A história acontece em San Angeles, uma união das cidades de Santa Mônica, San Diego e Los Angeles, em 2032. John Spartan, um detetive do Século 20, é preso juntamente com Simon Phoenix, um assassino, em 1996, acusado de ser o responsável pela morte dos reféns de Simon. Eles passam anos na Crio-Prisão, uma prisão no qual o prisioneiro fica congelado até o final da pena. No ano de 2032, Simon Phoenix foge da prisão, diante de uma sociedade que até então desconhecia o crime e a desordem. Portanto, John Spartan teve que ser reabilitado para prender o criminoso.
O cineasta Salvatore Di Vitta recebe um telefonema da mãe que lhe comunica a morte do seu velho amigo Alfredo. Salvatore – ou Toto – é invadido por recordações, revisitando a sua infância, na sua Sicília natal, quando vivia fascinado pela cabina mágica de Alfredo, o mal-humorado projeccionista do cinema da vila: o Cinema Paraíso.
A história do psicólogo William Moulton Marston, que criou uma das personagens femininas mais importantes de todos os tempos: a Mulher-Maravilha.
A film screener at the BBFC, who has earned an unsavory reputation for being the strictest censor of violent films, begins to spiral out of control after viewing a low budget horror movie with similarities to the disappearance of her sister.
Taking inspiration from Peter M. Bracke's definitive book of the same name, this seven-hour documentary dives into the making of all twelve Friday the 13th films, with all-new interviews from the cast and the crew.
Neste falso documentário, Jafar Panahi instala uma câmara dentro de um táxi e segue pelas ruas de Teerão. À medida que vai encontrando clientes e os conduz ao destino, vai encetando conversa. Os assuntos abordados vão criando uma espécie de mosaico da sociedade iraniana e abrangem vários temas, desde a política nacional, os costumes locais ou mesmo a liberdade de expressão no Cinema.
Moscow, 1930s. A prominent writer's works are suddenly censored by the Soviet state and the premiere of his theatrical play about Pontius Pilate is canceled. He's kicked out of the Soviet Writer's Union, and quickly turns into an outcast with no means to survive. Inspired by Margarita - his lover, he begins working on a new novel in which all the characters are satirically reinterpreted from his life. The novel's central character is Woland - a mystical dark force who visits Moscow to revenge all those who caused the writer's downfall. As the Master sinks himself deeper and deeper into his novel, adding himself and Margarita as characters, he gradually stops noticing as the border between reality and his imagination fades away.
In the 1970s, Director Kim is obsessed by the desire to re-shoot the ending of his completed film Cobweb, but chaos and turmoil grip the set with interference from the censorship authorities, and the complaints of actors and producers who can't understand the re-written ending. Will Kim be able to find a way through this chaos to fulfill his artistic ambitions and complete his masterpiece?
When a big TV crusader Melvin P. Thorpe threatens to expose the Chicken Ranch to public scandal and close it down, Miss Mona doesn't go down without a fight.
In 1945, as Stalin sets his hands over Poland, famous painter Wladislaw Strzeminski refuses to compromise on his art with the doctrines of social realism. Persecuted, expelled from his chair at the University, he's eventually erased from the museums' walls. With the help of some of his students, he starts fighting against the Party and becomes the symbol of an artistic resistance against intellectual tyranny.
A retrospective documentary about the groundbreaking horror series, Friday the 13th, featuring interviews with cast and crew from the twelve films spanning 3 decades.
Based on true events of the late 60s in Italy, poet, playwright and myrmecologist Aldo Braibanti is prosecuted and sentenced to prison for the love he shares with his barely-of-age pupil and friend, Ettore. Amidst a chorus of voices of accusers, supporters and a largely hypocritical public, a single committed journalist takes on the task of piecing together the truth, between secrecy and desire, facing suspicion and censorship in the process.
It is a sex education film of sorts dedicated to all forms of human sexuality.
In recent years, more than 2,500 books have been removed from school districts around the US, labeled as banned, restricted, or challenged, and made unavailable to millions of students. By no accident, the themes targeted are the usual scapegoats of the American Right—LGBTQ+ issues, Black History, and women’s empowerment—impeding the power of future generations to develop their own thoughts and opinions on critical social issues. By weaving together a lyrical montage of young readers and authors, THE ABCs OF BOOK BANNING reveals the voices of the impacted parties, and inspires hope for the future through the profound insights of inquisitive youthful minds.
A look at the different masculinities portrayed in Spanish cinema through time. (A sequel to “Barefoot in the Kitchen,” 2013.)
In pre-war Japan, a government censor tries to make the writer for a theater troupe alter his comedic script. As they work with and against each other, the script ends up developing in unexpected ways.
A documentary primarily focusing on the filming and release of the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Fed up with being censored in their post-Trailer Park Boys lives, the out of work stars/world-renowned 'swearists', Mike Smith, Robb Wells and John Paul Tremblay decide to start their own uncensored network on the internet.
Italy, 1970. An increasing legion of harmless warriors begins a peaceful struggle for sexual freedom through pornography, shaking and shocking religious authorities and conservative political institutions. They are ironic, happy, crazy. They are dreamers, defenders of definitive communion between body and soul. But they were censored and humiliated. They were mistreated and arrested for demanding loud a new cultural renaissance.
A documentary about the making of the controversial Life of Brian and the surrounding accusations of blasphemy.