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Guillermo del Toro
La cumbre escarlata
Guillermo del Toro · 2015
Como consecuencia de una tragedia familiar, una escritora es incapaz de elegir entre el amor de su amigo de la infancia y la tentación que representa un misterioso desconocido. En un intento por escapar de los fantasmas del pasado, se encuentra de pronto en una casa que respira, sangra… y recuerda.
Mimic
Guillermo del Toro · 1997
En Nueva York, una epidemia provocada por cucarachas provoca una terrible enfermedad que afecta a los niños. Cuando una entomóloga consigue crear un insecto modificado genéticamente, la terrible plaga desaparece. Sin embargo, tres años después...
El laberinto del fauno
Guillermo del Toro · 2006
En la España falangista de 1944, una joven aficionada a los libros e hijastra de un sádico oficial del ejército huye a un misterioso pero cautivador mundo de fantasía.
Pinocho
2022
Versión musical en animación stop motion del famoso cuento de 'Pinocho', ambientada en la Italia fascista, durante la década de 1930.
El callejón de las almas perdidas
Guillermo del Toro · 2021
Un buscavidas se compincha con una pitonisa para engañar a la gente y conseguir dinero... Remake del film "El callejón de las almas perdidas" (Nightmare Alley) de 1947.
La forma del agua
Guillermo del Toro · 2017
Elisa es una joven muda que trabaja como conserje en un laboratorio en 1963, en plena Guerra Fría, donde se enamorará de un hombre anfibio que se encuentra ahí recluido.
Hellboy II: El ejército dorado
Guillermo del Toro · 2008
Tras la ruptura de un acuerdo milenario entre la humanidad y los poderes invisibles de un mundo fantástico, el infierno en la Tierra está cada vez más cerca. Un líder despiadado, que se maneja tanto en el mundo de los humanos como en el de las criaturas, decide traicionar a sus ancestros, y despierta a un ejército imparable de criaturas diabólicas. Ahora, en este momento de debilidad, el superhéroe más duro deberá combatir contra el imparable líder y su ejército. Es rojo, caliente e incomprendido es Hellboy (Ron Perlman).
Pacific Rim
Guillermo del Toro · 2013
Cuando legiones de monstruosas criaturas, denominadas Kaiju, comienzan a salir del mar, se inicia una guerra que acabará con millones de vidas y que consumirá los recursos de la humanidad durante interminables años. Para combatir a los Kaiju gigantes diseñan un tipo especial de arma: enormes robots, llamados Jaegers, que son controlados simultáneamente por dos pilotos cuyas mentes están bloqueadas en un puente neural. Pero incluso los Jaegers proporcionan poca defensa ante los incansables Kaiju. A punto de la derrota, las fuerzas que defienden a la humanidad no tienen otra elección que recurrir a dos insólitos héroes: un ex piloto acabado (Charlie Hunnam) y un aprendiz que todavía no se ha puesto a prueba (Rinko Kikuchi). Ambos se unen para traer a un legendario pero al parecer obsoleto Jaeger del pasado. Juntos, son la última esperanza de la humanidad frente al Apocalipsis que se avecina.
Blade II
Guillermo del Toro · 2002
Una nueva raza de vampiros, los Reapers, surge para atacar tanto a los humanos como a los de su propia raza, causando el terror. El Consejo de la Sombra, un grupo de vampiros que teme por su supervivencia y que tiene su sede en Praga, contacta con Blade para que acabe con ellos.
El espinazo del diablo
Guillermo del Toro · 2001
España, 1939. En los últimos días de la guerra civil española, el joven Carlos llega al orfanato de Santa Lucía, donde hará amigos y enemigos mientras sigue los quedos pasos de una misteriosa presencia ávida de venganza…
Cronos
Guillermo del Toro · 1993
Cronos es un artefacto creado por un alquimista medieval, en cuyo interior se encuentra instalado un insecto, que se alimenta de sangre y tiene el poder de ofrecer la eterna juventud. Premiada película con excelentes críticas.
El gabinete de curiosidades de Guillermo del Toro
Guillermo del Toro · 2022
Las pesadillas más sobrecogedoras cobran vida en estos ocho cuentos de terror, escalofriantes y visualmente arrebatadores, seleccionados por Guillermo del Toro.
