Fireworks Wednesday (2006)
Gênero : Drama
Runtime : 1H 42M
Director : Asghar Farhadi
Sinopse
A última quarta-feira antes do solstício de primavera abre o Ano Novo Persa, as pessoas soltam fogos de artifício seguindo uma tradição zoroastriana antiga. Rouhi, passando seu primeiro dia no novo emprego, se vê no meio de um tipo diferente de fogos de artifício - uma disputa doméstica entre seu novo chefe e a esposa. No dia anterior a sua viagem de férias para Dubai, uma mulher que acredita que seu marido é infiel, pede a ajuda de Roohi, uma jovem enviada por uma agência para limpar a casa. Ela pede a Roohi para marcar uma consulta e recolher informação no salão da mulher de quem ela suspeita. Roohi é noiva, inocente em termos de discórdia conjugal. Ao longo do dia, ela, o casal, seu filho pequeno, a irmã da esposa e seu marido, e a esteticista se envolvem em uma série de trocas, confrontos, e prevaricações. São as suspeitas da esposa injustificadas; está o comportamento dela ameaçando seu casamento? Atos de bondade podem dar errado. E a viagem para Dubai?
Um jovem inicia um ardente romance com uma mulher mais experiente e casada. Antes de ir para faculdade, ele começa a descobrir que os prazeres do sexo podem ser muito mais perigosos quando manipulados por uma mulher ambiciosa e perigosa. Ela começa a fazer um jogo de ciúmes entre seu jovem amante e seu marido,um oficial de policia. Ela só pretende tirar vantagem dessa aventura e o destino pode ser trágico para qualquer um dos homens envolvidos. O filme tem altas doses de sensualidade e conta uma historia de suspense provocante. As verdadeiras intenções ao se revelando aos poucos e acabam um final inesperado.
In Oklahoma in the 1920s, Rubin Flood loses his job as a traveling salesman when the company goes bankrupt. This adds to his worries at home. His wife Cora is frigid because of trying to make ends meet. His teenage daughter Reenie is afraid of going out on dates, but eventually makes friends with a troubled Jewish boy Sammy Golden, and his son is a mama's boy. He finally storms out of the house when Cora falsely accuses him of having an affair with Mavis Pruitt.
An emotional thriller based on a road trip from Kochi to Palakkad. Inspired from the real events that happened in Chennai.
When the New York journalist Jake Bridges catches his girlfriend with another guy, he goes to Atlantic City to drink himself to oblivion. He is saved from a bar brawl by a small-time mobster Frankie, and Jake falls in love with Frankie's girlfriend Melissa. Jake soon also joins Frankie in his money-collecting duties.
The film depicts the life of a truck driver Sucha Singh and his wife Balo. Balo has to get Sucha Singh's food ready every day, walk a long distance through the fields and wait for him on the highway as he drives past the village. He leads an independent life, playing cards with his friends and spending time with his mistress, and comes home only once a week. However, he expects his wife to play the traditional role of a devoted wife. One day Balo gets late, trying to save her sister from the advances of a lecherous villager. Sucha Singh is angry, and drives away without his food. She decides to wait for him until nightfall.
In Madrid, Azu's husband Filipe is smug and boorish, but it's his money she slips to family members constantly in need of cash and that she uses to buy gifts for her lover, Pablo. Things start to fall apart when Pablo wants to leave her and when Filipe wants to evict Azu's cousin from a butcher shop he rents. Azu hatches a plan that relies on her sister, her cousin the butcher, and his mentally-challenged delivery man. When things start to go wrong, can Azu make them right?
Returning to 1870's London after finishing at boarding school, Fanny winesses the death of her father in a fight with Lord Manderstoke. She then finds that her family has for many years been running a bordello next door to their home. When her mother dies shortly after, she next discovers that her real father is in fact a well-respected politician. Meeting him and then falling in love with his young advisor Harry Somerford leads to a life of ups and downs and conflict between the classes. Periodically the scoundrel of a Lord crosses her path, always to tragic effect.
Shot around the breathtaking coastline of B.C.'s Howe Sound, Whale Music is the triumphant adaptation of Paul Quarringaton's Governor General's Award-winning novel about the redemption of a faded rock star through love and music. Richard J. Lewis' exploration of the reclusive musician's efforts to create a piece of music that will summon the whales is a sensory and emotional tour de force. Written by Vancouver Film Festival, Handbook
A young boy begins to have fantasies when he learns his parents are planning to divorce. Director Peter Godfrey's 1948 drama stars Ted Donaldson, Alexis Smith, Robert Douglas, Cecil Kellaway, John Hoyt, Mary Wickes and Harry Davenport.
