A famous opera singer lost her voice when her son was born, and has drowned her sorrows in drink. When a murder is committed near her house, she invents a story in order to get herself back in front of the public again. However, the story she comes up with results in her son being arrested for the murder.
A kind wanderer living around a circus, who also happens to work as a modern Robin Hood, must solve the mystery behind the kidnapping of a lost little girl he meets.
JIN PING MEI is a Chinese historical drama revolving around the relationship between a lecherous and ugly government official and the beautiful woman he seduces and turns into his concubine. A married woman named Chinny is tricked into becoming a concubine of the lecherous Simon. Simon then poisons Chinny's husband and imprisons her brother-in-law. When Simon steals another man's wife and kills him as well, we realize it's an addiction. While Chinny is mistreated by the other concubines, Simon has affairs with anything that movies.
Elisabetta is a fishmonger with petty-bourgeois aspirations who cohabits with Luiso Malerba, an anarchist.
Through seven scenes, the film follows the life and destinies of stray dogs from the margins of our society, leading us to reconsider our attitude towards them. Through the seven “wandering” characters that we follow at different ages, from birth to old age, we witness their dignified struggle for survival. At the cemetery, in an abandoned factory, in an asylum, in a landfill, in places full of sorrow, our heroes search for love and togetherness. By combining documentary material, animation and acting interpretation of the thoughts of our heroes, we get to know lives between disappointment and hope, quite similar to ours.
Tintin and Captain Haddock search for Red Rackham's treasure with the help of an eccentric but lovable professor.
A young boy about 10 or 11 is playing in the woods by himself. Then he meets a woman who then gives him a head band and a feather and paints some stripes on his face with her lipstick. So now he looks like a little indian.
A lonely man finds himself bedeviled by a malevolent force. But is it real or just all in his mind? (ALTER)
Marta and Karina are sex workers also studying to become lawyers. Filmed over ten years, this documentary captures their unlikely journey from prostitution to the defense of women's rights.
Documentation of the preparations and expeditions of the Frente de Atração Arara da Funai, in the state of Pará, Brazil. With the construction of the Transamazônica, the Arara territory (without contact with the white man) is cut in half, and the Indians react by attacking the workers. Aware that all contact is a creation of dependency, the sertanista Sydney Possuelo, who also reflexively narrates the documentary, leads the expeditions that aim to identify the groups, how many individuals there are, establishing territorial limits to protect the area against invaders and loggers in the region.
Battalions of red and black ants go to war over an unattended picnic blanket full of food.
Three little kids from Vadamalapeta want to hunt down Dawood Ibrahim and claim prize money. An investigative reporter and her sidekicks want to bring down a child trafficking nexus. How does this motley crew cross paths?
A group of black youths jumping from a dock into the water.
Returning from a dinner party with friends, a young couple finds themselves locked outside their house, and have to deal with the remains of their relationship.
Recently arrived from Recife, bachelor Paulo goes to a party in Rio de Janeiro and there he meets Lucíola, with whom he falls in love. Despite his friend Sá having announced that Lucíola is a prostitute, Paulo begins to experience great love with her, but cannot avoid being jealous.
The small western was the first film by Witold Giersz painted directly with a brush on a celluloid. Spilling patches of colors are arranged in the form of cowboys and horses, creating a surprising and brilliant parody of the western. Animation is also an intriguing self-comment: the viewer watches not only the struggle between good and evil, but also the process of creating a film world. Made in 1960, the award-winning Little Western is the first fully auteur movie in the history of Polish animation - the director and screenwriter in one person also took care of the visual development of the film.