Released Date:
1981-09-30
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
106 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (4863 Reviews)
Director:
Franèois TruffautFranèois Truffaut (original scenario)
Suzanne Schiffman (original scenario)
Jean Aurel (original scenario)
Madame Jouve, the narrator, tells the tragedy of Bernard and Mathilde. Bernard was living happily with his wife Arlette and his son Thomas. One day, a couple, Philippe and Mathilde Bauchard, moves into the next house. This is the accidental reunion of Bernard and Mathilde, who had a passionate love affair years ago. The relationship revives... A somber study of human feelings.
Released Date:
1991-08-02
Languages:
Dutch
Countries:
Netherlands
Runtime:
100 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.7 (1657 Reviews)
Director:
Alex van WarmerdamGenres:
ComedyOtakar Votocek
Alex van Warmerdam
Frans Weisz
An extremely weird comedy revolving around the life of 31- year-old Abel, who has never left home (literally). After failing with doctors and psychiatrists, Abel's father Victor brings home Christine, a friend, in an attempt to teach Abel basic social skills. But Victor's wife Duif accuses him of having an affair, and in the ensuing row Abel is thrown out into the street. But help is at hand when he runs into kind-hearted stripper Zus - whose show Victor is obsessed with...
Released Date:
1995-01-25
Languages:
French
Countries:
UK, France
Runtime:
101 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.1 (725 Reviews)
Director:
Agnès VardaMonsieur Cinema, a hundred years old, lives alone in a large villa. His memories fade away, so he engages a young woman to tell him stories about all the movies ever made. Also a line of movie stars comes to visit him giving him back the pleasure of life - but amongst them there are also some young students only striving after his money for the realization of their film projects. The two stories - Monsieur Cinema's and the young people's life - are told in parallel until they come together in the end when the old man plays a role in the film made by the students.
Released Date:
1997-03-07
Languages:
French
Countries:
Belgium, France, UK
Runtime:
118 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.6 (6586 Reviews)
Director:
Jaco Van DormaelGeorges has Down's syndrome, living at a mental-institution. Harry is a busy businessman, giving lectures for young aspiring salesmen. He is successful in his business life, but his social life is a disaster since his wife left him and took their two children with her. This weekend his children came by train to meet him, but Harry, working as always, forgot to pick them up. Neither his wife nor his children want to see him again and he is driving around on the country roads, anguished and angry. He almost runs over Georges, on the run from the institution since everybody else went home with their parents except him, whose mother is dead. Harry tries to get rid of Georges but he won't leave his new friend. Eventually a special friendship forms between the two of them, a friendship which makes Harry a different person.
Released Date:
1996-03-21
Languages:
Dutch
Countries:
Netherlands
Runtime:
103 min
IMDB Ratings:
(1384 Reviews)
Director:
Alex van WarmerdamThe Dress is a tale filled with sex, violence, comedy and drama as it follows the life of a dress. Conceived under a cloud of frustration and despair, the dress serves as the hub in a great wheel of misfortune in an extraordinary sequence of events that envelopes both the dress and those fatefully drawn into its universe. An aloof artist, a virginal school girl, an unfulfilled maid, a lowly train conductor and a broken business executive, all become involuntary players in a macabre game of tag. No one who comes in contact with the dress can escape its dramatic, shocking and hilarious consequences.
Released Date:
2012-11-15
Languages:
German, Russian, French
Countries:
Netherlands, Russia, Germany
Runtime:
127 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.3 (502 Reviews)
Director:
Jos StellingJos Stelling (script)
Bert Rijkelijkhuizen (script)
Jos Stelling
Irina Trofimova (translation)
The film, based on an original script by Jos Stelling and Bert Rijkelijkhuizen, tells the story of the Russian physician Nicolai who returns to an old hotel, the place where he first met his great love half a century ago, and relives his romantic tragedy. A large part of the film is set in the late nineteenth century and is situated in a abandoned hotel/sanatorium in Tannenfeld, Thuringia (formerly East Germany), where most of the recordings also took place. The hotel still has traces of an impressive past. Eventually it becomes clear why he really has returned.
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