Italy, 1916. Oreste Jacovacci and Giovanni Busacca are called, as all the Italian youths, to serve the army in the WWI. They both try in every way to avoid serving the army.
Registro sobre as tumultuadas filmagens do épico de guerra 'Apocalypse Now', realizado pelo cineasta entre 1975 e 1978 nas Filipinas. Contém cenas do documentário sobre as filmagens realizado pela esposa do diretor, Eleanor Coppola.
Capricious small-town girl Juliette and barge captain Jean marry after a whirlwind courtship, and she comes to live aboard his boat, L'Atalante. As they make their way down the Seine, Jean grows weary of Juliette's flirtations with his all-male crew, and Juliette longs to escape the monotony of the boat and experience the excitement of a big city. When she steals away to Paris by herself, her husband begins to think their marriage was a mistake.
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.
Georg e sua esposa Anna percebem o quanto suas vidas são isoladas e monótonas quando sua filha Eva, em uma tentativa desesperada para conseguir atenção, passa a fingir estar cega. A família decide então alterar sua realidade e mudar para a Austrália.
Set in Italy during the 1920s, a barber is in a wheelchair because of a psychosomatic illness after he lost the woman he loves.
Chantal Akerman compõe uma bela amálgama da correspondência com a sua mãe e imagens da vida quotidiana em Nova Iorque, captadas através do seu olhar singular.
Dona de casa de classe média tem vários sintomas de doença como dor de cabeça, constipação, tosse seca, sangramento nasal, vômitos e problemas para respirar. Seu médico a trata sem maior preocupação e sugere um psiquiatra. Eventualmente um alergista diz que ela sofre de doença ambiental.
Three generations of women who seek to murder their husbands share a solidarity for one another which brings about three copy-cat drownings.
Inspirado por contos de fadas como Alice no País das Maravilhas e O Capuchinho Vermelho, "Valéria e os Sonhos" é um conto surreal em que amor, medo, sexo e religião se fundem num mundo fantástico.
Detective Chief Superintendent Maurice Jobson is forced to remember the very similar disappearance of Clare Kemplay, who was found dead in 1974, and the subsequent imprisonment of local boy Michael Myshkin. Washed-up local solicitor John Piggott becomes convinced of Myshkin's innocence and begins to fight on his behalf, unwittingly providing a catalyst for Jobson to start to right some wrongs.
Anne e Lore, vizinhas e melhores amigas, mal entradas na puberdade, ingressam numa escola num convento onde fazem votos de pecar e servir a Satanás. Anne tem um diário secreto, elas leem uma novela libidinosa, arranjam problemas a um colega de turma, espiam as freiras, põem de lado a hóstia da comunhão; fazem um pacto de devoção.
Masaki, a baseball player and gas-station attendant, gets into trouble with the local Yakuza and goes to Okinawa to get a gun to defend himself. There he meets Uehara, a tough gangster, who is in serious debt to the yakuza and planning revenge.
Em 1909, no México, um grupo de lavradores vai até o presidente, afirmando que suas terras foram roubadas, e um deles deixa claro que o governo não pretende fazer nada por eles. Este lavrador acaba se tornando um guerrilheiro, que por vários anos teve importância política na vida do país.
A aparente rotina de tranquilidade de uma família burguesa de Manhattan é abalada quando o pai decide abandonar a casa para viver com outra mulher.
Whenever it becomes known how good he is with guns, ex-gunman George and his wife Dora have to flee the town, in fear of all the gunmen who might want to challenge him. Unfortunately he again spills his secret when he's drunk. All citizens swear to keep his secret and support him to give up his guns forever -- but a boy tells the story to a gang of wanted criminals. Their leader threatens to burn down the whole town, if he doesn't duel him.
The family of cops is back, this time dealing with the murder of a priest tied in with the Russian Mafia, who proceed to try to draw the family off the case.
An ambitious reporter gets in trouble while investigating a senator's assassination which leads to a vast conspiracy involving a multinational corporation behind every event in the world's headlines.
Ruth Butler, a clerk in an emporium, marries Jimmy Rutledge and thereby greatly displeases his mother, the owner of the emporium, because of Ruth's lowly origins. Renaud Graham, one of Mrs. Rutledge's friends, becomes interested in Ruth, forces his way into her apartment, and attempts to make violent love to her. Jimmy walks in on their embrace and, suspecting the worst, leaves Ruth. In the family way, Ruth finds refuge in a boardinghouse where she meets Al Bryant, an aspiring writer. Ruth tells Al her life story, and he makes it into a bestselling novel and then into a play. Jimmy sees the play and comes to his senses, winning Ruth's forgiveness.
Esen, a young man who has been expelled from his village, escapes with the daughter of one of the most powerful men in the village. Whilst being pursued, he is forced to fight for her hand in a battle that results in the destruction of a sacred totem tree. This puts the whole village in jeopardy, and it is up to Esen to redeem himself and save them all.