El rayo justiciero (1955)
Gênero : Ação
Runtime : 1H 12M
Director : Jaime Salvador
Sinopse
New sheriff cleans up the town. First (?) in "Mauricio Rosales" series.
A estrada de ferro que liga a Península de Yucatan à Califórnia está sendo construída para o benefício do México. Mas, nos últimos tempos, ela anda sob o constante ataque e controle de uma gangue de malfeitores que querem forçar a sua venda, e ninguém consegue provar a ligação dos bandidos ao feitor J. A. Marsden, que seria o maior beneficiário da venda.
A mad scientist named Dr. Satan plots to steal key pieces of technology to enable him to build an army of robots based on his prototype to conquer America. The only one standing in his way is Bob Wayne, who fights Satan as the enigmatic Copperhead. Mysterious Doctor Satan is a 1940 film serial named after its chief villain. Doctor Satan's main opponent is the masked mystery man, "The Copperhead", whose secret identity is Bob Wayne, a man searching for justice and revenge on Satan for the death of his step-father. The serial charts the conflict between the two as Bob Wayne pursues Doctor Satan, while the latter completes his plans for world domination.
A man returning home after having fought in the Civil War discovers that corrupt politicians have taken over the county and are terrorizing and shaking down the citizens. He dons the costume of his ancestor, the famous Zorro, and sets out to bring them to justice.
A superhero known as The Black Commando battles Nazi agents who use explosive gases and artificial lightning to sabotage the war effort.
Um justiceiro mascarado chamado Chicote Negro, que após ser morto por bandidos tem o posto assumido pela irmã jornalista.
A team of two-fisted insurance investigators (one of whom disguises himself as The Masked Marvel) endeavor to discover and thwart the loathsome saboteur Sakima.
Um de seus antigos colegas é assassinado, e o vigilante mascarado Rorschach decide investigar um plano para matar e desacreditar todos os super-heróis do passado e do presente. À medida que ele se reconecta com sua antiga legião de combate ao crime, um grupo desorganizado de super-heróis aposentados, dentre os quais somente um possui verdadeiros poderes, Rorschach vislumbra uma ampla e perturbadora conspiração que está ligada ao passado deles e a catastróficas consequências para o futuro.
Pulp hero "The Spider" seeks to destroy all criminals. In this serialized adventure, he battles The Octopus, who intends to replace the government of the United States.
The mysterious Don Del Oro ("Lord of Gold"), an idol of the Yaqui Indians, plans to take over the gold and become Emperor. Francisco was put in charge of a legion to combat the Yaqui tribe and protect the land, but when attacked Zorro came to his rescue. Francisco's partner recognized Zorro as the hidalgo Don Diego Vega, then ask him to take over the fighting legion as his alter-ego Zorro.
Columbia's 12th serial of 57 total (following 1940's "Deadwood Dick" and ahead of 1941's "White Eagle") is another of director's James Horne's "classics" where he evidently figured that the same reactions that served him well in Laurel and Hardy films would work well in action serials where he has all hands, heroes and villains alike, doing some kind of over-the top "take", no matter the situation. This loose adaptation of an Edgar Wallace story finds Michael Bellamy (Kenne Duncan in his Kenneth Duncan period) inheriting Garr Castle, but his brother, Abel Bellamy (James Craven, as usual making Oil-Can Harry look smooth), has him imprisoned unjustly and moves into the castle himself. When Michael's wife, Elaine Bellamy (Dorothy Fay), fails to return after visiting Abel, her sister Valerie Howett (Iris Meredith), accompanied by their father,
A new town doctor arrives at the same time as local Indians needprotection from troublemaking looters.
Government agents work to interfere with schemes to trick the Comanches into war with the Texans.
Columbia's 33rd serial (made between "Jack Armstrong" and "The Sea Hound") was based on the character that first appeared in "Action Comics" No. 42.
