The film tells the confused and complex life of a family of itinerant actors who comes originally from Osaka. The young director, who has abandoned the university for love of the theatre, is secretely in love with his son's wife, but he is tormented by his youngest daughter, still unmarried. During their tournée, they stop in a tiny village where all these relationships will...
During the war, lieutenant Hashimoto and three other accomplices, buried a cache of morphine in an air-raid shelter under a military hospital and they agreed to meet again ten years later to dig out the treasure. On that day, five people show up, but Hashimoto originally had only three accomplices. He hid the morphine late at night, so they did not know each other's identiti...
Hiraoka breaks into Riichi's house, while he is away with his son, and he raped his wife. She decides to commit suicide but not before having seen her son for the last time. When her husband is back, Sadako can't find the courage to tell him what happened. Two days after, while Riichi is visiting his lover and colleague, Hiraoka breaks into his house again and Sadako takes a...
Four workers climb a 20 metres high gantry crane inside the hangar of the INNSE, the last active factory in Milan. They threaten to throw themselves down to stop the dismantling of the machineries and the closure of the factory they work in. The hangar is surrounded by dozens of policemen and supporters from all over Italy. The four workers spend eight days and eight nights ...
Architect Walter Craig arrives at a country house to be restored where he meets some guests invited for a party. He immediately experience a déjà vu, as if he was living in one of his recurrent dreams. He knows the dream has a scaring ending, but he doesn't remember it. When he reveals to the guests that he has already seen them all in a dream, they start entertaining each o...
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.
The film is a compilation of footages shot between 1900 and 1920 by the documentary maker Luca Comerio. Sequences of a railway journey through the Alps, scenes from an Italian expedition to the South Pole, scenes of Italian missionaries in Africa and Russian soldiers at the border with Iran and scenes of the daily life in India, Africa, Tangeri, scenes of a big game and imag...
In the late 1800's, Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian empire, falls for Sophie Chotek, a Czech countess. He's already a problem to the Crown because of his political ideas; this love affair with someone not of royal blood breeches protocol. The Crown allows the union only after the couple agrees to a morganatic marriage. The emperor further neutralizes Fr...
Synopsis Dedicated home care nurse Vlasta attends her capricious patients in the Czech wine country, and lives for her husband Lada and her daughter, giving them more than they are asking for. Then, one day, things change and Vlasta is forced to step outside of her comfort zone. Drama and gentle humor intertwine as Vlasta realizes, for the first time in her life, that she...
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 ...
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...
The film follows Tome's life from the war to the beginning of the 60s'. Grown up in the north to a family of poor farmers, Tome has always been put upon in working and sexually abused. Nobuko, her daughter, is born from a one-night stand. Following a failed marriage, Tome moves to a city and finds her own independence working first as a worker and maid and after as a prosti...
God extracts three little angels and one little demon from four eggs. Afterwards, helped by the little angels, he decides to go on with the Creation. In six days he thinks about everything even though the little demon disturbs Him in everything: he puts spikes on the roses, salt in the ocean and darnel in the wheat. This animation is composed of 400.000 drawings realized by ...
Cotacachi, Ecuador. A small colony of elderly American expats retires here to escape the effects of the global economic crisis. The tale of their lives and relationships provides the portrait of an exiled micro-community, a community hurt and traumatized, by the betrayal of the American Dream. They're looking for security, prosperity, well-being and - above all...
Three stories of ordinary loneliness. Laura works for a travel agency and has to decide if she should date one of her clients. Massimo, a student of architecture, spends his time looking at a girl in the library. Luca, father and husband, dates young men. They all would like to find happiness and experience the power of love, but their ways and times are wrong and they miss ...
The film follows Gianluigi Trovesi, one of the greatest Italian jazz musician, in a journey through the musical aesthetics that he contributed to shape. The film accompanies the protagonist from the courtyard, a familiar and protected environment, and from the known and comforting images and sounds of his mother country to new, unknown and stimulating musical territories and...
Johnny Barrett, an ambitious journalist of the Globe, is determined to win a Pulitzer Prize by writing a front page article. Together with the director of the newspaper, he plans to solve a murder committed in a lunatic asylum and witnessed only by three inmates, from whom the police have been unable to extract the information. With the connivance of a psychiatrist, and the ...
DAL 5 MAGGIO AL CINEMA Angelo e Kasia si incontrano e innamorano in Italia, entrambi fanno parte del movimento cattolico dei Focolarini. Quando lei decide di tornare in Polonia per entrare in convento, lui decide di seguirla nella speranza che cambi idea. Nel frattempo, a Varsavia, trova lavoro in una multinazionale, dove la sua superiore Krystyna, una donna disinibita e ...
Ciro is a young boxer. He lives in the old quartier of Ventaglieri, in the historical centre of Naples. He is a quiet boy who practices a gory sport and faces difficulties with tenderness and silent tenaciousness as a real champion. The film tells about silences, breaths, bodies, boxing rings, the fans' screams, Ciro's tenderness contrasting the crudity of the boxing, the re...
Rome, 1736. Abramo Cajvani and Angeluccio della Riccia, both Jewish, are reported for breaking and entering. According to the law of that time, they are sentenced to death. Routinely, the night before the execution, the condemned ones are assisted by the Brothers of San Giovanni Decollato Archconfraternity, who, in Christian compassion, waited on the last moments of those w...
