First film directed by Lu Xuechang.
First film directed by Lu Xuechang.
1997-11-18
8.5
The humdrum existence of a Beijing factory worker and his family is disrupted when their beloved dog is confiscated by the police for being unlicensed. The worker has but 24 hours to raise the sizable sum required to pay the license fee.
"Maintenance by any Means" is about two maintenance men vying for the position of maintenance supervisor in an apartment complex. The maintenance men must compete with each other in order to get the job left open by the former Maintenance Supervisor. They need evaluations by the people who live at the apartments for every work order they finish. The problem is the renters themselves. Each one they run into has their own set of interesting problems. The maintenance men soon discover that a positive review may be hard to come by. Fixing broken down items in the apartments is the least of their worries. Finally one of the maintenance men must win the contest, by any means.
Dramatized documentary about the days of Norwegian pirates starting around the year 1807 when Norway went into extreme poverty.
China seen from Beijing May 1988, a year before the Spring 1989 Tiananmen rebellion, where the ancient traditional philosophies and social practices confront the political and economical ideological ambitions of the State.
A group of friends have created a brand new subculture that is taking over the streets of Glasgow. They've established their very own fight club, but this is no ordinary wrestling event - this is brutal, riotous chaos. Fights don't always stay inside the ring, people are bounced off the side of buses and thrown off balconies in pubs. They now plan the biggest show of their lives. The stakes are high, will it bring them the fame and recognition they need to survive?
Superman's reputation is tarnished when a crook begins committing crimes in a Superman costume.
Amidst mounting pressures, a food deliverer (Laith Nakli) has his morality tested when he finds a pair of keys left on the outside of a customer's door, culminating in a night of fear and self-discovery.
Young Rosa is raped by her stepfather Rosendo. Her mother defends her but the evil man beats her and kills her. However, the girl, full of pain, decides to kill him and flees in terror.
Setlist: The Bitch Is Back, Bennie and the Jets, Candle in the Wind, Levon, Tiny Dancer, Philadelphia Freedom, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Rocket Man (I Think It's Going to Be a Long, Long Time), I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues, Skyline Pigeon, Sad Songs (Say So Much), Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word, Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me, I'm Still Standing, Your Sister Can't Twist (But She Can Rock 'n Roll), Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting, Your Song