El orfanato
2007
Laura regresa con su familia al orfanato en el que creció de niña, con la intenció de abrir una residencia para niños discapacitados. El nuevo entorno despierta la imaginació de su hijo, que comienza a dejarse llevar por juegos de fantasía cada vez más intensos. Éstos van inquietando a Laura cada vez más, hasta el punto en el que llega a pensar que hay algo en la casa que está amenazando a su familia. A ella le ocurre algo extraordinario y, a pesar de que es una mujer con unos principios muy claros, su universo se tambalea poniendo en duda todo aquello en lo que creía...
Tim Burton
Bitelchús
Tim Burton · 1988
A newly dead New England couple seeks help from a deranged demon exorcist to scare an affluent New York family out of their home.
Frankenweenie
Tim Burton · 2012
De la mente del director Tim Burton ('Alicia en el país de las maravillas', 'La leyenda de Sleepy Hollow'), surge 'Frankenweenie', la tierna historia de un chico y su mascota. Cuando el pequeño perro Sparky fallece, Víctor (su amo y amigo) trata de usar diversas técnicas científicas para intentar revivir al animal, y traerlo de vuelta al mundo de los vivos, todo ello mediante algunos ajustes corporales. Aunque el chico intenta que nadie vea a su "monstruo", el perro Sparky consigue escapar, los amigos del colegio del niño, sus profesores e incluso todos sus vecinos sabrán que construir una nueva vida puede llegar a ser algo terrible y escalofriante.
Alicia en el País de las Maravillas
Tim Burton · 2010
Alicia, una joven de 19 años, asiste a una fiesta en una mansión victoriana, donde descubre que está a punto de recibir una propuesta de matrimonio frente a un montón de gente estirada de la alta sociedad. Alicia entonces se escapa, corriendo tras un conejo blanco, entra a un agujero tras él... y acaba en el país de las Maravillas, un lugar que visitó hace 10 años, pero el cual no recuerda. El país de las Maravillas era un reino pacífico hasta que la Reina Roja derrocó a su hermana, la Reina Blanca. Las criaturas del país de las maravillas, listos para la revuelta, esperan que Alicia les ayude, y éstas a su vez le ayudarán a recordar su primera visita al mágico reino.
La novia cadáver
2005
In a 19th-century European village, a young man about to be married is whisked away to the underworld and wed to a mysterious corpse bride, while his real bride waits bereft in the land of the living.
El hogar de Miss Peregrine para niños peculiares
Tim Burton · 2016
A teenager finds himself transported to an island where he must help protect a group of orphans with special powers from creatures intent on destroying them.
Sombras tenebrosas
Tim Burton · 2012
Vampire Barnabas Collins is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972. He returns to Collinwood Manor to find that his once-grand estate and family have fallen into ruin.
Eduardo Manostijeras
Tim Burton · 1990
Érase una vez... un castillo donde vivía un inventor que dedicó parte de su vida a crear una criatura perfecta a la que llamó Edward. Pero el inventor murió de repente y dejó incompleta su creación, ya que en vez de dedos tenía unas horribles manos con hojas de tijera. El pobre Edward vivía sólo en el castillo hasta que una encantadora joven, que trabajaba para la firma Avon, lo llevó a su casa junto con su familia. Pero una criatura tan especial como Edward no estaba preparada para vivir en una ciudad tan extravagante y falsa como Suburbia.
Charlie y la fábrica de chocolate
Tim Burton · 2005
Charlie Bucket (Freddie Highmore), un niño muy bueno de una familia muy pobre, gana un concurso, junto a otros cuatro niños de diferentes partes del mundo, para disfrutar de una visita durante todo un día a la gigantesca fábrica de chocolate dirigida por el excéntrico Willy Wonka (Johnny Depp) y su equipo de Oompa-Loompas. La fábrica se parece a un mundo fantástico y mágico lleno de diferentes sabores, todos muy dulces.
