Released Date:
1964-12-14
Languages:
English, Greek
Countries:
Greece, USA
Runtime:
142 min
Rated:
UNRATED
IMDB Ratings:
7.8 (14384 Reviews)
Director:
Mihalis KakogiannisNikos Kazantzakis (from the novel by)
Mihalis Kakogiannis (screenplay)
An aimless Englishman finds he has a small inheritance on a Greek island. His joyless existence is disturbed when he meets Zorba, a middle aged Greek with a real lust for life. As he discovers the earthy pleasures of Greece, the Englishman finds his view on life changing.
Released Date:
1966-07-01
Languages:
English, German, Swedish, Norwegian
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
128 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (17215 Reviews)
Director:
Alfred HitchcockGenres:
ThrillerProfessor Michael Armstrong is heading to Stockholm to attend a physics conference accompanied by his assistant-fiancèe Sarah Sherman. Once arrived however, Michael informs her that he may be staying for awhile and she should return home. She follows him and realizes he's actually heading to East Germany, behind the Iron Curtain. She follows him there and is shocked when he announces that he's defecting to the East after the US government canceled his research project. In fact, Michael is there to obtain information from a renowned East German scientist. Once the information is obtained, he and Sarah now have to make their way back to the West.
Released Date:
1979-08-29
Languages:
French
Countries:
France, Italy, West Germany
Runtime:
98 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.5 (472 Reviews)
Director:
Costa-GavrasGenres:
DramaReciprocal consolation. The background of two middle-aged people (Michel and Lydia) is gradually unfolded. Michel's wife is incurably ill. They had agreed that she would take her life on this day. All telephone cables were cut and Michel should leave France for months. But he goes forth and back between the airport and his home street. Once when opening the door of a taxi he destroys Lydia's shopping carrier. They sit down in a cafè while he writes her a check. During this night they will part and meet again several times. Half a year ago Lydia's husband had a car accident. Their daughter died and the husband got brain injury. His talk is incomprehensible. Tonight is his birthday. Lydia eventually takes Michel to the great feast that is almost over. In the morning they go to Michel's apartment, where police and relatives are already present. Michel and Lydia had agreed to meet at Lydia's apartment on the next morning. When he comes there, a foreign woman invites him in. Lydia soon calls on telephone. Lydia cannot put up with him in his present state. During the entire night she saw him sitting and praying at his wife's bed. But she offers him to live in her apartment for a month, and she will go away. When she returns they may see what will happen.
Released Date:
1982-08-12
Languages:
English, Russian
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
90 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
6.5 (120 Reviews)
Director:
Lee GrantGenres:
DramaJoyce Eliason
Alev Lytle
Tillie Olsen (story)
Touching story of elderly couple David and Eva who go on one last journey across the USA when they discover Eva is dying, ending up with their granddaughter Jeannie in San Francisco.
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