Diksha (1991)

Нищий парень устраивается водителем к богатой семье. Однажды его хозяева в подпитии насмерть сбивают человека и пытаются свалить вину на бедного водителя, но тот оказывается не так прост.

История, рассказываемая в этом увлекательном криминальном триллере, основывается на реальных событиях. Действие фильма перенесёт вас в 2014-й год, когда в Индии рассматривалось громкое дело, связанное с изнасилованием и жестоким убийством. Преступление произошло в густонаселённом округе Бадаун, который находится в штате Уттар-Прадеш. Конечно же, практически все жители Бадауна так или иначе интересовались ходом расследования, в результате чего дело получило широкий общественный резонанс. Смогут ли полицейские найти совершивших убийство преступников? Удастся ли героям фильма заставить насильников заплатить за совершённые бесчинства?

Бенарес, священный город на берегу реки Ганг, жестоко наказывает тех, кто не желает считаться с традициями. Дипак, молодой выходец из бедных слоев, без ума влюблен в девушку не из своей касты. Студентка Дэви блуждает в потемках собственной жизни, мучаясь виной после гибели первого возлюбленного. Патак, отец Дэви, под давлением продажной полиции жертвует своими моральными принципами. Подросток Джонта пытается найти свою семью… Судьбы персонажей, которых объединяет надежда на лучшее будущее и желание сократить разрыв между круговоротом современного общества и традиционными устоями, скоро пересекутся…

Действие развивается на Земле в будущем, в деспотичном Чикаго. Все подростки, достигшие 16 лет, обязаны выбрать одну из пяти фракций и присоединиться к ней на всю оставшуюся жизнь. Каждая фракция представляет определенное качество: Искренность, Отречение, Бесстрашие, Дружелюбие и Эрудиция.

Madhukar and Parthavi fall head over heels in love with each other, but the fact that they belong to different castes of society, becomes an obstacle in their romance. The lovers dare to go against societal norms and battle all odds for the sake of love.

В середине XIX века наступают последние дни сегунов и самураев. Ветер перемен ощущается по всей Японии и даже в маленьком княжестве Унасаку на северо-западном побережье Японии… Тайную технику фехтования «Коготь дьявола» знает только Мунедзо, поэтому мир самураев еще не готов позволить Мунедзо уйти на свободу.

Vaidehi belongs to an orthodox Brahmin family and falls in love with Sankarapandi who is from a different caste. Their love is disapproved by her father but is accepted by Sankarapandi's family.

A fourteen year old Dalit (lower caste) boy in rural India is killed for writing a love letter.

Бедная крестьянка Лакшми живет вместе с глухонемым мужем в небольшой индийской деревушке. Вместе с ним она работает на богатого землевладельца. Сын богача Сария бросает учебу и возвращается домой, чтобы следить за поместьем и жениться на девушке Сарой, с которой они помолвлены с раннего детства.

In rural South India, 15 year old Vanaja goes to work for the local Landlady in hopes of learning Kuchipudi Dance. Initial chemistry with the Landlady's son turns ugly, pitching her into a battle of Caste and Animus.

A state topper from a lower caste goes missing after an upper caste cop picks him up for questioning. What has happened to him?

A music shop owner falls in love with a girl from a circus troupe that visits his village, but caste and class stand in the way.

Two people from different caste start to fall in love but after their parents not allowing them to stay together, they run away.

Sivaraman belongs to a low caste and is a cobbler by profession. He was orphaned as a little boy and has since been brought up by a couple belonging to the lower caste. A trip to the 'agraharam' brings back memories of his childhood and he realises that he is in fact a Brahmin and the son of the head priest at the temple. Wishing to help his real family while at the same time unable to forget the parents who adopted him, he shuffles between the two vastly different worlds. Maheswar, a lower caste woman, waits for him back home while Gayatri falls in love with him in his new life.

Narayanappa, a Madhwa Brahmin man, dies in the Agrahara of the village Durvasapura. As per Madhwa customs, his last rites must be performed at the earliest. However, due to Narayanappa's rebellious actions in life, which included eating meat, consuming liquor and marrying a prostitute, there is disagreement amongst the Brahmins of the village as to who will perform his rites.

