El Estado de la Unión (1948)
How's the State of the Union? It's GREAT!
Género : Comedia, Drama, Romance
Tiempo de ejecución : 2H 4M
Director : Frank Capra
Escritor : Anthony Veiller, Myles Connolly
Sinopsis
Un industrial inicia su carrera política en el partido republicano como candidato a la presidencia de los Estados Unidos, pero su tarea requerirá compromisos incómodos tanto en el terreno político como matrimonial.
Three married couples gather to celebrate the eighteenth anniversary of their marriage mourning the absence of a friend who was best man at all three weddings.
In this political thriller, a gubernatorial candidate's idealistic press secretary discovers that the opposing political candidate has feathered the nest of his campaigns with terrible lies.
A la muerte de su madre, Anne descubre algo que la trastorna: Una antigua foto que va a sembrar dudas sobre su origen y le descubrirá la existencia de un tío misterioso que sus padres acogieron después de la guerra. Levantando el secreto de la familia, la joven va a comprender que su madre conoció un gran amor tan fulgurante como efímero.
Shot over six weeks in December 1971, and January 1972, the film consisted of interviews with Protestants, Catholics, politicians, and some soldiers, combined with TV news clips of bombings and violence. The deaths of four individuals formed the central focus of the film, which Ophüls described as ‘an old, middle-aged, humanistic, social-democratic attempt to give people an idea that life after all is not that cheap’. The BBC refused to transmit the completed film on the grounds that it was ‘too pro-Irish’ (Sunday Times, 5 Nov. 1972). (via http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/othelem/media/docs/freespeech.htm)
A screenwriter gets involved with two actresses who are trying to succeed in the 1960s Hong Kong film industry.
The movie tells various stories about the stratas of Thai society. Among the characters are an impoverished mother and child living in the Sanam Luang area of Bangkok. Their lives take a dramatic turn when they find a diamond ring. Another is a heartbroken man who's lost faith in humanity and wants to be a dog.
Anthony Hopkins plays an English medical doctor living with his family in Paraguay and treating the poor people from the surroundings, who has his life turned upside down when his son was mysteriously murdered in what could have been an attack to him since he's opposed to the military dictatorship of the country. The doctor and his family will take lots of risk while trying to prove that the government was involved in the murder.
The story of the Cyprus' turbulent recent history using the device of a desperate man, Evagoras (Costas Timvios), who returns to the island after years of absence to look for his wife and son. His family disappeared while they were visiting his native village on Cyprus, just when the Turkish army invaded (1974). As Evagoras goes out on his search each day with a friendly taxi driver, flashbacks illustrate the recent history of the Greek Cypriots, and the normally quiet Evagoras heads closer and closer to a militant stance.
In recent years it has become the handiest character of Mexican cinema: the Chilango fleeing the capital to the province in search of something. But this case is different because the trip is used as an excuse to illustrate, through documentary techniques, the deep contrasts of Mexican society. Tired of the city, Javier goes to visit his aunt, an eccentric woman with quite radical ideas, who lives isolated from the world in a ranch in Querétaro. Javier works as a laborer for an Argentinean foreman, with whom he shares a few passions. His life begins to change.
Una hora en la vida de una joven que a pocos minutos de casarse se entera de que su novio tiene una amante. En traje de novia la ofendida recorre la ciudad en busca de venganza. Durante todo el recorrido, un camarógrafo registrará los hechos, sin cortar la cámara desde el inicio hasta el final de la película.
Lidia is a responsible and dedicated maid for a hugely wealthy, elderly Tijuana matron who loves only her pet whippet. Rafael is a quiet and dignified janitor who buys a new pair of shoes to celebrate his imminent retirement from the large corporate facility where he's worked for 30 years. When Lidia's boss dies, leaving everything to her dog, and Rafael's plans get derailed, they both turn to criminal subterfuge to get what their harsh lot in life has denied them.
La historia está basada en el auténtico asesinato de un periodista del Chicago Tribune a manos de los sicarios de Al Capone, cuando éste descubrió que le traicionaba. Aquí la cosa se adorna con la biografía de dicho personaje, un humilde muchacho del Sur que vio la oportunidad de avanzar en la gran ciudad como periodista. Para ganar más dinero acepta un trato con un capo mafioso llamado Louis Blanco (Clark Gable) para manipular la información.
In the 1950s a village in Kerala is preparing itself to be included in the nation's electric grid. Things are looking up for villagers and everyone is optimistic about the progress that electrification will bring. However soon some trouble brews starting with petty quarrels on trees being felled for the power lines. A series of unfortunate events follow the electrification as the village comes into terms with rapid modernization.
Visión melodramática e irónica de la vida de varios moscovitas de clase media. Cada uno de ellos tiene un secreto personal, oculto a los demás - su "parte íntima". El personaje principal, Ivan, un polémico fotógrafo, está convencido de que las personas nacen para ser felices, y la felicidad es la libertad de permanecer fiel a uno mismo.
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A la muerte del propietario de un periódico de Nueva York, hereda el negocio su pariente más próximo, Martha Aldrich, una profesora de Nebraska. Aunque desconoce el negocio, decide intentar tomar las riendas.
Nancy Gibson, una millonaria que cuando vuelve a Nueva York tras una estancia en París, se entera que su marido se ha encaprichado de una joven bailarina con la que pretende casarse. Para evitarlo, Nancy trama un plan aportando la 'astucia de mujer' de su título y se muestra completamente indiferente hacia la nueva situación. Todo se complicará aún más cuando ella...
El ejecutivo de una empresa frutera asentada en una República Bananera, Steve Case, harto de que los revolucionarios hostiguen sus plantaciones, decide contratar a Nick Butler para que restablezca el orden y las ganancias.