The Hard Truth (1994)
Genre : Action
Runtime : 1H 40M
Director : Kristine Peterson
Synopsis
A suspended cop and his girlfriend blackmail an electronics expert into helping them break into the safe of the girlfriend's boss, a corrupt city councilman who's on the local mob's payroll.
As last year's prom ended with major drama for princess Margrethe, she now has to carry the secret of what happened to her closely so as not to bring shame on the Norwegian royal family. When she hears news of the Danish royal family planning a visit, Margarethe sees this as an opportunity to finally meet prince Alexander that she's been chatting with for months. As family drama starts piling up for the Norwegian royal family, Margarethe has to find her footing not only as a strong and powerful princess, but also as a young woman in her quest for love.
Kay Mander kept training and social issues to the fore in the 1940s with her innovative documentaries. Mander, now living in Kirkcudbrightshire, recalls her life and work, with clips from many of her films.
The story of an aspiring young female chef, June, as she navigates the cutthroat world of high end cooking.
Who, apart from moviegoers, knows Alice Guy (1873-1968) today? However, she was the first woman behind the camera and the first female director and producer of fiction films in history.
With his elderly grandfather, seven year old Chandra walks through earthquake-hit Kathmandu to visit his mother and newborn sibling in hospital.
A warm and bright place hiding uncleanliness and fear. The slightest disorder of daily life brings the room down into deep darkness. Shot on 8mm film.
Michelle needs a break. A computer programmer who's fed up by what she sees as the greed and idiocy of the Internet, Michelle requests and is granted a monthlong sabbatical from her job in this 2001 independent film by Maria Breaux.
OUT OF DARKNESS: THE MINE WORKERS' STORY is a documentary by Academy Award-winning director Barbara Kopple (HARLAN COUNTY, USA). Historical film footage and photographs are integrated with first-hand accounts of UMWA history and of the Pittston strike of 1989-90.
In Mirror Game, we meet a seemingly ordinary husband and wife, Michael and Giselle. Embarking upon a cross-country move to New England, both are doing their best to embrace change and hold on to each other. However, when Giselle stumbles upon a strange book that is not at all what it seems, their lives will never be the same-or their own-ever again.
On an abnormally hot summer day in Oslo, a strange electric field surrounds the city as a collective migraine spreads across town and the newly deceased awake from death.
Three friends decide to isolate themselves in the mountain house of one of them to enjoy the last days of summer they have left. During these days in August, they take the opportunity to swim in the river, laugh a little and disconnect from the outside world. However, one night at a dinner table after having perked up with some beers, one of whom confesses that she was once sexually assaulted. As a result, they put in common unpleasant sexual experiences that they had never confessed, thus realizing that all of them, in one way or another, have been assaulted.
Since her sister’s disappearance, Jax has cared for her niece Roki by scraping by on the Seneca-Cayuga Reservation in Oklahoma. Every spare minute goes into finding her missing sister while also helping Roki prepare for an upcoming powwow. At the risk of losing custody to Jax’s grandfather, Frank, the pair hit the road and scour the backcountry to track down Roki’s mother in time for the powwow. What begins as a search gradually turns into a far deeper investigation into the complexities and contradictions of Indigenous women moving through a colonized world and at the mercy of a failed justice system.
A single mother and a childless morgue technician are bound together by their relationship to a little girl they have reanimated from the dead.
Dancer Elena and sign language interpreter Dovydas meet and form a beautiful bond. As they dive into a new relationship, they must navigate how to build their own kind of intimacy.
Beth wakes up after a night she can't remember to discover her guitar missing. She'll go through hell to get it back. But, like, after some aspirin.
What is birth? It is said that being born into this world is the beginning of suffering: dukkha.
The Big Sister - a person of colossal size - is trapped in sand in a deserted landscape. With no way to take care of herself, this burden falls on her resentful little sister.
A 1980 Canadian drama by Janine Manatis.
