n Macao, Mr. Clay, a wealthy old merchant, with the idea of showing that money is more powerful than any other phantasy, wants to make a legendary tale come true. The story tells about a rich old man who offers a sailor some money to impregnate his wife. "I don't like pretense… - Clay says - I like facts. If this tale has never happened, I will make it true". Orson Welles' f...
Qin works as an assistant of a manager and her good working position allows her to buy a house. Lon, her boyfriend, is always talking about vague American dreams into which he wishes to involve her. When her company merge with a bigger one, she finds herself without a job. On top of that, her love story with Lon seems to finish, because he is too similar to her father. One o...
A Saigon, durante la guerra in Vietnam il capitano dei corpi speciali Benjamin Willard riceve dai superiori l'ordine di trovare ed eliminare il colonnello Walter Kurtz che - uscito con i suoi soldati dai ranghi dell'esercito americano - sta combattendo una guerra personale ai confini fra il Vietnam e la Cambogia. Scortato da alcuni uomini, Willard risale un fiume a c...
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...
Luciano, proletario anarchico e intellettuale di provincia, marcia su Milano con progetti dinamitardi per un grattacielo, ma si lascia risucchiare dalla società del benessere e diventa un "creativo" pubblicitario. Basato sul romanzo (1962) di Luciano Bianciardi, il film ne rispecchia il valore di ritratto profetico di una società votata al consumismo,...
During the war, lieutenant Hashimoto and three other accomplices, buried a cache of morphine in an air-raid shelter under a military hospital and they agreed to meet again ten years later to dig out the treasure. On that day, five people show up, but Hashimoto originally had only three accomplices. He hid the morphine late at night, so they did not know each other's identiti...
Louis Mahé, a wealthy tobacco plantation owner on Réunion island in the Indian Ocean, is awaiting the arrival of his bride to be, Julie Roussel, whom he's never met. One day, she escapes with all his money and it turns out that her real name is Marion. She is an adventurer and, together with an accomplice, has killed the real Julie. Louis leaves for France with the idea of t...
During a fight with a group of other children, Sasha, a seven years old violinist, is defended by a steamroller driver. Thanks to the friendship with this man, Sasha will learn to face the difficulties in life. Tarkovskij's final diploma work.
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...
