An intimate look at the epochal financial crisis of 2008 and the powerful men and women who decided the fate of the world's economy in a matter of a few weeks.
Milos Formanin tulkinta E. L. Doctorowin romaanista, joka tarkastelee yläluokkaisen valkoisen perheen ja menestystä saavuttaneen mustan pianistin kautta rasismia, uskottomuutta, oikeudenjanoa ja väkivaltaa 1900-luvun alun New Yorkissa.
Stefan and Dolly Oblonsky have had a spat and Stefan has asked his sister, Anna Karenina, to come down to Moscow to help mend the rift. Anna's companion on the train from St. Petersburg is Countess Vronsky who is met at the Moscow station by her son. Col. Vronsky looks very dashing in his uniform and it's love at first sight when he looks at Anna and their eyes meet.
In Imperial Russia, Anna Karenina falls in love with the dashing military officer Count Vronsky and abandons her husband and child to become his mistress.
A cheap, powerful drug emerges during a recession, igniting a moral panic fueled by racism. Explore the complex history of crack in the 1980s.
Oscar-palkitun elokuvantekijä Michael Mooren uusi dokumentti kysyy - huumorilla ja rohkeasti - mikä on hinta, jonka Amerikka maksaa rakkaudestaan kapitalismiin? Vuosia sitten, rakkaussuhde vaikutti niin viattomalta. Tänään amerikkalainen unelma näyttää kuitenkin ennemminkin painajaisunelta, sen hinnan maksavat tavalliset perheet työpaikoillaan, kodeillaan ja säästöillään. Moore vie katsojan koteihin, joissa elämä on kääntynyt ylösalaisin ja etsii selityksiä mm. Washingtonista. Hän löytää liiankin tuttuja merkkejä rakkaussuhteesta, joka on mennyt pahalla tavalla pieleen: valheita, hyväksikäyttöä, petoksia...
Susan, a 65 year old impoverished widow living in Beirut, meets Osman, a young Sudanese immigrant worker without papers. They instantly fall in love, much to the scandal of everyone around them.
Koskettavat tarinat USA:n länsirannikon kodittomien tilanteesta valottavat kasvavaa humanitääristä kriisiä elokuvan keinoin.
Citizens across Europe who used to belong to the lower middle class have fallen into poverty. An in-depth investigation into the precariat, a new social class of financially insecure citizens who, although they are employed, find it very difficult to make ends meet.
The corrupt activities at a prestigious country club are uncovered by an assistant manager and now her life is in danger.
Deep Throat, a pornographic film directed by Gerard Damiano, a film-loving hairdresser, and starring Linda Lovelace, a shy girl manipulated by a controlling husband, was released in 1972 and divided audiences, who began to talk openly about sex, desire and female pleasure; but also about violence and abuse; and about pornography, until then an almost clandestine industry, as a revolutionary cultural phenomenon.
Sugar-baby Izzie must overcome a barrage of judgement from four wanna-be socialites, all whilst fighting for their claim to a dead vicar’s inheritance. But there’s more tying them together than it would initially seem.
The daughter of a prominent medieval Norway landowner, Kristin grows up in total harmony with the ideals of the time: strong family ties, social pride and devout Christianity. As she accepts the fact that she has been arranged to marry the son of another landowner, Kristin's beauty, innocence and purity evokes violent emotions around her: envy, lust, murder, revenge. She seeks refuge in a convent, awaiting marriage. Here, the passion of her life strikes, the knight Erlend Nikulaussonn. However, their love cannot be private, and suddenly Kristin is the centre of a scandal.
This is the incredible inside story of the abdication and subsequent life of King Edward VIII and American socialite Wallis Simpson and the reign that never was. On Dec. 10, 1936 King Edward VIII, King of England, gave it all up - ostensibly for the love of a woman. No man has ever sacrificed so much to enable himself to marry, but the Duke of Windsor gave up Crown and Country for Simpson.
Broadway showgirl Evelyn Nesbit (Joan Collins) is the object of affection of two men: playboy architect Stanford White (Ray Milland) and wealthy but unstable Harry Thaw (Farley Granger). She marries Thaw, but White’s continued pursuit puts him in the path of Thaw’s volatile temper. Inspired by true events that occurred at the turn of the 20th century.
The story of government chemist Dr. Harvey Wiley who, determined to banish dangerous substances from dinner tables, took on the powerful food manufacturers and their allies.
On January 31, 1857, the French writer Gustave Flaubert (1821-80) took his place in the dock for contempt of public morality and religion. The accused, the real one, is, through him, Emma Bovary, heroine with a thousand faces and a thousand desires, guilty without doubt of an unforgivable desire to live.
A portrait of Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959), a genius of modern architecture, whose life passed between glory, scandal and tragedy.