Black Man White Skin (2015)
Gênero : Documentário
Runtime : 1H 18M
Director : José Manuel Colón
Sinopse
This film chronicles the health and social problems that African albinos face and details the fight waged on their behalf by advocacy groups in Spain.
Durante as férias com os amigos nas montanhas, o universitário Bert acidentalmente atira em um homem portador de uma doença infecciosa. Bert entra em pânico e abandona o homem no local. A vítima consegue chegar até um reservatório e acaba infectando a água. A doença que é contagiosa atinge um dos estudantes, e agora o grupo de amigos luta para evitar a contaminação.
O simbologista e académico americano Robert Langdon viaja até Paris para lançar um novo livro, mas é subitamente chamado pela polícia francesa quando o conservador do Museu do Louvre é morto de uma forma macabra e as pistas apontam para ele. Compete agora a Langdon, com a ajuda de Sophie Neveu, criptógrafa e neta do conservador, fugir da polícia, resolver o crime e descobrir um segredo milenar que pode mudar a face do mundo.
In the early 1900s, as the Panama Canal is being built, a group of doctors try to discover a cure for yellow fever, a disease that is decimating the workers constructing the canal.
Diabetes. Prostate cancer. Alcoholism. Parkinson's diseases. Just a handful of many common illnesses that Western medicine has been inadequate in curing or treating. Witness the story of eight brave souls as they leave the developed world behind in search of deeper answers. Living in seclusion for one month in the heart of the Amazon jungle, these men and women take part in the powerful healing practices of Peru's indigenous medicine men, working with centuries-old plant remedies and spiritual disciplines. In their most desperate hour, these patients are forced to confront not only their physical ailments, but their own spiritual and psychological barriers in the process. Five will return with real results, two will return disappointed, and one won't come back at all.
After the plague kills everyone they know, seven camp counselors quarantined themselves at the Quaker camp where they've spent every summer of their lives. Three months later, their sanity hangs by a thread. When something happens to upset the balance they've spent months establishing, they question their religious beliefs, their friendships and trust in each other, and whether there's anything else out there...waiting in the woods.
No te engañes corazón (released in English as Don't Fool Yourself Dear) is the first full-feature film of Cantinflas after becoming a star of the carpa circuit (folk theater). It was also one of the earliest films of Sara García and Carlos Orellana and the first where they share the screen. Don Boni (Orellana) is diagnosed with a deadly disease and decides to spend his last days doing good deeds. He leaves his wife and decides to help people. He then gets drunk and wakes up with a winning lottery ticket and realizes that the doctor who diagnosed him has been sent to prison for fraud.
The White Plague, a leprosy-like disease, ravages the world during a war. Based on a play by Karel Čapek.
The capture of Naples, the first great European city to be liberated, revealed the magnitude of the tasks involved in re-creating the means of livelihood and the machinery of government in a devastated, starving and disease-ridden city.
A knight returns home from the Crusades to find his village devastated by disease and his family gone. He roams the forest searching for them, until he finds a mysterious maiden who is being held prisoner by a black knight. In order to free her, he must confront her captor.
Após escapar do labirinto, Thomas (Dylan O'Brien) e os garotos que o acompanharam em sua fuga da Clareira precisam agora lidar com uma realidade bem diferente: a superfície da Terra foi queimada pelo sol e eles precisam lidar com criaturas disformes chamadas Cranks, que desejam devorá-los vivos.
The sea around Minamata was heavily polluted with mercury during the 1950s and 1960s from the Chisso Corporation's chemical factory. This highly toxic chemical bioaccumulated in shellfish and fish in the Yatsushiro Sea which, when eaten by the local populace, gave rise to Minamata disease. The disease was responsible for the deaths and disabling of thousands of residents, all around the Yatsushiro Sea. The marine ecosystem was also extensively damaged.
When doctors diagnosed 19-year-old rock star Jason Becker with Lou Gehrig's Disease, they said he would never make music again and that he wouldn’t live to see his 25th birthday. 22 years later, without the ability to move or to speak, Jason is alive and making music with his eyes.
Ao saber que sua irmã está prestes a morrer e que a provável data de sua morte será o fim do outono a pequena Trixie encara uma tentativa inocente e desesperada de salvar sua vida. Com agulha e linha na mão costura as folhas que caem das árvores para que o outono nunca termine.
A shocking and informative expose of the "Cancer Industry" and the "Western Diet".
Ashburn (Sandra Bullock) é uma agente especial do FBI extremamente competente, apesar de ser mal vista pelos colegas de trabalho por ser arrogante e antipática. De olho em uma promoção no trabalho, ela pede ao seu chefe (Demian Bichir) que a encarregue da investigação de um poderoso traficante de drogas em Boston, cuja identidade é desconhecida. Entretanto, logo ao chegar Ashburn decide interrogar um pequeno traficante preso por Mullins (Melissa McCarthy), uma desbocada policial local que não aceita ordens de ninguém. Não demora muito para que as duas batam de frente, mas elas precisam encontrar um meio de trabalhar juntas.
Com quase 50 anos, Alain é obrigado a voltar a morar com a mãe. Será, forçosamente, uma convivência complicada e explosiva, à imagem da relação tumultuada dos dois. É então que Alain descobre que a mãe está doente e que seus dias estão contados.
Untrained, volunteer Nurses from America treat Allied soldiers behind and on the lines in France. They face the horrors of war, fight off the attentions of soldiers and face their own loneliness.
A woman of low estate is beloved of a promising young man, but sacrifices her love for him in order to protect his future and reputation.
In a futuristic society being decimated by plague, a fascist movement seizes power and quarantines not only the plague victims, but anyone related to them. Rebels trying to assassinate a particularly reactionary senator stumble onto a computer programmer trying to track and eradicate the disease.
Arthur, a young boy with a wild imagination, develops a preoccupation with death and disease and begins to explore mortality in the vivid images he sees in the movies and through a strange visitor from the past.