My Antonia (1995)
Género : Película de TV, Drama
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 40M
Director : Joseph Sargent
Sinopsis
After the death of his parents, Jimmy uproots his life to live with his grandparents in Black Hawk, Nebraska.
Juan, a worker goes to visit his mother after a long time working but his sister prevent him from seeing her. When he discovers the state in which his mother is, he sees that his brother and sister had been deceiving him to receive his money.
Five houses, one bus stop, cows and nothing but fields. 24-year-old Christin lives on the farm of her long-term boyfriend Jan. The exciting post-reunification years that defined her childhood are long gone. Her relationship is loveless. She keeps the cherry liqueur close at hand. In the shimmering heat of summer, time seems to stand still – until 46-year-old wind energy engineer, Klaus, arrives.
Emilio is a lifelong farmer in his eighties who lives alone on his abandoned farm. Everyone close is gone. One animal is all there is left. Today is the day he decides to sell it.
A young family with a baby is visiting elderly parents living in a remote northern village. Suddenly, their child becomes sick with dysentery. There is no necessary medicine in the village, the telephone line was cut off, and the roads were washed out due to the spring flood. The young father Vanya decides to get to the regional center on his own in order to call a Sunrise to the village. But the road ahead is long and dangerous.
Kadu, a boy from Pakil, Laguna, experiences the dissolution of tradition as it gives way to capitalism in the form of Madame, a foreigner who initially came to their village as a customer during the Festival of Turumba.
Narra el viaje de realizan un padre alcohólico y su distante hijo desde Montana a Nebraska para recoger lo que cree que es un premio de un millón de dólares.
Police officer Aniskin lives with his family in a rural Russian village whose inhabitants admire his gentleness and wisdom. When an accordion is stolen from the local clubhouse, he begins to investigate.
Tratar de hacer la paz con los Sioux de Nebraska lleva al explorador Wade Harper a través de muchos peligros.
Margaret Conneely was active in amateur filmmaking locally and internationally for nearly half a century, first joining a local Chicago camera club in 1949. Her son, John, stars in Saga of the First and Last, a short film about a boy, a gun and his first (and last) cigarette.
Teena Brandon siempre ha deseado ser un chico. Así que un día decide cortarse el pelo, ocultar sus pechos bajo un vendaje apretado, y cambiar el orden de su nombre, pasándose a llamar Brandon Teena. (FILMAFFINITY)
A lonely Omaha, Nebraska security guard named Marcus dreams of establishing some human connection, when he isn't watching cable porn in his apartment and obsessing over his weight.
Conmovido al escuchar la historia de un convicto que inició su carrera delictiva siendo un niño al que nadie dio una oportunidad, el padre Flanagan (Spencer Tracy) dedice construir la Ciudad de los Muchachos, un lugar donde los jóvenes conflictivos puedan convivir, trabajar y labrarse un futuro honrado. Allí acude a la fuerza Withey Marsh (Mickey Rooney), un joven rebelde que parece un caso perdido y que está decidido a seguir los pasos de su hermano Joe (Edward Norris), líder de una banda de delincuentes.
China, durante los últimos años del dominio de la dinastía Qing. El matrimonio concertado entre Wang Lung, un humilde granjero, y O-Lan, una esclava doméstica, soportará a lo largo de los años las muchas dificultades de la vida; pero las incontables tentaciones de una frágil prosperidad pondrán en peligro su amor y la supervivencia de toda su familia.
A son quits his job and is persuaded by his father to head off to a cottage in the remote mountains. Together, the two of them manage to get through their days while wearing old jerseys left by a deceased grandmother. The following summer, the two once again leave the stifling heat of Tokyo, as if escaping to the mountain cottage. However, the next summer is very different...
Después de muchos años sin verse, dos hermanos vuelven a encontrarse. Tras la pérdida de la granja familiar, Joe y Frank Roberts siguieron caminos diferentes. Joe, casado y sheriff de un pueblecito de Nebraska, vive abrumado por el trauma que le produjo matar a un hombre en defensa propia. Frank, por su parte, es un veterano de Vietnam, de carácter violento y agresivo, que muestra su resentimiento viviendo al límite de la ley.
Desde una galaxia remota, un recién nacido es enviado por sus padres al espacio debido a la inminente destrucción del planeta donde viven. La nave aterriza en la Tierra, y el niño es adoptado por unos granjeros que le inculcan los mejores valores humanos. Con los años el joven se irá a Metrópolis y allí usará sus poderes sobrenaturales para luchar contra el mal...
Comedia rural ambientada en el Siglo XV. Tras haber estado cautivo en Túnez, Bartolomé regresa a su tierra extremeña con la ilusión de comer su manjar preferido: cerdo. En el camino se topa con un desertor que tiene una marrana.
The story of Bendegúz, the teenage boy who never succeeds in anything and about whom everybody's first though is "I wish you had been hanged when you were born!" drops out of school and becomes a cowboy. He works for the Stationmaster whose cows he has to graze by the railway. Despite his goodwill and kindheartedness he always manages to spoil everything he touches. No matter his wit, he gets into humiliating situations and regularly fights with the Ugly Witch (the Stationmaster's mother-in-law). However his good spirit and cheerfulness never leave him.
Osa de la Vega, Cuenca, España, 1913. Gregorio y León, empleados en la finca del alcalde del pueblo, un poderoso terrateniente, son detenidos y acusados del asesinato de José María el Cepa, un pastor desaparecido misteriosamente tres años antes.
Adaptación de la novela corta de Bernardo Atxaga, que lleva catorce ediciones en euskera. El film tiene como protagonista a Paulo, quien, tras la muerte de su padre, tendrá que hacerse cargo de su hermano deficiente. (FILMAFFINITY)