Un Chien Andalou

A woman returning home falls asleep and has vivid dreams that may or may not be happening in reality. Through repetitive images and complete mismatching of the objective view of time and space, her dark inner desires play out on-screen.

The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details the story of a man and a woman who are passionately in love. Their attempts to consummate their passion are constantly thwarted, by their fa…

Stop-motion photography blends with extreme slow-motion in Clair's first and most 'dada' film, composed of a series of zany, interconnected scenes. We witness a rooftop chess match between Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray, a hearse pulled by a ca…

The clock strikes midnight, the bats fly from the belfry, a dog howls at the full moon, and two black cats fight in the cemetery: a perfect time for four skeletons to come out and dance a bit.

This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northern Quebec region. Although the production contains some fictional elements, it vividly shows how its resourceful subjects survive in such a …

In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.

After dumping a bucket of water on a beautiful young woman from the window of a train car, wealthy Frenchman Mathieu, regales his fellow passengers with the story of the dysfunctional relationship between himself and the young woman in ques…

En rigmandskone som har nok i sig selv rammes af skyld efter hendes søns pludselige død. For at håndtere hendes sorg og finde mening i livet beslutter hun sig for at kaste sig ud i velgørenhed. Denne besættelse fører til konflikter med hend…

Man was made to be happy for simple reasons and unhappy for even simpler ones – just as he is born for simple reasons and dies for even simpler ones... Isa and Bahar are two lonely figures dragged through the ever-changing climate of their …

På en togrejse gennem Europa falder den unge Iris i snak med miss Froy, en sød, ældre dame. Stor er Iris' bestyrtelse, da miss Froy forsvinder sporløst fra toget. Og mysteriet bliver ikke mindre, da de andre passagerer nægter at have set de…

Forretningsmanden Peter Egerman betror sine drømme om at slå sin kone Katarina ihjel til sin ven og psykiater Mogens Jensen, men myrder i stedet en prostitueret.

Buster Keaton gets involved in a series of misunderstandings involving a horse and cart. Eventually he infuriates every cop in the city when he accidentally interrupts a police parade.

Emilie is a bright young workaholic manager in Human Resources, working for a huge French agro-food company. But, one day, one of the employees commits suicide at the company in front of her. While an investigation is underway, stuck betwee…

Det tossede hus er en af filmhistoriens klassikere og er lige så hylende morsom i dag som for 50 år siden. Filmen introducerede Grouchos mest berømte figur, kaptajn Spaulding, hvis sang blev tema i hans "You Bet Your Life" tv-program. Højde…

Vi er i 2038, Jordens naturlige ressourcer er næsten opbrugt. Multinationale selskaber er begyndt med minedrift på fjerne planeter for at skaffe energi. På Moon 44 forsvinder dyrebart materiel, og Felix Stone fra afdelingen for interne anli…

A group of actors putting on an interpretive Passion Play in Montreal begin to experience a meshing of their characters and their private lives as the production takes form against the growing opposition of the Catholic church.

Thymian Henning, an innocent young girl, is raped by the clerk of her father's pharmacy. She becomes pregnant, is rejected by her family, and must fend for herself in a harsh, cruel world.

MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES is the striking new documentary on the world and work of renowned artist Edward Burtynsky. Internationally acclaimed for his large-scale photographs of “manufactured landscapes”—quarries, recycling yards, factories, …

A spiral design spins. It's replaced by a spinning disk. These two continue in perfect alternation until the end: a spiral design, a disk. Each disk is labelled and can be read as it rotates. The messages, in French, feature puns and whimsi…

After botching his latest assignment, a third-ranked Japanese hit man becomes the target of another assassin.