Dave Lizewski jest uczniem nowojorskiego liceum. Nie lubi gier komputerowych, nie interesuje się sportem, ale uwielbia komiksy. Pewnego dnia chłopak postanawia zostać superbohaterem - obrońcą słabszych. Kupuje zielono-żółty kombinezon i w przebraniu rusza do walki ze złem. Pchnięty nożem w brzuch, potrącony przez samochód trafia do szpitala, z którego wychodzi z metalowymi implantami w plecach i niewrażliwymi zakończeniami nerwów. Uodporniony na ból ponownie zakłada kostium i rusza do akcji. Wkrótce dołącza do niego 11-letnia Hit-Girl.
Powojenne Włochy. Bezrobotni czekają na ogłoszenia o pracę przed Biurem Zatrudnienia. Ojciec rodziny Antonio (Lamberto Maggiorani) dostaje zajęcie, które wymaga poruszania się po mieście rowerem - rozwieszanie ogłoszeń. Razem z żoną Marią (Lianella Carell) wykupuje swój rower z lombardu, gdzie wcześniej go zastawił, aby zdobyć pieniądze na utrzymanie rodziny. W zamian zastawia kilka pamiątek rodzinnych. [filmweb.pl]
Film psychologiczno-obyczajowy. Rio de Janeiro, czasy współczesne: 50-letnia kobieta przed dworcem kolejowym pisuje odpłatnie listy dla analfabetów. Pewnego dnia jej klientka, matka 9-latka, która prosi o napisanie listu do dawno niewidzianego męża, ginie w wypadku drogowym. Wzruszającą opowieść o przyjaźni emerytowanej nauczycielki z małym osieroconym chłopcem, która na zawsze odmieniła ich życie.
Ubogi nastolatek usiłujący wyrwać się spod władzy handlarza ludźmi musi dokonać wyboru między postępowaniem zgodnie z sumieniem a walką o przetrwanie.
Prior to a city council election, the collapse of a building leaves a land developer and his political backers defending themselves against a scandal.
King is a young man, but he's already a veteran of life on the streets of Los Angeles. The de facto leader of a group of teenage runaways, King acts as a mentor to troubled kids such as gay hustler Little J and junkie Greg. When Heather, a beautiful girl from Chicago, starts hanging out with King and his crew, it changes the dynamic of the gang. However, it seems as though nothing will alter their dangerous lifestyle.
Charts the trials and tribulations of Ana, a free-spirited 26 year-old returning home to Strasbourg for the summer after living abroad for long enough to feel out of place everywhere.
Inhabitants of a flophouse struggle to survive under the harsh treatment imposed by the landlord, Kostyleva. One resident, young thief Wasska Pepel, ends his affair with the landlord's wife, Vassilissa, and takes up with her sister, Natacha. Pepel also befriends the baron, a former nobleman fallen on hard times, but Pepel's attempts at happiness are complicated when he's accused of murder by a spiteful Vassilissa.
Using verite conventions, a young couple with a baby and a child are worn away by the monotony of their lives.
Auguste is an aging prostitute who falls in love with Felix, a younger student. While Felix has strayed away from his parents, Auguste starts taking care of him and spends her life savings into a cake shop to move further away from prostitution, but trouble comes when another woman enters the picture.
Gore Vidal's historical novel is brought to life in this television production of Turner Network Television's Billy the Kid.
The life of Henri de Toulouse Lautrec, famous french painter, who lived, enjoyed, loved in the late 1800s Paris' Montmartre cultural life. He suffered from suffered from congenital health conditions traditionally attributed to inbreeding. His lifestyle and work are a testimony of the late-19th-century parisian bohemian lifestyle, as he was commissioned to produce a series of posters for the Moulin Rouge cabaret opening. As an alcoholic, he was addicted to absinthe. The movie related his love affair with the french painter Suzanne Valadon.
Part work of ethereal realism, part dance film, this contemporary-set short follows a young man facing the probability of an HIV+ diagnosis.
A young couple discover an ancient book in the attic and start reading the story of the Malemort family: a sombre household set in the nineteenth century in rural France. The old man Deroze plays his violin and tries to seduce the maid. His elder daughter Maxime "qui tue les mouches et deguste en cachette des fruits juteux". Underneath her bourgeois facade her senses are not yet put to rest. There is the rest of this upstairs/downstairs family who is visited by a sea captain who learns of a hidden treasure The storyline of this adult fairy tale is less important than the cinematography and the lyric fairy tale atmosphere that surrounds this movie. A little masterpiece still to be rediscovered.
'Le cas Perrot' depicts a dreamlike world in a realist manner. It was shot with amateur teenagers in the style of a documentary in order to make fantastical contents seem naturalist. It was hence written and directed adhering to the logic that the brain adopts during sleep.
Struggling to survive on the margins of society, two outcasts manage to build a beautiful friendship as they face loss and hardship.
Harold is suffering from a terrifying new disease that is turning him into a zombie. As his condition deteriorates, he and his friendly care worker end up on the run from a group of violent vigilantes.
Manfred and Hilke live a live perfectly complied with each other in West Berlin. They managed to elude from the bourgeois conformity, which they loath. But when Hilke finds out about her pregnancy she estranges from her partner. Trying to keep her former life as it was, she desperately looks all over the city to get an abortion.
After her release from involuntary hospitalization, “Annie” grapples with the trauma of her confinement, all while working as a lifeguard, a job that becomes increasingly challenging as she descends deeper into despair.
Spaces and Reservations is an intimate and unsparingly realistic relationship drama that tells the story of a young couple being torn apart by malaise and infidelity, and the way the trauma of their breakup brings them back together. Jamie and Kacie have been dating for four years, and are separately beginning to feel the affects of malaise and disconnect. As they drift apart from one another and struggle to bridge the gaps growing between them, Jamie begins to develop feelings for another woman. After precariously flirting with infidelity, Jamie abandons this new pursuit and attempts to salvage his relationship with Kacie, only to discover that she too has fallen for someone else.