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- CreatorAnn DruyanCarl SaganSteven SoterStarsCarl SaganJaromír HanzlíkJonathan FahnAstronomer Carl Sagan leads us on an engaging guided tour of the various elements and cosmological theories of the universe.The most important creation of Carl Sagan.
- DirectorAgnès VardaStarsAgnès VardaAndré LubranoBlaise FournierAgnès Varda explores her memories, mostly chronologically, with photographs, film clips, interviews, reenactments, and droll, playful contemporary scenes of her narrating her story.Agnes Varda reminds her life. To do it she recovered each one of the beaches where something important related to her life happened.
- DirectorAkira KurosawaIshirô HondaStarsAkira TeraoMitsuko BaishôToshie NegishiA collection of tales based upon eight of director Akira Kurosawa's recurring dreams.The magical world of Akira Kurosawa painted in different stories.
- DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsSachiko MuraseRichard GereHisashi IgawaThree generations' responses to the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.All a world of feelings and sensations in a deep thought of Akira Kurosawa about the crime of Hiroshima.
- DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsTakashi ShimuraNobuo KanekoShin'ichi HimoriA bureaucrat tries to find meaning in his life after he discovers he has terminal cancer.Very important wisdom about life in the Akira Kurosawa version.
- DirectorAlain ResnaisStarsPierre ArditiSabine AzémaJean-Pierre BacriA musical story about how people find their love on the streets of beautiful Paris.A fresh and sweet comedy drawn by Alain Resnais.
- DirectorAlain ResnaisStarsSabine AzémaIsabelle CarréLaura MoranteIn Paris, six people all look for love, despite typically having their romantic aspirations dashed at every turn.Alain Resnais caresses the hearts of the common people.
- DirectorAlain ResnaisStarsDirk BogardeEllen BurstynJohn GielgudA dying writer bases his last book on his own perception of his family.The greatest dramatic story told by Alain Resnais.
- DirectorAlain ResnaisStarsLaura BensonAdolph GreenLinda LavinA grumpy American is suffering during his visit to Europe.A funny and happy story where Alain Resnais make a comparison between the french and the american cultures.
- DirectorAlan ArkinStarsElliott GouldMarcia RoddVincent GardeniaPitch black comedy about a young nihilistic New Yorker coping with pervasive urban violence, obscene phone calls, rusty water pipes, electrical blackouts, paranoia and ethnic-racial conflict during a typical summer of the 1970s.A beauty and surrealistic story about the daily violence in USA directed by Alan Arkin.
- DirectorAlan RickmanStarsPhyllida LawEmma ThompsonSheila ReidA recent widow, who is determined to leave Scotland for Australia with her son, gets an unexpected visit from her aging mother.Alan Rickman translate to the film the play of Sharman Macdonald with ^hyllida Law and Emma Thompson playing mother and daughter characters as they are in the real life.
- DirectorAlejandro G. IñárrituStarsBrad PittCate BlanchettGael García BernalTragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, which jump starts an interlocking story involving four different families.Fabulous story showing as all the actions done by the people in the world is related to each other. Grand Prix of Cannes for Alejandro González Iñárritu.
- DirectorAleksandr SokurovStarsSergey DreydenMariya KuznetsovaLeonid MozgovoyA 19th century French aristocrat, notorious for his scathing memoirs about life in Russia, travels through the Russian State Hermitage Museum and encounters historical figures from the last 200+ years.Aleksandr Sokhurov makes a magic documental about the russian story using a tour by the Hermitage museum of Saint Petersburg.
- DirectorAndrei TarkovskyStarsErland JosephsonSusan FleetwoodAllan EdwallAt the dawn of World War III, a man searches for a way to restore peace to the world and finds he must give something in return.Andrei Tarkovski left to the humanity his offer message in this beautiful film.
- DirectorAndrei TarkovskyStarsNatalya BondarchukDonatas BanionisJüri JärvetA psychologist is sent to a station orbiting a distant planet in order to discover what has caused the crew to go insane.Andrei Tarkovski and the most impressive science fiction film ever done.
- DirectorAsghar FarhadiStarsTaraneh AlidoostiGolshifteh FarahaniShahab HosseiniThe mysterious disappearance of a kindergarten teacher during a picnic in the north of Iran is followed by a series of misadventures for her fellow travelers.One of the great film makers of Iran, Asghar Farhadi shows the communication problems between the people.
- DirectorAsghar FarhadiStarsPayman MaadiLeila HatamiSareh BayatA married couple are faced with a difficult decision - to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer's disease.Once again, Asghar Farhadi showing how the small things of the day are changing the life of the people. A moral story.
