Rome, 1736. Abramo Cajvani and Angeluccio della Riccia, both Jewish, are reported for breaking and entering. According to the law of that time, they are sentenced to death. Routinely, the night before the execution, the condemned ones are assisted by the Brothers of San Giovanni Decollato Archconfraternity, who, in Christian compassion, waited on the last moments of those w...
Johnny Barrett, an ambitious journalist of the Globe, is determined to win a Pulitzer Prize by writing a front page article. Together with the director of the newspaper, he plans to solve a murder committed in a lunatic asylum and witnessed only by three inmates, from whom the police have been unable to extract the information. With the connivance of a psychiatrist, and the ...
Three stories of ordinary loneliness. Laura works for a travel agency and has to decide if she should date one of her clients. Massimo, a student of architecture, spends his time looking at a girl in the library. Luca, father and husband, dates young men. They all would like to find happiness and experience the power of love, but their ways and times are wrong and they miss ...
God extracts three little angels and one little demon from four eggs. Afterwards, helped by the little angels, he decides to go on with the Creation. In six days he thinks about everything even though the little demon disturbs Him in everything: he puts spikes on the roses, salt in the ocean and darnel in the wheat. This animation is composed of 400.000 drawings realized by ...
The film follows Tome's life from the war to the beginning of the 60s'. Grown up in the north to a family of poor farmers, Tome has always been put upon in working and sexually abused. Nobuko, her daughter, is born from a one-night stand. Following a failed marriage, Tome moves to a city and finds her own independence working first as a worker and maid and after as a prosti...
Helén and Jenö are waiting for a child and are desperately searching for an accomodation. They eventually sign a contract with an old lady, Szeréna, who lives in a two-family house. According to the contract, they are to pay a moderate rent and they have to take care of her until her death. After the first weeks, Szeréna accuses the couple of trying to poison her and build...
Kirpi is a middle-class writer whose latest screenplay has been rejected. He is married to a sharp-tongued woman who dubs the voice of Marilyn Monroe. He will find himself involved in Kiraz's marital distress, his servant. Left Istanbul to reach Kiraz in her village, in the Turkish countryside, he finds out that away from the sophistication of the capital, life is regulated ...
Architect Walter Craig arrives at a country house to be restored where he meets some guests invited for a party. He immediately experience a déjà vu, as if he was living in one of his recurrent dreams. He knows the dream has a scaring ending, but he doesn't remember it. When he reveals to the guests that he has already seen them all in a dream, they start entertaining each o...
Hiraoka breaks into Riichi's house, while he is away with his son, and he raped his wife. She decides to commit suicide but not before having seen her son for the last time. When her husband is back, Sadako can't find the courage to tell him what happened. Two days after, while Riichi is visiting his lover and colleague, Hiraoka breaks into his house again and Sadako takes a...
The film tells the confused and complex life of a family of itinerant actors who comes originally from Osaka. The young director, who has abandoned the university for love of the theatre, is secretely in love with his son's wife, but he is tormented by his youngest daughter, still unmarried. During their tournée, they stop in a tiny village where all these relationships will...
