Kismet (2014)
Gênero : Documentário
Runtime : 58M
Director : Nina Maria Paschalidou
Sinopse
Turkish soap operas have taken the world by storm, conquering the hearts of millions of viewers in the Middle East, North Africa, the Balkans and Asia. With unprecedented access to the industry’s most glamorous actors and creative talent, Kismet unravels the secrets of this phenomenal success that transcends religion and culture. From the lavish production sets of the most popular Turkish soap operas, the film travels to streets and homes in Cairo, Abu Dhabi, Istanbul, Athens, Sofia and Mostar, to discover how these taboo-breaking soaps are helping women across the region to claim their rights and transform their lives.
O companheiro e superior de John Rambo no Vietnã, o Coronel Samuel Trautman, foi designado para liderar uma missão na qual irá ajudar os rebeldes de Mujahedeen contra os soldados soviéticos que invadiram o Afeganistão. Durante a missão, Trautman é capturado e torturado pelo comandante russo Zaysen. A tensão e a adrenalina aumentam quando Rambo, ajudado por seus aliados rebeldes, botam em prática um plano para resgatar o coronel das mãos do inimigo.
Desesperado em busca de emprego, Michael Dorsey, um ator perfeccionista e de temperamento difícil resolve se vestir de mulher para disputar um papel feminino em uma telenovela. O que ele não esperava era obter tanto sucesso com o seu papel. Porém, manter a farsa fica cada dia mais complicado, especialmente porque ele se apaixona por Julie Nichols, uma das atrizes da telenovela, e caso ele se declare, acabará revelando que é um homem.
Celeste Talbert é estrela de uma novela de longa duração chamada "The Sun Also Sets". Com a audiência caindo, a impiedosa e ambiciosa coestrela Montana Moorehead e o arrogante produtor David Seton Barnes armam para ela deixar a novela, trazendo sua velha paixão Jeffrey Anderson e contratando sua linda jovem sobrinha Lori Craven.
Betty Sizemore (Renée Zellweger) é uma garçonete que mora em uma pequena cidade e vive sonhando com seu verdadeiro amor: David Ravell (Greg Kinnear), o médico da novela "Uma Razão Para Amar", que ela assiste todos os dias. Só que, depois de testemunhar o assassinato de seu marido, numa transação de drogas que saiu errada, Betty começa a viver como se estivesse dentro de sua novela predileta, quando se transforma da garçonete Betty para a enfermeira Betty. Resolve então partir rumo a Hollywood para encontrar o médico dos seus sonhos, mas passa a ser perseguida pelos traficantes que mataram seu marido e, principalmente, por um impiedoso pistoleiro (Morgan Freeman).
Depois de levar uma forte pancada na cabeça, um autor de telenovelas pensa que vive em uma das suas obras, tendo o papel de herói, o que lhe permite conquistar o coração da sua amada na vida real.
An 'Airplane!'-style spoof of hospital soap operas—a brilliant young trainee can't stand the sight of blood; a doctor romances the head nurse in order to get the key to the drugs cabinet; and there's a mafioso on the loose disguised as a woman.
Kika é uma atriz que está em novelas, campanhas publicitárias e é idolatrada por milhões de fãs. Mas por trás das aparências, está em crise com sua vida pessoal e profissional, enquanto precisa lidar com as limitações de seu Transtorno Obsessivo Compulsivo.
After an accident leaves her a paraplegic, a former soap opera star struggles to recover both emotionally and mentally, until she meets her newest nurse, who has struggles of her own.
Cossetted and bored, Barbara Barry is finally sent off to school by her busy if doting widowed soap manufacturer father. When her nurse is injured en route, Barbara finds herself alone in town, ending up as part of radio song-and-dance act Dolan and Dolan sponsored by a rival soap company.
Anna flees her home, where she has been victimized for years by her spineless father’s mean-spirited second wife, to be with her lover, an honest businessman yet to make his fortune. When he is accused of a murder he didn’t commit, the couple’s domestic tranquillity is upended, and a desperate Anna must rely on her cruel stepmother to help support their child.
A popular but naive country singer is elected governor of a southern state and, once in office, decides to dismantle the corrupt political machine that got him elected. Director Daniel Mann's 1961 political drama stars Susan Hayward, Dean Martin, Wilfred Hyde-White, Martin Balsam, Ralph Meeker, Connie Sawyer, William Walker, Ray Teal, Larry Gates and Kathryn Card.
A special, video only story set on the Brookside close. On Friday 14th November 1997, a five night a week storyline ended in a cliffhanger and this video completes the story - a tale of kidnapping extortion and violence. The action-packed episode features faces from the show's past including Sheila Grant (Sue Johnston) and wayward son Barry Grant (Paul Usher), and is written by series creator Phil Redmond.
Manager of a large metropolitan airport tries to deal with the stress of his job, and the various characters that work for him.
In her celebrated video art serial, Whispering Pines, video and performance artist Shana Moulton tells the ever-evolving story of Cynthia, an anxiety-ridden hypochondriac whose constant search for health and happiness leads her towards fad cures and new age kitsch, creating situations in turn comic, contemplative, and surreal. The mundane objects in Cynthia's world act as portals into her own overactive subconscious, wherein hallucinatory sequences explore the nature of material and spiritual concerns in contemporary culture.
http://www.whisperingpines10.com/
Producer Mel Wexler is putting together "Manhattan," a night-time soap opera that will definitely be the toast of the town. He puts together a stellar cast, however, each member of this cast has his own little secret: Zach is a Hollywood leading man apparently being blackmailed by 2 mysterious women; Jane was a former daytime soap star who had to abruptly leave her popular role due to problems at home; Bill is a male model whose marital status would rather be kept secret by his agent; Gaby is a struggling actress determined to make it on her own; and Sabina is a legendary film star who must now take a role on a television series due to a serious "involvement" in San Francisco. One by one, their secrets unfold in this television movie based on the bestseller by Danielle Steel. (Summary Written by Phil Fernando)
Miguel is a prominent writer of soaps that gets rid of a policeman who stops him for driving intoxicated by telling him the end of the current remake of the hit soap opera "Destiny of Love". This time, as Michael tells the police officer, Gabriela won't die and will get married. When the officer tells everyone that he knows the end of the melodrama nobody believes him, so he will watch Miguel in order to ensure he fulfills his promise. The actress who plays Gabriela has problems with the production department, so they ask the writers to kill Gabriela in the following chapters. Miguel will be in a series of entanglements while he decides whether it is better to ignore or evade his bosses or the harassment of this crazy fanatic police officer.
A divorced father falls in love with a pregnant woman whose husband had abandoned her when he discovered she was expecting a child.
Another attempt to bring the 1960s primetime serial back to network television
A former resident of the town of Peyton Place, now wealthy and powerful, secretly returns to the town and sets in motion a spate of killings designed as revenge for past wrongs.
A soap opera actress finds herself increasingly pressured by her husband, a rich foreigner entirely devoted to a charismatic cult leader.