Released Date:
1988-08-19
Languages:
English, French, Italian
Countries:
France, USA, Italy
Runtime:
168 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
7.7 (35153 Reviews)
Director:
Luc BessonLuc Besson (story)
Luc Besson (screenplay)
Robert Garland (screenplay)
Marilyn Goldin (screenplay)
Jacques Mayol (screenplay)
Marc Perrier (screenplay)
Enzo and Jacques have known each other for a long time. Their friendship started in their childhood days in the Mediterranean. They were not real friends in these days, but there was something they both loved and used to do the whole day long: diving. One day Jacques' father, who was a diver too, died in the Mediterranean sea. After that incident Enzo and Jacques lost contact. After several years, Enzo and Jacques had grown up, Johanna, a young clerk in a security office, has to go to Peru. There she meets Jacques who works for a group of scientists. He dives for some minutes into ice-cold water and the scientists monitor his physical state that is more like a dolphin's than a human's. Johanna can not believe what she sees and gets very interested in Jacques but she's unable to get acquainted with him. Some weeks later, back in her office, she notices a championship for divers that is supposed to take place in Taormina, Italy. In order to see Jacques again she makes up a story so the firm sends her to Italy for business purposes. In Taormina there is also Enzo, the reigning diving world champion. He knows that only Jacques can challenge and probably beat him. This time Johanna and Jacques get closer, but Jacques, being more a dolphin than a man, can not really commit and his rivalry with Enzo pushes both men into dangerous territory...
Released Date:
1991-06-27
Languages:
English, German
Countries:
Spain, Denmark, Sweden, France, Germany, Switzerland
Runtime:
112 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.7 (14974 Reviews)
Director:
Lars von TrierGenres:
DramaAn American of German descent arrives in post-war Germany 1945. His uncle gets him a job on the Zentropa train line as a sleeping car conductor. The American's wish is to be neutral to the ongoing purges of loyalists by the Allied forces and do what he can to help a hurting country, but he finds himself being used by both the Americans and the influential family that owns the railroad. After falling in love with the railroad magnate's daughter, he finds that he can't remain neutral and must make some difficult choices.
Released Date:
1992-08-26
Languages:
English
Countries:
France, UK, Argentina
Runtime:
148 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
(682 Reviews)
Director:
Luis PuenzoGenres:
DramaAlbert Camus (novel)
Luis Puenzo
Eric Altmayer (translation producer)
Norman Di Giovanni (translation: English)
Susan Ashe (translation: English)
Robert Katz (narration)
In the 1990s, a South American city is rocked by the imminent outbreak of a plague. While many attempt to flee the city, Dr Bernard Rieux sends his sick wife away and does his best to care for the plague's victims. The plague means different things to different people: to the doctor, it's a disease to be cured. To a pair of French journalists, it's a breaking news story. To religious leaders, it's punishment for sins. As the sense of isolation and hopelessness grow, Dr Rieux and his associates begin to question their previously-accepted feelings of justice, loneliness, and love.
Released Date:
1996-11-13
Languages:
English
Countries:
Denmark, Sweden, France, Netherlands, Norway, Iceland, Spain
Runtime:
159 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.9 (45277 Reviews)
Director:
Lars von TrierLars von Trier
Peter Asmussen
Drama set in a repressed, deeply religious community in the north of Scotland, where a naive young woman named Bess McNeil meets and falls in love with Danish oil-rig worker Jan. Bess and Jan are deeply in love but, when Jan returns to his rig, Bess prays to God that he returns for good. Jan does return, his neck broken in an accident aboard the rig. Because of his condition, Jan and Bess are now unable to enjoy a sexual relationship and Jan urges Bess to take another lover and tell him the details. As Bess becomes more and more deviant in her sexual behavior, the more she comes to believe that her actions are guided by God and are helping Jan recover.
Released Date:
2004-04-23
Languages:
English
Countries:
Denmark, Sweden, UK, France, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Finland, Italy
Runtime:
178 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
8.1 (99963 Reviews)
Director:
Lars von TrierLate one night, a beautiful and well-dressed young woman, Grace, arrives in the mountainous old mining town of Dogville as a fugitive; following the sound of gunshots in the distance which have been heard by Tom, the self-appointed moral spokesman for the town. Persuaded by Tom, the town agree to hide Grace, and in return she freely helps the locals. However, when the Sheriff from a neighbouring town posts a Missing notice, advertising a reward for revealing her whereabouts, the townsfolk require a better deal from Grace, in return for their silence; and when the Sheriff returns some weeks later with a Wanted poster, even though the citizens know her to be innocent of the false charges against her, the town's sense of goodness takes a sinister turn and the price of Grace's freedom becomes a workload and treatment akin to that of a slave. But Grace has a deadly secret that the townsfolk will eventually encounter.
