"Hidden Figures" tells the incredible untold story of Katherine Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer) and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monae) - brilliant African-American women working at NASA who served as the brains behind the launch into orbit of astronaut John Glenn (Glen Powell), a stunning achievement that turned around the Space Race. The visionary trio crossed all gender and racial lines and inspired generations.
From the celebrated Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky comes his most autobiographical work and one that is regarded by many as his magnum opus. Reflecting upon his own childhood and the destiny of the Russian people, 'Mirror' is a sublime expression of memory, imagination, thoughts and dreams intertwined with real life and family relationships. A transcendent, inspired and multilayered masterpiece that continues to grow in stature, 'Mirror' has an exceptional resonance and rewards countless viewings.
War and Pizza. "A piece of spaghetti or a military unit", George S. Patton famously said, "can only be led from the front end". However, once the heat of battle has cooled and the fog of war turns as thick as minestrone, determining which end was front and who pulled on what can be difficult. Therefore, for the enthusiasts who've puzzled over the epic tank battle between the girls of Oorai Girls' Academy and their Italian-themed rivals from Anzio High School, we present these classified videos for your eyes only. Miho and Team Oorai will have their hands full with the impulsive attacks of Vice-Commander Pepperoni and facing the raw fury of Vice- Commander Carpaccio…but the real question is whether they can hold off Anchovy's ultra-secret secret weapons! Will they persevere? Or will their opponents end up saying "tank" you very much…for the victory.
Haunted by the devastating events which took place 18 months previously, soul mates Lol and Woody both find themselves in self-imposed exile from each other and the gang. They say Christmas is a time for forgiving and for forgetting, a time of love and laughter and joy ever after, and with echoes of A Christmas Carol, Shane Meadows take us to places we never, thought we'd go. When all hope seems lost, what peace is there to be found? This is Christmas. This is England style.
Based on Eric Fenby's 1936 memoir 'Delius As I Knew Him', it traces the last years of Frederick Delius, and Fenby's dedication in giving up five years of his life to helping the blind, paralysed composer set down the unfinished scores he could hear in his head. There are terrific performances from Max Adrian as the monstrous, tyrannical, tormented Delius, Maureen Pryor as his devoted, long-suffering wife, Jelka, and Christopher Gable (remarkably, in his first screen acting role) as the shy, intense, talented young composer thrust into this strange household.
Sentenced to slavery in the New World for killing her husband in self-defence, Abby Hale (Paulette Goddard), is auctioned on the American-bound ship by the villainous Garth (Howard De Silva) who desires to keep the feisty English woman for himself. But the intrepid frontiersman Captain Chris Holden (Gary Cooper) buys Abby to set her free before leaving the ship. Furious at being outdone, Garth bribes the ship's captain to pretend that Holden has not lodged the money to buy the slave and so Abby is forced to go with Garth's as his slave. When Garth arrives in the Ohio Valley he secretly begins to arrange an Indian uprising with the Senecan chief Guyasuta (Boris Karloff) in to get kill the settlers and gain a monopoly of the fur trade. Captain Holden discovers Garth's treachery but cannot prove anything against him. Aware that the outpost of Fort Pitt and all its settlers could be massacred by the Indians, Holden rides into the camp of the Senecas with the aim of talking peace and rescuing Abby; but Garth and his Indian wife Hannah (Katherine DeMille) have other plans for Holden and the fiery redhead...
Romain Duris (Arsene Lupin, The Beat That My Heart Skipped) plays Pierre, a professional dance who’s suddenly diagnosed with a serious heart disease that could cost him his life. While waiting to receive the news as the wheatear or not his is able to receive a heart transplant, Pierre can do nothing but pass the time sitting on the balcony of his apartment and watch the world go by without him. But the more he observes, the more he realises the subtle and sublime beauty hidden beneath the depths of everyday occurrences, as the real Paris slowly begins to reveal itself and the complex tapestry of its inhabitants.
Feeble George (George Formby), a newspaper compositor with delusions of being a detective, wins big at the races - but when the winnings are changed from three tenners to more manageable fivers they're replaced with counterfeit notes. Suitably annoyed, George puts his sleuthing skills to the test and goes undercover!
