In the 23rd century, Commander John Adams and his crew are sent on expedition to a distant planet to investigate on the silence of the scientists living there. On arrival, they finds out that an unknown "planetary force" killed nearly everyone except doctor Morbius and his daughter, Altaira. Later on, doctor Adams finds out something he doesn't want to share with anybody e...
While on holiday, Scott Carey is exposed to a cloud of radioactive spray shortly after he accidentally ingests insecticide. The radioactivity acts as a catalyst for the bug spray, causing his body to shrink at a rate of approximately 1/7 of an inch per day. A few weeks later, Carey can no longer deny the truth: not only is he losing weight, he is also shorter than he was and...
Secaucus, New Jersey, 1972: un gruppo di sette amici diretti a Washington per una manifestazione contro la guerra nel Vietnam viene arrestato e trattenuto per una notte dalla polizia con un pretesto qualsiasi, impedendo così loro di raggiungere la meta. Passati gli anni delle comuni battaglie, il gruppo si riunisce per passare un weekend nel New Hampshire. Durante la ...
Dopo un matrimonio fallito, una viziata giovane ereditiera di Filadelfia sta per risposarsi con un arricchito. Ma il primo marito è deciso a riprendersela. Commedia intelligente e sofisticata del periodo d'oro di Hollywood, interpretata da tre grandi attori (Helburn, Grant e Stewart). Il successo al botteghino permise alla Hepburn di risollevare la sua carriera in...
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...
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.
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...
In the footsteps of a nazi criminal who escaped to Usa and erased his identity, Inspector Wilson suspects of Professor Rankin, the new husband of the daughter of a judge. A series of clues and Rankin's passion for antique clocks, convinced the inspector. Breathtaking is the epilogue in the clocktower.
A rich widow gets killed and Vole (Power), her lover, is suspected of murder. The only hope for the man to clear his name is that his wife (Dietrich) witnesses in his favor, but also the woman has some secrets to protect. Based on a play by Agatha Christie, Witness for the Prosecution, the movie is a tensed drama that won six Oscars: Best Picture, Best Actor in a Leading Ro...
Amos Poe, enfant terrible of the American cinema, offers his disrespectful homages to Godard's À bout de souffle. The movie tells the story of Rico, who lives in New York in 1976, but lives in Paris during the Nouvelle Vague period. He is a photographer who believes to be a gangster, an outsider who uses his camera as if it was a gun. Rico is obviously also romantic, he beli...
