Based on the real-life ordeal of Baltimore priest Bernard Pagano, who was accused of several armed robberies in the late Seventies.
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Based on the real-life ordeal of Baltimore priest Bernard Pagano, who was accused of several armed robberies in the late Seventies.
At the end of the Reagan years, rocker and confrontational performance artist Lydia Lunch launches a broadside. From a formal podium, she attacks the white male power structure of the US. Next she takes on her parents. Then, the volume lowered and the background the streets of New York, she lets us know what she thinks of life, of herself, and of us, anyone who's watching or listening. Life is depression, despair, and death. She's the girl next door gone bad. And us? Compliant sheep. Lunch lays out a challenge.
A building contractor and his spouse are driven apart by financial worries. Tony is an energetic personality well on in his 30s, presuming upon having everything under control. He's married to Nora, and they have two kids. Tony frequents tough assertiveness training sessions, owing to which he boosts up his self-confidence and considers himself to be the never-failing businessman and the perfect husband. As a result of his excessive investments and his haughty attitude, his company gets under a heavy cloud. When bankruptcy has become inevitable, his problems also affect family life. He starts taking his problems out on his wife who seems to be able to cope with the new situation more easily. She makes him see how vulnerable he really is.
This is the historic concert performance of the final operatic version of Bernstein's Candide. It was recorded on December 13, 1989 at the Barbican Centre, with Leonard Bernstein conducting the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, with a stellar cast of operatic stars gracing the solo parts. The programme lasts a full 2hrs 27 mins. It marks the end of a long and tortured journey for the musical/operetta that spent much of its first 35 years as an orphan in the musical wilderness.
A young boy learns important life lessons about strangers.
A rock singer goes to Brazil to shoot a video, but winds up getting kidnapped and enduring a number of seemingly bizarre and hilarious events.
Hosted by Mark Hamill, this revealing documentary offers behind-the-scenes glimpses into the amazing special effects that transformed George Lucas’ vision for Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back into reality!
A writer moves into a Malibu beach house, and comes up against the ghost of an actress who supposedly had committed suicide there 30 years previously, but had been murdered by her boyfriend. The ghost asks the writer's help in proving her boyfriend the killer.
Visual observation of psychic phenomena including psychic surgery, prior life regressions, skin vision, metal bending, and tongue skewing.
The movie compiled from the Swedish TV series "Dårfinkar & dönickar" aired in 1988
A movie about a Chicago family -- a building contractor and his two sons who have opposing ideologies. One brother works for a power-hungry builder with underworld connections; the younger son, a priest in one of the city's poor parishes, is fighting the forces for which his brother works.
Two young kids in love, one young graffiti artist and the other a foster-child, find trouble on the mean streets on the other side of the river in New York City. Officer Charles Banks finds young Danny tagging subway cars and then catches Teiresa selling drugs for another mislead teen, Kirk. The officer, instead of turning both of them in, gives both teens a chance to make more of their lives together. Changing their ways turns out to be more challenging than first thought.
A former green beret is hired by the Kenyan government to stop increasingly bold and violent poachers. As if that wasn't hard enough, he has to deal with his estranged father, now a safari guide, and with the woman they both love.
SuperTed teaches his friend Spotty how to cross the road safely.
A freshman begins to notice that students at her new school are losing their individuality. She discovers that the faculty are operating on the students' brains to make them docile and productive.
A self-assured short film about a neighborhood swimming group in which two boys are forced into a confrontation by their coach. This ridiculous lesson in growing up leads to an unexpected understanding.
Tells the story of a thirteen-year-old boy's summer day on the beaches of New York. Adventures and misadventures with friends, lunch with her mother and her new boyfriend, and the unexpected meeting with an older girl. Through all this we want to reconstruct the point of view of the protagonist and the difficult emotions that are felt at his age.
A short documentary about B.B. King and his time working on the score for the 1985 movie "Into the Night" starring Jeff Goldblum and Michelle Pfeiffer.
John Denver TV special
Chip, the android boy is back. This time, he is off to college, suffering from a computer virus and in love with Roberta, another android. Will there be a happy ending?
An amusing Pirandellian spoof of horror films about a hack screenwriter invited to the premiere of his last horror movie and finds himself attacked from the screen by the heroine who is tired of being chased from sequel to sequel by the same slasher in a ski mask.
