Snaporaz, uomo di mezza età, scende dal treno su cui sta viaggiando con la moglie per seguire una donna misteriosa. Si trova dapprima in un albergo dove scatenate femministe tengono un tumultuoso convegno (di cui nulla capisce), poi nel castello di un certo Katzone, un santone dell'erotismo, poi in un tribunale dove le donne lo condannano e in un'arena in cui ...
Jack Torrance, per trovare il giusto isolamento, accetta l'incarico di custode invernale di un enorme albergo tra le montagne. Lo seguono la moglie e il figlioletto Danny. Quest'ultimo possiede poteri paranormali. Tra favola e racconto gotico.
La storia di John Merrick, l'uomo elefante, il freak della Londra vittoriana proto-industriale, deformato dalla malattia e ridotto a fenomeno da baraccone. Un film epocale, che ha invertito le dinamiche tra “mostro” e spettatore: «chi ha paura di chi?». “Non meno ancestrale e traumatico di Eraserhead, ibrido e tragicomico come il suo protago...
Calcutta. An old building occupied by eleven families and Dipu, a young man with intellectual ambitions. Aiming at freeing himself from his condition of pariah, he applies for a job as journalist. The director likes him and asks him to write an article about the working-class community he belongs to. Dipu starts looking at the community around him with different eyes, but he...
The vicissitudes of the main character, Witek, are told in three different ways, according to how his destiny could have been: three different lives, three different attitudes towards reality and history, three different politics choices and moral consequences: political activist, militant, "peacefull man" dealing with scientific research and not politics. The provocatory en...
The movie tells the story of the greatest discus thrower Helga Rabova and present some reflections about life and the choiches that rarely don't imply a moral sacrifice. The title derives from the story that uncle Nezir tell. It tells about the fenix, the bird that every year gives happiness to the ones who believe in it.
Bernard and Mathilde are good neighbors, but he avoids meeting her. Seven years before, they were lovers and now they are both married. Passion will rekindle again and the tragedy is behind the corner. A movie about unforgotten loves and bourgeois treasons, with an extraordinary Fanny Ardant.
Wren is a young punk who tries in any way to succeed on the musical scene of Manhattan. With no money and talent, she meets Paul, a young man who has just arrived in New York from Montana, and Eric, an arrogant musician. Susan Seidelman's first movie, Smithereens has been the first Independent American movie to compete for the Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival.
Mathilde dal nome stendhaliano ritrova sette anni dopo l'uomo che aveva amato fin quasi a soccombere: entrambi vivono in belle case vicine, dentro simili vite serene, eppure l'incontro sarà fatale. «Spero che il pubblico non prenda parte, che li ami entrambi come li amo io»: ma come sempre per Truffaut, anche questa è storia di uno squilibri...
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.