Beyrut’ta yaşayan beş kadın aşk, evlilik, eşlik edilebilecek bir birliktelik, dostluk, iş aramak gibi konu başlıkları ile bir araya gelirler. Bu kadınlar bir güzellik salonunda buluşur her şeyden konuşurlar. Hatta bu birkaç farklı nesilden kadınları içeren sohbetlerdir. Sırlar paylaşılır, hayaller dile getirilir burada. Burası şehrin en renkli yerlerinden biridir. Kadınların her birinin bambaşka hayatları vardır ve aynı zamanda da her biri çok farklı ve kendine göre son derece de güzeldir.
The tragic story of French naïve painter Séraphine Louis aka Séraphine de Senlis (1864-1942), a humble servant who becomes a gifted self-taught painter. Discovered by prominent critic and collector William Uhde, she came to prominence between the wars grouped with other naïve painters like Henri Rouseau only to descend into madness and obscurity with the onset of Great Depression and World War II.
60'ların Hong Kong'unda, sosyetik bir fahişe ile, elbiselerini diktirdiği genç terzisi arasındaki dram dolu platonik aşk... Wong Kar Wai'nin şiirsel bakış açısı ve müzik seçimleriyle dikkat çekiyor. İş stresinden bunalmış bir reklamcı, terapistiyle yaptığı görüşmede sıkıntılarının dışa vurumu olduğunu düşündüğü erotik rüyasını anlamaya başlar. Steven Soderbergh'den süprizli bir hikaye, Robert Downey Jr'ın oyunculuğu göz kamaştırıyor. Toskana sahillerinde tatil yapan bir çift ve karşılaştıkları genç bir kadının aralarındaki erotizm dolu etkileşimler, büyük usta Michelangelo Antonioni'nin anlatımıyla perdeye yansıyor. 3 ünlü yönetmenin aşk ve cinsellik üzerine, kendi kültürlerinden yola çıkarak anlattıkları 3 kısa film, İstanbul Film Festivali'nde de gösterilerek büyük ilgi görmüştü.
Inspired to a true story, on November 5th 1991, Rita Atria a young 17-year-old Sicilian girl, goes to see an anti-Mafia judge Paolo Borsellino to denounce the Mafia system that was responsible for the murder of her father and her brother. It is the first time that such a young woman from a Mafia family rebels and betrays the Mafia. From that moment on, Rita's days are numbered. She only has nine months to live...
Yakışıklı, sert bakışlı, karşısındakileri kolayca etkileyen ve askerlikle ilgisi olmadığı halde subay kılığında dolaşarak hırsızlık yapan Toylan, bir rastlantı sonucu genç ve güzel bir dul olan Katya ile karşılaşır. Çok geçmeden Tolyan ile birlikte yaşamaya başlayan Katya, ona olan aşkı yüzünden yaptıklarına katlanmak ve bazen de suç ortaklığı yapmak zorunda kalır. Küçük Sanya ise zoraki bir 'baba' olarak karşısına çıkan Tolyan'dan şiddeti, kaba kuvveti ve korkutmayı öğrenir. Böylece Sanya, Tolyan'a karşı hayranlık ve nefreti birlikte hisseder.
Bologna, 1976. The paths of two aimless young friends intertwine with those of Radio Alice, a pirate radio politically aligned with the leftist student movement.
If he buys a gun, visits his wife's lover, and ends up savagely biting his dentist, Samuel Polaris is in bad shape. Very bad. Unless the others, the “normal” people – with their career plans, their adulteries, their arrogant incompetence – have fallen into a sort of collective madness. Who knows. Because he has no choice, because he is in love with his wife and because he refuses to resign himself to the worst, Samuel Polaris decides to regain his dignity. Even if, to do this, he has to steal from his psychiatrist the watch that Kennedy was wearing the day he was assassinated.
Six characters cross paths in Paris and Lisbon.
Andre starts as a teacher in a remote mountain village in Albania. His first task is to choose one of two communist slogans. He picks the shorter one, which is appreciated by his class, because they have to build the slogan on the hillside using whitewashed rocks. However, this means that the longer slogan goes to Diana, the French teacher to whom Andre is attracted. Andre gets on the wrong side of the communist party boss of the village, when he stands up for an unjustly accused goat herdsman, whom he had befriended. The boss is determined to take his revenge on Andre.
A long time ago, a young Russian general chose to sacrifice hundreds of birds to burn Moscow and save his motherland from the troops of Napoleon. For this feat, he was hailed as a hero by the people of Russia but regarded an executioner by the winged creatures. Now fifty years older the aging general leads a drab life. To make matters worse, the descendants of the sacrificed birds keep attacking him. One day however a meets an engaging little dog who soon becomes his faithful companion. Both friends decide to break the curse plaguing the general's life : they start militating for all the caged birds of Russia to be set free.
The end of the XVIII century. The reign of Catherine II. In the deep Russian provinces, among the vast steppes of the Ural escaped convict Yemelyan Pugachev proclaimed himself Emperor Peter III of Russia. Under the banner of the Pretender embarked detachments of Cossacks, fugitive serfs, and many spirited people. In these troubled times in the God-forsaken Belogorsk young officer Pyotr Grinyov meets his first love - Masha, the daughter of Captain Mironov. Recklessly passionate love with each other did not want to notice the signs of impending trouble. They did not know that soon they will be an ordeal. They could not imagine how bizarre way their fates intertwined with the fate of the self-proclaimed king, and what an incredible effort will be worth it to save their lives and feelings in the bloody chaos of Russian riot.
A film ‘twin’ to the novel My Life as a Russian Novel, this documentary charts Carrère’s journey to Kotelnitch, a town some 800 km east of Moscow, as he investigates what happened to a Hungarian POW, and then the young Ania. Through exploring the lives of others the writer finds the courage to tell his own story.