Les 100 vies de Francis Blanche (2022)
Género : Documental, Comedia
Tiempo de ejecución : 53M
Director : Jacques Pessis
Sinopsis
Comedian, actor, author, director and emblematic figure of the French stage and cinema of the 50s and 60s, Francis Blanche liked to change register, moving from radio to writing to television and cinema, living more than "hundred lives".
The Official Film of Brazil's greatest Formula One driver, Ayrton Senna, who's sudden death in the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix sent shock waves around the World. It cemented his reputation both within the sport, and his native Brazil, as a legend. The film looks at his life and career using archive footage and featuring revealing interviews with the man, as well as those who knew him well; friends, family and competitors. It also shows how the Ayrton Senna Foundation, set up in his honor, is working to help under privileged and street-bound children in his native Brazil using sport as an incentive to learn. Written by Oliver Warman.
A drama that chronicles the life of Winnie Mandela from her childhood through her marriage and her husband's incarceration.
Satchmo. Theer are few people in this country - or around the world - who will not recognize that name. Louis Armstrong embodied twentieth-century American culture. He revolutionized the world of music and became one of the nation's most influential entertainers. No other performer of his era has such a profound effect as a singer as well as an instrumentalist.
Following the death of his brother John, Robert Kennedy is forced to rise to the challenge of leading his country and carrying on his brother's vision of what America could be.
The story of the country and western singer Hank Williams.
El ingeniero sueco del siglo XIX S. A. Andrée se propone convertirse en el primer hombre del polo norte. Su idea es lanzar una expedición polar utilizando un globo de hidrógeno, junto con dos amigos. El globo, "El Águila", despega de Svalbard en 1897, pero no se vuelve a saber nada de los tres hombres.
This is the story of Janine Shepard, a world class skier faced with tragedy, being hit by a car and being told she will never walk again.
Película basada en la vida del actor Humphrey Bogart.
Recorre toda la carrera de Woddy Allen, film por film, a través de clips y numerosas entrevistas a actores, escritores, fotógrafos, directores, productores y a él mismo, acompañándolo en su rutina diaria, en su estudio, por las calles de Brooklyn, en su antigua casa y en el colegio de su infancia.
A biopic of French pop star Claude Francois, most famous for co-writing the song 'My Way'. Tracing his life from his childhood in Egypt through his success in France to his untimely death in Paris in 1978.
Gustav Mahler (Robert Powell) fue un eminente compositor y director de orquesta. De origen judío, desde muy niño soportó el antisemitismo. Tuvo una salud precaria y una neurosis obsesiva por la muerte. Ya mayor se casó con una mujer joven, culta y muy bella, teniendo un matrimonio apasionado y lleno de conflictos.
Juli es una adolescente criada en la Unión Soviética y repatriada a Hungría en los años previos a los sucesos de 1956. Allí deberá convivir con su tía Magda, una estalinista convencida, con la que mantendrá una relación progresivamente hostil.
A music documentary about jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker, with Chan Parker, Bill Miles, Dizzy Gillespie, Walter Bishop Jr, Sheila Jordan, George Wein, Bruce Ricker, Earl Coleman, Doris Parker, Roy Haynes, Tommy Potter, Lester Bowie, Jimmy Slyde, Santi Debriano, Henry Threadfill Sextet, Olu Dara, Charles Austin Trio, Paul McIsaac, Jacqui Casto, Steve Ben, Israel, Leroy Williams, Billie Holiday, Ben Webster, Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins.
Biopic sobre el presidente democráta de los Estados Unidos Woodrow Wilson. Dejó su puesto en la Universidad de Princeton para presentarse a gobernador de New Jersey, y de ahí fue ascendiendo hasta llegar a presidente (1913-1921). Durante su mandato tuvo que enfrentarse a la muerte de su esposa, además de a las hostilidades alemanas que finalmente llevaron a los Estados Unidos a entrar en la Primera Guerra Mundial. Además fue fundador de la liga de las naciones en 1919, lo que le valió el Premio Nobel de la Paz.
1943. Captain Ian Nalepke, Chief of Staff of the Slovak regiment, bearing protection of military facilities in the small town of Belarus contacts the partisansand passes to them the obtained information about upcoming operations of the German forces.
Organized crime boss Meyer Lansky remembers his life as he is moving about the world looking for some country that will take him in since the USA have put out an extradition order for him.
Un pastor y su mujer que no puede tener hijos, adoptan a dos hermanos, un niño y una niña. Aunque al principio todo parece normal, poco a poco empiezan a observar algo extraño en el comportamiento de los niños...
One year before the Olympics, Jill Kinmont, an 18-year-old skiing champion, suffers a fall during competition and is left paralyzed. With her life now completely altered, she undergoes an exhausting fight to regain some of what she has lost.
Bremen, 1891. Udo Jürgens' grandfather Heinrich strolls thoughtfully about the Christmas market. For days, the young man has suffered a momentous decision: should he emigrate to America or seek his fortune in Moscow? The touching performance of a street musician playing a Russian song on his bassoon gives him an unexpected decision-making aid. Henry sets off for Russia - and thus begins a fateful story that spans three generations and two world wars.
In an age when genius is a mere commodity, it is useful to look at a person who led a rich life without the traditional trappings of success. A man with no home and no job, Paul Erdös was the most prolific mathematician who ever lived. Born in Hungary in 1913, Erdös wrote and co-authored over 1,500 papers and pioneered several fields in theoretical mathematics. At the age of 83 he still spent most of his time on the road, going from math meeting to math meeting, continually working on problems. He died on September 20, 1996 while attending such a meeting in Warsaw, Poland.
