Vincent Ward

In Rain of the Children, Ward further explores the subject of his earlier film, In Spring One Plants Alone when, as a young film student he travelled to the Ureweras and documented the lives of an elderly Māori woman (Puhi) and her schizophrenic son (Niki).

Na década de 1860, durante a colonização britânica na Nova Zelândia, vive Sarah O’Brien (Samantha Morton) e sua família. O local está em meio à guerra entre os invasores europeus e os Maori, os habitantes da ilha antes da chegada dos forasteiros. Em uma sangrenta batalha entre os dois lados o filho de Sarah é levado pelos Maori. Após muitos anos anos percorrendo as tribos do país Sarah finalmente consegue reencontrá-lo, mas agora ele está inteiramente adaptado à cultura maori. Trata-se do início da batalha de Sarah para reconquistar seu próprio filho.

Na década de 1860, durante a colonização britânica na Nova Zelândia, vive Sarah O’Brien (Samantha Morton) e sua família. O local está em meio à guerra entre os invasores europeus e os Maori, os habitantes da ilha antes da chegada dos forasteiros. Em uma sangrenta batalha entre os dois lados o filho de Sarah é levado pelos Maori. Após muitos anos anos percorrendo as tribos do país Sarah finalmente consegue reencontrá-lo, mas agora ele está inteiramente adaptado à cultura maori. Trata-se do início da batalha de Sarah para reconquistar seu próprio filho.

Em 1870 é enviado ao Japão o capitão Nathan Algren, um conceituado militar norte-americano. A missão de Algren é treinar as tropas do imperador Meiji, para que elas possam eliminar os últimos samurais que ainda vivem na região. Porém, após ser capturado pelo inimigo, Algren aprende com Katsumoto o código de honra dos samurais e passa a ficar em dúvida sobre que lado apoiar.

The creation of the film Alien³ (1992) is covered here in this feature-length documentary in exhaustive detail. Many interviews with the cast and crew give us an idea of how hard of a time David Fincher had creating his first feature film, as well as present us with much information about every element that went into making this film, including how the plot and script changed drastically through filming.

Depois da morte de seus dois filhos, Chris Nielson e sua mulher Annie passam por insuperáveis dificuldades emocionais. Anos depois, acontece outra tragédia: Chris também morre. Ele vai para o Paraíso, onde conhece Albert, um rapaz de bom coração que vai ajudá-lo a se adaptar à nova existência. Para Annie, a morte do marido é a última gota que a prendia à vida, e ela acaba se suicidando. Porém, diferente de Chris, ela não vai ao Paraíso, mas sim a um lugar diferente, uma espécie de purgatório onde ficam as almas perturbadas. Quando descobre o destino da mulher, Chris pede ajuda a Albert e os dois saem em uma jornada em busca da salvação da alma de Annie, provando que o amor desafia qualquer infortúnio.

In Los Angeles, Max Carlyle makes a good living directing commercials and has a happy home life with his wife, Mimi, and two children. When Carlyle travels to New York City to visit his friend Charlie, who has been diagnosed with AIDS, he has repeat run-ins with a beautiful woman, Karen, and eventually sleeps with her. Though he goes home the next day and doesn't return until a year later, Carlyle's infidelity still lingers.

This low-budget satire takes a shot a Hollywood as it follows two desperate, unsuccessful actors, Dern Reel and Patrick St. Patrick, who steal 10 recently shot rolls of film from Tinseltown's newest darling, the director David Egoman, and hold them for ransom.

Um roteirista alcoólatra decide beber até morrer em Las Vegas. Ele conhece uma bela prostituta e os dois começam um relacionamento incomum: ela não pode dizer a ele para parar de beber e ele não pode culpá-la pelo trabalho dela.

Fantastic improbabilities, happenstance and the undying bridge of love are part of this romantic fantasy about an Inuit who crosses years, oceans and the ravages of WWII to find his childhood love, a Metis girl, but finds that their cultures are the most difficult spaces to gap.

Fantastic improbabilities, happenstance and the undying bridge of love are part of this romantic fantasy about an Inuit who crosses years, oceans and the ravages of WWII to find his childhood love, a Metis girl, but finds that their cultures are the most difficult spaces to gap.

Fantastic improbabilities, happenstance and the undying bridge of love are part of this romantic fantasy about an Inuit who crosses years, oceans and the ravages of WWII to find his childhood love, a Metis girl, but finds that their cultures are the most difficult spaces to gap.

A tenente Ripley é encarregada de ir a um planeta que é usado como colônia penal de segurança máxima. Este é o novo palco de assassinatos do Alien, que está matando tudo o que se move, menos a própria tenente Ripley, que aparentemente não é atacada pelo monstro.

In the 14th century a village seeking escape from the Black Death are guided by a boy's vision to tunnel into an abandoned mine and emerge into 20th century New Zealand.

In the 14th century a village seeking escape from the Black Death are guided by a boy's vision to tunnel into an abandoned mine and emerge into 20th century New Zealand.

Toss lives on a sheep farm with her father in New Zealand. When Toss's father dies in an accident, Ethan, an itinerant hunter, wanders onto the family farm and is given a job by her grandfather. Toss's fairly innocent relationship with Ethan is severed when he forms a relationship with her mother.

Toss lives on a sheep farm with her father in New Zealand. When Toss's father dies in an accident, Ethan, an itinerant hunter, wanders onto the family farm and is given a job by her grandfather. Toss's fairly innocent relationship with Ethan is severed when he forms a relationship with her mother.

This is the story of Puhi, an aged Maori woman and Niki, her fully grown but wholly dependent son. The world they occupy is not a world of large events but the rituals of everyday life, traditions and interdependence. “In Spring One Plants Alone” documents the minutiae of their very enclosed existence. Filmed over a period of one and a half years, it emerges as a rare, haunting and powerful portrayal of their life together. This is the story of their rituals and of their survival. The small and disconnected instances that we encounter form a lone vision of the rifts and the bond between an old woman and her disturbed son.

A Samoan male, Sione, and a Palagi New Zealand female,Sarah, meet while studying at Wellington's Victoria University. A relationship develops quickly, but each finds the other's culture a hard adjustment. Friends and family are not supportive, particularly when she becomes pregnant, although he proposes marriage. She leaves for Australia for an abortion and he returns to Samoa.

Malfred Signal leaves her life of stifling gentility as an art teacher in a South Island private girls' school and decides to live out her dream – painting alone in the remote North. One terrifying night, beset by a prowler, but confronting only her own image at every step, she relives her past.

Malfred Signal leaves her life of stifling gentility as an art teacher in a South Island private girls' school and decides to live out her dream – painting alone in the remote North. One terrifying night, beset by a prowler, but confronting only her own image at every step, she relives her past.