El lado oscuro del bisturí (2018)
What You Don't Know Can Hurt You
Género : Documental
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 39M
Director : Kirby Dick
Escritor : Kirby Dick
Sinopsis
Cada año en los Estados Unidos, llegan al mercado innovaciones incomparables en diagnóstico, tratamiento y tecnología médica. Pero cuando los mismos dispositivos diseñados para salvar a los pacientes terminan perjudicándolos, ¿quién es responsable?.
Inside the dramatic search for a cure to ME/CFS (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome). 17 million people around the world suffer from what ME/CFS has been known as a mystery illness, delegated to the psychological realm, until now. A scientist in the only neuro immune institute in the world may have come up with the answer. An important human drama, plays out on the quest for the truth.
En este desgarrador documental, una joven que prepara su tesis doctoral recurre a la cámara para dar visibilidad a su lucha diaria contra el síndrome de fatiga crónica.
Coming in all shapes and sizes, bacteria are present in every corner of the Earth. Their purposes and types are even more diverse, with only 1% being truly harmful. Dive into the world of Bacteria to experience the latest discoveries and scientific knowledge surrounding these plentiful and necessary microbes.
Drawing on the book of the same name, League of Denial crafts a searing two-hour indictment of the National Football League’s decades-long concealment of the link between football related head injuries and brain disorders.
In 1951, a woman died in Baltimore, U.S.A. She was called Henrietta Lacks. These are cells from her body. They were taken from her just before she died. They have been growing and multiplying ever since. There are now billions of these cells in laboratories around the world. If massed together, they would weigh 400 times her original weight. These cells have transformed modern medicine, but they also became caught up in the politics of our age.
¡David cumple 50 años y tiene una crisis de mediana edad! No está seguro de que su "esposo perfecto" lo ame, y si ha elegido la carrera correcta. El envejecimiento es algo en lo que nunca pensó, pero ahora se enfrenta a hacer que el resto de su vida cuente y espera que sus amigos cercanos puedan ayudarlo. Al darse cuenta de que solo le quedan unos 35 años, debe resolver su vida para garantizar la felicidad y la satisfacción. El destino cambia todo cuando conoce a un hombre más joven de 15 años que le muestra que la edad no importa, y que tal vez su felicidad futura esté justo frente a él. Basado en la historia real del cineasta Jeff London y cómo después de estar soltero durante 48 años, su vida cambió cuando conoció al amor de su vida y encontró su verdadero propósito.
A blue-collar family man breaks the promise he'd made to never fight again. Now forty years old, with a wife and four children who need him, Joe Carman risks everything to go back into the fighting cage and come to terms with his past.
Maura Mackenzie believes the world is hers to conquer. With her career as a concert pianist gaining momentum, it seems her beauty and talent will be strong enough to mask the demons that threaten to engulf her. But with an absent husband and two young daughters at home, her precarious sanity begins to unravel until one summer day, burning with manic energy, she makes a terrible mistake — a mistake that will change her life forever. The consequences for Maura are catastrophic: her ambitious husband runs for his life, taking the children with him, leaving Maura to lapse into a full-scale breakdown. Life as she knew it is now over. With the help of her father, Ian, Maura works to reclaim her life and waits for a miracle to bring her daughters home. But when the fates align, can the past be forgiven?
Three extraordinary young people battle to change their lives through the three-month odyssey of the New York Daily News Golden Gloves - the biggest, oldest, most important amateur boxing tournament in the world.
Four young lives were changed forever when they become involved in the 1967 Hong Kong Leftist Riot; half a century later, another four face similar challenges amidst the Mainland-Hong Kong conflict.
Después de 10 años de estrellato con la famosa compañía de danza israelí Batsheva, la bailarina estadounidense Bobbi Jene Smith toma la decisión de su vida regresando a los Estados Unidos. Pero alejarse de las relaciones personales más profundas resulta más difícil de lo que nunca había esperado, ya que se ve obligada a dejar atrás a su mentora, a los coreógrafos y al amor de su vida, para abrazar ese futuro incierto que le supone su regreso a casa.
Su madre lo ha enviado a Nigeria contra su voluntad. Pero este joven estadounidense puede haber encontrado su billete de vuelta: el negocio de estafas de su primo.
Two old friends reunite, which causes complications.
Después de que Jennifer Laude, una mujer transexual filipina, fuera asesinada brutalmente a manos de un marine estadounidense, tres mujeres cercanas a ella se involucran en el caso para que se haga justicia.
After a string of incompatible dorm mates, Finn – an unapologetic, collegiate underachiever and extreme party boy – hopes that a new year is going to bring some better luck. But 15-year-old, nerdy, brainiac Toby isn't exactly who he had in mind. After an extremely rough start, the two overcome their differences and team up to exact revenge on campus jock, Landon, and his posse of goons, who think they rule the school.
Documentary following Roger Miret and Vinnie Stigma of the band, Agnostic Front who played a key role in defining, shaping and establishing the sound and cultural code of conduct for the still-thriving movement. Unlike the dozens of bands that have come and gone, Agnostic Front is still going strong.
A tough kid comes to a new high school and begins muscling his way into the drug scene. This is a typical morality play of the era, filled with a naive view of drugs, nihilistic beat poetry, and some incredible '50s slang.
A woman turns her sister's belated birthday celebration into an intervention, but as events unfold, it becomes unclear which sibling needs the most help.
Love Is A Verb is an examination of a social movement of Sufi-inspired Sunni Muslims that began in Turkey in the l960s and now spans across the globe. The group is called Hizmet, the Turkish word for "service" or The Gülen Movement after its inspiration and teacher, Fethullah Gülen, a man TIME magazine named as one of the most influential leaders in the world in 2013 for "...preaching a message of tolerance."
A jazz musician falls in love with a comatose woman at a carny sideshow and takes her to his mansion to join his cabinet of sexual curiosities.
A cynical counselor at a crisis hotline finds himself in a life or death situation when a young man calls and threatens to kill three people and then himself.
A loafer inherits an apartment block and lets out the place to a group of tenants, including a lusty gymnastics teacher, a geeky college student, a single father with his young daughter, a gay couple, a writer and a sexy female office worker. An incredible story is about to unfold as they start their lives in the same building.
Bailey and Drew are a 40 something couple much like other couples: They have two kids, two jobs, one dad with Alzheimers and one boob with cancer. Toss in planning an 8 year old’s birthday party and the only thing you CAN do is laugh.
A couple try to leave the Communist party after a murder by the group they were once loyal to.
Neat is a documentary that dives into the rich and storied world of bourbon. Exploring it's colorful history, charismatic characters, and uniquely American process, the film is a celebration of the time, artistry, and relationships that make for America's only native spirit.