The story takes place in the 1930s, during the Great Depression, in West Virginia, along the Ohio River. Harry Powell, a self-anointed preacher, and a serial killer, travels rural roads, preaching in small towns. Arrested for driving a stolen car and sentenced to jail, he meets Ben Harper, a robber who has two children, John and Pearl. After a bank robbery of 10.000 dollars,...
The relationship between Livorno and Piero Ciampi, a forgotten and disregarded artist, poet and songwriter who was always angry because anarchist and communist. The "Livorness" of the artist is told by the ones who have memory of his peculiar disenchanted irony which is perfectly summed up in one of his sentence: "I am the greatest, because I can get up to 300...
Two biologists, doctor Reed and the young Kay Lawrence, leave for the Amazon River to study the rests of an unknown prehistoric creature, a specie which is half human and half amphibious. A classic movie for the lovers of this genre and a blockbuster in 1954.
Fred Leuchter, a true story. The great documentarist Errol Morris accompanies us through the eccentric story of Mr. Leuchter. Once a sought-after expert in building electric chairs, he turned into a poor sod and was fought by the same system that used him as a fundamental element when, in 1988, he was sought as a witness for the defence of Ernst Zündel on trial in Canada for...
Mrs. Flo has to go back home, but it's night and she has to go through a street which has a bad reputation. Fear is not her only problem...
December 1995. France is paralysed by the transportation strikes. Nadia, a young woman, survives on her limited unemployment benefits. She has been a mother for the last six months, raising Christopher all on her own. One day, while watching the news about the rail-road strike at the Austerlitz station, she thinks she sees her child's father and decides to find him. That nig...
Five English nuns are dispatched to establish a new convent far in the Himalayas. They soon establish a school and an infirmary, but the location, the culture and the mountain air begin to have a strange effect on them. A nun begins to plant flowers instead of vegetables. Another one cures a kid of the village, who dies, and so all the locals abandon the hospital. The beauti...
rm sea, but Giò, the group leader, can't understand Edda's expectations. In the meantime, Hermann, a young German guy, decides to leave on a journey with his camera. Edda, after a failed debut, abandons the theatre company and meets Hermann. It's love at first sight. Thanks to the black and white and the cinema scope, Konermann's on-the-road movie, ric...
Sent on a mission to Paris to control the work of three Soviet agents, a rigid and stern Russian Communist commissary opens her heart for the beautiful eyes of an aristocratic man and a neat little hat. Based on a screenplay written by Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett, Lubitsch's movie depicts a world of luxurious hotels, revolving doors, penniless nobility and moral aristo...
One day, when he was only a child, the director found in his grandparents' house an incomplete series of postcards with pictures of his family's village. These six postcards showed the events that took place in that small village, near the Spanish border, when the Republicans, escaping from the Francoist Spain, arrived to France at the end of Spanish war, in 1939. Twenty yea...
