Rescate familiar (1995)

Secuela de la galardonada 'Oriente es Oriente'. Manchester, norte de Inglaterra, 1975. La familia Khan continúa luchando por sobrevivir. Sayid, el hijo menor, sufre la crisis de la pubertad junto el acoso escolar y la tiránica insistencia de su padre en imponerle las tradiciones paquistaníes. En un intento desesperado por encarrilarlo, su padre le envía a vivir al Punjab con su primera mujer y sus hijas, a las que abandonó 35 años atrás.

In the 1950s, Louise left her husband when their children were still little. She was never heard from again. Her daughter Martine stayed in the small seaside town, where she became a doctor. Martine's daughter, Audrey, a thirty-year-old independent woman, returns to visit her parents. By chance, she finds a notebook that belonged to her grandmother, a diary that may at last explain her departure. Will it reveal the things left unsaid, that have altered the relationships within the heart of the family ever since? In it, will Audrey find answers to the questions that she is asking herself about her own future?

Una excéntrica familia de Kansas es atrapada en su casa rural durante una espeluznante tormenta.

Actor Val Kilmer narrates this powerful film exploring the methamphetamine epidemic that's ravaged blue-collar America. Putting a human face on the problem, filmmaker Justin Hunt reveals the damage being done by this rural drug of choice, as well as the steps being taken by communities across the nation to wipe out the scourge. From Wyoming to New Mexico, Montana and Oregon, American Meth paints a picture of both devastation and hope.

Retrato de tres personajes víctimas de la soledad y la incomunicación: un joven con dolor en el cuello, un hombre que frecuenta saunas gays, y una mujer ascensorista, cuyo amante trafica con películas pornográficas.

El joven Hsiao Kang, excéntrico e introvertido, abandona la aldea donde vive con sus padres y se traslada a la deslumbrante Taipei. Allí se ve arrastrado a la vida en las calles de la ciudad y sus salas de máquinas. Muy pronto su vagabundeo le hará encontrarse por azar con Ah Tze, un joven delincuente que corteja a la bella Ah Kuei, que trabaja en la sala de patinaje sobre hielo. Hsiao Kang verá su vida perversa e indisolublemente ligada a la de Ah Tze y su novia Ah Kuei, a los que acechará desde las sombras.

Film sobre las relaciones humanas y familiares, la superstición, el miedo y los esfuerzos para conservar el amor en un mundo que no se puede controlar. El debut de Campion constituye un estudio de caracteres femeninos más bien desequilibrados.

Una mujer se enreda en una serie de extrañas mentiras con el fin de cuidar de sí misma y su hijo de 12 años.

François tiene 20 años y ha secuestrado a la pequeña Mado, de once, llevándola al sórdido granero en el que vive. Ni la viola ni pide dinero por su rescate. Lo más extraño es que ella podría intentar fugarse, pero no lo hace. ¿Qué sucede? ¿Por qué el secuestrador parece inofensivo y la secuestrada parece estar segura y tranquila? Cada uno intentará dar al otro un poco del inmenso amor, dulzura y ternura que anida dentro de ellos...

Barry (Adam Sandler) es un tipo solitario y poco sociable que fue educado entre siete hermanas. La sobreprotección que se le dispensó desde niño le ha impedido enamorarse. Un día descubre un fallo en un concurso y gana miles de millas en billetes de avión. Viajando, conoce a una misteriosa mujer (Emily Watson) con la que inicia una romántica aventura. (FILMAFFINITY)

Royal Tenenbaum (Gene Hackman) y su mujer Etheline (Anjelica Huston), después de tener tres hijos, Chas (Ben Stiller), Richie (Luke Wilson) y Margot (Gwyneth Paltrow), se han separado. Chas, que trabaja en el sector inmobiliario, parecía tener un don innato para las finanzas internacionales. Margot fue dramaturga y obtuvo una beca Braverman de 50.000 dólares cuando aún estaba en el instituto. Richie fue campeón junior de tenis y ganó los campeonatos de Estados Unidos tres años consecutivos. Pero todos los brillantes recuerdos de los jóvenes Tenenbaums quedan repentinamente borrados por dos décadas de traiciones, fracasos y decepciones de las que consideran que su padre es el principal responsable.

Edward y Jill Warren han tratado de educar a sus hijos de la manera más conveniente, pero los resultados han sido nefastos: todos ellos están incapacitados para madurar. Pero, cuando un secreto familiar sale a la luz, se ponen de manifiesto los verdaderos sentimientos de cada uno.

Set in 1970s Naples, bullied nine year-old Peppino is watching the world around him as his extended dysfunctional family change. Psychedelic flower power and hippie love is threatening the old traditional southern Italian family. Dad is having an affair and Mom has taken to her bed with depression. Super-mod brother and sister Titina and Salvatore take the boy under their wings, introducing him to demonstrations and love-ins, whilst caped superhero Gennaro visits Peppino even after being knocked down and killed by the number 12 bus. It is the imaginary appearances of this older superman cousin that help the nine-year-old navigate the complicated adult world.

A disturbing film about the Portuguese underworld of prostitution.

la historia transcurre en la sala de estar de una vieja casa londinense, a la que Teddy lleva a su mujer para presentársela a sus parientes. La revelación de un oscuro secreto familiar reabrirá viejas heridas.

The Internationally award winning documentary film from Norway follows a 33 year old woman's life prior to serving a 7 year prison sentence for killing her own 66 year old father. He sexually abused her from she was 6 - 17 years old. He also abused her sister who became a drug addict and died of an overdose at the age of 38. The film brings us back to her childhood and describes how sexual abuse can go on for years without anyone is reacting to it. "My beloved child" deals with issues like physical, emotional and sexual abuse, domestic problems, suicide, drug issues, societies responsibility, individual responsibility, post effects/late consequences of childhood traumas. The films is primarily made - and edited - for children and youths, in order for them to understand and put words to abuse.

Desperate to get out from under her overprotective mother, a home-schooled teen runs off to live with her dad, and forms a bond with his much-younger boyfriend.

The film examines the painful relationship between fathers and sons through the eyes of one family. Four generations of men are featured in the film. Father to Son deals with the conflict between generations and their subjective memories, and the way different methods of raising children pass from one generation to the next. How often and to what extent do we repeat the behavioural patterns of our fathers; can we change or break these patterns or is repeating them inescapable, and how many generations are needed for change to occur? Are the values we have inherited from our fathers still valid in the modern world? One of the leading themes of this film is the sensitivity of a man and a boy, and its preservation and suppression.

A rough but beautiful documentary film about the crisis of a man in his forties and his desire for a better life; its a story of parenthood, alcohol, Finnish man and his desire for love. It is also an unusually intimate depiction of the relationship between the father and his son. Despite the seriousness of the topic the film includes black humor and situational comedy

A documentary film about singing and a young man in search of himself and his voice.