Annakodi (Karthika) falls in love with Kodiveeran (Lakshman Narayan), a lower caste man in a rural village. Meanwhile the evil local moneylender a womaniser has a son Sadaiyan (Manoj K Bharathi) who is impotent but wants to marry Annakodi and take revenge on her for spitting on his face. Things take a turn, the lovers are separated and Sadaiyan marries Annakodi, and his lecherous father lusts after her.

After the murder of his wife, and his son's kidnapping, Dr. Vidya Bhushan decides to devote the rest of his life as a Poojary, living on the premises of a princely-donated temple, hoping ...

A group of college students gets entangled in the scheme of a fledgling caste outfit that wants to turn into a political party.

First OVA-Adaption of the japanese novel written by Rieko Yoshihara. On the planet Amoi the society is divided into different classes. The two main protagonist's are Iason Mink from the highest-class and Riki his slave.

Somi is pregnant with her second child. A girl, she hopes. Together with her husband she prepares for this new phase of their parenthood. It means that their son has to go to school, but as an ex-Naxalite that is tough to achieve in contemporary India, where people like them are third-rate citizens. They lack the certificates and an opaque bureaucratic process doesn't help. Directors Isabella Rinaldi, Cristina Hanes and Arya Rothe of the NoCut Film Collective concentrate on Somi's close family ties, painting a portrait of ex-Naxalites in India. Once, Somi and her husband were communist rebels fighting for the rights of Indian tribes. However, to safeguard their family's welfare, they surrendered to the government in exchange for marginal compensation and simple accommodation.

A comedy based on NBC's "People Are Funny" radio (and later television) program with Art Linkletter with a fictional story of how the program came to be on a national network from its humble beginning at a Nevada radio station. Jack Haley is a producer with only half-rights to the program while Ozzie Nelson and Helen Walker are the radio writers and supply the romance. Rudy Vallee, always able to burlesque himself intentional and, quite often, unintentional, is the owner of the sought-after sponsoring company. Frances Langford, as herself, sings "I'm in the Mood for Love" while the Vagabonds quartet (billed 12th and last) chimes in on "Angeline" and "The Old Square Dance is Back Again."

At the height of Reign of Terror Maximilien Robespierre orchestrates the trial and execution of several of his fellow leading French revolutionaries including Georges Danton.

Letters, Riddles and Writs is a one act opera for television by Michael Nyman broadcast in 1991.

Iskyss is a strong and poetic love story based on Gunvor Galtung Haavik’s double life through 30 years. During the Cold War, she was employed by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and assigned to the Norwegian Embassy in Moscow. With the information she had access to in the capacity of her position as interpreter and secretary, she frequently fed the KGB secret information.

A girl has to decide who to marry: a poor country boy or a rich nightclub owner.

Moody, atmospheric ghost story starring Mason as a retired tradesman who purchases an old mansion that has been vacant for 40 years because it is believed to be haunted by the spirit of a young woman who had died there. Unaware of the mansion's reputation, Mason and his wife Mullen move in and hire a young woman, Lockwood, to keep house. Soon after Lockwood's arrival, strange things begin to happen in the household, and it becomes apparent that she is possessed by the spirit of the dead girl, though Mason scoffs at the idea. On death's door and bedridden, Lockwood asks for the same doctor who treated the woman who died 40 years ago. He arrives and treats her. The next morning Lockwood is cured, and it is revealed by the police that the doctor's dead body was found in his carriage hours before the time Mason claims he arrived to see Lockwood. Convinced that not only the ghost of the girl but that of the doctor as well entered his home, Mason finally believes in the supernatural.

Лос-Анджелес, конец XX века, страна неограниченных возможностей для всех… Ленни и Элоиза любили друг друга и боролись за свою любовь. Элоиза работала секретаршей у богатой актрисы, а вот Ленни был типичным неудачником, причем с амбициями. Он не мог удержаться ни на одной работе, поэтому жил за счёт Элоизы. Но он пытался исправить положение — и попал в полицию за участие в незаконных съёмках порнофильма. Все сбережения ушли на уплату залога. Из квартиры их выгнали. И тогда Ленни и Элоиза пошли на грабёж.

