When a money mule has a fatal heart attack at a Nevada brothel, the contents of the money vest is hidden by Irene. Her regular customer Johnny is her best bet to be able to retire early.
Tag: 1990s
Celestino has communication problems because of his incomprehensible native dialect. When he falls madly in love with a deaf girl called Rosetta, he learns sign language and pretends to be deaf as well in order to court her.
An aging actor remembers his past stage triumphs and contemplates a dim future on the stage of an empty theatre.
In a working-class neighborhood of post-WWII Turin, Italy, 10-year-old Anna lives with her mother, Lidia, a secretary in a factory typing pool. As a partisan during the war, Anna’s father died a hero. Anna’s Catholic teacher awards a medal to the best pupil.
This film brings to life a famous Norman Rockwell painting. Samuel Cavanaugh, a Scrooge like character, revisits the frozen pond each year to relive the happier moments in his life. Michael Grant is an unhappy young boy attempting to skate with his dad’s oversized skates, who was missing in action in Korea. Their paths cross several times as our story unfolds.
A lonely orphan wishes he was closer to his grandfather, but it’s only when he meets Santa Claus that he makes an important discovery about family.
Matt Harding is a boy in trouble on the journey of a lifetime. When a judge orders him to live with grandparents he’s never known in a sleepy, farm town, his only plans are for escape. When he arrives at the farm, he begins to face the reality of his father’s tragic death in Vietnam… and his own anger. Shunned by the townspeople, Matt runs up against the school’s best athlete. But one day Matt finds he has a special gift… he was born to be a track star.
Captain Darman is a communist party hitman now living peacefully in exile in England where he runs a bookshop in Brighton. That is until a visitor gives him a coded message summoning him back to Spain where he’s instructed to execute a traitor. As he prepares for the hit he starts to doubt the guilt of his target as it bears similarities to a previous hit which he now thinks was innocent.