This moving portrait of a maternity clinic in Vienna provides a fascinating insight into the drama, pain, and beauty of coming into the world. The everyday miracle of birth, in all its intensity and diversity, is shown using direct cinema techniques and linked to the cycle of accompanying processes in the hospital. A chronicle of the beginning of life—and its organization.
This elegant romance is the least-known work of the mature Giacomo Puccini . The story concerns a kept woman who defies convention to chase a dream of romantic love with an earnest, if naïve, young man.
Chelios faces a Chinese mobster who has stolen his nearly indestructible heart and replaced it with a battery-powered ticker that requires regular jolts of electricity to keep working.
A documentary following the exploits of a group of filmmakers as they take their independent feature, Ten 'til Noon, along the film festival circuit, and the politics, pitfalls, triumphs and comic tragedies they encounter along the way.
The story of Michael Oher, a homeless and traumatized boy who became an All American football player and first round NFL draft pick with the help of a caring woman and her family.
