Realized by Polanski as his final project at the State Film School in Lodz, Poland. The short film, told mostly in flashback, portrays a washroom attendant who reminisces about her former life: her first love, her newborn child and the war.
An elderly dollmaker works in his shop by the light of an oil-lamp.
Michel, an intellectual bourgeois, starts pickpocketing as a provocation against humanity and to feel above the law and the moral code. Stealing gives him almost an erotic pleasure and all his attempts to stop are useless. Only the love for girl will help him. The movie is full of references to Crime and Punishment and it is Bresson's fifth successful feature film.
Alla fine della Seconda Guerra Mondiale, quattro fratelli di età tra i dieci e i vent'anni rimasti orfani, vivono di stenti in una cittadina mineraria nel Giappone meridionale. Dopo numerose difficoltà, i quattro fratelli sono costretti a separarsi. Amarezza e ottimismo convivono in questa odissea famigliare.
Lola sings in a cabaret. She has a son and is waiting for Michel, her son's father, to come back. After seven years, Michel comes back rich, and leaves again with Lola and the kid. The stories of these lonely souls looking for love are told with elegance and tenderness. "Lola" is the debut film directed by Jacques Demy (a tribute to director Max Ophuls) and, thanks to its or...
During a fight with a group of other children, Sasha, a seven years old violinist, is defended by a steamroller driver. Thanks to the friendship with this man, Sasha will learn to face the difficulties in life. Tarkovskij's final diploma work.
Charlie Kohler is a piano player in a bar. The waitress, Lena, is in love with him. One of Charlie's brother, Chico, a crook, takes refuge in the bar because he is chased by two gangsters, Momo and Ernest. We will discover that Charlie's real name is Edouard Saroyan, once a virtuose who gives up after his wife's suicide. Charlie now has to deal with Chico, Ernest, Momo, Fido...
1961. The Himori gang is in troubles since the authorities decide to close the brothel they had opened near an American naval base. To make ends meet, they start to steal, rob and intimidate. The situation gets even worse when the cashier of the gang steals all the money that was destined to the purchase of some pigs and Tetsuji, the boss, is hospitalized. The gang tears its...
L’azione si svolge nella zona del delta del Po. Dopo dieci anni d’assenza, il padre di Clara torna a casa e, ripresa con sé la figlia che viveva presso una zia, si stabilisce a Scano Boa, un povero borgo di pescatori. Dopo essere stata violentata da un pescatore, Clara rimane incinta. Tratto da un romanzo di Cibotto, Scano Boa descrive con grande real...
Mr MacNamara, director of Coca Cola in the West Berlin, is told by his general director that his daughter Rossella is coming and will stay in Berlin with Mr MacNamara and his wife for a couple of weeks. The girl will end up staying a couple of months, and when her parents come to take her, she disappear, creating troubles for MacNamara. The man finds the girl, but also finds...