In his second feature film, Roman Polanski follows the frightful story of a neurosis. The main character, Carole, interpreted by Catherine Deneuve, left alone in the apartment she shares with her sister, drifts towards a kind of neurosis and can't stand the presence of any men. Polanski said: "Insanity is scaring because you know that it can bring you to yourself". A visiona...
Lermontov, il direttore di una prestigiosa compagnia di balletto classico, ingaggia contemporaneamente Vicky Page, una giovanissima ballerina, e Juilan Craster, un compositore. Lermontov capisce che Vicky può diventare una grande ballerina e tenta di convincerla a sacrificare tutta la sua vita alla danza. Ma Vicky è innamorata di Julian e, dopo essere arrivata ...
Joan Webster, twenty-five years old, knows exactly what she wants from life. She decides to take a ship for the island of Kiloran, in the Hebrides , to marry Sir Robert Bellenger, an old rich man. Because of the fog, the ship stops on the island of Mull, where Joan spends some time with Torquil, a young Marine officer. On the island, Joan gets to know some of the inhabitants...
Dermot Finn loves Pearl. He is about to go to her place to meet her family, but love, as Dermot will soon find out, can turn into a terrible experience, because each of us lives in his/her own world and one's man meat is another man's poison.
End of the 19th century. Hazel is a beautiful and innocent girl who lives in the countryside with her father, a coffin maker. She loves all the creatures around her, especially her pet fox cub. Hazel is wild, she often run barefoot through the woods when harsh life gets too much for her. After having married a young shepherd who loves her sincerely, Hazel is seduced by a ric...
The camera enters a museum of an European capital. There is only a receptionist sitting at a table, reading, and there are 92 drawings hanging on the walls, of small dimensions and of different materials. While the camera gets closer to the drawings, a voice over starts speaking. He is the person who collected those drawings, so that they can be of use after the death of a m...
Robert, a DJ, goes to Bristol to find out why his brother committed suicide. He meets a Scottish deserter, a mechanic fond of music and a woman who is looking for her missing daughter. The soundtrack includes Kraftwerk, David Bowie, Lene Lovich, Wreckless Eric. A black and white road movie, rich of references to the social and political climate of Great Britain in the 70'...
Il film è ambientato nella Belfast degli anni '70, nel periodo in cui la città era al centro degli scontri tra Inghilterra e Irlanda. Il protagonista, Terry Hooley, mentre i suoi amici imbracciano le armi per contrastare gli inglesi, apre nella parte della città più tormentata degli scontri tra opposte fazioni, il negozio di dischi Good Vibrat...
During a mission in a night club, Jeff, a professional killer, causes a shooting during which a singer gets accidentally blinded. To cover the expenses for a cornea transplant, Jeff decides to take one last job. One of Woo's best movies, in which Eastern and Western genres merge.
Calcutta. An old building occupied by eleven families and Dipu, a young man with intellectual ambitions. Aiming at freeing himself from his condition of pariah, he applies for a job as journalist. The director likes him and asks him to write an article about the working-class community he belongs to. Dipu starts looking at the community around him with different eyes, but he...
