Zásadní a nedávno zrestaurované dílo tvůrce Francouzské spojky a Vymítače ďábla je novou verzí stejnojmenného a o více než dvacet let staršího snímku H.-G. Clouzota. Čtyři muži, cizinci v zemi daleko od domovů, uprchlíci, zoufalí a na mizině, se nechají naverbovat ke třísetkilometrové pekelné cestě s nitroglycerinem na dvou nákladních vozech.
Nevázaná mladá americká novinářka a anglický obchodník s vazbami na ropný průmysl se náhodou setkávají v současné Nikaragui při plnění svých záhadných úkolů. Oba se do sebe vášnivě zamilují, přestože toho o své skutečné profesní identitě vědí jen málo. Zoufale se snaží utéct ze země, odkud je tamější mocné síly nechtějí nechat odejít.
Sex, politics and American culture are mixed into a combustible combination in Now & Later. Angela is an illegal Latina immigrant living in Los Angeles who stumbles across Bill, a disgraced banker on the run. She takes him in. Through passionate sex, soul-searching conversations ranging from politics to philosophy, and other worldly pleasures, Angela introduces Bill to another worldview. As their affair heats up, the course of Bill's life begins to take an abrupt and unexpected turn.
Elitní herecké složení Nick Nolte, Gene Hackman a Ed Harris nás přivádí do Nikaragui na přelomu 80. let minulého století, v době, kdy zemí zmítá občanská válka a boj proti prezidentu Somozovi. Právě sem dorazil známý fotograf Russel Price, jehož úkolem je zdokumentovat, co se v zemi děje. Tváří v tvář lidskému utrpení je příliš těžké zůstat neutrální. Po setkání s povstaleckými guerillami se společně s kolegy Alexem a Claire zapojuje do místního dění, což s sebou samozřejmě přináší nelibost provládních složek. Začíná hra na schovávanou a boj nejen o záchranu života, ale také o zachování pravdivého svědectví.
William Walker and his mercenary corps enter Nicaragua in the middle of the 19th century in order to install a new government by a coup d'etat.
Jon a Elissa sní o velkolepé svatbě na úžasném exotickém místě v obklopení svých nejlepších přátel. Výlet do ráje se však promění v nehorázný opilecký víkend, na který by si raději přáli zapomenout. Jedno špatné rozhodnutí střídá druhé a šokující nezřízené řádění přerůstá v chaos, který by mohl snadno zhatit jejich novomanželskou pohodu.
Narrative of a period of life (1926 - 1934) of the Nicaraguan revolutionary leader Sandino, who was known as "The general of free men."
A Glasgow man visits war-torn Nicaragua with a refugee tormented by her memories.
The fighting between the Sandinista government in Nicaragua and the Contra rebels backed by U.S. money and expertise is the focus of this pro-Sandinista film by Haskell Wexler. On a secret mission to help the U.S. Special Forces train Contra rebels in the jungles of Nicaragua, American soldier Eddie Guerrero begins to question the morality of the task at hand and consider how his actions may influence the fate of a nation.
When a fellow Vietnam veteran is alleged to have thrown his lot in with the cocaine cartels, special commando Paul Gleason is dispatched to Nicaragua to sort out the mess.
Based on a true story, this made-for-cable film tells about Barry Seal, a pilot who was a drug smuggler for the infamous Medellin cartel out of Colombia. He was caught by the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and decided to turn over and help the DEA break the cartel. However, he got caught in the middle of the Reagan/Bush administration efforts to topple the Nicaraguan government in the '80s, in which Nicaraguan rebels called "contras" were allowed to smuggle cocaine into the US in exchange for their fighting against the leftist Nicaraguan government. Eventually Seal was murdered by his former Medellin employers, and some critics say it was with the tacit, if not implicit, connivance of the US administration.
Juan “Accidentes” Dominguez is on his biggest case ever. On behalf of twelve Nicaraguan banana workers he is tackling Dole Food in a ground-breaking legal battle for their use of a banned pesticide that was known by the company to cause sterility. Can he beat the giant, or will the corporation get away with it?
When the revolution in Nicaragua won its victory nearly 40 years ago, the world began to dream. A young generation was taking the reins in a country of grand utopias. From West Germany alone, 15,000 “brigadists” travelled to help rebuild the war-torn country: liberals, greens, unionists, social democrats, leftists and church representatives harvested coffee and cotton, built schools, kindergartens and hospital wards. No movement has mobilised so many people. What became of the hopes and dreams of the revolutionaries and their supporters?
Dvanáctiletá dívka Saslaya se se svým mladším bratrem Daríem vydá hledat matku, která před osmi lety emigrovala z Nikaraguy do Kostariky. Děti cestují z Managuai do Granady, putují pralesem, překonávají jezero, občas ztrácí stopu, přičemž jen někdy mají jasný plán. Potýkají se s řadou problémů, ale mají pocit, že na hranicích se jejich osud vyplní. Režisérka do filmu vkládá vlastní pocitové zkušenosti emigrantky. Natáčet se vydala ilegálně. Film byl dokončen na oficiální úrovni a má především připomínat nelehké osudy ilegálních emigrantů ve Střední Americe, které jejich bezvýchodná situace zahání do úzkých. Na základě setkání s některými z nich vložila autorka do filmu kritiku vůči oficiálnímu postoji úřadů.
John Slade is hired to rescue a journalist named Frank Morris from a Sandinista prison in Nicaragua. He teams with Marta, a local woman, to carry out this mission, but then he's captured, tortured, and forced to deal with the fact that he's been betrayed.
¡Las Sandinistas! uncovers the disappearing stories of women who shattered barriers to lead combat and social reform during Nicaragua’s 1979 Sandinista Revolution, and who continue to lead Nicaragua’s current struggle for democracy and equality.
Ballad of the Little Soldier is a 1984 documentary film about child soldiers in Nicaragua.
The conflict between Dole Food Company and Swedish filmmaker Fredrik Gertten unfolds dramatically in the documentary "BIG BOYS GONE BANANAS!" as the corporation attempts to suppress Gertten's earlier film, "BANANAS!"—chronicling Nicaraguan workers' lawsuit against Dole. Initially selected for the 2009 Los Angeles Film Festival, "BANANAS!" was abruptly removed from competition, followed by a negative article in the Los Angeles Business Journal and legal threats from Dole's attorneys. Gertten captures this saga of corporate intimidation, media manipulation, and legal challenges in his documentary, showcasing the struggles documentary filmmakers face and highlighting the threat to freedom of speech posed by powerful corporations protecting their reputations.
An American reporter covering a civil war in Nicaragua discovers that four soldiers that he used to know during World War II are there and they are actual vampires fighting their own personal war against an evil Nicaraguan general and his own personal army of vampires terrorizing the country.
Alsino, a boy of 10 or 12, lives with his grandmother in a remote area of Nicaragua. He's engulfed in the war between rebels and government troops when a US advisor orders the army to open a staging area by the boy's hamlet. Alsino tries to be a child, climbing trees with a girl, looking through his grandfather's trunk of mementos and trying to fly; he goes to town to sell a saddle, has his first drink and is taken to a brothel. But the war surrounds him. The US advisor takes Alsino on a chopper flight, but he's unimpressed. The soldiers' cruelties awake rebel sympathies in Alsino, and after an army assault backfires, the lad is fully baptized into the conflict.