That Certain Thing (Silent) - DVD

The Silence begins on a hot summer day, when a girl names Pia is brutally murdered in a field of wheat by Peer, as his helpless friend Timo watches. Exactly 23 years later, another 13-year-old, Sinikka, is missing, her bicycle abandoned in the same spot, leading police to suspect the same killer may be at work again. Recently widowed detective David and his colleague Janna struggle to solve the mystery of these parallel crimes with the help of Krischan, the retired investigator of the unresolved case. While Sinikka's distraught parents are trapped in an agonizing period of waiting and uncertainty, their daughter's fate rips open unhealed wounds in the heart of Pia's mother and sends Timo in search of Peer and their own old desires.

Italian gondolier Beppo Donetti proposes to his sweetheart Annette, but her father forbids her from marrying a poor man. Determined, Beppo journeys to America to make his fortune. After a year working at a factory owned by Bill Corrigan, Beppo is not wealthy, but self-sufficient enough for Annette to join him in New York. Soon the couple have a baby boy and are living happily in a tenement apartment on the Lower East Side. A heat wave g

Lucy's miserable life is devoid of beauty, and she is constantly beaten by her father, an alcoholic boxer. In the same hopeless slum, a recent Chinese immigrant who runs an import shop helplessly watches the waif's struggle. When Lucy's father thrashes her within an inch of her life, the shopkeeper takes her in and nurses her back to health. As her condition improves, Lucy begins to show a new interest in life, thanks to all the beauty