- DirectorBaz LuhrmannStarsNicole KidmanEwan McGregorJohn LeguizamoA poor Bohemian poet in 1890s Paris falls for a beautiful courtesan and nightclub star coveted by a jealous duke.Spectacular, spectacular. The wonderful production of Baz Luhrman.
- DirectorBernardo BertolucciStarsJeremy IronsLiv TylerCarlo CecchiAfter her mother commits suicide, a young woman travels to Italy in search of love, truth and a deeper connection with herself.Bernardo Bertolucci tell us the story of a young american woman searching his father in Toscana. With the beauty of Liv Tyler.
- DirectorBernardo BertolucciStarsJohn LoneJoan ChenPeter O'TooleBernardo Bertolucci's Oscar-winning dramatisation of the life story of China's last emperor, Pu Yi.The story about the last emperor of China and the change of a culture. Great film of Bernardo Bertolucci.
- DirectorBernardo BertolucciStarsJill ClayburghMatthew BarryVeronica LazarWhile touring in Italy, a recently-widowed American opera singer has an incestuous relationship with her 15-year-old son to help him overcome his heroin addiction.Bernardo Bertolucci describes the relation between mother and son when the father is absent.
- DirectorBernardo BertolucciStarsRobert De NiroGérard DepardieuDominique SandaThe epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth-century Italy as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides.The great saga of Italy since 1900. The most important cast of actors in a film of Bernardo Bertolucci.
- DirectorBernardo BertolucciStarsDebra WingerJohn MalkovichCampbell ScottAn American couple travel abroad to revitalize their relationship. But as the trip drags on, their attempt at recovering what they once had seems futile.The most romantic story ever showed by the cinema in this movie of Bernardo Bertolucci.
- DirectorOlivier AssayasFrédéric AuburtinGurinder ChadhaStarsJuliette BinocheLeonor WatlingLudivine SagnierThrough the neighborhoods of Paris, love is veiled, revealed, imitated, sucked dry, reinvented, and awakened.A wonderful collection of Paris stories.
- DirectorCarlos ReygadasStarsCornelio WallMiriam ToewsMaria PankratzIn a Mennonite community in Mexico, a father's faith is tested when he falls in love with a new woman.Carlos Reygadas makes the world goes in a different way. A poetic and touching story.
- DirectorCarlos SauraStarsIsabelle AdjaniHanna SchygullaIgnacio López TarsoAnna uncovers an incident involving a young Mexican woman, Antonieta, while doing research for a book on women's suicides in the XXth century. In 1931, in the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Antonieta shot herself through the heart.Carlos Saura join the past and the present in the figures of Antonieta, a mexican independent woman and Hanna Schygulla, a reporter looking for the reasons of Antonieta's suicide.
- DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinPaulette GoddardHenry BergmanThe Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.The best film ever done by Charles Chaplin, with unforgettable scenes.
- DirectorCharlie KaufmanStarsPhilip Seymour HoffmanSamantha MortonMichelle WilliamsA theatre director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he creates a life-size replica of New York City inside a warehouse as part of his new play.Charlie Kaufman wrote and also directed this gigantic film about languages and roles people play.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsRobert HosseinNicole GarciaGeraldine ChaplinThrough fabulous music, this movie tracks three generations of musicians and dancers from Russia, Germany, France and the U.S., from before World War II through the war and the Holocaust, to the 1980s. Their lives become intertwined through historical circumstances, and the culmination is the presence of several of them, including a former Nazi pianist and a French Jewish Holocaust survivor, at an anti-famine concert.Claude Lelouch put together several stories of european people that were changed by the second world war. Music, dance and actors playing around the human life. "All the stories are the same".
- DirectorClive DonnerStarsPeter SellersPeter O'TooleRomy SchneiderA playboy who refuses to give up his hedonistic lifestyle to settle down and marry his true love seeks help from a demented psychoanalyst who is having romantic problems of his own.Clive Donner directed this crazy film written by Woody Allen with the participation of a dreamed cast of actors.
- DirectorConrad RooksStarsShashi KapoorSimi GarewalRomesh SharmaThe story of a young Indian who embarks upon a journey to find the meaning of existence. Based on the novel by Hermann Hesse.Conrad Rooks leave the texts of Herman Hesse be moved to the screen.
- DirectorDavid BeairdStarsFaye DunawayDenholm ElliottJames Earl JonesOn Splendid's wedding night, she won't allow her husband to consummate the marriage. Meanwhile, her armed cousin is looking for the hooker, who slept with her husband.David Beairs painted a beautiful story in Louisiana with a wonderful cast of great actors: Faye Dunaway, Denholm Elliot, James Wilder, Emily Lloyd, Jennifer Tilly and others.
