Lucy and Larry, after many years of marriage, get convinced wrongly that they have both cheated on the other and decide to get a divorce. The divorce, complicated because of the problem of the custody of Mr. Smith, the fox terrier dog of the couple, is to become final in 90 days, but Larry is still jealous of his wife. After having come to blows with Armand Duvalle, an "inno...
A Polish landscape seen by the window of a car. The scenery slowly changes: a city, apartments blocks, country houses. The car stops in a street of a village. A western photographer gets off the car and starts taking pictures all around. A group of people celebrating a marriage comes by. During the marriage, several stories will be told.
Kalmán Furtek, a worker in charge of feeding the beasts in a zoo, loves his job and animals. He lives according to a system of values which he has built thanks to his close relationship to the beasts. The arrival of an helper will unsettle his ordinate life.
Victor Frandsen is a domestic tyrant. His wife Ida is very sweet and takes care of her husband and her children. But this is not enough to satisfy her husband. Mads, Victors' nanny when he was a child, understands that Ida is on the verge of a serious breakdown and persuades Mrs Krigger, Ida's mother, to take Ida away. When Ida gets sick, Mrs. Krigger sends her to the countr...
Satan, damned by God, takes a human form and tempts the human beings to break the divine laws. The movie is composed of four episodes, set in different historical moments: the temptation of Jesus, The Spanish Inquisition, the French Revolution and the Russo-Finnish war. Based on a novel by Marie Corelli.
Cherbourg, 1957. Geneviève Emery, whose mother sells umbrellas at her at a tiny boutique, loves Guy Foucher, a young mechanic who lives with his sickly aunt. When Guy leaves to become a soldier in the Algerian war, Geneviève finds out to be pregnant and decides to marry the wealthy Roland Cassard. Demy tells about an impossible love story which takes place in a port city ...
The movie tells about Pascual Duarte's life, born in 1902 and sentenced to death in 1937 for having killed his mother and Don Jesus, the wealthiest nester of the region. On the background, the Spanish events which will lead to the seizure of power by the popular front and the following victory of Francisco Franco. Based on the novel by the nobel Prize-winning José Cela, "La ...
The movie follows Ah Xiao's life, who lives with his family, emigrated from China to Fengshan, in the southern part of Taiwan. As a teenager, Ah Xiao joins a gang, but he would like to attend the Military Academy. His mom dies because of a cancer. At her funeral, Ah Xiao cries for the first time in his life. Even the director, considered the first in line amongst the ones w...
Han has worked as a watch person at the Opera of Beijing. Now he is retired and spends his days feeling bored and useless. One day, in the park he meets a group of retired men who share with him the passion for theatre. So Han decides to found a club where they can meet to act or sing. Once the club is open, problems start: everybody wants to act in his own way. Han finds hi...
Sparrows is a coming-of-age story about the 16-year old boy Ari, who has been living with his mother in Reykjavik and is suddenly sent back to the remote Westfjords to live with his father Gunnar. There, he has to navigate a difficult relationship with his father, and he finds his childhood friends changed. In these hopeless and declining&n...
