Prisoner of Honor (1991)

Un pastor y su mujer que no puede tener hijos, adoptan a dos hermanos, un niño y una niña. Aunque al principio todo parece normal, poco a poco empiezan a observar algo extraño en el comportamiento de los niños...

One year before the Olympics, Jill Kinmont, an 18-year-old skiing champion, suffers a fall during competition and is left paralyzed. With her life now completely altered, she undergoes an exhausting fight to regain some of what she has lost.

A TV film depicting life of the famous inventor.

Even the most loyal admirer of Tom Jobim, the most documented Brazilian artist throughout the world, cannot imagine the surprises he will encounter in this film. It contains previously unreleased pictures and images captured for 15 years by Ana Jobim, his wife, that show details of the life and work of Tom Jobim. Shot in New York, Rio de Janeiro and the family ranch in Poço Fundo, the film shows his intimacy with his children, the birth of important songs, parties at home with other musicians, and even a unusual Jobim in pajamas, in an “expedition” in the woods. “When someone visits the intimacy of a great artists, possibly the distance between him and the myth is felt to be smaller. For me it is the opposite; the distance becomes greater and I have more conscience of the myth”, says Ana.

Basado en el escándalo de la vida real que conmocionó a la era de la Inglaterra victoriana, la película cuenta la historia de Eufemia "Effie" Gray. A los 19 años, se casó con el historiador de arte y crítico prominente John Ruskin, pero se negó a consumar su matrimonio. Solitaria y frustrado Effie se ve atraída por el pintor pre-Rafaelita John Everett Millais, y encuentra un amiga y defensora en Lady Elizabeth Eastlake. Después de cinco años atrapados en un matrimonio sin amor, Effie desafiará las reglas de la sociedad victoriana...

In a documentary about Samuel Fuller, the spectator gets different impressions about the Hollywood director and his films. The film is divided into the three sections: The Typewriter, the Rifle and the Movie Camera. The first segment covers Fuller's past as a newsman where he began as a copy boy and ended as a reporter. Part two describes Fuller's experiences in World War II, in which he participated as a soldier. The last section focuses on Fuller as director. Tim Robbins interviews Samuel Fuller revealing the director's own memories and impressions. Beside the interview, Jim Jarmusch, Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino accompany the documentary with their comments.

Madrid a finales del siglo XIX; una mujer de buena posición aparece asesinada y hay sospechas de la autoría del crimen sobre varias personas. La investigación policial se pone en marcha descubriendo al responsable y sacando a la luz una trama en la que estaba implicada la difunta junto a un galán que era su amante.

En el apogeo de su carrera, el escritor Charles Dickens, casado y con 46 años, conoce a una joven de 18 que se convierte en su amante secreta hasta su muerte. Adaptación de la novela de Claire Tomalin.

Biografía cinematográfica de Helen Morgan, una cantante y actriz muy popular durante los años 20 y 30, que falleció en 1941 víctima del alcoholismo y unas relaciones amorosas tumultuosas que arruinaron su carrera cuando había alcanzado la cima del éxito.

In Oklahoma in the 1920s, Rubin Flood loses his job as a traveling salesman when the company goes bankrupt. This adds to his worries at home. His wife Cora is frigid because of trying to make ends meet. His teenage daughter Reenie is afraid of going out on dates, but eventually makes friends with a troubled Jewish boy Sammy Golden, and his son is a mama's boy. He finally storms out of the house when Cora falsely accuses him of having an affair with Mavis Pruitt.

Ghost Blues follows the life and career of Rory Gallagher from his upbringing in Cork, his early days with a showband, the brief success of Taste and then his legendary solo career leading up to his health problems in later life and tragic death at the age of just 47. There are archive interviews, both audio and visual, with Rory and contributions from many of his friends and admirers including his brother Donal, Bob Geldof, The Edge, Cameron Crowe, Slash, Johnny Marr, James Dean Bradfield, Ronnie Drew, Bill Wyman, Martin Carthy, band members Ted McKenna and Gerry McAvoy and many more.

