USS VD: Ship of Shame (1942)
Gênero : Guerra, Drama
Runtime : 46M
Sinopse
This film was made by the U.S. government during World War II to show its young servicemen the results of "fooling around" with "loose women" overseas. Actual victims of such sexually transmitted diseases as syphilis and gonorrhoea are shown, along with the physical deterioration that accompanies those diseases.
Georg Dreyman é o maior dramaturgo da Alemanha Oriental, sendo por muitos considerado o modelo perfeito de cidadão para o país, já que não contesta o governo nem seu regime político. Apesar disto o ministro Bruno Hempf acha por bem acompanhar seus passos, para descobrir se Dreyman tem algo a esconder. Ele passa esta tarefa para Anton Grubitz, que a princípio não vê nada de errado com Dreyman mas é alertado por Gerd Wiesler, seu subordinado, de que ele deveria ser vigiado. Grubitz passa a tarefa a Wiesler, que monta uma estrutura em que Dreyman e sua namorada, a atriz Christa-Maria Sieland, são vigiados 24 horas.
Um sargento treina de forma fanática e sádica os recrutas em uma base de treinamentos, na intenção de transformá-los em máquinas de guerra para combater na Guerra do Vietnã. Após serem transformados em fuzileiros navais, eles são enviados para a guerra e quando lá chegam se deparam com seus horrores.
Nova York serve de cenário para mostrar o conturbado mundo dos adolescentes, que indiscriminadamente consomem drogas e quase nunca praticam sexo seguro. Um garoto, que deseja só transar com virgens, e uma jovem, que só teve um parceiro mas é HIV soropositivo, servem de base para tramas paralelas, que mostram como um adolescente pode prejudicar seriamente sua vida se não estiver bem orientado.
It was the biggest escape in the history of the Berlin Wall: in one historic night of October 1964, 57 East-Berliners try their luck through a tunnel into West Berlin. Just before the last few reach the other side, the East German border guards notice the escape and open fire. Remarkably, all the refugees and their escape agents make it out of the tunnel unscathed, but one border guard is dead: 21-year-old officer Egon Schultz.
Um barbeiro judeu passa anos em um hospital do exército se recuperando de suas feridas após ter servido na guerra, sem saber do crescimento de poder do ditador fascista Adenóide Hynkel e suas políticas antissemitas. Quando o barbeiro retorna ao seu bairro tranquilo, ele fica atordoado com as mudanças brutais e, de forma imprudente, se une a uma menina bonita e seus vizinhos para se rebelar.
Documentário mostra de forma crua e extremamente realista a pobreza e miséria da região do norte da Espanha. Denúncia pungente de 1932, esse curta-metragem de Buñuel reflete suas preocupações sociais e forte personalidade.
Kieslowski’s later film Dworzec (Station, 1980) portrays the atmosphere at Central Station in Warsaw after the rush hour.
There were two wars in Iraq--a military assault and a media war. The former was well-covered; the latter was not. Until now... Independent filmmaker, Emmy-award winningTV journalist, author and media critic, Danny Schechter turns the cameras on the role of the media. His new film, WMD, is an outspoken assessment of how Pentagon propaganda and media complicity misled the American people...
Sadistic killer-for-hire Philip Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills. Vowing to track down his double-crossing boss, nightclub executive Gates, Raven sits beside Gates' lovely new employee, Ellen, on a train out of town. Although Ellen is engaged to marry the police lieutenant who's hunting down Raven, she decides to try and set the misguided hit man straight as he hides from the cops and plots his revenge.
O senador Jasper Irving (Tom Cruise) pretende lançar sua nova "estratégia completa" para a guerra dos Estados Unidos no Afeganistão e, para divulgá-la, precisa convencer a jornalista Janine Roth (Meryl Streep). Simultaneamente o dr. Stephen Malley (Robert Redford), um professor idealista, tenta convencer Todd (Andrew Garfield), um de seus alunos mais promissores, a mudar o curso de sua vida. Ao mesmo tempo Ernest (Michael Peña) e Arian (Derek Luke) são soldados que estão lutando nas montanhas geladas do Afeganistão, buscando se lembrar do porquê de terem se alistado no exército americano.
When Dr. Schmith's proposal for international research on infant mortality is rejected, he decides to leave East Germany and strikes a deal with an escape agency that promises him a leading position at a children's hospital in West Germany. But then the decision is reversed: the project is approved and his international colleagues want Dr. Schmith to head the GDR section. Moreover, he falls in love with his new colleague, Katharina. Schmith initially tries to ignore the arrangements he made with the escape agency, but they blackmail him. Things soon turn deadly...
O ator mais aclamado da Alemanha é contratado pelo propagandista Nazi Joseph Goebbels para preparar o líder do Terceiro Reich para fazer um discurso.
A young beauty queen travels to New York to further her modelling career, but contracts syphilis after being tricked into a sexual encounter. She is torn between the prospect of a slow, intensive but proven therapy and a supposed miracle cure.
A propaganda film during World War II about a boy who grows up to become a Nazi soldier.
A mother/daughter relationship is thrown off balance when the mother discovers that her "good girl" daughter is part of a group who are engaging in sexual activities with multiple partners that results in an outbreak of sexually transmitted diseases.
Yuko is a Japanese girl who was taken hostage in Iraq while volunteering there as an aid worker. Finally released and back in her hometown, Yuko finds herself ostracized as a national disgrace by society that sees her helping a country other than Japan, and the embarrassment of getting captured but not killed, as things of which to be brutally ashamed.
Um registro grandioso do sexto Congresso do Partido Nazista, que aconteceu em Nuremberg no ano de 1934. No início Hitler chega de avião, e é ovacionado por multidões, que saúdam o Führer totalmente hipnotizadas. Tudo é mostrado de forma gigantesca, as paradas, os desfiles militares e os jovens que louvam a suástica parecendo em total estado de catarse.
This documentary recounts the life and work of one of most famous, and yet reviled, German film directors in history, Leni Riefenstahl. The film recounts the rise of her career from a dancer, to a movie actor to the most important film director in Nazi Germany who directed such famous propaganda films as Triumph of the Will and Olympiad. The film also explores her later activities after Nazi Germany's defeat in 1945 and her disgrace for being so associated with it which includes her amazingly active life over the age of 90.
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