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- The former famous painter Frenhofer revisits an abandoned project using the girlfriend of a young visiting artist. Questions about truth, life, and artistic limits are explored.
- A horse butcher's life and mind begin to break down as he lashes out against various factions of society while attempting to reconnect with his estranged daughter.
- After realizing that all world is spoiled, Marie and Marie are committed to be spoiled themselves. They rip off older men, feast in lavish meals and do all kinds of mischief. But what is all this leading to?
- A captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from a German prison in France.
- Famous writer Alexander is very ill and has little time left to live. He meets a little boy on the street, who is an illegal immigrant from Albania, and goes on a journey with him to take the boy home.
- An erratic young woman's family desperately tries to prevent her increasingly erotic ways.
- Two children journey the long road to Germany to find the man they believe to be their father.
- Charles drifts through politics, religion and psychoanalysis, rejecting them all. Once he realises the depth of his disgust with the moral and physical decline of the society he lives in, he decides that suicide is the only option...
- Within the urban gloom of Taipei, four youths face alienation, loneliness, and moments of existential crisis amidst a series of minor crimes.
- A carpenter in the Fascist Slovak State is appointed "Aryan controller" of a Jewish widow's store.
- An exiled filmmaker finally returns to his home country where former mysteries and afflictions of his early life come back to haunt him once more.
- A small town pickpocket whose friends have moved on to higher trades finds himself bitter and unable to adapt.
- Middle-aged Julien lives alone with his cat. He dreams of Marie, and a few minutes later, he sees her on the street and makes a date. He asks her to move in with him, and she does. Her boyfriend is dead, the rest of her past a mystery. Although they quickly seem to fall in love, she sometimes pulls away suddenly from him, is distant, and spends the night in a hotel. She also dreads something imminent and warns him that if he missteps, he will lose her and all memory of her. He responds by digging into her past: what explains her remodeling an upstairs garret room, her nightly dreams, her fears? What can he, now desperately in love, do when he learns why? Can either rescue the other?
- A priest stuck in a rural congregation and burdened with his overwrought spirituality, finds purpose in a troubled woman accused of murder.
- A father and his son live together in a roof-top apartment. They have lived alone for years in their own private world, full of memories and daily rites. Sometimes they seem like brothers. Sometimes even like lovers. Following in his father's path, Aleksei attends military school. He likes sports, tends to be irresponsible and has problems with his girlfriend. She is jealous of Aleksei's close relationship with his father. Despite knowing that all sons must one day live their own lives, Aleksei is conflicted; his father knows he should accept a better job in another city, perhaps search for a new wife, but who will ease the pain of Aleksei's nightmares?
- King Arthur learns that his wife, Queen Guinevere, has been having an affair with Lancelot, who at the same time remains loyal to the king, particularly after Arthur's traitorous nephew Mordred commits an attempt on his life.
- The final sixty-seven days of Van Gogh's life are examined.
- A moody, jaded police detective, while investigating a drug ring, falls for a mysterious woman and is drawn into a shady and dangerous scheme.
- A reporter stuck in a border town with an overcrowding of refugees sees a man he believes to be a long lost politician.
- A theatre troupe from rural Fenyang struggles under the decline of communism and rise of popular culture in China in the 1980s.
- 1968 and 1969 in Paris during and after the student and trade-union revolt. 20-year-old François is a poet dodging military service. He takes to the barricades, but won't throw a Molotov cocktail at the police. He smokes opium and talks about revolution with his friend Antoine, who has an inheritance and a flat where François can stay. François meets Lilie, a sculptor who works at a foundry to support herself, and they fall in love. A year passes; François continues to write, talk, smoke, and be with Lilie. Opportunities come to Lilie: what will she and François do?
- A husband and wife in a loveless marriage struggle to remain ignorant to their failed relationship.
- An exploration on the impact of urbanization and globalization on a traditional culture.
- A drama following 4 women at stage school. Considered by some to be the summation of director Jacques Rivette's work as a whole.
