An Italian adaptation of The Sea Gull by the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov.
A young writer is trapped between his awful actress mother (Laura Betti) and the knowledge that he has only a mediocre talent as a playwright and almost no force of character. After the young man in this story suffers the loss of his mistress to his self-satisfied novelist stepfather, his self-respect is so shattered that he commits suicide.Read More »
Rachel is 40 years old, single and has no children. She is working as a teacher at a middle school, and has a large circle of friends and also keeps in touch with her ex-husbands. She also takes guitar lessons and is happy with her life. Then one day, she falls in love with Ali and his four-year-old daughter Leila also enters her life. Rachel takes care of the toddler, cares for and soon loves it like her own. But she must recognize that the close bond with Leila also harbors a possible risk, especially in relation to her birth mother Alice. Rachel doesn’t want to put up with just being an “extra” in Leila’s life. Time is also working against her, should she still fulfill her wish to have a child of her own at this age.Read More »
In 1958 Angelo, a rich and spoiled boy, enters a religious school, where students are tired of its vice-rector, and the strict rules and old-fashioned teaching methods of priests. Soon, Angelo exerts strong leadership among his peers and incites turmoil among them, helped by intellectual Franco and shy Camma. They expel the prefect from the school, organize a Grand Guignol show, and disappear the corpse of an old professor.Read More »
The U.S. Cavalry knows that traveling the unmapped Arizona Territory canyons and trails in search of a woman kidnapped by Apaches could mean riding into a trap. So they ask the help of Ward Kinman, a prospector and scout who knows both the terrain and the ways of the warring tribesmen. Nearly a decade after Billy the Kid, Robert Taylor saddled up a second time and portrayed Kinman in Ambush, the film that began his steady string of work in a genre that suited him like a Colt .45 tucked easy into hip leather. Marguerite Roberts (True Grit) offers a script filled with blazing action and romantic subplots. Among the co-stars: Chief Thundercloud (Tonto in The Lone Ranger serials of 1938 and 1939). From Warner Brothers!Read More »
A murder opens up a bleak trail of long buried secrets and small town corruption for a worn out police detective and his squad.Read More »
A solitary man whose only pastime is to go to a movie theater, the Teatro San Martín, on Corrientes Avenue in Buenos Aires, where he exorcises his ghosts.Read More »
A fantasy romantic comedy that highlights the charm of the city of Onomichi.
A fantasy romantic comedy based on the popular comic by the manga artist, YAMAMOTO Chugaku, supported by the younger generation. The story follows Yohei, a heartbroken young man who gets dumped by his girlfriend. Suddenly, a girl ghost appears in Yohei’s room. As she had never experienced love during her lifetime, she becomes curious about romantic relationships between men and women. She bombards Yohei with questions every day, initially annoying him, and he tries to find a way to exorcise her. However, as he spends more time with her, he begins to feel comfortable with her, realizing she is just like a normal human girl. The film is an all-Onomichi locating, and Cinema Onomichi, which appears in the film as well, highly recommends it, praising the beautiful scenery of Onomichi. They commend the film’s direction and cinematography for showcasing the city’s hidden charms that even the locals might not have noticed, making it an excellent piece of work.Read More »
The town Domingo lives in is being threatened by thugs hired by a developer to expel its inhabitants and pave the way for the construction of a highway. But his land hides a secret-the ghost of his wife who visits him within the mist.
1 win, 11 nominations.Read More »
As demonic forces descend on Argentina, the world’s best hope is confined to an insane asylum, powerless to avert a dark resurrection. The once legendary warlock Antonio Poyju (Germán De Silva) is haunted by the mistakes of his past, and is now reduced to rebelling against orderlies in an institution.
When a malevolent demonic force reveals itself, Poyju must rally a ragtag ensemble of certifiable inmates to spring him from his confinement, so that he can reconcile with his estranged daughter Helena (Lorena Vega) and reunite their magical bloodline to stave off the evil. But the confines of modern life and an unnatural influence has stripped Helena of her belief and cheated the world of her magic. Will Poyju be able to remind his long-lost daughter of her cultural heritage and reignite the magic that has been smothered by corporate life?Read More »