Um sargento treina de forma fanática e sádica os recrutas numa base americana, na ideia de os tornar em máquinas de guerra para o Vietname. Após serem transformados em fuzileiros, são enviados para a guerra e, quando lá chegam, deparam-se com os seus horrores.
Poppy (Emma Roberts) é uma adolescente bonita, rica e rebelde que vive em Malibu, litoral californiano. A fim de dar um corretivo da garota, o pai a envia para estudar num rígido colégio britânico. Além dos novos colegas que não toleram o comportamento mimado e espalhafatoso da moça, Poppy ainda tem de enfrentar a carrancuda diretora do colégio (Natasha Richardson).
Erik Ponti (Andreas Wilson) é um adolescente de 16 anos que tem uma vida em meio à violência. Acostumado a tratar todos com brutalidade, devido aos maus tratos de seu padastro, é expulso da escola onde estudava e transferido para Stjärnberg, um famoso colégio privado. Sabendo que pode ser sua última oportunidade, Erik tenta mudar seu estilo de vida e enfrentar as novas opressões que começam a sofrer na nova escola.
Numa Londres abalada pela Grande Depressão, Mary Poppins desce dos céus novamente com seu fiel amigo Jack para ajudar Michael e Jane Banks, que são agora adultos e sofreram uma grande perda. As crianças Annabel, Georgie e John vivem com os pais na mesma casa de sempre e precisam da babá e do acendedor de candeeiros para que lhes tragam a alegria e a magia de volta às suas vidas.
In 1960, a hardy group of prep school students boards an old-fashioned sailing ship. With Capt. Christopher Sheldon at the helm, the oceangoing voyage is intended to teach the boys fortitude and discipline. But the youthful crew are about to get some unexpected instruction in survival when they get caught in the clutches of a white squall storm.
At a prestigious all-male university, three friends seek love outside of the school grounds; at the same time, a newly-hired music teacher seeks to befriend and loosen up the militantly strict headmaster.
After a harsh childhood, orphan Jane Eyre is hired by Edward Rochester, the brooding lord of a mysterious manor house to care for his young daughter.
Evan Evans, the director of a ballet troupe, is rehearsing his next show in Monaco, in preparation for a worldwide tour. When one member of his troupe leaves to get married, Evans imposes a regime of strict discipline on his remaining dancers. The latter get their revenge by presenting Evans’ nephew Philippe, the only male member of the group, with a baby and a note claiming he is the father…
William Franklin is a teacher who was born in Ireland and moved to the United States only to repatriate in 1939 after his leftist political views cause him to lose his job. Franklin becomes the first non-cleric instructor at St. Jude's, a school for wayward boys run by Brother John, who is a firm believer in strong discipline.
A rape case opens racial divisions in a small town. A black sheriff and his white deputy investigate allegations that a wealthy white businessman raped a black college student.
During the Crimean War between Britain and Russia in the 1850s, a British cavalry division, led by the overbearing Lord Cardigan, engages in an infamously reckless strategic debacle against a Russian artillery battery.
A cadet at West Point is subjected to "internal exile," which means that other students refuse to talk to him or acknowledge his existence, after he is accused of violating the school's code of honor.
An aimless, jobless, irresponsible grown man joins the army and matures into a battlefield hero.
After having lost his job for having saved a child accused of shop lifting, Frédéric Barbier decides to become a school teacher with some funny results.The great comedy actor Coluche is excellent as a simple school teacher.
Sixteen-year-old Michael Dunn arrives at St. Basil's Catholic Boys School in Brooklyn circa 1965. There, he befriends all of the misfits in his class as they collide with the repressive faculty and discover the opposite sex as they come of age.
An ultra-realistic depiction of life in a Marine Corps brig (or jail) at a camp in Japan in 1957. Marine prisoners are awakened and put through work details for the course of a single day, submitting in the course of it to extremely harsh and shocking physical and mental degradation and abuse.
O filme nos leva para uma ilha no Mar Báltico no verão 1939. Aos 13 anos, Karl passou a trabalhar lá como assistente do faroleiro Hasselbond. Hasselbond inicialmente rejeita o garoto por ser tão jovem, mas Karl, que cresceu em um orfanato, luta desesperadamente para conseguir o cargo. O filho de Hasselbond começar a odiar o rapaz por ver como lentamente ele começa a ganhar a confiança e o carinho de seu pai. O que Karl não sabe é que a família Hasselbond tem muitos outros problemas. (drcaio)
Following World War II in peacetime Scotland, brigade headquarters replaces commanding officer Major Jock Sinclair, a boisterous battalion leader, with the strict, temperamental Lieutenant Colonel Basil Barrow. Resentful toward his replacement, Sinclair undermines Barrow's authority and damages his successor's reputation among the soldiers. Barrow faces an uphill battle in regaining the discipline and respect of his battalion.
When Paige Hopkins begins working at a halfway house for degenerate teenage girls, she believes that her syrupy sweet disposition is just what the girls need to find their path to redemption. But these hardened street girls show Paige that she couldn't be more out of place. So Paige quickly adapts to their ways - which includes beatings, torture and even murder - all delivered with a smile. Gradually, it becomes clear that she may be more troubled than any of her charges. Written by Brain Damage Films
Coring, a gay beautician, is left with a baby by his former ward, Dennis. The baby grows up thinking that Coring is his real father. Everything seems to be smooth until the kid's mother suddenly shows up to claim her son.