Una noia que aspira a convertir-se en actriu i triomfar als escenaris se les enginya per introduir-se en un grup d'actors de teatre i fer-se amiga i confident d'una famosa i veterana actriu. El desig d'actuar i la gelosia la consumeixen fins al punt de trair els companys en la seva escalada cap a l'èxit. Ella afalaga, atrau, sedueix, però també trepitja tot el que es creua en el seu camí: escriptors, directors, productors. Només un intel·ligent crític teatral endevina el que s'amaga després de la seva dolça aparença, només ell és capaç de veure Eva al nu.
Valentina, jove model que comença a ser coneguda, ha atropellat amb el seu cotxe Rita, una gossa que esperava cadells. Després de guarir-la, intenta tornar-la al seu amo. Així coneixerà un home gran, jutge jubilat, que rebutja l'animal. Valentina descobreix que està obsessionat per una malaltissa afició: espiar tothom.
A photographer takes up newsreel shooting to impress a secretary.
A Russian poet and his interpreter travel to Italy to research the life of an 18th-century composer.
A woman narrates the thoughts of a world traveler, meditations on time and memory expressed in words and images from places as far-flung as Japan, Guinea-Bissau, Iceland, and San Francisco.
Successful movie director John L. Sullivan, convinced he won't be able to film his ambitious masterpiece until he has suffered, dons a hobo disguise and sets off on a journey, aiming to "know trouble" first-hand. When all he finds is a train ride back to Hollywood and a beautiful blonde companion, he redoubles his efforts, managing to land himself in more trouble than he bargained for when he loses his memory and ends up a prisoner on a chain gang.
A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a train. One is seen coming, at some distance, and eventually stops at the platform. Doors of the railway-cars open and attendants help passengers off and on. Popular legend has it that, when this film was shown, the first-night audience fled the café in terror, fearing being run over by the "approaching" train. This legend has since been identified as promotional embellishment, though there is evidence to suggest that people were astounded at the capabilities of the Lumières' cinématographe.
Un home i una dona es coneixen en un petit poble italià del sud de la Toscana. Ell és un escriptor anglès que ha anat per a donar una conferència. Ella és una galerista francesa.
Jacques and Martine, an ordinary bourgeois couple, invite to dinner a friend whom they have not seen the last ten years. Since then he has become a media star and everything has to go just right at dinner.
A young woman inherits an old hotel in Louisiana where, following a series of supernatural "accidents", she learns that the building was built over one of the entrances to Hell.
En despertar de l’adolescència, Antoine coneix els seus primeres emocions amoroses a la butaca de la perruqueria de l’exuberant senyora Shaeffer. Està segur que, més tard, ell es casarà amb una perruquera. Arribat a adult, coneix la bella Mathilde, la perruquera dels seus somnis. La parella es casa i comparteix una felicitat perfecta, i la seva vida és un idil·li permanent tan sols comparable a un somni.
In answer to an orphan boy's prayers, the divine Lord Krishna comes to Earth, befriends the boy, and helps him find a loving family.
As a result of a successful conspiracy against Menshikov, Peter II is prematurely recognized as an adult and is in a hurry to be crowned in Moscow. The Dolgoruky brothers gather for this celebration. There were eight of them - all-powerful and influential representatives of the ancient Rurikovich family - and among them the beautiful Ekaterina, the daughter of the huntsman Alexei.
In the year 2019, a plague has transformed almost every human into a vampire. Faced with a dwindling blood supply, the fractured dominant race plots their survival; meanwhile, a researcher works with a covert band of vampires on a way to save humankind.
Una soldada de les forces especials descobreix una perillosa conspiració quan torna a casa a la recerca de respostes sobre la mort del seu pare.
"Maine-Ocean" is the name of a train that rides from Paris to Saint-Nazaire (near the ocean). In that train, Dejanira, a Brazilian, has a brush with the two ticket inspectors. Mimi, another traveler and also a lawyer, helps her. The four of them will meet together later and live a few shifted adventures with a strange-speaking sailor (Mimi's client).
Dante's Hell Animated is a real and truthful epic animation film that embarks Dante Alighieri's journey through the first part of the afterlife, Hell. It is a compelling four-quadrant film presented circle by circle in a chronological descent to the center of Hell, and to the exit into Purgatory. Dante's Hell Animated comes in two versions, one recited in primitive Italian in Dante's own words, and another narrated in English better understanding in this non-original language. Dante is guided by his hero Virgil through each circle of Hell and their subdivisions until they reach the center of the Earth and escaped to the other hemisphere into Purgatory. It features over 50 original color illustrations from the upcoming Dante's Hell comic book and magazine series, put together in a series of animation clips that will delight young and mature audiences.
A psychological thriller set in the world of underground dubstep, Snap is the story of Jim Whitman, a brilliant but painfully introverted musician who develops a crush on a young social worker.
A motocross team on their way to trial a new super-fuel head out across the desert lead by Rachel, who, unbeknownst to the rest of the group, is a survivor of the cannibal clan which menaced the Carter family several years before.