A vacationing entomologist suffers extreme physical and psychological trauma after being taken captive by the residents of a poor seaside village and made to live with a woman whose life task is shoveling sand for them.
Andrei Tarkovskin mestariteoksessa ohjaajan omat lapsuudenmuistot kietoutuvat uniin, historiallisiin dokumentteihin ja hänen sen aikaiseen nykyhetkeensä muodostaen poeettisen ja eteerisen kokonaisuuden, jossa ajan merkitys lakkaa.
As Agnes slowly dies of cancer, her sisters are so immersed in their own psychic pains that they are unable to offer her the support she needs.
A photographer takes up newsreel shooting to impress a secretary.
Filmmaking icon Agnès Varda, the award-winning director regarded by many as the grandmother of the French new wave, turns the camera on herself with this unique autobiographical documentary. Composed of film excerpts and elaborate dramatic re-creations, Varda's self-portrait recounts the highs and lows of her professional career, the many friendships that affected her life and her longtime marriage to cinematic giant Jacques Demy.
German journalist Philip Winter has a case of writer’s block when trying to write an article about the United States. He decides to return to Germany, and while trying to book a flight, encounters a German woman and her nine year old daughter Alice doing the same. The three become friends (almost out of necessity) and while the mother asks Winter to mind Alice temporarily, it quickly becomes apparent that Alice will be his responsibility for longer than he expected.
Nuoret rakastavaiset Harry ja Monika pakenevat kaupungin tukahduttavaa arkea kesäksi saaristoon. Syksyn lähestyessä he joutuvat palaamaan kaupunkiin ja huomaavat rakkautensa haalistuneen.Kesä Monikan kanssa oli ohjaaja Ingmar Bergmanin varhainen mestariteos ja nuoren näyttelijän Harriet Anderssonin läpimurtoelokuva. Anderssonin vastanäyttelijä oli Lars Ekborg.Bergman on muistellut elokuvan kuvauksia onnellisen vapauden aikana. Anderssonista hän on todennut: "Tämän alan kierossa viidakossa tapaa vain harvoja niin loistavia esimerkkejä elokuvallisesta neroudesta."Yksi elokuvan unohtumattomimmista hetkistä on otos, jossa Anderssonin esittämä Monika kääntää katseensa seuralaisestaan suoraan kameraan. Vaikutus oli hurja. Se oli mahdollisesti elokuvahistorian ensimmäinen illuusion särkevä kontaktinotto yleisöön.
Middle-aged suburban husband Richard abruptly tells his wife, Maria, that he wants a divorce. As Richard takes up with a younger woman, Maria enjoys a night on the town with her friends and meets a younger man. As the couple and those around them confront a seemingly futile search for what they've lost -- love, excitement, passion -- this classic American independent film explores themes of aging and alienation.
On December 12, 1969, a bomb kills 17 people at the Piazza Fontana national bank in Milan, Italy, marking the beginning of the Years of Lead. Local anarchists are scapegoated for the massacre by police and the media, but a lone prosecutor uncovers a conspiracy of far-right groups, corrupt secret services, and other interests that seek to undermine democracy.
Celestine has a new job as a chambermaid for the quirky M. Monteil, his wife and her father. When the father dies, Celestine decides to quit her job and leave, but when a young girl is raped and murdered, Celestine believes that the Monteils' groundskeeper, Joseph, is guilty, and stays on in order to prove it. She uses her sexuality and the promise of marriage to get Joseph to confess -- but things do not go as planned.
A recently released patient from a mental institution returns home with her sister, only to face disturbing events between her stepmother and the ghosts haunting their house – all of which are connected to a dark past in the family's history.
A man entranced by his dreams and imagination is lovestruck with a French woman and feels he can show her his world.
Eugenie, arvostettu kokki, on työskennellyt yli 20 vuoden ajan kulinaristi Dodinille. Heidän ystävyytensä muuttuu romanssiksi, ja yhdessä he luovat herkullisia ruokia, jotka tekevät vaikutuksen jopa maailman maineikkaimpiin kokkeihin. Kun Dodin kokee, että Eugenie on haluton sitoutumaan, hän päättää ryhtyä valmistamaan ruokaa hänelle.
Mute Hee-Jin is working as a clerk in a fishing resort in the Korean wilderness; selling baits, food and occasionally her body to the fishing tourists. One day she falls in love with Hyun-Shik, who is on the run from the police, and rescues him with a fish hook when he tries to commit suicide.
A woman with psychic powers has a vision of a murder that took place in a house owned by her husband.
A 14-year-old video enthusiast obsessed with violent films decides to make one of his own and show it to his parents, with tragic results.
Chile, early 20th century. José Menéndez, a wealthy landowner, hires three horsemen to mark out the perimeter of his extensive property and open a route to the Atlantic Ocean across vast Patagonia.
An elderly heiress is killed by her husband who wants control of her fortunes. What ensues is an all-out murder spree as relatives and friends attempt to reduce the inheritance playing field, complicated by some teenagers who decide to camp out in a dilapidated building on the estate.
A Broadway playwright puts murder in his plan to take credit for a student's script.
A duo of Edgar Allan Poe adaptations about a greedy wife's attempt to embezzle her dying husband's fortune, and a sleazy reporter's adoption of a strange black cat.