Harry Hinkle, an honest cameraman, is knocked over during a football game by the Afro-American champion Luther "Boon Boom" Jackson. His brother in law, an unscrupulous lawyer, persuades him to pretend to be paralyzed to cheat the insurance. A funny comedy about family ties, cynicism and material interests: everybody is cheating to satisfy their own needs.
In post-war Casablanca, all the managers of a famous hotel have wound up being murdered by a Nazi who introduces himself as Count Pfefferman. His aim is to recover a hoard of war, a collection of art works that has been cached in the hotel. Also the new director risks to be killed, but with the help of two employees of the hotel, he will manage to have the killer and his gan...
Set in between the 19th and 20th century, when the industrialization process revolutionizes the consolidated habits, the movie tells the story of the Amberson, the wealthiest family in the southern States, and their downfall caused by their inability to accept any change. The widow Amberson would like to marry again with one of her former lover. Her son, proud and selfish, i...
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...
Allie lives in New York and shares an apartment with a girl. At nights, he wanders adrift around deserted streets. The surrounding buildings are covered with vegetation and at distance you can hear the shower of bombs of a non specified war. After having stolen and sold again a car for 800 dollars, Allie comes back home, packs his stuff and leaves a message for his friend. ...
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...
