A successful insurance salesman returns to his office late one night. Visibly in pain, he begins dictating a confession. The story, told primarily in flashback, involves a beautiful, yet dangerous, woman, Phillys Dietrichson. The two met when her husband's insurance policy expired. Widely regarded as a classic, it is often cited as a paradigmatic film noir that has set the ...
The camera moves around the villages of the high Caucasus, in the Northern Azerbaijan, where ancient tribes still live, like the mountain Jews. Monika Bulaj enters this world, made of daily gestures, magic and mysteries. Houses toil up mountains and during the night the men tell stories, always different ones. Those people seem to belong both to the earth and the sky. The ti...
Xiaoyang vive a Taipei con il fratello Xiaofang e la sorellina. I tre sono orfani di madre e il padre lavora in un’altra città: l'unico parente vicino è il nonno. Xiaoyang lavora come cameriera in un fast-food; Xiaofang gestisce un locale, dove lavora un suo amico, Asang, che, come lo stesso Xiaofang, ha un passato poco pulito. I due cercano di compor...
Anton Buttinski, un marinaio polacco, sbarca a New York sperando di poter essere ospitato per qualche notte presso il “figlio dell’amico di sua madre”, un certo Wadeck. Questi è un cocainomane paranoico che divide l’appartamento con Barbara, una giovane francese. L’ingenuo Anton, immigrato irregolare, è determinanto ad aiutare Barb...
The demolition of an old factory in the outskirts of Bergamo brings back to light the story of a workers' victory. In 1974, in the middle of an economic crisis, Lastex Yarn fired half of its workers. The factory is occupied and after months of protest, the workers show that the crisis is only a pretext to close and move the production lines to Malaysia, where the man pow...
Radu is a simple trainee journalist, but an international scandal involving an underage prostitute seems to be the chance for him to prove his value. He is ready to overcome each obstacle and deliver a good story. However, the task turns out to be trickier than expected and the more he approaches his goal, the more he gets close to some moral limits. In collabor...
Flor da Baixa is an old pension with empty windows or an echo, a cross reference to an image, dreamt or seen by somebody else. Flor da Baixa is a woman who has been waiting and waited forever... is a border line, where everything has to be defined and can change.
Gaston Morel, a puppeteer, falls in love with Lucille, a young modiste, and confesses to her to be a murderer. His story and his first murder are told in flashback. Morel was once a painter and fell in love with a model who became the main inspiration for his paintings, but when she betrayed the idealized image he had of her, he killed her. She is just the first victim of a ...
The secret agent Max Menace arrives in New York from Europe to meet someone who will reveal to him why he is there. He gets involved in a series of strange situations with eccentric characters, but he doesn't manage to find out why he is in Usa.
Vincent Parry, unjustly condemned of his's wife's murder, has only one possibility: plastic surgery. He changes his appearance and starts looking for the murderer. A young and beautiful woman helps him escape from the police. It is the third of four films that the real-life couple Bacall and Bogart made together.
