One man gets stabbed while he is sleeping in his bed. Polanski's first short movie.
In the 23rd century, Commander John Adams and his crew are sent on expedition to a distant planet to investigate on the silence of the scientists living there. On arrival, they finds out that an unknown "planetary force" killed nearly everyone except doctor Morbius and his daughter, Altaira. Later on, doctor Adams finds out something he doesn't want to share with anybody e...
A man walks down the exterior staircase of some building. He passes a small window and sees a young woman standing at a washbasin, drying her hair with a towel that covers her face. Fearing to be seen, the man starts down the stairs, only to return to the window afterwards. He again looks in the same window and this time he sees a man brushing his teeth who gives him an uns...
The story takes place in the 1930s, during the Great Depression, in West Virginia, along the Ohio River. Harry Powell, a self-anointed preacher, and a serial killer, travels rural roads, preaching in small towns. Arrested for driving a stolen car and sentenced to jail, he meets Ben Harper, a robber who has two children, John and Pearl. After a bank robbery of 10.000 dollars,...
Two biologists, doctor Reed and the young Kay Lawrence, leave for the Amazon River to study the rests of an unknown prehistoric creature, a specie which is half human and half amphibious. A classic movie for the lovers of this genre and a blockbuster in 1954.
The story takes place in a conservative Danish city, where the widower Morten Borgen antagonises the entire city because of his heretic doubts. Even his children, Anders and Mikkel, don't believe in God. The third son, Johannes, believes, instead, to be Jesus Christ. Ordet is about the conflict between the inner faith and the organized religion movements. Based on a play by ...
Le Plaisir is based on three short stories by Guy de Maupassant: Le Masque, La Maison Tellier e Le Modèle. Each story offers some food for thought about people's ever-evolving definition of pleasure. A fascinating triptych narrated by the voice of Jean Servais.
A young priest in poor health is sent to the parish of Ambricourt, a small provincial village. The priest keeps a daily journal in which he records "the humble and meaningless secrets of a life without misteries". Not welcome by his parishioners because of his ascetic lifestyle and criticized by his colleagues who think that he neglets the real problems of his community, the...
End of the 19th century. Hazel is a beautiful and innocent girl who lives in the countryside with her father, a coffin maker. She loves all the creatures around her, especially her pet fox cub. Hazel is wild, she often run barefoot through the woods when harsh life gets too much for her. After having married a young shepherd who loves her sincerely, Hazel is seduced by a ric...
Dana Andrews is brutal metropolitan police detective Dixon, who despises all criminals because his father had been one. When the cops pick up two-bit gambler Ken Paine (Craig Stevens) as a murder suspect, Dixon subjects Paine to the third degree -- and accidentally kills him. In disposing of the body, Dixon inadvertently places the blame for the killing on cab driver Jiggs T...
Three ladies receive a letter from their “best friend” Addie Ross, who announces that she is running away with one of their husbands, but she does not say which one. Little by little, through the use of flashbacks we discover the weaknesses of each of the three couples, in a tale of passion, fragility, little tragedies and pettiness, illustrated with a bri...
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...
Lermontov, il direttore di una prestigiosa compagnia di balletto classico, ingaggia contemporaneamente Vicky Page, una giovanissima ballerina, e Juilan Craster, un compositore. Lermontov capisce che Vicky può diventare una grande ballerina e tenta di convincerla a sacrificare tutta la sua vita alla danza. Ma Vicky è innamorata di Julian e, dopo essere arrivata ...
The famous orchestra conductor Sir Alfred De Carter returns to New York after a long journey. His brother-in-law delivers him a report showing that his wife Daphne has betrayed him with his young secretary. During one of his concerts, Alfred begins planning three different ways of solving the problem - uxoricide, forgiveness, duel - setting each to a different classic...
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.
Five English nuns are dispatched to establish a new convent far in the Himalayas. They soon establish a school and an infirmary, but the location, the culture and the mountain air begin to have a strange effect on them. A nun begins to plant flowers instead of vegetables. Another one cures a kid of the village, who dies, and so all the locals abandon the hospital. The beauti...
Lucy Muir, a beautiful widow, moves with her daughter into a seaside cottage. She soon discovers her new home is haunted by the handsome ghost of a sea captain. When Lucy loses her income, the captain comes up with a solution to her financial woes and, in the process, wins her heart. Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison and a young Natalie Wood co-star in one of the most romantic g...
In post-war Casablanca, all the managers of a famous hotel have wound up being murdered by a Nazi who introduces himself as Count Pfefferman. His aim is to recover a hoard of war, a collection of art works that has been cached in the hotel. Also the new director risks to be killed, but with the help of two employees of the hotel, he will manage to have the killer and his gan...
In the footsteps of a nazi criminal who escaped to Usa and erased his identity, Inspector Wilson suspects of Professor Rankin, the new husband of the daughter of a judge. A series of clues and Rankin's passion for antique clocks, convinced the inspector. Breathtaking is the epilogue in the clocktower.
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...
