Las cenizas de Angela (1999)
Género : Drama
Tiempo de ejecución : 2H 25M
Director : Alan Parker
Escritor : Laura Jones, Alan Parker
Sinopsis
Basada en el best seller autobiográfico de Frank McCourt. Ángela y Malachy McCourt abandonan Nueva York en la época de la Gran Depresión (años 30) y regresan a su Irlanda natal. Pero su situación no mejora por dos razones: por un lado, la crisis que sigue a la independencia, y, por otro, el alcoholismo de Malachy, que dilapida en los bares lo poco que gana. A base de subsidios y caridad Ángela se las irá arreglando para mantener a sus cuatro hijos.
Hans Fallada tells in his published after the war novel "The drinker" the story of the agricultural wholesaler Erwin Sommer, who flees from his narrow bourgeois relations under the burdens of the new times in the kingdom of the king alcohol, whose liberty and independence promises prove a lie - the only truth of the alcohol. On behalf of the WDR television play Ulrich Plenzdorf has adapted Fallada's 1944/45 novel for a film adaptation by Tom Toelle with Harald Juhnke in the main role of Erwin Sommer.
There are 10,000 people dying everyday due to hunger and malnutrition. This short film shows a forgotten portion of the society. The people who live on the refuse of men to survive. What is inspiring is the hope and spirituality that never left this people.This film is about the hunger and poverty brought about by Globalization.
Various Hollywood performers put on a pirate-themed variety show on Catalina Island, with a number of amiable stars in the audience.
Basado en hechos reales. Después de la caída del Imperio Ruso en el año 1917, la República Popular de Ucrania fue incluida contra su voluntad en el conjunto de la URSS. Cuando Stalin se hizo con todo el poder en la URSS, el partido comunista, con los métodos del terror sistemático, puso un control en todos los aspectos de la vida política y del pueblo. En el año 1932 se promulgó una ley que costó la vida de 8 a 10 millones de personas. (FILMAFFINITY)
Eighteen-year-old Esther has been deaf and blind since the accident which killed her mother. Wealthy Margaret Landi, a native of Esther's village in Ireland, is talked into helping to educate and possibly heal Esther. Margaret grows to love Esther as a daughter, but finds Esther's innocence threatened by sleazy promoters and her own sleazy ex-husband. Radiant performance by Heather Sears. Based on a book that nearly had Helen Keller's co-workers suing for libel due to perceived parallels between Carlo Landi and the husband of Annie Sullivan
During the 20 months before Italy's liberation from Fascism, a group of university students trade empty rhetoric for action by joining the Partisans into the mountains of Nazi-occupied northern Italy. There, group leader Gigi falls in love with his best friend's girl. As the Resistance struggle continues, some of the "little teachers" are killed, and the brutal reality of war leaves its mark on their youthful idealism.
A brash night club singer becomes a cop to impress a woman.
A leprechaun (Warwick Davis) helps a 12-year-old (Carly Anderson) befriend a magic pony while working on her uncle's (Olivier Gruner) farm. (IMDb)
Philomena es la verdadera historia de la búsqueda de una madre por su hijo perdido. Quedando embarazada cuando era un adolescente en Irlanda en 1952, Philomena Lee fue enviada al convento de Roscrea para ser atendidas como una "mujer en desgracia". Cuando su hijo era sólo un bebé, las monjas se lo llevaron para darlo en adopción en Estados Unidos. Philomena pasó los próximos cincuenta años buscándolo en vano. Entonces conoció a Martin Sixsmith, un periodista cansado del mundo, tan cínico que Philomena confiaba en él. Juntos partieron hacia América en un viaje que no sólo revelaría la extraordinaria historia del hijo de Philomena, sino que también crearía un vínculo muy cercano e inesperado entre Philomena y Martin.
A lonely farmer's daughter hopes to find love at the village ballroom.
During the worldwide Depression of the 1930s, a young shopgirl is in love with a man of her own financial class, but succumbs to the seductive machinations of her wealthy boss.
The title of the Finnish film Elokuu translates to August. Directed by Matti Kassila, one of Finland's premiere filmmakers, Elokuu was adapted from a novel by Nobel prize winning finnish author F.E. Sillanpää. Simply put, the story concerns the decline and fall of a once-proud family, thanks to the alcoholism of its paterfamilias. Toivo Makela delivers a powerfully effective performance as the inebriated protagonist, avoiding the usual "drunken" cliches. The overlong running time, coupled with the downbeat nature of the subject, limited the film's worldwide appeal.
A young man's attempt to flee the misery of his alcoholic villagers.
Grace, Daniel and Eamon, their hyperactive son, spoiled by his mother, envied by his father, go on vacation to an Irish coastal town for a few days, without money but plenty of hidden feelings inside them that they are unable to express.
“This is a new negative showing the entire trip from Brooklyn to New York, in which the immense towers stand out clear and distinct against the sky. Positively the best picture of the Brooklyn Bridge yet secured.” (Edison film catalog)
A wealthy and self-serving man, sets out on a perilous ocean voyage with his son. An unexpected incident with the vessel causes him to reflect on his not so perfect life.
Heinrich Harrer, an Austrian moutain climber, escapes from a British POW camp in India and flees north across the Himalayan mountains into Tibet. There he meets and befriends the young Dalai Lama.
An Irish lad (Matt Keeslar) who fled from his oppressive, widowed father (Albert Finney) falls for a girl (Victoria Smurfit) from an affluent family.
This one has Janet Gaynor as Walter Connolly's spunky Irish daughter, whose older sister (nicely played by Margaret Lindsay) is about to marry Baxter for his money and thus retire Connolly's debts, though she loves Harvey Stephens, who is in fact infinitely more appealing than Warner Baxter.
Inspired by the student revolutions of 1968, two women in Germany and Japan set out to plot world revolution as leaders of the Baader Meinhof Group and the Japanese Red Army. What were they fighting for and what have we learned?
Catherine, una doctora de éxito, sospecha que su marido David, un guapo profesor de música, la engaña. Con el fin de acallar sus sospechas y temores, contrata a Chloe, una joven irresistible que ponga a prueba la fidelidad de David. Los tórridos relatos de Chloe sobre sus encuentros con David embarcan a Catherine en un viaje de redescubrimiento sexual y sensual.
Año 1967. Susanna Kaysen, de 17 años, es como la mayoría de las chicas americanas de su edad: está confusa, se siente insegura y lucha por entender el mundo que la rodea. Su psiquiatra decide ingresarla en el Hospital Claymoore, diagnosticándole un trastorno de la personalidad, que se manifiesta a través de una gran inseguridad respecto a la propia imagen, a los objetivos a largo plazo y a los amigos. En el centro Susanna conoce a Lisa, Georgina, Polly y Janet, un grupo de chicas inadaptadas con las que entabla una estrecha amistad y que, además, le muestran el camino para encontrarse a sí misma.
Película basada en hechos reales del corredor de bolsa neoyorquino Jordan Belfort. A mediados de los años 80, Belfort era un joven honrado que perseguía el sueño americano, pero pronto en la agencia de valores aprendió que lo más importante no era hacer ganar a sus clientes, sino ser ambicioso y ganar una buena comisión. Su enorme éxito y fortuna le valió el mote de "El lobo de Wall Street". Dinero. Poder. Mujeres. Drogas. Las tentaciones abundaban y el temor a la ley era irrelevante. Jordan y su manada de lobos consideraban que la discreción era una cualidad anticuada; nunca se conformaban con lo que tenían.
