Ο Μίλος ήταν ένας πορνοστάρ που τώρα έχει αποσυρθεί και έχει παντρευτεί την αγαπημένη του, Μαρίγια, ενώ μαζί έχουν το καμάρι τους, τον Πέτερ. Αντιμετωπίζουν οικονομικές δυσκολίες, κάνοντας τον Μίλος να δεχτεί την ευκαιρία που του προσφέρει μια πορνοστάρ για καλλιτεχνική ταινία. Ο σκηνοθέτης Βούκμιρ του κάνει συμβόλαιο, αλλά ποτέ δεν του δείχνει το σενάριο, ούτε του μιλάει για την πλοκή. Σύντομα, ο Μίλος ανακαλύπτει πως πρόκειται για «snuff» ταινίες, με παιδοφιλία, νεκροφιλία και σαδομαζοχισμό, αλλά δεν υπάρχει δρόμος για αποχώρηση, παρά μόνο το ότι πρέπει να προστατεύσει την οικογένεια του.
Φτάνοντας στην Κολχίδα, τόπο ενός αρχέγονου πολιτισμού, ο Ιάσονας ερωτεύεται την κόρη του βασιλιά Μήδεια, η οποία τον βοηθά να κλέψει το χρυσόμαλλο δέρας. Όταν όμως επιστρέφουν στην Ελλάδα, εκείνος την εγκαταλείπει κι ετοιμάζεται να παντρευτεί την κόρη του βασιλιά του Άργους Γλαύκη.
Set halfway through the 17th century, a church play is performed for the benefit of the young aristocrat Cosimo. In the play, a grotesque old woman gives birth to a beautiful baby boy. The child's older sister is quick to exploit the situation, selling blessings from the baby, and even claiming she's the true mother by virgin birth. However, when she attempts to seduce the bishop's son, the Church exacts a terrible revenge.
A woman tormented by ghostly apparitions and a professor of psychic phenomena investigate other-worldly disturbances and unlock the secret of a malevolent force reaching out for vengeance from beyond the grave.
John Reilly discovers that his family's newly inherited castle in Italy is haunted by a relentless bloodthirsty creature.
Βασισμένη σε ένα αληθινό γεγονός που συγκλόνισε το Βέλγιο το 2007, η ταινία εξιστορεί την πορεία μιας σύγχρονης Μήδειας, εξερευνώντας τα όρια της οικογενειακής ζωής. Ο Μουνίρ και η Μιριέλ είναι παθιασμένα ερωτευμένοι. Ο Μουνίρ μεγάλωσε χωρίς να του λείπει τίποτα, κάτι που οφείλεται στον Δρ Πινέ. Για να παντρευτεί το ζευγάρι αναγκάζεται να έρθει κάτω από τις επιταγές που θέτει ο Δρ Πινέ. Αυτό καταλήγει να γίνει αφόρητο για τη Μιριέλ που βρίσκεται ξαφνικά αιχμάλωτη σε ένα χρυσό κλουβί. Η κατάληξη μπορεί να είναι μονάχα τραγική.
José Cura, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Verónica Villarroel and Yvonne Naef lead the star cast of Verdi's blazingly passionate opera IL TROVATORE, in Elijah Moshinsky's new Royal Opera House production co-produced with Teatro Real Madrid, with sets by the noted film designer Dante Ferretti and costumes by Anne Tilby.
The gypsy Azucena (Fiorenza Cossotto) takes revenge for her mother who was accused of putting a curse on one of the old Count di Luna's two sons: she decides to abduct the younger child and throw it in the flames. But when she is about to carry out this fatal act, the gypsy sacrifices her own child and keeps the old Count’s son, whom she names Manrico (IL TROVATORE, Plácido Domingo). Later, as adults, the troubadour Manrico and the Count di Luna’s elder son (Piero Cappucilli) do not know each other, but become rivals for the beautiful Leonora (Raina Kabaivanska). Manrico succeeds in winning the young woman’s heart, and she sacrifices herself for him, deceiving the Count’s son. Mad with jealousy, the latter orders the execution of the troubadour in front of his mother. Azucena reveals to him that Manrico was his brother. This legendary performance of Giuseppe Verdi's most successful opera was recorded at the Vienna State Opera under the baton of Herbert von Karajan.
South of Italy, XIX century. A couple of brigands are chased in the woods. The man has a bounty on his head and is terrified by everything, while the woman takes care of her newborn. They will be safe beyond the river, where they are going to abandon their son to some gang members in order to run faster. But the woman secretly hides the desire to keep the baby...
NORMA tells the tragic story of a supposedly chaste druidic priestess, who is driven to murderous jealousy by her lover's inconstancy. But she forgoes vengeance, protects innocence, and sees to it that the guilty atone for their crimes. Fiorenza Cedolins, Sonia Ganassi, Vincenzo La Scola, and Andrea Papi star in this 2007 Gran Theatre Del Liceu/Grand Theatre de Geneve co-production of the Bellini opera.
By his father’s deathbed, the young Karl Victor von Sendlingen swears that he will never make the same mistake his father made in his youth: to marry a girl beneath his own station. The promise proves to have fatal consequences when Karl Victor falls in love with a young governess, whom he impregnates but refuses to marry as this would break his oath to his father. Many years later, he is a highly respected president of the court about to deal out judgment to a young woman who has killed her new-born child. The young woman turns out to be his own illegitimate daughter, and Karl Victor is suddenly faced with the choice of doing his professional duty or making amends for his past misdeeds. (Stumfilm.dk)
Verdi’s IL TROVATORE again storms the Met stage in a star-studded, anvil-wielding cast , including Sondra Radvanovsky, Dolora Zajick and Dmitri Hvorostovsky. Marcelo Álvarez sings Manrico, the troubadour of the title. The story is well-known already: The gypsy Azucena has harbored a grudge for thirty years, but she is about to have revenge at last. Meanwhile, her son Manrico is in love with Leonora, but so is his arch-enemy, the Count Di Luna. A pot-boiler, where every tune is a hit.
Η Μήδεια σε μια σύγχρονη φτωχογειτονιά.
In a small town in the North West of England a vagrant serial killer is stoned to death by a gang of teenage vigilantes wearing white hoods. He then rises from his grave in the woods as a zombie a year later to gorily kill the vigilantes one-by-one!
The pro-life movement has been around as long as Roe V Wade, who are they, what do they do? Are they effective? This documentary goes into the deep underpinnings of major national lobbyist groups to find out why after 46 years Babies Are Still Murdered Here?