El Jinete sin Cabeza
Tim Burton · 1999
Durante la Guerra de Secesión Americana, un policía de Nueva York que utiliza avanzados métodos de investigación es enviado al pueblo de Sleepy Hollow para descubrir qué hay de verdad en la leyenda de un jinete sin cabeza que aterroriza a los habitantes del lugar. Una vez allí adopta la identidad de un profesor de escuela y se enamora de Katrina, que mantiene relaciones con uno de los hombres más conocidos del pueblo. Realidad y ficción se darán la mano en el momento menos pensado.
Sweeney Todd: El barbero diabólico de la calle Fleet
Tim Burton · 2007
Sweeney Todd İngiltere'de berberlik yaparak yaşamını sürdüren, çok güzel bir eşi olan, hayata umutla bakan bir adamdır. Fakat kasabanın önde gelenlerinden birinin güzel eşinde gözü vardır. Yersiz bir suçlama ile hapse atılır ve ardından sürgüne gönderilir. Hayatı darmadağan olan Sweeney Todd kurtulup geri dönmek ve intikam almak için yemin eder. Yıllar sonra geri geldiğinde her şey çok değişmiştir fakat onu hatıralar içerisinde sabırla bekleyen biri vardır, Bayan Lovett... Şeytan Berber Bayan Lovett'ın da yardımıyla suçluyu bulana kadar acımasız bir cellada dönüşecektir; bu arada kasabayı birbirinden güzel kek ve çörek kokuları kaplarken şüphelenmek kimsenin aklına gelmeyecektir...
Pesadilla antes de Navidad
1993
Tired of scaring humans every October 31 with the same old bag of tricks, Jack Skellington, the spindly king of Halloween Town, kidnaps Santa Claus and plans to deliver shrunken heads and other ghoulish gifts to children on Christmas morning. But as Christmas approaches, Jack's rag-doll girlfriend, Sally, tries to foil his misguided plans.
Live From Lincoln Center: Danny Elfman's
Tim Burton · 2015
El compositor y actor Danny Elfman, el prolífico colaborador musical de Tim Burton, desciende al Lincoln Center con una orquesta de 88 piezas, un coro de 44 voces y una colorida variedad de fanáticos y fanáticos. Live from Lincoln Center capturará toda la emoción de esta invasión cultural, culminando en actuaciones de las partituras Burton más queridas de Elfman, de películas como Batman, Beetlejuice, Alicia en el país de las maravillas, Big Fish, Edward Scissorhands y The Nightmare Before Christmas, que presenta a Elfman cantando canciones icónicas. Acompañando a la música se encuentran clips de películas seleccionadas, así como bocetos y guiones originales creados por Tim Burton. También profundizaremos en el espectáculo surrealista detrás de la actuación, ofreciendo una mirada caprichosa a Elfman y sus amigos a medida que llegan al campus y se preparan para el espectáculo. Es un viaje musical con estilo lleno de guiños a la extraordinaria visión de Tim Burton y Danny Elfman.
Frankenweenie
Tim Burton · 1984
When young Victor's pet dog Sparky (who stars in Victor's home-made monster movies) is hit by a car, Victor decides to bring him back to life the only way he knows how. But when the bolt-necked "monster" wreaks havoc and terror in the hearts of Victor's neighbors, he has to convince them (and his parents) that despite his appearance, Sparky's still the good loyal friend he's always been.
Akira Kurosawa
Los sueños de Akira Kurosawa
Akira Kurosawa · 1990
Película compuesta de ocho cortometrajes de veinte minutos cada uno. Son ensoñaciones dispersas, independientes, pero engarzadas entre sí por deseos, angustias y añoranzas. La historia de Yo, desde su infancia hasta su vejez, sirve para mostrar las relaciones del hombre con el mundo, el arte, la espiritualidad, la muerte. Los ocho relatos (extraídos de sueños de Kurosawa) reflejan lo cambios experimentados por Japón a lo largo de un siglo.
ikiru
Akira kurosawa
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Ikiru" (1952).
Rashomon
Akira Kurosawa · 1950
Japón, siglo XII. En Kioto, bajo las puertas del derruido templo de Rashomon, se guarecen de la torrencial lluvia un leñador, un sacerdote budista y un peregrino. Los tres discuten sobre el juicio a un bandido, acusado de haber dado muerte a un señor feudal y violado a su esposa. Los detalles del crimen son narrados desde el punto de vista del bandido, de la mujer, del señor feudal -con la ayuda de un médium- y del leñador, único testigo de los hechos.
