RJ and Chris are two teenage boys raised in Mormon communities. Though both are poster boys for their church with perfect academic records and pretty girlfriends buried feelings soon rise to the surface when they are assigned to serve a mission together as part of their rite of passage. Now they will have to make sense of the conflict between their desires and the rules that govern the only world they know.
Intriguing colourful and revealing The Courtesans Of Bombay is Merchant Ivory's 'docu-drama' about Pavan Pool the enclosed area where that city's courtesans ply their trade. It presents a portrait of a unique location both exotic and tawdry: crammed tenements housing thousands men playing up to the camera as they seek out forbidden pleasures - and the courtesans themselves who appear more as entertainers than sex workers. It shows how young girls are groomed in the arts of singing dancing and by inference seduction. Yet The Courtesans Of Bombay is neither sensationalist nor prurient and is as much about a tradition with a special place in Indian society.
Life's a bitch And then it goes to penalties... Life was sweet for Lee Vaughan: money respect sex and . . . football. Ah yes The Beautiful Game - well at least the version played by The Fox and Hounds Chapel Allerton. Lee was the top scorer in 1992. But not a single goal in '93. Glaucoma. It struck him down. Within two years he was totally blind. His only glory from memories. But memories don't satisfy the need for a 'damn good kickabout.' Into Lee's life comes one Charlie Howard. His life is a mess - he kind of likes it that way. Twenty years ago he saw 'Get Carter' and left the USA for the UK. And there he meets a blind man yearning to play this thing they call soccer. Charlie is bored. Charlie is looking for a craic. Looks like he's found one.
Rikio Ishikawa is a brutal street thug who is drawn into the powerful Kawada gang in 1946 Tokyo. His insubordination and rebelliousness encourage him to start his own Yakuza family but he decides the easiest way would be to challenge his own Godfather whom he brutally attacks. This disrespect to his boss brings the ultimate form of disgrace upon himself and his 'family'. For his own safety he surrenders to the police and spends more than a year in jail. But Ishikawa's dishonourable
Drama intrigue and espionage are at the very heart of this classic piece of British cinema. Set in London just months before the out break of World War Two suspicion falls on a German ambassador when one of his envoys fails to return to Berlin. The arrival of two ruthless Gestapo agents sent from Germany and charged with finding the missing man causes the ambassador his wife and daughter to rethink their Nazi allegiance but is it too late to escape from Hitler's evil grasp?
A young man rejects his family's wealth and position of power to join the police force where he uncovers deep seeded corruption within the police threatening his reputation and placing his life on the line.
Smart savvy advertising executive Murray Roberts is in control of his urban world. But a wrong turn in a large metropolitan park reveals the limits of his control and the limitations within himself. Murrays path is blocked by Carter a 14 year old would be mugger. When Carter persists Murray reacts and shoves him to the ground. The act has alarming consequences as a menacing youth gang emerges from the surrounding forest. Murray does what anyone would do in this situation he runs! Cornered and exhausted Murray seeks refuge in a massive old tree. A single misstep atop the branches and his hiding place is revealed. Now what can Murray do? Deep in the woods at the end of the day no one answers when Murray calls for help!
A pro tennis player has lost his ambition and has fallen in rank to 119. Fortunately for him, he meets a young player on the women's circuit who helps him recapture his focus for Wimbledon.
Enjoy a front row seat in the comfort of your home with a Shakespeare classic starring an internationally acclaimed cast. The Merry Wives Of Windsor is Shakespeare's timeless comedy of love seduction fanciful deceits and marital fidelity.
Jean-Claude Brisseau (Secret Things, The Exterminating Angels, A L'Aventure) is an auteur often associated with films that are sexually provocative, risqué and controversial. Winner of the Special Youth Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, THE SOUND AND THE FURY presents a brutal, shocking and poignant look at the lives of children living in the Paris projects. Bruno, a 14 year old boy, has just moved into a high-rise with his hard-working mother. Barely earning enough to support them takes all of her time, leaving Bruno alone to fend for himself. After he is befriended at school by the streetwise, battered and deeply troubled Jean-Roger, Bruno is soon out thieving, destroying property and harming people with a vengeance, before long catching the attention of the police THE SOUND AND THE FURY (DE BRUIT ET DE FUREUR) is a trailblazing and visionary portrait of contemporary social malaise, a precursor to films such as City of God and La Haine, featuring extraordinary performances from the young leads. With startling realism Brisseau denounces the dangers of a boxed-in society and questions the responsibilities of those charged with the care and education of children.
