A widowed and bankrupt farmer is being harassed by crooked creditors. Cornered, he steals a large sum of money from them to offer his daughter a future he cannot guarantee anymore. Knowing all too well the mob will not let this pass, the farmer finds refuge in his beliefs and summons the Ankou - Death's henchman in Brittany - to offer his life in exchange for his daughter's protection.
the Ankou
the child
the father
Here is a film that is, to say the least, singular. A fiction filmed under Giscard, in two farming families, one in Brittany and the other in Languedoc. One sees the Catholic mass and the mass of the television news, one hears the Benedicite and the Internationale, a rural class struggle is played out, daily peasants against the aristos in the middle of a hunt...Chronicle of the Sad Years tells the story of the new forms of subjection suffered by the workers of the land, discovering the perverse effects of the CAP and the growing influence of agribusiness. A film in which the director, Alain Aubert-Dechartre, stages a historical turning point, the forced conversion of peasants into technicians of farms of which they will be the first to be exploited
This tells the story of 1931, after the "Mukden Incident" broke out, the sniper Ren Tianxing did not listen to the dissuasion and led the anti-Japanese squad to be killed in a night battle to ambush the Japanese army. Ren Tianxing was also seriously injured and was rescued by bandits. Five years later, Ren Tianxing lives in a cottage, just drinking and gambling, and happened to meet Bai Ge, his former comrade-in-arms. In order to protect Bai Ge, he decided to join the CCP underground assassination organization, to participate in the assassination of Japanese virology expert Sakamoto Ichiro, and protect the people. It was his former opponent Sorimachi Kazuya who successfully killed Ichiro Sakamoto by acting alone to protect his comrade-in-arms Ren Tianxing. However, only three people, Ren Tianxing, Baige and Lao Jiao, survived the evacuation.
Zamindari Ma, the old landlady of a village supports its people during a famine and raises three orphaned children of differing religions. The children, although encouraged to practice their separate religions, are taught to remain united at all times.
A 1993 Filipino steamy romantic drama starring Cristina Gonzales, Karla Estrada, and Albert Martinez.
Vampire Jami and her keeper, Bo, are living a happy life until beautiful, young, vampire Teagan bursts into their lives and turns their world upside down.
The fourth in the "Honban" series, focusing on the current trend of young ladies, mixing the formal aspects of the front (tea, flowers, horseback riding, etc.) with the honest aspects of the behind the scenes. It is a "making of a young lady" movie that depicts the attempt to create a young lady.
It is the story of a foreign reporter who accompanies Kurdish rebels (Peshmerga) forces reporting on their national movement against the former dictatorship in Iraq. The government is informed about this and attacks the mountainous area to arrest her. What will the Peshmerga do?
A story about Yolanda an actress who'd married Karding a fresh graduate lawyer decided to live in the province with Kardings' family the problem is that her stepmother is against her marriage with her son.
A poor artist becomes obsessed with a rich young woman who is about to become engaged and decides to kidnap her. Understandably she is not happy about this but as her confinement continues she slowly comes to know her kidnapper.
First film in the theatrical version of Be Forever Yamato: Rebel 3199.
In the emptiness of her vacant house, a young woman encounters unsettling occurrences, leaving her bewildered and questioning their origin. What has transpired in her surroundings, and what mysteries lie concealed within her solitude?