Francis Ford Coppolan eeppisessä mestariteoksessa Marlon Brando sai Oscarin roolistaan Corleone perheen johtohahmona. Brandon esittämä Don Corleone ei ole elokuvaversiossa niin selkeä päähenkilö kuin Mario Puzon romaanissa. Sen sijaan huomio keskittyy varsin pian Don Corleonen poikaan Michaeliin, jonka varassa saaga etenee loppuunsa. Ohjaaja Coppola maalaa hyytävän muotokuvan sisilialaisen mafiaperheen vallan noususta ja laskusta Amerikassa. Elokuva on erinomainen kuvaus niin italialaisen Corleonen perheen elämästä kuin heidän harjoittamasta likaisesta rikollisesta toiminnasta. Mario Puzon best-selleriin perustuvan tarinan antia ovat myös Al Pacinon, James Caanin ja Robert Duvallin vakuuttavat roolit. Vuonna 1972 Kummisetä sai kymmenen Oscar-ehdokkuutta, joista se palkittiin kolmella Oscarilla mm. parhaana elokuvavana. Kummisedän ohjaajaksi kaavailtiin alun perin Sergio Leonea.
Seuraa Kuubasta pakenevan pikkurikollisen väkivaltaista uraa hänen raivatessaan määrätietoisuudellaan ja kovaotteisuudellaan tiensä Miamin kokaiini-imperiumin huipulle – huomatakseen lopulta, että kaikella on hintansa.
Scotland, 11th century. Driven by the twisted prophecy of three witches and the ruthless ambition of his wife, warlord Macbeth, bold and brave, but also weak and hesitant, betrays his good king and his brothers in arms and sinks into the bloody mud of a path with no return, sown with crime and suspicion.
Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.
Madonnan tähdittämä Oscar-palkittu draama, joka kertoo, miten köyhissä oloissa Argentiinan maaseudulla kasvaneesta työläistytöstä tuli presidentin vaimo ja kansallissankaritar Evita Perón.
Gurukant Desai hails from Idhar, a small village in Gujarat, but dreams of setting up his own business in Mumbai. After he returns from Turkey, he marries Sujatha for getting the dowry and arrives in Mumbai to start his business. This film chronicles the obstacles he meets, his subsequent rise and the huge backlash he receives when it is revealed that he used unethical means to rise in the business circuit.
Velu Naicker, who witnesses the brutal murder of his father, kills a corrupt policeman and escapes to Mumbai, only to become a gangster.
Russian Federation, December 31, 1999. After President Boris Yeltsin's unexpected resignation, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin becomes acting president of the country. From that day and for a year, Vitaly Mansky's camera documented Putin's rise to power. The story of a privileged witness. The harsh explanation of the reason why politics is the art of possibility of achieving the best with the support of many, but also of giving the worst in return.
After straight-arrow district attorney Joseph Foster says in frustration that he would sell his soul to bring down a local mob boss, a smooth-talking stranger named Nick Beal shows up with enough evidence to seal a conviction. When that success leads Foster to run for governor, Beal's unearthly hold on him turns the previously honest man corrupt, much to the displeasure of his wife and his steadfast minister.
After a roustabout sailor avoids being shanghaied in 1850s San Francisco, his audacity helps him rise to a position of power in the vice industry of the infamous Barbary Coast.
Fort St. David, Cuddalore, southern India, 1748. While colonial empires battle to seize an enormous territory, rich in spices and precious metals beyond the wildest dreams, and try to gain the favor of the local kings, Robert Clive (1725-1774), a frustrated but talented clerk who works for the East Indian Company and struggles to earn his fortune, makes a bold decision that will change his life forever.
Russia, 1917. After the abdication of Czar Nicholas II Romanov, the struggle for power confronts allies, enemies, factions and ideas; a ruthless battle between democracy and authoritarianism that will end with the takeover of the government by Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks.
Hard things were said. Incredible things were said. It is time to think about everything that was said. An account of Kirchnerism, a left-wing populist movement that ruled Argentina from 2003 to 2015, led by Néstor Kirchner (1950-2010) and his wife Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.
In 1985, jeepney driver Ulysses "Boboy" Alega loses his vehicle just as he needed money to pay his rent and buy medications for his child. After he accidentally shoots and kills a person during a fight, Boboy is then imprisoned and tortured by the police. With his release from prison, Boboy eventually joins a group involved in arms smuggling, and after some time its members come to consider him as their leader.
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, is remembered as the instigator of the October Revolution of 1917 and, therefore, as one of the men who changed the shape of the world at that time and forever, but perhaps the actual events happened in a way different from that narrated in the history books…