A filmmaker returns to Normandy thirty years after a working on a movie based on a local homicide and tries to find the actors who worked on the project.

This is not merely another film about cinema history; it is a film about the love of cinema, a journey of discovery through over a century of German film history. Ten people working in film today remember their favourite films of yesteryear.

Вся семья Дассау из Вены художественно честолюбивая, но безуспешная. Отец, усердный почтовый служащий, пишет «кровавые» детективы, которые не находят издателя. Никто не хочет слушать песни о любви его жены. Их младшая дочь Бригитта — непризнанная художница, а старшая Николь пишет глубоко чувствительные стихи о «листьях, которые шепчут на деревьях». Когда Николь снова получает отказ издательства, она решает поставить «аморальную пьесу», соответствующую духу времени. Под заголовком «Ева — мемуары 17-летней» Николь излагает предположительно автобиографические переживания чувственной девушки, которую обманывает ее супруг. Пьеса на сцене старо-почтенного Венского придворного театра имеет сенсационный успех. Вся Вена гадает, кто же автор… Тем временем, американский кинопродюсер Эрвин Дотт предлагает большую сумму за право экранизации пьесы. Но с одним условием — он желает познакомиться с автором лично…

Four nights in Caracas. A documentary essay about chaos and civilization.

On Christmas Eve, Léa and Juliette, a couple, want to rob a supermarket that Juliette knows is empty of surveillance on this festive evening. But, as much for each of them as for Eric, the vigil who is there after all, nothing will happen as planned. Besides, shortly before leaving him alone, the store manager gave Eric a gun, just in case.

I love Vienna is a social comedy that explores the clash of cultures and values.

A humorous and satirical comedy, which places a man from the year 2222 one day in the (then) present day life in GDR, East Germany under Communist regime. Using a crystal for mind reading he uncovers some improprieties and moral weaknesses in the "Beautiful future" professed by VEB ("Volkseigener Betrieb" – "State Owned Holdings").

The subject of this historical drama is a splintering Berlin in the years of 1948 and 1949. Played against the backdrop of social upheaval, the characters in the drama come to epitomize the best and worst of each pole of the political sphere. A 17-year-old hoodlum by the name of Gladow works hand-in-glove with a local white-collar criminal to rob and pillage every day and night, defying capture. While he and his gang of thugs are terrorizing the people of Berlin, the Soviets are trying to make the blockade of their region of control impermeable. The future casts long shadows over the drama, as Berlin's problems take the shape of times to come.

The same day of their marriage, Jean's wife dies of a strange ailment in the middle of surgery. Afflicted by the loss, the young man abandons his medical studies and takes refuge in the memories of his time of courtship. At the same time that this happens, a wave of murders shakes the city with the same pattern of behavior: the victims are surgery students whose bodies have had both hands amputated.

Vincent Vivant agrees to Stephan the spy's proposal: he is to cross the border with a mysterious suitcase.

Abel Hradscheck, the owner of an inn in the Oderbruch country, faces financial ruin. For this state of affairs, Ursula, his wife and former actress, is by no means free of blame. She is a "newcomer" to the area and even after eleven years in the area, still a "stranger". A Cracow company announces that a money-collector is on his way to the innkeeper. Mr. Szulski arrives and the debts are settled - with money supposedly stemming from an inheritance. The next day, Szulski departs but according to the maid and the stable-boy, behaves in a very strange manner. Soon afterwards, his carriage is discovered in the Oder River, but there is no trace of the drowned man. Hradscheck's neighbor starts casting suspicion on the innkeeper. The Counselor of Justice, who heads the investigations has the spot under the pear tree dug out. A dead body is exhumed...

Young Chinese-American filmmaker Wei-ming travels from New York to his childhood home on Lamma Island to make a video documentary about the imminent opening of a Disneyland theme park in Hong Kong. While doing research for the project, he meets Larry, a dancer/choreographer.