A venit Crăciunul și familia Griswold începe pregătirile pentru marea sărbătoare. Din păcate, viața nu decurge nici în aceasta perioadă a anului, conform planului făcut de Clark, soția lui, Ellen și a celor doi copii ai lor. Clark este un om plin de ghinion, prin urmare, eforturile lui de a petrece, în casa lor mare și frumoasă din Chicago, alături de invitați, un Crăciun obișnuit sunt mult mai mari decât ale celorlalți. Din păcate, nici în urma eforturilor supraomenești, Crăciunul la familia Griswold nu este unul obișnuit, plin de bucurii, simplu. Deși, până la urmă, este unul de neuitat...
Totul este bine planificat, bine împachetat - și inevitabil merge prost: familia Griswold pleacă în vacanță. La volan stă Clark Griswold, un familist perfect normal care vrea să experimenteze vastitatea peisajului american alături de cei dragi. După nenumărate întâmplări, gafe, gafe, rude turbate, întâlniri cu o sirenă seducătoare, dificultăți financiare, mătușa Edna pe acoperișul mașinii, un agent de securitate și 2460 de mile de asfalt, este un adevărat miracol că familia Griswold este încă împreună. Nu a mai fost niciodată o vacanță de vară ca asta până acum - sau ați experimentat deja așa ceva?
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.
Paris, 1817, Academia Regală de Medicină. „Niciodată nu am văzut un cap uman atât de asemănător cu al unei maimuțe”. Anatomistul Georges Cuvier stă lângă o replică a corpului lui Saartjie Baartman, iar verdictul lui e categoric. Colegii încep să-l aplaude. Șapte ani mai târziu, Saartjie a plecat din Africa de Sud cu stăpânul ei, Caezar, ca să-și expună corpul în numerele de circ din Londra. Liberă și sclavă în același timp, „Hottentot Venus” a devenit o legendă în mahala, destinată să fie sacrificată în căutarea unei viziuni sclipitoare a prosperității.
Fleeing New York City, a failed marriage and a fragile mental history, artist Robert Forrester moves to small-town Pennsylvania. There he becomes fascinated with the simple domesticity of a beautiful neighbor, watching her through the windows of her home --- until she invites him in for coffee. He is drawn into a relationship with the young woman whose boyfriend goes missing; Robert becomes a murder suspect, gradually sensing he is the target of a larger plot.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
Much to the disapproval of his snooty children, a wealthy widowed attorney takes up with a beautiful but "lower-class" woman.
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.
This sensual drama depicts the story of an inseparable couple trying to cope with the obstacle in 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.
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.