I år 2032 vækkes ærkeskurken Simon Phoenix til live efter at være frosset ned i 35 år i et nedfrysningsfængsel, og han opdager snart, at Los Angeles er en fredelig by uden vold, som han uden videre kan tage magten over. Da de ikke har noget modtræk mod Phoenix´ brutale 1990´er-stil, må myndighederne finde en gammeldags strømer til at bekæmpe den gammeldags forbryder. De genopliver politimanden John Spartan, som med urette afsoner en nedfrysningsdom efter sit sidste opgør med Phoenix.
Den succesfulde filminstruktør Salvatore Di Vita får besked fra sin hjemby om, at Alfredo er død - en besked, der vækker minder. Salvatore ser biografen Paradiso for sig, hvor maskinisten Alfredo herskede i ensom majestæt. Da Alfredo blev blind under en brand, overtog Salvatore hans arbejde, og et dybt venskab voksede frem imellem dem. Paradiso blev lukket, og Salvatore flyttede fra hjembyen og lovede aldrig mere at vende tilbage. Salvatore trodser nu sit løfte og vender hjem til Alfredos begravelse.
Den sande historie om skabelsen af en ikonisk superhelt, og samtidig historien om tre personers kærlighed og kamp for frihed.
Moscow, 1930s. A prominent writer's works are suddenly censored by the Soviet state and the premiere of his theatrical play about Pontius Pilate is canceled. He's kicked out of the Soviet Writer's Union, and quickly turns into an outcast with no means to survive. Inspired by Margarita - his lover, he begins working on a new novel in which all the characters are satirically reinterpreted from his life. The novel's central character is Woland - a mystical dark force who visits Moscow to revenge all those who caused the writer's downfall. As the Master sinks himself deeper and deeper into his novel, adding himself and Margarita as characters, he gradually stops noticing as the border between reality and his imagination fades away.
Jafar Panahi agerer selv taxichaufføren, der med sit kamera indbygget i instrumentbrættet dokumenterer sine finurlige, morsomme og ind i mellem stærkt bevægende møder med allehånde iranere. På raffineret vis - og med stor menneskevarme - tegnes et portræt af et moderne Iran, som ikke ligner noget, vi kender fra tv-reportagerne og ej heller noget, de lokale myndigheder billiger.
A film screener at the BBFC, who has earned an unsavory reputation for being the strictest censor of violent films, begins to spiral out of control after viewing a low budget horror movie with similarities to the disappearance of her sister.
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas dokumenterer med livlig sang og dans en ny Texas-legende, som nu slutter sig til The Alamo som en historisk institution udødeliggjort i fortælling, sang, bog, teater og film. Det musikalske teaterstykke var inspireret af den virkelige, hedengangne Chicken Ranch, og versionen for det hvide lærred har Burt Reynolds og Dolly Parton i hovedrollerne som hhv. sheriffen Ed Earl Dodd og ejerinden af Chicken Ranch, Miss Mona. De to finder sammen, ikke kun i en kærlighedsaffære, men også for at kæmpe mod tv-korsridderen fra storbyen, Melvin P. Thorpe (Dom DeLuise), og dennes forsøg på at udstille Chicken Ranch som en offentlig skandale og få den lukket.
Taking inspiration from Peter M. Bracke's definitive book of the same name, this seven-hour documentary dives into the making of all twelve Friday the 13th films, with all-new interviews from the cast and the crew.
A retrospective documentary about the groundbreaking horror series, Friday the 13th, featuring interviews with cast and crew from the twelve films spanning 3 decades.
In 1945, as Stalin sets his hands over Poland, famous painter Wladislaw Strzeminski refuses to compromise on his art with the doctrines of social realism. Persecuted, expelled from his chair at the University, he's eventually erased from the museums' walls. With the help of some of his students, he starts fighting against the Party and becomes the symbol of an artistic resistance against intellectual tyranny.
In the 1970s, Director Kim is obsessed by the desire to re-shoot the ending of his completed film Cobweb, but chaos and turmoil grip the set with interference from the censorship authorities, and the complaints of actors and producers who can't understand the re-written ending. Will Kim be able to find a way through this chaos to fulfill his artistic ambitions and complete his masterpiece?
Fed up with being censored in their post-Trailer Park Boys lives, the out of work stars/world-renowned 'swearists', Mike Smith, Robb Wells and John Paul Tremblay decide to start their own uncensored network on the internet.
Italy, 1970. An increasing legion of harmless warriors begins a peaceful struggle for sexual freedom through pornography, shaking and shocking religious authorities and conservative political institutions. They are ironic, happy, crazy. They are dreamers, defenders of definitive communion between body and soul. But they were censored and humiliated. They were mistreated and arrested for demanding loud a new cultural renaissance.
Residents of a big city, each of whom has their own sexual problems and desires, secret and, most often, shameful from the point of view of society, need to solve them. Each of the characters tries to solve their problems in their own way: someone sublimates them, someone turns to a psychotherapist for help, someone rushes into experiments... but sooner or later they all return to where they started, and they have to overcome themselves again and again to get at least a little, even a millimeter closer to their happiness.
Based on true events of the late 60s in Italy, poet, playwright and myrmecologist Aldo Braibanti is prosecuted and sentenced to prison for the love he shares with his barely-of-age pupil and friend, Ettore. Amidst a chorus of voices of accusers, supporters and a largely hypocritical public, a single committed journalist takes on the task of piecing together the truth, between secrecy and desire, facing suspicion and censorship in the process.
In pre-war Japan, a government censor tries to make the writer for a theater troupe alter his comedic script. As they work with and against each other, the script ends up developing in unexpected ways.
It is a sex education film of sorts dedicated to all forms of human sexuality.
When a small Utah-based edited movie company is caught sanitizing Hollywood's copyrighted material, the film industry strikes back with a devastating blow.
In recent years, more than 2,500 books have been removed from school districts around the US, labeled as banned, restricted, or challenged, and made unavailable to millions of students. By no accident, the themes targeted are the usual scapegoats of the American Right—LGBTQ+ issues, Black History, and women’s empowerment—impeding the power of future generations to develop their own thoughts and opinions on critical social issues. By weaving together a lyrical montage of young readers and authors, THE ABCs OF BOOK BANNING reveals the voices of the impacted parties, and inspires hope for the future through the profound insights of inquisitive youthful minds.
Få hele historien om den legendariske komiker Richard Pryor, der var en af de mest respekterede - og kontroversielle - skuespillere i det 20. århundrede. Hør blandt andre Robin Williams og Mel Brooks fortælle, hvad der gjorde Richard Pryor til noget helt særligt.