After drinking all night, Monty and his friend try to get home, but it turns out to be not easy. The next day, Monty tries to win the heart of a theater actress.
The Grand Budapest Hotel fortæller historien om Gustave H (Ralph Fiennes), en legendarisk concierge på et berømt hotel beliggende i en spaby i det europæiske land Zubrowka. Vi befinder os midt imellem de to verdenskrige, og mens fascismen ruller ind over Europa, holder Gustave H på de formelle og servicerende former og er noget af en darling hos de ældre damer på hotellet. Ikke mindst hos Madame Céline Villeneuve Desgoffe und Taxis, også kaldet Madame D (Tilda Swinton), der efter sin død efterlader Gustave H et dyrebart maleri. Og så har vi balladen, for ud over at have en enorm formue har Madame D også en enorm familie, og de – ikke mindst Dmitri (Adrien Brody) og håndlangeren Jopling (Willem Dafoe) – vil gå meget langt for at forhindre Gustave H i at få det dyrebare maleri.
"Inside the Songs of Sacred Love" proves to be a great showcase for his other band members and provides an interesting look at all of the masterful talent behind Sting.
Three macabre short stories about gambling, vengeance and homicide.
The action takes place in 1920 during the Civil War. Crimea on the eve of complete liberation from the White Guards. Returning from patrol, the four brave “elusive” knocked down an airplane. In the field bag of the captured pilot, they find a secret report, which speaks of the existence of defensive fortifications around the coastal city, which the Reds have yet to take. Young heroes get the task to get a map of fortifications and go to the city...
The documentary's title translates as "to be and to have", the two auxiliary verbs in the French language. It is about a primary school in the commune of Saint-Étienne-sur-Usson, Puy-de-Dôme, France, the population of which is just over 200. The school has one small class of mixed ages (from four to twelve years), with a dedicated teacher, Georges Lopez, who shows patience and respect for the children as we follow their story through a single school year.
Bora, an 18-year-old, leaves his village to work on the construction sites of Diamond Island, a project for an ultra-modern paradise for the rich and a symbol of tomorrow’s Cambodia. He befriends his fellow workers and finds his elder brother, the charismatic Solei, who went missing five years earlier. Solei introduces him into an exciting world, that of an urban and wealthy youth, its girls, nights and illusions.
Erobringsspillet er i gang. Alle kneb gælder, når en glubsk, velhavende enke (Glenn Close) udfordrer en berygtet skørtejæger til at forføre en smuk, ung nygift kvinde (Michelle Pfeiffer). Men denne gang bliver en af spillets vigtigste regler brudt: to af spillerne forelsker sig - og det får tragiske følger. Den meget roste tredobbelte Oscar-vinder fremviser storslåede kulisser og kostumer fra det 18. århundrede. Men filmens figurer vil kunne begå sig i det 20. århundrede uden at falde det mindste igennem. Stephen Frears instruerer filmen, der bygger på en roman fra 1782, som vakte forargelse, samt Christopher Hamptons fængslende skuespil fra 1986.
A pesky yellow cat becomes the bane of Mr. Johnson's life as it constantly outsmarts his increasingly desperate attempts to get rid of it.
A feature-length documentary starring Fran Lebowitz, a writer known for her unique take on modern life. The film weaves together extemporaneous monologues with archival footage and the effect is a portrait of Fran's worldview and experiences.
This documentary promoting the joys of life in a Soviet village centers on the activities of the Young Pioneers. These children are constantly busy, pasting propaganda posters on walls, distributing hand bills, exhorting all to "buy from the cooperative" as opposed to the Public Sector, promoting temperance, and helping poor widows. Experimental portions of the film, projected in reverse, feature the un-slaughtering of a bull and the un-baking of bread.
"A musical film of the totalitarian era" is the the second title of the film. The film is based on a legendary school film of Tomáš Vorel, called INg (1985).The story line stays the same - a young engineer finds a new job and wants to work, this proves to be impossible in the last days of the communist era.
The headquarters of the Marshal Tito's Liberation Army are surrounded by Axis forces. The Partisans have no choice but to fight their way out of the encirclement and face the enemy on the plains of Sutjeska.
Portrait of Costa da Morte (coast region in Galicia, Spain) from an ethnographic and landscape level, exploring also the collective imagination associated with the area. A region marked by strong oceanic feeling dominated by the historical conception of world's end and with tragic shipwrecks. Fragmentary film that approaches to the anthropological from its protagonists: sailors, shellfish, loggers, farmers ... A selection of characters representative of the traditional work carried out in the countryside in the region, allowing us to reflect on the influence of the environment on people.
An archival investigation into the imperial image-making of the RAF ‘Z Unit’, which determined the destruction of human, animal and cultural life across Somaliland, as well as Africa and Asia.
East is a 1975 verse play by Steven Berkoff, dealing with growing up and rites of passage in London's rough East End. The play was premiered at the Edinburgh Festival at the Traverse in 1975. The 25th anniversary production, produced by Steven Berkoff's East Productions and Marc Sinden and starring Tanya Franks, started at the Churchill Theatre, Bromley. The tour included the Edinburgh Festival and the Théâtre de Silvia Monfort, Paris. It opened at London's Vaudeville Theatre on 15 November 1999 where the DVD of the production was filmed in front of a live audience.
A reporter who gets arrested realises that he is a victim of a fake degree certificate racket, and decides to track down the person responsible for misusing his identity.
A sheriff is forced to hire Jesse James to help stop a gang from taking over the town.