Felicidad sin recetas (2009)
Life Has No Recipe
Género : Comedia, Romance
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 39M
Director : David Kaplan
Escritor : Aasif Mandvi, Jonathan Bines
Sinopsis
En esta comedia el joven chef de Manhattan , Samir , redescubre su pasión por la vida a través del arte de cocinar la comida india.
A Muslim American teenager struggles to reconcile desire with family obligations.
¡Akeem y Senmi han vuelto! Desde el exuberante reino de Zamunda, el recién coronado rey Akeem (Eddie Murphy) y su leal confidente Semmi (Arsenio Hall) emprenden una nueva y divertidísima aventura que les hará atravesar el mundo, desde su gran país en África hasta el barrio de Queens, en Nueva York, donde todo empezó.
A frizzy-haired hypochondriac who’s convinced she’s dying, 15-year-old Jordyn lives in a small co-op apartment in the predominantly Jewish middle-class suburb of Bayside, Queens in 1976.
Woman on Fire follows Brooke Guinan, the first openly transgender firefighter in New York City. A character-driven documentary, the film follows Brooke as she sets out to challenge perceptions of what it means to be transgender in America today.
Después de un malentendido con una pandilla local, el joven Ulises debe cruzar la frontera para salvar la vida. Deja atrás a su banda y la cumbia, la música que adora.
"The Party Is Over" tells the story of three unusual guys who are roommates at a Southern California university and whose privileged lifestyle and the freedom that goes with it lead to bizarre and obsessive, even twisted, relationships with three equally complicated women.
Legendary documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman (At Berkeley, National Gallery) explores the culture, politics and daily life of the Queens, NYC district of Jackson Heights, which lays claim to being the most diverse neighbourhood in the world.
After 20 years on the road with Blue Oyster Cult, Jimmy Testagros returns to his hometown to life with his ailing mother. Complications arise when he falls for an old friend, who is now married to his longtime nemesis.
Lo que al principio debía ser una rutinaria elección para ocupar un puesto vacante como director general de una importante firma neoyorquina, se convierte en un auténtico reto para tres candidatos: Jerry Talbot, Billa Baxter y Sydney Burns.
It's Martha's first night as a waitress in an upscale New York restaurant. Veteran Chloe shows her the ropes and introduces her to the lives of the restaurant staff. Adam, a hopeful playwright, suffers for his art while dealing with a very indecisive (ex-?)girlfriend. Marlon is a cocky young actor, certain that his big break is just around the corner. When the restaurant's obnoxious owner, Simon, brings a special client in for dinner, pressures mount until an explosion seems inevitable.
Magazine owners sell a revealing photo, then play detective when the deal leads to murder.
Tres hombres que comparten piso se ocupan de cuidar de la hija de uno de ellos. El cariño que sienten por la niña es tan fuerte que cuando la madre decide llevársela consigo a Londres, donde piensa casarse con su novio, los tres tratan de evitar la boda por todos los medios imaginables.
Alejandro, a tough and ambitious Latino street orphan on the verge of adolescence, lives and works in an auto-body repair shop in a sprawling junkyard on the outskirts of Queens, New York. In this chaotic world of adults, young Alejandro struggles to make a better life for himself and his 16-year-old sister, Isamar.
Crónica de las vidas de un pelotón de soldados estadounidenses que combaten en el valle más peligroso de Afganistán, llamado Korengal. El documental se centra en un remoto puesto formado por 15 hombres llamado Restrepo, un lugar conocido por su extrema peligrosidad donde se produce una quinta parte de los combates que ocurren en todo el país. Sebastian Junger, periodista, y Tim Hetherington, un reputado fotógrafo ganador de varios premios World Press Photo, pasaron varios meses empotrados con los marines estadounidenses en el valle, consiguiendo unas imágenes impactantes de la dura realidad del conflicto.
Targeted for several failed redevelopment plans dating back to the days of Robert Moses, Willets Point, a gritty area in New York City known as the “Iron Triangle,” is the home of hundreds of immigrant-run, auto repair shops that thrive despite a lack of municipal infrastructure support. During the last year of the Bloomberg Administration, NYC’s government advanced plans for a “dynamic” high-end entertainment district that would completely wipe out this historic industrial core. The year is 2013, and the workers of Willets Point are racing against the clock to forestall their impending eviction. Their story launches an investigation into New York City’s history as the front line of deindustrialization, urban renewal, and gentrification.
As beautiful and sleek as it is deadly, 52 Blocks merits special conservation efforts as the United States' only existing native martial culture, as it is indeed, the jazz of the martial arts world. Across the African diaspora, there are manifestations of African-derived warrior-dances, capoeira in brazil, mani in Cuba, ladja in Martinique, pinge in Haiti- yet the US offshoot has remained esoteric, because it was suppressed throughout slavery, Reconstruction and Jim Crow and then obscured in the criminal justice system. The history, interviews and training of the martial arts style that created Breakdance and boxing greats like Mike Tyson.
A man arrives at an unknown home with an unknown agenda.
Set in New York City in the 1990s, community activists seek to rid their neighborhood of the anguish, brutality, and violence associated with local drug dealers.
A drug dealer accepts an unusual help for his troubles.
Después del matrimonio, una mujer lucha por ser la esposa sumisa que su esposo y su familia esperan que sea.