Season of the Sun (1956)
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Runtime : 1H 29M
Director : Takumi Furukawa
Escritor : Takumi Furukawa
Sinopse
The film tells the story of a group of high school boxing team members who spend their days drinking, sailing and chasing girls, and who more often than not spend their nights getting into brawls. In particular, it focuses upon Tatsuya, a sullen young man, who falls in love with Eiko, a proud upper-class girl.
Seventeen years after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a newspaper reporter looks for the bomb's effects, but everyone seems to have forgotten. He meets a woman who was there when it happened but when they fall in love she isn't able to move on.
A wild country girl moves to Shanghai with her painter boyfriend and experiences exploitation and poverty.
In 1938 Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler sponsored an expedition to Tibet lead by several Nazi SS scientists to study the regions flora and fauna, and to take scientific measurements of the Earths magnetic fields. The expedition was also sent to find traces of the orgins of the "Aryan" race in Tibet which was where Himmler thought evidence of could be found. This film is a Nazi era documentary of that expedition.
The cinematic adaptation of "The Storm" play by Aleksandr Ostrovsky. In a provincial town on the Volga River, the young and sensitive Katerina marries Tikhon, a violent drunkard, and thus enters the crude milieu of greedy salesmen, the "dark kingdom". Her mother-in-law, Kabanikha, rules the family with an iron fist and endlessly harasses Katerina. One day, when Tikhon is away, she meets Boris, a man who embodies everything Katerina is longing for.
A wise and forgiving communist leader decides to send a young worker, Karl Renn, as an international delegate to the Soviet Union after the worker had deserted a picket-line and had expressed doubts about the methods of class struggle in in his own country.
Deaf Russian village - a real bearish corner. People live here like a hundred years ago, in their quiet and seemingly inconspicuous life there is everything - birth and death, the struggle of love and hate, good and evil, honor and betrayal.
On her honeymoon on a ship the daughter of a rich plant owner realizes that she's not happy with her marriage. She meets a poor woman on the way to meet her future husband, a missionary in India. The women decide to swap roles...
Directed by Ivan Pyryev.
Entering an apartment block in search of a drink of water, a naive peasant finds himself mistaken for a thief and is chased by the residents. Whilst evading capture, he inadvertently exposes the venality and dishonesty of the building's middle class occupants.
Liderados pelo perverso Ilulagu Khan, os mongóis tomam Bagdá e matam o califa. Porém, o jovem Ali, filho do califa, consegue escapar. Ali é adotado pelo velho Babá, líder de um grupo de ladrões. E ao lado de Babá e seus larápios, ele cresce e aprende todas as artimanhas que uma vida no castelo nunca poderia ter ensinado. Agora, já um homem feito, Ali deverá retornar ao castelo para vingar a morte de seu pai, retomar o seu lugar de direito no trono e resgatar seu grande amor: Amara.
Parma, 1815. A duquesa de Sanseverina vive uma paixão devoradora mas não correspondida por seu sobrinho Fabrice. Considerado traidor por ter apoiado Napoleão, Fabrice é obrigado a entrar para o seminário para escapar às perseguições. Depois de matar um homem em legítima defesa, novamente deve fugir...
A hapless loser (with the surname of Loser) undergoes misadventures with avaracious clergy, a tired horse, and a walking granary (among other things) on his road to collectivized happiness.
Abstrata, belamente fotografada e quase muda, exceção feita a narração limitada, esta excursão arthouse sem trama do realizador de culto lituano Šarūnas Bartas presta tributo a uma velha mansão grande junto ao lago e à cultura lituana.
No Estrela de África, um bairro crioulo dos arredores de Lisboa, um bebé de poucos dias irá sobreviver a várias mortes. Tina, a sua jovem mãe, pega-lhe ao colo e abre o gás. Resgatado pelo pai, ele dormirá nas ruas da cidade alimentado pelo leite da caridade alheia. Por duas vezes, quase será vendido, por desespero, por amor, por quase nada. Mas Tina não se esquece: com a ajuda das suas vizinhas do bairro a vingança aproxima-se...
Four female cons who have formed a band in prison get a chance to play at a police ball outside the walls. They take the chance to escape. Being on the run from the law they even make it to sell their music and become famous outlaws.
A fairy tale about a twin princess and a prince who where seperated after their birth.
When legendary hunter Bob Rainsford is shipwrecked on the perilous reefs surrounding a mysterious island, he finds himself the guest of the reclusive and eccentric Count Zaroff. While he is very gracious at first, Zaroff eventually forces Rainsford and two other shipwreck survivors, brother and sister Eve and Martin Towbridge, to participate in a sadistic game of cat and mouse in which they are the prey and he is the hunter.
Francesco and Marta run a husband-and-wife design company in Rome. When Francesco's aunt dies in Instanbul he travels there to sort out the hamam turkish steam bath that she left him. He finds a love and warmth in his realtives' Instanbul home that is missing from his life in Italy.
Em uma mistura de filme e documentário conhecemos a vida dos habitantes de Xenia, Ohio, onde não existe qualquer perspectiva de vida. O filme alterna entre a história fictícia de Solomon e Tummler que matam gatos e cachorros de rua para vender ao dono de um supermercado e comprar cola, e os relatos de pessoas reais em um EUA que ninguém quer conhecer.
Harry Block é um escritor de sucesso que é convidado para receber uma homenagem na mesma universidade que um dia o rejeitou. Enquanto se prepara para a viagem, Harry é confrontado pelos seus personagens ficcionais, bem como pelas pessoas reais que não querem ter nada a ver com ele. O escritor percebe o quanto suas histórias afetaram as pessoas a seu redor.