Category 2019

True History of the Kelly Gang

Based on Peter Carey’s novel, True History of the Kelly Gang (2019) follows the story of Australian Ned Kelly and his gang while fleeing the authorities in the 1870s. The wicked Ned Kelly lived only 25 years, but it was enough to write his story in Australian legend. Kelly grows up in a family of Irish immigrants, already rebellious, who regularly stumble upon the justice that has been imposed by the local police. Over time, he comes under the influence of Harry Power, a bandit disrespectful to the colonial authority in the wild territory where he operates. Every conflict with the law pushes Kelly closer to a life dedicated to crime...

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The Painted Bird

In a certain area of war-torn Eastern Europe, a boy is sent by his parents to live safely with his aunt. But she dies suddenly, and the boy embarks on a journey to return home. He walks alone through a wild and hostile world in which only local rules, prejudices and superstitions apply. His struggle for physical survival turns into another kind of struggle, which he does not realize...

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A Good Woman Is Hard to Find

Sarah, a young widowed mother, struggles to cope with excruciating circumstances, living in a violent neighborhood that is largely under the control of a ruthless drug baron. Her son, Ben, has not said a word since the day he saw his father stabbed to death in their estate. Police did nothing to catch the killer, calling his death a brawl between thieves. Then Tito, a local dealer, literally bursts into Sarah’s world. Betraying the drug dealers, he decides to hide the stolen drugs in her house. Frightened, Sarah doesn’t want to deal with this, but caught between the hammer and the anvil, she sees an opportunity to use Tito to get information about what might have happened to her husband, hoping to return...

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The Blackout

Although there were no supernatural circumstances, communication between most peoples of the planet was disrupted. However, a city in Eastern Europe still has electricity, which the Space Station observes as it tries to understand what happened. When the armies begin to mobilize, they discover a nightmare situation: there are dead everywhere, although the causes for which the human being is eradicated are not known...

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Countdown

When everyone around her installs an app that tells them how many more years they have to live, Quinn, a young nurse, downloads the app just for her own fun. When the app tells her that she has only three days left to live before her life ends, she considers this to be false and practically impossible. However, he soon meets someone who tells him that his girlfriend died right when the app said it would happen. Quinn begins to believe that people are targeted to die because of the application, so she takes a new phone, but to her horror, the application is automatically downloaded to her new phone. In order to figure out how to change her fate before she dies and who or what is the mysterious figure who is following her, the young woman asks for the help of a friend...

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Seberg

After living in Paris with Romain Gary, her second husband, Jean Seberg returns to Hollywood for peace and work, but becomes involved in the tumultuous civil rights movement of the late 1960s in Los Angeles. . She soon becomes a person of interest to the FBI, who begin to monitor her every move, paying special attention to her affair with married activist Hakim Jamal. Agent Jack Solomon is delegated to Jean’s case, but the more he delves into her life, the more he empathizes with this woman whose intimacy is slowly being destroyed...

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Official Secrets

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...

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Darlin

After being found in a hospital under unfortunate conditions, a wild teenage girl is sent to a care center, where the Bishop and the nuns are expected to become a “good girl”, an example of the wonderful work of the church. The bishop sees in Darlin the winning slogan he needs to prevent the church from closing its school for orphan girls. If Darlin can rehabilitate, the whole city will surely talk about his achievement. However, Darlin has a darker secret. Raised in the wild by “The Woman”, a cannibalistic woman who killed her little girl’s family, Darlin became a wild teenager unable to communicate...

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Just Mercy

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...

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Spies in Disguise

Lance Sterling, the most wonderful spy in the world, is cool, charming and super-skilled, and saving the world is his job. And nobody does it better. Almost exactly the opposite of Lance is Walter, a brilliant mind, but not the most sociable person. However, what he lacks in the sphere of social skills, he makes up for in his intelligence and inventiveness: Walter is the scientific genius who inventes the super cool gadgets that Lance uses in his missions. However, when events suddenly take an unexpected turn, Walter and Lance have to rely on each other in a whole new way...

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