The Sandwich Man (1983)
Gênero : Drama
Runtime : 1H 45M
Director : Hou Hsiao-hsien, Wan Jen, Zhuang Xiang Zeng
Sinopse
Composed of three separate stories, the film vividly portrays Taiwan during the cold war period when the country developed its economy with help from the United States.
Based on the best selling series "Dear Dumb Diary" by Jim Benton. Follow Jamie Kelly, as she navigates Mackeral Middle School with the help of her best friend Isabella, her nemesis Angeline and the boy of her dreams, Hudson.
A hunter stalks a killer elephant.
A climate of civil war, a fight that has made them lose everything including their youth, four soldiers aged 13 to 20 years, will meet and build friendships. In the grip of an adult conflict, which they do not understand, Matéo, Dominique, Big Max and Kevin will keep recreating, round a pond and a cabin, a family.
To satisfy her lover's fetish for tattooed women, Akane agrees to have her body covered in eloborate tattoos by Kyogoro, an old craftsman. Kyogoro has developed a special technique, by which his assistant, Harutsune, keeps Katsuko's mind off the pain while Kyogoro does his work. After the work is done, Harutsune makes the shocking discovery of how Kyogoro mastered his technique.
A mysterious millionaire buys an ad agency and begins to replace its employees with his own people, who don't appear to be advertising types at all...
Nicola Six (Amber Heard) é clarividente e convive diariamente com a vívida premonição de seu próprio assassinato. Na contagem regressiva para a morte, ela se envolve romanticamente com três homens diametralmente distintos, um dos quais será seu algoz.
Spain, 1960. French student Monique Roumette lives in Madrid on a scholarship. Thanks to a friend who works in the production company Uninci, she has the privilege of attending the shooting of Viridiana, a film directed by Luis Buñuel.
Louis Zamperini volta para California depois de ser prisioneiro no Japão durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, onde ele acaba se casando com a Cynthia Applewhite, mas ainda sofre com transtorno do estresse pós-traumático (TEPT). Batalhando pesadelos constantes, raiva e profunda depressão, sua esposa convence ele a participar da grande cruzada evangelista do Billy Graham de 1949.
Jane, a small-town girl, has moved to Helsinki and the world is finally open for her. Passionate and excited, she seeks adventure, all the things she has yearned for so long. Jane gravitates to a gay bar at night, staggers in her nervous state of mind, and suddenly there, right next to her, Jane finds her savior: Piki, the most dashing butch in town. Piki is perfect. Jane is hypnotized by Piki's dark-toned voice. Piki offers her an entire new universe, and even more - dreams.
Jojo é um garoto alemão solitário que descobre que sua mãe está escondendo uma garota judia no sótão. Ajudado apenas por seu amigo imaginário, Adolf Hitler, Jojo deve enfrentar seu nacionalismo cego enquanto a Segunda Guerra Mundial prossegue.
Hisashi Tanaka is a medical student in Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan. He does volunteer work and gets to know Yasuaki Kano at the hospital. Yasuaki Kano has suffered from muscular dystrophy since he was 12-years-old. Yasuaki Kano has his eccentric ways like running out of the hospital and saying that he wants to eat a banana late at night. Hisashi Tanaka thinks Yasuaki Kano is a lovely person. Yasuaki Kano develops a crush on rookie volunteer Misaki Ando. He asks Hisashi Tanaka to write a love letter for him, but Misaki Ando is Hisashi Tanaka’s girlfriend.
THE IRON ORCHARD é a história de Jim McNeely (Lane Garrison), um jovem que foi para os vibrantes e brutais campos petrolíferos do oeste do Texas em 1939. Em um estado repleto de petróleo e cheio de ambição, McNeely se instala em uma comunidade de cidade pequena. superando lentamente o trauma da Grande Depressão. O formidável caminho à sua frente está cheio de obstáculos - chefes dominadores que tentam mantê-lo abaixado, homens de petróleo poderosos que relutam em investir em um rosto renovado e mulheres que vêem a salvação em seus encantos - mas ele encontra um vislumbre de esperança em seu primeiro ama: nova esposa Lee Montgomery (Ali Cobrin) e perfuração de petróleo. Com tudo se encaixando para subir ao topo da cadeia petrolífera, McNeely tropeça em seu sucesso e, por sua vez, põe em risco seu desejo desesperado de conquistar esse admirável mundo novo de influência e riqueza.
South Africa, July 11th, 1963. Several members of the African National Congress, an organization declared illegal, are arrested in Rivonia, a country house near Johannesburg. The detainees, along with Nelson Mandela, imprisoned since 1962, are charged with serious crimes for their radical activism against the apartheid regime…
Rin (Sumire Sato) is a girl who sells matches. The buyers of the matches can fulfill their dreams by lighting the match, but they are also playing with fire. Based on manga series "Match Shoujo" by Sanami Suzuki (first published 2014 in monthly seinen manga magazine Young Ace). "Match Shoujo" is motivated by the short story “The Little Match Girl” written by Hans Christian Andersen and published in 1845.
RACHEL CARSON is an intimate portrait of the woman whose groundbreaking books revolutionized our relationship to the natural world. When Silent Spring was published in September 1962 it became an instant bestseller and would go on to spark dramatic changes in the way the government regulated pesticides.
Jooseppi Kenkkunen becomes a moonshiner in order to provide for his wife Kaisa-Reetta and his large family during the Prohibition era in Finland.
Waiting for the train that will take him away, a man goes back over moments of his small-town upbringing: the relationship with his family, his own involvement in the youth protests of 1968 and a childhood friend died too soon.