Huge and just big boobs. Almost everyone loves them. And who does not love, he hides that he loves
A videotaped production of the Frederick Knott play in which three criminals play an elaborate scam on a blind woman who is in possession of a doll that, unbeknownst to her, is very incriminating. The play had already been famously adapted for the screen in 1967 starring Audrey Hepburn. This 1982 version was frequently shown on HBO in the 1980s.
An interview with actress Ingrid Bergman at London's National Film Theatre in 1981.
This 1980 tour documentary, recorded during the "Tusk" tour, was originally intended to be a companion to the album release for "Tusk", the most expensive rock album made up to that point in time, and the first ever recorded in a digital format. It contains behind-the-scenes footage and Live performances by Fleetwood Mac of songs from Tusk and previous albums. Due to editing issues, the video became available a number of months after the release of Tusk in 1979.
The government sets up a zombie squad after an epidemic has made the world run rampant with living corpses. The team head off to Ohio to try and find a cure but soon run into a crazy cult of zombie lovers who are set on preserving the walking dead as they believe it's God's will.
New York mobster Junior Moloff begins plans to transform Las Vegas into a mecca of prostitution and gambling.
Giff Hoyt, a cafe owner in Cabo Blanco, Peru after World War II is caught between refuge-seeking Nazis and their enemies. After the murder of a sea explorer is passed off as accidental death by the corrupt local police, Giff becomes suspicious. The police chief also intimidates a new arrival Marie, and Giff intervenes to help her. Giff suspects Beckdorff, a Nazi refugee living in the area. Beckdorff, it emerges, is seeking to uncover sunken treasure.
Steve Giardino, an abrasive workaholic Wall Streeter, and his wife Jackie divorce after twenty-six years of marriage and find themselves thrust back into the dating world in middle age and in search of a new life.
TV Variety Special hosted by Bruce Forsyth and Sammy Davis Jr.
Four male friends are reunited after not being in contact with each other for several years. However, the meeting place is Purgatory, the afterlife state of limbo between heaven and hell. In Purgatory, these friends reflect on their pasts while they were living. They especially focus on their years in Catholic School and their coming of age. This film talks a lot about sexual issues. One of the characters is an 18-year old sent to Vietnam who dies without ever losing his virginity and there is a middle-aged, homosexual alcoholic playwright who has still has problems dealing with his identity.
Thirteen years after the "Lawnmower Killer" killed her sister, high school student Mary Graves and obsessed detective Dick Harbinger are on the lookout for the killer to reappear during the annual Halloween Pumpkin Prom.
Brady Hawkes, Billy Montana, and Jeremiah Hawkes are on a train bound for a huge gambling event when the train is taken over by a gang of vicious killers in search of money. As ransom, the gang takes young Jeremiah hostage. Brady and Billy embark on a quest to rescue him and form a small gang of their own along the way.
Two truckers hired to transport toxic waste across the country get caught up with a teen genius who stows away on their truck.
A friendly street kid in India, during the last years of the nineteenth century, looks and considers himself Indian, but is in fact a Brit. The Brits discover his true origin, and train him as a spy.
This cinematic journey in time and space is aiming to research the history of Ukrainian emigration to the United States, and to highlight the active members of the Ukrainian community. Following a brief historical introduction, we get to see an impressive gallery of Ukrainians of different professions – from a farmer to a spacecraft engineer – speaking out about their life experience, their roots, and their take on self-identification. Among the personalities featured in the film, there are famous artists, such as Jacques Hnizdovsky, and a celebrated American actor of Ukrainian decent Jack Palance, who is also narrating the picture.
A fabulous Malibu beach house is the setting for sin in sun, as a trio of lovely ladies find love in Los Angeles over one sizzling summer.
Grandpa tells his two young houseguests about the time he was afraid of the dark and about other figments of his imagination.
A television movie about the effect that unscrupulous college football recruiting practices have on two star high school athletes.
On a Saturday night, in a small 1950s Californian town, a young man, whose parents are an inch from a divorce, takes his brand new pink Cadillac for a spin to meet girls. He hooks up with the daughter of the town's radical preacher.
In 1986, Louis Malle examines the immigrant experience in America by interviewing newcomers from various professions nationwide, highlighting their struggles in a multicultural society.
