C'est l'été,Clarck et Ellen Griswold décident d'emmener leur petite famille en voyage à travers l'Amérique, à destination du mythique parc d'attraction de Walley World.Une expédition plutôt fantaisiste pour ce couple d'Américains moyens très respectueux des valeurs traditionnelles. Malgré tout le soin apporté aux préparatifs, cette aventure menée par Clarck tourne au cauchemar, la route leur réservant bien des surprises.
Cette année, Clark Griswold a décidé de fêter Noël comme il se doit : il va couper lui-même son sapin avec sa petite famille, il invite ses parents, ses beaux-parents, sa tante et son oncle, et il a même décidé de décorer la maison entière de 25 000 ampoules ! Mais tout ne se passe pas comme prévu : les ampoules refusent de s'allumer, son cousin Eddie débarque à l'improviste du Kansas, et il attend désespérément la prime de Noël qui lui permettra enfin de payer la piscine qu'il a commandée en secret !
Paris, 1817, enceinte de l'Académie Royale de Médecine. « Je n'ai jamais vu de tête humaine plus semblable à celle des singes ». Face au moulage du corps de Saartjie Baartman, l'anatomiste Georges Cuvier est catégorique. Un parterre de distingués collègues applaudit la démonstration. Sept ans plus tôt, Saartjie, quittait l'Afrique du Sud avec son maître, Caezar, et livrait son corps en pâture au public londonien des foires aux monstres. Femme libre et entravée, elle était l'icône des bas-fonds, la « Vénus Hottentote » promise au mirage d'une ascension dorée...
Fuyant son passé, Robert est venu s'installer dans une petite ville. Il trouve un étrange dérivatif à sa solitude en épiant quotidiennement une jeune femme de son quartier. Innocente rêverie dont il ne peut bientôt plus se passer. Mais lorsque Jenny le surprend, sa vie bascule...
Raquel has been the live-in housekeeper for a kind, reasonably wealthy family for half her life, and the joyless repetition of the job has begun to take its toll. Increasingly dependent on painkillers, Raquel resorts to pranks and childish avoidance to antagonize the family’s college-age daughter and a procession of new servants, all in the hopes of protecting her precarious power within the home. Her antics successfully push everyone away, until new maid Lucy actually pushes back.
Mother's lucky day takes a strange turn when a lightning strike leaves her with telekinetic powers. She finds more and more ways to use her new ability, but soon things get a little out of control.
Tony Roper wrote 'The Steamie' for Glasgow's Mayfest in 1987. Return to Hogmany 1957 when a fiesty group of Glasgow women; Mrs Culfeathers, Dolly, Doreen and the irrepressible Magrit, all meet at The Steamie to do the traditional family wash before the New Year. The Steamie is a hilarious cameo of Glasgow's social history where the washing was always easier to do when the Women shared their laugher and sorrow and a scandalous supply of gossip. This is the definitive version of the most popular play of the last 20 years with the all star cast of Dorothy Paul as Magrit, Eileen McCallum as Dolly, Kate Murphy as Doreen, Sheila McDonald as Mrs Culfeathers and a very young Peter Mullan as Andy, the whisky loving handy man.
Margo is an ex-stripper who meets her long, lost father in Mexico. She looks after him in the waning days of his life, with the help of a traveling projectionist. The father passes away, telling of the loot from a botched bank robbery that he buried years earlier. The two get jobs in town as their relationship grows and they search for the treasure on the weekends. But while the treasure seems to bring them together, it also seems to be tearing them apart.
A whimsical yet serious-minded look into the future sponsored by the appliance and radio manufacturer Philco-Ford. In the "1999 House of Tomorrow", each family member's activities are enabled by a central computer and revolve around products remarkably similar to those made by the sponsor. Power comes from a self-contained fuel cell which supports environmental controls, an automatic cooking system, and a computer-assisted "education room". (IMDb)
Les rituels domestiques nocturnes d'une femme - du coucher de son bébé à l'amour - se déroulent dans un défilé ludique d'images surréalistes et directes. Conservé par l'Academy Film Archive en 2013.
This sensual drama depicts the story of an inseparable couple trying to cope with the obstacle in life.
A young couple gets ready for a ceremony. Emilia is not dressed yet and Pietro is struggling with his tie and also very annoyed about a speech he has to give. While they talk around their house, time travels back and forth revealing different phases of their life.
A young husband is left at home looking after a new baby when his wife leaves him to return to her career as a dancer.
An intimate portrait that tells the story of Anthony, a lonely history teacher, and his adopted daughter Luna. Unexpectedly Sam, his ex boyfriend, shows up one year after their separation looking for closure or perhaps trying to revive a relationship that once was.
Much to the disapproval of his snooty children, a wealthy widowed attorney takes up with a beautiful but "lower-class" woman.
This documentary follows three couples to see how things turned out several years after their weddings. The film presents challenging ideas about relationships, as it answers the question: Why is marriage so difficult?
An unsentimental Hungarian film about the edgy relationship between a middle-aged woman and her young, restless daughter-in-law when the son-husband goes to sea for six months.
It's Sunday, and as usual a wife is nagging her husband, this time about the whereabouts of the Sunday newspaper which she's sure he's hiding from her. The husband is just as irritated by her nagging since this time it is interfering with him trying to take a shave and brush his teeth. Their argument extends to what belongs to whom and what each person contributes to the household. They end up doing things and making remarks just to irritate the other. Their argument reaches a whole different level when a pretty neighbor gets peripherally involved.