Let Joy Reign Supreme (1975)
Género : Bélica, Historia, Drama
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 54M
Director : Bertrand Tavernier
Escritor : Bertrand Tavernier, Jean Aurenche
Sinopsis
A look at 18th-century France, when the authorities depravity contributed to social oppression, and the uprisings flared up one after another.
Prison inmate Miles Barrett is ripped awake in the middle of the night by a terrifying crash, gunfire, and the sickening screams of a man being torn apart. Something is loose in the prison - and it's coming for Miles...
The Internationally award winning documentary film from Norway follows a 33 year old woman's life prior to serving a 7 year prison sentence for killing her own 66 year old father. He sexually abused her from she was 6 - 17 years old. He also abused her sister who became a drug addict and died of an overdose at the age of 38. The film brings us back to her childhood and describes how sexual abuse can go on for years without anyone is reacting to it. "My beloved child" deals with issues like physical, emotional and sexual abuse, domestic problems, suicide, drug issues, societies responsibility, individual responsibility, post effects/late consequences of childhood traumas. The films is primarily made - and edited - for children and youths, in order for them to understand and put words to abuse.
A prison chain gang digs two fresh graves for men destined to be executed that night. As time slips away for the murderers' salvation, the grave diggers' mixed reactions to the grim task split them apart and unravel the progress. The supervising boss is obliged to act and, himself, lead the group through the awful task and morally justify the indifferent nature of the world.
A young journalist is arrested for freethinking ideas. Goes into the cell with the famous safe-breaker and religious Szpicbródką Sixtus, a murderer husband of his mistress.
Calvary se centra en la vida del padre James Lavelle, un hombre dispuesto a que el mundo sea un lugar mejor. El sacerdote está sorprendido por la cantidad de confrontaciones que hay en su pequeño pueblo, le entristece que sus habitantes sean tan rencorosos. Cuando está tomando confesión recibe una amenaza, y el religioso empieza a ser atormentado por los miembros de su parroquia.
Un cuento moderno sobre la obsesión por la popularidad. Stafford Weiss es terapeuta y escribe libros de autoayuda. Tiene una mujer sobreprotectora, un hijo antigua estrella de la TV en rehabilitación y una hija que acaba de salir del psiquiátrico. La principal cliente de Stafford es una famosa actriz, a punto de interpretar el papel que hizo su madre en los años 60.
In the 19th century, siblings Abilene and Tod, orphaned on their western farm, become attracted to each other sexually. The confused Tod flees to a nearby town where he meets Linda, a local bar girl, and begins a sexual relationship with her, while a rough cowboy named Rawhide sexually assaults Abilene leaving Tod wanting revenge despite Linda's wariness and growing compassion for Abilene.
Una pareja se mudará a la casa más embrujada de Nueva Orleans y se verá obligada a llamar a los servicios del equipo de élite de exorcismos del Vaticano para salvarlos de un bebé demoníaco.
Los Parker son una familia aparentemente estable. El patriarca, decidido a mantener intactas las tradiciones familiares, gobierna con mano de hierro. Como si de la tempestad de lluvia torrencial que acecha la zona se tratase, la tragedia golpea a los Parker cuando las hijas, Iris y Rose, se ven obligados a asumir responsabilidades que van más allá de las de una familia típica. Su tarea más importante, a partir de ahora, será la de poner la carne en la mesa, pero no el tipo de carne que puede encontrarse en el supermercado local. Las autoridades locales empiezan a descubrir pistas que les acercan al secreto que los Parker han mantenido oculto durante años.
Una mujer alegre y desenvuelta se casa con un rígido lord inglés, viéndose luego envuelta en un escándalo con otro hombre.
In a punk-rock homage to "Reefer Madness," two plot threads intertwine: a hapless junkie falls victim to "Bath Salts" addiction, while a police detective attempts to uncover and stamp out a new strain of designer drug products.
Set during the post-Marcos regime in a remote village of Dolores, chronicles the life of Jimmy Cordero, a political prisoner who have just been freed from prison after the decline of the Marcos dictatorship. From his revolutionary past, he got himself into human rights activism following his prison release. He and his wife’s brother once conducted a fact-finding mission to Dolores only to find out the terror brought about to its residents by the Orapronobis, a government backed anti-communist paramilitary troop deployed in the town of Dolores.
The film begins with some Polaroids of a young boy and a young girl. A female voice over tells us who these people are...they are brother and sister, she is seven and he is eight. She goes on to say that when she was seven and he was eight, she told her brother that she would marry him.
El doctor Jim Stanton (John Beal) es un prestigioso cirujano traumatizado por las muertes de un accidente de avión que él pilotaba. Expulsado de su hospital por el escándalo, Jim se marcha a California con la esperanza de empezar una nueva vida bajo una nueva identidad. Conoce entonces a Doris (Joan Fontaine), una enfermera que se las ingenia para que Jim maneje durante una urgencia el avión-ambulancia en el que ella trabaja, logrando así demostrarse a si mismo su valía.
In a post-nuclear world, a happy family of ranchers is beseiged by a roving band of ne'er do well marauders who want to eat the men and mate with the women. Having already killed and eaten an entire mission full of nuns, the family has no choice but to grab their rifles and defend their homestead. Meanwhile, the lonely, nubile daughter begins to have feelings for the buff blond stranger with no family who has wandered onto the property. It's romance, intrigue, action, and violence on the dark continent!
Una historia sobre la mafia, la redención, el honor, el respeto, traiciones y redenciones.Davide, ex miembro de un clan mafioso de Palermo, en sus cincuenta y ciego, tras años de culpa y angustia, dividido entre el deseo de llevar una vida normal y la realidad que vivió en el pasado, decide regresar a la capital de Sicilia para poner punto final a su relación con la mafia. Durante el viaje en tren, se encuentra con el padre Leonard, un párroco afroamericano, un ex gánster de San Francisco, que tiene un pasado común con el protagonista, ya que antes de ser sacerdote cometió un asesinato y ahora intenta encontrar la serenidad. Historia de recuerdos, mafia, asesinatos, traiciones y expiaciones.
When a washed-up boxer invites a British priest to minister in his South Chicago neighborhood, he never suspects that the priest is not who he says he is.
The blood flows freely in this sequel to the first Untold Story, which now finds Anthony Wong Chau-Sang in a different role; in a film that is just as violent and frightening as the original. An unhappily married couple invite the wife's beautiful cousin, who has survived a horrifying experience in Mainland China, to live with them. She has her own special way of overcoming hardship and becomes the master of the barbecue
En una parroquia céntrica, durante la celebración de una Misa un grupo de fieles mueren envenenados tras comulgar. Mientras la policía se encarga de la investigación, los sacerdotes comienzan a sufrir extrañas visiones. La situación da un giro inesperado cuando los cadáveres de los comulgantes vuelven a la vida durante las autopsias. Todo parece relacionado con los vaticinios de un misterioso libro.
When Matt Denant (Gerald de Maurier) finds himself wrongly imprisoned for manslaughter, he takes an opportunity to escape from jail during a foggy day and is forced to rely on the goodwill of local people to remain a fugitive of the law.
