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...
During the fight for the Liberation, the city of Piacenza counted 860 deaths and went through brutal massacres, but thanks to the Resistance, it obtained freedom. For this reason, in 1996, the city has been honored with the Golden Medal for Military Merit in the Resistance. The documentary follows the stages of the Liberation process through the voice of the ones who fought ...
Harry Hinkle, an honest cameraman, is knocked over during a football game by the Afro-American champion Luther "Boon Boom" Jackson. His brother in law, an unscrupulous lawyer, persuades him to pretend to be paralyzed to cheat the insurance. A funny comedy about family ties, cynicism and material interests: everybody is cheating to satisfy their own needs.
In post-war Casablanca, all the managers of a famous hotel have wound up being murdered by a Nazi who introduces himself as Count Pfefferman. His aim is to recover a hoard of war, a collection of art works that has been cached in the hotel. Also the new director risks to be killed, but with the help of two employees of the hotel, he will manage to have the killer and his gan...
"I owe you the truth in painting and I will tell it to you", said Paul Cézanne. The philosopher Gilles Deleuze considered Cézanne Straub's teacher. Fifteen years after the extraordinary Cézanneìs death, the painter is the main subject of the movie in which he lives again through the words of the young poet Joachim Gasquet during a visit at Louvre. Jean-Marie Straub and Daniè...
Jong-du has been just released from prison for the third time, but his return home is not happy. One of his brothers is unemployed, the other one tries to involve him in his small business, without any success. Jong-du spends his days wandering adrift through the city. He suddenly decides to visit Gong-yu, the sister of the man he accidentally killed with his motorbike. She ...
