In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop selling ramen noodles. The widowed owner, Tampopo, begs them to help her turn her establishment into a paragon of the "art of noodle-soup making". Interspersed are satirical vignettes about the importance of food to different aspects of human life.
A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima, combining dramatizations of three of his novels and a depiction of the events of November 25th, 1970.
Damiel er en af englene, der bevæger sig rundt blandt menneskene i Berlin og lytter til deres fortvivlede tanker og forsøger at støtte dem. Hans længsel efter at leve og dø som menneske bliver indfriet efter at han forelsker sig i cirkus-artisten Marion.
An anonymous narrator outlines a bizarre journey taken through "H", aided by a series of extraordinary maps, and his previous dealings with the mysterious Tulse Luper and the keeper of the bird house at the Amsterdam Zoo.
A mute gunslinger fights in the defense of a group of outlaws and a vengeful young widow, against a group of ruthless bounty hunters.
Den sadistiske mafioso Albert Spica køber en fransk restaurant, hvor han og gutterne spiser hver aften. Hans kone Georgina er godt træt af sin mand, så hun forlyster sig med Michael ude i køkkenet, mens manden mæsker sig. At de leger med ilden, er der ingen tvivl om ...
A play based on the friendship between CS Lewis and Joy Gresham.
England 1694. Den unge arrogante kunstner Neville er hyret af en engelsk godsejerfrue til at lave tolv tegninger af godset. Penge interesserer ikke Neville i stedet får han betaling via fruens tilfredstillelse af hans seksuelle lyster.
Denne sorte komedie af Peter Greenaway fra 1988 er virkelig sort og er gjort med en undertone af herlig, pirrende fryd. Hele tre kvinder af samme familie, en mor, hendes datter og hendes niece, alle med samme navn, er højst utilfredse med deres ægtemænd og drukner dem på skift. Den lokale bedemand drages hver gang modvilligt med ind i mordplanerne. Historien fortælles i tal, fra 1 til 100 – i sandhed en original og anderledes film.
Lovestruck conservatory student Ariane pretends to be just as much a cosmopolitan lover as the worldly mature Frank Flannagan hoping that l’amour will take hold.
The American architect Kracklite arrives in Italy, supervising an exhibiton for a French architect, Boullée, famous for his oval structures. Tirelessly dedicated to the project, Kracklite's marriage quickly dissolves along with his health.
A doctor in early 19th-century Germany becomes infatuated with the sister of a man he unintentionally killed and bargains with the Devil incarnate to conjure their union in exchange for his soul.
Carry On favourite Barbara Windsor makes her debut in this outrageous send-up of the James Bond movies. Fearless agent Desmond Simpkins and Charlie Bind, aided and abetted by the comely Agent Honeybutt and Agent Crump, battle against the evil powers of international bad guys STENCH and their three cronies.
18-årige Casper bor i Københavns nordvestkvarter med sin mor, lillebror og lillesøster. Han tjener småpenge ved at lave indbrud for Jamal, men stræber efter større ting. Efter et møde med rockeren Bjørn bliver Casper og hans bror involveret i organiseret kriminalitet. Casper stiger i graderne, og snart kan han forsørge sin familie. Men Jamal føler sig forrådt, og en bandekrig synes uundgåelig.
An extravagant, exotic and moving look at Rembrandt's romantic and professional life, and the controversy he created by the identification of a murderer in the painting The Night Watch.
While The Rolling Stones rehearse "Sympathy for the Devil" in the studio, an alternating narrative reflects on 1968 society, politics and culture through five different vignettes.
Zorns Lemma is a 1970 American structuralist film by Hollis Frampton. It is named after Zorn's lemma (also known as the Kuratowski–Zorn lemma), a proposition of set theory formulated by mathematician Max Zorn in 1935. Zorns Lemma is prefaced with a reading from an early grammar textbook. The remainder of the film, largely silent, shows the viewer an evolving 24-part "alphabet" (where i & j and u & v are interchanged) which is cycled through, replaced and expanded upon. The film's conclusion shows a man, woman and dog walking through snow as several voices read passages from On Light, or the Ingression of Forms by Robert Grosseteste.
Bag Miamis skinnende overflade skjuler sig en brutal underverden, hvor alt handles – narkotika, våben og mennesker. Og ned i denne underverden dykker med jævne mellemrum politifolk, der opbygger en ny identitet, lever sig ind i en kriminel tankegang og optræder som gangstere for at infiltrere de kriminelle netværk. To af dem er Sonny Crockett og Ricardo Tubbs.
Callum Crane, a lawyer and would-be federal judge, jeopardizes his chances at a judgeship by forcing himself on his secretary. He then worsens the situation by trying to have the woman murdered. Further complicating matters, he assigns the task to a young man who, unbeknownst to Crane, is actually his son, Nathan. Nathan refuses to do the deed, but not before informing several people, one of whom tries to take on the job.
Two young sexually free hippies, Dick and Ingrid, finance their travels by selling naked snaps of Ingrid until their plan is brought to an abrupt end by the Police. Forced on the run the two seek refuge at a seemingly empty isolated large villa. As it turns out the house is inhabited by the middle-aged Barbara who invites them in for some potential three-way hanky-panky that soon locks them into something far more twisted and chilling!