Walking Through Fires (2011)

Actors: John Archer Lundgren (actor), Bill Kirchenbauer (actor), Julianna Pitt (actress), Khris Gibston (actor), Deborah Hurm (actress), Wesley Nielsen (actor), Richard Levine (actor), Ralph Cahill (actor), Tom Riska (actor), Kathy Mueller (actress), Mark O'Brien (actor), Mark O'Brien (producer), Mark O'Brien (producer), Mark O'Brien (director), Mark O'Brien (writer),

Plot: What is real?, What is not?, What is really important? Based on the true story of illusionist Mark O'Brien. A renowned master of illusion, O'Brien is closing in on achieving his dream of opening a magic attraction in Orlando, Florida when two suspicious fires, five days apart, cripple his production company. Investigators call it arson. Pressure mounts as he rebuilds his company, and he discovers that a similar attraction is now under construction. Determined to find out the truth, O'Brien hires two private investigators to get to the bottom of things. They are arrested as they begin to uncover what they believe is a 'major cover-up'. O'Brien tells his story to his life long friend 'Dave' who visits Mark on a business trip.

Genres: Biography, Comedy, Drama,
Taglines: Everything Burns but the Truth!

Home Affairs (2005)

Actors: Roberta Durrant (producer), Minky Schlesinger (director), Minky Schlesinger (writer), Eduan van Jaarsveldt (actor), Murray Anderson (composer), Dennis Venter (writer), Lodi Matsetela (writer), Jessica Haines (actress), Nomsa Xaba (actress), Thomas Hall (writer), Nurma Anne Dippenaar (director), Catherine Stewart (writer), Catherine Stewart (director), Vatiswa Ndara (actress), Natalie Haarhof (director),

Plot: South African women whose lives are very different, and yet are linked together by the force of synchronicity. It's about the strong connections that people share, whether they are aware of them or not. If South Africa's past has been characterised by separation, it seems fitting that ten years into our democracy we focus on the connections within our diverse multicultural society. This is the central theme of Home Affairs. The focus of the series is women's stories - stories which reflect the diversity of the millions of women found within our country. We focus on nine specific women who undertake journeys of self-discovery and reflection over the 13 episodes.

Keywords: women
Genres: Drama,

Binecuvântata fii, închisoare (2002)

Actors: George Anton (miscellaneous crew), Dorina Lazar (actress), Eugenia Bosânceanu (actress), Nicolae Margineanu (director), Nicolae Margineanu (producer), Petru Margineanu (composer), Nicolae Margineanu (writer), Melania Oproiu (editor), Nicodim Ungureanu (actor), Monica Ghiuta (actress), Margareta Pogonat (actress), Maria Ploae (actress), Victoria Cocias (actress), Ion Grosu (actor), Alexandru Georgescu (actor),

Plot: Based on Nicole Valery-Grossu's European best seller autobiographic novel "Bless you, prison", the film is a true story, with real events and characters. A young intellectual woman, Nicole, is arrested in the years of Stalinism simply for being an active member of an opposition party. There follow three months of exhausting interrogation and isolation. Alone in a cell, she undergoes a spiritual experience similar to that of the great mystics. She proceeds to an in-depth soul-searching that helps her discover the power of faith and steels her to put up resistance. Nicole goes through the ordeal of communist prisons, conflicts and risky activities, and manages to provide a heartening example for the other inmates. Daily prison life is not drab but full of unexpected happenings like a story.

Keywords: based-on-novel, bible, communism, exhaustion, interrogation, praying, prison, prison-cell, torture, writing-on-wall
Genres: Drama,

Le dernier souffle (1999)

Actors: Dean Hagopian (actor), Julien Poulin (actor), Nicole Pelletier (costume designer), Mark Antony Krupa (actor), Serge Houde (actor), Lorne Brass (actor), Glenn Berman (editor), Catherine Colvey (actress), Luc Picard (actor), Chip Chuipka (actor), Richard Robitaille (actor), Danny Gilmore (actor), Peter Colvey (actor), Paul Ahmarani (actor), Paul Dion (actor),

Plot: The life of Laurent Vaillancourt, a police officer in Montreal, is falling apart. His wife leaves him, his father hardly talks to him, and his brother Martin is in big trouble. When Martin dies in a mysterious way, Laurent tries to solve his murder. The investigation leads him to Nazareth, Arkansas, a town ruled by the militia. Laurent gets himself involved in a dark plot involving murder, money and a set of shadowy characters. Will he be able to get himself alone?

Genres: ,

Twisted Desire (1996)

Actors: Gary Chang (composer), Daniel Baldwin (actor), Melissa Joan Hart (actress), Kurt Fuller (actor), Joe Inscoe (actor), Eric Laneuville (actor), Harry Winer (producer), John Bennes (actor), Craig R. Baxley (director), Judith A. Polone (producer), Chad Hayes (writer), Carey Hayes (writer), Collin Wilcox Paxton (actress), Edith Ivey (actress), Isabella Hofmann (actress),

Plot: A teenage girl convinces a young, love-struck ex-con that the only way they can be together is to do away with her domineering parents. Based on actual events.

