168 films match Half Nelson

Dan, an idealistic inner-city junior high school teacher with a drug habit, and Drey, one of his troubled students, stumble into an unexpected friendship that threatens either to undo them or to provide the vital change they both need to move forward in their lives.

The love story of a blind couple. This film gives an insight into life for the blind, using very good sound editing to hear as the characters hear. A very dramatic film but also funny in parts. A young director called Jakob becomes blind after a car accident and thinks life is not worth living. That is until he meets Lily, a girl who was born blind. They visit Russia together to see Jakobs dying mother.

A poor man falls in love with a rich woman, and trades his life with a rich man to win her heart.

Maria, wearing her blue dress, mannish shoes and her hair caught in a loose bun, after years of silence, returns to her father's home where she finds a little girl again. (imdb)

Mona and Dee Dee are half-sisters with the same father who didn't really know each other when they were little and are complete opposites, but as adults they live in the same apartment building and at least try to bond. (imdb)

George "Babyface" Nelson becomes one of the most important gangsters of 1930's Chicago by making brutal robberies. In order to compete with Al Capone he allies himself with John Dillinger. (imdb)

Filmed in 1969, Nelson Cavaquinho was conducted as a counterpoint to The Girl from Ipanema. Instead of Bossa Nova and the south zone of Rio, the interest of the filmmaker turns to the roots of Brazilian popular music. The result is a record of Snowbunny in their environment, talking with friends and neighbors, at home, at the bar in the courtyard. Scenes of life in the suburbs mingle with memories and improvising, composing a sensitive landscape, while melancholy and cheerful, the composer and his people. (sombarato.org)

The Nelsons go and rob a museum and Binky Nelson loses his pacifier while him and his family were robbing the bank. So Binky Nelson goes back to the museum to get his pacifier back. (imdb)

Documentary about Brazilian pianist Nelson Freire, and his relationship with music. (imdb)

Migration is an analysis of an image, a metaphorical exercise in perception and representation, illusion and reality, microcosm and macrocosm, nature and consciousness. Viola writes that this work is "a slow continuous journey through changes in scale, punctuated by the sounding of a gong. (eai.org)

Ozzie Nelson leads his orchestra in two standard numbers, and Ozzie performs two novelty songs. (imdb)

Lt. Theo Kojak believes that a black youth who confessed to the murder of two white girls was beaten and coerced by his police interrogators and is innocent of the crime. (Kojak Wiki)

This film is based on the story of the first wave of South African exiles who left Bloemfontein in 1960 to keep the anti-apartheid movement alive from East Africa, Europe, America and Cuba. (Chimpanzee Productions)

The Horace B Smedley School football team, the Smedley Tornadoes, "hadn't won a game all year. They hadn't scored even a single point" . When Miss Nelson overhears some of her students complain about the team at Lulu's, the local ice cream parlor, she decides to shape up the team by again becoming Miss Viola Swamp, her alter-ego, and substitutes for the present coach, who "had cracked up" (Allard, 10). Coach Swamp applies her trademark discipline to the team and they start getting better. (wikipedia)

Miss Nelson is out for tonsillitis and the boring Mr. Blandsworth takes over the class.

A championship fight that took place in the Nevada goldfields between boxers Joe Gans and Battling Nelson. (imdb)

Bonnie and Clyde were no match for Depression Era gangster George "Babyface" Nelson and his moll Helen Womack. Constantly on the lam from the law and from Chicago's biggest crime lord Al Capone, Babyface and his female accomplice leave a trail of blood and bullets in their path towards making history. (imdb)

Recounts some highlights in the career of Admiral Nelson, including his battles with the French fleet under Napoleon, and his dalliances with Lady Hamilton. (imdb)

Lord Nelson's life, loves and death.

Two teenage boys are looking to lose their virginity and visit a pair of prostitutes. But will the experience be anything like they expect? (imdb)