On the Princes’ Islands to the south of Istanbul, the days are rainy and full of longing. Poor but proud painter Halil gets a job in one of the island’s villas, where he encounters the photograph of a beautiful woman and falls in love with her image.
Madoka Kaname, an ordinary middle-schooler, along with her best friend Sayaka Miki, are offered the chance to have any wish they want granted by the mysterious Kyubey, and become magical girls and fight witches. However, fellow magical girl Homura Akemi seems intent on stopping Madoka from becoming a magical girl at any cost. Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part I: Beginnings is a retelling of the first half of the TV anime series.
Good hearted but not very wordly-wise, Dante is happy driving the school bus for a group of mentally handicapped children, while feeling he is somehow missing out on life and love. So he is very excited when after nearly being knocked down by her car he meets Maria, who seems immediately enamoured of him. He is soon invited to her sumptuous Palermo villa, little suspecting that this is part of a plot. He bears an amazing likeness to Maria's stool-pigeon gangster husband and it would be convenient for them if the mobster, in the shape of Dante, was seen to be dead and buried.
Dony and Marco, two high school students from Bologna, live an intense love story until he starts suffering serious neurological damage after a ski accident.
It's 1957, and James Whale's heyday as the director of "Frankenstein," "Bride of Frankenstein" and "The Invisible Man" is long behind him. Retired and a semi-recluse, he lives his days accompanied only by images from his past. When his dour housekeeper, Hannah, hires a handsome young gardener, the flamboyant director and simple yard man develop an unlikely friendship, which will change them forever.
Women in a failing silk factory, fight to find a way to keep their jobs.
A vicious serial sex killer is on the loose, and landscape gardener and shop-window outfitter Loris is the prime suspect, thanks to his unfortunate habit of getting caught in compromising situations (for which there is always a totally innocent explanation that the police fail to spot). Undercover policewoman Jessica is assigned by eccentric police psychologist Taccone to follow Loris and ...
James on puheterapeutti, joka tapaa Sarahin, itsepäisen kuuron naisen, joka sinnikkäästi käyttää viittomakieltä vaikka James haluaa opettaa hänet puhumaan ja ottamaaan kontaktia ulkomaailmaan. Alkaa intohimoinen suhde, mutta Jamesin ja Sarahin erilainen suhtautuminen kuurouteen aiheuttaa ongelmia. Voiko rakkaus voittaa hiljaisuuden?
In a repressive boarding school with rigid rules of behavior, four boys decide to rebel against the director on a celebration day.
Ex-sotilas Dheepan, nuori nainen Yalini ja pikkutyttö Illayaal tekeytyvät perheeksi paetakseen Sri Lankan sisällissotaa. He päätyvät pakolaisina Pariisin, jossa Dheepan löytää työpaikan karun lähiön talonmiehenä. Yalini saa jonkinlaista työtä, ja Illayaal yrittää käydä koulua. Tilanne muistuttaa hetken normaalia perhe-elämää, kunnes pihan huumejengien välinen kahina riistäytyy ammuskeluksi. Dheepanin on vielä kerran palattava soturin hommiin. Jacques Audiard on aina viihtynyt kameransa kanssa kadun varjoisella puolella. Laki on olemassa, mutta se ei kuulu Audiardin henkilöhahmojen maailmaan. Elämä on selviytymistä. Kohtalo on omissa käsissä.
Consumed by jealousy, a woman takes an extreme step and undergoes surgery for a new face. Although her lover of 2 years misses her, he falls in love with the new face, not knowing it's the same woman.
In September 2011 writer Michel Houellebecq briefly disappeared off the face of the earth. Wild rumours began circulating on the Internet that he’d been abducted by Al-Qaeda or aliens from outer space. Some Twitter users even expressed relief that the controversial author was suddenly no longer around. This film now reveals what really happened: Three tough guys variously with impressive hairstyles and bodybuilder physiques carried off the star intellectual, taking him out of the daily stress of dodging autograph hunters and having his flat renovated and bringing him to a beautiful rural underdog idyll, full of dog grooming, bodybuilding demonstrations, junk cars and Polish sausages. But who was to pay the ransom?
Father Maurice, a priest living in a residential college for priests in Rome, is called out one day to "exorcise" the devil from someone. The devil turns out to be in the form of a fun-loving man called Giuditta. What Father Maurice doesn't know is that this type of devil will turn his life around.
Inspired by the work of Italian underground comic book prodigy Andrea Pazienza, "Paz!" is a 24-hour slice of life of a group of university students sharing a flat in 1970s Bologna, grappling with drugs, classes, girls and half-hearted political activism.
The story is set at the beginning of the 20th century in Sicily. Salvatore, a very poor farmer, and a widower, decides to emigrate to the US with all his family, including his old mother. Before they embark, they meet Lucy. She is supposed to be a British lady and wants to come back to the States. Lucy, or Luce as Salvatore calls her, for unknown reasons wants to marry someone before to arrive to Ellis Island in New York. Salvatore accepts the proposal. Once they arrive in Ellis Island they spend the quarantine period trying to pass the examinations to be admitted to the States. Tests are not so simple for poor farmers coming from Sicily. Their destiny is in the hands of the custom officers.
A net found footage film. A song collection that evokes revolutions and resistances. An historical and international wandering of chants that appeal to throw down walls in front of the Dark Clouds. A compilation of musical notes that call to the Unbeatable Unity of the People or that Imagine a world in peace. A virtual, strange and sarcastic Alan Lomax. A melting of objets trouvés, remixes and arrangements born in the Internet Ocean, crazy mirror of the reality.
Franco Elica is a film director casting a remake of a pious melodrama in Rome. He's melancholy, heading south for a break. On a beach, he meets a man who films weddings and is roped into helping film the wedding of the daughter of a severe and imperious prince. The wedding is one of convenience - the prince needs money, the groom is a mama's boy. Elica is attracted to the bride, Boda, and tries to convince her not to marry. No matter how outrageous his behavior, the prince keeps Elica on as the wedding director. As the wedding approaches, what's real blurs with Elica's imagination. Is he mad?
An adopted girl discovers her talent for butter carving and finds herself pitted against an ambitious local woman in their Iowa town's annual contest.
Esirippu nousee ja näytös voi alkaa. Pääsemme kuulemaan mm. Benny Goodmanin jatsia tarinassa ”All the Cats Join In”. Tarina ”Blue Bayou” kimaltelee sinisenä ja ”Casey at the Bat” yhdistää pesäpallomailan ja lyömäsoittimet.
Roberto Benigni adapts the classic children's tale by Carlo Collodi for the big-budget family-oriented comedy Pinocchio.