Susan Shawson, de 14 años, vive una experiencia fantástica: viaja al pasado a través del ascensor de su casa. Su viaje en el tiempo le lleva al año 1881, justo donde ella vive ahora con su padre. En el pasado conoce a Victoria, una niña de su misma edad a la que ayudará a solucionar el problema de su familia. Su madre, viuda, se ve obligada a casarse con un hombre despreciable para sacar adelante a Victoria y a su hermano. Con la ayuda del ascensor, Susan y Victoria viajarán a la época actual e intentarán ganar dinero para que la familia de Victoria salga adelante.

Ella Bishop is an inhibited girl whose frustrations grow as she approaches womanhood. As a women, her ambitions to teach cause her to lose her only opportunity for true love. Ella's life becomes one of missed chances and wrong choices. As she reaches old age, she reflects back and realizes she allowed the years to go by without achieving what she believes to be her true fulfillment. However, her years have not been without glory, and her moment of triumph arrives when her numerous now-famous students from over the years, return to honor their beloved Miss Bishop.

The almost mythic career of Yankee slugger Mickey Mantle is the subject of this acclaimed HBO Sports documentary special. Over 18 seasons with the Bronx Bombers, despite constant nagging injuries, Mantle managed to hit 536 home runs, twice hitting more than 50 in a season. He finished ten seasons with a batting average of .300 or more and suited up for seven World Series. To this day, ?The Mick? remains the greatest switch-hitter in baseball history; however, behind his country charm and good looks there was his wayward lifestyle that harmed his marriage, his relationship with his four sons and ultimately his health.

El bailarín George Raft (Ray Danton) tiene conexiones con el mundo del hampa. Tras un conflicto con el jefe mafioso Frank Donatella (Joe de Santis), lo destierran a Hollywoood. Allí consigue un papel en la película "Scarface" y se hace famoso. Vive con la actriz Lisa Lang (Jayne Mansfield) en una gran villa, pero al morir su madre la abandona. Su carrera se desliza cuesta abajo hasta que se le ofrece un papel en "Some Like it Hot" y recupera la fama.

Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook features remarkable performances by Hideko Takamine – Phillip Lopate calls it “probably her greatest performance” – and Kinuyo Tanaka as mother and daughter living from hand to mouth in Twenties Tokyo. Based on the life and career of Fumiko Hayashi, the novelist whose work Naruse adapted to the screen several times, A Wanderer’s Notebook traces her bitter struggle for literary recognition in the first half of the twentieth century – her affairs with feckless men, the jobs she took to survive (peddler, waitress, bar maid), and her arduous, often humiliating attempts to get published in a male-dominated culture.

Widely recognized as the planet's worst film director, Uwe Boll embarks on a quest to conquer Hollywood and take vengeance upon the film fanatics striving to destroy him. Filmed over three years on and off the set, 'Raging Boll' is a walk in the shoes of a man people love to hate.

Cada cierto tiempo emerge un gigante en el campo de la ciencia, alguien que transciende las ajustadas fronteras de una línea de investigación especifica y transforma nuestra perspectiva del mundo, Edward Osborne Wilson es uno de esos hombres, su temprana fascinación por las hormigas fue el comienzo de una deslumbrante carrera científica que le llevo a levantar sus ojos de la superficie de la tierra para explicar el magnifico orden de la vida misma. Cuando escribió su libro “Sociobiología”, trazando los orígenes del comportamiento animal social de las hormigas a los humanos, no podía llegar a imaginarse la polémica que originaría. La biología evolutiva no había provocado un debate tan encendido desde “El origen de las especies” de Charles Darwin.

Mark Rappaport's creative bio-pic about actress Jean Seberg is presented in a first-person, autobiographical format. He seamlessly interweaves cinema, politics, American society and culture, and film theory to inform, entertain, and move the viewer. Seberg's many marriages, as well as her film roles, are discussed extensively. Her involvement with the Black Panther Movement and subsequent investigation by the FBI is covered. Notably, details of French New Wave cinema, Russian Expressionist (silent) films, and the careers of Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, and Clint Eastwood are also intensively examined. Much of the film is based on conjecture, but Rappaport encourages viewers to re-examine their ideas about women in film with this thought-provoking picture.

Poco antes de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, en un hotel del sur de Francia, tiene lugar la caza de un espía infiltrado.