In 1940, Joseph Mitchell, a New Yorker staff writer, meets Joe Gould, a homeless writer who attended Harvard and cadges contributions to the Joe Gould Fund. Mitchell is fascinated with this Harvard grad and writes a piece about him, bringing Gould some celebrity. Gould tells to Joseph that he is writing a voluminous "Oral History of the World", a record of 20,000 conversatio...
After an ambush that decimated his unit, the soldier Christian Lafayette is back in France from Afghanistan. While he trying to resume a normal life, Mounir, his comrade in arms who was injured in the ambush, involves him in an opium trafficking. The mission from which they are the only ones survived was perhaps not the one they believed. Lafayette, a foster child and...
Bastiano, fifteen years old, lives in a institute with all the ones, who, like him, have nobody who can take care of them. Obsessed by strange visions of his friends and himself as old people, he convinces himself that the institute is stealing his youth and decides to leave.
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.
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...
Born with a hearing impairment, Shigeru is a part timer working for the sanitation service. His girlfriend Takako has the same condition as well. On his usual pickup route, Shigeru finds a broken surf-board in a pile of garbage. His introduction to the world of surfing. Shigeru fails in his attempt to catch a wave and Takako looks on as the locals heckle the first time surfe...
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.
La trentenne Rinko non ha da anni rapporti con il marito, un uomo molto più anziano di lei con l’ossessione per la pulizia. La donna, che lavora come centralinista in un centro psichiatrico, riceve un giorno una busta con delle fotografie che la ritraggono, nuda, in atteggiamenti intimi. L'uomo che le ha inviato le immagini ordina a Rinko di mettere in ...
Joan Webster, twenty-five years old, knows exactly what she wants from life. She decides to take a ship for the island of Kiloran, in the Hebrides , to marry Sir Robert Bellenger, an old rich man. Because of the fog, the ship stops on the island of Mull, where Joan spends some time with Torquil, a young Marine officer. On the island, Joan gets to know some of the inhabitants...
Psychologist Kris Kelvin is about to embark on an interstellar journey to a space station orbiting the remote oceanic planet Solaris. He spends his last day on Earth reflecting on his life while walking by a lake near his childhood home where his elderly father still resides. Upon his arrival at Solaris Station, none of the three remaining scientists bother to greet Kelvin, ...