Los siete samuráis
Akira Kurosawa · 1954
Una banda de forajidos atemorizan a los habitantes de un pequeño pueblo, saqueándolos periódicamente sin piedad. Para repeler estos ataques, los aldeanos deciden contratar a mercenarios. Finalmente, consiguen los servicios de 7 guerreros, 7 samurais dispuestos a defenderlos a cambio, tan solo, de cobijo y comida.
Trono de sangre
Akira Kurosawa · 1957
Japón feudal, siglo XVI. Adaptación del "Macbeth" de William Shakespeare. Cuando los generales Taketori Washizu y Yoshaki Miki regresan de una victoriosa batalla, se encuentran en el camino con una extraña anciana, que profetiza que Washizu llegará a ser el señor del Castillo del Norte. A partir de ese momento, su esposa lo instigará hasta convencerlo de que debe cumplir su destino.
Madadayo
Akira Kurosawa · 1993
Tokio, 1943. El profesor Hyakken Uchida abandona su cátedra para dedicarse por completo a su carrera como escritor. Los desastres de la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945) hacen que pierda su casa y viva con su mujer en una barraca. Pero sus ex alumnos deciden construirle un nuevo hogar, al que se trasladará con su esposa. También se comprometen a celebrar cada cumpleaños del venerado maestro. Durante esas fiestas, juegan como niños y le preguntan al profesor: "Mahda-kai" ("¿Estás listo para irte al otro mundo?"), a lo que él responde: "Madadayo" ("No, todavía no"). (FILMAFFINITY)
Crónica de un ser vivo
Akira Kurosawa · 1955
Poco después de terminada la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945) Kiiji Nakajima, un anciano atemorizado por las consecuencias del bombardeo de Hiroshima y Nagasaki, vive obsesionado con la idea de construir un refugio antiatómico. Sin embargo, cuando algún tiempo después se plantea emigrar con su familia a Brasil para evitar la amenaza nuclear, su decisión tropieza con la incomprensión de todos los que lo rodean.
Dersu Uzala (El cazador)
Akira Kurosawa · 1975
Un explorador del ejército conoce a un hombre de la tribu Goldi en los bosques no mapeados de Rusia. Con el tiempo, se crea un vínculo duradero entre los dos hombres: uno civilizado en el sentido usual, y el otro que tiene por hogar los bosques glaciares de Siberia.
Dodes 'Ka-Den
Akira Kurosawa · 1970
Por momentos trágico y trascendente, la película de Akira Kurosawa sigue la vida cotidiana de un grupo de personas que apenas se arrastran en un barrio pobre en las afueras de Tokio. Sin embargo, por desesperadas que sean sus circunstancias, cada uno de ellos, el padre y el hijo sin hogar imaginando la casa de sus sueños; la joven maltratada por su tío; el niño que se imagina a sí mismo como conductor de un tranvía, encuentra razones para continuar. El inolvidable Dodes’ka-den se hizo en un momento tumultuoso en la vida de Kurosawa. Y todas sus esperanzas, miedos y pasión artística se muestran fervientemente en esta, su primera película en color gloriosamente filmada.
黒澤明～創ると云う事は素晴らしい～どん底
Yoshinari Okamoto · 2002
Sugata Sanshiro
1965
Remake de los dos filmes sobre "la leyenda del gran Judo" de Akira Kurosawa, filmados en 1942 y 1945.
Duelo silencioso
Akira Kurosawa · 1949
Kyoji Fujisaki (Mifune), un joven cirujano militar, contrae la sífilis mientras cura a un herido durante la guerra. Acabada la contienda, la enfermedad será motivo de discusión entre el médico y su prometida. Finalmente, él no tendrá más remedio que enfrentarse a un grave dilema: aceptar, en su estado, las responsabilidades de la vida familiar o dedicarse en cuerpo y alma a la medicina.
La más bella
Akira Kurosawa · 1944
Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), varias mujeres trabajan en una empresa de instrumentos de óptica. Bajo el control paternalista del director de la fábrica, luchan para conseguir la máxima calidad en difíciles condiciones. A pesar de las enfermedades y los problemas con los que se enfrentan, viven entregadas a su trabajo y a la causa de su país. El jefe de equipo, cuya mujer se está muriendo, se esforzará por dar ejemplo a los demás mostrando una voluntad de acero.
