The movie tells the story of the greatest discus thrower Helga Rabova and present some reflections about life and the choiches that rarely don't imply a moral sacrifice. The title derives from the story that uncle Nezir tell. It tells about the fenix, the bird that every year gives happiness to the ones who believe in it.
Pablo is a strange guy. He eats only wild fruits and dogs get furious when he passes by. One day he runs away and holes up in the forest. He risks to be torn to pieces by some dogs but he is rescued by Luis, a psychologist. Pablo now resembles an animal. Luis brings him back to town to educate him. Ana, a young piano player will awaken his feelings. The movie was screened at...
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 ...
Xiaoyang vive a Taipei con il fratello Xiaofang e la sorellina. I tre sono orfani di madre e il padre lavora in un’altra città: l'unico parente vicino è il nonno. Xiaoyang lavora come cameriera in un fast-food; Xiaofang gestisce un locale, dove lavora un suo amico, Asang, che, come lo stesso Xiaofang, ha un passato poco pulito. I due cercano di compor...
Anton Buttinski, un marinaio polacco, sbarca a New York sperando di poter essere ospitato per qualche notte presso il “figlio dell’amico di sua madre”, un certo Wadeck. Questi è un cocainomane paranoico che divide l’appartamento con Barbara, una giovane francese. L’ingenuo Anton, immigrato irregolare, è determinanto ad aiutare Barb...
Radu is a simple trainee journalist, but an international scandal involving an underage prostitute seems to be the chance for him to prove his value. He is ready to overcome each obstacle and deliver a good story. However, the task turns out to be trickier than expected and the more he approaches his goal, the more he gets close to some moral limits. In collabor...
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 ...
The secret agent Max Menace arrives in New York from Europe to meet someone who will reveal to him why he is there. He gets involved in a series of strange situations with eccentric characters, but he doesn't manage to find out why he is in Usa.
Vincent Parry, unjustly condemned of his's wife's murder, has only one possibility: plastic surgery. He changes his appearance and starts looking for the murderer. A young and beautiful woman helps him escape from the police. It is the third of four films that the real-life couple Bacall and Bogart made together.
A surreal black comedy set in a decrepit 1960's housing development project in the Netherlands. Thomas is twelve years old. When his mother is drawn into sainthood and the resulting frustrations of his father become too difficult to manage, Thomas becomes obsessed with events on the broadcast news about the liberation of the Belgian Congo. Thomas becomes fond of Lumumba, one...
