As most families only want to have boys, women end up becoming rare and precious.
As most families only want to have boys, women end up becoming rare and precious.
1987-01-01
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Yan is an illegal second child born during the One-Child policy. To avoid government punishment, Yan's parents hid their oldest daughter in the countryside and raised Yan as a girl. Now a young adult, Yan struggles with his gender identity and being treated as an outcast in a conservative society. His sole escape is drifting his father's old taxi through abandoned parking lots.
A report on the demographic impact of China’s one-child policy.
Three family cope with having lost their only child in 2008 deadly Chinese earthquake.
Her, not only her, they are all the only children in the family, Typical underachiever, they often escape away from their broken family r ,Humbling every day with others young people like her in Internet cafes . when she finally plans to go home, she only to find that her family had moved away… ….She became one of them.
The story of how D. Pedro I proclaimed the Brazilian independence on September 7th, 1822, and rose from prince of Portugal to first emperor of Brazil.
A woman decides to fight against her powerful oppressor. When the guard of a chilli factory helps her, the women and the teacher of the village join them to openly defy the prevailing repression.
Near India and Pakistan's border-town of Fatehpur, lives Ranjit Singh Choudhary who has been labeled as a rebel by his schoolmaster and his dad, Makhan's employer, Bade Thakur, as he could not stand the injustice that was meted to farmers like his dad, and his ancestors who had become economic slaves to the upper-caste Thakurs, who loaned them some money, ...
As if by magic, Nam meets her elementary school friend when her life is in danger. After that encounter, Muton keeps appearing when Nam is most in need and always helps her through whatever difficulty she is facing. One day, when Nam and Muton realizes that Nam has heart disease, they decide to spend her last moments together as each has realized that they are deeply in love. During their vacation on the beach one day, Muton suddenly feels a serious pain in his chest and vanishes into thin air. Nam does not know what to make of it but is determine to solve the mystery behind her lover's disappearance. What she finds will both break and save her heart.
Childhood friends became enemies when one Mahendra Ashwini Kumar grows up to be Additional Police Commissioner and the other Raj Pratap Singhal becomes a smuggler.
A laboratory accident endows a police scientist with the ability to move at superhuman speed which he uses to battle a menacing gang as a superhero.
The film is an adaptation of the well known short story "Miss Christina" by Mircea Eliade. Moscu arrived at the mansion with his girlfriend, Sanda, the young artist Egor Paşchievici notes that her entire family worships Miss Christina, her aunt murdered in unclear circumstances when she was just 20 years old, during the riots of 1907. Egor is inexplicably drawn into a portrait of Miss Christina and begins to dream. Soon, however, the boundary between dream and reality is blurred and Miss Christina, love Egor, is brought back to life through occult rituals even by her family. When realized, however, that life is in danger Egor Sanda decides to fight the ghost.
A stoned father talks about kids, bullies and the grim state of affairs our children face in the "real world". This short film portrays a remarkably simplified observation by a young, ambitious father and his emotionally deprived wife.
Synopsis: A rabbit couple tries to survive in a dying forest...
While her husband is on his way to the market, a peasant woman is raped and murdered. Her widower carefully plans his revenge.
A play by Victoria Wood. Frances is 28, single and happy, despite ritual interrogation from her family as to why she's not married. Then she meets Jim, and finds she has decisions to make.
A play by Victoria Wood. Maureen has been faithfully attending the slimmers' club for months. Now the weeks of endless crispbreads have paid off - but is her optimism misplaced? Sequel to Wood's earlier play Talent, featuring the same characters of lifelong friends Maureen and Julie.
A play with music by Victoria Wood. Julie (Julie Walters) is a young woman seeking escape, with the help of her frumpish friend Maureen (Wood) she prepares for her singing debut at a seedy Manchester club's talent show.
The events around the signing of The Armistice at the end of the First World War.
A midsummer Phantasy. The man having been attacked by footpads, puts on a suit of medieval armor which has been magnetized at a dynamo by two boys. Every metallic article which he approaches flies to him, to the great consternation of many people.