National Theatre Live: The Motive and the Cue (2024)
Género : Drama
Tiempo de ejecución : 2H 45M
Director : Sam Mendes
Sinopsis
In 1964, Richard Burton, newly married to Elizabeth Taylor, is to play the title role in an experimental new Broadway production of Hamlet under Sir John Gielgud’s exacting direction. But as rehearsals progress, two ages of theatre collide and the collaboration between actor and director soon threatens to unravel.
Un grupo de jóvenes ladrones de tarjetas de crédito luchan contra el tiempo y entre ellos para reparar una deuda de 2 millones de libras contraída con un peligroso gangster.
Kim Sunmyung, a man with communist beliefs who refused to recant his ideals, would ultimately serve more than 42 years in prison. Based on a true story, the film tells of personal conviction and dignity.
Fierce with a pen and notorious in combat, Cyrano almost has it all - if only he could win the heart of his true love Roxane. There’s just one big problem: he has a nose as huge as his heart. Will a society engulfed by narcissism get the better of Cyrano - or can his mastery of language set Roxane’s world alight?
Crónica sobre la adicción a la metanfetamina y el intento de recuperación y de salir de las drogas a través de los ojos de un padre que observa a su hijo mientras lucha contra la enfermedad de la drogodependencia.
OUT is an odyssey about 50 year old family man Agoston wandering through East Europe. After loosing his lifelong job in a power plant of small Slovak village Agoston takes the shady but alluring opportunity to work as a welder in a shipyard in Latvia. The journey in hopes of a new job in reality turns into a accelerating whirlwind of absurd events of short encounters, newly found-and-lost-again friendships subtracting from Agoston all his possessions and everything he once believed to be his whole life. However Agoston doesn't give up his search for income and decides to persuade his dream of catching a big sea fish.
It’s a dark, stormy night. The stars are out. Jim, the inn-keeper’s granddaughter, opens the door to a terrifying stranger. At the old sailor’s feet sits a huge sea-chest, full of secrets. Jim invites him in – and her dangerous voyage begins. Robert Louis Stevenson’s story of murder, money and mutiny is brought to life on the Olivier stage in a thrilling new adaptation by Bryony Lavery.
Sara y su padre, Dave, acaban de instalarse en un pequeño pueblo de Bridgend County. Un lugar idílico, de no ser porque está siendo asolado por una epidemia de suicidios adolescentes, que nadie es capaz de explicar. Como nuevo miembro de la policía local, Dave está decidido a parar esta dramática situación. Pero mientras, su hija empieza a relacionarse con los jóvenes del pueblo, involucrándose peligrosamente en un mundo secreto, al margen de los adultos, fascinante y oscuro, que puede conducirla al límite de su resistencia y de su cordura.
In the suburban environment of 1960s Belgrade, thieves and vagabonds were first who escaped from poverty, while simple individuals who believed in ideals, paid a costly price for their misconceptions. Life is very difficult to a family of a pilot who spent 14 years in prison on the basis of false testimony. Her husband's prosecution is his wife's fate, while his daughter doesn't even know that her father is alive. After many migrations and wanderings, the mother meets a soft-spoken yet unscrupulous man who'll promise her marriage, and rape her daughter. The mother eventually ends up at asylum, and the father returns from prison at the right time to help their daughter in life which crucial lessons she already mastered.
En una casa de barriada, las vidas de los vecinos se cruzan, y Fernando se ve obligado a casarse con Elvira, que procede de una familia sin problemas económicos.
The son of a French aristocrat is accused of stealing his father's money and of stealing his step-sister's heart.
Hibi tells about mother who does pottery and lives rather simple life, growing her children up. She does remarkable job in pottery, finding a new way to make natural pottery in her own tunnel kiln. Then, her son gets leukemia. And entire family has to fight hard to find a donor who has matching bone marrow.
Biopic sobre Richard Williams, un padre inasequible al desaliento que ayudó a criar a dos de las deportistas más extraordinarias de todos los tiempos, dos atletas que acabarían cambiando para siempre el deporte del tenis. Richard tenía una visión muy clara del futuro de sus hijas y sirviéndose de métodos poco convencionales, elaboró un plan que llevaría a Venus y Serena Williams de las calles de Compton, California, al olimpo de deporte convirtiéndolas en iconos legendarios.
La película explora la vida y la música de Elvis Presley a través del prisma de su relación con el coronel Tom Parker, su enigmático manager. La historia profundiza en la compleja dinámica que existía entre Presley y Parker que abarca más de veinte años, desde el ascenso de Presley a la fama hasta su estrellato sin precedentes, en el contexto de la revolución cultural y la pérdida de la inocencia en Estados Unidos. Y en el centro de ese periplo está Priscilla Presley, una de las personas más importantes e influyentes en la vida de Elvis.
La verdadera historia de vida de Sara Góralnik, una judía polaca de 13 años cuya familia fue asesinada por los nazis en septiembre de 1942. Después de un agotador escape al campo ucraniano, Sara roba la identidad de su mejor amiga cristiana y encuentra refugio en un pequeño pueblo, donde es acogida por un granjero y su joven esposa. Pronto descubre los oscuros secretos del matrimonio de sus empleadores, lo que complica el mayor secreto que debe esforzarse por proteger, su verdadera identidad.
Una historia sobre el peor ataque terrorista en la historia de Noruega, en el que 70 personas perdieron la vida. 22 de Julio es una mirada al desastre en si, a los supervivientes, al sistema político noruego y a los abogados que trabajaron en este horrible suceso.
Cuando asesinan a una prostituta, las sospechas recaen en el protagonista, un estudiante hijo de un magistrado. Víctima de las pruebas circunstanciales, debe aguantar el infierno de una audiencia preliminar.
It is a dramatization about Major Kim Man-il's service during the Korean War. The Korean forces dispatch two military units to defend the Baeti Heights led by Kim. Although it is hard to do so, Kim and his senior, Kim Mu-cheol (Choe Bong), and other soldiers do their best. Kim even risks his life to save his juniors, but many die as the enemy forces approach. Meanwhile, Lee Kang-no (Yun Il-bong), a communications officer, reads a letter from his wife - missing her and his daughter. Encouraged by it, Lee risks his life to make successful communication between his military unit and the headquarters. His unit wins. Commander Kim Man-su gathers a small number of his subordinates because many had died, and encourages them to do their best toward the enemy off.
Cuenta la historia real de la oradora motivacional Aisha Chaudhary, que falleció en 2015, cuando sólo tenía 18 años.
Racial tensions come out of the woodwork when an upper-class white couple puts their suburban home on the market and the listing draws a pair of equally well-to-do African American buyers from Harlem. Fielder Cook directs this Broadway staging of playwright Arkady Leokum's exploration of lingering racial prejudice in 1970s America.
Un hombre espera angustiado la decisión sobre la posible conmutación de la pena de muerte a su hijo.