Clark Griswold, movido por un generoso y sentimental espíritu navideño, quiere sorprender a toda su familia con una gran fiesta. La suerte no suele acompañarlo y esta vez no va a ser diferente... Una sucesión de disparatados desastres convertirán la esperadísima sorpresa de Clark en un verdadero caos.
Un típico matrimonio americano, que tiene dos hijos, prepara minuciosamente unas vacaciones en el parque temático de Wally World (California), tratando de evitar así cualquier contratiempo. Sin embargo, nada más llegar a su destino empiezan a sucederse toda clase de problemas, de modo que las soñadas vacaciones se convierten en una auténtica pesadilla.
Basada en la vida real de Saartjie Baartman, una mujer sudafricana que fue exhibida como un animal a principios del siglo XIX en la Academia Real de Medicina de París (1817). "No he visto nunca una cabeza humana tan parecida a la de un simio", dice el anatomista Georges Cuvier frente al cuerpo sin vida de Saartjie Baartman. Un grupo de colegas aplaude su ocurrencia. Siete años antes, Saartjie había llegado de Sudáfrica con su padrino Caezar para vender su cuerpo al morboso público londinense que compraba entradas para los zoos humanos. Fue así como Saartjie, la Venus Negra, había conseguido ser una mujer libre y esclava al mismo tiempo.
Raquel, una mujer agria e introvertida, lleva 23 años trabajando de niñera para los Valdés, una familia de clase alta de Santiago. Un día, Pilar, su patrona, contrata a otra niñera para ayudarla. Raquel, sintiendo peligrar su lugar en la familia, espanta a la recién llegada con crueles e infantiles maltratos psicológicos. Esta situación se repite una y otra vez hasta que llega Lucy, una risueña mujer de provincias, que logra atravesar la coraza de Raquel y cambiar su forma de ver la vida.
Basada en la novela homónima de Patricia Highsmith de 1962. Jenny es una mujer que se siente observada por un mirón que no para de acecharla, Robert. El tercero en entrar en escena es Greg, el ex de la chica con la que no terminó demasiado bien su relación.
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.
Una stripper y un americano expatriado se unen en México para buscar una fortuna en dinero robado.
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.
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.
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?
Much to the disapproval of his snooty children, a wealthy widowed attorney takes up with a beautiful but "lower-class" woman.
A woman's nightly domestic rituals—from putting her baby to bed to making love—unspool in a playful parade of surreal, straight-from-the-id images. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.
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.
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.
This sensual drama depicts the story of an inseparable couple trying to cope with the obstacle in life.
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.
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.