Detective Mark McPherson investigates the killing of Laura Hunt, found dead on her apartment floor. McPherson builds a mental picture of the dead girl from the suspects whom he interviews. He is helped by the striking painting of the late lamented Laura hanging on her apartment wall. But who would have wanted to kill a girl with whom every man she met seemed to fall in love?...
L'ispettore di polizia Mark McPherson deve investigare sull'omicidio di Laura Hunt, trovata morta nel proprio appartamento. Capolavoro assoluto del film noir, con una splendida Gene Tierney.
L'attrazione di un maturo borghese per una donna misteriosa racconta il confine labile tra realtà e apparenza, innocenza e colpevolezza. Il professore di criminologia Richard Wanley, rimasto solo mentre la famiglia è in vacanza, si reca a cenare al club. Prima di entrare, ammira in una vetrina il ritratto di una bellissima donna. Incontratala di persona, si...
Dalla confessione registrata di un uomo ferito, parte la ricostruzione di un crimine che coinvolge un professionista di gradevole aspetto ma con pochi scrupoli, e una donna, Phillys Dietrichson, tanto attraente quanto pericolosa. Tutto inizia con un incontro fatale tra i due a seguito della scadenza di una certa polizza assicurativa appartenente al marito della bella Phillys...
1623, Denmark. Anne, the young wife of the pastor Absalon Pederssön hides the old Marte, who is accused of witchcraft. When Marte is found, she asks the pastor to defend her, knowing that he had already protected a woman accused of witchcraft, Anne's mother, with the aim of marry her daughter. Marte will be tortured, obliged to confess and sent to the stake. Anne, agitated b...
The first film written, produced and directed by the British film making team of Michael Powell and Emeric tells the story of an indestructible friendship between an English and a German officials. This friendship lasts from 1902 to 1943 and survives two world wars and the love for the same woman. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is an optimistic opera which deals with fr...
Deceased turn-of-the-century playboy Henry Van Cleve (Don Ameche) presents himself to the outer offices of Hades, where he asks a bemused Satan for permission to enter the gates of hell. Though the devil doubts that Henry’s sins qualify him for eternal damnation, Henry proceeds to recount a lifetime of wooing and pursuing women, his long, happy marriage to Martha (Gene...
Appena defunto, Van Cleve arriva nell’anticamera dell’inferno dove racconta al diavolo la propria vita di libertino e l’amore per la moglie. Capolavoro di eleganza e di squisita trasgressione.
Nella Danimarca del 1623, Anne, giovane moglie del pastore Absalon Pederssön, nasconde la vecchia Marte, ricercata per stregoneria. Scoperta, la donna supplica il pastore Absalom di prendere le sue difese, ben sapendo che l'uomo, in passato, aveva già protetto un’altra donna accusata di stregoneria, la madre di Anne, allo scopo di ottenerne la mano dell...
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...
