Cabiria és una prostituta que exerceix com a tal en un dels barris més pobres de Roma. No obstant, somia trobar l'amor veritable, un home que l'aparti del carrer i a qui pugui lliurar-se en cos i ànima. La seva bondat i la seva ingenuïtat la converteixen en víctima propícia de successius vividors que se n'aprofiten, li roben i la colpegen. Malgrat els seus fracassos, recobra l'esperança una vegada i una altra. Tot sembla canviar quan obre el seu cor a un tímid comptable que li proposa matrimoni.
Alexander, a journalist, philosopher and retired actor, celebrates a birthday with friends and family when it is announced that nuclear war has begun.
Després de rodar una pel·lícula a Hiroshima, una jove actriu francesa passa la darrera nit en un hotel, en companyia d'un japonès. Són dos desconeguts, però el que podria ser l'aventura fugaç d'una nit es converteix en un intens idil·li que fa que ella rememori un amor impossible viscut a Nevers (França) uns anys abans. La relació amorosa esdevé aleshores un procés introspectiu a través del qual la dona reconstrueix el seu passat i revela els seus sentiments més íntims al seu company.
A blind woman and a delivery boy attempt to solve a hit-and-run case the police have been unable to solve.
The tragic story of a young orphan girl who is befriended by an innocent but emotionally disabled veteran of the French Indochina War.
Una modesta pel·lícula personal, de sensibilitat europea, centrada més en els personatges que en la trama i que gira entorn d’un pianista que, sentint-se perdut en una societat fal·laç, abandona la seva carrera musical per treballar en una refineria.
El fill d’un heroi de la Resistència antifeixista italiana, assassinat el 1936, torna a la seva ciutat natal. De mica en mica, descobrirà el cantó fosc i insospitat del mite patern.
Undaunted by a commission to make a film about his mentors and aesthetic exemplars, the filmmaking team of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, Costa records with great sensitivity and insight the exacting process by which the two re-edit their film Sicilia!, discussing and arguing over each cut and its effect. Incorporating comments about the influence of figures as diverse as Chaplin and Eisenstein, about the ethical and aesthetic implications of film technique and such matters as rhythm, sound mixing, and acting. The film becomes a tour de force, immersing us in the mysteries of cinema as practiced by some of its greatest creators. Costa calls the film both his first comedy and his first love story.
Julie Kohler, whose husband was inexplicably shot dead on the church steps after their wedding, is prevented from suicide by her mother. She leaves the town to track down, charm and kill five men who do not know her.
When his son dies while hiking the famed Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route in the Pyrenees, Tom flies to France to claim the remains. Looking for insights into his estranged child’s life, he decides to complete the 500-mile mountain trek to Spain. Tom soon joins up with other travelers and realizes they’re all searching for something.
In spring 1976, a 19-year-old beauty, her German-born mother, and her crippled father move to the town of a firefighter nicknamed Pin-Pon. Everyone notices the provocative Eliane. She singles out Pin-Pon and soon is crying on his shoulder (she's myopic and hates her reputation as a dunce and as easy); she moves in with him, knits baby clothes, and plans their wedding. Is this love or some kind of plot? She asks Pin-Pon's mother and aunt about the piano in the barn: who delivered it on a November night in 1955? Why does she want to know, and what does it have to do with her mother's sorrows, her father's injury, this quick marriage, and the last name on her birth certificate?
A group of disillusioned young Parisians look for satisfaction in political activism, religion, romance, music, and drugs.
The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details the story of a man and a woman who are passionately in love. Their attempts to consummate their passion are constantly thwarted, by their families, by the Church and bourgeois society in general.
Julie, a daydreaming librarian, meets Céline, an enigmatic magician, and together they become the heroines of a time-warping adventure involving a haunted house, psychotropic candy, and a murder-mystery melodrama.
A bank clerk is drawn into the risky world of a gorgeous gambling addict.
A group of friends listen as one man tells them a story about a time when, in a small cafe, he discovered a peephole into the ladies' bathroom and became addicted to looking through it at female genitals. They ask him questions and come to conclusions about sex. This is a filmed, scripted version. Then, the actual person who this happened to relates the same story; this time, however, it is an unscripted documentary, in which the same things occur as in the scripted one.
Amy, the young, friendless daughter of Oliver and Alice Reed, befriends her father's late first wife and an aging, reclusive actress.
A bored bisexual millionaire picks up a young destitute street artist and whisks her away to her villa in Saint Tropez. They meet a dashing local architect and both fall for him, setting in motion a ménage à trois of deception and betrayal.
La Mado és una dona de prop de cinquanta anys que "encara" viu amb la seva filla. L'Avril, la filla, ha de mantenir el seu marit, que encara està redactant la tesi doctoral, i la seva mare, que és com una mena d'adolescent madura. La relació entre les dues dones és la típica entre una mare i la seva filla adolescent, però al revés. I el dia que les dues queden embarassades la cosa no fa més que complicar-se.
After connecting with the shy Madeline, a jazz trumpeter embarks on a quest for a more gregarious paramour, but through a series of twists and turns punctuated by an original score, the two lovers seem destined to be together.