A man moves alone in an empty apartment. Behind the camera there is his daughter, following him in his new life as a widower, started four years ago. In the evening, the man gets ready to go to the cinema, where he will meet Vera, an Ukrainian woman who will become his closest friend. Vera has left in Ukraine her daughter, Halina, who sends her mom photos and videos to share...
Sylvia works as a secretary and lives in the outskirts of London with her intellectually disabled sister, Hilda. Her solitary and bleak existence turns around a small group of people who, like Sylvia, have communication problems. Mike Leigh's debut film is ironic and moving. The director considers it "the mother of all my movies".
Bosnia, Ramadan 2013. During the doomsday, so the Koran says, the mountains will rise up as a feather. A merciless calamity or an eventual release from the burden of pain? The film gives voice to a daring personal attempt to understand the suffering and the resistence in Bosnia. Mostar and Sarajevo are seen in passing, through the fragmented viewpoints of a confraternity of ...
The story takes place in the 1930s, during the Great Depression, in West Virginia, along the Ohio River. Harry Powell, a self-anointed preacher, and a serial killer, travels rural roads, preaching in small towns. Arrested for driving a stolen car and sentenced to jail, he meets Ben Harper, a robber who has two children, John and Pearl. After a bank robbery of 10.000 dollars,...
The relationship between Livorno and Piero Ciampi, a forgotten and disregarded artist, poet and songwriter who was always angry because anarchist and communist. The "Livorness" of the artist is told by the ones who have memory of his peculiar disenchanted irony which is perfectly summed up in one of his sentence: "I am the greatest, because I can get up to 300...
Two biologists, doctor Reed and the young Kay Lawrence, leave for the Amazon River to study the rests of an unknown prehistoric creature, a specie which is half human and half amphibious. A classic movie for the lovers of this genre and a blockbuster in 1954.
In a city in Nothern Italy, a group of friends organizes the first Graziella bicycle World Olympics (Grazielliadi), the famous Italian 60's folding bike. From the dust of the basements and from abandoned parking places, a piece of history re-emerges, a rusty legacy of mothers and grandmothers. Kshan, 11 years old, has repainted and given a new life to his grandma's b...
Mouchette is fourteen years old and lives in an isolated rural French village with her alcoholic father, her bedridden mother and an infant brother. Perennially mocked and humiliated by her classmates and adults, Mouchette is raped by a poacher she had helped. Based on the novel of the same name by Georges Bernanos, Mouchette is a tale of misery and cruelty that doesn't leav...
A heavily neurotic young man starts to see his father's ghost, and while he helps the spirit cross to the otherworld, something happens that they could never achieve in their common life: they finally understand each other.
Fred Leuchter, a true story. The great documentarist Errol Morris accompanies us through the eccentric story of Mr. Leuchter. Once a sought-after expert in building electric chairs, he turned into a poor sod and was fought by the same system that used him as a fundamental element when, in 1988, he was sought as a witness for the defence of Ernst Zündel on trial in Canada for...
