Psychologist Kris Kelvin is about to embark on an interstellar journey to a space station orbiting the remote oceanic planet Solaris. He spends his last day on Earth reflecting on his life while walking by a lake near his childhood home where his elderly father still resides. Upon his arrival at Solaris Station, none of the three remaining scientists bother to greet Kelvin, ...
Sylvia works as a secretary and lives in the outskirts of London with her intellectually disabled sister, Hilda. Her solitary and bleak existence turns around a small group of people who, like Sylvia, have communication problems. Mike Leigh's debut film is ironic and moving. The director considers it "the mother of all my movies".
Kieslowski's diploma film tells about some young girls, workers at one of Lodzi's large textile factories, protesting against the break-up of a band of old style mandolin players. The film shines a peculiar and enchanting light on the daily life in an unusual and decadent city.
Louis Mahé, a wealthy tobacco plantation owner on Réunion island in the Indian Ocean, is awaiting the arrival of his bride to be, Julie Roussel, whom he's never met. One day, she escapes with all his money and it turns out that her real name is Marion. She is an adventurer and, together with an accomplice, has killed the real Julie. Louis leaves for France with the idea of t...
Discharged from the army as unfit, Antoine Doinel looks for his place in the world dealing with different work and tries to re-establish a relationship with his former girlfriend, Christine, without any success. After a short experience as concierge, he finds a job as private detective and takes a fancy to a woman he has under surveillance. In between shadowing and investiga...
Kurage is an imaginary island south-west of Japan and its inhabitants still live like primitives and believe that the island has been created by the gods. One day, the engineer Kariya arrives from Tokyo, looking for a source of water which is needed by a local sugar refinery. The local population will undermine his trust in rationality. The movie tells about the eternal conf...
n Macao, Mr. Clay, a wealthy old merchant, with the idea of showing that money is more powerful than any other phantasy, wants to make a legendary tale come true. The story tells about a rich old man who offers a sailor some money to impregnate his wife. "I don't like pretense… - Clay says - I like facts. If this tale has never happened, I will make it true". Orson Welles' f...
Mouchette is fourteen years old and lives in an isolated rural French village with her alcoholic father, her bedridden mother and an infant brother. Perennially mocked and humiliated by her classmates and adults, Mouchette is raped by a poacher she had helped. Based on the novel of the same name by Georges Bernanos, Mouchette is a tale of misery and cruelty that doesn't leav...
L’infanzia, la vita e la morte di Balthazar, asino nato fra i pastori. Acquistato appena nato per rallegrare l’estate dei figli di una famiglia borghese, viene rifiutato e rivenduto l’anno successivo perché è diventato grosso e irsuto. Iniziano per Balthazar le vicissitudini che lo porteranno, ignaro, a confrontarsi con gli uomini.
Yoshimoto Ogata, a pornographer, lives with his wife Haru, cursed by the restless spirit of her dead first husband, and her two children. His step-son, Koichi, wants to go to university and her step-daughter, Keiko, is entering adolescence. He lusts after his step-daughter and Koichi keeps provoking him and threatening to abandon the family. Subu fears that these stormy fami...
