Poppy Moore, una consentida pija americana de 16 años, es enviada por su padre a un estricto colegio británico para que aprenda disciplina. Allí, la joven se encuentra en un mundo desconocido, de toque de queda y severas guardianas. Bajo la vigilante mirada de la directora y rodeada de nuevas amigas, Poppy deberá reconocer que sus malos modales no llegarán muy lejos en este nuevo ambiente. Aún así, hará todo lo posible por intentar quebrantar las normas del centro.
Alabama, finales del siglo XIX. Shane, un hastiado pistolero, llega a la granja de los Starretts, un matrimonio con un hijo que, al igual que los demás campesinos del valle, se encuentra en graves dificultades, pues el poderoso ganadero Rufus Ryker pretende apoderarse de sus tierras. Cuando Ryker se entera de que Shane es un hábil pistolero, le propone que trabaje para él. Ante su negativa, contrata a Jack Wilson, un peligroso asesino a sueldo.
A young man who is charged with child molestation is placed in New York City’s infamous Tombs prison. When the other inmates in his cell block find out what he is charged with, life becomes extremely difficult for him.
Frank McCloud (Humphrey Bogart) es un veterano de guerra que viaja a Cayo Largo, en Florida, para visitar al padre (Lionel Barrymore) y a la viuda (Lauren Bacall) de un compañero muerto en combate. Pero su estancia se complica, ya que en su hotel se aloja también una banda de gángsters que, aprovechando una fuerte tormenta, los toman como rehenes.
García Bernal interpreta a un ejecutivo de publicidad que diseña una campaña brillante y optimista para poner fin a la dictadura militar en Chile y derrocar a Augusto Pinochet. Comedia negra sobre el plebiscito de 1988 y específicamente sobre la campaña del "No".
Dos personas entran en conflicto a causa de la propiedad de una casa en el norte de California. Para Kathy Nicolo, es no sólo la casa de su infancia, sino también la última esperanza que le queda para reintegrarse a una vida que casi pierde por su adicción a las drogas. Cuando recibe una orden de desahucio por impago de impuestos, se queda en la calle y no puede impedir que la casa sea vendida a un precio irrisorio. Para el nuevo propietario, Massoud Amir Behrani, la casa es la plasmación del sueño americano que lleva persiguiendo desde que salió de Irán con toda su familia. Antiguo coronel de las Fuerzas Aéreas iraníes, Behrani se ha visto obligado a trabajar en empleos muy modestos para poder mantener las apariencias. Ahora ha invertido hasta el último céntimo en la compra de la casa que, por fin, devolverá a su familia su antigua prosperidad.
Cuando una víctima de abuso sexual es injustamente juzgada por intentar asesinar a su atacante, un abogado retirado desafiará la cultura de la violación de la India.
Breve película de Koreyoshi Kurahara cargada de elementos del cine negro y que nos presenta las historias entrecruzadas de un exitoso banquero (Takita), quien se halla en una situación desesperada al estar siendo chantajeando por un misterioso señor Kumaki debido a unas transacciones fraudulentas realizadas algún tiempo atrás; y la de un amigo de la infancia (Nakaike), un tímido subalterno atascado en un trabajo sin futuro alguno.
This ensemble comedy follows the Pullham University Bluecocks, a small liberal arts college with a Division III football program (the lowest division in the NCAA). When the head coach unexpectedly dies, the future of the flailing football program is in jeopardy, as they have not had a winning season in decades. In a desperate attempt to create some media attention for the athletic program and the university, President Georgia Anne Whistler hires known lunatic and felon, Coach Rick Vice, for what could be the football programs final season.
Amidst a backdrop of growing violence and intimidation, independent cab drivers struggling against a consolidated juggernaut rally around hot-tempered Matt Nolan. Nolan is determined to keep competition alive on the streets, even if it means losing the woman he loves.
Eiji Akutsu is a newspaper reporter. He is working on unsolved case that took place 30 years ago.The case involved a group of people extorting several companies for money. The group sent cassette tapes to the companies. Eiji Akutsu comes across a mysterious cassette tape. Meanwhile, Toshiya Sone lives in Kyoto and runs a tailor shop. He discovers a cassette tape among his late father's possessions. He plays the cassette tape and hears his voice from his childhood days.
Hattie Leonard sets out to break a criminal gang controlling the dry cleaning business.
Mississippi in the early '60s is the setting for this story of a 12-year-old African-American girl who, along with her white friends, tries to ease increasing racial tensions.
Two runaway, gun-obsessed, outlaw lovers are given a task to kill two political figures in the midst of a civil revolution outside the walls where these characters are trapped, waiting for the phone call to give them a sense of purpose
Jessica Simmonds returns from overseas to find her retired professor father in a bitter public fight to save the historic Sydney waterfront houses on Angel Street. After her father's mysterious death, she joins forces with local residents and a union leader against corrupt forces. Based on the real life mysterious disappearance of Juanita Nielsen.
Recently returned from WWII combat, unable to find a job, finding his sweetheart engaged to another man, and generally aware of the changes which have occurred in his hometown while he was away, a young man becomes easily talked into joining the Ku Klux Klan. Banned by the Virginia Board of Censors, and financed independently because no bank would loan money for it.
The king of the jungle, after a well spent day terrorising the rest of the animals, is petrified by a mouse.
A timely film exploring the confrontation between a feisty 92-year-old Scottish widow and her family and a billionaire trying to become the most powerful man in the world.
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, thousands of documents were hastily shredded by the dreaded GDR political police. 16,000 bags filled with six million pieces of paper were found. Thanks to the meticulous work of technology, the destinies of men and women who had been spied on and recorded without their knowledge could be reconstructed.
The story of Tommy Marino and his association in The Marino Family, covering his relationship with his partners, Papa Louie and Leonardo.