- DirectorDavid LeanStarsOmar SharifJulie ChristieGeraldine ChaplinThe life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.David Lean probably did the most important production for the screen after "Gone with the wind" in this epic russian story. The romantic story of Boris Pasternak with Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Omar Shariff, Tom Courtenay and several more actors.
- DirectorDavid LeanStarsJudy DavisVictor BanerjeePeggy AshcroftCultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator.David Lean put in unforgettable images of India, the novel of E. Forster.
- DirectorDavid MametStarsPhilip Seymour HoffmanWilliam H. MacyRebecca PidgeonA movie crew invades a small town whose residents are all too ready to give up their values for showbiz glitz.David Mamet has created this wonderful movie about movies creation.
- DirectorDenis VilleneuveStarsLubna AzabalMélissa Désormeaux-PoulinMaxim GaudetteTwins journey to the Middle East to discover their family history and fulfill their mother's last wishes.A canadian film maker, Denis Villeneuve, moves the theater play about the Lebanon war to a film where the human condition is critiziced and make evident.
- DirectorDenys ArcandStarsLothaire BluteauCatherine WilkeningJohanne-Marie TremblayA group of actors put on an unorthodox, but acclaimed Passion Play which incites the opposition of the Catholic Church while the actors' lives themselves begin to mirror the Passion itself.A wonderful film of another canadian film maker, Denys Arcand. If Jesus had become to the world he would be dead again.
- DirectorEduardo MignognaStarsIngrid RubioJimena BarónFlorencia BertottiTwo Argentine sisters, Memé and Aneta, lose their mother in a car crash. Memé, the elder, is also left lame with one badly scarred leg. The orphaned girls go to Uruguay to stay with their aunts. The sisters often bicker, but they are actually very close. Memé flirts but has no luck with boys because of her injury... On their own now, Memé works as a waitress where she gets to know Andy. Returning to Montevideo, they meet Dolores, a friend of their late mother. Memé's affair with a man complicates her relationship with her sister. Then Andy invites the pair to his seaside retreat, a lighthouse...Eduardo Mignogna made with this film a simphony to the human been and his efforts to go ahead in spite of everything.
- DirectorEmir KusturicaStarsBajram SeverdzanSrdjan 'Zika' TodorovicBranka KaticMatko and his son Zare live on the banks of the Danube river and get by through hustling and basically doing anything to make a living. In order to pay off a business debt Matko agrees to marry off Zare to the sister of a local gangster.In this comedy Emir Kusturica shows with humour the life of the "ziganes" at the border of the Danube. All the story is full of humour (sometimes black humour) and life happiness.
- DirectorEmir KusturicaStarsPredrag 'Miki' ManojlovicLazar RistovskiMirjana JokovicTwo underground black marketeers, Marko and Blacky, sell weapons to the Communist resistance in wartime Belgrade, living the good life along the way.This was the bigest effort of Emir Kusturica. To describe in around of two hours of film the circumstances and the vagaries that led to the creation and collapse of Yugoslavia. It makes this film one of the seven wonderful of the cinema.
- DirectorEran RiklisStarsHiam AbbassRona Lipaz-MichaelAli SulimanThe story of a Palestinian widow who must defend her lemontree field when a new Israeli Defense Minister moves next to her and threatens to have her lemon grove torn down.Eran Riklis shows in this film the contradictions of the people of Israel in its relationship with its Arab neighbors through this terrible parable of a lemon forest.
- DirectorÉric RohmerStarsMarie RivièreMaría Luisa GarcíaVincent GauthierIt's July, and Delphine has nowhere to go for the summer. She feels very bored and "empty", but this won't last; one day she accidently meets someone who seems to be totally made for her...All the films of Eric Rohmer should integrate this list, but this one is the most extraordinary and poetic. The green ray is the last one before the end of the sunset.
- DirectorFederico FelliniStarsMarcello MastroianniAnouk AiméeClaudia CardinaleA harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies.There is no need to describe something about this marvelous film of Federico Fellini. It contains the quintessence of the modern cinema.
- DirectorFederico FelliniStarsMagali NoëlBruno ZaninPupella MaggioA series of comedic and nostalgic vignettes set in a 1930s Italian coastal town.There are no words to describe the miracles that Federico Fellini shows us in this film about his memories.
- DirectorFederico FelliniStarsGiulietta MasinaSandra MiloMario PisuVisions, memories, and mysticism all help a 40-something woman to find the strength to leave her cheating husband.There are critics who argue that Fellini's Giulietta is the equivalent of 8 1/2 on women.
