Mr. De Waal leads a quiet life: married, one son and a shop. During a routine control at the hospital, he is asked to stay overnight to continue the exams the day after. This situation takes him by surprise and during the night, he will turn from sane to insane.
Allie lives in New York and shares an apartment with a girl. At nights, he wanders adrift around deserted streets. The surrounding buildings are covered with vegetation and at distance you can hear the shower of bombs of a non specified war. After having stolen and sold again a car for 800 dollars, Allie comes back home, packs his stuff and leaves a message for his friend. ...
Interviews made by Kieslowski to seventy-nine Polish persons of different ages. The three questions they have to answer are: When were you born? What do you do? What do you desire the most and who is the most important person in your life?
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...
The vicissitudes of the main character, Witek, are told in three different ways, according to how his destiny could have been: three different lives, three different attitudes towards reality and history, three different politics choices and moral consequences: political activist, militant, "peacefull man" dealing with scientific research and not politics. The provocatory en...
The movie tells the story of the greatest discus thrower Helga Rabova and present some reflections about life and the choiches that rarely don't imply a moral sacrifice. The title derives from the story that uncle Nezir tell. It tells about the fenix, the bird that every year gives happiness to the ones who believe in it.
Bernard and Mathilde are good neighbors, but he avoids meeting her. Seven years before, they were lovers and now they are both married. Passion will rekindle again and the tragedy is behind the corner. A movie about unforgotten loves and bourgeois treasons, with an extraordinary Fanny Ardant.
Wren is a young punk who tries in any way to succeed on the musical scene of Manhattan. With no money and talent, she meets Paul, a young man who has just arrived in New York from Montana, and Eric, an arrogant musician. Susan Seidelman's first movie, Smithereens has been the first Independent American movie to compete for the Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival.
The menace of the cerebral manipulation of men perpetuated by the governing authorities, who aim at enhancing paranoia and competitiveness. In the 70's and early 80's, Scott B and Beth B were the main promoters of the No Wave movement of the underground punk scene.
Vincent, an honest worker, deals unwittingly a counterfeit 500 francs note. The real guilty parties report him and he ends up in prison. When he comes out, he finds himself alone. His daughter is dead and his wife left him. He is hosted by an old lady, but he ends up killing her and the others guests and then surrenders to the police. Inspired by L. Tolstoj's short story "Th...
Vilian, a young professor with a passion for astronomy, discovers a comet and, together with his friend, Fiala, they dream of naming it after them. Meanwhile, Vilian's wife stresses him because she wants a bigger apartment. Later on, Vilian finds out that his friend gave the comet only his name, betraying his trust. Vilian gives up his job as a professor, but manages, anyway...
Gli abitanti del paese delle favole sono riuniti nel castello per un grande avvenimento: la Bella Addormentata dovrebbe svegliarsi da un momento all’altro dopo aver dormito per cento anni. Accadono però alcune cose sospette. Alcuni personaggi buoni scompaiono, e lupi, streghe, draghi e giganti prendono il potere. Nessuno è in grado di opporre resistenza. ...
Augustín, medico rabdomante, sua moglie Julia e la figlia Estrella abitano a La Gaviota, una casa nei sobborghi di una città nel Nord della Spagna. Estrella, cresciuta subendo il fascino di Augustín, da adolescente si confronta con la figura paterna e il sospetto che nella sua vita ci sia stata un'altra donna. Man mano che nuovi elementi sul passato ...
Pablo is a strange guy. He eats only wild fruits and dogs get furious when he passes by. One day he runs away and holes up in the forest. He risks to be torn to pieces by some dogs but he is rescued by Luis, a psychologist. Pablo now resembles an animal. Luis brings him back to town to educate him. Ana, a young piano player will awaken his feelings. The movie was screened at...
Dong Dong and his younger sister are sent to spend their holidays at their grandparents' house in the countryside. They soon join a group of children and spend their days playing in the fields and in the creek near the railway. Once in a while they get news from the city about their mother who is at the hospital. One day, their dad comes to pick them up. Holidays are over.
Four young men have just finished school in their island fishing village in Taiwan and now spend most of their time drinking and fighting. Three of them decide to go to the port city of Gaoxiang to look for work. There they face the harsh reality of the big city. The movie attracted the attention of Olivier Assayas, a young critic who works for Cahiers du cinéma.
Tasio, born in a farmhouse at the feet of the Urbesca mountains, becomes a charcoal burner at the age of fourteen and meets Paulina during a dancing at their village and she will become his wife. Tasio leads a free life, alternating his job to the activity of poacher, which he will never abandon, not even during the most difficult moments, when he will be abandon by everybody.
On a summer day, a photographer, a young woman and a kid meet in the Emilian countryside crossed by the river Po. Thom, the photographer, walks along the banks of the river Po and the countryside. Anna works as a waiter in the restaurant where she lives with her aunts. A delirious old man goes after them with his rambling speeches, while a motorboat pilot tries to break a sp...
Peter Hradil, a former doctor, arrives in a small mountain village to work in the local sawmill. Here he meets for the second time Marta Vlachová, his last patient. When he met her for the first time, he was at the beginning of his career as a doctor, and for her he carried out an illegal abortion which cost him his degree in medicine. She asks him to leave the village, but ...
A year on an Alpine farm: an older couple have two children, Belli, who wanted to be a teacher, and the younger Franzi, deaf and, although he works like a man, child-like. Belli teaches him to read and count. In his work, he can become frustrated, so when he throws an expensive mower over a cliff in a fit of pique, his father banishes him to the outskirts of the farm, where ...
