A Vida de Jesus (1997)
Gênero : Drama
Runtime : 1H 36M
Director : Bruno Dumont
Sinopse
Freddy vive com sua mãe, dona do café Au Petit Casino, em Bailluel. Tratado num hospital especializado em epilepsia, Freddy passa a maior parte de seu tempo vegetando com seus amigos. Eles não têm mais de 20 anos, são desinformados, sem estudo e desempregados. Assim, passam o dia à toa, andando em suas motocicletas.
Advogado perde sua licença devido à um ataque de consciência em pleno tribunal, e resolve escrever um livro. Pega emprestado um volume inédito com um conhecido, em busca de inspiração, mas quando vai devolvê-lo encontra o autor morto. Decide publicar o livro como sendo seu e faz sucesso imediato. Mas a situação se complica quando um detetive descobre que os crimes relatados no livro são reais.
Clássico musical ambientado no coração do Pacífico Sul e com pano de fundo na Segunda Guerra Mundial. É a história de amor de uma jovem e ingênua enfermeira da Marinha (Mitzi Gaynor) e de um não tão jovem fazendeiro francês (Rossano Brazzi), que se conhecem em uma ilha ocupada pelos norte-americanos. Um jovem soldado (John Kerr) e uma bela garota nativa (France Nuyen) também se apaixonam. Ray Walston, no papel de um marinheiro que vive aprontando tramóias, e Juanita Hall, como a rainha nativa do mercado negro, completam o elenco. A trilha sonora inclui pérolas da dupla Rodgers e Hammerstein como "Some Enchanted Evening", "Bali Ha'i", "There is Nothin' Like a Dame" e "Younger Than Springtime".
Jeffrey, a gay man living in New York City with an overwhelming fear of contracting AIDS, concludes that being celibate is the only option to protect himself. As fate would have it, shortly after his declaration of a sex-free existence, he meets the handsome Steve Howard, his dream man -- except for his HIV-positive status. Facing this dilemma, Jeffrey turns to his best friend and an outrageous priest for guidance.
Burt Farlander e Verona De Tessant são um casal apaixonado, de Denver, vivendo a experiência de esperar o primeiro filho. Aos seis meses da gravidez, eles säo surpreendidos por uma má notícia: os pais de Burt, estão saindo do país para passar dois anos na Bélgica. Como os pais de Verona já são falecidos, o casal se vê frustrado na expectativa de compartilhar com a família as habilidades paternas e garantir um ambiente familiar ao bebê. Eles decidem viajar pelos Estados Unidos e Canadá para rever outros parentes e velhos amigos e encontrar o lugar perfeito para começar uma família. Burt e Verona se deparam com histórias emocionantes até fazer uma grande descoberta: o verdadeiro significado da palavra "lar".
Mona Bergström is a sweet eurovision-obsessed woman in her 30s. She is married to a lazy husband and has four children, all named after her favorite Swedish Eurovision popstars. Her brother is a crossdressing guy self-titled "Candy Darling". Mona works in a retirement home for disabled people, where she is responsible for taking care of a young man named David who suffers a movement-restricting disease forcing him into a wheelchair. David's parents have abandoned him, as they wanted a normal child. Mona holds a big place in David's heart, and vica versa. David's goal is to get his parents to come and visit him, and he wants to show them that he is a great person, despite his handicap. Therefore he works with music on his computer, and his goal is to create a song, send it to "The Cardigans", a famous Swedish band and have them play the song and credit him, hoping his parents would spot it and want to visit him.
Antonia e Massimo formam um casal feliz que está casado há 10 anos, até que ele morre repentinamente em um acidente de carro. Desolada com o mundo, Antonia se afasta de todos pouco após a morte do marido. Até que, por acaso, ela encontra uma declaração amorosa a Massimo entre seus pertences.
Três jovens amigos vivem só para se divertir. Mas a festa acaba quando suas respectivas noivas comunicam que estão grávidas. Forçados a se transformarem em adultos responsáveis, eles logo descobrem que a paternidade é mais difícil do que imaginavam.
