US-Special-Agent Leon S. Kennedy schmuggelt sich in ein kleines osteuropäisches Land ein, um Gerüchten nachzugehen, nach denen bioorganische Waffen (BOW) im Krieg eingesetzt werden. Kurz nach seiner Infiltration ruft ihn die amerikanische Regierung zur sofortigen Rückkehr auf. Doch Leon will die Wahrheit wissen, ignoriert den Befehl und stürzt sich entschlossen in den Kampf, um weitere Tragödien durch die BOW zu verhindern...
In der Republik von „Salò“, dem letzten Refugium italienischer Faschisten kurz vor dem Ende der Mussolini-Herrschaft, inszeniert eine Gruppe sadistischer Großbürger terroristische Grausamkeitsrituale: Junge Männer und Frauen werden als Lust- und Folterobjekt missbraucht und erniedrigt, schließlich in einer perversen Orgie zu Tode gequält. – Pier Paolo Pasolinis Abrechnung mit dem Faschismus.
Der tschechische Regisseur Jan Svěrák erzählt in diesem Oscar-gekrönten Film die Geschichte des desillusionierten Prager Cellisten Louka, der nach einer Scheinehe mit einer Russischen Emigrantin plötzlich die Verantwortung für deren fünfjährigen Sohn Kolya übernehmen muss. Doch es dauert nicht lange, bis die anfänglichen Kommunikationsschwierigkeiten überwunden sind.
Zur Zeit der Einigungsbestrebungen Garibaldis in Italien um die Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts: Ein alter Fürst arrangiert sich oberflächlich mit den aufstrebenden bürgerlich-liberalen Kräften, indem er seinen Neffen mit der Tochter des opportunistischen Bürgermeisters verheiratet. Gleichzeitig aber verweigert er seine Mitarbeit am neuen Königreich Italien. Bei einem Ball begegnen sich schließlich alte und neue Gesellschaft zu einem grandiosen Totentanz. Ein bewegendes historisches und gesellschaftliches Panoramabild von faszinierender Schönheit und analytischer Schärfe. Viscontis Sympathie gilt der überlebten Herrschaftsschicht, die dem Volk nähersteht als die bürgerlichen Emporkömmlinge, die für ihn eine direkte Verbindungslinie zum Mussolini-Faschismus darstellen. Dieser Dialektik entsprechend bewegt sich der Stil des Films zwischen blühender Pracht und morbidem Glanz.
Dies ist die wahre Geschichte von Giorgio Rosa und der Mikronation, die er zur Verwirklichung der Ziele einer ganzen Generation 1968 vor der Küste Riminis gründete.
Der talentierte Gesichtsleser Nae-kyung lebt ein ruhiges Leben, bis er ein lukratives Angebot von der Gisaeng Yeon-hong erhält. Er liest die Gesichter ihrer Klienten und wird dabei in einen Mordfall verwickelt. Mit Hilfe seiner Fähigkeit spürt Nae-kyung den Täter auf und weckt das Interesse von König Moonjong, der ihn an seinen Hof bringt, um potenzielle Verräter zu enttarnen. Nach dem unerwarteten Tod des Königs, wendet sich der machtgierige Prinz Sooyang an Nae-kyung. Dieser bleibt jedoch dem verstorbenen König treu und will seinen Nachfolger vor einem Attentat durch Sooyang beschützen. Dabei läuft er seinem eigenen Untergang entgegen.
In a fragile relationship, a husband wants to impress upon his pregnant wife his seriousness in being a good father, so he whisks her away on a babymoon travel holiday to the most exotic, beautiful, Instagram -able, country imaginable, which unbeknownst to him is experiencing a political revolution!
Alex Jones exposes the growing militarization of American law enforcement and the growing relationship between the military and police. Witness US training with foreign troops and learning how to control and contain civilian populations. You will see Special Forces helicopter attacks on South Texas towns, concentration camps, broad unconstitutional police actions, search and seizure and more.
On April 11th of 2002 a coup d'état against the venezuelan president Hugo Chávez Frías kept the country in a state of total uncertainty regarding his whereabouts, two days later he returned to power. This is a chronicle of those days.
Otavio is an idealistic union leader trying to organize workers at a factory to resist the company's exploitative practices. His son, Tião, one of the employees, is more of a realist and doesn't want to risk losing his job by striking. This clash of perspectives puts the father and son at odds. Fortunately, Tião's mother, Romana, is on hand to act as a moderator between the two opinionated men.
Hugo Chavez was a colourful, unpredictable folk hero who was beloved by his nation’s working class. He was elected president of Venezuela in 1998, and proved to be a tough, quixotic opponent to the power structure that wanted to depose him. When he was forcibly removed from office on 11 April 2002, two independent filmmakers were inside the presidential palace.
In Alex Jones' 11th feature documentary, made in 2004, Alex documents the major candidates in the staged 2004 United States presidential election.
The 580 days that president-elect Lula, from Workers Party, spent in prison are the subject of the documentary "Visita, Presidente". The feature brings together unpublished stories of figures who were beside him in prison.
Estado de Excepção is a documentary about CITAC (Coimbra Theater Initiation Circle), a university theater group, revealing history since it was constituted in 1956 until the aftermath of the 1974 revolution. It is the history of the theater group university and, through it, the history of theater in Portugal, revealing two remarkable decades of the History of Portugal. Through the Academy of Coimbra, the documentary reproduces student life, the position of women in society, and the change in mentalities of being and being in the world. It reproduces the existing censorship and the fight against the dictatorship, the resistance to an exhausted regime, as well as the emerging contradictions of the democratic revolution. CITAC has a heritage of 50 years of experience in Coimbra. It carries with it the possibility of the theatrical and civic formation of thinking bodies, constituting a proper ball of a possible model, generation by generation, between studies, theater, and social drama.
How does a country go from a dictatorship to a democracy? A detailed report on the political representation in the heart of the Spanish Transition, only a few months after General Franco’s death, when the sincere democratic vocation of Spanish people must effort to destroy, one heavy brick after another, the wall that those who supported the dictatorship and those who fought it from the exile built with resentment, hatred and prejudices.
The American Question examines the insidious roots of American polarization and distrust, in a desperate search for a path forward.
The victory of Jair Messias Bolsonaro in the 2018 brazilian general election raised a series of doubts in the minds of many Brazilians: Where did he come from? How did he manage to gain so many followers in such a short time? Why were the media and art class so afraid of his candidacy? And how did he win the 2018 elections?
Alex Jones interviews Walter Burien, commodity trading adviser (CTA) of 15 years about the biggest game in town. There are over 85,000 federal and regional governmental institutions: school districts, water and power authorities, county and city governments – and they own over 70 percent of the stock market.
The film is a controversy on democracy. Is our society really democratic? Can everyone be part of it? Or is the act of being part in democracy dependent to the access on technology, progression or any resources of information, as philosophers like Paul Virilio or Jean Baudrillard already claimed?
The leaders of Egypt's 2011 revolution discuss the fire, courage and resiliency behind their movement to remove President Hosni Mubarak from office.