No añoro mi juventud
Akira Kurosawa · 1946
Yukie, hija de un profesor universitario, se queda conmocionada cuando su padre es expulsado de su cátedra por sus enseñanzas políticas, pero mucho más aún cuando su novio es arrestado y ejecutado bajo la acusación de espionaje.
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Ran'
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Ran'
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on “Ran” (1985).
Yojimbo
Yojimbo
A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the name Sanjuro Kuwabatake, the ronin convinces both silk merchant Tazaemon and sake merchant Tokuemon to hire him as a personal bodyguard, then artfully sets in motion a full-scale gang war between the two ambitious and unscrupulous men.
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Kagemusha'
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Kagemusha'
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Kagemusha" (1980).
Bong Joon ho
Parásitos
Bong Joon-ho · 2019
Tanto Gi Taek (Song Kang-ho) como su familia están sin trabajo. Cuando su hijo mayor, Gi Woo (Choi Woo-sik), empieza a dar clases particulares en casa de Park (Lee Seon-gyun), las dos familias, que tienen mucho en común pese a pertenecer a dos mundos totalmente distintos, comienzan una interrelación de resultados imprevisibles.
Okja
Bong Joon-ho · 2017
Narra la historia de Mija, una joven coreana de viaje en Estados Unidos que debe arriesgarlo todo para detener a una poderosa multinacional que pretende secuestrar a su mejor amigo: un animal gigantesco llamado ‘Okja’
Memories of Murder (Crónica de un asesino en serie)
Bong Joon Ho · 2003
During the late 1980s, two detectives in a South Korean province attempt to solve the nation's first series of rape-and-murder cases.
The Host
Bong Joon-ho · 2006
Los habitantes de Seúl observan sorprendidos un extraño objeto que cuelga de un puente sobre el río Han. El objeto es, en realidad, una monstruosa criatura mutante que al despertar devora a todo aquel que se cruza en su camino. En medio de tanto horror, la criatura mutante rapta a la hija del dueño de un quiosco que vive felizmente a la orilla del río. Mientras el ejército fracasa una y otra vez en sus intentos de destruir al monstruo, este hombrecillo anónimo y su familia intentan recuperar a su hija.
Rompenieves
Bong Joon-ho · 2013
Un experimento para solucionar el calentamiento global acabó con la mayoría de vida existente en el planeta. El último tren llamado Snowpiercer (Rompenieves) se mueve en círculos por el mundo, a través de un desierto de hielo y nieve. Los últimos supervivientes de la Tierra se amontonan en sus vagones. El joven Curtis (Chris Evans) iniciará una revolución desde los vagones de cola.
Mother
Mother
A mother lives quietly with her son. One day, a girl is brutally killed, and the boy is charged with the murder. Now, it's his mother's mission to prove him innocent.
Tokyo!
Tokyo!
Three distinct tales unfold in the bustling city of Tokyo. Merde, a bizarre sewer-dweller, emerges from a manhole and begins terrorizing pedestrians. After his arrest, he stands trial and lashes out at a hostile courtroom. A man who has resigned himself to a life of solitude reconsiders after meeting a charming pizza delivery woman. And finally, a happy young couple find themselves undergoing a series of frightening metamorphoses.
Park Chan wook
Decision to Leave
Park Chan-wook · 2022
Hae-Joon, un veterano detective, investiga la sospechosa muerte de un hombre en la cima de una montaña. Pronto, comenzará a sospechar de Sore, la mujer del difunto, mientras la atracción que siente por ella le desestabilizará.
Joint Security Area
Park Chan-wook · 2000
Two North Korean soldiers are killed in the border area between North and South Korea, prompting an investigation by a neutral body. The sergeant is the shooter, but the lead investigator, a Swiss-Korean woman, receives differing accounts from the two sides.
Lady Vengeance
Lady Vengeance
Released after being wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for 13 years, a woman begins executing her elaborate plan of retribution.
