Beautiful Joe (2000)
장르 : 드라마, 액션, 코미디, 스릴러, 로맨스
상영시간 : 1시간 38분
연출 : Stephen Metcalfe
시놉시스
An extremely nice guy falls for a really bad girl
A street kid has dreams of becoming a jockey. He gets his chance when he and his gang discover a poor old man who has a championship race horse. The man agrees to let the boy ride his horse in a race, but first the gang must get enough money to pay for the race's entry fees.
In June of 1999 an unlikely chestnut colt named Charismatic, with jockey Chris Antley aboard, headed down the stretch at the Belmont Stakes with the hope of becoming the first Triple Crown winner in nearly 21 years.
As a surprise, two horse owners decide to ride their animals themselves in a steeplechase. But Bill Davidson's horse "Admiral" behaves weirdly, and falls hard after an obstacle. Bill dies from his injuries. His friend Alan York suspects the animal was doped by unscrupulous bookies and starts to investigate. He doesn't know how serious his opponents are, and that he's in danger to suffer the exact same fate as his friend.
A beautiful Gypsy girl falls in love with a horse trainer.
A syndicate is set up to buy a racehorse, but they end up buying the wrong one by mistake. Unfortunately the horse is useless on the flat, so they try entering him as a jumper.
California's gold discovery in 1848 draws a "tide of empire" to the area, which becomes ripe for bandits.
Produced by the National Film Board of Canada, this heartfelt documentary follows Hall of Fame jockey Ron Turcotte as he returns to the people and places that mark his life, providing a rare behind-the-scenes glimpse of this resilient and legendary jockey. Few jockeys have won America's Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing. Only three have won in the last 65 years. Ron Turcotte is one of them. In 1973, this legendary rider from New Brunswick, Canada piloted Secretariat, the greatest racehorse of all time, to victory and acclaim in the sport's three most prestigious races. But a fall in 1978 left Turcotte a paraplegic and put an end to an illustrious 16-year career.
세례 요한 축일을 앞둔 1890년의 아일랜드. 밤에도 해가 지지 않는 백야 축제를 맞아 아름답고 우아한 귀족의 딸 줄리는 하인 존에게 함께 춤을 추자고 명령한다. 감히 상상도 할 수 없었던 백작의 딸이 자신에게 관심을 보이자 존은 약혼녀 캐서린을 두고 그녀에게 숨겨온 연정을 고백하고 결국 두 사람은 하룻밤을 보내게 된다. 이튿날, 사랑의 감정에 젖어있는 줄리는 존과 함께하는 새로운 삶을 꿈꾸지만 존이 그녀를 신분 상승의 도구로 이용하려 하자 둘 사이에는 균열이 일어나게 되는데…
오빠가 집에 왔다, 25년 만에 감시자와 함께. 우리 가족의 ‘조국’이라는 북으로부터... 나는 말했다. “당신도, 당신의 나라도 싫다...” 감시자가 말했다. “그 나라에서 네 오빠도, 나도 죽을 때까지 살아야 한다” 오빠가 말했다. “넌 여행하면서 많은 것을 보고, 하고 싶은 일을 하며 살아라” 조국이라 강요 당한 나라. 그 곳엔 소중한 내 가족이 있다.
When Guddu and Salina end up in a car accident, Salina loses her sight. Guddu soon finds out that he has a brain tumour, and decides to donate his eyes to Salina.
An Irish washerwoman's daughter falls in love with one of America's most eligible bachelors, much to the dismay of the girl's parents -- and the young doctor's newly acquired fiancée! Events come to a head at the charity masked ball, which the two girls happen to attend in very similar costumes, thanks to the largesse of Molly's benevolent "fairy godfather"...
A self-made success is determined to give his son the lavish upbringing he himself was denied. Not surprisingly, the son grows up to be spoiled rotten, causing grief and pain to everyone who loves him.
In this early comedy from John Ford, Riley is a New York Irish cop sent to Germany to track down a young man who stole money from a local bakery.
Ellen McHugh, a poor Irish immigrant to America, finds work in a carnival and is thus able to send her son Brian to a fine school. But when her position is found out, the school expels Brian. Mrs. McHugh feels compelled to allow the school principal and his wife to adopt Brian. The widow McHugh becomes a housekeeper and raises her employer's daughter Edith, who grows up to fall in love with Brian McHugh.
Musical biography of Irish 19th century tenor Chauncey Olcott.
After a stroke leaves her husband disabled and fundamentally changed, a spirited Irish wife struggles to keep her family members together. All the while they are under the microscope of an American researcher documenting their recovery process.
모든 아이들에게는 꿈을 꿀 수 있는 권리가 있다! 아름다운 용기가 만들어낸 기적 같은 감동 실화! 베트남 전쟁이 종료된 지 14년이 지난 1989년. ‘크리스티나 노블’은 과거의 순탄치 않은 삶을 뒤로 한 채 베트남의 호치민으로 떠난다. 그녀는 새로운 삶을 찾기 위해 베트남에 도착했지만, 마주한 것은 희망이 아닌 절망이었다. 세상에서 가장 해맑은 미소를 지어야 할 아이들의 얼굴에는 두려움과 어둠이 그늘져 있고, 그녀는 아이들에게서 과거 자신의 모습을 발견하는데...
뉴멕시코 주에서 경마 조련사로 일하는 칩 울리(스킷 울리히)는 술집 패싸움에 휘말린 마크 앨런(크리스찬 케인)을 구해주면서 잠시 인연을 맺는다. 10년 뒤, 연패 행진으로 파산 위기에 직면한 칩은 좋은 말을 소유하고 있는 마크를 찾아가서 조련사로 일할 기회를 얻는다. 이후 마크는 칩의 안목을 믿고 '버드'라는 말을 구입한다. 하지만 우승을 기대했던 경주에서 꼴찌를 하고, 이후로도 하위권을 벗어나지 못하면서 칩은 조련사 자질을 의심 받는다. 그러던 중, 마크는 버드의 출중한 과거 이력 덕분에 오랜 역사를 자랑하는 '켄터키 더비' 경주에 참가할 기회를 얻는다. 쟁쟁한 말들을 소유한 상류층들 사이에서 카우보이 마크와 칩은 비웃음거리가 되고, 버드의 승률은 '50 대 1'의 최하위로 평가받는 상황 속에서 경주가 시작되는데...
Rocky Road to Dublin is a 1968 documentary film by Irish-born journalist Peter Lennon and French cinematographer Raoul Coutard, examining the contemporary state of the Republic of Ireland, posing the question, “what do you do with your revolution once you’ve got it?” It argues that Ireland was dominated by cultural isolationism, Gaelic and clerical traditionalism at the time of its making.
Cantinflas works as a porter, who writes letters and speeches in his old writing machine to earn an extra money, despite the fact that he still goes to school. The sentimental issues come when Cantinflas falls in love of his pretty neighborhood (Silvia Pinal), who is handicapped and unable to walk. The thing wont be easy, because a young military man also has feelings for the girl. But the porter wants to see her happy, and he will become a sort of Cyrano De Bergerac, writing love letters to her signed by the young soldier. His plan is simple: to win money in the horse races in order to pay the operation which will make her walk again.