Startup: The Real Story (2021)
Documentary on True Far East Entrepreneurial Grit
Gênero : Documentário
Runtime : 47M
Director : Andy Ridgway
Sinopse
Over the years Malaysia as a country has invested millions into promoting tech startups, in an attempt to replicate Silicon Valley in the West. This documentary looks at a 10year journey of e-Sentral, an e-book tech company that began as a startup, and its journey going through the different phases of growth. The film interviews startup industry players in Malaysia; leaders, executives, and entrepreneurs sharing their perspectives and experiences on how it actually is, and not as how it has been typically portrayed. A must watch if you like the tech space as the film portrays a genuine feel for perseverance and grit.
Chan Ka Kui, um policial de Hong Kong, é enviado disfarçado à China, Tailândia e Malásia para acabar com um grupo internacional de tráfico de drogas. Para cumprir tal missão, Chan ganha a companhia da policial Jessica Yang.
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Um gângster condenado injustamente sai da prisão após 25 anos determinado a descobrir o que aconteceu com sua esposa e se vingar da máfia.
Nas praias da Malásia durante o verão, três americanos - Lewis (Joaquin Phoenix), Xerife (Vince Vaughn) e Tony (David Conrad) - desfrutam prazeres com mulheres, rum e maconha barata. Como o fim do verão, Tony e Xerife voltam para Nova York, mas Lewis decide ir para Bornéu para ajudar a salvar os orangotangos da extinção. Entretanto no mesmo dia Lewis é preso, pois Tony e Xerife deixaram com ele 140 gramas de haxixe e, segundo as leis locais, a partir de 100 gramas o portador é considerado traficante e a pena é a morte por enforcamento. Dois anos depois, em Nova York, Xerife dirige limusines de aluguel e Tony é um arquiteto que está noivo. É quando repentinamente surge Beth (Anne Heche), uma advogada que conversa com os dois e diz que há um acordo verbal que diz que se um deles voltar para cumprir a pena terá de ficar seis anos preso, se os dois voltarem três anos de prisão para cada um e se nenhum voltar Lewis será enforcado em oito dias.
Purl conta a história de uma bola de tricô rosa que acabou de ser contratada por uma empresa composta apenas por homens e encontra muitas dificuldades para conseguir se adaptar à rotina tão corrida e ao convívio tão complicado.
When a group of young DIY artists in Santa Fe can’t find a door into the art world, they blow open an entirely new portal with their grit, passion, and tenacity. Within just a few short years – and with a little help from George R.R. Martin – this group called Meow Wolf ultimately hits a cultural nerve and garners massive, unexpected success with their exhibit, House of Eternal Return.
Na esperança de fazer o bem e ao mesmo tempo ganhar milhões, três recém-formados criam uma startup. Mas à medida que os negócios começam a florescer, seu próprio vínculo começa a se desgastar.
In a case that had the nation riveted and human rights organizations the world over up in arms due to the death sentence handed out to the accused, comes a tale about the lure of riches, power, eternal youth, beauty and the blood one must spill to achieve this.
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The Startup Kids is a documentary about young web entrepreneurs in the U.S. and Europe. It contains interviews with founders of Vimeo, Dropbox, Soundcloud and more who talk about how they started their company and their lives as an entrepreneur. Along with that people from the tech scene speaks about the startup environment including the venture capitalist Tim Draper and MG Siegler, tech blogger at Techcrunch.
Thom pede a seu neto que descubra o que aconteceu com o avô, um marinheiro que partiu há 61 anos em busca de fortuna.
In colonial Malaysia, British big game-hunter Otto Abbot and American trapper Harry Stanton clash over the ethics of catching versus killing animals and over Abbot's mistress, Anna.
In the forbidden forest of Borneo, the indigenous Dayak people's village is attacked by zombies.
During Chinese New Year, security guard Ah Beng (Jack Lim) receives a call from his company. He is asked to cancel his Lunar New Year holiday for a simple mission, which infuriates him. However, Ah Beng immediately changes his mind knowing that the mission promises a handsome reward of RM1 million.
Filmed in Singapore it tells the story of Sandokan who is a Malaysian rebel who, with a group of renegades, goes up against a British General who is trying to force the King to resign.
Mrs. Chew and her three daughters run a small but flourishing restaurant. Most of the customers come for the house specialty: Homemade Curry - cooked from an old family recipe. Nobody suspects that the special ingredient that turns Mrs Chew's curry from standard fare into a gourmet's delight is human flesh!
Three engineering students whose life takes a twist after meeting a mysterious man who teaches them the real meaning of life.
Christopher Powell is in Malaysia with his fiancée and her father, capturing wild animals. While out hunting, he is attacked by a tiger, and his native guides run away, leaving him for dead. But the tiger is the pet of Ulah, a beautiful young woman who grew up by herself in the jungle. She rescues Chris and takes him back to her cave, where she nurses him to health and falls in love with him. When he eventually returns to camp, she follows. The fiancée is jealous, and the natives don't like Ulah or her pet tiger either, all of which leads to a lot of trouble.
Brothers Am (Shaheizy Sam) and Ad (Syafie Naswip) are involved in a baby-selling syndicate run by a woman known as Mama. As they progress, a friend's sister, Hawa (Sara Ali) gets involved too and Ad can no longer turn a blind eye. However, his moral struggle starts to shake his relationship with Am.
On 9th of November 1983 two Australians, Kevin Barlow and Geoff Chambers were arrested at Penang Airport in Malaysia carrying 179 grams of Heroin. A crime which in Malaysia carries a mandatory sentence of death... Dadah Is Death (A Long Way From Home) is the true story of Barbara Barlow's desperate attempt to save her son from the Hangmans rope - a courageous effort that involved impassioned pleas to President Reagan, The British Prime Minister, and even the Pope. By July 1986 this international struggle had seemed to reach a hopeless conclusion and all that was left was a mother's love for her son.
