The Masks of Death (1984)
The last adventure of Sherlock Holmes.
Gênero : Mistério, Crime, Thriller, Cinema TV
Runtime : 1H 12M
Director : Roy Ward Baker
Sinopse
Sherlock Holmes has retired. But when MacDonald asks him to take on another case, he says yes. There have been some mysterious murders, and there are no visible causes for the deaths. At the same time Holmes gets this case, Graf Udo Von Felseck gives him another case: find a young and missing prince to prevent war between Germany and England. But Von Felseck is not as honest as he seems...
The plot is set in modern Moscow, in the 1990s, with "New Russians", Hummer H1 SUVs, bribery, violence, truck fulls of tinned stew as a dowry, etc.
After the deaths of d'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis the Queen Anna of Austria has to ask for help of the heroes' sons. They, however, cannot fulfill her request on their own. The original musketeers have to literally return to live and embark on a new adventure.
In the post Spanish civil war years, Catalan kids would sit in circles among the ruins and tell stories, known as "aventis" (the film's original title in Catalan, its original language). These tales mix war stories, local gossip, comic book characters, fantasy and real events. The "aventis" told in this film are told in flashback. In the mid 80s, 45 or so years after the age of the "aventis," a doctor and a nurse-nun (who grew up together, and now are co-workers in a hospital) identify the corpse of one of the main characters of the "aventis" of their childhood and adolescence. Besides the interesting flashbacks - a chronical of the Civil War in a "typical" Barcelona microcosm itself, the discovery of this body (belonging to someone long presumed dead) leads to other surprises and unresolved doubts, several decades later
O ambiente é hostil, o céu é um cruel inimigo e predadores alados amedrontam a face da Terra, cuspindo fogo. Em meio a neve e a neblina, um pequeno grupo de aventureiros e caçadores embarca em uma incrível jornada liderada por um capitão atormentado e obcecado por vingar-se do maior dos dragões. Enquanto lutam para continuarem vivos em terras distantes e ameaçados o tempo todo por essas criaturas impiedosas, eles estreitam laços e descobrem que o passado pode aproximá-los ou dividi-los.
Investigative reporter Jack Parlabane stumbles across the aftermath of a murder scene in Edinburgh, and when he shows little sign of shock at the gruesome killing of a respected doctor, Detective Inspector McGregor suspects that he is the killer and Parlabane must clear his name.
A crooked detective begins investigating a situation on behalf of a friend and gets involved in murder, deception and double-cross.
Guido is an international journalist with an unusually difficult relationship with his daughter, Mimi. He hasn't seen her for several years and has just taken her away from the boarding school she was immured in. She is now 15, and for some reason is doing everything in her power to get him to have sex with her. She even brings herself to orgasm while lying in the bed next to him. He goes nearly apoplectic trying to avoid her advances. Eventually, her school chum Therese comes to visit them, and Guido at last has a semi-suitable object for his by now quite overheated passions. The story is loosely based on a novel by Guido Morselli.
O filme narra os últimos dias do artista alcóolatra e tuberculoso Amedeo Modigliani em Montparnasse, Paris. Ele traça as relações do pintor com três mulheres: uma jornalista britânica masoquista, uma simpática dona de um bistrô e uma jovem inocente, modelo de alguns de seus quadros mais famosos.
Thérèse is living in a provincial town, unhappily married to Bernard, a dull, pompous man whose only interest is preserving his family name and property. They live in an isolated country mansion surrounded by servants. Early in her marriage her only comforts are her fondness for Bernard's pine-tree forest, which was her primary reason for marrying him, and her love for her sister-in-law and Bernard's half-sister, Anne. The movie recounts in flashback the circumstances that led to her being charged with poisoning her husband.
A tourist guide meets an unhappy married woman who wants to take up dancing. With his motivation, she becomes a successful dancer but success corrupts the man's mind.
Simultaneously nihilistic and heartening, Ward No. 6 is based on a story by Chekov, in which a psychiatric doctor becomes a patient in his own asylum. Updated to contemporary Russia, the film is a cocktail of anxieties and riddles, showcasing how easy it is to become what we fear most.
The consumer society is dead. Welcome to the preservation society! As of their first school year, children are taught to love objects, which most of them do. But not all citizens. To remedy the problem, The security forces crack down on vandals, bands of protesters and other iconoclasts. And for greater efficiency the States uses the services of Kief, a mad scientist who operates on prisoners so as to pair them with totem-objects. Which is why Judith gets wrinkles when her clothes are creased. Which is why the skin of librarian Mikoski gets pierced with holes whenever rats gnaw at his books.
Henry Tawes, a middle-aged sheriff in a rural Tennessee town, is usually the first man to criticize others for their bad behavior. Miserable in his marriage, Henry falls in love with teenage seductress Alma, who is the daughter of local criminal and moonshiner Carl McCain. Henry's moral character comes further into question when he is tempted to conceal Carl's crimes in order to prolong his relationship with Alma.
The usually absent father of a chubby kid shows up to take him on a road trip.
O filme conta a história de Ameeran uma menina de Faizabad, que por vingança de um homem que tinha sido preso por causa que seu pai tinha testemunhado contra ele, é vendida para um bordel de luxo de Lucknow, e torna-se a célebre cortesã Umrao Jaan.
Since the suicide of his wife, Jacques Loursat has gone downhill. Estranged from his daughter, his lawyer's pratice in ruins, he consoles himself with drink. One night he is woken by a gunshot and catches sight of a young man fleeing the house. Isabelle, his daughter, claims to know nothing about it, even when he finds the body of a young man. Isabelle hangs around with a gang of spoiled young people who have no shortage of money, and is in love with Joel, an ambitious boy involved in drug dealing. Antoine, from a more modest background, is in love with her. When the police start investigating Joel's murder, Antoine becomes the ideal suspect.
Eva (Tilda Swinton) mora sozinha e teve sua casa e carro pintados de vermelho. Maltratada nas ruas, ela tenta recomeçar a vida com um novo emprego e vive temorosa, evitando as pessoas. O motivo desta situação vem de seu passado, da época em que era casada com Franklin (John C. Reilly), com quem teve dois filhos: Kevin (Jasper Newell/Ezra Miller) e Lucy (Ursula Parker). Seu relacionamento com o primogênito, Kevin, sempre foi complicado, desde quando ele era bebê. Com o tempo a situação foi se agravando mas, mesmo conhecendo o filho muito bem, Eva jamais imaginaria do que ele seria capaz de fazer.
Uma pedra rúnica nórdica é descoberta no oeste da Pensilvânia. A profecia sobre ela fala do grande lobo nórdico Fenrir (Fenris), e que sua liberação da pedra trará o Ragnarok - o fim do mundo. O arqueólogo Sam Stewart e sua esposa Marla descobrem que tem alguma ligação com seu amigo Martin. Um menino chamado Jacob é assombrado por terríveis pesadelos do que está por vir, e sua família explica esses sonhos através de histórias da lenda nórdica, que diz que o único que pode destruir Fenrir é Tyr, o deus nórdico da guerra, que é profetizado para voltar a lutar contra a criatura.
After an eight-month stay in a mental hospital, a tormented man comes home to live with his sister; but a mysterious boarder may be trying to kill him.
Near a small English village, a scientific team is conducting experiments with magnetic fields, the results of which may have military applications but the intensification of which seem to be connected to UFO reports, a series of murders, an enormous insect egg, and a strange visitor with exceptional scientific knowledge. Released in USA as THE COSMIC MONSTER.