The Rival (2006)
Gênero : Thriller, Cinema TV
Runtime : 1H 26M
Director : Douglas Jackson
Escritor : W.T. McCoy, David DeCrane, Christine Conradt
Sinopse
When Alice loses her baby in an act of violence, she learns she cannot have children on her own. She and her husband are overjoyed when they find a surrogate to give them the baby they've always wanted. But Alice's happiness soon turns to jealousy and a deadly rage, causing her to stop at nothing to get her baby.
An unemployed showgirl poses as Hungarian royalty to infiltrate Parisian society.
Roy Tucker, a Vietnam war veteran with excellent shooting skills, is serving a long prison sentence when a mysterious visitor promises him that he will be released if he agrees to carry out a dangerous assignment.
Vampish miss Dolan hires hardboiled P.I. Harry Dobbs to tail her shady boyfriend. Harry realizes that the man leads a double life but then his client disappears. Harry teams up with his own tail, P.I. Stella Wynkowski, to clear things up.
Made of four short tales, linked by a story filmed by Wim Wenders. Taking place in Ferrara, Portofino, Aix en Provence and Paris, each story, which always a woman as the crux of the story, invites to an inner travel, as Antonioni says "towards the true image of that absolute and mysterious reality that nobody will ever see".
Ruby and her husband Claude are a working-class couple who live in suburban Arkansas. As crazy as they are for each other, their relationship is far from harmonious. (The lack of money doesn't help matters, either.) In fact, their whole family is fraught with unresolved conflicts. Then Claude's uncle is arrested on a felony charge, and everyone rallies round. Ruby's mother Jewel and flirtatious sister Rose (Claude's ex-girlfriend) even fly in from Tennessee; but, far from being a source of support, Jewel seems only to want to break up Ruby and Claude.
Pat é uma atleta brilhante, exceto quando seu noivo dominador está por perto. Ela está quase ganhando o Campeonato de Golfe das Senhoras até que fica perturbada com a presença do noivo nos últimos buracos. Ele quer que eles se casem e esqueçam essa coisa toda de golfe, mas ela não pode se render tão facilmente. E pede a ajuda de Mike, um promotor de esportes um pouco sombrio. Juntos, eles enfrentam mafiosos, um boxer com ciúmes, e uma crescente atração mútua.
England, 14th century. King Edward II falls in love with Piers Gaveston, a young man of humble origins, whom he honors with favors and titles of nobility. The cold and jealous Queen Isabella conspires with the evil Mortimer to get rid of Gaveston, overthrow her husband and take power…
After Tom Hurndall is shot in the head in Gaza, his parents Anthony and Jocelyn arrive in Israel wanting to know how it could have happened. They expect sympathy and cooperation from the Israeli authorities, but are instead met with an official explanation that fails to tally with any eye-witness accounts, and a wall of silence. When an Israeli army report attempts to whitewash the incident, the Hurndalls decide the only way to establish the truth is to launch their own investigation into the shooting, a process which brings them face to face with both the Open-Fire regulations of the Israeli army in Gaza, and the soldier who pulled the trigger.
Um casal de turistas ingleses chega à ilha de Almanzora, ao largo da costa mediterrânea espanhola, onde descobrem que em uma pequena vila de pescadores não há adultos, apenas crianças que olham para eles e sorriem misteriosamente.
Dois homens enganam suas esposas para participarem de uma convenção. Um deles finge estar doente e consegue uma prescrição médica de um veterinário para poder viajar num “cruzeiro medicinal” ao Havaí.
Ryevsk, Russia, 1870. Tensions abound in the Karamazov family. Fyodor is a wealthy libertine who holds his purse strings tightly. His four grown sons include Dmitri, the eldest, an elegant officer, always broke and at odds with his father, betrothed to Katya, herself lovely and rich. The other brothers include a sterile aesthete, a factotum who is a bastard, and a monk. Family tensions erupt when Dmitri falls in love with one of his father's mistresses, the coquette Grushenka. Two brothers see Dmitri's jealousy of their father as an opportunity to inherit sooner. Acts of violence lead to the story's conclusion: trials of honor, conscience, forgiveness, and redemption.
Picking up moments after the end of Marius, this film follows Fanny’s grief after Marius’s departure—and her realization that she’s pregnant. Panisse continues courting her and embraces the baby’s impending arrival as a gift, so long as its paternity remains a secret. Fanny and Panisse wed, but after her baby’s birth, Marius returns unexpectedly and demands what he believes is still his.
"HELP" is a supernatural horror thriller which draws upon the story of a malevolent spirit that refuses to leave the human world and is out to exact retribution for past crimes committed against it.
A moll, imprisoned after participating in a bank robbery, helps with a breakout plot.
An opera star's manager tries to stop her romance with a penniless singer.
As últimas 24 horas na vida de Geoffrey Firmin, um cônsul inglês solitário e deprimido que se retira ao álcool para se consolar. Em um cenário de guerra na Europa e na festa mexicana do Dia da Morte, somos levados em um dia na vida de Geoffrey Firmin, um cônsul britânico que vive em abandono e obscuridade alcoólica em uma pequena cidade do sul do México em 1939. O comportamento autodestrutivo do cônsul, talvez uma metáfora para uma civilização ameaçada, é uma fonte de perplexidade e tristeza para seu meio-irmão nômade idealista, Hugh, e sua ex-esposa, Yvonne, que retornaram com esperanças de curar Geoffrey e o casamento desfeito. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)
Marquês Sévéro, parisiense rico e preguiçoso, quer se divorciar para poder casar com sua afilhada Denise. Mas a própria Denise ama André Berval, engenheiro contratado pelo marquês. Cheio de ciúmes, o Marquês envia André às Antilhas, para prospectar terras que acaba de adquirir. Ele promete a André que pode se casar com Denise se tiver sucesso nos trópicos, mas depois escreve para Alvarez, seu empresário no local, pedindo-lhe que impeça André de voltar para a França. Alvarez cria ódio instantâneo por André quando o engenheiro impede Alvarez de estuprar Papitou, uma bela garota nativa. Papitou se torna dedicada a André e o protege contra os esquemas de Alvarez. Mas ela mesma enfrenta uma crise ao saber que André planeja se casar com Denise.
Famed movie director Paul Robaix breaks with tradition by not casting his actress-comedienne wife, Lucy Dell, in his latest film production, a version of Madame Butterfly. Undaunted, the resourceful Lucy wings her way to Tokyo and, masquerading as a Japanese geisha, lands the coveted role from her unsuspecting husband! But in front of the cameras (and behind the pancake makeup), Lucy faces greater challenges: her lecherous leading man - and a husband who is beginning to realize that his talented new "discovery" seems vaguely familiar...
A turbulenta vida e carreira profissional do ator de vaudeville e estrela do cinema mudo de horror Lon Chaney (1883-1930), o homem das mil caras; homem de muitos infortúnios pessoais que nem mesmo seu grande sucesso conseguiu mitigar. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)
Francisco is rich, rather strict on principles, and still a bachelor. After meeting Gloria by accident, he is suddenly intent on her becoming his wife and courts her until she agrees to marry him. Francisco is a dedicated husband, but little by little his passion starts to exhibit disturbing traits. Nevertheless, Gloria meets with scepticism as she expresses her worries to their acquaintances.
