Drama documentary which takes the form of an up-dated version of Pygmalion. With a special music score by jazz group Working Week, with real "society" characters and locations from 1984.
Gordon Shilling
Drama documentary which takes the form of an up-dated version of Pygmalion. With a special music score by jazz group Working Week, with real "society" characters and locations from 1984.
1985-04-08
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One year after the tragic death of his best friend, an eighteen-year-old machinist struggles with the split of his parents and the violent way of life surrounding him.
Stricken with a mysterious contagious disease, a young scientist is quarantined and subjected to inhumane conditions by a government seeking to keep the matter quiet.
A dialogue between judge and convict, winner and loser, which offers the viewer a reflection on the relativity of guilt, heroism and crime in the world of "isms".
The film tells the story of character actor Liu Guang, who is caught in a mid-life crisis, facing a broken marriage and the harsh reality of drinking away his sorrows. One day he woke up and became a special agent with super powers. Unexpectedly, his wife Duan Meijuan also hid her identity as a special agent.
A desperate rescue attempt leads to the continuation of the lives of two young girls. Their families will do everything they can to keep their own daughter alive... Their lives may have just begun but they the god of death seems to have come upon them. Two families meet at this fateful juncture, faced by the cruel reality and the urgency of time that have become heavy shackles binding their desperate parents.
Johnny Depp and Amber Heard's relationship went from white-hot love to red-hot anger. The documentary highlights the most gripping moments of the trial and their relationship with interviews and information TMZ reported while chronicling the marriage, divorce and numerous allegations of violence.
On this night, the seven acquaintances get radically honest about their lives around a fire after a party. Unknowingly, they all come to the gathering at a crossroads–one they have each been avoiding, for perhaps their entire life. After an unyielding game of Truth or Dare, the “exemplary” couple opens up about what they’re going through–that they’re not as perfect as they seem. This sets the stage for the rest of the group to open up lives, unspoken desire…and secrets. The following morning back in their bedrooms, each couple must choose a path. Will they integrate their newly exposed truths…or choose to act as if nothing had happened?
Thomas and Marie are getting divorced and must meet one last weekend to empty and sell their summer house. Neither one of them knows the other's real intentions. A young woman suddenly appears, with a jealousy-driven agenda all of her own. What was supposed to be a civilized end to a long-standing marriage turns minute by minute into a shattering weekend that turns everything in their lives, upside down.
A family run business is being forced to become a front for the mob. Ronnie (Brian Bloom) stands up against the Cancino family to save his family's life.
A girl and her family living on a remote, picturesque island in the South Pacific find themselves confronting the fallout from the French nuclear testing programme.
Charmian Carr, who played Liesl in The Sound of Music, takes a tour of the Austrian town of Salzburg, where the location shots of the movie were made. Includes behind-the-scenes footage from the making of the movie.
Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my Soul to keep. If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my Soul to take.
On Easter Sunday, 1939, contralto Marian Anderson stepped up to a microphone in front of the Lincoln Memorial. Inscribed on the walls of the monument behind her were the words “all men are created equal.” Barred from performing in Constitution Hall because of her race, Anderson would sing for the American people in the open air. Hailed as a voice that “comes around once in a hundred years” by maestros in Europe and widely celebrated by both white and black audiences at home, her fame hadn’t been enough to spare her from the indignities and outright violence of racism and segregation.
Based on true events, "Nitram" lives with his parents in suburban Australia in the mid-90s. He lives a life of isolation and frustration at never fitting in. As his anger grows, he begins a slow descent into a nightmare that culminates in the most heinous of acts.
In the late Qing Dynasty, the policeman Wang Wu (played by Zheng Haonan) was dedicated to arresting imperial criminals for the court. He was called the "Wang Wu of the Big Sword" because of his good use of a big knife. An Xiaoren, the imperial censor of the time, spoke bluntly, impeaching the eunuch Li Lianying for interfering in the government, which angered Cixi. Xi ordered Wu to suppress and kill Ren's family, and Wu to avoid killing Zhongliang by mistake, but he openly disobeyed the order, thus incurring the disaster of exterminating the family. Wu's wife Ao Xue (played by Lan Jieying) was brutally murdered, and Wu Sui and her young son wandered around the world. Sado (played by Yin Yangming), the governor of the imperial court, was ordered to hunt down the five fathers and sons. Although the five and many cherished each other, the two still could not escape a life-and-death battle in the end...