The Hoodlum Priest (1961)
The most fantastic story the screen has ever told AND IT'S TRUE right down to its last jolt!
Gênero : Drama
Runtime : 1H 41M
Director : Irvin Kershner
Escritor : Joseph Landon, Don Murray
Sinopse
Venturing into some of the roughest slums of St. Louis, Jesuit priest Rev. Charles Dismas Clark dedicates himself to helping young ex-convicts who are struggling to rejoin a society that fears and rejects them. An especially wrenching case for the Reverend is Billy Lee Jackson, a troubled thief whose personal demons constantly tempt him back to a life of crime — and may ultimately make him pay the highest price for a few desperate decisions.
In the mid-1950s, mayor Zwischenzahl is killed on the day of his inauguration in a West German town. The killer is Ruth Bodenheim, a Jewish woman, who wanted to avenge the death of her parents. Zwischenzahl, a former SA member, was apparently involved in the deportation of her parents to a concentration camp during the war. Ruth cannot bear the horrible events and the death of her parents and wants to open the eyes of the town′s residents.
Em 1942, o jovem Traudl Junge tem o que parece ser a melhor profissão do mundo: ele é secretário de Hitler. Três anos depois, o império se resume a um abrigo subterrâneo e, de lá, Traudl narra os últimos dias da vida de do ditador.
Several years after his beloved Nieh has gone, Ning is innocently put into jail. Luckily, he meets a scholar, Elder Chu Kot, in the prison who finally helps him escape. Ning then meets a young witty monk Autumn. They become friends and live in an abandoned villa together. The villa is horrific, yet they choose to stay for a while. Later that night, some ghosts suddenly appear and attack; two parties fight heavily. But after clarifications, Ning and Autumn find that "the ghosts" are humans in disguise, who intend to save their leader from imprisonment but not hurting innocence. Among them, Ning finds someone who looks identical to Nieh, and considers she is the reincarnated Nieh. A real giant zombie has seen all these in behind and is ready to ambush.
Em 1939, no Texas, Sonny é um pastor Pentecostal conhecido pelos seus modos excêntricos. Traído pela esposa, ele se descontrola, agride o amante dela e e o deixa em coma. Agora, Sonny precisará se mudar do estado e refazer sua trajetória na religião.
Based on a true story of inmates at KZ Buchenwald that risked their lives to hide a small Jewish boy shortly before the liberation of the camp.
A small European Kingdom wants to make a frowning Princess smile for the upcoming Royal photo to be done. A mischievous Prime Minister goes to Paris to kidnap three famous comics to force them to do an act to make the Princess smile. However, the King is not aware of this scheme... especially that this evil minister has to face a "fasting strike" by the prisoners and force them to surrender by telling a recipe of "Coq au Vin" by the radio...
Mateo Melgarejo (interpretado por Mario Moreno "Cantinflas") é um notário e escreve para o analfabeto de Santo Domingo, um bairro ao norte do Zócalo da Cidade do México. Um amigo invasor pede sua ajuda na negociação com o escritório do censo de terras para regularizar um título de propriedade. Depois de uma grande frustração com a burocracia do governo, ele escreve uma carta ao ministro, conquistando uma audiência com ele. O ministro contrata Melgarejo para reformar o escritório e o designado passa a dar uma conferência aos funcionários sobre seus deveres em uma sociedade democrática. No final, ele deixa o cargo, regressando a Santo Domingo para ajudar os seus pobres moradores.
Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
In a small New England town during the American War of Independence, Dick Dudgeon, a revolutionary American Puritan, is mistaken for local minister Rev. Anthony Anderson and arrested by the British. Dick discovers himself incapable of accusing another human to suffer and continues to masquerade as the reverend.
A lecherous ship captain becomes spiritually changed by a female passenger, not realizing she and her "minister" husband are really bank robbers.
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A young orphan in New York's Lower East Side is collectively adopted by three neighborhood men--a minister, a cantor, and a cop.
Gwen (Sarah Lancaster) não leva uma vida fácil. Envolvida em um relacionamento abusivo no passado ela se encontra cheia de dívidas e com um filho para criar. A vida de mãe solteira não é nada fácil e por isso o amor fica em segundo plano, é aí que ela encontra o homem perfeito, Ed Baker (Drew Waters), que aparece na hora certa levando Gwen a acreditar novamente no amor. Mas esse romance pode ser perigoso, mais perigoso ainda quando nem sua amiga Sidney (Natalia Cigliuti) se torna confiável.
Three childhood friends Mathukutty, Binoy and Zachariah re-unite in Goa to fight a Casino don who was responsible for the deaths of their fathers.
A well-known business lawyer is shot dead in the courthouse. A commissioner of the Criminal Brigade is in charge of the investigation and is helped by a journalist.
Mary Smith is picked up by the police and is about to be sentenced, in night court, to jail for prostitution. But a stranger, Jimmie Martin, stands up and tells the judge that Mary was waiting for him and they were going to be married.
In 1945, cinegrafistas com as tropas Aliadas documentaram os horrores que encontraram na Alemanha. Um time de mentes brilhantes, incluindo Alfred Hitchcock e o escritor Colin Willis, foi designado para montar as imagens para um documentário.
In the back country of South Africa, black minister Stephen Kumalo journeys to the city to search for his missing son, only to find his people living in squalor and his son a criminal. Reverend Misimangu is a young South African clergyman who helps find his missing son-turned-thief and sister-turned-prostitute in the slums of Johannesburg.