X (1986)
Gênero : Drama
Runtime : 1H 34M
Director : Oddvar Einarson
Sinopse
Jon Gabriel is in his mid 20s when he meets 13-year-old Flora. X depicts the evolution of their relationship as they struggle to survive in the cold and dirty cityscapes of Oslo in the '80s.
After a long lonely period of involuntary celibacy, Marty Sachs decides that he has had enough of New York and wants to pack up and run the family business in Maine. Yet before he leaves, he meets two available, attractive women, both named Nina. Nina Cohen shares many of the same eccentric interests as Marty, but she has grow gun-shy from one too many bad relationships. Blonde bombshell Nina Harris literally knocks Marty off his feet in an ill-fated attempt at snagging a cab.
This is the inspiring, epic journey of a noble warrior's quest to prove his worth, his might, and his destined fate to become the next ruler of Britain.
Young Katherine and her older friend Hester live at the isolated farm run by Hester and her father Francis. Katherine works as a maid and wants to leave that place because there's too much work. Hester, however, gets attracted to Katherine and hold her there, promising to give her less work in the future. When old Francis dies, Hester decides to sell the farm for cash. They move to small cottage on the edge of the farm and plan to go to Europe for the money they got. But tragic accident and theft of their money change their plans.
Wallace is an efficiency expert, managing the high-profile downsizing of a major auto parts factory. But when he is hired to evaluate a small moccasin factory which seems from another era, Wallace has to reconsider the rapid modernization he advocates, as he is confronted by the human faces such plans hurt.
In the winter of 1891 a stranger arrives in a small coastal town on the Isle of Man. His presence soon disturbs the lives of the local inhabitants, especially the beautiful daughter of the parson.
Major Charles Forsythe is a Vietnam veteran U.S. Army officer stationed near Rome. He is a brutal, if effective, commander who was "fragged" by his own men in Vietnam. When he is denied promotion because of the number of men injured during his training exercises, he takes out his anger by beating his pregnant wife Sarah. She miscarries. On her release from the hospital, Sarah is determined to get back into shape and begins running. She meets Alan Morani a former Olympic runner who is a paraplegic as the result of a car accident. Morani offers to coach Sarah to run in the Rome marathon, a race which her husband has won two years in a row. Sarah realizes that winning the race is the best way to avenge the death of her baby and destroy her husband's ego.
During a routine surveilance on desolate Route 9, two small town deputies come across over one million dollars in cash, a van full of drugs, several dead bodies and not a witness in sight.
Seis mulheres norte-americanas viajam até um país da América do Sul na tentativa de adotarem, cada uma delas, crianças recém-nascidas no orfanato local. Enquanto aguardam a liberação dos papéis da burocracia local, elas são forçadas a viver temporariamente num hotel de propriedade da excêntrica Sra. Muñoz (Rita Moreno). Ao longo das semanas que se seguem, as seis convivem com a população do local e dividem momentos de esperança e desespero, enquanto aguardam ansiosamente a chegada das crianças.
O realizador de Sue continua a sua exploração do tema das mulheres solitárias perdido na grande cidade com Fiona, que vai um passo além e expõe as vidas desperdiçadas de prostitutas e viciados em New York. A história de Fiona e sua mãe é contada em oito capítulos. Fiona é abandonada aos seis meses de idade, criadaa em lares adotivos, abusada, e, ainda em adolescente, vagueia pelas ruas de Nova Iorque.Vêmo-la tomar heroína, apaixonar-se por outras mulheres, ser perseguida por homens, envolver-se em violência assassina, esconder-se numa casa de crack, e decidir-se a deixar a cidade. Vemos a mãe dela, também uma mulher da rua e toxicodependente, ocasionalmente falar sobre a sua filha perdida. Será que mãe e filha se conheceram? Existe uma réstia de esperança?
A smart-mouthed junkie and a former hairdresser spends his days looking for just "one more fix".
Três mulheres diferentes em sonhos comuns. Olivia desenha secretamente e sonhos recorrentes lhe trazem a filha abandonada. Natalia é fotógrafa e acaba de ser premiada por sua primeira capa de revista. Catherine é uma violoncelista e pretende se vingar da causa de sua angústia.
In this comedy, a guru’s groupie plans to seduce him so she can number him among her many conquests.
An Indian Vietnam veteran trains five street punks in the Everglades to fight vice in Miami.
After the Allies liberate Naples in 1943, life for the locals is not much easier, especially for women. Many sacrifice their dignity and morale to survive.
Gypo Nolan is a former Irish Republican Army man who drowns his sorrows in the bottle. He's desperate to escape his bleak Dublin life and start over in America with his girlfriend. So when British authorities advertise a reward for information about his best friend, current IRA member Frankie, Gypo cooperates. Now Gypo can buy two tickets on a boat bound for the States, but can he escape the overwhelming guilt he feels for betraying his buddy?
In Lyon, where many are unemployed, Marie is a prostitute who loves her work: she's thoughtful and exuberant toward clients old and young, slim or flabby. One night, a homeless man sleeps in the foyer of her apartment house; she gives him a hot meal, then a place on the floor to sleep by her radiator, then she offers herself. She falls in love, giving him new life, clothes, a place to live. When he grouses that he must bar hop while she uses the flat for her work, she finds them a larger flat. He grows restless, seducing a manicurist and pressing her to prostitution. He's arrested for procuring, so Marie must decide what to do; he, too, must face the consequences of his choices.
Byron Tiller é um escritor mal sucedido que vive em Pasadena. Sem ter como sustentar a esposa e filho, aceita oferta de uma agência de acompanhantes chamada Campos Elíseos, para sair com senhoras ricas e mais velhas. Depois disso conhece a esposa de um famoso escritor. Ela o convence a ajudar o marido a completar seu novo e último romance.
Jack Dodd was a London butcher who enjoyed a pint with his mates for over 50 years. When he died, he died as he lived, with a smile on his face watching a horse race on which he had bet, with borrowed money. But before he died he had a final request, 'Last Orders', that his ashes be scattered in the sea at Margate. The movie follows his mates, Ray, Lenny and Vic and his foster son Vince as they journey to the sea with the ashes. Along the way, the threads of their lives, their loves and their disappointments are woven together in their memories of Jack and his wife Amy
Following the Second World War, a northern cannery combine negotiates for the purchase of a large tract of uncultivated Georgia farmland. The major portion of the land is owned by Julie Ann Warren and has already been optioned by her unscrupulous, draft dodging husband, Henry. Now the combine must also obtain two smaller plots - one owned by Henry's cousin Rad McDowell, a combat veteran with a wife and family; the other by Reeve Scott, a young black man whose mother had been Julie's childhood Mammy. But neither Rad nor Reeve is interested in selling and they form an unprecedented black and white partnership to improve their land. Although infuriated by the turn of events, Henry remains determined to push through the big land deal. And when Reeve's mother Rose dies, Henry tries to persuade his wife to charge Reeve with illegal ownership of his property, confident the the bigoted Judge Purcell will rule against a Negro.