L'Atalante

In Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of food leads to a voluntary but socially-enforced policy in which relatives carry 70-year-old family members up Narayama mountain to die. Granny Orin…

Short documentary directed by Jean Vigo about the French swimmer Jean Taris. The film is notable for the many innovative techniques that Vigo uses, including close ups and freeze frames of the swimmer's body.

A family drama involving a wife torn between her husband and her criminal ex-lover.

A Mexican fisherman, whose son has died because he could not afford necessary medical care out of his meagre wages, becomes aware of how badly exploited he and his many fellow fisherman are by the one greedy man for whom they work and the c…

Ivan is a young Brazilian delinquent going through a probationary programme. An electronic shackle controls his location, but not his thoughts. Documentary about a man on home prison.

20 years ago, Vesna moved her family to Zagreb, away from the events that almost destroyed their lives. However, an unexpected call will bring back the memory of a secret that she has been trying to hide all these years.

A first-year law student struggles with balancing his coursework and his relationship with the daughter of a stern professor.

What starts off as a conventional travelogue turns into a satirical portrait of the town of Nice on the French Côte d'Azur, especially its wealthy inhabitants.

San Francisco businessman Harry Graham and his wife and business partner, Eve, are in the process of adopting a child. When private investigator Mr. Jordan uncovers the fact that Graham has another wife, Phyllis, and a small child in Los An…

John, an ambitious but undisciplined New York City office worker, meets and marries Mary. They start a family, struggle to cope with marital stress, financial setbacks, and tragedy, all while lost amid the anonymous, pitiless throngs of the…

The most famous murder scene in movie history comprises 78 camera settings and 52 cuts: the shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. 78/52 tells the story of the man behind the curtain and his greatest obsession.

En kameramand vandrer rundt med et kamera hængende over skulderen og dokumenterer bylivet med blændende opfindsomhed.

Rosa is in her late 30s, a child of the 1970s with divorced parents. She lives with her own family in São Paulo. Overwhelmed by an eruption of individual passions, lies and the expectations of three generations, she tries to discover who sh…

In a repressive boarding school with rigid rules of behavior, four boys decide to rebel against the director on a celebration day.

Vivian Maier's photos were seemingly destined for obscurity, lost among the clutter of the countless objects she'd collected throughout her life. Instead these images have shaken the world of street photography and irrevocably changed the l…

Indianapolis omkring år 1900. Opfinderen Eugene Morgan laver en skandale i fuld offentlighed og får sparket af sin forlovede Isabel Amberson, der i stedet i trods gifter sig med den kedelige Wilbur Minafer. De får sammen sønnen George, der …

Fransk komedie om feminismens spæde start. Paulette Van Der Beck og hendes mand har drevet en husholdningsskole i Alsace i mange år. Deres mission er at træne teenagepiger til at blive perfekte husmødre på et tidspunkt, hvor det forventes, …

Nicholas Rays western, der har Joan Crawford, hendes mand Sterling Hayden og Mercedes MacCambridge i hovedrollerne, er nok mest kendt for de næsten dyriske slagsmål mellem de to kvinder i filmens historie. Crawford spiller saloonejeren Vien…

A man and a woman meet by accident on a Sunday evening at their childrens' boarding school. Slowly, they reveal themselves to each other, finding that they have something deeply in common.

Da en gadefotograf bliver håbløst forelsket i en sød pige som arbejder for en Nyhedsfilm-redaktion, bytter han sit gamle kamera ud med et filmkamera, og går på jagt efter spændende optagelser.