1942, in German-occupied Paris. Tahar Rahim ('A Prophet') stars as Younes - a young Algerian rogue, living on the wrong side of the law selling goods to fellow North African immigrants on the black market. In a time of oppression and radicalism, Younes is loyal only to himself and his family back home to whom he sends money regularly. His aim is simple - he plans to survive long enough to accumulate enough money to return home a rich man.But his life changes when the police raid his apartment block, taking all of his contraband and arresting him. A deal is placed on the table: Become a spy at the local Mosque, or face an indefinite time in prison. At the Mosque, Younes meets the Algerian singer Salim Halali, and is moved by Salim's beautiful voice and strong personality. A deep friendship develops, and soon after Younes discovers that Salim is Jewish.As Younes goes deeper undercover into the Mosque, keeping a close eye on rector Si Kaddour Ben Ghabrit (Michael Lonsdale), he becomes drawn into a dangerous and morally complex situation - and must face a dilemma between serving his own best interests, or putting himself in mortal danger to save the lives of innocent people.
Gloria Castillo stars as mixed up teenager Donna Price. When she witnesses her boyfriend steal a car and get involved in a fatal hit and run accident he frames her for the accident to save himself and she is sent to reform school on car theft charges. Despite her innocence Donna refuses to reveal who was really driving the stolen vehicle it is only once the culprit reveals himself to be throughly nasty that Donna is able to extricate herself from her spiralling dilemma.
Stephen Dorff narrates and stars in this self-consciously hip tale of a man under pressure to direct his first film and keep his new romance going...
When a small Irish town's local hero disappears they become obsessed with trying to track down his whereabouts. Many years later his best friend receives a phone call and travels to Sweden to reunite with him.
A young woman Larita Filton (Isabel Jeans) becomes ""the notorious Mrs. Filton"" when a young artist in love with her commits suicide and she ends up divorcing her drunkard husband. Life looks like it is taking a turn for the better when she meets John Whittaker in the south of France. John the scion of a respectable family marries her without being aware of her past but his mother soon learns of Larita's tainted background and schemes to break up the marriage and uncover Larita's
Featuring gorgeous cinematography from Claude Friese-Greene, this stirring drama of romance and derring-do features an early film role for debonair Egyptian-born actor Alexandre D'Arcy, playing opposite Russian-British star Marguerite Allan. Initially released as a silent film with Pathecolor sequences in May 1929, A Romance of Seville was re-released in July 1930 without the stencil colouring but with new titles and a soundtrack showcasing a feature-length medley of colourful Spanish music. The Pathecolor version no longer exists, but the re-release is presented here in a brand-new transfer from original film elements, in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. Dolores and Ramon celebrate their arranged betrothal with little enthusiasm: Dolores has a lover, and Ramon wants his freedom so that he can pursue Pepita. Having heard of Ramon's betrothal, Pepita gives her heart to another but when bandits accost her and try to rob her father, they give the dashing Ramon just the chance he needs to prove the gallant lover!
Love Me Till Monday follows the story of an English girl trying to find love between the office and her home life. The film looks at how a generation of twenty-something's go in search of love. They don't 'date' or 'grab a coffee' or walk romantically along the Seine in perfectly cut trench coats. They don't hold tight to a handsome man on the back of a Vespa. They dance ironically in circles drink far too much and snog a friend. They eat cheesy chips or cold quiche at 3am. It is a film that lies somewhere between Downton and TOWIE between The City and the countryside between ASBO and PhD. Love Me Till Monday is a story about a 25-year-old middle-middle-class English girl and everything she wants and deserves. A film for the funny ugly and slightly magical English.
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