Pirated Copy (2004)
Gênero : Drama, Crime, Comédia
Runtime : 1H 30M
Director : He Jianjun
Sinopse
Set against the backdrop of the contemporary black market for pirated DVDs in Beijing, Pirated Copy is a character-driven drama about the passion two couples have for each other and for film.
Quando a Guerra Civil se enfurece na década de 1990 em Serra Leoa, dois homens, um branco sul-africano mercenário e um pescador negro, se juntam em uma busca para recuperar uma joia rara que tem o poder de transformar suas vidas. Com a ajuda de uma jornalista norte-americana, os homens embarcam em uma jornada perigosa através do território rebelde para conseguir seu objetivo.
Jody (Tyrese) é um jovem de 20 anos que se vê em meio a uma série de problemas: ele está atualmente desempregado, tem dois filhos e não suporta o atual namorado de sua mãe. Jody deseja sair de casa e recomeçar sua vida com a atual namorada, mas a mãe de seus filhos sempre o acaba prendendo na atual casa. Em meio a estes problemas, Jody ainda tem que lidar com o fato de seu melhor amigo estar disposto a voltar para uma gangue de rua e de que o namorado de uma ex-namorada está atrás dele.
Depois que o esperto garoto Raees cresce e se torna o rei do contrabando de Gujarat nos anos 1980, ele tenta equilibrar sua vida de crimes ajudando outras pessoas.
Lora Hart manages to land a job in a hospital as a trainee nurse. Upon completion of her training she goes to work as a night nurse for two small children who seem to be very sick, though something much more sinister is going on.
Home video changed the world. The cultural and historical impact of the VHS tape was enormous. This film traces the ripples of that impact by examining the myriad aspects of society that were altered by the creation of videotape.
Frankie Madison retorna a Nova York depois de 14 anos de prisão. Noll Turner, ex-parceiro de Frankie em contrabando, é agora um rico gerente de boate, e Frankie está esperando que ele honre um acordo verbal de 'meio-a-meio' que eles fizeram quando ele foi pego e Noll escapou. Chance gorda! Será que Frankie, que conhece apenas os métodos violentos da Lei Seca, vai vencer no Big Business? Vai ser difícil... mesmo com a improvável ajuda da cantora Kay, a ex-namorada de Noll. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)
Na Romênia dos anos 1980, milhares de filmes ocidentais atravessaram a Cortina de Ferro e abriram uma janela para o mundo livre para quem se atrevesse a olhar. Um escroque de fitas VHS do mercado negro e uma corajosa tradutora trouxeram a magia dos filmes para as pessoas e provocaram uma revolução.
Unrepentant Tennessee moonshine runner Luke Doolin (Robert Mitchum) makes dangerous high-speed deliveries for his liquor-producing father, Vernon (Trevor Bardette), but won't let his younger brother Robin (James Mitchum) join the family business. Under pressure from both out-of-town gangster Kogan (Jacques Aubuchon), who wants a piece of the local action, and Treasury agent Barrett (Gene Barry), who wants to destroy the moonshine business, Luke fights for his fast-fading way of life.
The coquettish granddaughter of a respected small-town judge is stranded at a bootleggers’ hide-out, subjected to an act of nightmarish sexual violence, and plunged into a criminal underworld that threatens to swallow her up completely.
A mobster's daughter leads her boyfriend from the circus into bootlegging.
Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with forclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law, and four hard-to-explain corpses.
An investigative reporter romances a suspected smuggler's daughter.
The three surviving daughters of a murdered moonshiner band together with a racecar driver to run high-test shine behind the corpulent backs of the local likker syndicate.
A renegade police captain sets out to catch a sadistic mob boss.
Prohibition is ending so bootlegger Bugs Ahearn decides to crack California society. He leases a house from down-on-her-luck Ruth and hires her as social secretary. He rescues Polly Cass from a horsefall and goes home to meet her dad who sells him some phony stock certificates. When he learns about this he sends to Chicago for mob help.
The highly anticipated follow-up to their critically acclaimed VIDEO NASTIES: MORAL PANIC, CENSORSHIP & VIDEOTAPE documentary, director Jake West and producer Marc Morris continue uncovering the shocking story of home entertainment post the 1984 Video Recordings Act. A time when Britain plunged into a new Dark Age of the most restrictive censorship, where the horror movie became the bloody eviscerated victim of continuing dread created by self-aggrandizing moral guardians. With passionate and entertaining interviews from the people who lived through it and more jaw dropping archive footage, get ready to reflect and rejoice the passing of a landmark era.
A teenager lands in a brutal reform school for refusing to squeal on his bootlegger boss.
Gangsters, nightclubs and the Roaring '20s.
The children of feuding gangsters fall in love and fight to escape their parents' notoriety.
In 1920s rural Mississippi, Nancy Mannigoe, an African-American servant, is placed on death row for the murder of Temple Drake's infant child. Temple, the daughter of the governor, pleads with her father to exonerate Nancy of the charges, explaining that Nancy acted in haste to prevent her from resuming her affair with a roguish Cajun called Candy Man. Details of Temple's sordid past are uncovered as she begs mercy for her faithful servant.
