A dyslexic graduate of a pedagogical institute is forced to become a teacher of Russian language and literature in a secondary school. Despite the illness, he manages to establish contact with the students, who in the end will help him keep his job.
Dull and plain Catherine lives with her emotionally distant father, Dr. Sloper, in 1840s New York. Her days are empty — filled with little more than needlepoint. Enter handsome Morris Townsend, a dashing social climber with his eye on the spinster's heart and substantial inheritance.
A woman recalls her childhood growing up in the North of Spain, focusing on her relationship with her father.
Indicado em cinco categorias do Oscar®, este suspense que esbanja estilo toma rumos inesperados com a introdução de novos suspeitos, novas provas e revelações inesperadas. Um rico jornalista de língua afiada (Clifton Webb) envolve-se profundamente com a carreira de uma bela jovem chamada Laura (Gene Tierney). Mas tal envolvimento acaba levando à possessividade e pouco antes do casamento da moça com um playboy (Vincent Price), ela é encontrada assassinada. Impressionado por seu retrato e pelas descrições apaixonadas de seus admiradores, o detetive (Dana Andrews) encarregado do caso percebe que ele, também, está estranhamente influenciado pelos encantos de Laura.
In his first collaboration with renowned screenwriter and longtime partner Cesare Zavattini, Vittorio De Sica examines the cataclysmic consequences of adult folly on an innocent child. Heralding the pair’s subsequent work on some of the masterpieces of Italian neorealism, The Children Are Watching Us is a vivid, deeply humane portrait of a family’s disintegration.
Duas irmãs descobrem a existência da sua mãe há muito perdida, mas a mais nova não consegue aceitar a verdade de ter sido abandonada quanto era uma criança.
Nam Chul-woo é um pobre pescador que vive uma vida simples e feliz com sua esposa e filha, na margem norte do rio que divide as duas Coreias. Todos os dias ele vai pescar no rio, onde os soldados do posto de controle o conhecem bem e confiam nele para não cruzar a fronteira invisível na água. Mas um dia a sua rede de pesca fica presa no motor do barco e Nam Chul-woo não consegue impedir a deriva do barco para sul.
One of the key factors in Italian unification was the overthrow in 1860 of Francesco, the King of Naples and the two Sicilies, who went into elegant but impoverished exile in Rome with his Queen, Maria Sofia. This seriocomic drama follows the deposed royals as they adapt to their new lives. The former king has recognized the political finality of his deposition, but his queen has taken to traveling in men's clothing all over Italy trying to foment an uprising to restore them to the throne. She is also frantic to have a baby, an heir, but the king has become celibate as a kind of homage to his beloved mother; he spends all his time lobbying the Vatican to get her declared a saint.
Lee Van Cleef é um pistoleiro envelhecido que num esforço para recuperar a sua reputação de temível abate um xerife local. Descobre então que tem de lidar com o seu jovem protegido, interpretado por Giuliano Gemma, que também é o melhor amigo do xerife. No confronto final vão enfrentar-se os dois, que conhecem muito bem cada movimento do outro.
During World War II, South Sea beachcomber Walter Eckland is persuaded to spy on planes passing over his island. He gets more than he bargained for as schoolteacher Catherine Frenau arrives on the run from the Japanese with her pupils in tow!
Adventures of a cocky con man and his beautiful accomplice.
The love story of an abused English girl and a Chinese Buddhist in a time when London was a brutal and harsh place to live.
Krzysztof Zanussi's groundbreaking film chronicles a decade in the life of a young physics student whose absolute faith in the primacy of rationality and science is shaken by tragedy and affairs of the heart.
48 horas na vida de um paramédico queimado. Uma vez chamado Padre Frank por seus esforços para salvar vidas, Frank vê os fantasmas daqueles que ele não conseguiu salvar a cada passo. Ele tentou de tudo para ser demitido, chamando de doente, atrasando as ligações onde talvez tivesse que enfrentar mais uma vítima que não poderia ajudar, mas não pode deixar o emprego por conta própria.
Extraterrestrials contact earth in this delightful fable. Their message is "HELLO" in many languages, and there is a celebration.
During one of their night stays, three college teens play a silly prank where they randomly call people and tell them that they know who that person is and what they have done. What will happen when things take a dangerous turn?
Frankenstein's unscrupulous colleague, Dr. Bohmer, plans to transplant Ygor's brain so he can rule the world using the monster's body, but the plan goes sour when he turns malevolent and goes on a rampage.
This documentary chronicles the life of expatriate writer Paul Bowles through archival footage, photos and interviews with the author, who talks about his writing, his friendships with artists such as Tennessee Williams and Aaron Copland and more. Shot in Tangier, Morocco (Bowles's longtime home), this revealing portrait sketches out Bowles's rebellious life story, including his love relationships with men and women, his drug use and his music. - Paul Bowles, Edouard Roditi, Allen Ginsberg
Eight people at a remote Scottish inn find themselves confronted by a woman from Mars, who has landed her flying saucer for repairs but intends to soon conquer the Earth and enslave its men for breeding purposes.
Ben, um pai recém-separado, tem de aprender a namorar novamente com a ajuda do filho adolescente, Justin, que sonha em conquistar o coração de uma menina.