Il piccolo Apu è testimone della triste condizione della propria decaduta famiglia bengalese, di casta bramina, ai primi del Novecento. La sorella maggiore Durga muore mentre un violento monsone investe il villaggio. Il padre, dopo aver perso il lavoro, decide di trasferirsi con la famiglia a Benares.
Vita, patimenti e morte dell'asino Balthazar, vittima della malvagità umana nella campagna francese, in parallelo con l'esistenza, altrettanto infelice, di Maria, sua prima padroncina. Una delle vette del cinema e della visione pessimistica del mondo e dell'umanità di Bresson, che ha come punti di riferimento letterario Bernanos e Dostoevskij: è un mondo senza la Grazia osservato dall'occhio obiettivo di un asino; una riflessione cristiana (giansenista?) sull'esistenza del male; un viaggio sconvolgente attraverso i vizi umani narrato con un linguaggio spoglio e una concretezza che lascia parlare la realtà (le sue immagini) senza emettere giudizi. Lo scrittore Klossowski interpreta il mercante di grano. Esordio di A. Wiazemsky.
Alla fine del secolo scorso, in un'industria tessile torinese, un grave incidente è la scintilla che fa scoppiare le prime proteste operaie contro le inumane condizioni di lavoro. La protesta si trasforma in un durissimo sciopero, guidato del professor Sinigaglia, durante il quale un operaio muore. Gli operai rientrano in fabbrica, sconfitti, ma con un filo di speranza.
Do you have to be miserable to be funny? More than sixty comedians—including stand-ups, writers, actors, and directors from the US, Canada, and abroad—take on this question, sharing anecdotes and insights with lively enthusiasm.
A young journalist interviews an elderly woman about being forced into prostitution in Borneo at a brothel called Sandakan No. 8.
A tomato is planted, harvested and sold at a supermarket, but it rots and ends up in the trash. But it doesn’t end there: Isle of Flowers follows it up until its real end, among animals, trash, women and children. And then the difference between tomatoes, pigs and human beings becomes clear.
The beautiful Florida Keys provide the setting of this adventure that tells the tale of a fun-filled fishing trip that becomes a nightmare when the charter boat is wrecked on an isolated island. Unfortunately, there are very few provisions and the group must fend for themselves. They are eventually assisted by a hermit, but before that one of the group goes insane, and another is eaten by an alligator.
A boy, abducted and abused for eight years returns home to find that the experience remains an indelible part of him.
Sienna Miller e Golshifteh Farahami interpretano due donne della periferia di Chicago dalle personalità molto diverse, le cui storie saranno però destinate ad incrociarsi. La prima è Marylin, centralinista insoddisfatta e sposata con Harvey, un parassita nullafacente e criminale. La seconda invece è Mona, una donna musulmana che ha sposato l'uomo che ama (ma dal quale non riesce ad avere figli) e che lavora nell'alimentari di famiglia, costantemente oppressa dalla suocera. Quando Marylin scopre che il marito la tradisce, si licenzia dall'oggi al domani e molla tutto per realizzare il suo sogno: partecipare a un popolare concorso di danza del ventre che si tiene a Santa Fe. Presto la sua strada incontrerà quella di Mona, anch'essa fortemente decisa a fuggire dalla sua famiglia. Le due giovani donne percorrono l'America senza voltarsi, con leggerezza, al ritmo delle prove di ballo e degli spettacoli di danza, fino al giorno in cui Marylin scopre che Mona è ricercata dalla polizia...
Flower Buds tells the story of the gradual breakdown of a family living in a small town. Each character lives according to his or her own ideals. Agata wants a happy life far from home, fully aware that her only hope is to escape and therefore betray those close to her. Honza believes in the purity and power of love, regardless of the circumstances under which it is born. Kamila looks confidently to the future and does not intend to accept the misery of the present. The only Jarda knows that he will not change the world or himself. Aware of his weakness, he does not even try. In his mind, of course, his addiction to slot machines, which has led to a nearly impossible situation, is as certain as most gamblers' belief of an imminent win. The real and convincing attempt to rescue his family comes when it is too late. It is just a futile gesture, a desperate last ditch effort.
On the one hand, there’s the desert eating away at the land. The endless dry season, the lack of water. On the other there’s the threat of war. The village well has run dry. The livestock is dying. Trusting their instinct, most of the villagers leave and head south. Rahne, the only literate one, decides to head east with his three children and Mouna, his wife. A few sheep, some goats, and Chamelle, a dromedary, are their only riches. A tale of exodus, quest, hope and fatality.
Pedro Gonzalez first gets into trouble as part of a criminal gang and then works honourably to become rich. Money is his undoing allowing him to become a womanizer and drinker, almost losing his wife. Finally he rejoins her, they have a son and he pays for his mistakes.
Graffiante, amara parabola sulla solitudine e l'incomunicabilità: l'insoddisfatto scapolo Lambert, refrattario ad avventure amorose che pure non gli mancherebbero, trova paradossale conforto in un portachiavi elettronico che ad un fischio ben modulato risponde "I love you".
The struggle to survive, for a generation, torn between wanting to leave its country, yet bound by blood to home.
Portrayal of a family’s attempt to change the spending habit of the indulgent and hedonistic patriarch, Alfredo. The family decides to try to fool him into spending less by telling him that his large fortune is gone.
In 1960, Martín and Marcos are forced by their difficult personal circumstances to travel to Switzerland in search of work, leaving their families in the Madrid of Franco's Spain. But they undertake more than a simple journey; they begin the road to a new life.
A broken Man awakes to be confronted with his life, and the choices he's made. His past, present and future collide as he faces the inevitable.
A snapshot of the state of the Danish nation: in one of the stories, a woman enters a pole-sitting contest in a desperate bid to reinvent herself. Another is about Erik, whose wife has been lobbying a Better Homes and Gardens type magazine to do a spread on their perfect home. When the editors finally relent, she makes Erik sip his red wine in the laundry room lest he stain their cream-colored couches. Svend, the last remaining Marxist in Copenhagen, is the impassioned organizer of a political mass meeting where no one shows up. Finally, Jens, a pizza and porno connoisseur, connives his way to some booty by convincing Gry the model that he lives with his mentally challenged brother. Over the course of a week, their paths cross and nothing, and nobody, is ever quite the same again.
A Swiss nun falls in love with a Japanese engineer.