The Handmaiden
The Handmaiden
1930s Korea, in the period of Japanese occupation, a new girl, Sookee, is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, Hideko, who lives a secluded life on a large countryside estate with her domineering Uncle Kouzuki. But the maid has a secret. She is a pickpocket recruited by a swindler posing as a Japanese Count to help him seduce the Lady to elope with him, rob her of her fortune, and lock her up in a madhouse. The plan seems to proceed according to plan until Sookee and Hideko discover some unexpected emotions.
Thirst
Thirst
A respected priest volunteers for an experimental procedure that may lead to a cure for a deadly virus. He gets infected and dies, but a blood transfusion of unknown origin brings him back to life. Now, he’s torn between faith and bloodlust, and has a newfound desire for the wife of a childhood friend.
No Other Choice
No Other Choice
After being laid off by his company, a man devises a unique plan to secure a new job: eliminate his competition.
Oldboy
Oldboy
With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate man seeks revenge on his captors.
I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK
I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK
Young-goon, mentally deranged and frequently electro-charging herself with a transistor radio, has been admitted into a mental institution. Firmly believing herself to be a cyborg, she refuses to consume like a human being. Il-soon is another patient, who catches the eye of Young-goon and soon becomes a close friend. Il-soon is now confronted with the biggest task: to cure Young-goon's mental problem and have her eat real food.
Three... Extremes
Three... Extremes
An Asian cross-cultural trilogy of horror films from accomplished indie directors: "Dumplings", directed by Fruit Chan of Hong Kong; "Cut", directed by Park Chan-Wook of Korea; "Box", directed by Miike Takashi of Japan. The first film "Dumplings" was extended and turned into a full-length theatrical film of the same name.
Lee Chang dong
Secret Sunshine
Lee Chang-dong · 2007
Shin-Ae (Jeon Do-Yeon) es una joven profesora de piano que acaba de quedarse viuda y quiere empezar una nueva vida con su hijo Jun en Miryang, pueblo natal de su difunto marido, cerca de Seúl. Shin-Ae abre una academia de piano y busca tierra de cultivo, preparada para afrontar valientemente a la vida. Pero todas sus expectativas de futuro se derrumban cuando de nuevo una tragedia aparece en su vida... (FILMAFFINITY)
Poetry
Poetry
A South Korean woman in her sixties enrolls in a poetry class as she grapples with her faltering memory and her grandson's appalling wrongdoing.
Oasis
Oasis
A young man released from prison visits the widow of the man he killed drunk-driving and becomes infatuated with his cerebral palsy-stricken daughter.
Burning
Burning
Deliveryman Jong-su is out on a job when he runs into Hae-mi, a girl who once lived in his neighborhood. She asks if he'd mind looking after her cat while she's away on a trip to Africa. On her return, she introduces to Jong-su an enigmatic young man named Ben, who she met during her trip. One day Ben tells Jong-su about his most unusual hobby.
Peppermint Candy
Peppermint Candy
In the spring of 1999, a group of old friends gather to celebrate their 20 year reunion. Among the group is Yeong-ho, a cold, unhappy man, whose demeanor puts a damper on the festivities. The seriousness of Yeong-ho's depression becomes apparent when he climbs a railroad bridge and looks like he might jump. At this crucial moment, memories of seven crucial episodes from Yeong-ho's past flood his mind.
Green Fish
Green Fish
Returning home and finding his town drastically changed, a former soldier falls in with gangsters.
Yasujirō Ozu
Cuentos de Tokio
Yasujirō Ozu · 1953
Una pareja de ancianos viaja a Tokio para visitar a sus hijos, pero ninguno de ellos tiene tiempo para atenderlos, por lo que deciden enviarlos a un balneario. Cuando regresan, la madre pasa una noche en la casa de una nuera, viuda de uno de sus hijos. A diferencia de sus cuñados, Noriko muestra afecto por sus suegros y conforta a la anciana.
Late Spring
Late Spring
Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marry -- that is, until her aunt Masa convinces Shukichi that unless he marries off his 27-year-old daughter soon, she will likely remain alone for the rest of her life. When Noriko resists Masa's matchmaking, Shukichi is forced to deceive his daughter and sacrifice his own happiness to do what he believes is right.
