A man is tired of life for a long time and he wants to commit suicide, but...
Kurdish-Iranian poet Sahel has just been released from a thirty-year prison sentence in Iran. Now the one thing keeping him going is the thought of finding his wife, who thinks he's been dead for over twenty years.
Petromax is a brand name for a type of pressurised paraffin lamp that uses a mantle. Petromax symbolises light, which is essential in the lives of four orphans around whom the plot revolves
Live from Carnegie Hall and hosted by Julie Andrews, a host of glittering Broadway stars sing Broadway's best and most enduring love songs. This production is a filmed record of a concert given on 16 October 2000 at the City Center for Music and Dance, New York City, to raise funds for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids. The occasion was particularly notable in that it marked Julie Andrews' (brief) return to singing in public after a four-year hiatus. Originally broadcast on PBS's "Great Performances" (season 29, episode 8).
American Weightlifting is the story of a sport in turmoil and the athletes and coaches whose passion drives them to succeed despite the odds. The sport is extremely popular internationally, but obscure and struggling in the US. Amateur athletes and coaches with little or no financial support struggle to compete with the professionals who dominate the sport internationally.
Cara is given the ultimatum to uncover a twenty year old missing person case or else her and her friends are going to die.
Director Lesley Selander's 1954 western stars Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Keith Larsen, Tom Tully, Lee Van Cleef and Jimmy Wakely.
A spin-off of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise.
Sailor and tomboy Else (Gerd Gjedved) is fighting for the family's schooner 'Nordstjernen'. Shipping-heir Steen (Hans Kurt) has fallen from his rich father's grace to serve as a 'Nordstjernen' sailor. Will Else and Steen be only colleagues?
Camila and Martina go away for the weekend. But what promised to be a break for rest and tranquility, becomes filled with tension and chaos when they detour from their original route and one of them goes missing in the forest.
The black death had devastating effects in centuries past, but what actually caused it and how many lives did it take? The world has not seen a disease outbreak like it before or since. This film tells the story of skeletons recently unearthed in a long-lost plague cemetery beneath the streets of London. Was it the Bubonic Plague, or as scientists now suspect, an Ebola-like virus?
Single channel video. Part of the "Video Metal" compilation.
Korea is famous for her charming ladies and tough men, such as top Taekwondo fighter, Big Mouth. When playboy Peter Pan comes to Seoul in the pretext of being with a band, he calls his old friend Big Mouth. Big Mouth's advice to Peter is any woman but not from his household. By accident Peter saves Big Mouth's sister, Moon, and becomes enamored by her. The young couple together on a trip. Peter shakes Moon off and goes to Big Mouth boasting about his loves. He is astonished to find Moon who happens to be Big Mouth's sister. All hell breaks out. Moon leaves home for a mountain retreat. Big Mouth and Peter then set out on a journey to win her back.
Ever-present schemes involving abuses of authority and kickbacks are still very much alive, and show no desire or intent to leave the Ukrainian capital Kyiv. This short tells the story of an illegal development in the city, local activists’ struggle against armed the unidentified security groups at the construction site, and the local officials who ignore the problem.
Magdalena is struggling to cope with a major crisis in her life: some time ago her daughter Sara committed suicide. Magdalena finds herself consumed by a grief she cannot overcome. Although the event has shattered her world, she nonetheless manages to ‘function’ smoothly on a daily basis – whether this involves trying to sell Sara’s dog Truls, picking up her second daughter’s son from his piano lesson, eating with the family of an evening, attending a session with a spiritualist or going to a bar. These are all things she would have done anyway, and a strict routine helps prevent her pain from rising to the surface. Only when Sara’s former boyfriend visits does she begin to see a path through all her denial, speechlessness and feelings of guilt.
Rookie policeman Tai Lin yearned to be an artist before he failed an examination and followed in his father's footsteps. One day he interrupts an apparent suicide attempt by a woman standing on the edge of a bridge.