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Hua Mulan é a espirituosa e determinada filha mais velha de um honrado guerreiro. Quando o Imperador da China emite um decreto que um homem de cada família deve servir no exército imperial, Mulan decide tomar o lugar de seu pai, que está doente. Assumindo a identidade de Hua Jun, ela se disfarça de homem para combater os invasores que estão atacando sua nação, provando-se uma grande guerreira.
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A mother struggles to accept the man her adult son has become.
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Polônia, 1939. O zoológico de Varsóvia é mantido sob o comando de Jan Zabinski e cuidados de Antonina, sua esposa. Quando o país é invadido pelos nazistas, eles são forçados a se reportar para o zoologista, Lutz Heck. Logo, Jan e Antonina começam a trabalhar com a resistência e planejam salvar centenas de vidas ameaçadas pela invasão.
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Em uma cidadezinha da Califórnia, um treinador (Kevin Costner) aceita a tarefa de trabalhar com um grupo de jovens esportistas e transformá-los em campeões.
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Follows a cleaning lady going through an overnight shift at an airport. Her actions throughout may seem selfish and heartless but they all become incredibly understandable at the end.
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A Kafkaesque docudrama of an actual case involving a Christchurch small businessman and the New Zealand Inland Revenue Department. Most people can relate to running up against a bureaucrat (especially the tax man), who knows he can cause you trouble if you say something he doesn't like and then proceeds to use his power to hurt you. In this case, the businessman, Dave Henderson refuses to give in and, for the most part, kept his sense of humour.
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Charlize Theron interpreta Josey Aimes, uma mulher que retorna à sua cidade natal, em Minnestoa, depois de um casamento mal-sucedido, e procura um novo trabalho para sustentar a família. Mãe solteira de dois filhos, ela aceita um emprego numa das ocupações mais comuns da região: operária de uma mina de ferro. Além da dura jornada diária, aimes ainda tem que lutar contra o preconceito e o assédio sexual. Assim, decide lutar pelos seus direitos e ideais. Toda sua luta contra a injustiça no trabalho inspirou e continua inspirar até hoje um incontável número de pessoas.
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Over Christmas lunch an estranged daughter struggles with her Dad’s Alzhiemer’s and the
reaction her return creates in the family.
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A tribo Maori, que vive no leste da Nova Zelândia, acredita ser descendente de Paikea, o domador de baleias. Segundo a lenda, há milhares de anos a canoa de Paikea virou em cima de uma baleia e ele, cavalgando-a, liderou seu povo até um local para viver. A tradição da tribo Maori diz que o primeiro filho do chefe da tribo seria considerado descendente de Paikea e líder espiritual do povo. Porém, após a morte do atual líder, quem assume o posto é sua irmã, Pai (Keisha Castle-Hughes), uma garota de apenas 11 anos. Apesar de ser corajosa e amada por todos, Pai precisa ainda enfrentar a resistência de seu avô, Koro (Rawiri Paratene), que insiste na manutenção da antiga tradição de que o chefe da tribo deve ser um homem.
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A high school teenager wakes up in a time of Amazons and Gods.
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Ivan is the fierce patriarch of a family of Croatian refugees living in Auckland during the Yugoslav wars. Nina is his daughter, ready to live on her own, despite his angry objections. Eddie is the Maori she takes as her lover. Nina works at the restaurant where Eddie cooks. For a price, she agrees to marry another restaurant employee, a Chinese man, so that he can establish permanent residency. The money gives her the independence she needs to leave her parents' house and move in with Eddie. Complications arise when Eddie realizes the depth of her father's fury and the strength of Nina's family ties.
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A Maori warrior comes upon the aftermath of a battle to find that the only survivor is a wounded enemy soldier. His wishes to avenge his fallen countrymen by finishing off this helpless enemy but the gods won't allow it (as conveyed to him through a spirit bird). Anguished that he must instead treat the soldier's wounds, he's further repelled by the soldier's incessant homosexual advances. Slowly and surprisingly, a change comes over the warrior to accept the soldier's advances, but the war all too soon intrudes upon them.
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In a town called Hope on the edge of Britain's empire, desperations clash: the beautiful Dorothea Brook is desperate to free her pregnant sister Rose from the clutches of Fraser, a fortune hunter. A local politician, William Poyner, is desperate for cash and thinks marriage to Dorothea will save him. Dorothea hires Lawrence Hayes, a rough but handsome Argonaut, to bribe Fraser with jewels and to marry Rose; Hayes desperately loves Dorothea and may marry Rose to stay close to her. But Dorothea has a lover, the ravishing Anne Cooper, who encourages the match with Poyser to give the lovers cover. Are these remedies, each desperate in its turn, going to make anyone happy?
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Sam is a sound technician, who must literally walk in the footsteps of the characters on the screen. A "film within a film" that connects the world of modern film-making to the Paris of painter Toulouse-Lautrec and his model/lover Mireille.
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From the bowels of the kitchen sink, comes a dark and tender love… An original and full-blooded short film that combines humour with surrealism and leads the viewer towards the fantasy of horror.
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Chan and his older mate Kim prospect for gold in 1890s Otago. Marooned until they can pay off their debts and return to China; they’ve been fruitlessly working their claim for 12 and 27 years respectively. Chan faces racism, isolation, extreme weather, threatening surveyors, opium dens and a circus romance.
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A radio compere is forced to take the late shift and finds her night going places she couldn't have imagined.
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A young woman searches for her identity by joining a "free love" hippie commune, against the wishes of her darkly possessive widowed father. The tensions of small town New Zealand and individual conflicts generated by intolerance and fear, unleashes forces of violence and betrayal.
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The story means to develop through an uncovering of layers - strata. As writer Krumbachova stated: "With nature as a prison, an impassable barrier ... where every action is physically and psychically limited by the environment ... people are reduced to fragments of basic instinct and intelligence." Promoted as a psychological thriller, Strata provides little tension nor any real climax. The characters are ideas - not believably real.
