Country: United States
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Romance
This epic depiction of thirty years of Chicano gang life in Los Angeles focuses on a teen named Santana who with his friends Mundo and the Caucasian-but-acting-Hispanic J.D. form their own gang and are soon arrested for a break-in. Santana gets into trouble again and goes straight from reform school to prison spending eighteen year there and becoming leader of a powerful gang both inside and...
Country: United States, Canada, Palestine, Israel, Lebanon
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History, Mystery, News, War
A devoted son of Holocaust survivors and ardent critic of Israeli foreign policy the polarizing American political scientist and author Norman Finkelstein has been called a lunatic and self-hating Jew by some and an inspirational revolutionary by others. Exploring the deeply complex issues at the heart of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict American Radical is the insightful and enraging...
Country: United States
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Harvey Pekar is file clerk at the local VA hospital. His interactions with his co-workers offer some relief from the monotony and their discussions encompass everything from music to the decline of American culture to new flavors of jellybeans and life itself. At home Harvey fills his days with reading writing and listening to jazz. His apartment is filled with thousands of books and LPs and...
Country: United States
Genre: Biography, Drama
When a gunman killed five Amish children and injured five others in a Nickel Mines Pennsylvania schoolhouse shooting in October of 2006 the world media attention rapidly turned from the tragic events to the extraordinary forgiveness demonstrated by the Amish community. Through the eyes of a grieving mother Ida Graber and other devastated families this movie explores the Amishs astonishing...
Country: United States
Genre: Biography
A biography on the life of Amy...
Country: Soviet Union
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Andreiv Rublev charts the life of the great icon painter through a turbulent period of 15th Century Russian history a period marked by endless fighting between rival Princes and by Tatar...
Country: Italy, France, Germany
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Artemisia Gentileschi 1593-1653 was one of the first well-known female painters. The movie tells the story of her youth when she was guided and protected by her father the painter Orazio Gentileschi. Her professional curiosity about the male anatomy forbidden for her eyes led her to the knowledge of sexual pleasure. But she was also well known because in 1612 she had to appear in a...
Country: Hong Kong, China
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History, War
War feasts upon death. Its greedy appetite carries away many a life on the battlefield and soldiers must be ready to die at any time. Yet all these sacrifices can be given meaning and reason with honor. A weathered witness of wars insatiable appetite Guzidi Captain of the Ninth Company will struggle his entire life to return honor to his forty six men and their self-sacrifice. The year 1948...
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