Michel, an intellectual bourgeois, starts pickpocketing as a provocation against humanity and to feel above the law and the moral code. Stealing gives him almost an erotic pleasure and all his attempts to stop are useless. Only the love for girl will help him. The movie is full of references to Crime and Punishment and it is Bresson's fifth successful feature film.
After the umpteenth fight with his employer, Esse decides to move to Marseille. He talks about it to his girlfriend, steals her money and leaves. Once in Marseille, he joins a gang who robes luxurious villas and starts training in a gym. When Sylvain asks him to be Toni's brother's whore's guardian, he thinks to be at the beginning of his carrier in the organized crime.
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...
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.
Allie lives in New York and shares an apartment with a girl. At nights, he wanders adrift around deserted streets. The surrounding buildings are covered with vegetation and at distance you can hear the shower of bombs of a non specified war. After having stolen and sold again a car for 800 dollars, Allie comes back home, packs his stuff and leaves a message for his friend. ...
Hélène, a young widow, and Jean have pledged their love to each other, but are not engaged to marry. Their love affair allows dalliances with others, but they have promised to put each other first above all others. Hélène has been warned by a friend that Jean's love for her has cooled and fears this is correct. She tricks him into confessing, by pretending her own feelings f...
The movie was born from a bizarre analogy which compares social movements to clouds. Clouds appear to be all the same, but only from a distance; they change all the time, and even when they cause damage they are crucial to life on earth. In the same way, social movements put energy back into circulation; they are a response to bottled-up energies in the society at large. Gu...
The movie tells the story of Karrer, a depressed man who carries a secluded life, left out from everything and everybody. He spends his days walking adrift and his night s at a local bar, the Titanik, where he falls in love for a married torch singer. One day he is offered smuggling work by the bartender at the bar, but he offers the job to the husband of the singer to get h...
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.
The finding of an autobiographical manuscript written by Giovanni Pastrone, the most relevant figure of Italian Silent film, prompts a researcher to reopen the historically closed case on the director. After having dominated the early phases of Cinema, Giovanni Pastrone abandons his creature to become a self-taught healer, devoting the rest of his life to Man’s anta...
Joan of Arc's trial for heresy. Joan is interrogated by the French Clerical Court. Her judges try to make her say something that will discredit her claim, but she remains steadfast. When she is threatened with burning at the stake, she finally breaks and allows a priest to guide her hand in signing a confession, but after realizing that she has been unfaithful to God, she de...
Sparrows is a coming-of-age story about the 16-year old boy Ari, who has been living with his mother in Reykjavik and is suddenly sent back to the remote Westfjords to live with his father Gunnar. There, he has to navigate a difficult relationship with his father, and he finds his childhood friends changed. In these hopeless and declining&n...
Han has worked as a watch person at the Opera of Beijing. Now he is retired and spends his days feeling bored and useless. One day, in the park he meets a group of retired men who share with him the passion for theatre. So Han decides to found a club where they can meet to act or sing. Once the club is open, problems start: everybody wants to act in his own way. Han finds hi...
The movie follows Ah Xiao's life, who lives with his family, emigrated from China to Fengshan, in the southern part of Taiwan. As a teenager, Ah Xiao joins a gang, but he would like to attend the Military Academy. His mom dies because of a cancer. At her funeral, Ah Xiao cries for the first time in his life. Even the director, considered the first in line amongst the ones w...
Through the interviews of Revelli, Rigoni Stern and some friends of Carlo, accompanied by the images of the journey to Russia, the archive material from the Soviet Union and the music of Massimo Zamboni (a member of CCCP-Fedeli alla linea and CSI), the documentary tells the story of a son, who progressively comprehends his father's life: a path which goes from a complete lac...
The movie tells about Pascual Duarte's life, born in 1902 and sentenced to death in 1937 for having killed his mother and Don Jesus, the wealthiest nester of the region. On the background, the Spanish events which will lead to the seizure of power by the popular front and the following victory of Francisco Franco. Based on the novel by the nobel Prize-winning José Cela, "La ...
Doubts, uncertainty and images of a little girl living in 1977: unions, abortion, demonstration and… Grease!
Cherbourg, 1957. Geneviève Emery, whose mother sells umbrellas at her at a tiny boutique, loves Guy Foucher, a young mechanic who lives with his sickly aunt. When Guy leaves to become a soldier in the Algerian war, Geneviève finds out to be pregnant and decides to marry the wealthy Roland Cassard. Demy tells about an impossible love story which takes place in a port city ...
Satan, damned by God, takes a human form and tempts the human beings to break the divine laws. The movie is composed of four episodes, set in different historical moments: the temptation of Jesus, The Spanish Inquisition, the French Revolution and the Russo-Finnish war. Based on a novel by Marie Corelli.
Victor Frandsen is a domestic tyrant. His wife Ida is very sweet and takes care of her husband and her children. But this is not enough to satisfy her husband. Mads, Victors' nanny when he was a child, understands that Ida is on the verge of a serious breakdown and persuades Mrs Krigger, Ida's mother, to take Ida away. When Ida gets sick, Mrs. Krigger sends her to the countr...
