Profumo di Zagara (2023)

Palermo, Sicilia, 1984. El juez de instrucción Giovanni Falcone se alía con Tomasso Buscetta, un mafioso arrepentido, con el propósito de derrotar al clan de Corleone, la despiadada facción mafiosa que gobierna la Cosa Nostra con mano de hierro, eliminando cruelmente a todos aquellos que se atreven a oponerse a su inmenso poder: otros criminales, policías, jueces, incluso civiles inocentes. Uno de ellos quiere venganza, el otro quiere justicia. Pero solo uno de los dos puede sobrevivir a una lucha tan desigual.

En 1923, los pacíficos habitantes de raza negra de la localidad norteamericana de Rosewood (Florida), cayeron víctimas de un sangriento linchamiento popular. Todo empieza cuando una mujer blanca de la vecina Summer proclamó injustamente que había sido atacada por un hombre negro al que no había podido identificar.

Yamada cierra su trilogía sobre samurais con esta historia acerca de un fuerte servidor del Shogun que pierde la vista en una misión. Su mujer, por la que siente devoción, se sacrifica para salvar su honor. Ahora el samurái promete venganza por su amor perdido y por su honor como guerrero.

Todo un clásico de la televisión canadiense -a su vez basada en una joya de la literatura infantil del país norteamericano-. Ambientada en la isla de Prince Edward a finales del siglo XIX, narra la historia de Anne, una niña huérfana de once años que viaja desde el orfanato donde reside hasta la granja de "Tejas Verdes". Allí una pareja de hermanos, ambos mayores, la esperan para adoptarla. Al llegar, la niña descubre que todo ha sido un error porque los Cuthbert esperaban en realidad adoptar un muchacho que pudiera ayudarles a llevar la granja. (FILMAFFINITY)

En el transcurso de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, cinco soldados americanos al mando de un veterano sargento protagonizan dramáticas batallas, en las que sobrevivir es lo más importante, y terribles experiencias que les marcarán profundamente.

Un barón siciliano, después de doce años casado con Rosalia, se ha enamorado locamente de Angela, su sobrina, una linda joven de dieciséis años. Cuando descubre que Angela le corresponde, empieza a pensar en el método más seguro para deshacerse de su mujer. Decide entonces inducirla a la infidelidad y después matarla. En aquella época, las leyes italianas castigaban los llamados "delitos de honor" con penas mínimas. Como Rosalia es una mujer decente, el plan no funciona, hasta que regresa al pueblo Carmelino, un antiguo admirador suyo.

Basada en un cuento popular japonés anónimo del siglo IX, 'El cortador de bambú', la historia comienza cuando una pareja de ancianos campesinos encuentran a una niña diminuta dentro de una planta de bambú y deciden adoptarla como si fuera su hija. Convertida rápidamente en una hermosa mujer, es pretendida por muchos hombres, incluido el emperador, pero ella los rechaza a todos porque asegura venir de la Luna y debe volver allí...

[Period covered: 1616] On May 8th, 1615 the summer campaign of Osaka has reached the climax. This film takes place immediately following 'Ninja 4: Mist Saizo, Last of The Ninja'. Staying one step ahead of the Shogun’s forces, “Mist” Saizo tries to save the Sanada Clan, and avenge the death of his lord by assassinating the first Tokugawa Shogun. Following the first four films in this remarkable series, more previously unknown Ninja skills are shown to the world for the first time. The action heats up as Saizo single-handedly attacks the Shogun’s Palace!

Meier, a paperhanger in East Berlin, inherits from his father in West Berlin. With this money he wants to fulfil himself the dream of his life: a journey around the world. He buys a forged West German passport and pretends to go on a trip to Bulgaria while he really is off to see the free world. When he wants to return to East Berlin he finds himself in an unbelievable predicament and his double life begins. He can't keep away from his East German friends. As with all the best comedies, the action builds up to an eventual crisis. It's a light comedy, which won several national Film Academy Awards. The film is very political, with lots of political jokes/innuendos which only Germans will understand. One is left feeling what a total obscenity that stupid Wall was, dividing one people for 30 years (1-2 Generations) simply by the coincidence on where you just happen to be in the early morning on the 13th August 1961.

