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".
Rosie Morris is a committed, yet unsuccessful writer, with more problems than pubblications. Her agent, desperate, tries to launch a diet guide written by Rosie, changing the title to make it more appealing. Suddenly Rosie finds herself transformed into a guru of diets overwhelmed by fame, but she is unprepared. The film was nominated for the BAFTA award for the Best Short F...
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...
Dshua, a farmer who respects traditions, lives with his wife and his 11 years old kid, Gega. While bringing to town some ritual offers, he witnesses the cruelty and fierceness of the revolutionalists. Back to his village, a counter-revolutionary group tries to convince him to join them, but the farmer denies any commitment: he only wants to live on his land, as he has always...
Born with a hearing impairment, Shigeru is a part timer working for the sanitation service. His girlfriend Takako has the same condition as well. On his usual pickup route, Shigeru finds a broken surf-board in a pile of garbage. His introduction to the world of surfing. Shigeru fails in his attempt to catch a wave and Takako looks on as the locals heckle the first time surfe...
According to nature's law, the children have to bury the parents. The contrary is unnatural. The main character kills himself at the age of thirteen, apparently with no reason. The movie describes the day after the funeral. Is it the end or a new beginning? Both his parents think that more and more young people abandon the world in this way, as if there was something calling...
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...
Anton Buttinski, un marinaio polacco, sbarca a New York sperando di poter essere ospitato per qualche notte presso il “figlio dell’amico di sua madre”, un certo Wadeck. Questi è un cocainomane paranoico che divide l’appartamento con Barbara, una giovane francese. L’ingenuo Anton, immigrato irregolare, è determinanto ad aiutare Barb...
A surreal black comedy set in a decrepit 1960's housing development project in the Netherlands. Thomas is twelve years old. When his mother is drawn into sainthood and the resulting frustrations of his father become too difficult to manage, Thomas becomes obsessed with events on the broadcast news about the liberation of the Belgian Congo. Thomas becomes fond of Lumumba, one...
