Manika, the Girl Who Lived Twice (1989)
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Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 46M
Director : François Villiers
Sinopsis
In this unusual feature, Manika is a girl born in a Catholic family in a south Indian fishing village is convinced that she has recently had a former life as a Brahman wife in Nepal. Her parish priest, Father Daniel is under orders to convince her otherwise, as reincarnation does not accord with official Catholic doctrine. Instead, he agrees to journey with her to the site of her dreams of a previous life. Once there, they discover that all is just as she had dreamed it, and her former husband has remarried despite promising not to. Her arrival on the scene does not disturb the man, but it really upsets his new wife, who departs with her baby. Manika decides that it helps no one for her to remain there in Nepal, and returns to her home in the south. However, all this has caused a genuine crisis of faith for the priest who, witnessing all this, has had to grapple with some irreconcilable issues.
Grace educa sola a sus hijos en un aislado caserón victoriano bajo estrictas normas religiosas. Los tres nuevos sirvientes deben aprender una regla vital, la casa estará siempre en penumbra y nunca se abrirá una puerta si no se ha cerrado la anterior porque los niños sufren una extraña alergia a la luz del día.
El doctor Joe Darrow (Costner), jefe de urgencias del Chicago Memorial Hospital, es un prestigioso traumatólogo que pierde a su mujer (Susanna Thompson) en un trágico accidente de autobús en una carretera de montaña de Venezuela. Seis meses después, el cuerpo de Emily sigue sin aparecer, y Joe no consigue superar el dolor por su pérdida. Entonces empieza a percibir señales que parecen indicar que ella quiere comunicarse con él.
Tras la muerte de sus dos hijos, el doctor Chris Nielson y su esposa Annie intentan con dificultades continuar con sus vidas. Pero Chris también muere en un accidente de coche, y cuando llega al cielo conocerá a Albert, que le desvela que aquello es más maravilloso de lo que podía esperar. Sin embargo la soledad sume a Annie en una locura que le alejará todavía más de la vida y de su esposo.
Una pareja de enamorados ve truncada su felicidad cuando él es asesinado por un ladrón. La necesidad de salvar la vida a la chica hace que él permanezca en la Tierra en forma de fantasma, e intente advertirla del peligro que corre. Su único medio de comunicación es una alocada vidente.
El Dr. Malcom Crowe es un conocido psicólogo infantil obsesionado con el doloroso recuerdo de un joven paciente desequilibrado al que fue incapaz de ayudar. Cole Sear es un aterrorizado y confuso niño de ocho años que necesita tratamiento, y Crowe ve la oportunidad de redimirse haciendo todo lo posible por ayudarle. Sin embargo, el psicólogo infantil no está preparado para conocer la terrible verdad acerca del don sobrenatural de su paciente: recibe visitas no deseadas de espíritus atormentados.
Dos hermanas que tienen la habilidad de comunicarse con los fantasmas, todo se complica cuando sus caminos se cruzan con un productor de cine francés mientras están actuando en el París de los años 30.
Al abrir los ojos, el Dr. André Luiz se da cuenta de que ya no está vivo. Se siente hambriento, sediento y tiene frío, pero ya no pertenece al mundo de los vivos. Al descubrir que está rodeado por una funesta y desértica llanura, saturada con los gritos de los seres que viven en las sombras, sus dudas y dolores se intensifican. ¿Qué tipo de destino es este? Basada en el bestseller del médium brasileño Chico Xavier, la película cuenta la historia de André Luiz, un reconocido doctor que, después de su muerte, se despierta en el mundo espiritual. Una vez allí, se embarca en un viaje de autoconocimiento y transformación, que va desde sus primeros días en una dimensión de dolor y sufrimiento, hasta ser rescatado y llevado a la ciudad espiritual de Nuestro Hogar, la cual se cierne en las capas superiores de la atmósfera de la Tierra y donde descubrirá que la vida sigue para todos.
Desde la infancia, Jenny tiene extraños sueños que parecen evocar una existencia anterior vivida a principios de siglo en un pequeño pueblo irlandés. Desde que está nuevamente embarazada, percibe con más intensidad los recuerdos de esa vida pasada, en la que se ve identificada con una mujer, madre de cuatro niños y sometida a un marido despiadado. Jenny, que nunca estuvo en Irlanda, decide viajar a ese país para seguir la pista de esa mujer.
Quixadá, 1979. El granjero Joao Batista es abducido por extraterrestres, volviéndose un mito local. Dos décadas más tarde, el periodista de investigación Thomas Matthews, quien sufre por la reciente y misteriosa desaparición de su hijo, es enviado a la ciudad por un diario estadounidense para investigar la presencia de ovnis en la región.
Three mothers see their reality become completely, they are: Ruth, whose teenage son, Raul, faces problems with drugs; Elisa, trying to make up for the absence of her husband giving full attention to the child, the little Theo, and Lara, teacher who faces the dilemma of an unplanned pregnancy. These three women, living in different times of their lives, seeking comfort next to Chico Xavier. And Karl reporter remains insisting on interviewing the medium, even without being prepared for it.
UFO experts claim that after the explosion of the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there was an increase in the number of sightings of UFO'S (Unidentified Flying Objects) worldwide. Just over two decades later, the Brazilian medium Chico Xavier confided to close friends that when man reached the moon on July 20, 1969, happened a meeting with the celestial beings of our solar system to check the progress of humanity. They decided to grant a period of 50 years for humanity to evolve morally and live in peace, without provoking a third world war. If we live in peace until the Deadline, humanity would be ready to enter a new era of its existence, and magnificent feats would be checked everywhere, including our brothers from other planets would be expressly authorized to present themselves publicly and officially to Earth's residents.
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In this unusual feature, Manika is a girl born in a Catholic family in a south Indian fishing village is convinced that she has recently had a former life as a Brahman wife in Nepal. Her parish priest, Father Daniel is under orders to convince her otherwise, as reincarnation does not accord with official Catholic doctrine. Instead, he agrees to journey with her to the site of her dreams of a previous life. Once there, they discover that all is just as she had dreamed it, and her former husband has remarried despite promising not to. Her arrival on the scene does not disturb the man, but it really upsets his new wife, who departs with her baby. Manika decides that it helps no one for her to remain there in Nepal, and returns to her home in the south. However, all this has caused a genuine crisis of faith for the priest who, witnessing all this, has had to grapple with some irreconcilable issues.
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