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...
Un illusionista omosessuale di mezza età vive la propria esistenza in un sofferto intreccio di sensazioni e di ricordi, legati questi ultimi all’estate del 1936 vissuta da tre adolescenti in un villa di Granata, all’amore di un ragazzo drammaticamente travolto dallo scoppio della guerra civile che doveva lacerare l’intera Spagna.
In a typical Latin-American cabaret of a poor quartier of Panama, singers, comedians, conjurers and acrobats perform for a public composed by longshoremen, unemployed, workers and poor people. They are "those of the Barrio", the ones living in the quartier where everybody lives like in any other working-class district, dancing, dreaming, loving and working to the b...
Horace Vending, a young man born to a poor family, is raised as their own child by the Burnsides as a reward to have saved their beloved daughter Martha from drowning. Once an adult, Horace asks Martha to marry him even though he knew his friend Vic was in love with her. Horace doesn't love Martha, but he is ready to everything to make his way. Before the marriage, he abando...
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.
Il dono follows the arid daily life in a village in Calabria which was once densily populate, but today deserted. An impertubable old man and a girl, who is believed to be possesed, seem to be simply waiting to be devoured by the time. The girl offers her body to the assaults of the passing drivers who give her a lift and know no tenderness. The old man finds a mobile phone ...
Martino è custode notturno del Museo Nazionale del Cinema di Torino nella Mole Antonelliana, dove passa il tempo a visionare vecchi film muti ed a fare egli stesso delle riprese con una vecchia cinepresa ad 8 millimetri. Abita in un locale all'interno dell'edificio, che ha arredato imitando un film di Buster Keaton. Una sera Amanda, una ragazza che lavora...
The film features two men, who emerge from the sea carrying a large wardrobe, which they proceed to carry into a town. Carrying the wardrobe, the two encounter a series of hostile events, including being attacked by a group of youths. Finally, they go back to the beach and then disappear in the sea.
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...
1972. Gilles and Christine are attractive, sexually active teenagers from unstable homes. When they do some shop-lifting together she is arrested, but he gets away. She escapes from a mental institution and meets him at an abandoned house in the country, where a large group of rebellious teenagers are having a wild, all-night party. As the party is winding down, Gilles and C...
