Bootlegger/cafe owner, Johnny Franks recruits crude working man Scorpio to join his gang, masterminded by crooked criminal defense lawyer Newton. Scorpio eventually takes over Frank's operation, beats a rival gang, becomes wealthy, and dominates the city for several years until a secret group of six masked businessmen have him prosecuted and sent to the electric chair.
In neun Episoden erzählt der in Cannes uraufgeführte Film von so profanen wie unfassbaren Begegnungen mit einer allgegenwärtigen Bürokratie und ihrer Kontrollmacht. Wenn Lichter und Irrlichter über dem geschäftigen Teheran in der Morgendämmerung zu blinken beginnen, ist der Auftakt gemacht für neue Strophen alltäglichen Irrsinns, der sich in Form absurder Alltagsregeln ins Leben der Menschen drängt. Da möchte Vater Staat nicht nur ein Wörtchen mitreden bei der Namenswahl für Neugeborene. Auch in Modefragen und für politisch motivierte Hundeentführungen wird der Beamte hinter dem Schalter zum besten aller möglichen Berater. Es ist ein leise, aber beharrlich auftretender Zirkus, der jede noch so verwegene Logik mit staatsdienlichem Eifer verteidigt.
Amaran ist ein Biopic, das das persönliche und berufliche Leben des AC-Preisträgers Major Mukund Varadarajran erzählt, der am 25. April 2014 bei der Operation Qazipathri in Shopian ums Leben kam.
Cartoon Network holds an awards show awarding cartoon excellence.
Jackson is a lonely serial killer who is really beginning to question the point of all his killing. He is losing focus on why he started to kill in the first place. The future looks bleak until he meets a blind girl, Shelly, who begins to show him that life isn't so bad. It is all up to Jackson to decide if he's going to stop killing and start learning responsibility and think about finding a real job and starting a family.
The work has been created for the IAR international video art exhibition at palazzo Fondi in Napoli, and it was filmed and produced at Via Farini - Vir artist in residency in Milano. The film wishes to investigate a potential contemporary condition of suspension in which western-society has fallen into. The artist by assembling a unique optical device has explored the microscopic dimension of billboard paper and projected it back onto its given urban environments. The result is an atmospheric work in which the micro confronts the macro in a sequence of urban projections where by means of juxtaposition of perspectives reality results as partially suspended.
Diese Kurzdoku feiert die bahnbrechende Kontrabassistin Orin O'Brien, die erste Frau, die ein vollwertiges Mitglied der New York Philharmonic wurde.
After the unexpected death of his mother, a young football player, Julian Maxwell, finds himself struggling to support his depressed, unemployed father while fighting to keep safe the secret he once shared with his mother: He's not only gay, but performs drag shows. SHOWBOY is a film about family, loss and the exploration of freedom and sexuality in the face of affliction.
A young theatre actress fights for her uncertain career while having to confront the personal sacrifices that will arise from it.
Famed Canadian-American leftist documentary filmmaker Leonard Fife was one of sixty thousand draft evaders and deserters who fled to Canada to avoid serving in Vietnam. Now in his late seventies, Fife is dying of cancer in Montreal and has agreed to a final interview in which he is determined to bare all his secrets at last, to demythologize his mythologized life.
Russia, January 25, 1725. "Give it all...". The emperor's weakening hand was able to write in his will only these two short incomprehensible words that kept Russia in a bloody struggle for the crown for a century.
Antonio and Beba are a pair of panda bears besieged by the classic obstacles of a young couple. Their life together is defined by routine, until one day they are forced to live with their favorite singer.
Thanasis, a rising movie star is excited about the new movie he is starring in. This movie is called FILM. The excessive ambitions and artistic vision of the director that will lead Thanasis to madness. He himself is determined to discover the secret of filming and ultimately the secret of life. In a film shooting nothing is as it seems.
Étienne is barely twenty when he falls in love with Valérie. They are hardly any more when their daughter Rosa is born. And then, one day, Valérie leaves and never returns. He chooses not to make a drama of it and builds a happy life for him and his child. Sixteen years later, when Rosa is about to lead her own life, Étienne recognizes his wife in a television report. The past brutally resurfaces, and father and daughter are propelled into one last chaotic family journey.
Marina finds herself on the previous days of her last piano concert that will change her life forever, continuing her studies in Germany, far away from her actual life. However, what nobody sees, blinded by the scholarship, is that the preassure is killing her and that it will drive her where to what a 17-year-old shouldn’t go.
Battles in virtual reality, survival in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, a Soviet spaceship giving a distress signal - Fantastic stories created with advanced special effects and passion.
Auf seinen Wanderungen passierte der sehlose Söldner Schwertkämpfer Cheng Xiazi (Xie Miao) nach dem Schlachten einer Familie ... und nahm seinen einzigen Überlebenden ein, das junge Mädchen Zhang Xiaoyu (Yang Enyou). Cheng gibt seinen unwahrscheinlichen neuen Gebühren nach, beginnt ihr Training in seinem tödlichen Fähigkeitsset zu geben - aber wird er ihren Wunsch nach Rache verwöhnen?
The coyote chases the road runner, but in this one he actually succeeds, to his bemusement.
Ursprungsland | FR |
Original Sprache | fr |
Produktionsländer | France |
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