Bella on nuori nainen, jonka nerokas mutta omintakeinen tiedemies tri Godwin Baxter herättää henkiin. Aluksi Bella on innokas opettelemaan elämää Baxterin siipien suojassa. Elämänjanossaan hän kuitenkin karkaa sliipatun ja paheellisen lakimiehen Duncan Wedderburnin mukana myrskyisälle matkalle halki mantereiden. Sen myötä aikansa ennakkoluulot karistaneesta Bellasta kasvaa vankkumaton vapauden ja tasa-arvon puolustaja.
I Wanna Dance: The Whitney Houston Movie on vahva ja voitonriemuinen ylistys vertaansa vailla olevalle Whitney Houstonille. Elokuvan on ohjannut Kasi Lemmons, käsikirjoittanut Oscar®-ehdokas Anthony McCarten, tuottanut legendaarinen musiikkialan vaikuttaja Clive Davis ja sen pääosaa esittää BAFTA® -palkittu Naomi Ackie. Elokuva on peittelemätön muotokuva monitahoisesta naisesta, joka tunnettiin myös nimellä “The Voice”. Katsoja pääsee inspiroivalle, koskettavalle ja hyvin tunteelliselle matkalle läpi Houstonin uraauurtavan elämän newjerseyläisestä kuorotytöstä yhdeksi kaikkien aikojen myydyimmistä ja palkituimmista artisteista. Elokuvassa tykitetään ikonin pysäyttävimmät esiintymiset ja ääniraita hänen rakastetuimmista hiteistään kuin kuulisi ne ensi kertaa.
Dokumentti laulajalegenda ja aktivisti Nina Simonen elämästä sisältää aiemmin kuulemattomia tallenteita, harvinaista arkistomateriaalia ja kuuluisimpia kappaleita.
A loathsome man ends up dead, but it's not clear who's to blame. If ever a person got what he deserved, it's James Urbanksi, an abusive drunk who steals from his wife, Joyce, and promises her close friend Cynthia Kellogg that she'll be the next target of his rage. At a group outing, James bleeds to death after someone cuts his throat. But because he's such a terrible human being, police aren't sure which of his acquaintances decided to kill him.
After suffering years of mental abuse from her husband, Jules thinks she's finally free when a physical struggle ends in a fire that takes his life. However, she's soon pushed to the edge as she starts to believe she's seeing him at every turn.
In a series of three vignettes, three women in turn struggle to free themselves from the men who restrict their personal freedom.
A married couple from Poland emigrates to the U.S.,. but things don't turn out as well as they had imaged. The husband's business fails, while his wife's career really takes off. The husband, unable to cope with the pressures of his failed business, his failing marriage and the adjustments necessary to live in a completely different society, begins to take out his frustrations on his wife.
Buried deep beneath the earth for a hundred years Jonathan had to sacrifice his own soul and become a vampire in order to find his true love. Meanwhile, a beautiful young woman, Victoria, wakes from recurring dreams of a time when she was in love. It is clear that Victoria is Jonathan's true love and when they finally meet, they realize that their souls are forever intertwined. Victoria finds herself caught between her immortal love and her mortal ties. Jonathan has made the ultimate sacrifice for her - his own mortality. Will she now do the same for him?
Ilkka Järvi-Laturin tosipohjaisessa rikoselokuvassa nuori mies joutuu äitinsä toisen avioliiton kautta mukaan Oulun synkkään alamaailmaan.
Journalist Meredith Redmond is a battered Canadian woman who flees Canada to escape her abusive husband, Robert. She settles in Seattle, but her now-remarried ex-husband eventually finds her. To protect her two children, she must choose between killing him herself, hiring someone to kill him, or disappearing with her children and assuming new identities. Based on a true story.
To escape a marriage arranged by her extremely religious father, a young girl seizes the chance to run away and save more than herself.
Glamour model Diane Shepherd is routinely being beaten by her husband Tim, who accuses her of infidelity. When she can't take it anymore, she finds shelter with photographer Mark and his girlfriend Carrie. They introduce Diane to Millie, who is in a similar situation. Meanwhile, Tim informs Diane that if she doesn't come back to him, he will see to it that he gains custody of their son, Timmy.
When their friends arrive for dinner at a get-together party in a student-based environment, a naive college student must resolve issues with his obsessive girlfriend before she walks all over him.
A young woman seeks therapy regarding her anisotropic partner, only to get an undesired response from her therapist.
Living in a small rural town, with little available emotional help around her, a young woman returns for a visit to her therapist. She finally receives a profoundly symbolic message, guiding her to find answers and solutions while living in a toxic relationship.
A troubled corrections officer pays a visit to a man he’s never met to request he cook a last meal for his ex-girlfriend on death row; one that will kill her before her execution the following morning.
A married woman is plagued by lost memories of her husband, which seem to be tied to a nail on the crown of her skull.
A young woman leaves her abusive husband in Holland to seek refuge in St. Maarten. But the law has changed since the island obtained country status and she is stranded at the airport. The Chief Immigration Officer is a man of integrity and exemplary service, who is torn between enforcing the new law and instinctively helping a woman he doesn’t know and whom he meets on the anniversary of his wife’s death.