Presos is a 2015 Costa Rican drama film directed by Esteban Ramírez. The film was selected as the Costa Rican entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards.
Directed byLouise Archambault OriginCanada GenresDrama ActorsAndrée Lachapelle, Gilbert Sicotte, Rémy Girard, Ève Landry, Kenneth Welsh, Marie-Ginette Guay Rating72% Trois ermites aînés, Charlie (Gilbert Sicotte), Tom (Rémy Girard) et Boychuck (Kenneth Welsh), vivent dans la forêt de l'abitibienne, isolés du reste du monde. Après la mort de l'ermite aîné, Boychuck, peintre à ses heures, les deux hommes font une découverte étonnante : des centaines de peintures faisant écho à sa tragique expérience liée à des incendies de forêt qui menacent la région. Aux funérailles de leur compagnon, les deux hommes font la rencontre de Gertrude (Andrée Lachapelle), qui fut internée à l'âge de 16 ans pour des motifs religieux. Gertrude veut fuir la clinique médicale et aboutit chez Charlie et Tom qui se rebutent au début ; nouvelle vie, nouvelle identité, Gertrude devient Marie-Desneige. S'en suit un idylle amoureuse touchante et lumineuse.
, 1h51 Directed byAndré Brassard OriginCanada GenresDrama ActorsRita Lafontaine, Denise Filiatrault, Huguette Oligny, Anne-Marie Ducharme, Louisette Dussault, Murielle Dutil Rating65% Gisèle, secrétaire et célibataire, mène une vie bien ordinaire et sans joie entre un père tranquille, une mère inquiète et des collègues de bureau sarcastiques. Elle vit encore avec ses deux parents, ainsi qu'avec sa sœur Danielle et son frère Coco. Il y a dix ans, elle s'est séparée d'avec Yvon, son seul vrai amour. Elle décide un jour de consulter une agence matrimoniale pour trouver l'âme sœur. Elle rencontre alors Jean avec qui elle se marie quelques mois plus tard. Pendant ce temps, Marguerite, l'autre sœur de Gisèle, vit un drame horrible.
, 2h3 Directed byGeorge Roy Hill OriginUSA GenresDrama, Comedy ThemesSports films, Ice hockey films, Sports d'hiver ActorsPaul Newman, Strother Martin, Michael Ontkean, Lindsay Crouse, Jerry Houser, Jennifer Warren Rating72% Reggie Dunlop (Paul Newman) is the aging player-coach of the Charlestown Chiefs hockey team in the fictional Federal League. A perennial loser for years, the team's manager Joe McGrath (Strother Martin) has resorted to extreme cost-cutting techniques and embarrassing promotional antics to keep local interest alive. Dunlop, while not particularly talented as either a player or coach, is a skilled con man, and regularly manipulates the team to his own advantage. During a hopeless season, the Chiefs pick up the Hanson Brothers, bespectacled violent goons with childlike mentalities, complete with toys in their luggage. Horrified at being given players who seem stupid, immature, and unreliable, Dunlop initially chooses not to play them.
, 52minutes Directed byGillian Armstrong GenresDrama ActorsRuth Cracknell, Jude Kuring, Gerry Duggan, Kate Sheil, Kerry Walker Rating62% Mrs Bilson is treated as a simple minded invalid by her family and periodically escapes to sit by the river and listen to the races. She befriends Charlie, a young woman from the city who has come with her husband to seek a new life. Both realises they have much in common, including abusive and unfaithful husbands.
, 1h40 Directed byRobert Malcolm Young OriginUSA GenresDrama, Crime ThemesPrison films, Films based on plays ActorsBruce Davison, Nathan George, Mark Margolis, Luis Guzmán, Shawn Elliott, Henry Judd Baker Rating69% Short Eyes is set in an unnamed prison in New York City, whose inmates are predominantly black or Puerto Rican. One day, Clark Davis, a young, middle-class white man accused of raping a young girl, arrive. His fellow prisoners immediately turn on him — pedophiles are considered the lowest form of prison life — except for Juan, one of the institution's older prisoners, who treats him with dignity. While Davis insists he doesn't remember raping the girl, he admits that he has molested several other children.