Walpurgis Night (1935)
Género : Romance, Drama
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 22M
Director : Gustaf Edgren
Sinopsis
Lena Bergström works in an office and is unhappily in love with her boss, Johan Borg. She decides to quit. Borg's wife won't have any children, and when she becomes pregnant she has an illegal abortion. For some reason, Lena's father believes that it is Lena who has had an abortion.
"Jealous" man-killer Mayumi (Hitomi Kozue) is sent back into solitary confinement after being re-arrested for the murder of the doctor who fingered her for a botched surgery. After emerging from solitary confinement to find an all-new gang of bullies picking on a meek, young female prisoner, Mayumi is now a much harder soul who takes no attitude from anyone, and she turns savage when the poor girl is enslaved by Yakuza.
This is the story of three characters (brothers Tomek and Jacek and their neighbor Magda), each of them is in their own way lonely and alienated. The title character makes herself secluded. Tomek's alienation results from his neurological disease, and Jacek contacts the world mainly via the Internet. This is also a film about love. Love of one brother to the other and of one alienated human being to the other. All together it creates a very universal picture with a Polish entourage.
“180” esta basado en el libro escrito por Ray Comfort Hitler, Dios, y la Biblia, que contiene un mensaje poderoso que enlaza el holocausto de los judíos, el holocausto moderno del aborto, y el evangelio de Cristo. “180” son 33 minutos de adrenalina que sacudirán tu mundo.
In the fall of 2009, Lindsay Ellis, a 26-year old graduate student, went through the painful process of having an abortion. “The A-Word” follows Ellis as she opens up to her family and organizations from both sides of the debate, in search of healing. This is not a film about the protests and debates wrapped up in religious views and political agenda, but rather a personal journey about one woman’s struggle to shed the stigma attached to the A-word in hopes of starting a dialogue.
This film from George Melies is sadly one that's only available in fragments. The film starts off with a title card stating that a drunk man has just thrown his family out a window. We see a couple of them landing on the ground and then we go back to the room where the drunk is now trying to kill himself.
En 1938, en la Italia fascista, una familia judía y un médico homosexual sufren persecución por sus respectivas condiciones de raza e inclinación sexual.
'Running from Crazy' is a documentary examining the personal journey of model and actress Mariel Hemingway, the granddaughter of Ernest Hemingway, as she strives for a greater understanding of her family history of suicide and mental illness.
About 111 Girls is a satirical road movie about a pompous but empathetic government bureaucrat sent by the president himself to investigate the case of 111 young women threatening to jump off a cliff together in the tiny far-off corner of Iranian Kurdistan. Due to wars, bad economy and politics, there seem to be no perspective husbands around, and these young women are protesting the conditions that have left them spinsters. The bureaucrat, accompanied by an assistant and a little boy who seems to be both guide and interpreter leads the search to find the women.
An unbearable stench makes quite wide confusion among the residents of Belgrade. The microbiologist Pavle can not remember immediately where he smelled it, but recalls the event he witnessed as a child and the smell of a burning human. A visit to the crematorium gives him the assurance: The high number of suicides in the city has meant that the ovens are in continuous operation and will probably stay that way - because the stench is slowly making other people commit suicide, too.
A girl phases depression when her best friend commits suicide.
Historia de una ninfómana contada por ella misma. Una fría noche invernal, un viejo solterón encuentra en un callejón a una joven herida y casi inconsciente. Después de recogerla y cuidarla, siente curiosidad por saber cómo pudo haber llegado a semejante situación; escucha atentamente el relato que ella hace de su vida, una vida llena de conflictos y turbias relaciones.
Comedy about newlyweds wondering if their marriage was a mistake.
A nightmare of a woman depressed by the concrete world she lives in, and her journey from suicidal despair to personal renewal with the help of an unlikely spirit guide.
Una adolescente debe sobrevivir a una auténtica noche de Halloween infernal, cuando unas maliciosas criaturas llaman a su puerta.
Un oscuro cuento de hadas en el que una joven sufre una extraña maldición que provoca que su aroma la haga irresistible a los hombres.
A gynecologist attempts to rid the world of sexual problems by separating sex on the one hand and reproduction, which he feels should be left to artificial wombs.
A despondent-looking man sits behind a table that holds a drink and a gun. He hesitates, thinks things over, starts to take a drink, and then puts down the glass. Then he picks up the gun and raises it to his temple.
Silvia es una adolescente que ha tomado la decisión más importante de su corta existencia: quitarse la vida para donar sus órganos. Antes de hacerlo, deja claro su deseo en el vídeo diario en el que ha grabado sus confesiones más íntimas durante el último año. De esta manera, tres personas anónimas reciben los órganos de Silvia. Carlos, un hombre de mediana edad con un incierto futuro laboral y una familia a su cargo, es receptor del corazón. A Inés, una joven ciega de nacimiento, le transplantan sus córneas. Y Mateo, otro joven que vive en el límite de la ciudad, y también de la ley, recibe el hígado de Silvia. Para todos ellos, el fin de la vida de Silvia supone el nuevo comienzo de la suya. Y todos ellos, tomarán las pequeñas y grandes decisiones que marcarán su futuro. Pero, ¿Qué le llevó a Silvia a tomar esta decisión? ¿Por qué esa era la solución que tanto ansiaba, la explicación a su existencia, su liberación?
Two lovers perform a fandango dance. A jealous quarrel follows and the heart-broken swain decides to end it all. He throws himself from the window of his room, but instead of falling to his death, the anchor of a passing balloon intercepts his flight and he is taken high into the clouds. Laughing at his plight, the moon arouses the anger of the desperate lover and a battle between the two ensues.
Ram, a successful theatre artist, saves Mandar from committing suicide. He then ends up developing a special bond with Mandar and even helps solve his problems.