American Spoken Here (1940)

Ashtray agora é um homem e está de volta ao violento bairro de Los Angeles, onde cresceu, para morar com o pai, que por alguma misteriosa razão tem quase a mesma idade do filho. Lá reencontra personagens igualmente incomuns, como o primo que se intitula O Maior Pesadelo da América e o animado Crazy Legs, que mesmo preso a uma cadeira de rodas sonha tornar-se bailarino. E ainda por cima se enrola com Daishiki, uma jovem bastante disposta a ensinar-lhe tudo o que sabe em matéria de amor, enquanto na rua os tiroteios fazem uma confusa mãe chorar pelo defunto errado..

Quando o ladrão de jóias Franky Quatro Dedos faz uma rápida parada em Londres, antes de entregar um enorme diamante roubado para o seu chefe em Nova York, ele não tinha a menor idéia da avalanche de sinistros e cômicos acontecimentos que abalariam os mundo do boxe, dos ciganos irlandeses, das lojas de penhores, das fazendas de porcos e... de um cão vira-latas.

The film explores the history of the word throughout its inception to present day. Woven into the narrative are poetry, music, and commentary from celebrities about their personal experiences with the word and their viewpoints. Each perspective is unique, as is each experience... some are much more comfortable with the word than others.

Oito professores estão voltados exclusivamente para a elaboração de um enciclopédia. Nenhum deles é casado, pois acredita-se que ter uma família pode ser prejudicial para o andamento dos trabalhos. Bertram Potts (Gary Cooper), o mais novo dos professores, tem como função preparar a parte de literatura inglesa e quer incluir no seu trabalho as mais variadas formas de gíria. Assim anda entre a população fazendo anotações e encontra em Sugarpuss O'Shea (Barbara Stanwyck), uma sexy cantora de boate, uma fonte inesgotável de termos popularescos. Inicialmente ela não colabora, mas ela namora um gângster, Joe Lilac (Dana Andrews), que foi solto por falta de provas. A Promotoria pretende detê-la para interrogatório até conseguir provas contra Joe, então O'Shea tem a idéia de se hospedar na casa onde os professores estão reunidos, usando o pretexto de que vai colaborar na enciclopédia, pois a polícia não a procurará em uma casa habitada por intelectuais.

An aging gangster, Fernand Naudin is hoping for a quiet retirement when he suddenly inherits a fortune from an old friend, a former gangster supremo known as the Mexican. If he is ambivalent about his new found wealth, Fernand is positively nonplussed to discover that he has also inherited his benefactor’s daughter, Patricia. Unfortunately, not only does Fernand have to put up with the thoroughly modern Patricia and her nauseating boyfriend, but he also had to contend with the Mexican’s trigger-happy former employees, who are determined to make a claim.

Em conjunto habitacional no subúrbio parisiense, um anjo passa declamando apaixonadamente versos da peça "Le jeu de l'amour et du hasard". É Lydia (Sara Forestier), ensaiando o espetáculo montado por sua turma de sala de aula para as festividades da escola. Krimo (Osman Elkharraz), no auge de seus 15 anos, se apaixona por ela e corrompe seu amigo Rachid (Rachid Hami), parceiro de cena com Lydia, para obter o papel de Arlequim.

The story of Dujuan, a 10-year-old Aboriginal boy living in Alice Springs, Australia, who is struggling to balance his traditional Arrernte/Garrwa upbringing with a state education.

Prizefighter Jimmy Nolan, facing an opportunity to get a championship fight, is knocked out when he sustains what is apparently a permanent injury to his arm. From there, Nolan's path leads downhill. He is drawn into a romance with a nightclub entertainer, then is framed on a theft charge by a jealous suitor. After his prison term, Nolan makes a spectacular comeback in a fight which proves his courage and integrity, while disproving the fallacy about the old sports adage that "they never come back."

The relatives of a rich old woman unsuccessfully try to have her declared insane, so they can divide up her money. To show them that there are no hard feelings, she invites them to her estate for the weekend so she can decide to whom she actually will leave her money when she dies. Soon, however, family members begin turning up dead.

From A for accent to Z for zero - everything you wanted to know about the English language.

A story about a relationship with problems. She is upset at how Swedish speaking Finns are treated in their home country. He is seriously constipated. Will the relationship survive when her idealism clashes with his biological needs?

A young woman new to the big city gets a job as a man's companion. What she doesn't know is that the man is a notorious gangster.

J. P. Courtney wants to update the music on the radio program he sponsors, but his wife, Agatha Courtney, is the final authority and addicted to the classics and won't allow him to replace Professor Bistell and his symphonic orchestra. Conspiring with his daughter Sue and her friends, Marvo the Great, the Andrews Sisters, Anne Payne and bandleader Woody Herman, they devise a sabotage plot that gets rid of Professor Bistell, and a new sound is soon heard on the program.

A deafblind Danish woman travels to Nepal to meet a woman with the same condition in the hopes of communicating and engaging in a cultural exchange. A Woman Like Me is a remarkable demonstration of the delicacy and complexity of human communication, and how susceptible it is to privilege, preconceptions and misunderstandings.

Richard Alwyn's intensely moving film, inspired by the experience of his brother-in-law, follows two stroke survivors who can no longer take language for granted.

A blind man and a mute girl are in a room. How will they communicate?