Un pușcaș marin american observă efectele de dezumanizare ale războiului din Vietnam pe care le are asupra camarazilor din câmpul de antrenament până la bătăile de stradă sângeroase din Hue.
Michael (Ben Whishaw) și Jane (Emily Mortimer) au crescut și sunt adulți. Michael, cei trei copii ai săi și menajera lor, Ellen (Julie Walters), locuiesc pe strada Cherry Tree Lane. După ce Michael suferă o grea pierdere personală, enigmatica dădacă Mary Poppins (Emily Blunt) reintră în viața familiei Banks și, împreună cu veșnic optimistul aprinzător de felinare stradale Jack (Manuel Miranda), își folosește abilitățile magice unice pentru a ajuta familia Banks să redescopere bucuria și uimirea care lipseau din viața lor. Pentru asta, Mary Poppins le face cunoștință copiilor cu câteva personaje caraghioase și amuzante, inclusiv cu excentrica ei verișoară Topsy (Meryl Streep).
În vârstă de 16 ani, Poppy Moore (Emma Roberts, Nancy Drew) este o răsfățată egoistă, putred de bogată, care locuiește în Los Angeles. După ce o petrecere extravagantă evoluează spectaculos de prost, tatăl ei o trimite însă la o școală cu internat englezească, pentru a-și „spăla” păcatele. Acum, singura dorință a lui Poppy este să scape de aici, dar, în timp ce face mari eforturi pentru a fi exmatriculată, prințesa americană întâlnește în sfârșit niște adversari pe măsură: colegele și profesoarele din Anglia, care nu îi tolerează mofturile și capriciile. În final, Poppy înțelege că nu poate ajunge prea departe cu acest comportament de fată rea, deci, cu ajutorul noilor prietene și colege de cameră, pune la punct supremul plan de evadare. În scurtă vreme descoperă însă că acesta ar putea fi chiar motivul pentru care își dorește totuși să rămână aici...
In 1960, a hardy group of prep school students boards an old-fashioned sailing ship. With Capt. Christopher Sheldon at the helm, the oceangoing voyage is intended to teach the boys fortitude and discipline. But the youthful crew are about to get some unexpected instruction in survival when they get caught in the clutches of a white squall storm.
At a prestigious all-male university, three friends seek love outside of the school grounds; at the same time, a newly-hired music teacher seeks to befriend and loosen up the militantly strict headmaster.
Stockholm, the fifties. Though academically bright, violent pupil Erik Ponti is expelled from his state school with the headmaster’s words “there’s only one word for people like you – evil… what you need is a good thrashing, and more”. In fact already Erik frequently receives a ‘good’ thrashing at the hands of his sadistic stepfather – so he is packed off by his mother to boardingschool
William Franklin is a teacher who was born in Ireland and moved to the United States only to repatriate in 1939 after his leftist political views cause him to lose his job. Franklin becomes the first non-cleric instructor at St. Jude's, a school for wayward boys run by Brother John, who is a firm believer in strong discipline.
Evans (Louis de Funes) este conducatorul unei trupe feminine de balet. Este de-a dreptul draconic in ceea ce priveste disciplina fetelor din ansamblu, pentru ca, in conceptia sa, arta cere efort, disciplina si sacrificiu. Iar fetele trebuie sa sacrifice pe altarul artei in primul rand relatiile amoroase... Singurul barbat acceptat in apropierea balerinelor este nepotul lui Evans, Philippe (interpretat chiar de fiul lui Louis de Funes, Olivier de Funes).(d)
An aimless, jobless, irresponsible grown man joins the army and matures into a battlefield hero.
After having lost his job for having saved a child accused of shop lifting, Frédéric Barbier decides to become a school teacher with some funny results.The great comedy actor Coluche is excellent as a simple school teacher.
Following World War II in peacetime Scotland, brigade headquarters replaces commanding officer Major Jock Sinclair, a boisterous battalion leader, with the strict, temperamental Lieutenant Colonel Basil Barrow. Resentful toward his replacement, Sinclair undermines Barrow's authority and damages his successor's reputation among the soldiers. Barrow faces an uphill battle in regaining the discipline and respect of his battalion.
During the Crimean War between Britain and Russia in the 1850s, a British cavalry division, led by the overbearing Lord Cardigan, engages in an infamously reckless strategic debacle against a Russian artillery battery.
After a harsh childhood, orphan Jane Eyre is hired by Edward Rochester, the brooding lord of a mysterious manor house to care for his young daughter.
Sixteen-year-old Michael Dunn arrives at St. Basil's Catholic Boys School in Brooklyn circa 1965. There, he befriends all of the misfits in his class as they collide with the repressive faculty and discover the opposite sex as they come of age.
A powerful drama relating the intimate aspect of teenage boys and their priest/educators behind the walls of a religious institution where rigid discipline backfires natural feelings are deemed unnatural acts and human lives are controlled in the names of good intentions.
A rape case opens racial divisions in a small town. A black sheriff and his white deputy investigate allegations that a wealthy white businessman raped a black college student.
A young girl sent to an orphanage run by nuns gets confronted with the cruel and outdated methods used by the staff.
I am not free. There is a structure in my mind that imprisons me. This structure is the world. I obey certain laws. I could be punished. I cannot act upon my sexual desires. I cannot find the resources I need to create my art. I cannot stop war. I cannot live without money.
The Disciple is set in the summer of 1939, when 13-year-old Karl arrives in the Åland Islands in the Baltic Sea to work as lighthouse master Hasselbond’s assistant. Hasselbond, however, turns him down because of his young age. Karl struggles desperately to stay on and makes friends with Hasselbond’s oppressed son, Gustaf, but their friendship changes to rivalry and hate when Hasselbond starts to favor Karl over his own son.