National Theatre Live: The Motive and the Cue (2024)
Gênero : Drama
Runtime : 2H 45M
Director : Sam Mendes
Sinopse
In 1964, Richard Burton, newly married to Elizabeth Taylor, is to play the title role in an experimental new Broadway production of Hamlet under Sir John Gielgud’s exacting direction. But as rehearsals progress, two ages of theatre collide and the collaboration between actor and director soon threatens to unravel.
Sam (Ed Speelers) e Fordy (Will Poulter) operam um esquema de fraude à cartões de crédito, mas quando roubam o homem errado, passam a receber ameaças de um criminoso sádico. Eles então precisam levantar 5 milhões de libras esterlinas e realizar um ousado roubo de diamantes para quitar sua dívida.
Kim Sunmyung, a man with communist beliefs who refused to recant his ideals, would ultimately serve more than 42 years in prison. Based on a true story, the film tells of personal conviction and dignity.
Fierce with a pen and notorious in combat, Cyrano almost has it all - if only he could win the heart of his true love Roxane. There’s just one big problem: he has a nose as huge as his heart. Will a society engulfed by narcissism get the better of Cyrano - or can his mastery of language set Roxane’s world alight?
David Sheff é um conceituado jornalista e escritor que vive com a segunda esposa e os filhos. O filho mais velho, Nic Sheff, é viciado em metanfetamina e abala completamente a rotina da família e daquele lar. David tenta entender o que acontece com o filho, que teve uma infância de carinho e suporte, ao mesmo tempo em que estuda a droga e sua dependência. Nic, por sua vez, passa por diversos ciclos da vida de um dependente químico, lutando para se recuperar, mas volta e meia se entregando ao vício.
OUT is an odyssey about 50 year old family man Agoston wandering through East Europe. After loosing his lifelong job in a power plant of small Slovak village Agoston takes the shady but alluring opportunity to work as a welder in a shipyard in Latvia. The journey in hopes of a new job in reality turns into a accelerating whirlwind of absurd events of short encounters, newly found-and-lost-again friendships subtracting from Agoston all his possessions and everything he once believed to be his whole life. However Agoston doesn't give up his search for income and decides to persuade his dream of catching a big sea fish.
It’s a dark, stormy night. The stars are out. Jim, the inn-keeper’s granddaughter, opens the door to a terrifying stranger. At the old sailor’s feet sits a huge sea-chest, full of secrets. Jim invites him in – and her dangerous voyage begins. Robert Louis Stevenson’s story of murder, money and mutiny is brought to life on the Olivier stage in a thrilling new adaptation by Bryony Lavery.
Sara e seu pai, Dave, mudam-se para uma pequena aldeia assombrada por suicídios entre seus jovens habitantes. A garota se apaixona por um adolescente local, Jamie, enquanto Dave, novo policial da cidade, tenta acabar com a misteriosa série de suicídios.
In the suburban environment of 1960s Belgrade, thieves and vagabonds were first who escaped from poverty, while simple individuals who believed in ideals, paid a costly price for their misconceptions. Life is very difficult to a family of a pilot who spent 14 years in prison on the basis of false testimony. Her husband's prosecution is his wife's fate, while his daughter doesn't even know that her father is alive. After many migrations and wanderings, the mother meets a soft-spoken yet unscrupulous man who'll promise her marriage, and rape her daughter. The mother eventually ends up at asylum, and the father returns from prison at the right time to help their daughter in life which crucial lessons she already mastered.
The son of a French aristocrat is accused of stealing his father's money and of stealing his step-sister's heart.
Hibi tells about mother who does pottery and lives rather simple life, growing her children up. She does remarkable job in pottery, finding a new way to make natural pottery in her own tunnel kiln. Then, her son gets leukemia. And entire family has to fight hard to find a donor who has matching bone marrow.
Richard Williams é treinador de suas filhas, Venus e Serena, que em breve se tornarão duas das mais lendárias tenistas da história.
Desde sua ascensão ao estrelato, o ícone do rock Elvis Presley mantém um relacionamento complicado com seu enigmático empresário, Tom Parker, por mais de 20 anos.
Sara Guralnick (Zuzanna Surowy) é uma judia polonesa de 13 anos de idade, que teve sua família assassinada por nazistas em setembro de 1942. Após fugir para o interior da Ucrânia, Sara usa a identidade de sua melhor amiga para se refugiar em uma vila, onde é acolhida por um casal de fazendeiros. Mas a situação complica quando ela descobre segredos sobre o casamento dos anfitriãos, enquanto tenta esconder a verdade sobre sua origem.
Noruega, 2011. Anders Behring Breivik, consumido pelos seus ideias fundamentalistas cristãos e anti-islâmicos, mata 75 pessoas a tiros em um acampamento na Ilha de Utoya. Os sobreviventes do ataque pedem justiça ao governo Norueguês, enquanto os advogados do terrorista condenado se mobilizam para defendê-lo perante a lei. Baseado em fatos reais.
During an inquest after a woman is killed, the judge suspects his own son. The woman's lover had been friendly with the son and he was also supposed to be married to the judge's daughter.
It is a dramatization about Major Kim Man-il's service during the Korean War. The Korean forces dispatch two military units to defend the Baeti Heights led by Kim. Although it is hard to do so, Kim and his senior, Kim Mu-cheol (Choe Bong), and other soldiers do their best. Kim even risks his life to save his juniors, but many die as the enemy forces approach. Meanwhile, Lee Kang-no (Yun Il-bong), a communications officer, reads a letter from his wife - missing her and his daughter. Encouraged by it, Lee risks his life to make successful communication between his military unit and the headquarters. His unit wins. Commander Kim Man-su gathers a small number of his subordinates because many had died, and encourages them to do their best toward the enemy off.
Com uma doença terminal, uma jovem conta como seus pais continuaram juntos.
Racial tensions come out of the woodwork when an upper-class white couple puts their suburban home on the market and the listing draws a pair of equally well-to-do African American buyers from Harlem. Fielder Cook directs this Broadway staging of playwright Arkady Leokum's exploration of lingering racial prejudice in 1970s America.
Monologue of an actor meditating about doom.
