Inept and manic English hotel owner and manager, Basil Fawlty, isn’t cut out for his job. He’s intolerant, rude and paranoid. All hell frequently breaks loose as Basil tries to run the hotel, constantly under verbal (and sometime physical) attack from his unhelpful wife Sybil, and hindered by the incompetent, but easy target, Manuel; their Spanish waiter.
Major Crime is a metaphor for East and West, for the conscious and unconscious, for reconciliation and difference, for hope versus despair, as Malik struggles toward the sunlight while Crowley descends into the abyss. The tragedy, that the only thing that separated them was their own inability to know themselves is a universal human truth that transcends the difference between Muslim and non-Muslim.
Meet women in UK, legally providing sexual services, either to make a living or to supplement their income, potentially earning hundreds of pounds per hour.
This highly controversial film was originally completed in 1998, but it became entangled in red tape from the Korean Ratings Board. The official word was “YELLOW FLOWER is too obscene for general viewing” and it was denied release. After numerous lawsuits and many petitions, the movie was finally granted an “18+” rating in 2003. While YELLOW FLOWER is unique in its abstract narrative, the power of this film is undeniable. Director Lee describes it: “the way different people incorporate sex and sexuality into their lives by means of extremes.”
Relationship between a hard-working mother and her son is challenged when she invites one of her students to their home.
A brash but brilliant cop becomes head of a new police department, where he leads an unlikely team of misfits in solving Edinburgh’s cold cases.