- DirectorFederico FelliniStarsMarcello MastroianniAnita EkbergAnouk AiméeA series of stories following a week in the life of a philandering tabloid journalist living in Rome.With this movie, Federico Fellini created the legend about the modern city of Rome. Anita Ekberg and Marcello Mastroianni will continue to find them at the Trevi's fountain for the rest of our lives.
- DirectorFederico FelliniStarsAnthony QuinnGiulietta MasinaRichard BasehartA care-free girl is sold to a traveling entertainer, consequently enduring physical and emotional pain along the way.Magic and emotions are together in this extraordinary film of Federico Fellini. Never more we forget Gelsomina and neither the fierce Zampanó.
- DirectorFederico FelliniStarsRoberto BenigniPaolo VillaggioNadia OttavianiThe amusing and entertaining adventures of a recently released mental patient and his band of misfits, who discover conspiracies to participate in while looking for love.Roberto Benigni was the chosen one for Federico Fellini to personify the character of Ivo Salvini. This film is based on the novel with the same name of Ermanno Cavazzoni and is the most surrealistic film of Fellini and also the last one.
- DirectorFederico FelliniStarsRiccardo BilliGigi RederTino ScottiA ragout of real memories and mockumentary, as Fellini explores a childhood obsession: circus clowns.When Federico Fellini tried to convince us he was doing a documentary, all their fans knew very well that the real life would be influenced by the phantasy of Fellini. This is the case of "I clowns", were the leit motiv is "has the clown died", and after this question, all the magic and dreams of Fellini are displayed over the screen.
- DirectorFederico FelliniStarsBritta BarnesPeter Gonzales FalconFiona FlorenceA fluid, unconnected and sometimes chaotic procession of scenes detailing the various people and events of life in Italy's capital, most of it based on director Federico Fellini's life.This is another documentary of Federico Fellini. Here the excuse for to show the delirious of Federico Fellini is the city of Rome. The fashion show for prelates of the Catholic Church is amazing.
- DirectorFederico FelliniStarsMartin PotterHiram KellerMax BornA series of disjointed mythical tales set in first-century Rome.Federico Fellini would describe the life in the times of the roman empire. For this reason this film is based on the novel of Petronio, written during the roman empire. But after all, is a film of Federico Fellini, then all their ghosts and allegories are present in the scenes.
- DirectorFederico FelliniStarsFreddie JonesBarbara JeffordVictor PolettiIn 1914, a luxury ship leaves Italy in order to scatter the ashes of a famous opera singer. A lovable bumbling journalist chronicles the voyage and meets the singer's many eccentric friends and admirers.How was the storm that moves Europe to the chaos of the First World War?. It is explained in this "musical" film of Federico Fellini.
- DirectorFernando E. SolanasStarsWalter QuirozSoledad AlfaroRicardo BartisFollows the journey taken by 17-year-old Martin through Latin America - by bicycle - from his snow-frozen school in Tierra del Fuego in search of his 'real' father, a cartoonist turned anthropologist believed to be in the Amazon jungle.Francisco "Pino" Solanas gift to the cinema is this movie, "El viaje" ("The trip"), when a teenager will make a voyage of initiation in search of his father throughout Latin-America from Ushuahia to Mexico.
- DirectorFranco ZeffirelliStarsLeonard WhitingOlivia HusseyJohn McEneryWhen two young members of feuding families meet, forbidden love ensues.Only Franco Zeffirelli was capable to make a film about the hapless young heroes of Verona. Olivia Houssey and Leonard Whithing played the drama in the most realistic way. Also the music of Nino Rota is unforgetable.
- DirectorKirk BrowningStarsJames LevineÉva MartonPlácido DomingoFranco Zeffirelli was the responsible of the staging in the Metropolitan House of New York of this beautiful Puccini's opera. In this case the singers were Eva Marton, Placido Domingo and Leona Mitchell.
- DirectorGodfrey ReggioStarsChristie BrinkleyDavid BrinkleyPatrick DisantoAn exploration of technologically developing nations and the effect the transition to Western-style modernization has had on them.From the trilogy of Godfrey Reggio (and Philip Glass in the music) I have chosen this one because its photography is perfect.
- DirectorHayao MiyazakiStarsCate BlanchettMatt DamonLiam NeesonA five-year-old boy develops a relationship with Ponyo, a young goldfish princess who longs to become a human after falling in love with him.All the movies done by Hayao Miyazaki are beautiful, but this one, telling us the story of the little mermaid Ponyo contains all the purity and beauty that coexist with the strength to live in the stories of Miyazaki.
- DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsLiv UllmannErland JosephsonAino TaubeTwo psychiatrists have their marriage tested when one suffers a mental breakdown.Fascinating analysis of the human soul. How the fears interfer with the feelings and can destroy a person. Wonderful film of Ingmar Bergman with a wonderful Liv Ullman.
- DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsLiv UllmannDavid CarradineGert FröbeBerlin, 1923. Following the suicide of his brother, American circus acrobat Abel Rosenberg attempts to survive while facing unemployment, depression, alcoholism and the social decay of Germany during the Weimar Republic.Ingmar Bergman went to Munich trying to leave back his problems with the sweden government and made this exceptional study of the fascism in Germany. With a not expected David Carradine.
- DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsBertil GuvePernilla AllwinKristina AdolphsonTwo young Swedish children in the 1900s experience the many comedies and tragedies of their lively and affectionate theatrical family, the Ekdahls.The most important title in the last films of Ingmar Bergman. Fanny and Alexander shows two children leaving their father's dead and a new marriage of their mother.
- DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsHarriet AnderssonLiv UllmannKari SylwanWhen a woman dying of cancer in early twentieth-century Sweden is visited by her two sisters, long-repressed feelings between the siblings rise to the surface.Probably the most painful film of Ingmar Bergman and his first film made in color.
- DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsLiv UllmannErland JosephsonBörje AhlstedtMarianne, some thirty years after divorcing Johan, decides to visit her ex-husband at his summer home. She arrives in the middle of a family drama between Johan's son from another marriage and his granddaughter."Saraband" is a TV movie and was never copied for display in theaters. Here Ingmar Bergman showed the characters of "Scenes from a marriage" 30 years later. The result is extraordinary.
- DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsIngrid BergmanLiv UllmannLena NymanA devoted wife is visited by her mother, a successful concert pianist who had little time for her when she was young.For the first time Ingmar Bergman directed Ingrid Bergman. She and Liv Ullman made this film unforgetable. There are dialogs that are unique.
- DirectorJacques TatiStarsJacques TatiNathalie PascaudMicheline RollaMonsieur Hulot comes to a beachside hotel for a vacation and accidentally, but good-naturedly, causes havoc.Jacques Tati presented his character Mr. Hulot and described how he enjoyed his holydays at the sea. Never I have loughed so much as I did seing this film.
- DirectorJacques TatiStarsJacques TatiJean-Pierre ZolaAdrienne ServantieMonsieur Hulot visits the technology-driven world of his sister, brother-in-law, and nephew, but he can't quite fit into the surroundings."Jacques Tati already put in scene his character Mr. Hulot. This time making a ferocious satire of the modern life style.
- DirectorJacques TatiStarsJacques TatiBarbara DennekRita MaidenMonsieur Hulot curiously wanders around a high-tech Paris, paralleling a trip with a group of American tourists. Meanwhile, a nightclub/restaurant prepares its opening night, but it's still under construction.Third one of the greatest films made by Jacques Tati. Probably the most important where all the messages are so clear and also the gags are fabulous.
- DirectorJames IvoryStarsOmar MetwallyAnthony HopkinsCharlotte GainsbourgOmar wants to write an authorized biography on a dead writer and travels to a farm in Uruguay to meet the trustees - the writer's brother, widow and cute mistress/mother of his daughter.Last one of the greatest films done by James Ivory with Ismail Merchant as producer. Once again the destiny is showed as a product of several people and there is nothing a single people can be do in order to change his life. With a lot a wonderful actors and the music of Jorge Drexler. This film was shot mainly in Argentina.
- DirectorJames IvoryStarsAnthony HopkinsEmma ThompsonVanessa RedgraveSet in the early 20th century, class distinctions and troubled relations affect the relationship between two families and the ownership of a cherished British estate known as Howards End.Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson and Helena Bonham-Carter play the main characters in this film of James Ivory plenty of meanings and excelent transcription of the E.M. Forster novel.
- DirectorJames IvoryStarsAnthony HopkinsEmma ThompsonJohn HaycraftA butler who sacrificed body and soul to service in the years leading up to World War II realizes too late how misguided his loyalty was to his lordly employer."The remains of the day" joined once again Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson in a wonderful transcription of the Kazuo Ishiguro novel. A reflexion about the human responsibility and how far our acts can be important for the future.
- DirectorJames IvoryStarsAnthony HopkinsNatascha McElhoneJulianne MooreThe passionate Merchant Ivory drama tells the story of Françoise Gilot (Natascha McElhone), the only lover of Pablo Picasso (Sir Anthony Hopkins) who was strong enough to withstand his ferocious cruelty, and move on with her life.James Ivory once again directed Anthony Hopkins. This time no more and no less than to impersonate Pablo Picasso.