French Canadian families adopt Irish orphans in the 1850s while allowing them to maintain part of their Irish heritage.
7260 Matches Found
French Canadian families adopt Irish orphans in the 1850s while allowing them to maintain part of their Irish heritage.
Grant Ekland is a dirty cop, with a checkered past that endlessly haunts him. The love of his life was murdered by a serial killer named Harold who slaughtered a countless number of humans in the city of Toronto, Canada, before he was finally locked up and sent to a mental institution. Now many years later, Harold is set to be released back into society, and Ekland hopes for a final showdown with his arch enemy. Nightmares clash into a brand new reality, as Ekland faces a host of problems and obstacles that he himself must overcome, if he ever hopes to face the murderous serial killing madman, and set his own inner demons free
Joey comes from the provinces to Manilla where he becomes chauffeur to an orphaned heiress who lives with her lawyer and his wife, who are trying to kill her for her money. The lawyer’s wife, the maid, the secretary, and the gay cook all fall in love with the new chauffeur, causing complications. When the heiress is kidnapped, Joey and the heiress’ suitor come to the rescue.
During World War I, African-Americans worked on the railroad near Corbin, Kentucky. When whites returned from the war, there was conflict. Whites sought their former jobs and positions in the community. In 1919, a race riot occurred. Whites put the African-Americans on railroad cars and ran them out of town. In Trouble Behind, members of the Corbin community speak out on the issue. The filmmakers also interview former members of the Corbin, which at the time of filming had only one black family. Some Corbin residents express confusion as to why African-Americans don't move back. Others openly use racial epithets. Some young adults seem troubled by the racism, past and present. Others don't.
Yuppie Tom brings his investor buddies out to a dude ranch, hoping they'll want to help him turn it into a high-end resort, not knowing that the Devil Rider has roamed the land, killing all who try to claim it as their own, awakening whenever it is trespassed upon.
Veteran journalist and author Edward Behr spent a year investigating the rise and fall of Nicolae Ceausescu. Executed on Christmas Day 1989, Ceausescu was once a hero to his own people, and in the west. Behr's film reveals the truth behind the myth, in a tale of megalomania, farce, and horror.
A young child and his mother face a visit from the terrifying sandman.
Shankar loves his stepmother and stepbrothers as his own. However, the happy family disintegrates due to the vested interests of his stepbrother's wife and a greedy moneylender.
A woman gets sold by her mother to predatory men.
Shathruvu is a 1991 Telugu film directed by Kodi Ramakrishna. The film stars Venkatesh, Vijayashanti, Kota Srinivasan Rao and Jeeva in lead roles.
The election campaign in a small provincial town is in full swing. Candidates for ministry position pop up elsewhere, promising "milk and honey" to the voters. Two inseparable policemen, Boki and Pajko, are in charge of peace and order. Everything goes as usual until unexpected visitor from space shows up.
Pitch for From Dusk Till Dawn as directed by Robert Kurtzman. A different Seth Gecko fights the vampires in a familiar setting.
On the way from the psychiatric hospital in Alexandria to Cairo, the car breaks down with six patients inside, including Ilham, who has a nervous breakdown after her family died under the rubble of the house, Nafie Bey, the owner of the greatness, Khalil, the gambler and embezzler of his company's money, who pretends to be insane to escape the court's ruling, and Hajj Hassan, who was placed under guardianship by his children in order to seize his wealth. The four madmen escape, forcing the nurse Mabrouk and the driver Abdel Mawla to arrest four people instead of them to hand them over to the hospital administration.
A fantastic musical that depicts the youth of lovable young people living in modern times with love, laughter and tears.
At the end of 1944, Japanese imperialists stuck to nothing to reverse the war situation as they were defeated in war. They recruited young people by force to use them as student soldiers and drafted workers while they took women to use as comfort women by force. The girl who has lived in a town on the border between Jeon Ra Do and Kyeong Sang Do was kidnapped by armed Japanese army. She was dispatched to a front of the Philippines where she went through miserable pains that weren't understandable not only for as human being but also as women. Her dream was to marry Young-Su of the next door school and to be a good mother who has a son and two daughters.
Our plasticine pooch pal Rex welcomes us to his dreamworld.
First part of an adapted version of Henry VI as performed by the English Shakespeare Company as part of the complete Historical Octology.
Madeline in London
A girl's childhood in the 1950s with her brutal alcoholic father. This unrelieved melodrama examines the nature of a child's experience of a domineering, volatile alcoholic parent. It is based on an autobiographical account by Carol-Ann Courtney. At first, the girl has some diversion from her intense and frightening relationship with her father in the person of her maternal grandmother, but that outlet is soon closed when her father bans her from their home.
Madiha, after filing a lawsuit against her gambler husband, and after he stole his jewelry to spend on the tables, meets the owner of a computer company, the husband threatening his wife and stealing her furniture. Spouse dies in a collision. Madiha discovers that Salah loves her younger sister Rasha. The teacher, Hamouda, the husband of Salah’s sister, tries to establish a relationship with his wife, who has requested a divorce.
In the fifites the 10 year old boy Honza lives with his single mother in Prague. The mother is a dedicated communist in the beginning but she changes her mind when a show trial is held. She speaks about her dissatisfaction with the government and is immediately arrested. Honza is given to another family.
Mexican feature film
Max, a prize boxer who has developed a drinking habit after his girlfriend Susan left him, gets involved in dirty business once she asks him to help her find her missing husband.
Corrupt officials seek to gain control of a large region of Southern China, but a group of Shaolin monks will not surrender without a fight.
Vishnu is part of a local circus group. On one of their tours, Vishnu meets a girl and his life changes forever.
Professor Gerasim and assistant Tugomir are in a ski-resort where opportunity for cheating and love is around every corner.
