In Imperial Russia, Anna Karenina falls in love with the dashing military officer Count Vronsky and abandons her husband and child to become his mistress.
Μια κλασική ιστορία αγάπης, βασισμένη στο ομότιτλο έργο του Λ. Τολστόι. Στη Ρωσία του 1880, η σύζυγος ενός διπλωμάτη ερωτεύεται παράφορα έναν εντυπωσιακό και ελκυστικό αξιωματικό του στρατού. Η ερωτική τους σχέση ξεκινά σαν προσωπική υπόθεση, αλλά γρήγορα σκανδαλίζει μια ολόκληρη πόλη, καθώς αντιπαρατίθεται –με τραγικές συνέπειες –με το συντηρητισμό της κοινωνίας.
Broadway showgirl Evelyn Nesbit (Joan Collins) is the object of affection of two men: playboy architect Stanford White (Ray Milland) and wealthy but unstable Harry Thaw (Farley Granger). She marries Thaw, but White’s continued pursuit puts him in the path of Thaw’s volatile temper. Inspired by true events that occurred at the turn of the 20th century.
Το 1910, στη Νέα Υόρκη, ο Coalhouse Walker Jr. είναι ένας μαύρος πιανίστας που έγινε διάσημος και πλούσιος παίζοντας σε μια τζαζ μπάντα. Κάποιοι λευκοί που δεν είδαν με καλό μάτι την άνοδό του, του επιτέθηκαν και κατέστρεψαν το νέο του αμάξι. Μάταια ο Walker επιζητά δικαιοσύνη..
Michael Moore comes home to the issue he's been examining throughout his career: the disastrous impact of corporate dominance on the everyday lives of Americans (and by default, the rest of the world).
An intimate look at the epochal financial crisis of 2008 and the powerful men and women who decided the fate of the world's economy in a matter of a few weeks.
This film examines recently discovered letters written by socialite Wallis Simpson that reveal her secret love, and chart her fear as she found herself becoming trapped into marrying King Edward VIII.
This is the incredible inside story of the abdication and subsequent life of King Edward VIII and American socialite Wallis Simpson and the reign that never was. On Dec. 10, 1936 King Edward VIII, King of England, gave it all up - ostensibly for the love of a woman. No man has ever sacrificed so much to enable himself to marry, but the Duke of Windsor gave up Crown and Country for Simpson.
A portrait of Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959), a genius of modern architecture, whose life passed between glory, scandal and tragedy.
Ένα φτηνό, ισχυρό ναρκωτικό εμφανίζεται σε περίοδο ύφεσης, πυροδοτώντας ηθικό πανικό, τροφοδοτούμενο από ρατσισμό. Εξερευνήστε την ιστορία του κρακ τη δεκαετία του '80.
Οι συγκλονιστικές ιστορίες αστέγων στη δυτική ακτή των ΗΠΑ πλαισιώνουν αυτό το κινηματογραφικό πορτρέτο μιας αυξανόμενης ανθρωπιστικής κρίσης.
On January 31, 1857, the French writer Gustave Flaubert (1821-80) took his place in the dock for contempt of public morality and religion. The accused, the real one, is, through him, Emma Bovary, heroine with a thousand faces and a thousand desires, guilty without doubt of an unforgivable desire to live.
Deep Throat, a pornographic film directed by Gerard Damiano, a film-loving hairdresser, and starring Linda Lovelace, a shy girl manipulated by a controlling husband, was released in 1972 and divided audiences, who began to talk openly about sex, desire and female pleasure; but also about violence and abuse; and about pornography, until then an almost clandestine industry, as a revolutionary cultural phenomenon.
The corrupt activities at a prestigious country club are uncovered by an assistant manager and now her life is in danger.
Ema, a campus radio announcer, faces a scandal when her video is spread by her boyfriend, Bima, who wants to break up. With support from friends, Ema gathers the courage to reveal the truth through a radio broadcast.
Sugar-baby Izzie must overcome a barrage of judgement from four wanna-be socialites, all whilst fighting for their claim to a dead vicar’s inheritance. But there’s more tying them together than it would initially seem.
Susan, a 65 year old impoverished widow living in Beirut, meets Osman, a young Sudanese immigrant worker without papers. They instantly fall in love, much to the scandal of everyone around them.