Lara Croft è la figlia fiera ed indipendente di un eccentrico avventuriero, scomparso quando lei era ancora in tenera età. Divenuta una giovane donna di 21 anni, priva di qualsiasi obiettivo o scopo reale, Lara gira per le caotiche strade alla moda di East London lavorando come corriere in bicicletta, riuscendo a malapena a guadagnare i soldi per l’affitto. Determinata nel trovare la sua strada, si rifiuta di assumere il comando dell’impero globale del padre, così come rifiuta fermamente l’idea che lui sia veramente scomparso. Consigliata ad affrontare gli avvenimenti e ad andare avanti dopo sette anni senza di lui, neanche Lara riesce a capire cosa la guidi a risolvere finalmente il mistero della sua morte.
Uno scienziato che svolge ricerche in un deserto chiede ospitalità agli abitanti di un villaggio. Questi lo conducono nella capanna di una donna che si trova in fondo a una depressione sabbiosa raggiungibile solo con una scala di corda. Durante la notte la scala viene però rimossa. Intrappolato nel deserto, l'uomo si troverà combattuto tra il desiderio di libertà e l'amore, la pietà verso la donna fino alla decisione finale di non far ritorno alla civiltà. Una parabola esemplare sul rapporto tra uomo e donna narrata attraverso un evento straordinario e simbolico, con il peso della sabbia che opprime i protagonisti sia in senso fisico che emotivo.
In this animated adaptation of E. E. Doc Smith's groundbreaking science fiction serial "Grey Lensman" from the 1930s-1950s, Kimball Kinnison, a young man from the agricultural planet Mquie and his Valerian companion, Buscirk find a dying man with a legendary crystal lens embedded in his hand. As the man was dying, he mysteriously passed on the Lens to Kim. With more companions to come by, Kim must find out the purpose of the Lens before the Boskone dynasty does.
Molly, the eldest child of a group of orphans being used as slaves on a farm hidden deep in a swamp, must rescue the others when their cruel master decides that one of them will be disposed of.
Gli alieni atterranno sulla terra e ipnotizzano gli abitanti di una piccola cittadina, rendendoli simili a zombie. Soltanto uno straniero, in vacanza con la moglie, resiste al loro potere grazie ad una placca metallica applicatagli a seguito di un'operazione alla testa.
An undercover agent wrongly punished for murder is paroled to a remote tropical island with a diamond mine slave labor run by a sadistic foreigner.
This is based on a true story. Solomon Northrop is a black man in the mid 19th century before slavery was abolished. He's a born free man who works as a carpenter and is also a part time musician. One day he is approached by some men who want him to play for them. However, that is not their intention; they have kidnapped him and sold him into slavery. Now he has to endure the hardships that he has been spared because of his status as a free man. And his family who don't know what happened to him is searching for him but where do they go? And Solomon also wishes to let them know where he is so that they could get him but unfortunately no one believes his story or is willing to help him.
A boy migrates from Guerrero to Colima in Mexico, guided by the illusion of his parents, who want him to study high school. Nevertheless, the inequality barriers force him to work as a sugarcane harvester.
A team of journalists investigate how human trafficking and child labor in the Ivory Coast fuels the worldwide chocolate industry. The crew interview both proponents and opponents of these alleged practices, and use hidden camera techniques to delve into the gritty world of cocoa plantations.
Shrouded in secrecy and notoriously cash-strapped the North Korean regime has resorted to running one of the world's largest slaving operations - exploiting the profits to fulfil their own agenda. These bonded labourers can be found in Russia, China and dozens of other countries around the world including EU member states. Featuring undercover footage and powerful testimonials, we reveal the scale and brutality of the operation and ask what, if anything, is being done to stop it.
Interlocking interviews of 4 women interred in various Magdalene asylums and/or orphanages because of out-of-wedlock pregnancies, being sexually assaulted, or just being "too pretty".
Karky works in a shipyard owned by Rajanayagam, a feudalistic industrialist who imprisons his workers in the factory compound and refuses to allow them to have any link with the outside world. How Karky unites the workers and leads them to freedom is what the movie is about.
Ilya learned street-smarts in the harsh realities of Russia's Far North, book-smarts in literature class, and the strength of the fist from a father who strived to raise a son following the straight and narrow. His days consist of berating a subordinate and lamenting the days of Stalin; his nights-of scraping metal and composing obscenity-riddled poems. Ilya longs for a life more becoming of his stature, but unbridled personal demons present a major obstacle to his dreams of conquering the nation's capital.