

Peacock
Genres
Overview
Brings viewers into a small Chinese city and inspires familiarity with the rhythms of everyday existence, with people's dreams, shortcomings and illusions in a way that is universal.
Details
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
Runtime
144 min
Release Date
2005-02-18
Status
Released
Original Language
Chinese
Vote Count
27
Vote Average
7.2
Zhang Jingchu
Gao Wei Hong
Li Feng
Gao Weiguo
Lü Yulai
Di Di
Huang Meiying
Mother
Ping Zong
Chinese Teacher Wang
Bao Zhenjiang
Master Liu
Tian Xiaojie
Ke
Lan Wang
Jin Zhi
Liu Guancheng
Guo Zi
7.0
M*A*S*H
The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and hijinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war.
1970-02-18 | en
7.2
Short Cuts
Many loosely connected characters cross paths in this film, based on the stories of Raymond Carver. Waitress Doreen Piggot accidentally runs into a boy with her car. Soon after walking away, the child lapses into a coma. While at the hospital, the boy's grandfather tells his son, Howard, about his past affairs. Meanwhile, a baker starts harassing the family when they fail to pick up the boy's birthday cake.
1993-10-01 | en
5.0
Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder
During the Vietnam War, Brian Anderson, a young Army medic, is stationed in Saigon. Initially apathetic and self-serving, he eventually has his heart won over by the children at a nearby orphanage where he does volunteer work. At first, a doctor named Katherine Cross has to persuade him to help the children. But soon, Brian willingly puts his career and safety on the line to provide the orphans with the food and medical supplies they need.
1982-05-03 | en
6.3
Your Voice -KIMIKOE-
The story focuses on high school girl Nagisa Yukiai who lives in a seaside town. She has believed her grandmother's story that spirits dwell in words and they are called "kotodama" (word spirit). One day, she strays into a mini FM station that has not been used for years. As an impulse of the moment, she tries to talk like a DJ using the facility. But her voice accidentally broadcasted reaches someone she has never expected.
2017-08-25 | ja
0.0
Betrayal of Silence
A new lawyer investigates the abuse case of a young orphan girl and begins to believe that the orphanage priests have something to hide.
1988-01-01 | en
6.6
Little Miss Broadway
An orphan is provisionally adopted by the manager of a hotel populated by show business people. The hotel's owner doesn't like the entertainers and wants the girl returned to the orphanage.
1938-07-29 | en
9.5
Nine Days and One Morning
A story of adoption told without glamour and hypocrisy that usually accompanies this topic.Anna is a top model, who was adopted by a French couple as a child. She returns to her hometown with a charity mission from France.A story of an orphan turned princess becomes a legend in her native provincial town. Anna gets treated like royal person and everyone expects miracles from herAnna is confused and cannot understand what all these people want from her. She is used to a calm and logical western lifestyle. Her home is France, in Russia she is a guest. Horrified, she watches her photographer boyfriend Michelle, admire incomprehensible Russian mentality
2014-08-07 | ru
6.6
Happy-Go-Lucky
A look at a few chapters in the life of Poppy, a cheery, colorful, North London schoolteacher whose optimism tends to exasperate those around her.
2008-04-18 | en
5.8
Chen Mo and Meiting
2002-02-15 | zh
0.0
Cherche famille désespérément
After the accidental death of his son on a racetrack, Edward Milan, a wealthy industrialist, asks his nephew to find his grandson, who has been living in an orphanage for eleven years and whose existence he has just learned. But the boy, named Martineau, is suspicious of the police since he has been unjustly accused of shoplifting. He runs away when the two uniforms in charge of taking him back to his grandfather's house appear. He manages to find lodging with an old lady, a kleptomaniac at times, then with a theater prop master who is persecuted by his fiancée and finally with a lonely veterinarian.
1994-01-24 | fr
7.0
Oliver!
Musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, a classic tale of an orphan who runs away from the workhouse and joins up with a group of boys headed by the Artful Dodger and trained to be pickpockets by master thief Fagin.
1968-09-26 | en
6.8
The Italian
Set in 2002, an abandoned 5-year-old boy living in a rundown orphanage in a small Russian village is adopted by an Italian family.
2005-09-21 | ru
6.5
Into the Night
Ed Okin used to have a boring life. He used to have trouble getting to sleep. Then one night, he met Diana. Now, Ed's having trouble staying alive.
1985-02-22 | en
7.2
Picnic at Hanging Rock
In the early 1900s, Miranda attends a girls boarding school in Australia. One Valentine's Day, the school's typically strict headmistress treats the girls to a picnic field trip to an unusual but scenic volcanic formation called Hanging Rock. Despite rules against it, Miranda and several other girls venture off. It's not until the end of the day that the faculty realizes the girls and one of the teachers have disappeared mysteriously.
1975-09-02 | en
6.4
Welcome to Sarajevo
Follow a group of international journalists into the heart of the once cosmopolitan city of Sarajevo—now a danger zone of sniper and mortar attacks where residents still live. While reporting on an American aid worker who’s trying to get children out of the country, a British correspondent decides to take an orphaned girl home to London.
1997-05-09 | en
7.5
Obsession
Gino, a drifter, begins an affair with inn-owner Giovanna as they plan to get rid of her older husband.
1944-04-08 | it
6.8
Beijing Bicycle
A seventeen-year-old country boy working in Beijing as a courier has his bicycle stolen, and finds it with a schoolboy his age.
2002-01-25 | zh
5.0
Drewniany różaniec
A young girl sent to an orphanage run by nuns gets confronted with the cruel and outdated methods used by the staff.
1965-01-06 | pl
0.0
The Runaway
The adventures of a young boy who runs away from an orphanage on a search to find his father.
1961-01-01 | en
6.4
Outsourced
After his entire department is outsourced, an American novelty products salesman heads to India to train his replacement.
2007-09-28 | en