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In its first part, the film does not follow a specific fable; follows rather a patchwork of stories of various characters. In fact, the film starts after the transformation of Pinocchio child. Geppetto in his workshop, remembers when Pinocchio was still wood
During World War II, a Cockney woman marries a Canadian soldier and adjusts to life in Alberta.
Michael thought he'd seen his mother for the last time when she passed away in a Paris hospital, but months later she reappears in the neighborhood of Belleville, talkative as ever, and full of insight.
About someone who once loved a woman in a desert with a camera.
Burning Rubber is a provocative re-framing of burnouts and rural car culture - a filmmaker's search for meaning in a disregarded and often maligned form of self-expression. Based primarily in rural Nova Scotia, Burning Rubber weaves a predominantly male car culture together with artists and the curiosity of outsiders, stimulating larger questions about identity, creativity, gender, freedom, and how we decide what is valued and given meaning as art.
Translated literally as "Animals in Love," the French-language documentary Animaux Amoreux depicts various species of the animal kingdom in courting, mating and reproduction activities. Laurent Charbonnier directs.
A youthful airhead thinks he is a gift from heaven to the ladies. He attracts the interest of a dreamy young woman who wants to have him all to herself. Although she manages to arouse his jealousy by fibbing, she is unable to change his behavior. With the help of her friends, she turns the tables on him and gets involved in his flings.
A British secret service agent tracks down a lunatic doctor whom has stolen the frozen body of a dormant cave woman from a determined archaeologist.
TV adaptation of Michael Thalheimer's production at the Deutsches Theater Berlin.
Although Frank and Beate are the last two real romantics under the sun, their love initially fails because of a hair-raising misunderstanding. Disillusioned, Beate turns her back on men and emotions to pursue a career as a sober business journalist. When she researches a dubious love novel author a few years later, she has no idea that her great love Frank hides behind her pseudonym.
This film tells, from the terrorists' point of view, how a network relying on the resources of a complicit state manages to deceive the surveillance of Western secret services and carry out a nuclear weapon attack in Europe.
Three noble single women live between traditional demands and everyday life, between a castle and a prefabricated building, torn apart by their parents' expectations and their own deeply internalised demands. They are outsiders in the microcosm of the German aristocracy. If they want to continue to belong to the aristocracy, they have to marry an aristocratic man or stay single, because within the aristocracy the "male principle" applies.
The film off the drugs scene! informs about the problems related to drugs in generaland about controlled heroine distribution in particular. It also aims to dismantle the fears and insecurities about this issue within our society. For drug addicts who are admitted to a heroine treatment programme, the polyclinic Zok12 (Zurich opiate consumption place), founded by the ARUD Zurich (Association for risk reduction in use of drugs), is a kind of life raft. there they can not only consume pure heroine under medical supervision and sterile conditions without any pressure or stress but also find counselling and treatment for mental and physical problems.
This short documentary from 2002, written by Jacques Tati scholar Stéphane Goudet and featuring rare archival footage, explores the genesis of the director’s hugely ambitious 1967 film production.
Carlos, a man who has a doubt, and a month before his wedding, decides to hire a gigolo to satisfy his homosexual curiosity.
Mélanie Prouvost, a ten-year-old butcher's daughter, is a gifted pianist. That is why she and her parents decide that she sit for the Conservatory entrance exam. Although Mélanie is very likely to be admitted, she unfortunately gets distracted by the president of the jury's offhand attitude and she fails. Ten years later, Mélanie becomes her page turner, waiting patiently for her revenge.
A re-enactment-documentary of the Murder-Suicide rampage by Michael Ryan, carried out on the 19th August 1987, which left 17 dead (including Ryan) and 15 injured in the town of Hungerford, Berkshire.
The loves and jealousies of a group of teens emerge during a birthday party.
When in 1941 Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, their troops quickly besieged Leningrad. Foreign journalists are evacuated but one of them, Kate Davies, is presumed dead and misses the plane. Alone in the city she is helped by Nina Tsvetnova a young and idealist police officer and together they will fight for their own survival and the survival of the people in the besieged Leningrad.
A group of artists, composed of the young actors Wilfried and Matthieu and the actresses Sophie, Mathilde and the dumb Jeanne, is hired by a millionaire, Axel de Fersen, to present a performance of Little Red Riding Hood in his isolated castle to celebrate the birthday of his grandson. Meanwhile, the police advises that a serial killer is raping and killing young women in the woods around that area. During the night, the group feels trapped and threatened in the castle, guessing who is and where might be the killer.
A focused pilot in a tense atmosphere prepares for flight.
One of Europe's most beloved folk tale hero, Jester Till is the ultimate prankster embodying the simple wisdom and earthy humor of medieval European peasant folk. In this adventure tale, Till is on his way to the city to visit his grandfather, the slightly absent-minded wizard Marcus. The old man are brewing up a magical happiness potion he feels the townsfolk need. The potion however is tampered with and Marcus vanishes in a horrendous explosion. Till embarks on an adventurous quest to find him.
A cop infiltrates a corrupted party in order to eliminate a "godfather" who is responsible of his old friend's death.
At a rural railway station in Victorian England, Jim is a spunky Jack Russell Terrier who escapes his mean master at the circus, and is soon befriended by station porter Bob and lonely orphan Henry. His performing feats soon become a local attraction, and before long he's in the middle of a battle to save the local orphanage.
In the 16th century, the daughter of a Spanish nobleman joins a convent and becomes a spiritual leader.