Esta clásica historia gira en torno a Su-dong y Ok-ran que están juntos por la promesa de matrimonio hecha por sus padres. Sin embargo, esta promesa se ​​rompe por Mu-ryong el hijo del jefe de la aldea que se siente atraído por Ok-ran y trata de hacerla suya. Cuando ella se resiste, Mu-ryong da un paso más con la intención de abusar de ella, pero es descubierto por Su-dong, que llega justo a tiempo para liberar a Ok-ran. Mu-ryong en su ira les dice a sus hombres que castiguen a Su-dong con severidad. Después de que Mu-ryong hace otro intento abominable de tener en sus manos a Ok-ran, ella y Su-dong no ven otra alternativa más que fugarse ...

It's 1875 and a young street urchin wants to see Queen Victoria...

The film dramatizes November 11, 1919- a crucial date in the battle for Latvian independence. A year after the end of the official hostilities of WWI, a renegade German general and troops remain outside the Latvian capital. Latvian riflemen, most of them inexperienced volunteers, somehow managed to defeat a larger, better-armed force of German and Russian mercenaries.

Angela, an Italian-American woman, after many years returned to Sicily to attend the funeral of her father. During the ferry trip she meets Salvo, a teenager boy who claims to be hunted by the Mafia, because of a quantity of drugs he stole to some criminals. She decides to give him a ride and the two embark on a journey through Sicily. His amorous attentions are soon obvious, and leads to a fairly obvious ending.

In 1907, a group of men climb an unconquered peak in the last unmapped region of Japan.

When eight-year-old Tistou is sent home from school after being unable to stop falling asleep at lessons, his father decides that he will continue his education by learning from observation of real life, and where better to start than in the garden! With the gardener Mr. Moustache, Tistou discovers he has a remarkable gift—the green thumbs: everything he touches grows into beautiful plants. His next lesson is with the stern Mr. Turnbull, manager of his father's armament factory who takes Tistou to visit the town to learn about "order." Over the course of the next few days Tistou learns many new things as he visits the town prison, the slums, and the hospital, and everywhere he tries to change the world into a better place with his new extraordinary power. Finally, he learns about war, and upon visiting his father's factory, he finds out that they supply the two countries at war with their weapons...

Upon his father's death, Florante, a classically trained guitarist returns to the Philippines after 12 years of absence. During his stay he rediscovers the music of harana - a long-forgotten tradition of Filipino serenading when men sang under the window at night to fearlessly declare their love for a woman. Intent on unearthing these unheralded songs, Florante travels to the remote provinces where he discovers three of the last surviving practitioners - a farmer, a fisherman and a tricycle driver. Astounded by their golden voices, Florante asks them to travel with him to perform and record these unknown songs. During their travels, the haranistas meet Brian, a shy young man who for years has been secretly in love with a schoolmate. The haranistas, who have not serenaded in the last thirty years, offered their services to serenade Brian's object of affection, resulting in one of the most tender moments of genuine harana captured on film.

In the late-80s and early-90s, two prosecutors went after the mob in Sicily. Archival footage, gruesome photographs and new interviews are shown.

Colosseum: Rome's Arena of Death, también conocido como Colosseum: A Gladiator's Story es un docudrama de BBC Television y France 2 de 2003 que cuenta la historia real de Verus, un gladiador que luchó en el Coliseo de Roma.

A rich, jet-setting playboy has a secret life: he's also a professional Mafia hitman. When he decides it's time to retire from that life, he finds that his former employers don't like the idea that someone who knows so much about them won't be under their control anymore, and decide to send their own hitmen to eliminate him.

A cornucopia of early - and, in many cases, extremely rare - baseball films, offering privileged peeks into early twentieth century American lifestyles and values. It includes newly remastered and scored versions of two important early baseball features: The Busher (1919), a delightful comedy-drama featuring silent cinema legends Charles Ray, Colleen Moore, and John Gilbert; and Headin' Home (1920), spotlighting a young, shockingly svelte Babe Ruth in his first motion picture starring role.