Houses of Poverty (1936)

The citizens of a tiny Cornish village are tormented during World War II by a headless ghost which is haunting the local tin mine.

A look behind the scenes of the Czech gay porn boom.

Monica is 13 years old and has already created her own world, on the street, where she fights courageously to defend what little she has: her friends, her boyfriend, who sells drugs, and her dignity and pride that makes no concessions to anyone. On Christmas night, like every night, she sells roses to make a living. But life brings her a new appointment with loneliness, poverty, drugs and death.

A behind-the-scenes look at the rise of the American rock band, Kings of Leon.

Marcel Marx, um escritor aposentado que se exilou voluntariamente na cidade portuária de Le Havre, onde exerce a profissão de engraxate de sapatos, abandonou toda e qualquer ambição literária e vive em um mundo reduzido, formado pelo restaurante da esquina, seu trabalho e sua esposa Arletty. Inesperadamente, o destino coloca bruscamente em seu caminho um jovem imigrante africano ao mesmo tempo em que sua esposa fica gravemente doente. Novamente Marcel deve combater o muro frio da indiferença humana para tentar ajudar o jovem imigrante.

Real-life drama about why, in a beautiful and quirky rural town, film- maker Jez Lewis' childhood friends are killing themselves. Beginning with a personal quest for understanding, the film moves into a year-long drama of human tragedy and redemption as principal character Cass comes to terms with his own mortality and attempts to lift himself out of his cycle of self-destruction. This core narrative carves an upward arc through an intimate study of a place often described as paradise, but which harbours an undertow of lethal hedonism and disillusionment. As people continue to kill themselves during the making of the film, a maelstrom of conflicting values throws up unexpected truths about the human condition.

Somewhere in the spanish country, in the 60s. Paco and his wife Régula are very poor. They work as tenant farmers for a very wealthy landowner. They have 3 children. One is backward. The others can not got to school because the master "needs" their work. When Regula's brother is fired from where he has worked for 61 years, he settles down at their little place... An attack against the archaism of the spanish country of the 60s.

MADE IN SERBIA portrays the Serbian video porn industry by presenting four life stories of domestic porn actors. Unlike their Western counterparts, these people work in porn industry in order to survive and obtain basic life supplies. The film follows the young hot shot porn star who travels to a shoot in Hungary, a bisexual actor who visits hometown, a 40 year old actress that invites her husband into the porn business and a peasant who became a local legend thanks to working in porn industry. The whole story is framed within one young man's search for the long lost girl who appears to have entered the world of porn. He shoots the documentary in order to find her.

A couple of youngish adventurers go into the wilderness of British Columbia in search of a lost colleague. Their plane crashes and they find themselves at the mercy of a crazed old Scottish miner, who has lived in isolation for many decades searching the mountain caves for a chamber of long lost gold. He is prepared to do anything - including murder - to keep his gold for himself.

The film chronicles everyday struggle of a Russian woman for “ordinary” happiness of her family.

Life creates many obstacles for 12 years old boy - Tedo. Tedo belongs to the generation, which was forced to mass displacement because of the civil war in Abkhazia, one of the most beatiful places in Georgia. The civil war took away everything Tedo had, even hope. The film tells about an extraordinary internal drama of a little boy, his thoughts, feelings, pasions, sorrows and efforts to take arms against the difficulties.

Ellie Mae lives on Primrose Hill with her good-hearted and fancy free mother, her drunken father, her younger sister and a mean-spirited grandmother. The Hill is not a good part of town, however. When she meets and falls for a hard-working man, they marry and she hides her past from him. When he discovers the truth it jeopardizes their marriage.

Mickey is playing Christmas carols on a standup bass for change. Alas, all he gets is screws, rocks, and other useless stuff. He plays outside a rich man's window, and the spoiled brat kid inside decides he wants Pluto. Mickey isn't selling, but when his bass gets destroyed by a passing sleigh and he sees a house full of orphans with no presents, he changes his mind. Mickey plays Santa to the kids. Meanwhile, the brat has been torturing Pluto; his father finally has enough and throws Pluto out and spanks the child. Pluto and Mickey are reunited, and as a bonus, the kid has tied the Christmas turkey to Pluto's tail. (Also included: Chip an' Dale 1947, Lend a Paw 1941)

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.

A group of German infantrymen of the First World War live out their lives in the trenches of France. They find brief entertainment and relief in a village behind the lines, but primarily terror fills their lives as the attacks on and from the French army ebb and flow. One of the men, Karl, goes home on leave only to discover the degradation forced on his family by wartime poverty. He returns to the lines in time to face an enormous attack by French tanks.

Like a Candide dreaming of Eldorado, Jallel lands in France, hoping to try his luck. From encounter to encounter, hostel to social welfare group, Jallel will make his way through a Paris of outcasts. Although failing to achieve his hopes, he discovers and shares in the solidarity felt by the destitute. –uniFrance

In this dense setting, the inhabitants of a large, claustrophobic apartment reveal their darkest secrets, fears, obsessions and hostilities.

In his film debut Ritter is sent to investigate miners being killed and their mines confiscated. The culprit is Evans and after Tex joins the gang, he is sent to kill two more miners. When Estaban is killed, Tex is put on trial for all three murders.

Considerado o melhor filme da história do cinema coreano por parte da crítica especializada em cinema asiático, “Obaltan” retrata uma Coréia econômica e moralmente arrasada pela guerra. O filme narra as desventuras de uma família de irmãos órfãos de pai que vivem em um lugar em ruínas com uma mãe completamente louca. Um dos irmãos é um homem tímido e responsável cujo salário mal dá para sustentar sua família que também inclui sua esposa grávida e filha. Outro irmão é um ex-militar com ferimentos de guerra que endureceram sua alma. Entre esses dois personagens antagônicos está uma irmã que é arrastada para a prostituição depois de ser rejeitada por seu antigo namorado. E há o irmão mais novo, desencantado com a miséria à sua volta e que vai ajudar as finanças da família como vendedor de jornais.

Masao mora com a mãe doente e a irmã pequena na periferia de Tóquio. A mãe é engraxate e não quer que Masao trabalhe para se concentrar nos estudos, única forma de sairem dali e terem uma vida digna. Mas a família passa momentos de penúria e ajudado por uma garota rica e por sua professora, Masao tenta emprego na indústria de televisores. No Japão, porém, a integridade moral da pessoa é pré-requisito e Masao dará margens a que todos duvidem dele. Primeiro filme de Nagisa Oshima.