- One of the most important films of the Czech New Wave 60s, it was ranked among the top ten domestic films of all time. In this original sad comedy set in a small town, two classmates meet each other for the first time in ten years. They are both musicians: one is a member of the regional symphony orchestra, while the other is a local music teacher who performs at funerals.
- Set in the late 1940s, the film concerns the treatment of suspect "bourgeois elements", a professor, a saxophonist, and a milkman, who are put to work in a junkyard for rehabilitation.
- A play within a play within a play within a play. Actors perform a play in a house; an audience member invites them to work in his own home improvising a play around his own life. The line between fiction and reality blurs.
- Two unemployed Chinese teenagers have trouble resisting the temptations of the Western world.
- The life of a small village runs on its own.
- In 1942, in Bavaria, Eva Braun is alone when Adolf Hitler arrives with Dr. Josef Göbbels and his wife Magda Göbbels and Martin Bormann to spend a couple of days without talking politics.
- A man goes for a walk through the countryside with his dying mother.
- Sylvie, a 30-year-old scientist, has to dig deeper and deeper into her own background.
- Jack and Julie live in a bare flat in Paris. At night, Jack drives a taxi while Julie wanders around the city, and in the day they make love. One day Julie meets Joseph, the daytime driver of the taxi, and soon Julie is spending her nights with Joseph and her days with Jack.
- Days of Eclipse is filmed in a psychedelic manner close to stream of consciousness using unusual cinematographic techniques. The action is set in Middle Asia.
- Joseph Stalin (Sergei Razhuk) visits ailing Russian leader Vladimir Lenin (Leonid Mozgovoy) in 1923.
- Two closely related episodes. Youths make problems for two local orchestras about to compete nationally, and in a talent competition a young girl gets stage fright, while another lies to her boss to compete.
- Hélène is unhappy with her marriage but finds some comfort and relief with young art student Paul. They reflect on their differences in age and background, but also what truly connects them. The third character in the story is Serge, a famous artist admired by Paul; he has a great historical past, but he's also very conflicted and has been through many life obstacles, stories he shares with his new friend on a road trip during which Paul finds new perspectives to his current situation with Hélène, and learn more about what life and love truly mean.
- Middle-aged artists provide the focus of this drama. The story is set in Paris around the time of the Gulf War. Paul, an actor leading a drab directionless existence, has an affair with Ulrika, a woman half his age. His wife, with whom he constantly argues, is pregnant with their second child. He does not interact much with his teenage son. Much of the film centers around the emptiness of his life.
- After a team of a Greek radio show conducts a research about what is "the ideal man" interviewing several women on the streets, they choose a male candidate and grant him the opportunity of visiting the production company of a famous movie star. However, this man realizes that his perception of fandom is very different from the personality of famous stars in real life.
- Mistreated foundling Heathcliff and his stepsister Catherine fall in love, but when she marries a wealthy man, he becomes obsessed with getting revenge, even well into the next generation.
- The proceedings of a Paris courtroom are the grist for this documentary. Drawn from over 200 appearances before the same female judge, the director chooses a dozen or so varied misdemeanor and civil hearings to highlight the subtle details of human behavior. In the process he draws attention to issues of guilt, innocence, policing and ethnicity in France.
- Family and friends gather in a decadent house to party. Despite their delusive distinction a raw passion for sex and violence comes to light.
- A Dutch documentary about legendary French filmmaker Robert Bresson.
- Documentary filmed in the psychiatric ward of the Hôtel-Dieu, a large hospital in Paris. The patients arrive on their own, or with considerable help from the police, but all of them are in need of medical attention.
- Philippe is a middle-aged painter who lives with Annie and they have two kids together. But they break up, and just afterward, Philippe meets Justine and he begins to think about love and the relationship between former lovers. Who is he meant to be with? Annie, Justine, or somebody else entirely?
- A movie director does a new film against heroine consumption, and the producers are heroine dealers.
- This documentary is about the life of a Venetian psychiatric hospital. The relationships between the doctors, the patients and their families are followed.
- This documentary is a collection of footage of 14 suspects being 'interviewed' by the deputy public prosecutors.
- This four hour documentary looks for the exotic in the everyday life observed in just one city, the filmmaker's own Amsterdam.