A masked hero called "The Eagle" leads California ranchers in a struggle against Russian Cossacks who are plotting to take over California and turn it into a Russian colony.
The Phantom Rider helps Mary Grayson thwart a plot to steal her land.
Para proteger um talismã mágico de ser usado para o mal, um adolescente chamado Billy Batson é dado o poder de se tornar um super-herói adulto, Capitão Marvel, com uma única palavra mágica: "Shazam!"
Após o assassinato da sua família, um homem assume a identidade de um misterioso super herói. Rude e sádico, ele se vinga de todos que o fizeram sofrer.
Kick-Ass se junta a um grupo de pessoas que se fantasia de super heróis para combater o crime. Enquanto isso, seu inimigo Red Mist planeja uma vingança que afetará a todos.
Durante uma missão de rotina no espaço, uma nave americana desaparece misteriosamente da sua órbita. Os americanos suspeitam dos soviéticos e pensam em uma retaliação. No entanto, os ingleses se mantêm mais cautelosos, após existirem possibilidades da nave ter pousado perto do Mar do Japão. Assim, James Bond (Sean Connery) vai investigar o caso, mas quando os soviéticos perdem uma espaçonave nas mesmas circunstâncias, Bond tem poucos dias para resolver esta missão e evitar a Terceira Guerra Mundial.
Capulina chip and are transported back to prehistoric times with a time machine. There they live crazy adventures.
An act of kindness leads to the destruction of two lives in just thirty miles, when a hitchiker and his ride let down their guards and reveal intimate, dark secrets about their pasts
The movie theme is the migration of Mexicans to the United States in search of the "American dream". Piporro crosses the Rio Grande swimming illegally, and lives a series of events that lead him from walking away from the police to winning the award for "Bracero of the Year" for his work in the harvest. Prize that he will lose before returning to Mexico just as he had gone: no money in the bag.
Jimmy Rivière is a young Gypsy, has a sunny but nervous disposition. Sometimes too nervous. Under pressure from his community, he converts to Pentacostalism and renounces his two passions: Thai boxing and Sonia. But how can he refuse the new fight that his trainer proposes? And how can he resist the powerful desire that draws him to Sonia?
After her son gets killed in a car crash, Elena loses all lust for life. Recovering from the crash in a hospital a stranger, David, kidnaps her and takes her for a mysterious journey in an old camper.
O filme analisa o processo criativo de Maria Bethânia e ilustra as transformações na vida da cantora, desde seu surgimento como uma das musas da contracultura até o posto de intérprete mais cultuada da MPB.
Una divertida aventura de Viruta y Capulina en donde se verán enredados en un lío de boxeadores confundiendo tanto la situación que ni sus bellas amigas los podrán salvar de una gran golpiza.
Quando o professor Marsh desaparece enquanto procurava a cidade perdida de Lukachukai, sua filha pede ajuda aos Três Mesquiteers.
Victor must leave his life of partying and change his girlfriend, Lucero, for the bride that awaits him in his hometown.
Private Diary documents photographer Pedro Usabiaga working with a variety of amateur models. The audience sees how the relationships between the photographer and the subjects changes during their time together, as well as how the individual photographs begin to take shape. Pedro Usabiaga is a well-established Basque photographer whose chief concerns are figurative photography and whose passion in photographing the Spanish male. In this hour long conversation with the artist we are given entry into that process of selecting models (none of the models he uses for this book to be titled 'Private Diary' are professional, but instead are randomly chosen as Usabiaga observes athletes in action) and then allowed to follow Usabiaga and his crew as they photograph these men in natural settings and natural light.
Hollywood, 1927. The talkies have just been born and the big movie studios, responding to the demand of millions of Spanish speakers, begin to produce Spanish versions of their most ambitious productions. It is when a group of Spanish directors, screenwriters and actors decide to settle in Los Angeles in order to make a name for themselves among the biggest stars.
Marina Orlova couldn't even imagine how many adventures are expecting to her in a first grade...