The Munekata Sisters
The Munekata Sisters
Setsuko is unhappily married to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a bad drinking habit. She had always been in love with Hiroshi but both of them failed to propose when Hiroshi left for France a few years ago. Now he is back and Mariko tries to reunite them. She too is secretly in love with Hiroshi.
I Was Born, But...
I Was Born, But...
Two young brothers become the leaders of a gang of kids in their neighborhood. Ozu's charming film is a social satire that draws from the antics of childhood as well as the tragedy of maturity.
Good Morning
Good Morning
A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of intergenerational relationships, Good Morning tells the story of two young boys who stop speaking in protest after their parents refuse to buy a television set. Ozu weaves a wealth of subtle gags through a family portrait as rich as those of his dramatic films, mocking the foibles of the adult world through the eyes of his child protagonists. Shot in stunning color and set in a suburb of Tokyo where housewives gossip about the neighbors’ new washing machine and unemployed husbands look for work as door-to-door salesmen, this charming comedy refashions Ozu’s own silent classic I Was Born, But . . . to gently satirize consumerism in postwar Japan.
Late Autumn
Late Autumn
A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particularly from three men who knew her late husband.
The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice
The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice
The arranged marriage between a capricious woman from Tokyo high society and a quiet and rustic man is tested by a marital crisis.
Floating Weeds
Floating Weeds
When a theater troupe's master visits his old flame, he unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpected events with devastating consequences.
The End of Summer
The End of Summer
The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an old mistress from his youth.
Tokyo Twilight
Tokyo Twilight
Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the fact that she was abandoned as a child.
The Only Son
The Only Son
A silk factory worker is persuaded to support her son's education up to a college level despite their poverty. Many years later, she travels to Tokyo to visit her son.
Kenji Mizoguchi
La vida de Oharu, mujer galante
溝口健二 · 1952
Narra la dura vida de Oharu, una mujer sometida a los convencionalismos de la sociedad feudal en el Japón del siglo XVII.
El intendente Sansho
溝口健二 · 1954
A finales de la Era Heian en el siglo XII, el gobernador de un pueblo es enviado al exilio. A pesar de que su familia quiere ir con él, ninguno podrá acompañarle, pues, engañados por una vieja que se hace pasar por sacerdotisa, son vendidos como esclavos por separado: la madre por un lado y los hijos por otro.
Ugetsu
Ugetsu
In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers in a nearby village, in defiance of a local sage's warning against seeking to profit from warfare. Genjuro's pursuit of both riches and the mysterious Lady Wakasa, as well as Tobei's desire to become a samurai, run the risk of destroying both themselves and their wives, Miyagi and Ohama.
The 47 Ronin
The 47 Ronin
In 1701, Lord Takuminokami Asano has a feud with Lord Kira and he tries to kill Kira in the corridors of the Shogun's palace. The Shogun sentences Lord Asano to commit suppuku and deprives the palace and lands from his clan, but does not punish Lord Kira. Lord Asano's vassals leave the land and his samurais become ronin and want to seek revenge against the dishonor of their Lord. But their leader Kuranosuke Oishi asks the Shogun to restore the Asano clan with his brother Daigaku Asano. One year later, the Shogun refuses his request and Oishi and forty-six ronin revenge their Lord.
Chikamatsu Monogatari
Chikamatsu Monogatari
When the wife of a 17th century Kyoto scroll-maker is falsely accused of having an affair with his best employee, the pair flee the city and find themselves falling for one another.
Taira Clan Saga
Taira Clan Saga
Japan, 1137. The Taira family, a samurai clan, becomes involved in the disputes between Emperor Toba and the monks of Mount Hiei.
The Woman in the Rumor
The Woman in the Rumor
After living a traumatic experience in Tokyo, Yukiko returns to Kyoto, where Hatsuko, her mother, runs a brothel, which upsets Yukiko very much.
A Geisha
A Geisha
Fleeing a distressing family situation, Eiko, a very young girl, becomes an apprentice to Miyoharu, a veteran geisha. Both, determined to preserve their professional integrity, must face the selfishness and ambition of several petty people.
Miss Oyu
Miss Oyu
Shinnosuke is introduced to Shizu as a prospective marriage partner, but he falls in love with her widowed sister Oyu. Convention forbids Oyu to marry because she has to raise her son as the head of her husband's family. Oyu convinces Shinnosuke and Shizu to marry so that she can remain close to Shinnosuke.
