Dopo l'invasione nazista, una compagnia di teatro polacca versa in cattive acque. Quando la situazione diventa insostenibile arriva il colpo di genio dell'impresario: mettere in scena un ingegnoso imbroglio. Il ritmo è travolgente, le battute irresistibili e la recitazione magistrale.
Una giovane e bella strega, condannata al rogo, per vendicarsi torna sulla Terra ai giorni nostri per perseguitare un lontano discendente del prelato che la incriminò. La donna non ha però fatto i conti con l'amore...
1623, Denmark. Anne, the young wife of the pastor Absalon Pederssön hides the old Marte, who is accused of witchcraft. When Marte is found, she asks the pastor to defend her, knowing that he had already protected a woman accused of witchcraft, Anne's mother, with the aim of marry her daughter. Marte will be tortured, obliged to confess and sent to the stake. Anne, agitated b...
The first film written, produced and directed by the British film making team of Michael Powell and Emeric tells the story of an indestructible friendship between an English and a German officials. This friendship lasts from 1902 to 1943 and survives two world wars and the love for the same woman. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is an optimistic opera which deals with fr...
Deceased turn-of-the-century playboy Henry Van Cleve (Don Ameche) presents himself to the outer offices of Hades, where he asks a bemused Satan for permission to enter the gates of hell. Though the devil doubts that Henry’s sins qualify him for eternal damnation, Henry proceeds to recount a lifetime of wooing and pursuing women, his long, happy marriage to Martha (Gene...
Appena defunto, Van Cleve arriva nell’anticamera dell’inferno dove racconta al diavolo la propria vita di libertino e l’amore per la moglie. Capolavoro di eleganza e di squisita trasgressione.
Nella Danimarca del 1623, Anne, giovane moglie del pastore Absalon Pederssön, nasconde la vecchia Marte, ricercata per stregoneria. Scoperta, la donna supplica il pastore Absalom di prendere le sue difese, ben sapendo che l'uomo, in passato, aveva già protetto un’altra donna accusata di stregoneria, la madre di Anne, allo scopo di ottenerne la mano dell...
When a conservative middle-aged professor engages in a minor dalliance with a femme fatale, he is plunged into a nightmarish quicksand of blackmail and murder. Magnificent is the twist at the end of the movie which comes as a total surprise.
A successful insurance salesman returns to his office late one night. Visibly in pain, he begins dictating a confession. The story, told primarily in flashback, involves a beautiful, yet dangerous, woman, Phillys Dietrichson. The two met when her husband's insurance policy expired. Widely regarded as a classic, it is often cited as a paradigmatic film noir that has set the ...
Gaston Morel, a puppeteer, falls in love with Lucille, a young modiste, and confesses to her to be a murderer. His story and his first murder are told in flashback. Morel was once a painter and fell in love with a model who became the main inspiration for his paintings, but when she betrayed the idealized image he had of her, he killed her. She is just the first victim of a ...