An intoxicating mixture of fact and fiction, Ragtime recreates the real-life scandal of chorus girl Evelyn Nesbitt, whose rich husband famously shot her former lover in public. Brilliantly essaying the outbreak of urban-terrorism in the early part of the Twentieth Century, Ragtime perfectly captures an age that encompassed both dire poverty and fabulous wealth.
The president of the United States is about to have a dream from which there is no waking up. Only one man can save him...a man who must plunge himself Into the president's horrendous nightmare. Dennis Quaid stars as Alex Gardner, a psychically gifted young man recruited by Dr. Paul Novotny (Max Von Sydow) and the beautiful Dr. Jane DeVries (Kate Capshaw) In an experiment to aid patients disturbed by menacing nocturnal illusions. But corrupt high-ranking government official Bob Blair (Christopher Plummer) has darker plans for Alex's unusual powers. Soon Alex is propelled inside the president's nightmare, a frightening wasteland of nuclear holocaust, and locked In a fantastic battle that could only happen in a dream.
King Lear of England (Jüri Järvet) retires from his throne of power. His decision to divide his kingdom among his elder daughters, over the warnings of his youngest Cordelia (Valentina Shendrikova), sparks off a chain of events that engulfs the entire countryside. Lear's final days are marked by dissension, internecine conflict and terrible violence. Humiliated and banished by his daughters, the King wanders the countryside like a beggar, accompanied by his Fool and a few faithful servants. Driven mad by despair, Lear's megalomania consumes him to the point of blindness.
A tour de force journey through modern-day Europe, 'Import Export' tells two parallel stories: Olga (Ekateryna Rak) who leaves behind her mother and young child in the Ukraine to seek out a better life in Vienna; and a headstrong young security guard (Paul Hofmann) who leaves Vienna to accompany his stepfather on a trip delivering gumball machines in Eastern Europe. Hailed by critics as a startling and bold film, it is without doubt recent European cinema's most provocative and audacious investigation of the post-Soviet universe and the new relations between East and West.
It Is a time of arrivals at The Kingdom. The infamous Swedish surgeon Stig Helmer (Ernst-Hugo Järegård) has taken up his new post, much to the distress of his Danish colleagues. The position promises to be an eventful one - while Helmer is inducted into the sinister brotherhood of surgeons and performs surgery on a patient who cannot be anaesthetised, his involvement with a brain-damaged patient leaves him open to legal proceedings and a blackmail plot by the idealistic Dr. Krogshoj (Søren Pilmark). And there are other, less wholesome presences beginning to make themselves known in the labyrinthine hospital. When the imagined illnesses of Mrs Sigrid Drusse (Kirsten Rolffes) lead her to be admitted as a patient, she discovers The Kingdom's resident ghost weeping in the lift shafts and embarks on a supernatural search for the wayward spirit. Dr. Judith (Birgitte Raaberg) is pregnant with a highly unusual baby, ghostly ambulances arrive with neither patients or drivers, Dr. Bondo (Baard Owe) finds himself unable to resist the lure of a dying man's tumour and just what is the lovesick Dr. Mogge (Peter Mygind) doing in the morgue with a hacksaw?
Starring screen legends James Cagney and Don Murray, 'Shake Hands with the Devil' is a classic thriller about bravery, honour and the never-ending fight for freedom and equality. When a classmate and secret IRA member is murdered a young medical student is thrown into the chaos of a world he thought he had left behind with his dead father. Soon he becomes embroiled in a series of plots to overthrow the hated Black and Tans, but as the possibility of peace mounts so do the group's desperate, bloodthirsty measures. As the tension mounts and the rebels begin to turn on each other only death will bring the solution they need...
Ile Aiye (The House Of Life) is David Byrne's breathtaking, impressionistic 1989 documentary on Cadomble, the African spirit cult of the Bahia region of Brazil. Ile Aiye explores the ways in which Candomble has influenced the daily life and culture of the people of Brazil through music, art, religion, theater, food, dance, poetry and more. The rhythms of the sacred drums and bells, a dance of spiritual ecstasy, offerings and sacrifices, divination and the visitation of the Orishas (deities) through trance are all part of the color and life of Candomble. The Music in Ile Aiye includes ritual music recorded during ceremonies, popular Brazilian songs influenced by Candomble, and an Original Score by David Byrne recorded with Brazilian musicians in Bahia and New York.
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