25-year-old Karri is stuck with his life: days at a job as a guard at a shopping mall, nights out with his friends. Then Karri meets Caasha, a Somali girl about his age.
Joaquim Pinto, que vive com HIV há mais de duas décadas, faz uma retrospectiva da sua vida no cinema, de suas amizades e amores, dos mistérios da arte e da natureza – tudo isso enquanto se submete a um tratamento medicamentoso experimental.
But it is a devastating expose of party-n-play culture. It's hard to depict methamphetamine use with any sensitivity, but this movie's dry and frank style bring this plague into startling focus. It's very compassionate and gives a lot of context and insight into how Gay culture and drug culture meet. It is heartbreaking to know that the majority of the men interviewed for this movie are HIV-positive. This movie includes graphic sexual content and vivid depictions of drug use, but it serves a very valuable purpose. it is an eloquent call for social responsibility.
Roshan (Sunny Wayne) is a cosmetic surgeon and a Casanova by nature. Abu (Sanju), a budding filmmaker and Joe (Praveen), a TV show producer, are his friends. Joe has just been ditched by his girl friend Ann (Poojitha Menon). A devastated Joe heads over to Goa along with his friends to get over the tragedy that has befell him
Journalism student Simon Tate thinks it's strange when four students at the university suddenly die in "unrelated" accidents. When his friend, Dr. Benjamin Roanic, becomes the prime suspect and is suddenly murdered, Simon sets out to prove his innocence. He soon discovers the students were Roanic's test subjects in a secret drug test program, and had been cured of AIDS. He is forced to run for his life, when a pharmaceutical company tries to prevent him from revealing the truth behind "Phase IV".
James Earl Jones narrates this examination of the historical relationship between American Indians and African-Americans, who often merged their cultures to work and live together while mainstream white society shunned them. Through illuminating anecdotes and interviews, descendants of fused black and Indian families discuss the complications of their mixed heritage and how their culture was largely erased on official documents.
Seth is a youth with artistic leanings, a fascination with Black pop culture, and a dead-end life in an Adirondack village. He's alternatively sensitive and brutal with Kristen, who wants a sexual relationship that he explosively rejects. Late one night, as he's closing the cafe where he works, a young Black man attempts to rob him at gun point but faints from illness. Seth takes the man, Knowledge, an escapee from a nearby prison, to a family cabin where he nurses him and they begin a tentative friendship. When the sheriff learns of Seth's harboring a fugitive, a confrontation looms. Relationships between fathers and their children dominate the subplots.
Ivan is the fierce patriarch of a family of Croatian refugees living in Auckland during the Yugoslav wars. Nina is his daughter, ready to live on her own, despite his angry objections. Eddie is the Maori she takes as her lover. Nina works at the restaurant where Eddie cooks. For a price, she agrees to marry another restaurant employee, a Chinese man, so that he can establish permanent residency. The money gives her the independence she needs to leave her parents' house and move in with Eddie. Complications arise when Eddie realizes the depth of her father's fury and the strength of Nina's family ties.
In New Orleans, a relationship between a black man and a white girl leads to a string of murders.
Set in small-town rural Georgia, a man returns to his hometown to face the deep-rooted racial tensions of a deep southern town that ages, but never changes.
Antoine Boitelle in his youth, was in love with a young black girl he met while he was doing his military service. But his parents did not accept the girl, not only because of her skin color, but also because of the reaction of the villagers who refused to bless this union. However, over the years, Antoine Boitelle retained the same feelings
A moving and uplifting drama about the effects of interracial marriage in the 1960s. Friends since childhood, and loved by both families, this couple are exiled after their wedding and have to wage a courageous battle to find their place in America as a loving family.
On the eve of 1987's Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, surviving families and friends of people who have died of AIDS prepare panels to be added to a large-scale memorial quilt project. Drawing from the sea of names memorialized, director Robert Epstein focuses on the lives of six people. Alongside the intimate profiles offered, through news footage and interviews, Epstein puts the AIDS crisis in the larger context of social and government response to the disease.