A small town by the lake. Guido is a young man with no desire to work who spends the whole day in the local hotel at the poker table and manages to win decent sums with a lot of luck. One day he meets Caterina at the station and falls in love with her.
After some hesitation she accepts his courting and their love story begins among ups and downs, as the girl sometimes assumes mysterious attitudes.Read More »
This is an affecting story about a father’s attempts to mend the breaches in the relationship between himself and his 10-year-old daughter. Emmanuel (Sami Frey) is the father of Elise (Mara Goyet) by his first marriage, and the stepfather of an older daughter by his second marriage. He tries to make the best of both family relationships by taking off to visit his young daughter on the weekends, but that only makes his new family a little jealous – especially his stepdaughter. She herself is confused about her own relationship with him. After a particularly emotional send-off one weekend, Emmanuel and Elise take a trip from the south of France into Spain, working on a film project. Through a series of round-about conversations, Emmanuel manages to open up a few channels of communication with Elise – channels that expand even wider when he uses the technique of talking into her video camera to express thoughts and feelings that otherwise would have remained hidden.Read More »
In January 1945, during the 2nd world-war, the Dutch resistance kills a collaborator in the street where the 12 year old Anton Steenwijk lives. The man was shot in front of his neighbors house, but is moved by them to the house of the family Steenwijk. Because of this, his father, mother and brother are killed by the Germans, and their house is set to fire. During his life, Anton meets several people that tell him more about what really happened on the night of the assault.Read More »
Aspiring singer Wendy hops on a plane to Tokyo with dreams of making it big in the music business. She soon finds romance with Hiro, a rock ‘n’ roll musician who convinces her to become the lead singer in his band.Read More »
Synopsis Das Wunder (The Wonder)
Teenager Raphaela was born blind into a wealthy, material focused family. Her father played by Raimund Harmstorf escapes reality into an affair with his secretary (Sybille Rauch). Her mother (Dagmar Lassander) reacts to the difficult situation in an over protective and possessive conduct towards her blind daughter.Read More »
The plot:
Hans Thomsen is a man from the lowest end of society. A looser. He works for little money at the local crematory, running the furnace. Spends his time drinking with like-minded people at local bars. He never lets down an opportunity to score some extra bucks from shady business, like pillaging the corpses he processes every day, or reselling coffins on the black market.
Allan Berg is from the opposite world. He is a winner. High class, powerful, a successful businessman, a man of stature.Read More »
Martinique, in the early 1930s. Young José and his grandmother live in a small village. Nearly everyone works cutting cane and barely earning a living. The overseer can fine a worker for the smallest infraction. The way to advance is to do well in school. José studies hard and succeeds in an exam allowing him to attend school in the capital. With only a partial scholarship, the tuition is very costly. José and his grandmother move to Fort-de-France to make José’s studies easier…Read More »
U menya net druga is one of the Aleksey Balabanov’s student films. It’s about a couple of girlfriends, still in highschool, one of whom plays all modern and adventurous, and the other one cannot move on to the sexual part of relationship with her boyfriend. One day the boyfriend, as a means of producing an impression on her, takes her to an underground rock concert, where the famous Belkin band is supposed to play, but it so happens that she leaves not with the boyfriend, but with the band.Read More »
A gang of vicious young punks break into the house of an elderly couple, terrorize, and then murder them. Suddenly, the clocks in the house begin to run backwards, and the dead come back for revenge!Read More »