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El emperador de China emite un decreto para reclutar a un varón por cada familia que deberá servir en el ejército imperial para defender al país de los invasores del norte. Hua Mulán, se presenta para evitar que su anciano padre sea llamado a filas. Se hace pasar por un hombre. Mulan deberá apelar a su fuerza interior y sacar a la luz todo su potencial.
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A mother struggles to accept the man her adult son has become.
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Jan y Antonina Zabinski, el director del zoo de Varsovia y su esposa, ayudaron a salvar a cientos de personas (y también a muchos animales del Zoo) de los nazis tras la invasión de Polonia por las tropas alemanas en septiembre de 1939.
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'McFarland' cuenta la historia de un entrenador de atletismo (interpretado por Kevin Costner, 'The Guardian' y 'El último voto') que hace lo posible por intentar reconstruir un equipo perteneciente al instituto de educación secundaria de una pequeña ciudad de California. A través de una enérgica motivación, el instructor consigue estimular la habilidad, la competitividad y el desarrollo de los alumnos que componen el equipo. El grupo de jóvenes deportistas, de la mano de este destacado entrenador, tendrá que hacer frente a numerosos obstáculos de carácter físico y social a lo largo de su recorrido y evolución. La capacidad de superación del preparador de la cuadrilla servirá de inspiración a todos los miembros del equipo, que tras un duro recorrido verán recompensado su esfuerzo y dedicación.
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Follows a cleaning lady going through an overnight shift at an airport. Her actions throughout may seem selfish and heartless but they all become incredibly understandable at the end.
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A Kafkaesque docudrama of an actual case involving a Christchurch small businessman and the New Zealand Inland Revenue Department. Most people can relate to running up against a bureaucrat (especially the tax man), who knows he can cause you trouble if you say something he doesn't like and then proceeds to use his power to hurt you. In this case, the businessman, Dave Henderson refuses to give in and, for the most part, kept his sense of humour.
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Josey Aimes (Charlize Theron), una madre soltera, regresa a su pueblo natal en el norte de Minnesota y, para salir adelante, busca trabajo en las minas de hierro. No se imagina a qué clase de humillaciones se ven sometidas las mujeres en el trabajo.
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Over Christmas lunch an estranged daughter struggles with her Dad’s Alzhiemer’s and the
reaction her return creates in the family.
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En un pequeño poblado de la costa de Nueva Zelanda, los aborígenes de la tribu Whangara creen que proceden de un único ancestro, cuya existencia se remonta mil años atrás. Su nombre es Paikea, y escapó de la muerte, tras volcar su canoa, montando a lomos de una ballena. Según la tradición, el jefe de los Whangara, el “Whale Rider”, el Paikea, tiene que ser un primogénito varón. Pero Pai, una niña de once años, cree que está destinada a ser la máxima autoridad de la tribu. Por ello, aunque adora a su abuelo Koro, se enfrentará con él y con mil años de tradición.
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A high school teenager wakes up in a time of Amazons and Gods.
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Nina desea convencer a su padre, Ivan, del amor de Eddie, aunque aquél pretende mantener las severas tradiciones familiares y no mezclar su sangre croata con la de los aborígenes neozelandeses. Nina accederá entonces a casarse por compromiso con un hombre chino rico que le ofrece una gran cantidad de dinero, con el que Nina y Eddie planean escapar de la violencia del padre y del hermano de Nina...
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A Maori warrior comes upon the aftermath of a battle to find that the only survivor is a wounded enemy soldier. His wishes to avenge his fallen countrymen by finishing off this helpless enemy but the gods won't allow it (as conveyed to him through a spirit bird). Anguished that he must instead treat the soldier's wounds, he's further repelled by the soldier's incessant homosexual advances. Slowly and surprisingly, a change comes over the warrior to accept the soldier's advances, but the war all too soon intrudes upon them.
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In a town called Hope on the edge of Britain's empire, desperations clash: the beautiful Dorothea Brook is desperate to free her pregnant sister Rose from the clutches of Fraser, a fortune hunter. A local politician, William Poyner, is desperate for cash and thinks marriage to Dorothea will save him. Dorothea hires Lawrence Hayes, a rough but handsome Argonaut, to bribe Fraser with jewels and to marry Rose; Hayes desperately loves Dorothea and may marry Rose to stay close to her. But Dorothea has a lover, the ravishing Anne Cooper, who encourages the match with Poyser to give the lovers cover. Are these remedies, each desperate in its turn, going to make anyone happy?
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Sam is a sound technician, who must literally walk in the footsteps of the characters on the screen. A "film within a film" that connects the world of modern film-making to the Paris of painter Toulouse-Lautrec and his model/lover Mireille.
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From the bowels of the kitchen sink, comes a dark and tender love… An original and full-blooded short film that combines humour with surrealism and leads the viewer towards the fantasy of horror.
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Chan and his older mate Kim prospect for gold in 1890s Otago. Marooned until they can pay off their debts and return to China; they’ve been fruitlessly working their claim for 12 and 27 years respectively. Chan faces racism, isolation, extreme weather, threatening surveyors, opium dens and a circus romance.
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A radio compere is forced to take the late shift and finds her night going places she couldn't have imagined.
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A young woman searches for her identity by joining a "free love" hippie commune, against the wishes of her darkly possessive widowed father. The tensions of small town New Zealand and individual conflicts generated by intolerance and fear, unleashes forces of violence and betrayal.
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The story means to develop through an uncovering of layers - strata. As writer Krumbachova stated: "With nature as a prison, an impassable barrier ... where every action is physically and psychically limited by the environment ... people are reduced to fragments of basic instinct and intelligence." Promoted as a psychological thriller, Strata provides little tension nor any real climax. The characters are ideas - not believably real.
