California Solo (2012)
Género : Drama
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 33M
Director : Marshall Lewy
Sinopsis
Lachlan MacAldonich es escocés, aunque vive desde hace décadas en California. Antigua estrella de rock, se gana la vida trabajando en una granja y vendiendo los productos de su jefe en un mercado de Los Ángeles. Una noche acaba en prisión por conducir bajo los efectos del alcohol. Además de la multa y de quedarse sin carnet, Lachlan se enfrenta a un problema mucho más serio cuando le remiten a un abogado de inmigración: por culpa de la denuncia y de otro escarceo con la ley años atrás se puede enfrentar a una deportación inminente. Ha llegado el momento de que Lachlan, solitario y depresivo, reconecte con la familia a la que abandonó, deje de hacer podcasts sobre estrellas de la música muertas en extrañas circunstancias, y se reconcilie con su pasado. (FILMAFFINITY)
The wife of an alcoholic and mother of four (Toula Stathopoulou) is a factory worker in Corfu at the beginning of the 20th century. A fallen noble man who has fallen on hard times (Stratis Tsopanellis) wants to marry her eldest daughter (Anny Loulou) and take advantage of the family's meager earnings. He kidnaps the not-unwilling girl, and argues with her mother about the dowry. But the girl refuses to marry him when she wakes up to the fact that he is only looking out for his own interests. She then decides to start working in order to earn money to raise the child she is expecting. The film is an adaptation of the novel 'For Honor and Money' by Konstantinos Theotokis.
La historia de tres generaciones de mujeres mexicanas en una ciudad fronteriza. Sus alegrías y desilusiones entremezcladas con los inevitables cambios.
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Alex, a 28 year-old photographer, is no longer able to photograph people, for some mysterious reason. Every time he focuses his camera on someone, the same woman appears in his viewfinder - an image he cannot bear. When his brother Aram, whom he has not seen or spoke to for years, unexpectedly phones him and asks him to come to their parental home because their mother is severely ill and may not have long to live, he panics. The thought of a confrontation with the area where he grew up and the renewed encounter with his family makes him feel nervous. Nevertheless, that evening he leaves for AmnesiA: the estate of his parents, the spot where he spent his youth.
Well-known novelist and literary monument, 55-year-old Jan Meerman's successful life is thrown upside down when his 85-year-old mother, Josée Verbeke, unexpectedly has a severe stroke. Jan no longer recognizes his once lively mother as her verbal witticisms have been replaced by pitiful cries and gibberish. In these difficult times Jan faces the upcoming deadline of his new novel. The confrontation he has to engage with the decline of his mother makes him question his priorities.
Narra la historia del primer cadete afroamericano de la prestigiosa academia militar de West Point, que fue víctima de la cruel violencia racista de sus compañeros.
Reidar is a resident at Solihøgda psychiatric institution. He is expecting the Earth to be hit by a huge meteor any time now, but until then he is busy trying to keep his fellow patient, Juni, from killing herself.
When the village’s first supermarket opens its doors in 1975, Freddy’s isolated life is turned upside down. To celebrate its opening, the supermarket organises a bicycle race of which the winner will get to meet Eddy Merckx. Freddy’s father, a fervent opponent of the supermarket, wants nothing to do with the race. Freddy enters secretly.
Times are hard for little Sofia, as the Greek recession is taking its toll. With her Father out of work, they rely solely on Greedy Grumpy Granny's pension. Desperate times call for desperate measures; to what extremes will they go, when Granny is no more?
Un hombre y una mujer se encuentran en 1960. Se casan porque eso es lo que se supone que deben hacer. Pero algo sale mal durante su noche de boda. Ellos no tienen ni idea que hacer el uno con el otro, ni sexualmente, ni emocionalmente. El marido se encuentra con un hombre que le ayuda a descubrir su sexualidad. Los dos hombres mantiene su amor en secreto. Pero hay un problema: su mujer.
New York 1952. Mickey Jelke inherits a big sum of money and spends his nights in Manhattan, painting the city red. Night after night, he can be found in one Broadway bar or the other, in the company of disreputable persons like pimps and prostitutes. One day,a shady cop, aided by Mickey's own girlfriend, Patricia, decides to accuse him of running a prostitution network. A scandal breaks out.
In a world upended by a complete breakdown of society, two couples hide out in a lakeside cabin hoping to survive the crisis.
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The story of the post World War II Jewish refugee situation from liberation to the establishment of the modern state of Israel.
Recently paroled after serving a long stretch for his wife's murder, Joey One-Way aligns himself with a producer who has optioned the play he wrote in prison. As he sets about adapting his work for the big screen, Joey falls for his new pal's ex-con wife, and enters into a doomed affair.
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Eight-year-old Zoran is the hero of this story set in Skopje during the German occupation of the city in World War II. Through his eyes, we experience all the cruelty, poverty and suffering of wartime. A love affair between his Macedonian mother and a German officer will help his family get through the hard times…