Keywords: based-on-true-story, court-trial, what-happened-to-epilogue
Genres: Crime, Drama,
Taglines: Nothing can come between a girl and her true love... except maybe murder.

Cry Freedom (1987)

Actors: Nick Tate (actor), Timothy West (actor), John Thaw (actor), Ian Richardson (actor), William Morgan Sheppard (actor), Denzel Washington (actor), Kevin McNally (actor), John Hargreaves (actor), Julian Glover (actor), Alec McCowen (actor), Kevin Kline (actor), Ian McNeice (actor), Garrick Hagon (actor), Richard Attenborough (producer), Penelope Wilton (actress),

Plot: Donald Woods is chief editor of the liberal newspaper Daily Dispatch in South Africa. He has written several editorials critical of the views of Steve Biko. But after having met him for the first time, he changes his opinion. They meet several times, and this means that Woods and his family get attention from the security police. When Steve Biko dies in police custody, he writes a book about Biko. The only way to get it published is for Woods himself to illegally escape the country.

Keywords: 1970s, activist, apartheid, based-on-book, civil-rights, compassion, crusading-newspaper, death-threat, editor, freedom
Genres: Biography, Drama, History,
Taglines: The true story of the friendship that shook South Africa and awakened the world

Quotes:

Judge: Why do you people call yourselves black? You look more brown than black.::Steve Biko: Why do you call yourselves white? You look more pink than white.

Donald Woods: Do you know anyone we can trust, who has a car?::Tami: I trust me! And I have a car! The Boers will shit themselves!

Steve Biko: ...but you a black child, smart or dumb, you're born into this and smart or dumb, you'll die in it

Steve Biko: You can beat or jail me or even kill me, but I am not going to be what you want me to be!

Steve Biko: My lord, blacks are not unaware of the hardships they endure or what the government is doing to them. we want them to stop accepting these hardships - to confront them. People must not just give in to the hardship of life, they must find a way, even in these environments, to - to develop hope - hope for themselves, hope for this country. now I think that is what black consciousness is all about. Not without any reference to the white man. To try to build up a sense of our own humanity - our legitimate place in the world.

Steve Biko: When I was a student, trying to qualify for the jobs you people will let us have, I suddenly realized that i wasn't just good jobs that were white. The only history we read was made by the white man, written by the white man. Television, cars, medicines - all invented by the white man, even football. Now the way like that, it's not hard to believe there's something inferior about being born black. I began to think this idea of inferiority was an even bigger problem for us than what the Afrikaans were doing to us. At first a black man had to believe he had as much capacity to be a doctor, a leader, as a white man.

Steve Biko: It's a miracle a child survives here at all. People are so desperate for anything they'll beat a kid bloody if they thought he had five Rand. But if you do run fast enough, if you do survive, you grew up in these streets, these houses. Your parents try, but in the end, you only get the education the white man will give you. Then you go to the city to work or shop, and you see their streets, their cars, their houses, and you begin to feel there is something not quite right about yourself. About your humanity. Something to do with your blackness because no matter how smart or dumb a white child is he is born to that world. And you, a black child, smart or dumb you are born into this. And smart or dumb you die in it.

Steve Biko: I just expect to be treated like you expect to be treated. Come on, what are you so afraid of? Once you try you see there's nothing to fear. We're just as weak and human as you are.

Steve Biko: We are going to change South Africa. What we've got to decide is the best way to do that. And as angry as we have the right to be, let us remember that we are in the struggle to kill the idea that one kind of man is superior to another kind of man. And killing that idea is not dependent on the white man. We must stop looking to him to give us something. We have to fill the black community with our own pride. We have to teach our black children black history, tell them about our black heroes, our black culture, so they don't face the white man believing they are inferior. Then we'll stand up to him in anyway he chooses. Conflict, if he likes, but with an open hand, too, to say we can all build a South Africa worth living in - a South Africa for equals, black or white, a South Africa as beautiful as this land is, as beautiful as we are.

State Prosecutor: But your own words demand for DIRECT CONFRONTATION!::Steve Biko: That's right, we demand confrontation.::State Prosecutor: Isn't that a demand for violence?::Steve Biko: Well, you and I are now in confrontation, but I see no violence.

Wat Jy Saai (1979)

Actors: Regardt van den Bergh (actor), Jan Scholtz (writer), Bill Flynn (actor), Wilson Dunster (actor), Willie Esterhuizen (actor), Johan Lategan (editor), Ben Vlok (producer), Tim Spring (director), Barry Trengove (actor), James Borthwick (actor), Elize Cawood (actress), Denis Smith (actor), Flip Theron (actor), Cornelis Esterhuyse (actor), Janet du Plessis (actress),

Genres: Drama,

Donker Spore (1944)

Actors: Douglas Fuchs (actor), Esther Mentz (actress), Gideon Roos (actor), Cisca Marais (actress), Louis Wiesner (editor), Gus Cluver (actor), Jan Schutte (actor), Betsie Duvenhage (actress), Thomas Blok (director), Thomas Blok (actor), Chicken Pienaar (actor), C.J. Langenhoven (writer), J.F. Marais (director), Hester Roux (actress), Louis Carney (actor),

Genres: Drama,