Movies available to watch on Thursday, August 10, in prime time and late at night

Plot of the film: 1957, West Virginia. In Colwood, the mine is the main source of employment and almost all the local men work there, including Superintendent John Hickam. The man loves his job and hopes that his young sons, Jim and Homer, will join him in the mine.
When Jim is offered the opportunity to go to college thanks to a scholarship, Homer is left as the son who must fulfill his father’s dream, although his mother Elsie strives for something better for him.
In October of the same year, news came that the Soviet Sputnik rocket had been launched into orbit. Homer, convinced that he has found the one that will take him away from Calwood and from the depressing future, decides with the help of his friends and Professor Miss Riley to build a rocket…

Plot of the film: After passing their high school exams with unexpected success, six old friends in their forties, Lorenzo, Luisa, Francesca, Piero, Virgilio, and Giorgio, in a wave of enthusiasm, decide to celebrate the diploma they have just received by organizing a group vacation in one of the most popular destinations. for youth: Greece. The choice falls on the tourist island of Paros.
For six former classmates, this is a fitting opportunity to go on the famous end-of-year trip together that they failed to organize in high school. In this way, recent graduates, nostalgic for the past, will plunge back into youth and leave as if they were still teenagers, bringing with them all the personal problems, unresolved knots and weaknesses that distinguish them. But they will not be alone for long at this unusual holiday full of temptations: soon their companions will indeed join them, with devastating consequences…

Plot of the film: Lady Bird is a sophisticated, very popular nickname chosen by teenager Kristin MacPherson. Born and raised in Sacramento, California, Christine’s dream is to move to a big, cosmopolitan city on the east coast (“or where writers hide in the woods”) to attend a prestigious university where adventure and opportunity await her at every corner. Now in her senior year of high school, there are few extracurricular loans on her college application, so in order to gain access to her dream course, the 17-year-old is forced to join the school’s drama club. Inspired by an unstoppable rebellious spirit, a vicious anarchist nature, and unbridled ambitions that one dreams of fulfilling away from home, Christine will find a hospitable place in the theater, a place where you can meet new friends and get new experiences; a refuge from a difficult relationship with a picky and affectionate mother who would like her daughter to become “the best version of herself” and from a recently unemployed father. Departure day draws near, but eccentric Kristin now has the opportunity to explore the milestones of adolescence that have always been put off: mischief, school dancing, first love…

Plot of the filmWe are in 1942. A young Desmond Doss, raised in a Virginia Adventist family, decides to join the army as a military rescuer after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Doss, on arrival at Fort Jackson Army Camp, was placed under the command of Sergeant Howell. During his training, he excelled in physical tests from the very beginning, but was gradually excluded from his comrades when he refused to take up arms in order to remain true to his principles even in time of war. In addition to being harassed by his sergeant and Captain Glover, who hope to force him to renounce his religious and moral beliefs, he is severely beaten by his fellow soldiers, whom he, however, refuses to condemn.
Doss and his platoon go to war and are sent to the Battle of Okinawa to help a unit tasked with guarding the Maeda Escarpment known as the “Conscientious Reasons”.
During the bloody attack of the Japanese, the Americans were driven back to the edge of the cliff, and soldiers were killed and as many wounded on the battlefield. And just then, never once taking up arms, Doss will prove to everyone that he is a great hero…

Plot of the film: The action takes place in London in the early twentieth century, when differences and social conventions made men and women respectable people. The fate of the respectable and wealthy Wilcox family is linked to that of the middle-class Schlegel family when Ruth Wilcox bequeaths a pastoral residence called the Howard House to her friend Margaret Schlegel. Faced with open hostility from the Wilcox heirs, Margaret and her sister Helen move into the house. While the older Interregerrim forms a relationship with the widower Henry Wilcox, who is wooing her, Helen falls in love with the rude proletariat Leonard Bast. A young woman becomes pregnant out of wedlock and is forced to hide her scandalous pregnancy by fleeing to Germany. When events force Helen to return to her country residence, the situation quickly falls apart…