After a painful divorce, fashion designer Christina Tolliver quits her job and moves to Dorset. Her new neighbor, the charming forest manager Stephen McDowell, helps Christina move in. Juliet jealously watches as the two grow closer. Stephen was briefly involved with Juliet, the wife of his critically ill employer, Jonathan Pierce. When he finds out about their affair, a momentous argument ensues.
Rita Schuhmacher works in a music publishing house in Munich and is once again without a steady boyfriend. Then one day the dapper lawyer Paul shows up at her publishing house. And instead of suing her, he falls in love with Rita and she with him. The first major problems in their relationship arise when he introduces his girlfriend to his posh parents. They don't think much of the unmannerly Rita.
Two fugitives try to stop an alien invasion that reproduce by sodomizing men.
A free and imaginary portrait of Piero Ciampi (1934-1980), singer-songwriter and poet from Livorno, which takes its name from one of his last texts. Through the evocation of illusory spaces, real places, interventions of those who were his friends and knew him, we proceed by flashes and suggestions to the staging of an artistic parable, nourished by tumultuous love, contempt for life, alcohol and genius, which has left an indelible mark in the history of songwriting.
13 ans après son dernier spectacle, Patrick Timsit remonte enfin sur scène avec un nouveau one man show, plus drôle et plus corrosif que jamais...
Maya and Tony are a modern-day Bonnie and Clyde. Maya seduces businessmen while Tony copies their credit cards. It's a smooth con until one of their victims, Pierce, pulls a gun. Instead of killing them, Pierce offers the desperate couple a chance at the biggest score of their lives.
Single mom Michaela has been unemployed for a year when a job offer brings her out to a wellness hotel in the countryside near Berlin.
An eccentric plastic surgeon is obsessed with female anatomy, and his patients have dreams of looking perfect. But for the surgeon and his loyal assistants, perfection is relative... and unhappy customers have a habit of disappearing.
Modern version of A Christmas Carol.
Giuseppe, a Sicilian fisherman, and Yousef, an exiled Tunisian, share a friendship, a fishing business and "Medea," the vessel on which they ply their trade. Then, while they are at sea, the fears of the post-9/11 world shatter their idyllic relationship. Giuseppe hears a radio broadcast about a wanted terrorist with Yousef's name. The Italian locks his friend in the hold. But when Yousef escapes, the former friends' boat becomes their battleground.
Javier is Spanish and is married to Laura, who is Chilean. They have a six year old son, living in Chile and enjoy a prosperous economic position. The three are, at last, on vacation in Spain, because Laura seems to have overcome a problem of claustrophobia that prevented her from traveling. The family moved to a camp, near the home of Javier's parents. There they meet Ignacio, a handsome young man, a friendly neighbor. But not everything is as nice as it seems at first sight.
Elke is shocked: yesterday her sister Christa was looking after her kids, today she is dead. Suicide! And the nightmare is only just beginning: Christa leaves behind horrendous debts and a junk property that she financed with overpriced interest on a loan. The family's lawyer suspects that a real estate shark is in collusion with the bank and begins to investigate.
Renzo Gracie: Legacy is a 2008 documentary film about Brazilian jiu jitsu pioneer Renzo Gracie, directed by Gethin Aldous and written by Aldous, Steve Allen and Adrian Miller. Shot over a ten-year period, it shows the origins of the sport of Mixed martial arts from its bare knuckle days to the explosion of the sport in both Japan and America.
Charlie, a sleep-deprived office worker accidentally produces a black hole out of the photocopy machine - and then he gets greedy...
Anne Laugel, a young divorced woman, mother of a ten-year-old girl, Sophie, travels to China to adopt a baby. She is convinced, as a good Westerner, to carry out this adventure for the happiness of the new born, her daughter and hers.
Vowing to get back on the right track, a petty delinquent gets a real job, but quickly discovers that his new employers are not very scrupulous.
THE MOVEMENT DOCUMENTARY IS AN INSIGHT INTO THE LIFE OF AN ARTIST IN THE UK GRIME SCENE. Risky Roadz follows the day in the life of six upcoming artists from the second wave of the UK Grime scene.
The turbulent life of Pasolini, filmmaker, writer. Of his many trials and political scandals in his troubled relationship with prostitutes in Rome through his relationship with Ninetto Davoli, the embodiment of life and gaiety form a striking contrast with the poet haunted by death.
Late-night softcore film.
Pimpa receives a letter from Rabbit and rushes to the beach, where they play with his siblings. After they leave, she floats on a raft until the little fish Flip wakes her up—he needs a candle for Grandpa Fish’s birthday! Pimpa gives him one and joins the underwater party, where a fish band (Trombone, Trumpet, Drum, and Clarinet) and Boby the dogfish sing ‘Happy Birthday.’ Grandpa Fish shares his childhood dreams with Pimpa, especially his love for stargazing. She takes him to the surface on her raft to see the stars again. Meanwhile, Armando returns home but there isn't anybody, so Mirror Pimpa replaces Pimpa. Colombo arrives in Uncle Gastone’s rocket and whisks Pimpa and Grandpa Fish on a space adventure. Back home, Pimpa tells Armando everything before falling asleep, happy.
Where it appears that art and oil are not completely soluble in sea water.
Voluptuous and bored, rebellious sixteen-year-old Sabine is interested in sex and clubbing, and not much else. But when she leaves home to move to Paris, she finds herself plunged into a world harsher than she ever imagined, a minefield of exploitation that will test her courage.