Den amerikanske specialagenten Leon S. Kennedy smiter in i ett litet östeuropeiskt land för att kontrollera ryktena om att bioorganiska vapen (BOW) används i krig. Precis efter infiltreringen beordrar den amerikanske regeringen honom att omedelbart lämna landet. Fast besluten att ta reda på sanningen ignorerar Leon befallningen och ger sig ut på slagfältet för att avsluta raden av tragedier orsakade av de bioorganiska vapnen.
Ett antal högt uppsatta fascister kidnappar några ungdomar och för dem till en avlägsen plats för att sedan förnedra, våldta och tortera dem. Berättelsen bygger på romanen "Les 120 journées de Sodome, ou l'École du libertinage" av markis de Sade från år 1785, men handlingen är förlagd till den s.k. Salòrepubliken, det av Nazityskland ockuperade Norditalien 1944–45.
Luchino Viscontis magnifika 1800-talsepos om den italienska aristokratins glansdagar och fall är ett filmiskt kraftprov efter Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusas anmärkningsvärda roman. Burt Lancaster gör rollen som den åldrande aristokraten Don Fabrizio Salina som tvingas se sin makt och prestige gå förlorad under 1860-talets sociala turbulens i Italien.
Tjeckoslovakien 1989. Cellisten František Louka kritiserar regimen och förvisas till att spela på begravningar och liknande tillställningar. För att få snabba pengar ingår han ett skenäktenskap med en ryska. Hon flyr snart till väst och Louka tvingas ta hand om hennes lille son Kolya.
En idealistisk ingenjör bygger en egen ö utanför Italiens kust och utropar den till ett eget land, vilket drar till sig världens – och myndigheternas – uppmärksamhet.
An exceptionally talented face reader becomes entangled in a bloody power struggle between a child king and his uncle who plans to usurp the throne.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
Alex Jones exposes the problem-reaction-solution paradigm being used to terrorize the American people into accepting a highly controlled and oppressive society. From children in public schools being trained to turn in their peers and parents, to the Army and National Guard patrolling our nation's highways, Police State: The Takeover reveals the most threatening developments of Police State control
In Alex Jones' 11th feature documentary, made in 2004, Alex documents the major candidates in the staged 2004 United States presidential election.
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.
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 American Question examines the insidious roots of American polarization and distrust, in a desperate search for a path forward.
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.
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.