Filmul este o adaptare a unui roman științifico-fantastic foarte popular în țările Europei de Est („Picnic la margine de drum” de Arkadi și Boris Strugatki) și folosește procedeele specifice genului - din nou un fenomen misterios, poate de origine extraterestră, care ar materializa dorințele cele mai intime ale exploratorilor săi păcătoși - pentru a pune întrebări fundamentale despre umanitate, memorie, dorință și disperare.
Acest film-eseu autobiografic graviteaza in jurul imaginii obsedante a mamei, o mama enigmatica, apropiata si indiferenta totodata, care nu explica nimic copiilor lasandu-i sa descopere singuri lumea cu senzatiile ei, ca un imens labirint. Rar cinematograful a reusit sa surprinda de atat de aproape impresiile primare, care nici nu sunt numite.
Acest film, care nu contine imagini explicite ale cerului, este plin de o nemasurata si senina lumina. Subiectul lui este zborul. Prima incercare este aceea a lui Eftm de a zbura. Tot filmul sugereaza apoi eforturile lui Rubliov de a zbura, prin intermediul artei sale.
A tale of the tender relationship between a twelve-year-old boy and the fourteen-year-old upperclassman who is the object of his desire, all set within the rigid atmosphere of a Jesuit-run school.
Rusia, al Doilea Război Mondial. Ivan (Nikolai Burliaev), un băiat de 12 ani, a cărui mamă a fost ucisă, devine cercetaș, trăiește intens viața de front și moare executat de naziști. Obiectivul (director de imagine: Vadim Iusov) surprinde nu numai ceea ce vede eroul, ci și ceea ce gândește, visează și își închipuie el.
Two Greek children embark on a journey to search for their father, who supposedly lives in Germany.
In 1965 Mexico City, Flavia, a wealthy yet lonely schoolgirl, befriends Veronica, a young orphan girl who has a fascination with witchcraft. Veronica convinces Flavia that she is a real witch and forces her to be her assistant. The children's games gradually become more serious and Veronica demands more from Flavia.
Don Birnam, un alcoolic de multă vreme, este treaz de zece zile și pare să treacă peste tot... dar pofta lui tocmai a devenit mai aprigă. Evitând un weekend la țară planificat de fratele și iubita lui, el începe o perioadă de patru zile care ar putea fi ultimele - într-un fel sau altul.
Ana, an eight-year-old girl living in Madrid with her grandmother and two sisters, mourns the death of her mother.
"The Family," an album with a velvet cover, is meant to touch the extended family of man. Formal portraits, bookends in this 80-year saga, enclose the central story, which opens with the baptism of Carlo, a baby in his grandfather's lap, and ends with Carlo as a grandfather with a baby in his arms. And never once do we get out of the house, whose rooms provide the film's structure. Comfort or passion? Carlo couldn't really decide until it was too late.
Tânăra Mouchette se lovește de greutăți peste tot în viața ei dificilă. Tatăl ei e un bețiv crud, care o neglijează. Mama ei e foarte bolnavă. Într-o zi, când încearcă să evite o ploaie, Mouchette îl întâlnește pe Arsène, un braconier cu ieșiri violente.
While returning to Leningrad from a visit to his brother, Professor Artyom's car breaks down and he finds assistance at an isolated farmhouse occupied by Alexey, his wife, a Vietnamese laborer, and a stranger who wanders around the farm. When his car is repaired, Artyom leaves, drunk on moonshine, and students Valera and Angelika arrive. After Valera gets drunk, the stranger abducts Angelika.
Austin, Texas, is an Eden for the young and unambitious, from the enthusiastically eccentric to the dangerously apathetic. Here, the nobly lazy can eschew responsibility in favor of nursing their esoteric obsessions. The locals include a backseat philosopher who passionately expounds on his dream theories to a seemingly comatose cabbie, a young woman who tries to hawk Madonna's Pap test to anyone who will listen and a kindly old anarchist looking for recruits.
The Black Rebels Motorcycle Club ride into the small California town of Wrightsville, eager to raise hell. Brooding gang leader Johnny Strabler takes a liking to Kathie, the daughter of the local lawman, as another club rolls into town.
Un portret intim al tele-evanghelistei Tammy Faye Bakker. Filmul prezintă extraordinara ei ascensiune, urmată de o cădere și mântuire la fel de spectaculoase.
In Moscow in 1983, an American journalist interviews Guy Bennett, who recalls his last year at public school, fifty years before, and how it contributed to him becoming a spy.
Working in a ferry as a waiter, Ayzek, having a defect with his front teeth, dreams to get his front teeth fixed and to marry his girlfriend, Songül. The news gets out that the ferry company is turning over the management to a new one and the whole crew is to be interviewed. When the interviewer arrives on board, Ayzek’s world is turned upside down.
An English-German filmmaking couple retreat to Fårö for the summer to each write screenplays for their upcoming films in an act of pilgrimage to the place that inspired Ingmar Bergman. As the summer and their screenplays advance, the lines between reality and fiction start to blur against the backdrop of the Island's wild landscape.
A chronicle of Gertrude Bell's life, a traveler, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer, and political attaché for the British Empire at the dawn of the twentieth century.
A rich businessman makes a bet he can survive on the streets of a rough Los Angeles neighborhood for 30 days completely penniless. During his stay he discovers another side of life and falls in love with a homeless woman.