A Batalha de Seattle (2007)
Six lives, six battles, one city.
Gênero : Ação, Drama
Runtime : 1H 39M
Director : Stuart Townsend
Sinopse
Ano de 1999. Dezenas de milhares de pessoas vão às ruas de Seattle, em protesto contra a Organização Mundial de Comércio. De início o protesto era pacífico, pedindo o fim das conferências da OMC, mas logo se tornou um motim. O resultado foi a classificação de estado de sítio, que fez com que o Departamento de Polícia e a Guarda Nacional adotassem uma postura de combate aos manifestantes.
The fanatically uncompromising Len Rowan and his family insult and terrorize the citizens of a small town for years. One day the comment of a saleswoman about Len's son not being able to pay his sweets triggers off his persecution complex. As revenge for the believed insult, the whole family starts stalking the shop owner and her husband... until this escalates and the old man gets badly injured. Len is arrested, but gets off, free on bail. His clever attorney delays the court session for more than a year - while Rowan keeps threatening the witnesses. But then, the people feel they've had enough of this and decide to take the law in their own hands...
Baseada em uma história real, o casal do Alabama, Gabe Watson e sua nova esposa de 26 anos, Tina Watson, se casam e saem em lua de mel para a Austrália, mas Tina se afoga no que parece ser um acidente e Gabe acaba sendo acusado de provocá-lo.
Twenty-year-old homosexual Angelos, who works in a jewelry shop, lives very discreetly in a rather hostile social environment. When he falls in love with a sailor, Michalis, he decides to leave home, abandoning his alcoholic father, his hysterical mother and his disabled sister, to live with his lover. Later on, he will also join the army. A former lover of his visits him and tells him things about Michalis. At a party, Michalis forces Angelos to dress up as a woman. Later on, Angelos ends up on the street with other transvestites. He gets arrested and expelled from the Navy, while his father kills himself out of shame. His clients often humiliate him, and his lover beats him brutally.Angelos, in despair, decides to kill Michalis..The film is based on true facts that shocked Greek public opinion.
An officer calls his sailors to the deck. They assemble around the canon while the officer scans the horizon. They all turn in the direction of the camera to look in the distance. At the same time the ship is hit! This scene is a filmed reconstruction of the 1897 Greek-Turkish war.
Based on a true story, this film recounts the story of Diane Zamora and David Graham, two high school sweethearts who swear to always be together, even as they enter separate military academies. But when David confesses he had an affair with a classmate, Diane has an ultimatum, leading the two into a murderous pact with severe repercussions.
Interviews and archival footage profile the life of Dennis Banks, American Indian Movement leader who looks back at his early life and the rise of the Movement.
Britt Malm gets hit by a car on a Stockholm street and is taken to hospital. She is badly injured and must undergo surgery. While the anesthetic takes effect she sees hallucinatory images. This turns into a flashback of what happened Britt before the accident.
Dramatização da história real do famoso "assassino do ácido" John George Haigh, que assassinava mulheres e eliminava seus corpos em tambores de ácido na década de 1940. Ele só foi capturado quando foram encontradas pedras de vesícula de uma de suas vítimas, a Sra. Durand-Deacon, os cálculos não se dissolveram no ácido e foram detectados pelo patologista que examinou os resíduos.
In the 90s Bulgaria joined the Eastern Bloc's race for freedom. But as thousands flooded the streets calling for democracy the shadows were giving birth to criminal enterprise. And before anyone could realise, the criminals had taken over the new 'democratic' society. The street gangs dominated, a steel hand of fear was forced on the population. And freedom had come to Bulgaria! They quietly privatised everything in their own interests.
The true story of a young couple (Babis and Eleni) fighting for love and freedom. An odyssey in and out of prisons during the dark period between the Greek civil war until the end of dictatorship in 1974
Irlanda, 1952. Philomena Lee é uma jovem que tem um filho recém-nascido quando é mandada para um convento. Sem poder levar a criança, ela o dá para adoção. A criança é adotada por um casal americano e some no mundo. Após sair do convento, Philomena começa uma busca pelo seu filho, junto com a ajuda de Martin Sixsmith, um jornalista de temperamento forte. Ao viajar para os Estados Unidos, eles descobrem informações incríveis sobre a vida do filho de Philomena e criam um intenso laço de afetividade entre os dois.
Singapura, 1997. A rotina da família Lim é modificada com a chegada de Terry, empregada doméstica que foi para a cidade sonhando com uma vida melhor. Encarregada de cuidar do filho do casal, ela desenvolve uma relação íntima com o menino.
This French version of the notorious spy's life centers less on her romantic escapades, and more on those that reveal the person she actually was during WW I when her German superiors ordered her to seduce the French captain Trintignant so she can steal classified papers from him. Instead she falls in love with him, blows the cover, and ends up convicted of espionage and shot. (AllMovie)
Juan Jose Moreno Cuenca, alias the Heifer, is 23 years old and tells his story as a criminal offender from 1 Ocaña Toledo. Fatherless, the offender has his childhood and how everything changed when her mother went to prison.
A murder is committed in a small village of Andalusia.
Revolution in Spain, around the events of 2 May 1808, when the people of Madrid rise up in rebellion against French occupation.
From Edison films catalog: Taken during the Klondike excitement. The streets are crowded with miners buying outfits and supplies. Mule trains, trolley cars and hurrying pedestrians give life and bustle to the scene. 50 feet. $7.50. Advertised as part of the "Northern Pacific Railway Series" (Edison films catalog): The following pictures were taken by our artists at various points on the Northern Pacific Railway. We are greatly indebted to their officials who afforded us every opportunity in their power to obtain these splendid views. Many of the scenes are incident to the excitement prevailing at the time of the Klondike gold rush. They show the resources of this company for handling large numbers of people, baggage, freight and excursion parties, and give to prospective tourists and merchants an idea of the facilities with which this road handles traffic of all kinds (p. 9). (LoC)
The story of a prostitute "Mona Farkha" through a meeting with the director and the scenarist of the movie who don't know anything about her world.
