The Stone Face (1973)
Género : Drama, Crimen
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 33M
Director : Jan Halldoff
Sinopsis
After losing his son in a traffic accident and his wife to mental illness, Harry moves to a gloomy Stockholm suburb. A local youth gang is harassing the neighborhood and Harry comes up with the idea of hiring the gang to kill the bureaucrats who are responsible for the construction of the suburb. The film is a fierce critique of the political project of building suburbs designed only for workers to sleep in and also wants to have a say in the debate over nature vs nurture.
In the center of a monotonous suburban existence, Sarah lives silently and in subservience to her icy husband Patrick. They have been together far too long, and Patrick's affections for his wife have all but vanished. Instead, his sexual urges are tempting him to lust after their own son. Realizing how far gone her husband is, Sarah undertakes drastic, shockingly sickening measures to salvage some sense of her life and purge her years of festering resentment.
From the youth directed novel of the same name by Greogor Tressnow comes a film by Detlev Buck that is a realistic portrait of life in the section of Berlin called Neukölln. It’s about power and weakness, delinquents and victims, and the difficulties a 15-year-old faces in a poor and criminal environment.
Una pareja de enamorados viaja a Haití invitada por un misterioso hombre que sólo pretende conseguir a la chica. Para alcanzar su objetivo no duda en pedir ayuda a un siniestro personaje, llamado Legendre, que convierte a las personas en zombis.
Cuatro historias que reflejan la lucha por la supervivencia de algunas personas en medio de un ambiente hostil y marcado por las drogas.
Cal, de 19 años y miembro de una banda, tiene pocas cosas en la vida salvo las drogas, el alcohol, la violencia y un secreto que esconde a sus duros colegas. El sexo on-line con un desconocido no logra saciar el deseo por Jonno, su mejor amigo heterosexual. Un tipo duro y confundido como Jonno tampoco puede expresar su afecto por Cal. Para Cal son momentos "románticos", mientras que Jonno sólo los ve como momentos de camaradería. Nessa, líder de la banda y novia de Jonno, sospecha que puede estar pasando algo y se propone confirmar sus sospechas.
In a typical English working-class town, the juveniles have nothing more to do than hang around in gangs. One day, Alan Darcy, a highly motivated man with the same kind of youth experience, starts trying to get the young people off the street and into doing something they can believe in: Boxing. Darcy opens a boxing club, aiming to bring the rival gangs together.
Nueva Granada, un barrio marginal y aislado, fruto de la especulación inmobiliaria, carece de lugares de ocio y servicios para los adolescentes. Dadas las circunstancias, éstos se refugian en las drogas y la delincuencia.
What happens when western anthropologists descend on the Amazon and make one of the last unacculturated tribes in existence, the Yanomami, the most exhaustively filmed and studied tribe on the planet? Despite their "do no harm" creed and scientific aims, the small army of anthropologists that has studied the Yanomami since the 1960s has wreaked havoc among the tribe - and sparked a war within the anthropology community itself.
A group of college kids travel to a small, mountain town called Madison County to interview the author of a tell-all book on the accounts of several grisly murders that happened there. But when the kids get to Madison County, the author is no where to be found and the towns people act like they haven't seen him in years. They also say that the killer never existed and the murders never happened. However, when the kids start digging around to get their own answers, they find out that the stories maybe more real than the townspeople are letting on!
Weymouth, Inglaterra, principio de los años sesenta. Joan, una joven británica, actúa de cebo para que la banda liderada por su hermano King robe y apalice a un súbdito norteamericano llamado Simon Wells. Después de ser agredido y abandonado sobre el arcén, Simon recibe ayuda por parte de Bernard y sus amigos. Al regresar a su embarcación anclada en el puerto de Weymouth, Wells vuelve a reencontrarse con Joan, pero en esta ocasión sus intenciones parecen ser bien distintas. De hecho, Joan pretende zafarse del control que ejerce su hermano mayor sobre ella y se presta a embarcar junto a Simon en su pequeño yate. Sin embargo, King y su grupo de “teddy boys” les siguen la pista con sus motocicletas bordeando la costa. Al verse rodeados, Simon y Joan saltan una valla protectora electrificada y penetran en una especie de recinto militar. Ambos no tardan en precipitarse por un acantilado, y acto seguido, las olas arrastran sus cuerpos hacia la orilla.
A former policeman turns full-time robber and goes on a downward spiral of crime in 1970s Rome.
When her husband died Soumicha, mother of three, had to earn a living. She became the only woman taxi driver in Sidi Bel-Abbès, Algeria. This film accompanies Soumicha around a city where religious and political violence rages, and records her experiences in a job normally reserved for men.
En Nueva Zelanda, una familia descendiente de guerreros mahoríes vive, al igual que muchos otros, en los suburbios de una gran ciudad, en una situación de marginalidad respecto a las personas de raza blanca. La vida familiar del clan estará presidida por los problemas de alcoholismo, la delincuencia y los escasos medios económicos.
An upbeat, action-filled drama that depicts the lives of two obnoxious high school students, Koji and Toru, who are caught in exciting and dangerous adventures involving their fellow students. Based on the best selling comic series, “Be-Bop High School” has gained popularity among the young audience, and become an icon of Japan’s pop culture in the 1980’s.
A Patsy Gargan, un antiguo criminal, sus corruptos compinches políticos le pagan sus servicios nombrándolo inspector de un reformatorio. Al principio no muestra ningún interés por la escuela, pero la simpatía que siente por los niños que son víctimas de abusos y maltrato por parte del despiadado director y sus matones, lo empuja a aceptar el trabajo.
An entry in MGM's Crime Does Not Pay series, this short tells the true story of how a young man, ignored by his parents, gets into a gang and starts a crime spree which leads to murder.
En un barrio de chabolas de Osaka, Hanako se dedica, durante el día, a la compra de sangre que luego vende a compañías cosméticas y, durante la noche, trabaja de prostituta. Cuando su socio en la compra de sangre se le insinúa, Hanako le responde que su relación sólo es profesional. En efecto, Hanako es una mujer de negocios que intenta ganarse el respeto de tres bandas rivales.
Prizefighter Jimmy Nolan, facing an opportunity to get a championship fight, is knocked out when he sustains what is apparently a permanent injury to his arm. From there, Nolan's path leads downhill. He is drawn into a romance with a nightclub entertainer, then is framed on a theft charge by a jealous suitor. After his prison term, Nolan makes a spectacular comeback in a fight which proves his courage and integrity, while disproving the fallacy about the old sports adage that "they never come back."
Wealthy young socialite Diane Wyman squanders her fortune and becomes involved in a scandalous raid at a wild party. Her legal guardian, a lecherous old man who has the hots for her, hires a private detective to spy on her. He tails her to a train headed for New Orleans, but she catches on to him. She befriends a young woman aboard the train and they both give the private eye the slip. What Diane doesn't know, however, is that that her newfound friend is actually a notorious criminal known as The Moth, and she has her own reasons for helping Diane escape--she, too, is being tailed by a detective, who's after a cache of jewels she's stolen.