Helén and Jenö are waiting for a child and are desperately searching for an accomodation. They eventually sign a contract with an old lady, Szeréna, who lives in a two-family house. According to the contract, they are to pay a moderate rent and they have to take care of her until her death. After the first weeks, Szeréna accuses the couple of trying to poison her and build...
Kirpi is a middle-class writer whose latest screenplay has been rejected. He is married to a sharp-tongued woman who dubs the voice of Marilyn Monroe. He will find himself involved in Kiraz's marital distress, his servant. Left Istanbul to reach Kiraz in her village, in the Turkish countryside, he finds out that away from the sophistication of the capital, life is regulated ...
Gilbert has been released by a psychiatric hospital, but he is clearly completely mad. He spreads chaos and violence and the only thing he aims to is to reach the ocean. Suzanne falls in love with him and the passion between the two generates even more confusion. Nothing can impede Gilbert to reach the ocean.
Kikuchi is not a man particularly brilliant or outgoing, but anyway he has deep thoughts. During the day he works in a big launderette, where he mechanically fills and empties the washing machines. In the evenings, he works in a supermarket. He falls in love with a girl who works as a cashier there, but he is too shy to speak to her. When he finds out that his new colleague ...
A Polish landscape seen by the window of a car. The scenery slowly changes: a city, apartments blocks, country houses. The car stops in a street of a village. A western photographer gets off the car and starts taking pictures all around. A group of people celebrating a marriage comes by. During the marriage, several stories will be told.
After her father's death, Amelia follows her mother's strenuous path back to a normal life. A television, a camera and an hamster are the tools which will accompany a nine years old girl towards a world which is suffocating and imaginary.
Il film narra la storia di una giovane coppia che vive nella periferia sud di Londra: la loro vita e la loro relazione sullo sfondo di una realtà sociale in veloce mutamento e di una struttura urbana in costante declino.
Soon after the end of the Second World War, in the small orthodox village of Vitanija, the new communist authorities starts the so called "God's uprooting" process. They enter the church, hanging the flag of the Communist Party and overpaint frescoes, but frescos each time miraculously return, so the people start thinking that the Messiah is in the village and he is doing mi...
In Miskolc, in 1982, a teenager shoots with a rifle to his father, without any reason, apparently. The mother, who just came back for the hospital, will find out what her son did a few days after. The boy is now in prison, where he must stay for thirteen years. His father's dream was to open again a shooting gallery. The film won the Rosa Camuna prize at Bergamo Film Meetin...
The movie is made of images found in the czarist archives of the massacre of the Armenians, which took place in 1915, in the Eastern part of Turkey. This is the first mass extermination of the century. In the cities, in the villages, in the monasteries. Fire, smoke, dust, destruction. Atrocities, pain. The survivors can only fled. This is the beginning of the Armenian wander...
There's much excitement in the kitchen for imminent arrival of a gourmand French duke and his personal waiter. Instead of preparing sandwiches at full blast for the usual clients, the fat cook can now exercise her art. But while she is peppering a lobster soufflé, she is distracted by two hands groping around the kitchen.
Terence Weller can't find a job because he has no experience, but how can he gather experience if he doesn't have a job? After an umpteenth fruitless job interview, he decides to go shopping.
Mandel Baruch was an handsome man, a "Mensch" who had sacrificed everything for business. When he dies, his beloved son, Lionel, gathers some old family friends to organize a funeral to be remembered.
During a mission in a night club, Jeff, a professional killer, causes a shooting during which a singer gets accidentally blinded. To cover the expenses for a cornea transplant, Jeff decides to take one last job. One of Woo's best movies, in which Eastern and Western genres merge.
Therese's life, a waiter in a bar of Budapest, is filled with worries and stress. She lies with her son Robert, twenty years old, who doesn't know his father. Therese falls in love with László, a middle class police man, who moves into their house, bringing with him the hope of a peaceful family life, but soon enough, Robert's real interest becomes clearer. He is not interes...
In 1968 Sybilla is eighteen years old. The story takes place in Sofia, Bulgaria, during a time of great political and social fights, rebellion and sexual revolution. Amidst the political upheaval, she is sent to a girls' re-education camp when she is caught using drugs. After a failed affair and an abortion, Sybilla's drug use lands her in a mental clinic where she resists e...
The film, a montage comprising images of Cézanne's paintings, pictures of him at work and a conversation between the painter and a young admirer named Joachim Gasquet, offers a suggesting view on Cézanne's painting. It also includes film scenes from both Jean Renoir's "Madame Bovary" and the Straubs' "The Death of Empedocles".
In Arcadia, you trust no one. The world is under siege, and for Gavin's mum, even breakfast would be a trap. When Gavin says he's going out, his parents suspect the worst. The have no doubts he will become a criminal. Yet Arcadia is not like our world and nobody can imagine what kind of criminal Gavin is, not even Gavin himself.
The film presents itself as a glimpse of the last days of the life of Jesus, when among the apostles there was already a hovering feeling of death and fatality. Among them a silent and dark Judas was hatching his scheme, convinced of the essential role which awaited him for the redemption of humankind. The denunciation to the Sanhedrin and the kiss given to Jesus are the fin...
A writer moves into a ground floor apartment with the hope of finding some peace to write his new book. He will soon find out why the previous tenants abandoned the apartment.