Katniss se recuperează după extenuantele Jocuri ale Foamei, întrebându-se încontinuu dacă a avut vreun rost surprinzătorul complot împotriva Capitoliului ce a salvat-o de la o moarte sigură. Fără țel, eroina privește cum cei din jur se pregătesc pentru ofensiva ce ar putea distruge o dată pentru totdeauna tirania din Panem și se lasă fără mult entuziasm prinsă în luptă, devenind simobolul Rezistenței. Curând, ea se va trezi prinsă într-un pericol mortal, alături de cele mai dragi persoane din viața ei.
Eliza Doolittle este o tanara care isi castiga existenta vanzand flori pe strada. Accentul stricat si pronuntia defectuoasa a fetei atrage atentia unui trecator- profesorul de fonetica Henry Higgins, un lingvist cunoscut. Increzator in metodele sale, Higgins se lauda ca poate sa faca, la nivelul vocabularului, ca Eliza sa para ducesa. Intaratata, Eliza merge la casa profesorului, dorind sa invete, si ajunge subiectul unui pariu intre Higgins si prietenul sau Pickering. In sase luni fata trebuie sa apara la Balul Ambasadei asa ca, imediat, este supusa la epuizante exercitii fonetice zilnice. In acest timp, Eliza este cautata de tatal ei, om simplu si fara capatai care reuseste sa scoata bani de la Higgins contra educatiei fiicei sale.
Bazată pe romanul de succes, această dramă supranaturală are în prim-plan dragostea dintre Ethan și Lena, misterioasa fată venită în satul său din sud.
A rich businessman makes a bet he can survive on the streets of a rough Los Angeles neighborhood for 30 days completely penniless. During his stay he discovers another side of life and falls in love with a homeless woman.
Dupa ce a explorat dedesubturile sistemului de sanatate american si a dovedit ca americanii sunt departe de a merita sa fie invidiati din acest punct de vedere, cel mai profitabil documentarist al tuturor timpurilor arunca o privire asupra crizei economice mondiale.
Penthesilea, the first of six films made by Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen, traverses thousands of years to look at the image of the Amazonian woman in myth. It asks, among other questions, is the Amazonian woman a rare strong female image or is she a figure derived from male phantasy? The film explores the complexities of such questions, but does not seek any concrete answers.
A theatrical star, born on the wrong side of the tracks, marries a drunken blue-blood millionaire.
Terrified by urban violence, a middle-class family in Rio de Janeiro mistakes a black office boy as a burglar when the he was sent to pick up a wedding dress for urgent adjustment.
Graying Spaniard Daniel has a healthy budget for indulging in the finer things in life. Daniel's favorite luxury is playing sponsor to younger men amid the lights and sights of Madrid's gay club scene. After Daniel shares a night with handsome Bulgarian emigre Kyril, he finds himself consumed with an insatiable lust for the charismatic foreigner. But, as their relationship takes shape, Daniel's latest conquest reveals his own manipulative tendencies.
David gives his wife, Joyce, an unexpected—and unpleasant—surprise when he suddenly demands a divorce. When she then learns that David has taken up with a younger woman, Joyce decides to make the most of this separation by taking a solo trip to the Caribbean. However, just before diving into a vacation fling, she runs into Emily, an old chum whose own divorce has left her embittered. Joyce then debates giving married life one last chance.
In this fluffy romance, a young woman fights against the narrow-minded residents of her small town. The trouble begins when a young woman flees her boarding school to stay with her retired aunt, a former actress, who try as she might, has never been welcomed into the snobbish community in which she resides. The young woman too, is shunned and ends up being victimized in witchcraft trial and ducked into a pool of water.
Ralph Rackstraw, a poor seaman, is in love with the captain's daughter, Josephine. But how can he ask her to marry him when she is of a higher social class?
A small town in rural India gets to witness a confrontation between two fathers - one a rich, powerful, influential, and cruel Zamindar Thakur Avadh Narayan Singh - who wants the man who filed a police complaint against his two sons to be killed immediately. And the other is Rudra, a poor laborer employed by Avadh, who wants justice when he finds out that his nine year old daughter, Durga, has been beaten and brutally raped by Avadh's sons, Bachhu, and Bhola. Amidst this background we have a corrupt doctor, who is willing to change his medical report after he is bribed appropriately; and a Police Inspector, Ramnarayan Bhardwaj, who is willing to drop any charges against Avadh's sons provided he gets his "dues" from the Thakur.
Anson Page, a lawyer with Southern roots leaves New York, his wife and his kids for Georgia. His assignment is to investigate the case of Garvin Wales, a famous writer, now nearly blind and embittered, whose royalties have apparently never reached him. Back in his native South, Page finds himself immediately exposed to what he had fled : racial and class prejudices. But he also meets his former love, Dinah, now married to go-getter uncouth businessman Mickey Higgins. Will he find out whatever happened to 2,000 dollars in rights Wales did not cash? Will Dinah and Anson renew their love story?