Jack Cunningham once had a life full of promise. In high school, he was a basketball star with a full scholarship, when suddenly, for unknown reasons, he came out of the game, missing his future. Now, years later, Jack is in decline, a decline triggered by an unimaginable loss, while plunging into the alcoholism that has cost him marriage and any hope for a better life. When asked to coach his former high school basketball team, Jack reluctantly accepts, surprising himself. As the team begins to win, Jack seems to have finally found a reason to face the personal demons that have destroyed his life...
Before he was the famous mime Marcel Marceau, he was Marcel Mangel, an aspiring Jewish actor who joined the French resistance to save the lives of thousands of orphaned children from Nazi hands. In the center is a group of unusual heroes who are in danger of rising above hatred and oppression during the Second World War. As a young man growing up in Nazi-occupied Europe, Marcel has no intention of engaging in war. He imitates Charlie Chaplin in burlesque clubs, paints decorations for his plays, and opposes his stubborn father. His life is overturned when he is recruited by the French resistance, putting his acting talents to great test in teaching orphaned Jewish children how to survive in the horrific reality of the Holocaust...
A story of 21st century morality, Official Secrets tells the true story of British medical sister Katharine Gun who, in the period immediately following the 2003 invasion of Iraq, unveiled a top NSA secret note exposing US-UK joint illegal espionage, operation against members UN Security Council. The report proposed the blackmail of smaller and undesirable member states to vote for the war. Journalist Martin Bright published the paper in The Observer newspaper in London and the story held headlines around the world. The members of the Security Council were outraged and any chance of a UN settlement in the war collapsed. Within days, Bush said he no longer needed UN support and invaded Iraq anyway. As Iraq descended into chaos, Katharine was arrested and charged with violating the Official Secrets Act. Martin also faced potential charges...
After graduating from Harvard, Bryan heads to Alabama to defend those convicted unfairly or those who have not been properly represented. With the help of lawyer Eva Ansley, who specializes in prisoner rights, he handles the most challenging cases: prisoners sentenced to death. One of his first and most incendiary cases is that of Walter McMillian, who, in 1987, was sentenced to death for murdering an 18-year-old girl, despite evidence proving his innocence and the fact that the only testimony against him it came from a criminal...
Caught in a violent relationship with a skilled and manipulative scientist, Cecilia Kass runs away in the middle of the night, hiding with her sister, their childhood friend and her teenage daughter. However, when Cecilia’s former lover commits suicide and leaves her a generous portion of her large fortune, Cecilia suspects that his death was a hoax. She begins to rebuild her life, but her sense of reality is seriously questioned when she begins to suspect that her deceased lover is not actually dead...
Theodore Finch is fascinated by death and is constantly thinking of ways he could kill himself. However, every time something good, no matter how small, stops it. Violet Markey lives for the future, counting the days until graduation, when she can escape her city and the intense pain caused by the recent death of her sister. While struggling with the emotional wounds of their past, Violet and Theodore form a special bond, discovering that even the smallest moments can mean something. The two embark on a cathartic journey, where they learn to love life...
A panicked woman’s decision to cover up an accidental crime will get out of control. Alone mother, with her ex-husband in prison and threatened by one of his accomplices, remains with the corpse of the accomplice killed in self-defense and who must escape. From the desire to protect his son, who is on parole, he hides the crime of police and his father (who was a policeman). Contained with remorse, she is unable to keep things secret, and those around her observe changes in her behavior...
Spenser, a former cop known more for the problems he created than for the ones solved, has come out of prison and wants to leave Boston forever. However, he is convinced by Henry, his former boxing coach and mentor, to help a potential amateur. This is Hawk, a tough and serious MMA fighter, who is convinced he will be a better opponent than Spenser has ever been. When two of Spenser’s former colleagues are killed, he recruits Hawk and his former girlfriend, Cissy, to help investigate and bring the culprits to justice...
The year 1933. Gareth Jones is a young Ukrainian journalist who gained fame after writing about his encounter with Hitler, and is now looking for the next important story. Soviet utopia is everywhere in the news, and he cannot help but wonder how Stalin is financing the rapid modernization of the Soviet Union. Jones decides to travel to Moscow in an attempt to get an interview with Stalin himself. There, the young man meets Ada Brooks, a British journalist, who reveals that the real story about the regime is violently suppressed. Hearing the rumors of government-led famine, a secret hidden by Soviet censors, Gareth manages to escape the authorities and travels clandestinely to Ukraine, where he witnesses the atrocities of starvation, where millions of people die, while all cereals are sold abroad. to finance the Soviet empire industry. Back in London, Gareth publishes an article that reveals the horrors he witnessed, but hunger is immediately denied by Western journalists living in Moscow, under pressure from the Kremlin. As death threats escalate, Gareth must fight for the truth. Soon, he meets a young author, a man by the name of George Orwell, to whom he shares his findings, thus influencing the great allegorical novel “Animal Farm...
After the death of his wife, Ip Man travels to San Francisco to find a school for his son. Once there, he finds himself in the middle of tensions between local Kung Fu masters and his star student, Bruce Lee. The search for a better future for his son is stopped by the call to fight against injustice, which is represented by the martial arts...
