A comedy special by New York City-based comedian Matteo Lane at the Comedy Cellar.
Apu is a jobless ex-student dreaming vaguely of a future as a writer. An old college friend talks him into a visit up-country to a village wedding. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 1996.
Jerzy and Artur’s father dies, leaving behind a valuable stamp collection, which, they discover, is coveted by dealers of varying degrees of shadiness. The more involved the brothers get in their father’s world, the more dire and comical their situation becomes.
Jacek, an angry drifter, murders a taxi driver, brutally and without motive. His case is assigned to Piotr, an idealistic young lawyer who is morally opposed to the death penalty, and their interactions take on an emotional honesty that throws into stark relief for Piotr the injustice of killing of any kind.
The four old friends meet on the grave of the fifth of them, Perozzi, who died at the end of the first episode. Time has passed but they are still up for adventures and cruel jokes, and while they recall the one they created together with the late friend, new ones are on their way, starting right there at the cemetery.
A young Tokyo salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital affair.
To mark the release two weeks ago of the eighth and final movie in the series, Robbie Coltrane narrates a countdown of the movie franchise's best moments. From Harry's first meeting with Ron and Hermione aboard the Hogwarts Express through to magical mysteries.
Henry and Maggie attend the birthday party of a local publisher, where his son and stepson reenact a historical 18th century dual. Someone, however, has loaded the antique pistol with a real musket ball, so when son pulls the trigger, he kills his stepbrother in front of a roomful of witnesses. Henry and Maggie have to figure out who wanted the stepson dead and why.
Janet, en sky og overset pige, vokser op i et fattigt hjem med mange søskende, og hendes barndom rammes af flere tragedier. Broderen lider af epilepsi, og to af hendes søstre drukner med et par års mellemrum. Tidligt opsøger Janet bøgernes og poesiens verden, hvor hun finder et fristed fra den barske virkelighed. Men efter at være blevet fejldiagnosticeret som skizofren, spærres hun inde på et mentalsygehus, hvor hun bliver behandlet med elektrochok gennem flere år. Samtidig udvikler hun sit skrivetalent, som også bliver hendes vej ud til friheden. Ingen drømte på dette tidspunkt om, at den lille sky og mishandlede pige skulle ende med at blive en af verdens mest ansete forfattere.
This is a story about a city guy Nikolai, who will have to go instead of his friend on a rural business trip. A series of funny events, meetings and the beauty of the Yakut village encourage Nikolai to make an important decision in his life…
An aging horror-movie icon's fate intersects with that of a seemingly ordinary young man on a psychotic shooting spree around Los Angeles.
Sommeren 1942. Nazisterne har besat Tjekkoslovakiet. En gestapoleder bliver skudt på et offentligt torv, og dr. Franz Svoboda, som skød, har mistet sin flugtvej. Det bliver en hæsblæsende jagt med løgne, forklædninger og spionage i Svobodas forsøg på at slippe levende ud af situationen.
Bruno Bonomo was a famous producer of B-movies in the ‘70s. After a long hiatus, Bonomo offers a screenplay to RAI centered on the figure of Italy’s prime minister and media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi, a subject so controversial that even the public television broadcaster refuses to produce it
At the end of the 1980s, Stella, Victor, Adèle and Etienne are 20 years old. They take the entrance exam to the famous acting school created by Patrice Chéreau and Pierre Romans at the Théâtre des Amandiers in Nanterre. Launched at full speed into life, passion, and love, together they will experience the turning point of their lives, but also their first tragedy.
The first movie directed by Roberto Benigni in four surreal short stories: "Durante Cristo" (During Christ), "Angelo" (Angel), , "In Banca" (At the Bank) and "I Due Militi" (The Two Soldiers). An excursus in Benigni's satirical views on man, religion and society.
The whole clique of Cruchot's police station is retired. Now he lives with his rich wife in her castle - and is bored almost to death. He fights with the butler, because he isn't even allowed to do the simple works. But when one of the clique suffers from amnesia after an accident, all of the others reunite and kidnap him, to take him on a tour to their old working places and through their memories. In their old uniforms they turn St. Tropez upside down.
Will er en fremgangsrig landskabsarkitekt, som er i gang med sin karrieres vigtigste projekt, da han pludselig inddrages i en for ham ukendt verden, og gør en fejltagelse, som han ikke kan trække tilbage. Blandt de prisbelønnede skuespillere ser vi blandt andre Jude Law, Juliette Binoche, Robin Wright Penn, Martin Freeman og Ray Winstone. Breaking And Entering er en passioneret fortælling hvor de gode viljer bliver sat på en prøve, og hvor det viser sig, at visse ting skal gå i stykker før de kan laves.
Gianna Amicucci works in the house of the head of her hometown police force and enters the academy with a kickback from him. She is a beautiful woman (she generously sheds clothes during the film) and has to overcome her male colleagues prejudices, but she gains their respect through a series of brilliant operations.
It's the end of the century at a corner of the city in a building riddled with crime - Everyone in the building has turned into zombies. After Jenny's boyfriend is killed in a zombie attack, she faces the challenge of surviving in the face of adversity. In order to stay alive, she struggles with Andy to flee danger.
Comedian Matteo Lane once more tries to advise his audience on their problems.