Jason "Igby" Slocumb jr., un'adolescente intelligente e ribelle, ha intenzione di cambiare vita. Ne ha abbastanza di fare parte di una famiglia che lo vessa e di essere ignorato da suo padre a favore di Oliver, suo fratello maggiore. Espluso dal liceo, Igby decide di abbandonare tutto e di trasferirsi a New York da D.H., il suo patrigno e la sua fidanzata Rache...
Los Angeles, 1937: investigatore privato scopre un omicidio collegato a un caso di corruzione pubblica e una terribile e scandalosa vicenda privata. Il mistero viene risolto, ma il caos della violazione e del sopruso, sotto l’ordine apparente, è riconfermato per sempre. Il capolavoro di Polanski è un viaggio attraverso gli archetipi del noir classico, nel...
Eve Peabody, a penniless ballerina who lost all her money on the French Riviera, arrives in Paris and manages to sneak into a high class party, where she is approached by Georges Flammarion, a rich noble man, who asks her to seduce Jacques Picot, the son of Champagne producers, who is flirting with his wife Hélène. To Eve, this sounds like an easy task, but the situation get...
In the footsteps of a nazi criminal who escaped to Usa and erased his identity, Inspector Wilson suspects of Professor Rankin, the new husband of the daughter of a judge. A series of clues and Rankin's passion for antique clocks, convinced the inspector. Breathtaking is the epilogue in the clocktower.
A rich widow gets killed and Vole (Power), her lover, is suspected of murder. The only hope for the man to clear his name is that his wife (Dietrich) witnesses in his favor, but also the woman has some secrets to protect. Based on a play by Agatha Christie, Witness for the Prosecution, the movie is a tensed drama that won six Oscars: Best Picture, Best Actor in a Leading Ro...
Amos Poe, enfant terrible of the American cinema, offers his disrespectful homages to Godard's À bout de souffle. The movie tells the story of Rico, who lives in New York in 1976, but lives in Paris during the Nouvelle Vague period. He is a photographer who believes to be a gangster, an outsider who uses his camera as if it was a gun. Rico is obviously also romantic, he beli...
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...
The government of a small state fears that the rich owner of almost all the capitals of the nation, a widow now, gets married again and brings all her money abroad. So the royal coffers send to Paris, where she lives, a young officer with the mission of winning her heart (and consequently her money). Adaptation of the operetta of the same name by Franz Lehar, the movie is pe...
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.
Un'americana che vive a Parigi è tampinata da tre loschi tipi e da un agente della CIA che vogliono sapere dove il marito assassinato abbia nascosto una ingente somma. In altalena tra la commedia romantica nera e la farsa macabra, uno scintillante thriller alla maniera di Hitchcock.