Three blondes from another planet land on earth to conduct research into romantic love
A man travels through Asia and Africa seeking the treasure of Ali Baba.
Documentery from 1991 where The 2 Live Crew, Chuck D (Public Enemy), Too Short, Ice-T, Geto Boys, H.W.A. drop real talk on different topics.
Story about Elise and Helene, two sisters who do everything alike.
Love overtook the famous conductor in Russia, which he had once abandoned. But the young beloved, old enough to be his daughter, the pianist Lizaveta, apparently really is his daughter...
In the young man's imagination, the image of a mysterious house - a mystical building that symbolizes the spiritual world of an unknown faith - persistently returns.
The subject of this film, which takes an analytical look at the life of all of us with an analytical eye, is the evil microbe that has slowly infiltrated the organism of the Czech nation. Through the intertwining fates of three couples, it evokes domestic life before November 1989, burdened by a suffocating atmosphere of unfreedom, and after November, when relatively nothing has changed because people have not changed. The bleak conclusion suggests that the plague epidemic is still ongoing.
A woman asks his man to marry her for she is with child but the man is noncommittal. To save her reputation, she agrees to marry another man, who turns out to be a psychopath.
A funny story of a couple who decided to get a divorce. As a farewell, the heroes go on a foreign cruise. Sea, music... A woman meets men who claim a place in her past. This arouses the husband's ardent jealousy - and the dormant love comes to life...
Nicholas uses his imagination to explore the world around him with a cast of cuddly characters.
Yagyu Jubei (Hiroki Matsukata) receives a grave warning from his father, Munenori (Kinnosuke Yorozuya): the Tottori Ikeda clan has enlisted his old friend, the master Araki Mataemon (Go Wakabayashi). Driven by rumors of a hidden silver mine, Jubei secretly infiltrates Tottori, only to uncover that the domain has been seized by the rogue schemer, Gyobu Kuroiwa (Ken Nishida). As Jubei relentlessly pursues the truth behind the mine and the domain's fate, he finds himself ensnared in Kuroiwa’s ruthless trap, culminating in his capture... The master swordsman is finally betrayed.
A recently-deposed Central American dictator re-locates to a small town in Northern Manitoba and starts a new repressive regime.
A teacher at a German high-school in the nineteen thirties has issues with his students who seem to be getting less human and more convinced of Nazi ideals as time goes on.
In a middle-class family, three daughters-in-law try their best to adjust with their overbearing mother-in-law and misogynist husbands. Soon, they decide to teach them a lesson.
Krishna (played by Ananth Nag), who agrees to act as the husband of a rich girl, Meera (played by Thara), for money. This creates complications when his own wife, Radha (also played by Thara), finds out about the arrangement. The story takes a turn when Meera's father reveals the tragic circumstances behind her life, leading to a resolution where Krishna and Radha reunite.
Medellin, 1973: a young girl, chewing bubble gum and playing with a top comes upon the body of a murdered man. She's intrigued, even cheered by the sight. Jump ahead 18 years: Gabriela is living in Miami, Florida, and her job, which she loves, is to clean up crime scenes. We see a particularly bloody murder, and the next day, Gabriela is there to clean it up. As she plays music, cleans, and imagines the crime, the murderer returns to the scene to remove evidence. He gets more than he bargained for. Made into a feature film in 1996.
The Kingdom of Heaven is a series of short stories called parables. As Jesus teaches the people each parable, some begin to understand what the “Kingdom of Heaven” is like. Some have “ears that will not hear” and are not willing to become followers of the Savior. At the Second Coming they will not be counted as His own.
It's easy to say... After 23 years of single-party rule, Turkey decided to try democracy once again in 1946. In every attempt up to that time, the regime had been turned upside down and given up in a short time. Now a new one was coming. Would he be able to reach the multi-party regime that has been pursued since Atatürk this time? The calendar of democracy began to run on the morning of Monday, January 7, 1946. That day was a turning point in Turkish political history. The Republic of Turkey woke up with a single party in the morning, it was now multi-party...
In Brazzaville, in 1944, Alex Emmerich was sentenced to wander the seas by Hélène Latray, the wife of Félix Beauvois, the man Alex loved. In 1962, exiled on Hatray cruises and feeling the coming death, Alex decides to compose for his love a testament: the photographic report of his agony.
A struggling door-to-door salesman becomes addicted to collecting the paper messages of good fortune found inside fortune cookies served as dessert at Chinese restaurants in the United States.
A mock-heroic 1798 poem Eneida is magnum opus of the first modern Ukrainian writer Ivan Kotliarevsky. It's a parody of Virgil's Aeneid, where Kotliarevsky transformed the Trojan heroes into Ukrainian Cossacks.
The singer's free concert in New York City when he performed songs from his albums Graceland and Rhythm of the Saints as well as older material, backed by the New York session musicians and the native musicians from South Africa and Brazil who had enlivened his solo work. Songs include Graceland, You Can Call Me Al, The Sound of Silence, Bridge Over Troubled Water, Kodachrome, The Boxer, America, Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes, Cecilia, and Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard.
Drama from 1991
Jessie Weston is an ex-con recently released from prison after serving two years for auto theft. He is welcomed back into his small California down by his best friend Dillion and his older brother, Paul. But Jessie is not warmly received by his old girlfriend Mary, whom is the daughter of the arrogant and corrupt sheriff, who was the reason why he locked Jessie up in the first place. When Dillion is murdered by two thugs looking him up for late payments, the sheriff and his MORE murderously corrupt deputy frame Jessie for it in order to organize a vigilante group to hunt him down. Jessie must go on the run, with Mary tagging along, to try to prove his innocence and kill all the bad guys out to kill him.