120m; Italy
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Synopsis: Picture of alienated young man, slum life, Italian youth, and the Roman underworld.
Category Archives: Genre
Act of Vengeance (1986)
96m; U.S.
Director: John MacKenzie
Cast: Charles Bronson, Ellen Burstyn, Wilford Brimley
Synopsis: Drama about the 1969 assassination of Jock Yablonski, who was challenging UMWA President Tony Boyle.
Adhen (2008)
93m; France
Director: Rabah Ameur-Zaimeche
Synopsis: An industrial pallet-repair operation on the outskirts of Paris becomes a microcosm of Muslim immigrant hopes and tensions.
Adventureland (2009)
107m; U.S.
Director: Greg Mottola
Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Ryan Reynolds
Synopsis: A comedy set in the summer of 1987 and centered around a recent college grad (Eisenberg) who takes a nowhere job at his local amusement park, only to find it’s the perfect course to get him prepared for the real world.
Adventures of Power (2008)
89m; U.S.
Director: Ari Gold
Cast: Adrian Grenier , Jane Lynch, Michael McKean , Shoshannah Stern, Chiu Chi Ling, Ari Gold
Synopsis: An epic rock’n’roll comedy about air-drumming and the American Dream. Small-town mine worker Power loves the beat, but can’t play drums. But after his union leader father calls a strike at the mine, Power discovers an underground subculture of air-drummers who just might hold the key to changing the world.
Against Coercion (2006)
60m; Japan
Director: Kimigayo Fukiritsu
Synopsis: Japanese teachers fighting militarization and law requiring standing during the national anthem.
The Agitator (1945)
85m; U.K.
Director: John Harlow
Synopsis: A socialist inherits the ownership of a major firm and begins wrestling with his beliefs.
Acla’s Descent into Floristella (1992)
86m; Italy
Director: Aurelio Grimaldi
Synopsis (IMDB): Brutal film about the exploitation of a young Italian boy, who is virtually sold to the operators of a sulphur mine where he is beaten and sexually molested.
Alambrista or “The Illegal” (1976)
110m; U.S.
Director: Robert Young
Synopsis: A dramatic feature tells the story of a young Mexican farmworker who crosses the border into the US illegally.
All That I Love (2009)
95m; Poland
Director: Jacek Borcuch
Synopsis: Set in 1981, just as Poland’s Solidarity movement was about to become an active force for social and political change, writer-director Jacek Borcuch’s film blends elements of an American ’80s teen sex comedy, a Romeo and Juliet-style romance and raucous punk rock into a thoroughly winning story. In an industrial port town on the Baltic coast, Jacek (Mateusz Kosciukiewicz), the teenaged son of a navy captain, and his friends court controversy by forming a punk rock band. Jacek begins a tentative romance with schoolmate Basia (Olga Fryz), whose father is a union leader. As events come to a head, and the young lovers find their families in opposition, Jacek and his band, backed by the town’s youth, take a stand for freedom.
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