Soundtrack: Johann Sebastian Bach

Direction Rita Azevedo Gomes

Cast José María Branco · Manuela de Freitas · Miguel Gonçalves · Sara Marques

Plot Loosely based on Gide ('Paludes') and Hawthorne ('Wakefield'), this is a film about a writer who didn't write anything and who blows at night the breath of frozen air. These...

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Harriet Andersson · Kari Sylwan · Ingrid Thulin · Liv Ullmann

Plot Karin and Maria come to the aid of their dying sister, Agnes, but jealousy, manipulation, and selfishness come before empathy. Agnes, tortured by cancer, transcends the pettiness of her sisters'...

Direction Andrei Tarkovsky

Cast Erland Josephson · Susan Fleetwood · Valérie Mairesse · Allan Edwall

Plot Alexander, a journalist and former actor and philosopher, tells his little son how worried he is about the lack of spirituality of modern mankind. In the night of his birthday,...

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Ingrid Thulin · Gunnel Lindblom · Jörgen Lindström · Haakan Jahnberg

Plot The third entry in Ingmar Bergman's trilogy about faith and redemption (with 'Through a Glass Darkly' and 'Winter Light'). Two sisters - the sickly, intellectual Ester and the sensual, pragmatic...

Direction Ermanno Olmi

Cast Luigi Ornaghi · Francesca Moriggi · Omar Brignoli · Antonio Ferrari

Plot Ermanno Olmi’s Palme d’or-winner about the hardships faced by peasants in late 19th-century Lombardy is a masterpiece of neorealism. This wonderful portrayal of rural peasant life in turn of the...

Direction Michael Haneke

Cast Jean-Louis Trintignant · Emmanuelle Riva · Isabelle Huppert · William Shimell

Plot Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with her family. One day, Anne has an...

Direction Pier Paolo Pasolini

Cast Franco Citti · Silvana Corsini · Franca Pasut · Paola Guidi

Plot Pasolini's first film is a painfully realistic study of a pimp in Rome. Vittorio Accattone has never worked a day in his life, and has apparently made a good living...

Direction James Algar · Samuel Armstrong · Ford Beebe Jr. · Norman Ferguson

Cast Leopold Stokowski · Deems Taylor

Plot In this 1940 Disney masterpiece, Leopold Stokowski conducts Tchaikovskys The Nutcracker Suite, Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring and Mussorgsky's dramatic Night on Bald Mountain, just a few of the classical...

Direction João César Monteiro

Cast Laura Morante · Philip J. Spinelli · Manuela de Freitas · Gerd Volkmar

Plot When Laura Rossellini decides to leave Portugal with her children, she is absolutely convinced that she will never return and that she is leaving forever behind a "dead country". However,...

Direction Jorge Honik · Laura Honik

Plot Filmed almost entirely inside a house on the outskirts of S.C. Bariloche, on the shores of Lake Nahuel Huapi, along a winter and early spring. The camera discovers furniture, corners,...

Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub

Cast Gustav Leonhardt · Christiane Lang · Paolo Carlini · Joachim Wolff

Plot First full-length feature film by the French filmmaking duo of Straub and Huillet. The film presents biography as the rewriting and juxtaposition of prior documents with a prominent importance of...

Direction Robert Bresson

Cast Christian Patey · Sylvie van den Elsen · Beatrice Tabourin · Vincent Risterucci

Plot A forged 500-franc note is cynically passed from person to person and shop to shop, until it falls into the hands of a genuine innocent who doesn't see it for...

Direction Marlen Khutsiev

Cast Rostislav Plyatt · Andrey Myagkov

Direction Mario Sábato

Direction Ignacio Agüero

Cast Manuel Valenzuela · Verónica Astorga · Estibaliz Uzabeaga · René Carabante

Plot The filmmaker's house has a door that faces the street. This door separates the inner space and the outer space. The inner space contains the personal story of the filmmaker...

Direction Manuel Mur Oti

Cast Pedro Díez del Corral · Nyree Dawn Porter · Jane Seymour · María Rubio

Plot History of a spanish family from 1916-1966.

Direction Jan Švankmajer

Cast Petr Cepek · Jan Kraus · Vladimír Kudla · Antonin Zacpal

Plot A very free adaptation of Marlowe's 'Doctor Faustus', Goethe's 'Faust' and various other treatments of the old legend of the man who sold his soul to the devil. Avant-garde animator...

Direction François Girard

Cast Colm Feore · Gale Garner · Katya Ladan · Yehudi Menuhin

Plot As the title suggests, this dramatised documentary about the eccentric Canadian pianist Glenn Gould is broken up into thirty-two short films (mirroring the thirty-two part structure of Bach's 'Goldberg Variations',...

Direction José Luis Guerín

Plot On the morning of January 21st, 2008, a violinist living in Guerín’s neighbourhood committed suicide by jumping naked from his window. The only thing that he has known about him,...

Direction Liv Ullmann

Cast Karen-Lise Mynster · Ghita Nørby · Erland Josephson · Jesper Christensen

Plot From 1886 to 1907 in the life of Sofie, a Jew in Copenhagen who is nearly 29, with no marital prospects, living with her loving parents. An artist, Hans Hojby,...