowstorm.
Jerzy and Artur’s father dies, leaving behind a valuable stamp collection, which, they discover, is coveted by dealers of varying degrees of shadiness. The more involved the brothers get in their father’s world, the more dire and comical their situation becomes.
After a gang of thugs brands a hard working truck driver a traitor and murders his bride, He retaliates by being even more violent than his attackers.
No one can understand why a successful and seemingly happily married actress killed herself, but some think that it has to do with what happened to her during the war.
Max Taurus, a sort of amateur detective, pursues the traces of general omni-present crime back to a partially demolished house. There, the remaining tenants try to gain pleasure and power from progressive abandonment in order to tear down their own conventionalities.
A disillusioned student meets a eccentric beggar and a mute prostitute he falls in love with. Together, without money, they cross South Korea to help the girl go home.
A group of young people have problems operating a small hotel.
Bright teenager afflicted with epilepsy sues his parents for the right to have "split brain" surgery in order to cure his seizures.
Byeon Gang-soe, who served prison time for adultery with a local woman, is released and immediately welcomed by a flock of village women. Meanwhile, Ong-nyeo laments her ill fate, as every man she sleeps with ends up dead. Hearing rumors of this, Byeon Gang-soe sets out to find her, believing they might be the perfect match to balance each other out. Ong-nyeo, having teamed up with a tavern keeper to earn money serving guests, causes the instant death of all the local men, effectively turning the village into a settlement of widows. Byeon Gang-soe arrives in this village of widows; after leaving the women—who had lined up to be with him—completely bedridden, he finally encounters Ong-nyeo at the foot of a mountain. Their ultimate union creates such a seismic commotion that it shakes the very foundations of the Japanese archipelago.
Residents of a shanty town are faced with its destruction. With the help of the local trickster, Paja "the Bighead" moves with his family to an empty flat in New Belgrade blocks. Everything goes fine until the real owner knocks at the door.
We see the parallel lives of a young group dying in the mire of modern Athens. Spentzos, pushing a pair of high school students in the drug trade and prostitution. When a ruthless pimp asking for a share of their jobs, then the knives come out.
A man gets involved in a murder and his life is radically transformed. He decides to return to his hometown to find his family and an old love. Unfortunately, the police and some drug dealers start harassing him until the man decides to disappear completely.
Alipazhangal is a 1987 Indian Malayalam film, directed by Ramachandran Pillai and Produced by Achayan. The film stars Sukumari, Thilakan, Jose Prakash and Sankaradi in lead roles. The music of the film was composed by Darsan Raman.
A group of teenagers stop at a service station after a leaving a disco. In a fight resulting from their inability to pay, the staff on duty are killed by the group, which leads to a desperate night of cat and mouse with the police.
Koichi and Mariko are a married couple. Both husband and wife have their own careers. Koichi is a civil servant who returns home on time, while Mariko returns home late at night, leaving their love life cold.
This is the story of Betsy a model who is nearly 30. Now in the world of modeling that is considered to be the age of retirement. She then sets out to see what else she can do and at the same time try to straighten out her personal life cause her husband has demanded that she should be either a full time wife or give him a divorce. And she has also taken an aspiring model under her wing, and is considering also being a photographer.
Soviet film based on Borges' "Garden of Forking Paths." The film tells about the events that occurred on the eve of the British offensive in Saint-Montauban on July 24, 1916. A screen version of the short story of the famous Argentine classic Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986). Course work by Alexander Kaidanovsky, as a director, at the Higher Courses for Scriptwriters and Directors at VGIK. "Pavilion" for filming was chosen a room in a communal apartment on Vorovskogo street, where Alexander Kaidanovsky lived.
A man escapes from prison, and leads in his run the woman of his life.
Looking at how the arrival of the television affected a rural community in North Wales in the 1950s.
It is the story of a worker girl who chooses to stay between two men as a result of unexpected events and eventually choose to escape with her truck driver lover.
Emma (Myrna Castillo) could hope for salvation in Tony (Gil Guerrero), a creep and his offer of marriage.
Three surreal depictions of failures of communication that occur on all levels of human society.
The life of St. George the hero prince of martyrdoms and the Saint of all ages
A female TV announcer goes to a therapist for help with her sexual phobias and SM fantasies. Unfortunately the therapist has his own inner demons which causes him to affect a rather unethical and kinky “cure”.
Ken Ota is a Japanese-American GI. He comes to Hiroshima after WW2 looking for his big sister, but finds Keiko, a bomb victim with a keloid scar on her shoulder.
An ancient Indian warrior who has reached the end of his life is brought back from his 'death' to save his family from a raiding party of enemy Indians in this unique story of 'Indians without a single cowboy.
Retired army general decides to return to his home land and help people to build a better future.
The year is 1974, and Barbara Dean (Judi Dench), a British assistant manager in a foreign bank in Saigon, begins a relationship with American Bob Chesneau (Frederic Forrest). She quickly realises that he works for the CIA and he knows that the fall of South Vietnam is very near.
Ambitious pilot to a prospective series revolving around a combat cameraman in Vietnam. Carl Danton is in Saigon on assignment at the start of the 1968 Tet offensive with a cynical boss in the local bureau chief. His love interest is a Vietnamese doctor whose brother happens to be a leader in the Viet Cong and whose influential parents are involved in high-level corruption.
Two talented swimmers from a small village are invited by a factory to compete for their team in national tournaments, but soon discover they are being used as a publicity ploy by the factory.
A true story about one US and one USSR delegate who, during 1982 talks in Geneva between USA and USSR on limiting medium-range nukes in Europe, met by accident in a nearby forest while on a stroll and informally started a key discussion.
Granpa tells stories to his granddaughter Emily, who imagines them as crayon drawings in motion.