Alcoholic former country singer Mac Sledge makes friends with a young widow and her son. The friendship enables him to find inspiration to resume his career.
A vivid, dynamic Southern coming-of-age drama, takes place in the transitional space between high school and college, when life seems to be all questions and no answers, and the future is scarily wide open. Set in and around a Charleston, SC Baptist church, weaving through this ensemble piece are three main characters - Brea, an introspective pastor's daughter experiencing debilitating doubt, the hyperactive Laura, Brea's best friend and a devout believer, and Tim, the open-hearted son of a single father, confronting his homosexuality for the first time. Tensions and buried feelings abound, as colleges are chosen and adults behave badly, as Brea, Laura and Tim attempt to hang onto what they have, all the while yearning to break free.
Southern Baptist Sissies is the live film of the GLAAD Award winning play by Del Shores. Southern Baptist Sissies is the story of four boys who are gay growing up in the Southern Baptist Church and how they each deal differently with the conflict between the teachings of the church and their sexuality.
As three generations of a family in a small Texas town gather for a funeral, we learn the hilarious, sad, trashy truth of their sordid lives.
Louis meets the Phelps family — the people at the heart of the controversial Westboro Baptist Church. The Phelps have rabid anti-homosexual beliefs, and often campaign at the funerals of American soldiers. They believe that every tragedy in the world is God's punishment for homosexuality.
Presented by the “This is the Answer!” series and produced by A Family Films in conjunction with the Radio and Television Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention in Ft. Worth Texas, this 1950s-era film titled “Pay the Piper” seeks to teach the viewer biblical lessons through everyday scenarios. Directed by William F. Claxton, this teleplay by Lowell S. Hawley is an adaptation of a story by Dr. Paul M. Stevens and chronicles the unfortunate premature death of family man Charles Thompson’s daughter due to underage drinking. As a result, Charles Thompson goes on a crusade throughout his local community to put an end to the sale of alcohol despite later discovering that it was his own personal stash of liquor that had been the cause of the accident. This scenario is used to convey a biblical lesson from Galatians 6:7.
Alba, a passionate and ambitious woman, tries to remember when she started to stop believing in herself, to pursue her desires. Her partner ridiculed her aspirations for her, instilling in her the feeling that she would never make it. Without love, a violent everyday life invaded her life for years, until the tragic ending.
Lord Krishna wants 'fraudster' driver Abhinandan to change his ways and offers in return to fulfil his one wish; to appear in his Vishwaroopam.
Michele, Emanuele and Ornella. Three lives that cross for an existential void that they try to fill with addictions: some from drugs and from Botox, some from their mother and from the disastrous family context and those from their sexual impulses perhaps never really explicit. Each of these figures seeks their own place in the world by asking to be loved.
Anton is a young Romanian worker who works illegally. Due to an heartbreak and his condition as an irregular foreigner, he decides to make an extreme gesture
A few years after their separation Filippo, a failed musician, and Cecilia, a career woman, meet again to sign their divorce papers. Despite an initial apparent peacefulness, their words begin to reveal feelings, problems and conflicts that time had erased. Thus begins a verbal duel that will lead the two to understand if they still know each other or have become two complete strangers.
The movie takes place in the late 1930s in the Far East. A group of pioneering surveyors led by Kirill Kostomarov is to lay the route of a railroad through remote taiga areas. To avoid unnecessary expenditure of human labor, Kostomarov proposes his own variant of laying - along the rocks, not along the floodplain of the river, as approved by the project assignment.
Bitter Sugar follows two dancers balancing ambition, and friendship in the extremely competitive world of dance.
Four young friends, while taking a shortcut en route to a local boxing match, witness a brutal murder which leaves them running for their lives.
Devara, a fearless man from a coastal region, embarks on a perilous journey into the treacherous world of the sea to safeguard the lives of his people. Unbeknownst to him, his brother Bhaira is plotting a conspiracy against him. As events unfold, Devara passes on his legacy to his mild-mannered and timid son, Varada.
A sub-inspector and the egoistic son of an ex-MP get in an egotistical war when the former arrests the latter for bringing in liquor from Telangana to AP.
Ram, a newly appointed district collector, takes charge in a city in Andhra Pradesh and immediately confronts the deeply entrenched corruption and inefficiency plaguing the government. Determined to bring reforms, he initiates sweeping changes, sparking a fierce conflict with a powerful state Minister.
A woman threatens to leave her husband unless he installs a toilet in their home. To win back her love and respect, he heads out on a journey to fight against the backward society.
In August of 70 a.H. (Raelian era), Lily and Dominique embark upon their first experience of the European Happiness Academy, under the Croatian sun. For over forty years, Rael has been transmitting the knowledge he has inherited from our extra-terrestrial fathers to a select, awakened, few. Determined to meet their kindred spirits, Lily and Dominique vie for the favours of the charming singer, Arnaud Fleurent Didier, as the Raelian teachings gradually take root.
An old man goes to visit his wife in hospital to find she has died. He leaves the hospital refusing to sign the necessary papers and is followed by a security guard. The guard follows him onto a bus and the old man explains why he must leave.