Niezwykły film, w którym nie pada ani jedno słowo. Bohaterowie, czteroosobowa rodzina, żyją na małej wysepce pozbawionej słodkiej wody. Aby uprawiać skromne pole, codziennie muszą dowozić wodę łodzią z pobliskiego lądu. Życie całej rodziny podporządkowane jest beznamiętnej pracy, co podkreśla brak dialogów - w ich egzystencji słowa nie są do niczego potrzebne. Nawet nieszczęście nie jest w stanie wyrwać ich z rutyny, a odruch buntu jest krótkotrwały...
Frankowi udaje się wyplątać z sądu wojennego. Niemcy jako dezertera skazują go na służbę w karnej kompanii i odsyłają na Front Wschodni. Franek ze spadochronem wyskakuje z samolotu i ląduje w Polsce. Po wielu perypetiach zdobywa zaufanie partyzantów, z którymi bierze udział w ataku na most...
A young Tokyo salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital affair.
This film documents the coal miners' strike against the Brookside Mine of the Eastover Mining Company in Harlan County, Kentucky in June, 1973. Eastovers refusal to sign a contract (when the miners joined with the United Mine Workers of America) led to the strike, which lasted more than a year and included violent battles between gun-toting company thugs/scabs and the picketing miners and their supportive women-folk. Director Barbara Kopple puts the strike into perspective by giving us some background on the historical plight of the miners and some history of the UMWA. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with New York Women in Film & Television in 2004.
Some 20 years ago, two sex workers were murdered in an upper-class Brussels neighborhood. Celebrated Belgian magistrate Anne Gurwez decides to revisit this cold case, pouring over the evidence with the use of new technologies and tracking down then-suspects.
An examination of the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 through to the present day. A semi-biographic film, in four chapters, about a family spanning from 1948 until recent times. Combined with intimate memories of each member, the film attempts to portray the daily life of those Palestinians who remained in their land and were labelled "Israeli-Arabs," living as a minority in their own homeland.
Francja, lata 30. Bogaci właściciele ziemscy angażują do pracy pokojówkę Céléstine (Jeanne Moreau). Młoda dziewczyna z obrzydzeniem obserwuje swoich pracodawców, którzy stopniowo demaskują się jako frustraci, zboczeńcy, rasiści i zbrodniarze. Wiąże się z fascynującym ją seksualnie robotnikiem Josephem. Nie godzi się jednak na małżeństwo i donosi na niego, kiedy ten dopuszcza się zbrodni. Film stanowi zajadłą satyrę na mieszczańską moralność.
On a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation.
This film follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the outskirts of Tokyo. Yet as desperate as their circumstances are, each of them—the homeless father and son envisioning their dream house; the young woman abused by her uncle; the boy who imagines himself a trolley conductor—finds reasons to carry on.
Targeted by a dirty cop after witnessing a murder, bank clerk Mario flees to Puerto Escondido, Mexico, where a couple of oddball Italian expats drags him into a journey of self-discovery and bad decisions.
In the Northwest Frontier of India, the 41st Bengal Lancers leaded by the harsh Colonel Tom Stone are having trouble with the rebellious leader Mohammed Khan. After two casualties, the experienced but insubordinate Lieutenant Alan McGregor receives as replacement, the arrogant Lieutenant Forsythe and the immature son of Colonel Stone, Lieutenant Donald Stone. With the intention to prove that he will not have any privilege in the troop, the reception of Colonel Stone to his son is absolutely cold, but he becomes the protégé of McGregor. When Lieutenant Stone is kidnapped by Mohammed Khan, McGregor and Forsythe disobey the direct order of their commander, disguise as Indian peddlers and go to Khan's fortress to attempt to rescue their friend.
Inspektor Amaia Salazar wraca do doliny Baztan, aby rozwiązać zagadkową serię samobójstw, które są do siebie niezwykle podobne.
James “Brick” Davis, a struggling attorney, owes his education to a mobster, but always has refused to get involved with the underworld. When a friend of his is gunned down by a notorious criminal, Brick decides to abandon the exercise of the law and join the Department of Justice to capture the murderer.
Jest druga wojna światowa. Hitlerowcy próbują wykraść lalkarzowi formułę życia. Chcą wykorzystać ją do ożywiania zmarłych w czasie bitew żołnierzy. W obronie formuły życia stają lalki Taulona.
A Catholic New Yorker falls in love with a girl and wants to marry her, but he struggles to accept her past and what it means for their future.
After the India of Varanasi’s boatmen, the American desert of the dropouts, and the Mexico of the killers of drugtrade, Gianfranco Rosi has decided to tell the tale of a part of his own country, roaming and filming for over two years in a minivan on Rome’s giant ring road—the Grande Raccordo Anulare, or GRA—to discover the invisible worlds and possible futures harbored in this area of constant turmoil. Elusive characters and fleeting apparitions emerge from the background of the winding zone: a nobleman from the Piemonte region and his college student daughter sharing a one-room efficiency in a modern apartment building along the GRA.
Composed of intimate and unencumbered moments of people in a community, this film is constructed in a form that allows the viewer an emotive impression of the Historic South - trumpeting the beauty of life and consequences of the social construction of race, while simultaneously a testament to dreaming.
Abandoned by her fiancé, an educated black woman with a traumatizing past dedicates herself to helping a near bankrupt school for impoverished black children.
Several characters coincide during the Christmas holidays in the winter season of Saint Moritz.
Two women who want a raise, realize that they can easily get what they want, if they sleep with their boss.