Corretores do Amor (1982)
Desde que dois jovens empreendedores transformaram o necrotério da cidade em um negócio de sucesso, as pessoas estão morrendo de vontade de entrar.
Gênero : Comédia
Runtime : 1H 46M
Director : Ron Howard
Sinopse
Cansado do ritmo frenético do mercado de ações e em busca de paz e sossego, Chuck Lumley, um analista financeiro, arruma trabalho em um necrotério. Mas após algum tempo é obrigado por seu chefe, que empregou o sobrinho no turno do dia, a trabalhar no turno da noite, para total irritação de sua noiva. Chuck, ainda tem de suportar seu novo assistente, Bill Blazejowski, um rapaz inquieto e falastrão que insiste em convencê-lo a aproveitar o pouco movimento do lugar para agenciar prostitutas sem cafetão e ganhar um bom dinheiro. Contrariando o bom senso, Chuck, gosta da ideia e resolvem transformar o necrotério em um bordel quando anoitece. As "profissionais do leito" são lideradas por Belinda Keaton, que com o assassinato do seu gigolô ficou "viúva" recentemente.
N.Y.H.C. is the first feature-length documentary to explore the New York Harcore music scene. Drawings its roots from punk rock, hardcore evolved into a dedicated, self-contained movement, unconcerned with success in the mainstream. The documentary follows seven bands in the summer of 1995, ranging from Bronx inner-city youth to Long Island suburbanites to Hare Krishna devotees. N.Y.H.C. is a surprisingly in-depth and non-exploitive look into a vital and often neglected music community.
Mary Lou manages to escape abduction by a prostitution ring. She tells the Chief of Detectives they were planning to take her to the Berrywood road house, a well-known den of iniquity. Jim Murray and beautician Belle Harris are using her beauty shop to recruit floozies for their road house circuit. Dona Lee, who works at the beauty salon, is falling in love with young reporter wanna-be Phillip, but Murray gets jealous and makes life rough for him. Meanwhile Dona begins to figure out the racket, but becomes threatened by Murray's unwanted advances.
Longtime best friends Bebe and DeeDee are both wrestling with love. Bebe has met someone new and is in the exuberant phase of a budding romance. DeeDee is trying to move on from someone she can’t forget – mostly in destructive ways. As Bebe waits for the perpetually late DeeDee at their favorite coffee shop, she meets Clementine, a distraught young woman with love problems of her own. With Clementine in tow, Bebe and DeeDee soon embark on the kind of outrageous misadventure that only New York City can offer.
An unsuccessful sculptor saves a madman named "The Creeper" from drowning. Seeing an opportunity for revenge, he tricks the psycho into murdering his critics.
No início do século XX, num bordel parisiense, uma prostituta com o rosto marcado por uma cicatriz ostenta um sorriso trágico. Em torno da mulher que ri, a vida das outras que trabalham no bordel, as suas rivalidades, as suas angústias, as suas dores do mundo exterior, não se sabe nada porque a casa está fechada, mas dentro das suas paredes tudo é possível.
Two disillusioned New York policemen plan a $10 million robbery to fuel their low pensions, only to run into one debacle after another in the process.
Emotionally stunted child-like woman Jamie Godard not only suffers from an unhealthy fixation on her long absent father, but also has an obsession with all the toys he gave her as a little girl. After getting a job at a toy store, Jamie decides to marry co-worker Charlie Belmond. When the marriage doesn't work out, Jamie runs away to New York City and becomes a prostitute who specializes in servicing perverted old men who want to play daddy with her.
A small town man inherits a significant fortune and takes his family to New York City whereupon they are continually shocked at the alien culture of the Big Apple.
Real-life kung fu master Nathan Ingram stars in this gritty, low-budget martial arts epic as a local karate school owner who clashes with a gang of drug traffickers posing as the owners of a rival dojo. Director Charlie Ahearn (who helmed the landmark hip-hop film Wild Style) used the housing projects next to his New York Lower East Side apartment as his central location in this 1979 classic, shot on a vintage Super 8 camera.
A girl visiting her sister in Hollywood hopes for a modeling career, but is tricked by pimps into working at a brothel.
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Álvaro, before escaping from himself during ten years, return to his town, a small village in Galicia, to attend to his father's funeral. There he will try to make it up with his brother and to recoup his daugther Mar. Everything gets complicated when he finds a dead woman in the road, the woman is Lidia, a Mar's friend who works as a prostitute.
In Los Angeles, naive and lonely waitress and aspirant singer Carol finds an advertisement for a job opportunity in Tokyo. Traveling to Japan to work at the White Orchid nightclub, she discovers the scheme of prostitution in the club that belongs to Yakuza. Alone, without money and her passport, she is protected by Shiro, but pressed by the managers Madame Mori and her husband Hatanaka to be receptive to client's proposals.
Staples, a successful plant operator, is brought in from Ohio to take an executive position at Ramsey & Co. in New York. He forms a friendship with Briggs, the long-time vice president, but it soon becomes apparent that Walter Ramsey, who has inherited the position of CEO, is grooming Staples to replace Briggs. Ramsey will not fire Briggs, instead doing everything he can to humiliate and sabotage Briggs until he resigns.
Llewyn Davis é um cantor e compositor que sonha em viver da sua música. Com o violão nas costas, ele migra de um lugar para o outro na Nova York dos anos 60, sempre vivendo de favor na casa de amigos e outros artistas. Talentoso, mas sem se preocupar muito com o futuro, ele incomoda a amiga Jean Berkey, que vive uma relação com outro músico, Jim. Nem um pouco confiável, Davis se depara com a oportunidade de viajar na companhia de um consagrado e desagradável artista, Roland, mas nem tudo vai acabar bem nesta nova jornada.
Junior comes from the country to Hollywood where he soon ends up living in a house full of prostitutes. As payment for his rent, Junior is assigned the task of driving the girls around.
After Annunziata (Angela Molina) opens up a hostel with her friend Antonio (Daniel Ezralow), she is saved from being raped by a Camorra boss as the gangster is suddenly killed. The killer escapes before Annunziata is able to see who it was. Following this murder are several others, and always with the same “signature” — a syringe in one of the testicles of the victims. As the gangsters continue to be killed off, the identity of the killer – or killers – slowly becomes obvious.
A fitness instructor marries a traumatized, crippled woman who suffers from PTSD and is tormented by a traumatic event that happened in her past. What is even more unfortunate is that her marriage is part of her maniac husband's evil scheme to kill her for her money. It isn't long before the formula is put into action and the gory body count starts to mount.
An obese woman recently released from an insane asylum kills anyone who attempts to get her to stop eating.
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