Harlem Hostel (2010)
Género : Comedia, Drama
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 22M
Director : Nestor Miranda
Sinopsis
Friends from Queens decide to move into a run down Harlem brownstone ultimately converting it into an illegal youth hostel in order to make ends meet.
Por su 18 cumpleaños, Pip recibe unas cintas grabadas por su abuelo (voz de Ian McKellen) que narran sus experiencias como soldado aliado durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial...
After a brush with a strange substance, an average fireman transforms into something far greater than himself — the Mercury Man. Endowed with fantastic superpowers, he will now use his abilities to help conquer the forces of evil.
Based on the well-loved Australian classic by Mrs. Aeneas Gunn, this is the remarkable true story of Jeannie Gunn, a woman who fought to overcome sexual and racial prejudice amid the harsh beauties of the outback. Leaving her Melbourne existence for a new life on her husband's isolated ranch, Jeannie's feisty, good-natured attitude soon wins over the misogynistic stockmen, but she faces a much tougher challenge in trying to change their racist attitudes towards the indigenous aboriginal population.
La historia de un joven que tiene una vida que todo adolescente desearía o eso cree el. cuando su mejor amigo de infancia, el cual a vivido al margen de todos se suicida, el joven se siente culpable por haberle dado la espalda y de esa forma es que comienza a cuestionar su mundo y la validez que tiene vivir bajo el cobijo de la popularidad a costa de la verdadera amistad. tendrá que decidir entre su estilo de vida y la responsabilidad de encontrar un camino que lo haga redescubrirse así mismo y a apoyar a sus amigos salvandolos de sus temores.
Una mañana como cualquier otra, la joven música Ashley Branstead sufre un impactante encuentro con un extraño. Este perturbador asalto, casi de un modo inadvertido, de paso a lo que se convierte en un curioso día con otro extraño, un príncipe azul, aparentemente auténtico, pero algo raro: Michael. A través de sus sutiles, y no tan sutiles, persuasiones, Ashley se encuentra pasando un día encantador aunque extrañamente raro con el espontáneo Michael, y rápidamente se siente cautivada por su generosidad y encanto. Pero no todo es lo que parece. Ashley empieza a sospechar que sus acciones pueden tener un motivo más alto. ¿Quién es el misterioso extraño? ¿Cuáles son sus auténticas intenciones y para quién trabaja? (FILMAFFINITY)
Meg Kennedy (Mira Sorvino) llega a Nueva York huyendo de su pasado y en busca de una nueva vida. Enseguida encuentra trabajo y amistades, pero no tardará en descubrir que se encuentra atrapada en un mundo de crímenes y traiciones e involucrada en los negocios sucios de sus jefes. Entonces tendrá que elegir entre la lealtad o jugarse la vida.
Palestine Blues', follows the repercussions of the Israeli Security Wall and Settlement expansion in the engulfed/annexed Palestinian farming communities of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Instead of focusing on the object of the Wall, "Palestine Blues" examines the grassroots resistance movement that has sprung up against it. 'Palestine Blues' is not a 'traditional' political reportage but rather an interminable road trip across hard and liquid borders, across a terrain that is being erased as it is being traversed.
Una joven de Mississippi sueña con ganar el concurso de belleza de su localidad. (FILMAFFINITY)
Through an Internet service, a Montreal professor arranges for himself a Mexican bride. But both husband and wife, even with their good intentions, are in for a bumpy ride toward marital harmony.
Documental que resume los diez años de Fugazi como banda, combinando tomas en Super 8, 16 mm o vídeo. Por «Instrument» se pasearán imágenes de directo (algunas excepcionales como las del concierto anti-apartheid, a favor de los sin techo, e incluso pequeños conciertos en penitenciarías o en una carpa de baloncesto –con un Picciotto cantando colgado de la cesta-), imágenes de decenas de seguidores de la banda, bromas varias, entrevistas desquiciadas para alumnos en prácticas, ensayos o un surtido de imágenes que reflejan lo anodino y absurdo de los tiempos muertos por los que se ve obligada a pasar cualquier banda de rock.
On Broadway tells the story of Jack O'Toole, a 30-something Boston everyman, who writes a play about his dead uncle as a way to reconnect with his hard-nosed dad. With no money and just his gut to guide him, Jack quits his job as a carpenter so that he can mount a production of his play on the only stage he can afford: in the back room of his neighborhood pub, on a little street called Broadway.
Meet Etta Milford. Loving Wife. Doting Mother. Armed Robber. Etta's husband constantly blows their money on make-shift inventions. When she decides to secretly take "investment" matters into her own hands - things quickly go awry! With their savings gone, her husband suspicious, and their children out of control, Etta concocts a scheme to get back their money and save her family.
Tells the story of the rise and fall of Michael Alig, a kid from Middle America who aspired to take the place of Andy Warhol. Michael quickly rose to become the biggest party promoter in New York and King of the so-called Club Kids. But after spiraling into drug addiction, Michael brutally murdered his roommate Angel Melendez.
La Hermana Rachel Taylor, de Boise, Idaho es una misionera joven de la Iglesia SUD con ganas de servir una misión larga de 18 meses en Austria. Rachel se encuentra a sí misma teniendo dificultades para adaptarse a su nuevo entorno cultural en el país extranjero debido a las diferencias de opinión, también es incapaz de llevarse bien con su compañera.
Mark Tobias had it all: a good job, a beautiful wife, and a particularly unhealthy addiction to pornography. His wife, Felice, finally got fed up with the competition and left him, causing Mark’s addiction to spiral out of control, until one day he was caught with his pants down—literally.
Comedia acerca de un hombre gay (Rockmond Dunbar, de Prision Break) quien regresa a casa a su familia del sur después de una larga ausencia.
Documental sobre los fundadores de la Warner Bros.
Ian Cranston, descendiente de Ichabod Crane regresa a Sleepy Hollow ignorando la historia de sus antepasados. El regreso de Ian despierta el espíritu vengativo del jinete decapitado, y las muertes empiezan de nuevo a sucederse en el lugar.
The action unfolds in a country about which we know nothing, a land of snow and forests, somewhere in the North. A family lives in an isolated house near a lake. Alexi, a young, pure-hearted man, is a woodcutter. Occasionally suffering from epileptic seizures and overcome by an ecstatic state, he is one with the nature around him. Alexi is very close to his younger sister, Hege. Their blind mother, father, and younger brother, silently observe this uncontrollable love. One day a stranger arrives, a young man slightly older than Alexi.
Catherine St.John-Burke is an independent, uptight, status obsessed, sophisticated, British woman, living alone in London's Chelsea, and doing herself no favors by having an affair with a married man. Her world is turned upside down when she comes home one day to discover an uneducated, Kiwi woman (with very hairy legs) drinking beer in her living room. Shirley Zachary claims to be Catherine's long lost half-sister and that their father, who Catherine thought died when she was a child, is still alive and trying to make claims on both of their properties following the death of their mothers! Furious and frustrated with Shirley's refusal to 'disappear', Shirley reluctantly agrees to undertake a DNA test.