An expert at sleight of hand and with a keen eye for identifying charlatans and tricksters, our story begins as Harry has fallen on hard times in recent years, professionally and ethically losing his way. He’s resorted to making his living as a fake medium and fraudulent ghost hunter, conducting séances for unsuspecting families who think their lives have been made a misery by ghostly mischief making. Harry’s duplicitous lifestyle has also had serious consequences when after leading a séance for a tragic soldier a young man commits suicide on the doorstep of Harry’s home. A couple of months later, Harry is offered the chance to investigate the haunting of a local MP’s home as the case threatens to ruin the politician’s reputation. With the prospects of leading his political party, Edward Curtis can ill-afford the scandal as his wife Grace begins to hallucinate and act bizarrely and very much out of character as she believes their family home to be haunted. There’s a possibility Grace may be committed to an asylum in scandalous circumstances if Harry doesn’t take on the investigation. Ghosts from Harry’s past influence his decision to take the case and he begins to think it might be time to take a new path. Together with the Curtis family maid, Sarah Grey, whose own mother has fallen prey to con artist mediums in the past, their detection and investigative skills complement one another and they make a formidable partnership. Smart, driven and open-minded, Sarah is a strong-minded woman who can handle herself when unravelling the mysteries behind the hauntings, which are seriously affecting Grace’s health and well-being. Harry also calls on the services of his old friend, Albert, during the investigation. An African pharmacist with a sideline in voodoo con-artistry, Albert has a keen interest in medical and scientific discoveries, which Harry exploits to the maximum. Journalist Vernon Wall also finds himself in Harry’s orbit. Cynical and hard-bitten, although clever at winning the trust of the people he’s interviewing, Vernon is keen to learn about Harry’s techniques and sensing a political scandal sets out to inveigle his way into his life by extracting information from Sarah.
Las maestras republicanas fueron unas mujeres que participaron en la conquista de los derechos de las mujeres y en la modernización de la educación, basada en los principios de la escuela pública y democrática. Este documental, a través de la recreación de la vida de una maestra de la época, e imágenes de archivo inéditas, nos descubre el legado que nos han dejado las maestras republicanas y que ha llegado hasta nuestros días.
Lucjan is a theatre actor whose health is failing. He forgets his lines on stage and feels confused and out of place in his daily life. He decides to end his acting career and soon winds up in a nursing home. In this new place, the elderly man misses his late wife. He starts having nightmares that seem to become real. In one of them, he discovers a passage into a magical world deceptively similar to his theatre. Lucjan starts living in two parallel dimensions – real life and the fairy tale – that become increasingly dependent on each other and intertwined. His immersion in the imaginary world leads to an unexpected ending. A bittersweet treatise on passing. The fairy-tale world Lucjan creates is not so much a metaphor for death as a symbolic reconciliation to its coming.
故事发生在一间名为“鸟笼”的夜总会中,艾伯特(内森·连恩 Nathan Lane 饰)是其中的当家花旦,不仅如此,他和夜总会的老板阿曼德(罗宾·威廉姆斯 Robin Williams 饰)还是出双入对的同性情人。 某日,阿曼德同前妻所生的儿子瓦尔(丹·福特曼 Dan Futterman 饰)找到了老爸,喜滋滋的告诉他他即将带着未婚妻芭芭拉(卡莉斯塔·弗洛克哈特 Calista Flockhart 饰)前来造访。阿曼德在感到欣喜的同时亦十分紧张,因为芭芭拉的父母凯文(吉恩·哈克曼 Gene Hackman 饰)和路易斯(黛安娜·维斯特 Dianne Wiest 饰)是保守派人士,如果让他们知道了自己同艾伯特之间的关系,儿子的婚事可能就要岌岌可危了。于是,阿曼德开始劝说艾伯特,让他假扮成为一个正常人,表面上答应了阿曼德的请求,艾伯特的内心里却十分郁闷。
基于各种原因,自幕府末期至昭和初期,日本大批穷苦人家的女孩被贩卖到南洋当妓女,世称“南洋姐”。她们的命运坎坷,受尽人世间的屈辱。有些人客死他乡,有些即使回到故乡,却仍要承受世俗鄙夷的目光。 女性史学家三谷圭子(栗原小卷 饰)为了调查和解开这段历史,走访了九州天草的崎津町 ,不过她的采访并不顺利,曾经历那个年代的老人们对此皆闭口不谈,讳莫如深。偶然间,她在路边冷饮店邂逅曾当过南洋姐的阿崎婆(田中绢代 饰),经过一段时间的试探和交往,原本紧锁心门的老婆婆终于向圭子敞开心扉,一同回首那段不堪回首的悲伤往事…… 改编自山崎朋子的小说《山打根8号娼馆 底层女性史序章(サンダカン八番娼館- 底辺女性史序章)》,影片荣获1973年亚太电影节最佳影片奖、1975年柏林国际电影节最佳女演员奖等多个奖项。
影片以主角 Marco 的视角展开,他曾误入歧途成为黑帮成员,但内心深处一直保留着善良的本质。故事中,Marco 所在的城市出现了一系列危害社会安全的恶性事件,警方在调查过程中发现这些事件与黑帮的非法活动有千丝万缕的联系。Marco 在经历了一些事情后,开始反思自己的生活和选择。当他发现黑帮的阴谋可能会给城市里无辜的人们带来巨大灾难时,他决定挺身而出。他利用自己对黑帮内部情况的了解,开始暗中协助警方收集证据。在这个过程中,Marco 遭遇了来自黑帮内部的怀疑和追杀,那些曾经的 “兄弟” 对他反目成仇,给他设下了重重陷阱。但 Marco 没有放弃,他与警方紧密合作,同时也在努力保护那些被黑帮威胁的普通市民。强调了正义和救赎的力量。
雷奈尔(赖尼尔·迪亚兹 Reinier Díaz 饰)有一大家子人需要靠他养活,然而,想要在这个残酷的世界中生存下去并非容易之事,无奈之下,雷奈尔只得成为了一名站街男妓,依靠出卖自己的肉体和青春获得短暂的温饱。 约斯瓦尼(米尔顿·加西亚 Milton García 饰)和妻子之间的感情并不融洽,与此同时,他亦是以放高利贷为生的岳父手下的一名打手,每天喊打喊杀的生活让约斯瓦尼疲惫不堪。一次偶然中,这两个性格地位截然不同的男人相遇了,命运让他们相遇,令他们相爱,在古巴热烈的阳光之下,两个男人陷入欲望的漩涡无法自拔。然而,属于他们的道路注定布满了荆棘,两人为了忠于内心的情感,皆付出了惨痛的代价。
尤里作为一位拥有出色技能的女主人经营着一家旅馆。有一天,竞争客栈的老板娘派了两个探子。然而,在发现间谍是处女后,女主人以第一次体验的男人的强烈色情技巧来回应他们
爱尔兰的建筑工人们为纽约市的崛起贡献了力量,同时也在这一过程中度过了难忘的时光。翡翠城团队的每位成员都在与各自的困境抗争:酗酒、赌博、失去亲人的痛苦、家族遗产的重担,以及面对一个逐渐不再需要他们的城市。