Hai cercato: The Colony
The Penal Colony / 1970
A foreign journalist arrives on a small Pacific island 200 miles off the coast of South America. Once a leper colony, the island was later transformed into a prison and then, under U.N. mandate, made into an independent republic. Yet despite democratic structures, the inhabitants--who speak a strange dialect composed of Spanish and English--still obey the old prison rules. After sending back detailed accounts of the torture and repression seen everywhere, the journalist realizes that she has fallen into the trap created for her by the islanders: lacking natural resources, the island's main export is news.
The Survivors: Colonia Dignidad / 2022
The series explores the hidden truths behind the idyllic German-themed amusement park once home to Nazis, torture chambers, extreme medical experiments, and Chile's most dangerous cult. Colonia Dignidad ('Dignity Colony') was a unique case in the world. It was a sect and an evil empire based upon sexual abuse and exploitation.
Macabre Legends of the Colony / 1974
The Mexican luchador Tinieblas buys an ancient painting of a dead woman ignoring the warning that it is haunted. Later, after a fight his partners El Fantasma Blanco and Mil Máscaras joins him in a party at his apartment with two beautiful ladies, but when the clock reaches midnight the painting transports them all to colonial times. In order to return home they must face Spanish Conquistadores, Aztec Warriors and an evil witch whose mother, an unstoppable living dead hungry for human sacrifices, is the woman in the painting.
Between the Colony and the Stars / 2022
Juliano Moreira Colony, Rio de Janeiro. Estelar works in a psychiatric hospital and has visions of the past. During a water crisis in the state, she receives Kalil, her younger brother, to live in her house.
Ober Ost: The Forgotten Colony in the Heart of Europe / 2017
While the First World War and its battles on the Western Front are still very much anchored in our memory of history, the simultaneous battle in the East appears now to have been largely forgotten. During the course of this military action, a peculiar, state-like entity was created, a German colony in Eastern Europe, a military utopia: the Land of Ober Ost. The occupied region was to become a productive state, completely under military command; a state that was to serve not least as a deployment zone for the impending war.
Greetings from the Colony / 2011
Born in the colonial time from a Belgian agent and a Rwandan woman, Suzanne is only 4 years old when her father brings her to Europe in 1930 to give her a European education. Suzanne’s father is also the director’s grandfather, who discovered only at the age of 27 that she had a mixed race aunt. Twenty years later, she makes this film, in which the family story intersects the bigger history.
Spring in the Colony / 2009
Atin searches for love while his home is getting demolished.
Namibia: The Story of a German Colony / 2019
Germans colonized the land of Namibia, in southern Africa, during a brief period of time, from 1840 to the end of the World War I. The story of the so-called German South West Africa (1884-1915) is hideous; a hidden and silenced account of looting and genocide.
Glimpse from New York and the Norwegian colony / 1931
Norwegian film documentary from 1931. It begins with the ship "Stavangersfjord"'s arrival in Brooklyn, followed by scenes from different streets and neighborhoods, the Norwegian Consulate General and Consul General Wilhelm Thorleif von Munthe of Morgenstierne. Furthermore, the Holland Tunnel and chief engineer Singstad's home, and a number of Norwegian institutions. The Norwegian Seamen's Church and seamen's home. The Norwegian hospital, Norwegian newspapers and so on.
Colonia Dignidad: una setta tedesca in Cile / 2021
La serie documentaria Netflix racconta la storia vera di un gruppo di cristiani tedeschi che, guidato da un leader carismatico, si stabilisce in Cile, diventando un appoggio fondamentale alla dittatura di Pinochet.
Vai alla scheda della serie-tvColonia / 20157.173 voti
Lena e Daniel, una giovane coppia, rimangono coinvolti nel colpo di stato militare cileno del 1973. Quando Daniel è rapito dalla polizia segreta di Pinochet, Lena si mette sulle sue tracce in una zona off limits a sud del Paese, chiamata Colonia Dignitad. Agli occhi di tutti, la colonia si presenta come una missione di carità gestita da un predicatore laico di nome Paul Schäfer. In realtà, è un luogo da cui nessuno è mai fuggito via. Per ritrovare Daniel, Lena deciderà di unirsi al culto.
Vai alla scheda del filmAnarchist from Colony / 2017
Based on the life of the Korean anarchist Park Yeol, the film shows his struggle to counter the massacre of Koreans by the government during the 1923 great Kanto earthquake, focusing on his activities as the leader of the anti-Japanese organization Bulryeongsa and his relationship with Japanese comrade Fumiko Kaneko.
Fuga da Absolom / 19946.033 voti
Nel 2022, dopo aver assassinato un ufficiale superiore il capitano dei marine J.T. Robbins viene condannato all'ergastolo e condotto dapprima in un carcere di massima sicurezza, per poi finire su un'isola-carcere Absolom. Qui dovrà vedersela con i barbari e cannibali Esterni, comandati da Marek, ed i pacifici Interni, che vivono protetti dal resto dell'isola grazie all'opera del Padre, medico accusato di omicidio, che ha creato un villaggio relativamente prospero in cui ognuno ha un compito.
Vai alla scheda del film7G Rainbow Colony / 2004
Kathir is a young underachiever who frequently vents his frustrations through public outbursts. When Anitha, a North Indian girl whose family has fallen on hard times, moves into his housing colony, he soon decides to pursue her with his love, but she keeps rejecting his advances.
Rats - Il mostro che uccide / 2002
New York: alcune persone vengono ricoverate in ospedale in preda a una grave infezione, dopo essere state assalite e morse da topi. Susan Costello, la dirigente di un grande magazzino in cui si è verificato uno di questi casi, richiede l'intervento dell'esperto derattizzatore Jack Carver: intanto, però, l'invasione si estende a dismisura...
Vai alla scheda del filmA Colony / 20197.03 voti
Camille wanders through the countryside talking with frogs and chickens: she sails through life as a carefree soul. But for her older sister, the introverted Mylia, things are more complicated. Mylia is lost between the uncertainty in her family life, the superficial atmosphere at her new school and her first experiences at house parties. It is Camille who eventually introduces Mylia to Jimmy. The boy from the nearby Abenaki reserve is different and he encourages her to break free.
Vai alla scheda del filmColonia Dignidad / 2020
Questa serie di documentari si tuffa nell'abisso della setta tedesca, Colonia Dignidad. Mostra il modo di vivere di una comunità isolata che, lontana dal mondo, ha persino influenzato la politica internazionale.
Vai alla scheda della serie-tvThe Advanced Guard / 1998
A group of aliens arrive on Earth as part of an advance invasion force. Their mission is to kidnap a small sample of humans and run them through a series of rigorous tests to determine if they would make suitable slaves. Harper, one of the alien experimenters, has become frustrated with her planet's endless cycle of conquest and extermination and begins to feel some sympathy for her human captives. While the prisoners see a glimmer of hope in the compassionate alien, will it be any use in stopping the enormous attack fleet just a few days from Earth?
Vietnam Colony / 1992
Krishnamurthy is appointed by a real estate company to vacate Vietnam Colony, a place buzzing with illegal and antisocial elements.