1991-2000

imdb:
The film is an edgy black comedy set in swinging London in the late 60s. The All Saints girls play three street wise sisters who head ‘up West’ to rob and generally cause trouble.Read More »

Quote:
Dennis and Julie Parks left the eastern seaboard in the early 1960’s, settling in the former mining boomtown of Tuscarora, Nevada, population twelve. They spent the next twenty-five years operating and expanding their pottery school, raising a family and running a studio. A mining company, motivated by high gold prices, began a large open pit gold mining operation just outside of town in 1989. Nevada, encouraging mining, writes its laws to favor that industry’s interests over all others.Read More »

The film investigates the death of Japanese exchange student Yoshi Hattori, killed in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on October 17, 1992.Read More »

Fall 1989: Jan is almost 16. Caught while trying to escape to the West, he is now in a reformatory. Here, he meets Jana … and what starts as a bet, becomes true love. When Jana gets pregnant, the situation spirals out of control. In the summer of 1990, Jana and Jan flee from the reformatory into the unknown, insecure future of a new Germany.Read More »

The story of an unconventional teacher facing up to his unruly and apathetic class.Read More »

Synopsis
This bold, stunning exploration of a white mother who undergoes a radical mastectomy and her Black daughter who embarks on a modeling career reveals the profound effects of body image and the strain of racial and sexual identity on their charged, intensely loving bond. At the heart of Onwurah’s brave excursion into her mother’s scorned sexuality is a provocative interweaving of memory and fantasy. The filmmaker plumbs the depths of maternal strength and daughterly devotion in an unforgettable tribute starring her real-life mother, Madge Onwurah.Read More »

1782. A Japanese ship named Shinsho-maru is blown off course and severely battered during a wild storm, and wounds up floundering off a remote Aleut island after drifting seven months at sea. The remainder of the crew is taken in and given shelter by an expedition of Russian seal hunters, but forced to survive in very harsh and sparse conditions. Will they ever see their homeland again?Read More »

User Review
Wonderful Italian cinema!
5 July 2004 | by juil1230 (Sydney, Australia) –

I was watching this movie in my Italian class several years ago and after watching both parts, I can confidently say this is a fine example of very exciting Italain television. To place this movie under “drama” would be correct, but i encourage anyone who would like to view action movies outside of the Hollywood origin to really consider this two-part series.Read More »

Four Harlem friends – Bishop, Q, Steel and Raheem – dabble in petty crime, but they decide to go big by knocking off a convenience store. Bishop, the magnetic leader of the group, has the gun. But Q has different aspirations. He wants to be a DJ and happens to have a gig the night of the robbery. Unfortunately for him, Bishop isn’t willing to take no for answer in a game where everything’s for keeps.Read More »