Klavdia Vavilova, a Red Army cavalry commissar, is waylaid by an unexpected pregnancy. She stays with a Jewish family to give birth and is softened somewhat by the experience of family life.
Klavdia Vavilova, a Red Army cavalry commissar, is waylaid by an unexpected pregnancy. She stays with a Jewish family to give birth and is softened somewhat by the experience of family life.
1967-06-06
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The true story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted.
A young Englishman marries a glamorous American. When he brings her home to meet the parents, she arrives like a blast from the future - blowing their entrenched British stuffiness out the window.
Woody Allen talks about his career and his creative process with excerpts from some of his movies
A compilation of newsreels shot between 1913 and 1917 - the years leading up to the Russian Revolution.
In Thebes in ancient Greece, King Oedipus kills his father and marries his mother Jocasta, having two sons - Eteocles and Polyneices - and two daughters - Ismene and Antigone. King Oedipus dies a beggar in the exile after gouging out his own eye, and Eteocle agrees to reign in Thebes in alternating years with Polynices. However, he refuses to resign after the first year and Polynieces raises an army and attacks Thebes, and they kill each other. The ruler of Thebes Creon decrees that Eleocles should have an honorable burial while the body of the traitor Polyneices should be left on the battlefield to be eaten by the jackals and vultures. However, Antigone, who was betrothed to Creon's surviving son Haemon, defies Creon's orders and buries her brother. When Creon is reported of the attitude of Antigone, he sentences her to be placed in a tomb alive. Antigone hangs herself in the tomb and Haemon tries to kill his father first and then he kills himself with his sword...
Astronaut Taylor crash lands on a distant planet ruled by apes who use a primitive race of humans for experimentation and sport. Soon Taylor finds himself among the hunted, his life in the hands of a benevolent chimpanzee scientist.
Veronika and Boris come together in Moscow shortly before World War II. Walking along the river, they watch cranes fly overhead, and promise to rendezvous before Boris leaves to fight. Boris misses the meeting and is off to the front lines, while Veronika waits patiently, sending letters faithfully. After her house is bombed, Veronika moves in with Boris' family, into the company of a cousin with his own intentions.
A quiet, neglected girl is sent away from her dysfunctional family to live with relatives for the summer. She blossoms in their care, but in this house where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers one.
Celestine has a new job as a chambermaid for the quirky M. Monteil, his wife and her father. When the father dies, Celestine decides to quit her job and leave, but when a young girl is raped and murdered, Celestine believes that the Monteils' groundskeeper, Joseph, is guilty, and stays on in order to prove it. She uses her sexuality and the promise of marriage to get Joseph to confess -- but things do not go as planned.
Marty, a butcher who lives in the Bronx with his mother is unmarried at 34. Good-natured but socially awkward he faces constant badgering from family and friends to get married but has reluctantly resigned himself to bachelorhood. Marty meets Clara, an unattractive school teacher, realising their emotional connection, he promises to call but family and friends try to convince him not to.
Unveiled through a made-for-TV documentary, five chilling tales of found footage horror emerge to take viewers on a gore-filled journey through the grim underbelly of the forgotten 1980s.
A man and a woman meet by accident on a Sunday evening at their childrens' boarding school. Slowly, they reveal themselves to each other, finding that they have something deeply in common.
A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.
A restauranteur teams up with a police officer and his ex-con brother to avenge the death of a friend's daughter.
A hapless talent manager named Danny Rose, by helping a client, gets dragged into a love triangle involving the mob. His story is told in flashback, an anecdote shared amongst a group of comedians over lunch at New York's Carnegie Deli. Rose's one-man talent agency represents countless incompetent entertainers, including a one-legged tap dancer, and one slightly talented one: washed-up lounge singer Lou Canova, whose career is on the rebound.
In 1937, eight hundred Chinese soldiers fight under siege from a warehouse in the middle of the Shanghai battlefield, completely surrounded by the Japanese army.
The imagined life of one of the world’s most famous authors, Emily Brontë, as she finds her voice and writes the literary classic Wuthering Heights. Explore the relationships that inspired her – her raw, passionate sisterhood with Charlotte and Anne; her first aching, forbidden love for Weightman and her care for her maverick brother whom she idolises.
Just out of jail, rumpled English archaeologist Arthur reconnects with his wayward crew of tombaroli accomplices – a happy-go-lucky collective of itinerant grave-robbers who survive by looting Etruscan tombs and fencing the ancient treasures they dig up.
In the midst of an attempt to take over his company, a powerhouse executive is hit with a huge ransom demand when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped by mistake.
After World War II, more than 85% of the Albanian people were illiterate. Partisan soldier Dritan Shkaba is tasked with opening new schools in north Albania to enlighten the population.
After the war, a partisan hospital is set up in a monastery, with the nuns working as nurses. A beautiful young nun, Maria, becomes very fond of the partisan leader, Commissar Nenad.
On the anniversary of the death of Commissioner Ibrahim Kovaçi, six of his war friends are accompanying his statue to his native village, where a ceremony will be held. During the road, each of them remembers moments related to the life of Ibrahim.
Ten year old Lukas acts out a bloody revenge on his bullies in this Tarantino-for-kids short film.
ADAM IS A CLASSICAL MUSIC STUDENT WHO, AFTER LIVING HIS ENTIRE LIFE UNDER THE SHADOW OF HIS FATHER, IS ABOUT TO TAKE HIS FATHER'S TITLE OF THE YOUNGEST CONCERTIST IN HIS COUNTRY. BUT A SPONTANEOUS ILLNESS THREATENS TO LEAVE HIM WITHOUT HEARING AND TOGETHER WITH HIS BEST FRIEND, LUCHO, HE MUST DECIDE BETWEEN HIS HEALTH AND HIS GOAL OF BEATING HIS FATHER. ADAM SHOULD EVALUATE HIS PRIORITIES AND UNDERSTAND THAT HIS MUSIC AND PASSION REACHES BEYOND HIS RIVALRY WITH HIS FATHER.
An elliptical depiction of events from the night of an alleged rape, and the celebration after the acquittal.
Escaping his father's cruelty and indifference, Magdy leaves the house on a rainy night and a nightclub owner hits him with her car.
After getting a future phone call from his wife, a man sets out to rescue his family not knowing when this tragedy will occur or whether he will make it in time to rescue them.
One of the greatest and bravest incident from the life of The Great Maratha King Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj where he defeated Afzalkhan with his brilliant tactics and courage.
A rather original outlook on the relationships of two great Russian writers Dostoevsky and Turgenev and their roles in the future fate of Russia.
This tells the story of Lu Dong Bin, who was imprisoned in the mortal world. After arriving in the mortal world, he took a boat to find Bai Ying to break off their marriage. When he arrived at Bai's house, he found that Bai Ying's father was missing in Baihualou. So he sets off to Baihualou only to be met with a possessed Bai Ying and met with a sneak attack of Heijiao's men. After escaping from Baihualou, Lu Dong Bin met Taibai Jin Xing and learned that he was the reincarnation of Baihe Shang Xian. Heijiao in the past and present life is a catastrophe that scholars must go through, and there are also three lifetimes of love with Bai Ying.
Aren't you going to offer your beer to a poor thirsty girl?
As Danny has no money for a train home, he must walk from the West End of Glasgow to the East End of Glasgow.