Madeline Kahn stars in this zany musical revue that pokes fun at punk rock, theatre critics, the British theatre and much more!
The struggling musician son of a dead Elvis-like singing star becomes a private detective when his father's bronzed nose hairs are stolen from a rock and roll museum.
Harry is a shy hardware store employee. But whenever he takes a part in a local amateur theater production, he becomes the part completely--while on stage. Helene is new in town, a lonely itinerant telephone company employee. On a whim, she auditions for and gets the part of Stella to Harry's Stanley when the theater group performs A Streetcar Named Desire. Before anyone realizes the growing affection between Helene and Stanley, she falls deeply in love with the sexy brute, not knowing what the real man is like.
A Harvard University student finds a strange letter that seems to be signed by George Washington. When trying to contact an expert (Prof. Chandler) to authenticate it, he is murdered but the letter disappears. Then Chandler, who does not know anything about the case, gets chased by the mafia and haunted by a TV reporter (Polly Bishop).
During the Vietnam War, the US military planned to send soldiers to Hualien for vacation. The owners of three brothels in Hualien jointly rented a large house, preparing to open a bar to make a lot of money, and invited teachers from school to teach the bar girls to speak English. Dozens of prostitutes were carefully selected, even Afen, the mistress of the brothel owner, was recruited. The teachers began to teach the girls how to speak English, mix cocktails, and even taught them how to wear condoms when receiving American soldiers to avoid contracting sexually transmitted diseases.
A behind-the-scenes documentary of the making of 1983's Yellowbeard
The life of King Henry the Sixth, in three parts.
In the later 1960s, two hippies are forced to leave their friends as they are wanted by the FBI, who sees them as criminals. They hide in the jungle for 20 years, secluded from the outside world. In the later 1980s, the find out that a secret war is about to start in the US, and decide to return to New York to tell someone about it.
Family celebrations and tensions, Independence Day, Texas 1948
A teacher still haunted by the death of two teens that she accidentally caused as a young girl goes berserk when four teens start harassing her and then attack her in her home.
After a horse accident, Karen wakes up to find herself in past Britain, close to Camelot, the famous castle of King Arthur.
تتناول السهرة قصة اجتماعية إنسانية بلمسة كوميدية، تركز على حياة المهمشين في المجتمع وطموحاتهم البسيطة التي تصطدم بالواقع المعقد. يُعرف العمل بأدائه التمثيلي العالي، خاصة في تجسيد شخصية الشاب ذو الاحتياجات الخاصة (الذي أداه محمد حسين عبد الرحيم) وعلاقته بمحيطه. The show presents a social and human story with a comedic touch, focusing on the lives of marginalized members of society and their simple aspirations that clash with complex realities. The production is known for its high-caliber acting, particularly in the portrayal of the young man with special needs (played by Mohamed Hussein Abdel Rahim) and his relationships with those around him.
Although Jo Jo Dancer has achieved success as a stand-up comedian, he hasn't found happiness. After receiving severe burns in a narcotics-related incident, Jo Jo remains in a coma, and, while in this state, he looks back on his life. Drifting off into memories of his troubled childhood, Jo Jo revisits his youth, recalling his eventual rise to fame and the decadence that followed. As he considers his existence, he must decide if he wants to go on living or not.
In order to beat inflation and subsidize their alimony checks, three suburban housewives plot to steal $1 million from a large plastic ball which is displayed in a local shopping center.
Through interviews with Manhattan Project scientists and newly declassified archival footage, this documentary examines the life of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his leadership of the Manhattan Project. The film traces the development and testing of the first atomic bomb and follows Oppenheimer’s later opposition to nuclear proliferation during the early years of the Cold War.
He is the champion. Not only of his sport. But for people. Now someone want's to destroy everything he has fought so hard to create. This evil comes in two forms, one human the other a walking nightmare. There is no turning back now. Hammerhead Jones is about to meet his destiny face-to-face inside an arena from which there is no escape.
A small town is terrorized by a homicidal maniac known as The Creeper.
Priscilla remembers her life and her relationship with Elvis Presley since she was 14 years old. When she moves to Graceland, she feels like a princess. But her lover, the world-famous musician Elvis Presley, is rarely at home and increasingly resorts to drugs. Nevertheless, she decides to marry Elvis. After a while, the fairy tale slowly turns into a nightmare and the two seem to become estranged.