Dying to Live (2018)
Жанр : документальный
Время выполнения : 1Ч 34М
Директор : Richard Todd
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Australia is well behind the Western world in organ and tissue donor rates, causing immense suffering for those awaiting organs, while donors inspire us with their gift of life.
Какие только странные пути порой не ведут к исполнению желаний! Простак Марвин всю жизнь мечтал стать крутым полицейским. Но тщетно. Не было счастья, да несчастье помогло: попав в автокатастрофу, герой был спасен от смерти слегка чокнутым доктором Уайлдером. Вышедшие из строя внутренние органы Марвина тот заменил на органы разных животных, благодаря чему его пациент не только выздоровел, но и обрел таланты своих доноров. Используя новые возможности, герой наконец становится настоящим суперкопом, но… Вместе с отличными рефлексами, силой и выносливостью Марвин получил от зверей и их дремучие инстинкты, внезапно и всегда не вовремя пробуждающиеся!
История глухонемого Рю и его сестры, которой нужно пересадить почку. Начальник Рю, Пак, только что уволил его, и Рю со своей подружкой решают похитить дочь Пака, чтобы на полученный выкуп сделать трансплантацию. Но все идет катастрофически не так, и ситуация очень скоро перерастает в лавину насилия и мести…
После курьезной автокатастрофы, Стю, молодой талантливый художник-мультипликатор впадает в кому. Его сознание отделяется от тела, и он погружается в царство Морфея. Ему снятся всякие мультипликационные кошмары, самый страшный из которых как две капли воды похож на его последнюю разработку — безумную похотливую мартышку. Путешествуя по лабиринтам подсознания в обнимку со своими новыми друзьями, мутантами, упырями и конечно мартышкой, Стю пытается найти выход из этого гротескного нереального мира, в котором он оказался. Но когда у Стю появляется редчайшая возможность покинуть этот кошмар и проснуться, наглая мартышка подло обманывает его и вселяется в его тело. Любимая девушка и друзья Стю очень рады его возвращению. Конечно, они замечают произошедшие с ним перемены, но никто и не догадывается, что внутри Стю скрывается наглая, распущенная, подлая, но очень веселая обезьяна.
Главному герою фильма пересаживают чужое сердце, после чего, спустя некоторое время, он начинает ощущать головные боли и видеть видения, сопровождающиеся сердечными приступами. Начатое расследование открывает тайну — герою пересадили сердце убитого человека, и оно настоятельно желает исполнения правосудия от своего нового носителя…
Three stories about persons forced to think about the ethics and moral issues raised by medical advances.
The life stories of four families who were confronted with organ donation or transplantation issues. With humility and great generosity, the characters reveal to us the suffering, feelings, happiness that have surrounded these exceptional moments.
Two couples who can't stand each other need to become friends. Because this is their only chance for a life-saving organ donation.
A brain-dead youth's family agrees to donate his heart to a girl who needs an immediate heart transplant. A disparate group of people decide to complete this task by racing against time.
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Pat Spurgeon is a professional musician whose dreams of being in a successful rock 'n' roll band have come true. But just as his band, Rogue Wave, starts to take off, his kidney starts to fail. "D tour" chronicles the life of a musician with "no back-up plan" as he's faced with daily dialysis, a grueling tour, and a search for a new kidney.
In the distant future, the gap between rich and poor has become immeasurable. Wealthy enclosures like Parkland, home of medical pioneer Dr. Roland Parker, are home to few. With medical technology, Parkland's rich are able to buy their immortality through organs from the poor. When Detective Quinn is assigned to capture an escaped donor from his slum, he unknowingly becomes a donor for Parker. As his days alive diminish, Quinn races to expose a conspiracy fueled by the murder of innocent people.
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.
Produced in 1943 under the guidance of Army Air Force Lieutenant Clark Gable, this film follows a single 8th Air Force B-17 crew from training through a series of missions over Europe.
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.
While Douglas Coupland works on a grand art project about Canada, the writer recounts his life and his musings about the various aspects of Canadian identity.
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