Bondsonen Johnny tar till sprit och one night stands för att klara av landsbygdens tristess och faderns dåliga humör. När våren kommer med lamning och behov av mer arbetskraft anställer fadern en rumänsk gästarbetare, Gheorghe. Under det intensiva arbetet upp står passion mellan de två unga männen, såväl som drömmar om en ljusare framtid.
The life and career of the brutal Soviet dictator, Josef Stalin.
Georges och Anne är ett par i åttioårs-åldern. Båda har undervisat i klassisk musik och även dottern, som är bosatt utomlands, är utbildad musiker. En dag drabbas Anne av en stroke. Hela tillvaron vänds upp och ner och det starka kärleksbandet mellan Georges och Anne sätts på sitt yttersta prov.
The relationship between a middle-aged man and the elderly woman, who has been the family's helper for sixty years.
Tristanas mor dör och hon tas om hand av den gamle kvinnotjusaren Don Lope. På Don Lopes initiativ inleder de snart ett förhållande. Samtidigt som banden mellan de två växer starkare, ökar emellertid Tristanas förakt för sin förmyndare och ett brott verkar oundvikligt.
An ultraconservative police officer suffers a debilitating stroke and is assigned to a rehabilitative program that includes singing lessons - with the drag queen next door.
When Cassie's father finds himself vulnerable and bedridden, she believes she has the perfect revenge for her mother's death.
After being diagnosed with dementia, an elderly war veteran is forced by his estranged family to hire a live-in nurse, only to find she harbors a sinister secret.
Storbritanniens premiärminister Winston Churchill fick 1953 en stroke som nästan dödade honom, en händelse som kunde ha fått historiska följder. Den efterföljande sjukdomen doldes inte bara för nationen, utan även för själva regeringen. Pressen var lojal och höll tyst in i det sista.
Confronted with the unfortunate news that their favorite Streetcar, no. 133, is going to be decommissioned, two Municipal Transit workers get drunk and decide to "take 'er for one last spin," as it were. Unfortunately, the "one last spin" ends up being an all-night and all-day scramble to stay out of trouble, as they are confronted with situation after sometimes bizarre situation that prevents them from returning the "borrowed" Streetcar!
A biography of the Three Stooges, in which their careers and rise to fame is shown throughout the eyes of their leader, Moe.
After a stroke leaves her husband disabled and fundamentally changed, a spirited Irish wife struggles to keep her family members together. All the while they are under the microscope of an American researcher documenting their recovery process.
When shy school teacher Val and Harry, the son of an aged opera singer, get married, Val quickly discovers that Harry's mother, Barbara, is not very happy with their union. In fact, Barbara tries to separate the couple. But, when Barbara suffers a debilitating stroke, Val's compassion and empathy mend the rift between two women, giving Barbara the will to survive. But will Barbara learn to love her daughter-in-law?
Rex is an old man who is bitter about never becoming famous and having lived a life without any meaning. After suffering a stroke, he ends up in a nursing home staffed by Latin American immigrants. Put off by the situation, he focuses his energy on getting out, which places him at odds with the Latino workers. However, their relationship takes on new meaning when it is discovered that he once shook hands with Vicente Fernandez, a Mexican singer, producer and actor idolized throughout Latin culture. The employees soon begin to treat Rex like the celebrity he's always dreamed of being.
This short focuses on Patricia Neal's return to motion pictures three years after she suffered a near-fatal stroke. We see her and the cast and crew at work in New York City on the feature film The Subject Was Roses (1968).
A single mother suffers a devastating stroke leaving her teenage daughter and 7-year-old son to care for her, testing the family's strength to hold things together as their roles are reversed.
After his mother suffers a stroke, Ben Hardin returns to his rural hometown to care for her and complete his most recent book. While home, his relationships with family and friends are strained and tested.
Renata is recovering from a cerebrovascular thrombosis that marked the end of her dance career. A year later, she starts to regain her bodily autonomy and feels confident to rekindle her intimacy with her husband. But before she does, she must face her changing feelings towards her emotionally distant husband, Jaime, who is in denial that their relationship has changed.
In July 2016, Josée Boudreault had a stroke that turned her life upside down. This documentary follows her as she tries to regain her motor and verbal functions, tirelessly supported by her spouse Louis-Philippe Rivard. This touching story is foremost about the love that binds this unbreakable couple, despite the challenges of illness.
Richard Alwyn's intensely moving film, inspired by the experience of his brother-in-law, follows two stroke survivors who can no longer take language for granted.