Released Date:
2005-03-30
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
96 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.6 (1792 Reviews)
Olivier Ducastel
Jacques Martineau
A family comprising of a father, mother, daughter and son head to the south of France for summer vacation. Charly's friend, Martin joins them. He is gay and has a crush on Charly. Charly's mother, Beatrix, thinks Charly is gay and having an affair with Martin. Charly's father is somewhat bothered by this and by the open sexuality in the family.
Released Date:
2013-11-01
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
81 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
5.8 (1281 Reviews)
Director:
Michael PolishGenres:
DramaJack Kerouac (novel)
Michael Polish (screenplay)
Sudden fame and a self-destructive lifestyle were taking a toll on Jack Kerouac's mind and body following the unparalleled success of the groundbreaking novel, On The Road. Once the handsome literary maverick and hero of the Beat Generation, Kerouac now sees only a vestige of his former self, ravaged by alcohol and drugs, aged beyond his years and tormented by self-doubt. Questioning his talent, his faith, and his mortality, Kerouac leaves New York for California, on a quest for redemption at an isolated, fog-banked cabin in the primitive landscape of the Big Sur woods. What ensues in those fateful 3 weeks of August, 1960, is both terrifying and revelatory. While Kerouac is able to find beauty and elation in his surroundings, the dichotomy of his psyche renders him unable to face his demons alone. He sets off on a visceral collision course of paranoia, sex, delirium tremens, misery and madness. His desperation culminates in an intense, hallucinatory breakdown, but the duality of his nature (again) comes into play and he emerges from his dark place - however fleeting - with a modicum of peace and optimism.
Released Date:
2010-08-20
Languages:
French, German, English, Italian
Countries:
France
Runtime:
105 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.1 (609 Reviews)
Director:
Christophe HonorèGenres:
DramaChristophe Honorè (scenario)
Geneviève Brisac (scenario)
Ever since she broke up with Nigel, Lena soldiers on through life as best she can with her two kids. She valiantly overcomes the obstacles put in her way. But she has yet to confront the worst of them: Her unstoppable family has decided, by any means necessary, to make her happy.
Released Date:
2013-11-01
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
81 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
5.8 (1281 Reviews)
Director:
Michael PolishGenres:
DramaJack Kerouac (novel)
Michael Polish (screenplay)
Sudden fame and a self-destructive lifestyle were taking a toll on Jack Kerouac's mind and body following the unparalleled success of the groundbreaking novel, On The Road. Once the handsome literary maverick and hero of the Beat Generation, Kerouac now sees only a vestige of his former self, ravaged by alcohol and drugs, aged beyond his years and tormented by self-doubt. Questioning his talent, his faith, and his mortality, Kerouac leaves New York for California, on a quest for redemption at an isolated, fog-banked cabin in the primitive landscape of the Big Sur woods. What ensues in those fateful 3 weeks of August, 1960, is both terrifying and revelatory. While Kerouac is able to find beauty and elation in his surroundings, the dichotomy of his psyche renders him unable to face his demons alone. He sets off on a visceral collision course of paranoia, sex, delirium tremens, misery and madness. His desperation culminates in an intense, hallucinatory breakdown, but the duality of his nature (again) comes into play and he emerges from his dark place - however fleeting - with a modicum of peace and optimism.
Released Date:
2012-11-22
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
89 min
IMDB Ratings:
4.6 (179 Reviews)
Director:
Paolo FranchiGenres:
DramaPaolo Franchi (story)
Paolo Franchi (screenplay)
Daniela Ceselli (screenplay)
Rinaldo Rocco (screenplay)
Heidrun Schleef (screenplay)
Dino is forty years old and an immense love for Anna, who is unable to touch and consume in an embrace. Anesthetist by day, compulsive lover at night, seeking satisfaction with prostitutes and swingers. The early death of his brother and mother left him deeply marked and lead to sexual addiction. Rejected the loving care and the gentle advances of Anna, Dino recovers and meets the former partner's, asking them to get back with her or appagarne the pleasure he denies. Dismissed or looked with compassion, the man asks Anna to find a passionate lover. Anna, first reluctant, he ends up giving, while doing a night of sex with a stranger. But the feeling he has for Dino is more powerful than any physical pleasure and frustration. Return home but maybe for her and Dino is really too late to start.
Released Date:
2015-10-16
Languages:
French, English, Polish
Countries:
Romania, France, Poland
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (14 Reviews)
Director:
Anca DamianIn the form of an animated docu-drama, the biography of Adam Jacek Winker wonders through nearly half a century of history. A Polish refugee in Paris, Adam lived a boundless life, wanting to change the world. His adventurous life takes a radical turn in the 80s, as he visions himself a knight of the 20th century and leaves France to fight with both amateurism and courage, alongside commander Massoud against the Soviets in Afghanistan. In the light of September 11th, 2001, his fate mirrors the individual's destiny in relation with the history unfolding and also the introspection of a man on his own fate.
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