This eye-opening documentary follows American basketball player Kevin Sheppard during his 2008-09 season playing for a professional team in Iran. Although Kevin is nervous, he makes many friends, including several politically active Iranian women.
Set against the backdrop of the 1909 general strike, Hjördis is employed as a housemaid in a wealthy Stockholm family.
Wealthy playboy David Sloane wrongly believes good girl Carol Corman is his best friend's mistress.
A writer has torrid fantasy affairs with young men.
The beautiful and popular movie star Miroslava is depressed tonight. As she prepares her suicide, her entire life is revealed on screen in a disturbing portrait of a lonely woman.
A woman tries to win back her husband when she discovers he's keeping a model for a mistress.
Enid only looks like she's sleeping. In fact, she's dead. Shortly after Enid caught her husband Harry in bed with her sister June, a row ensued, whereupon June accidently killed Enid. June's problem now is to hide the truth from the authorities, including her police-officer husband Floyd. Then she decides to reveal Enid's demise, albeit rearranging the damning evidence to make the whole thing look like the accident it really was.
A poor fellow is dominated by his wife who is unfaitful.
Every Sunday, Mary, Alice and Joan, three long-time friends, find themselves at the pool to talk about their love affairs. Mary, who is a stockbroker, leads her love life with meetings. One night she is raped by Franck in a nightclub toilet. The young woman then discovers she is pregnant. Alice, a student dominated by an authoritarian father, she has difficult relationship with men. She meets a painter who wants to make her his model. Jeanne lives a dreary relationship with her husband and decides to work and earn a living through prostitution.
A man murders his wife's lover and escapes with his daughter to the South Pacific. A detective pursues him, joined by a young man who eventually falls in love with the daughter.
A mother abandons her family only to become a crispy critter with her lover, the husband finds out about it AND that his son isn't really his, becomes an alcoholic, is being held prisoner in a speak-easy, is rescued by 'Beef', is sobered up, gets a good job, negotiates a great contract for lots 'o money, realizes he's in love, asks the girl to marry him, son returns from boarding school and freaks out when told this, runs off and joins the circus that now happens to catch fire.....
Após passar anos na Alemanha, Ahmad (Shahab Hosseini) volta ao Irã e seus amigos organizam três dias de comemoração. Sem que o resto do grupo saiba, Sepideh (Golshifteh Farahani) convida para a festa a jovem Elly (Taraneh Alidoosti), professora de sua filha. Ahmad, que acabou de se separar da namorada alemã e gostaria de começar uma nova vida com uma iraniana, vê em Elly a mulher perfeita. No dia seguinte, no entanto, ela desaparece misteriosamente. O clima entre os amigos torna-se amargo e tenso e eles iniciam uma pequena investigação para descobrir o paradeiro da moça.
Simin deseja mudar-se para garantir um futuro melhor para a família, mas seu marido Nader não quer por causa do pai doente. Ela entra com um pedido de separação e Nader contrata Razieh para cuidar de seu pai enquanto trabalha. Certo dia ao voltar para casa encontra o pai sozinho, desmaiado e amarrado à cama; Razieh aparece e os dois discutem, na sequência Nader empurra a mulher e dias depois, é notificado que Razieh estava grávida e teria perdido o bebê. Os dois terão que resolver a situação na justiça, e tem pontos de vista muito diferentes do que aconteceu durante a briga.
Emad e Rana são casados e encenam a montagem da peça teatral "A Morte de um Caixeiro Viajante", de Arthur Miller. Um dia, eles são surpreendidos com o alerta para que eles e todos os moradores do prédio em que vivem deixem o local imediatamente. O problema é que, devido a uma obra próxima, todo o prédio corre o risco de desabamento. Diante deste problema, Emad e Rana passam a morar, provisoriamente, em um apartamento emprestado. É lá que Rana é surpreendida com a entrada de um estranho no banheiro, justamente quando está tomando banho. O susto faz com que ela se machuque seriamente e vá parar no hospital. Entretanto, é o trauma do ocorrido que afeta, cada vez mais, suas vidas.
Hasti, a widowed nurse who has a daughter, marries a paranoid wealthy man.
Uma jovem mulher assombrada por uma tragédia em seu passado se vinga nos homens predadores que cruzam seu caminho.
Akbar, 18, has been held in a rehabilitation centre for committing murder at the age of sixteen. Now, Akbar is transferred to prison to await the day of his execution. A’la, a friend of Akbar, tries desperately to gain the consent of Akbar’s plaintiff so as to stop the execution.
