Following in the tradition of The Endless Summer and utilizing some of the experts seen in Blue Crush, Out of Order: The Surfers' Documentary follows a host of professional surfers as they travel around the world searching for the choicest waves to ride. Featuring such surfing figures as Cheyne Magnusson, Randy Welch, and Danny Fuller, the film offers a look at their unusual lifestyles, as well as footage of them putting their special skills to use. Some of the exotic locations utilized during filming include Tahiti, Japan, and the legendary North Shore of Hawaii.
A satire about the dictatorship period in Brazil, in which communist militants try to steal the soccer World Cup Trophy from the players Pelé and Carlos Alberto Torres.
Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial -- find an odd solace and pensive freedom to be real in each other's company, away from their lives in America.
Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and the honorable principles that rule them.
Eight very different couples deal with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London.
200 km follows the marches carried out by Sintel workers to reach Madrid on May 1, 2002. Sintel was a subsidiary of Telefónica that, when it was privatized, was closed, leaving its 1,800 workers on the streets.
A group of actors is shooting a film in Aguas Buenas, based on the legend of a magician. There, they become infected with the honesty syndrome, which unleashes a number of hidden secrets to come to light.
In Santiago, Chile, the schoolteacher Luisa proposes a debate about sex with the parents of her students with the intention of giving classes about sex education to the youngsters.
Robert McChesney lays the blame for the US's current state of affairs squarely at the doors of the corporate boardrooms of big media, which far from delivering on their promises of more choice and more diversity, have organized a system characterized by a lack of competition, homogenization of opinion and formulaic programming.
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