Ashes and Embers is an original screenplay by Haile Gerima, about a Vietnam veteran, who, several years after the war, is struggling to come to terms with his role in the war, and his role as a Black person in America. He survives by working odd jobs in Washington, D.C. and living with his girlfriend and her son. When criticism of his alienated behavior come from her and a father figure too often, he runs to the streets or to his grandmother’s rural house in Virginia. Her criticism and his memories of the past both send him fleeing again to Los Angeles, where he is surrounded by superficial people who have forgotten how to be compassionate human beings. It is here that the advice of his friends and grandmother combine to transform him from an embittered ex-soldier to a strong and confident man.
Category: Movies
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The Last Unicorn
From a riddle-speaking butterfly, a unicorn learns that she is supposedly the last of her kind, all the others having been herded away by the Red Bull. The unicorn sets out to discover the truth behind the butterfly’s words. She is eventually joined on her quest by Schmendrick, a second-rate magician, and Molly Grue, a now middle-aged woman who dreamed all her life of seeing a unicorn. Their journey leads them far from home, all the way to the castle of King Haggard.
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House of Traps
It all started with The Five Venoms, the internationally loved kung-fu thriller. It continued through more than a dozen bloody good entertainments featuring the same actors in different roles. This is considered the last official “Venoms” movie, but what a film it is. There’s one plasma-spurting attack after another as heroes and rogues alike try to solve the secrets of this hell house. The core Venoms themselves choreograph the gory fun in this fond farewell to their worldwide film series sensation!
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El naco mas naco
A simpleton from an Indian village is afflicted by an ancient family curse; whenever a woman kisses him, he turns into a Disco Danny ladykiller. Naturally, after that happens, he’s kidnapped by Arab terrorists, because duh.
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36 Secrets of Courtship
Three lotharios vie to become principal of the Macho Man Training School, an extremely non-monastic institution dedicated to extremely non Shaolin-types of physical exertion, in this strange and erotic farce of the classic 36th Chamber Of Shaolin.
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Almuhakama
Kamal’s wife dies and leaves him with his son Omar. Kamal gets to know Salwa and the love between them joins them. Salwa asks Kamal to defend her neighbor, Ismail, who is accused of murder. Kamal and his partner in the office, Ahmed, are excited about the case. Kamal concludes that the dead man discovered embezzlement in the factory. Some people kidnap Omar and threaten to kill Kamal if he doesn’t drop the case.
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The Soldier
Terrorists take over a plutonium bomb and threaten to detonate it in a Saudi Arabian oil field. A special anti-terrorist unit is sent in to stop them.
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The Slumber Party Massacre
Trish invites her high school basketball teammates over for a night they’ll never forget when an unexpected guest crashes the party: an escaped psychopath with a portable power drill.
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Sumbandh
A wealthy female student has a conflict with professor, which does get resolved, but a scandal ensues when she posts intimate photographs on the college noticeboard, prompting principal to dismiss professor, while her marriage gets canceled.
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Liar’s Moon
In East Texas, the summer after high school, Jack falls in love with Ginny, the daughter of the town’s banker (Jack’s mom’s high school sweetheart). Ginny’s been at boarding school; she’s headed for Vassar. Over her father’s strenuous objections, she spends time with Jack. At summer’s end, Jack and Ginny elope to Louisiana (where 17-year-olds can marry without their parents’ permission), and he gets a job in the oil fields. Her dad hires a menacing private eye to find them, Ginny’s pregnant, her town doctor gives her horrible news, and Jack’s mom has her own agenda. It seems that Jack and Ginny have grown up under a liar’s moon. What will these sweethearts do?