Mistreated foundling Heathcliff and his stepsister Catherine fall in love, but when she marries a wealthy man, he becomes obsessed with getting revenge, even well into the next generation. [Originally aired on CBS's DuPont Show of the Month.].
Based on the novel by Emily Brontë, adapted and directed by Emma Rice. Rescued from the Liverpool docks as a child, Heathcliff is adopted by the Earnshaws and taken to live at Wuthering Heights. He finds a kindred spirit in Catherine Earnshaw and a fierce love ignites. When forced apart, a brutal chain of events is unleashed. Shot through with music, dance, passion and hope, Emma Rice (Romantics Anonymous, Brief Encounter) transforms Emily Brontë’s masterpiece into a powerful and uniquely theatrical experience. Lucy McCormick (Post Popular) and Ash Hunter (Hamilton) lead the company of performers and musicians in this intoxicating revenge tragedy for our time..
Alejandro revient, après dix ans d'absence, au vieux manoir où vit Catherine. Ils s'aiment depuis leur plus jeune âge et se sont promis l'un à l'autre. Adopté par les parents de la jeune fille lorsqu'il était enfant, le jeune homme est désormais riche et prêt à l'épouser. Or, celle-ci s'est mariée entre temps avec Eduardo et attend un enfant. Pour se venger, l'amoureux déçu épouse Isabel, la soeur d'Eduardo, que très vite il maltraite....
Dans le Japon médiéval, Onimaru, jeune vagabond, est adopté par la famille des Yamabe, prêtres chargés d'apaiser la colère de la Montagne de Feu. Mais Onimaru bouleverse les hiérarchies et défie les rites séculaires de la région. Il s'éprend de Kinu, mais celle-ci meurt. Dès lors, Onimaru plonge dans une cruauté qui n'a d'égal que l'amour qu'il continue de porter à la défunte....
La jeune Yea-eun a peur de la mer qui a emporté ses parents. Restée seule sur l’île, elle est prise en charge et maltraitée par les habitants du village..
Nathan Walker is a young man living in Chicago Heights, Illinois, many miles south of downtown Chicago. He finds himself entwined every day in the lives of his neighbors. They're polite, friendly, down-to-earth people. But in any community, individuals have their own private passions that their neighbors will never know. Each has a dark secret, a disappointed dream, a fervent hope, a spirit-breaking fear. We accompany Nathan while he comes of age and observe with him as the layers fall away from this seemingly random array of ordinary people who, below their practiced, Christian surfaces, are extraordinarily human..
Faithful servant Nelly houses the forlorn Lockwood at Wuthering Heights, recounting the tale of Heathcliff, Cathy, and their obsessive love, spanning generations of vengeance and despair in an adaptation of Emily Brontë’s novel..
Tale of love and revenge set against the backdrop of the Yorkshire Moors..
Misfit Heights is a film about an apartment building populated by puppets who have to struggle for survival when a mad scientist's plan to rule the world with an army of undead goes awry. It's up to the last few survivors to fight their way into his secret lab and put an end to his evil plan before they are eaten by the undead. Or, before the buildings superintendent returns from vacation and evicts them..
Near the shadow of the George Washington Bridge, a young Dominican teenager is hunted by a drug kingpin as his older brother must fight for both their survival over the course of a day in their Washington Heights neighborhood of New York..
This short film accompanies an exhibit of paintings and drawings by the same title. These works are in conversation with ideas of hope and aspiration rarely considered on Black bodies. This series transposes the typically negative associations made of Black youthful dissidence into an examination of what is possible when we seek an alternative perspective..
Making it in New York City is tough. Few get the chance to live out their dreams, and the cast and crew of In the Heights know this all too well. This young, diverse group of relatively unknown artists and performers dreamed of making it on Broadway, but are well aware that a new original musical set outside a bodega in the Latino neighborhood of Washington Heights is a highly risky proposition. It took eight years in all, but they succeeded beyond their wildest expectations, winning four Tony Awards along the way, including Best Musical and Best Score for a Musical. This documentary chronicles the personal stories of composer/lyricist Lin-Manuel Miranda and the cast of In the Heights in the months leading up to its 2008 opening night..
A group of Mexican teenagers in the 90's face a series of ordeals in their neighborhood's dynamic of drugs and intrinsic decadent violence.
Miami’s Richmond Heights: The Black Shangri-La chronicles a Black community in Miami, Florida; founded in 1949 by a white veteran for Black WWII veterans. Decades later their children's children are the embodiment of a dream personified. Based on the book, Images of America: Miami’s Richmond Heights , explores the professional journey of the pioneer's legacy..
Rival spies on a train cross swords over a woman and an airplane shipment in this Keystone comedy..
A night out in Roppongi takes a turn for the worst as two best friends must figure out how to dispose of a body without getting caught..
Mohawk Chief John Norton and 80 Grand River warriors hold off American soldiers until reinforcements arrive and the Battle of Queenston Heights is won (1812)..
“Jackson Heights” was filmed in a Queens, New York, neighborhood, fondly called “Jai Kissan Heights” (“Long Live Krishna Heights”) by its predominantly Indian residents. The silence of the film seems ironic in that much of “Jackson Heights” was filmed in an area named “Speaker’s Corner,” where members of the public voice their religious and political opinions as they hand out leaflets to passersby..
