Country: United States
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
To his friends and to his girlfriend Zoe Nick is stuck in perpetual adolescence: hes approaching 30 lives off a trust fund has no job and no responsibilities. When Zoe abruptly leaves him and New York for a job in Los Angeles Nick comes up with a strategy to get her back: taking a job as a soccer coach of a junior-high team. At first its a diversion - just a strategy. Then primarily...
Country: United States, Germany
Genre: Drama, Sport
In 1999 Ken Carter a successful sporting goods store owner accepts the job of basketball coach for his old high school in a poor area of Richmond CA where he was a champion athlete. As much dismayed by the poor attitudes of his players as well as their dismal play performance Carter sets about to change both. He immediately imposes a strict regime typified in written contracts that include...
Country: United Kingdom
Genre: Horror, Western
In the Old West the assassination of an ageing cowboy is thwarted by a sultry vampiress the would-be killer left for dead in the dust. A hundred years later an ancient obsidian mirror long unearthed from the Mesopotamian desert is liberated from an American collectors vault and illegally transported to Europe. Jacob an unscrupulous antiques dealer moves to a remote farmhouse with his...
Country: United States
Genre: Drama, Music
Maria Jose Majo Tonorio is a tough LA street poet who spits from the heart. After meeting a talented DJ she cuts her first demo under the guidance of a small time hustler more interested in promoting Majos sexuality than her lyrics. Soon a major label and its strong-arm executive come calling. Convinced that a record deal will deliver much needed money for the family Majo is suddenly faced...
Country: United States
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Captain Phillips is a multi-layered examination of the 2009 hijacking of the U.S. container ship Maersk Alabama by a crew of Somali pirates. It is - through director Paul Greengrasss distinctive lens - simultaneously a pulse-pounding thriller and a complex portrait of the myriad effects of globalization. The film focuses on the relationship between the Alabamas commanding officer Captain...
Country: New Zealand
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance, Thriller
In a town called Hope on the edge of Britains empire desperations clash: the beautiful Dorothea Brook is desperate to free her pregnant sister Rose from the clutches of Fraser a fortune hunter. A local politician William Poyner is desperate for cash and thinks marriage to Dorothea will save him. Dorothea hires Lawrence Hayes a rough but handsome Argonaut to bribe Fraser with jewels and to...
Country: United States
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
During World War II when all the men are fighting the war most of the jobs that were left vacant because of their absence were filled in by women. The owners of the baseball teams not wanting baseball to be dormant indefinitely decide to form teams with women. So scouts are sent all over the country to find women players. One of the scouts passes through Oregon and finds a woman named Dottie...
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