Alexandre, a young and idle man, lives in Paris with Marie, with whom he has an open relationship. He doesn't have any job, and he is quite proud of being a layabout. One day, while Marie is in London, he invites Veronika, a girl he was dating, to move to his place. When Marie comes back home, she seems indifferent to Alexandre's affair and the three start an unconventional ...
Two men, a sledge, a barren winter landscape and the eternal struggle for existence and power.
In Venice, Gaston, a master thief masquerading as a baron, meets Lily, a beautiful thief also pretending to be of the nobility. The two fall in love and decide to team up. They leave Venice for Paris, where they work for the famous perfume manufacturer Mariette Colet with the intention of stealing a great sum of money from her safe. Colet begins to flirt with Gaston and he b...
Francesco's father can't love him the way he would like, so he is looking for the answer to the question that, since 17 years, has echoed in his mind. There is only one person who can give him this answer. During a journey across a black and hostile sea, amongst violence and contraband, Francesco finds out who he is and becomes an adult.
During a battle in Saragossa, a French officer finds a large book with strange drawings that capture his attention. While he is looking at it, an enemy officer tries to arrest him but ends up translating the book for him. The second officer recognize its author as his own grandfather. The book and the movie tell about the life of Alfonso Van Worden, who was a captain in the...
Every year, Gretchen spends one whole day solving as many crosswords as possible. Her aim is to break her own record, even though she knows that nobody will be there to celebrate with her. She uses to spend this day on several lines of the underground, in New York. That's the place where she can give the best. Focused on the crosswords, she doesn't care about the world arou...
The director has lost his brother, his father and his mother and tells about these three deaths in this autobiographical film. A senseless death, the one of his brother Armand, caught in a fire during a party. A heartrending death, the one of his father, who has to submit to a devastating cancer. A conscious death, the one of his mother, overcome with grief by the death of o...
Claude Zoret, a famous and rich painter, falls in love with one of his models, Michael, and for a time the two live happily as partners. Zoret is considerably older than Michael, and as they age, Michael begins to drift from him, although Zoret is completely blind to this. When a bankrupt countess comes to Zoret to have a portrait made — with the real intent of seducing him ...
Bing, a Chinese girl, moves from China to Torino. Waiting for her, there is her new brother...
Sylvia works as a secretary and lives in the outskirts of London with her intellectually disabled sister, Hilda. Her solitary and bleak existence turns around a small group of people who, like Sylvia, have communication problems. Mike Leigh's debut film is ironic and moving. The director considers it "the mother of all my movies".
