Reflecting on the River Effra, a lost tributary of the River Thames, and exploring the cultural and sonic ecology of the river’s course as it runs from Norwood through Brixton and Vauxhall, tracing Afro-Caribbean histories and themes of industry, community, landscape, and memory.
Reflecting on the River Effra, a lost tributary of the River Thames, and exploring the cultural and sonic ecology of the river’s course as it runs from Norwood through Brixton and Vauxhall, tracing Afro-Caribbean histories and themes of industry, community, landscape, and memory.
After tragedy strikes Henry and Penny, he befriends a tenacious young girl and discovers she is constructing a raft to sail across the Atlantic to find her lost father. Together, along with some unlikely friends, they set forth to construct the vessel and subsequently rebuild their lives.
A trading company manager travels up an African river to find a missing outpost head and discovers the depth of evil in humanity's soul.
Louis Menkins is five weeks away from being released after 26 years in prison. He is faced with the decision to put his own release at risk in order to protect a young man named Beecher from growing gang controversies.
'รอย' (John Cusack) เป็นนักต้มตุ๋นระยะสั้นเน้นทำงานเล็ก ๆ ได้เงินไม่มาก เขาตัดขาดจากแม่ก็คือ 'ลิลลี่' (Anjelica Huston) ที่ทำงานให้เจ้ามือพนันรายใหญ่พร้อมกับแอบโกงเงินเจ้านายครั้งละเล็กน้อย ต่อมารอยถูกยั่วยวนจาก 'ไมร่า' (Annette Bening) แฟนสาวที่เป็นนักต้มตุ๋นให้มาร่วมลงทุนเป็นหุ้นส่วนเดิมพันสูง
Director Jean Renoir’s entrancing first color feature—shot entirely on location in India—is a visual tour de force. Based on the novel by Rumer Godden, the film eloquently contrasts the growing pains of three young women with the immutability of the Bengal river around which their daily lives unfold. Enriched by Renoir’s subtle understanding and appreciation for India and its people, The River gracefully explores the fragile connections between transitory emotions and everlasting creation.
Two drifters bum around, visit earthy women and discuss opening a car wash in Pittsburgh.
An unemployed drifter, Eric Stanton wanders into a small California town and begins hanging around the local diner. While Eric falls for the lovely waitress Stella, he also begins romancing a quiet and well-to-do woman named June Mills. Since Stella isn't interested in Eric unless he has money, the lovelorn guy comes up with a scheme to win her over, and it involves June. Before long, murder works its way into this passionate love triangle.
The story of Captain Richard Francis Burton's and Lt. John Hanning Speke's expedition to find the source of the Nile river in the name of Queen Victoria's British Empire.
When the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas and his flirtatious wife Caitlin sweep into war-torn London, the last thing they expect is to bump into Dylan's childhood sweetheart Vera. Despite her joy at seeing Dylan after so many years, Vera is swept off her feet by a dashing officer, William Killick, and finds herself torn between the open adoration of her new found beau and the wily charms of the exotic Welshman.
Years after her Indian family was forced to flee their Uganda home, twentysomething Mina finds herself co-operating a motel in the faraway land of Mississippi. Her passionate romance with charming Black carpet cleaner Demetrius challenges the prejudices of their conservative families and exposes the rifts between the region's Indian and African-American communities.