Chicão is a passionate history teacher in a private school. A student records his classes and shows the film to her parents, who denounce the teacher for ideological indoctrination. The case gains unprecedented proportions in the school.
Wellington Abreu
Mariah de Andrade Praia
Chicão is a passionate history teacher in a private school. A student records his classes and shows the film to her parents, who denounce the teacher for ideological indoctrination. The case gains unprecedented proportions in the school.
A bureaucrat interviews five souls to decide which of them will be given a life on Earth. But he soon faces an existential challenge of his own.
The year is 1955, and a great flood is coming to Northfork, Montana. A new hydroelectric dam is about to be installed in the mountains above the town, ready to submerge the valley in the name of progress. It is the responsibility of a six-man Evacuation Committee to relocate the townsfolk to higher ground. Most have duly departed, but a few stubborn stragglers remain – among them a priest caring for a sickly orphan, a boy whose fevered visions are leading him to believe he is a member of a roaming band of lost angels desperately searching for a way home.
A suicidal young man is committed to a Dublin psychiatric hospital where he meets new friends who greatly influence his life.
The lively João Grilo and the sly Chicó are poor guys living in the hinterland who cheat a bunch of people in a small town in Northeastern Brazil. When they die, they have to be judged by Christ, the Devil and the Virgin Mary before they are admitted to paradise.
A car accident and shifting affections test the bond between a married couple.
On Christmas Eve, a fighter pilot on his way home becomes lost while flying over water and needs a miracle to land safely.
Wealthy American widower Adam Verver and his daughter Maggie live a refined life in Europe, surrounded by art. Maggie marries impoverished Italian Prince Amerigo, while Adam marries Maggie's friend Charlotte Stant. The Prince and Charlotte are having an affair, which Maggie discovers and navigates through a silent, psychological battle of wills, ultimately using her cunning to preserve her marriage and protect her father.
After an affair with a queen leads to his demise, an eager traveler encounters a mystical bird with the power to give him another life.