The Mass Is Ended

Michele is a Communist MP who loses his memory in a car crash—although nobody seems to notice. Over the course of a water polo match ahead of election day, he begins to remember his past life, revealing the picture of a man whose personal a…

Eccentric and full of manias, Michele is a young high school professor who defines himself as “not used to happiness”. He realizes his life is meaningless if he doesn’t have a woman by his side but, after a series of rather disastrous exper…

Taddeus is the manager of the Grand Hotel Excelsior. The Summer season begins in May and since then many odd persons frequent the hotel. There is Ilde Vivaldi, in love with Taddeus and the boxer Pericle Coccia who has an important match and…

Michele criticizes the film industry and its inhabitants, and is particularly embattled with a Neapolitan director making a musical about the 1968 student demonstrations. At the same time, Michele has a creative block and struggles to finis…

Tough Brooklyn street cop Sam Makin is unwillingly recruited as an assassin for a secret United States organization known as CURE, who fake his death and give him a new identity: Remo Williams. With his appearance surgically altered, Willia…

A former convict discovers that his son has been adopted by a couple living on the mountains and tries to establish a contact with him

Sidonie Perceval, an established French writer, is mourning her deceased husband. Invited to Japan for the reedition of her first book, she is welcomed by her local editor who takes her to Kyoto, the city of shrines and temples. As they tr…

At his cinema in Rome, the Nuovo Sacher, Nanni Moretti anxiously oversees preparations for the premiere of the film Close-up, by Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami. Meanwhile Disney's The Lion King is taking Italy by storm.

Dark animation examining the thin line between human definitions of war and peace. Part of Sweet Disaster; a 1986 series of short films made for Channel 4. It consists of “animated visions of the apocalypse”.

Bankmanden Arthur Hamilton lever et pænt og kedeligt liv, indtil han en dag kommer i kontakt med en hemmelig organisation, der giver ham et tilbud, han ikke kan afslå: Vælg en person, hvis liv du vil leve. Så fingerer vi din død, slår perso…

Geremia, an aging tailor/money lender, is a repulsive, mean, stingy man who lives alone in his shabby house with his scornful, bedridden mother. He has a morbid, obsessive relationship with money and he uses it to insinuate himself into oth…

En stilfærdig, beskeden kardinal finder sig pludselig forfremmet til pave i Rom. Han har aldrig før været i rampelyset og bliver slået helt ud, da han konfronteres med menneskeskaren på Peters-pladsen. For at undgå en international krise hi…

I ruinerne af en mærkelig by passer en ung pige på et stort æg, som hun holder forsigtigt i sine arme. Hun knytter bånd til en dreng, der leder efter en fugl, han så i en drøm.

Servitricen Cecilia flygter fra sin triste hverdag ind i biografens mørke. Da hun har set "The Purple Rose of Cairo" fem gange sker det helt fantastiske at filmens helt træder ud af biograflærredet og ned i biografen til sin trofaste fan. D…

Italy, early '90s. Calm, clever and inscrutable, politician Giulio Andreotti has been synonymous with power for decades. He has survived everything: electoral battles, terrorist massacres, loss of friends, slanderous accusations; but now ce…

Guitaristen Adam er et hit på Detroits undergrundsscene. Hans elskede, Eva, bor i Tanger, hvor hun fordyber sig i klassisk litteratur. Begge er vampyrer, der gennem århundreder har udviklet en stærk antipati mod civilisationens udvikling. D…

Det, der skulle have været en fredelig demonstration, blev til et voldeligt sammenstød med politiet. Det førte til en af historiens mest berømte retssager.

Jiro drømmer om at blive pilot og flyve igennem skyerne. Men da han er nærsynet, må han i stedet uddanne sig til ingeniør og flydesigner. Under det store jordskælv i 1923 møder han sit livs udkårne, Naoko, som han bliver genforenet og gift …

Jobbet som sprængningsekspert i Bagdads kvælende hede kræver mænd af en særlig fandenivoldsk støbning. De amerikanske soldater i Bravo-kompagniets EOD-enhed arbejder hver dag med at afsikre og fjerne bomber for at skabe sikkerhed for både s…

Et sælsomt syn møder drengen Pazu, da den jævnaldrende Sheeta langsomt daler ned fra himlen med en magisk amulet om halsen. Det viser sig, at både Pazu og Sheeta drømmer om at finde Laputa, det svævende slot. Den forældreløse Sheeta håber a…