Five young Japanese cyclists go to Burkina Faso to take part in the most important African competition, the Tour of Faso. The movie is about the contrast between two completely different worlds: the structured and monotone life of the members of the Japanese team and the African reality. On top of that, there is the difference between the rigid climate of Japan compared to t...
One man gets stabbed while he is sleeping in his bed. Polanski's first short movie.
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.
The story takes place in a conservative Danish city, where the widower Morten Borgen antagonises the entire city because of his heretic doubts. Even his children, Anders and Mikkel, don't believe in God. The third son, Johannes, believes, instead, to be Jesus Christ. Ordet is about the conflict between the inner faith and the organized religion movements. Based on a play by ...
Autumn 1943. A kid follows his mom on the mountains where a group of partigians is hiding.
Set in between the 19th and 20th century, when the industrialization process revolutionizes the consolidated habits, the movie tells the story of the Amberson, the wealthiest family in the southern States, and their downfall caused by their inability to accept any change. The widow Amberson would like to marry again with one of her former lover. Her son, proud and selfish, i...
Lucy and Larry, after many years of marriage, get convinced wrongly that they have both cheated on the other and decide to get a divorce. The divorce, complicated because of the problem of the custody of Mr. Smith, the fox terrier dog of the couple, is to become final in 90 days, but Larry is still jealous of his wife. After having come to blows with Armand Duvalle, an "inno...
The continuous thirty-two hours working shift of some doctors at the Emergency. The doctors are fighting against tiredness and the technical lacks of the hospital.
A Polish landscape seen by the window of a car. The scenery slowly changes: a city, apartments blocks, country houses. The car stops in a street of a village. A western photographer gets off the car and starts taking pictures all around. A group of people celebrating a marriage comes by. During the marriage, several stories will be told.
After three years long relationship, Daniela e Marica decide they want a child. The movie tells about the seven months before their journey to Denmark, where they can realize their dream, the reactions of friends, parents and colleagues, the arrival at the clinic in Copenaghen and the suffered wait to become parents. Conflicts, delusions and hopes of an Italian lesbian coupl...