Andrei Tarkovsky
Sacrificio
Andrei Tarkovsky · 1986
Mientras su familia se reúne para celebrar su cumpleaños, el periodista Alexander se siente angustiado por la desoladora falta de espiritualidad que caracteriza al mundo contemporáneo. Sus peores temores se confirman cuando, durante la fiesta, llega la noticia de un inminente conflicto nuclear: la Tercera Guerra Mundial. El final, definitivo e irreversible, está cerca. En ese momento están con él su angustiada esposa, sus dos hijos, un amigo médico y un peculiar cartero, que lo convence de que una de sus criadas es una bruja que tiene el poder de salvar al mundo mediante un último sacrificio.
Nostalgia
Nostalgia
A Russian poet, Andrei and his interpreter, Eugenia travel to Italy to research the life of an 18th-century composer.
The Steamroller and the Violin
The Steamroller and the Violin
Seven year old Sasha practices violin every day to satisfy the ambition of his parents. Already withdrawn as a result of his routines, Sasha quickly regains confidence when he accidentally meets and befriends worker Sergei, who works on a steamroller in their upscale Moscow neighborhood.
Solaris
Solaris
A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the death of a doctor and the mental problems of cosmonauts on the station. He soon discovers that the water on the planet is a type of brain which brings out repressed memories and obsessions.
Ivan's Childhood
Ivan's Childhood
In WW2, twelve year old Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev works for the Soviet army as a scout behind the German lines and strikes a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers.
Jacques Demy
Piel de asno
Jacques Demy · 1970
En su lecho de muerte, la Reina hace prometer al Rey que no volverá a casarse hasta que no encuentre a una mujer que la supere en bondad y belleza. Algunos años después, el Rey encuentra a la perfecta sustituta de su esposa: su propia hija. El Hada de las Lilas, la madrina de la joven princesa, le aconseja que pida a su padre, como regalo, unos vestidos maravillosos, aparentemente imposibles de confeccionar. Pero como el Rey consigue los vestidos, la princesa le pide que le regale una capa hecha con la piel del asno banquero, principal fuente de riqueza del Reino.
The Young Girls of Rochefort
The Young Girls of Rochefort
Delphine and Solange are two sisters living in Rochefort. Delphine is a dancing teacher and Solange composes and teaches the piano. Maxence is a poet and a painter. He is doing his military service. Simon owns a music shop, he left Paris one month ago to come back where he fell in love 10 years ago. They are looking for love, looking for each other, without being aware that their ideal partner is very close...
Le Bel Indifférent
Le Bel Indifférent
An adaptation of Jean Cocteau's play of a woman lecturing her indifferent lover.
Lola
Lola
A bored young man meets with his former girlfriend, now a cabaret dancer and single mother, and soon finds himself falling back in love with her.
Bay of Angels
Bay of Angels
A bank clerk is drawn into the risky world of a gorgeous gambling addict.
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, an employee in her widowed mother's chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening before Guy is to leave for a two-year tour of combat in Algeria, he and Geneviève make love. She becomes pregnant and must choose between waiting for Guy's return or accepting an offer of marriage from a wealthy diamond merchant.
Lady Oscar
Lady Oscar
Oscar François de Jarjayes was born female, but her father insisted she be raised as a boy as he had no sons. She becomes the captain of the guards at Versailles under King Louis XVI and Marie Antonette. Her privileged, noble life comes under fire as she discovers the hard life of the poor people of France. She is caught up in the French Revolution, and must choose between her loyalty and love.
Lust
Lust
This short film by Jacques Demy was based on his memories of growing up in Nantes, France. While it was initially made for the omnibus film THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS (as the segment on "Lust"), it has also been distributed and exhibited separately.
Jean Luc Godard
Vivre Sa Vie
Jean-Luc Godard · 1962
Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.
Pierrot el loco
Jean-Luc Godard · 1965
Ferdinand Griffon, alias 'Pierrot', huye de París con Marianne, la niñera que ha contratado su esposa. La pareja se dirige al sur de Francia, pero el viaje se torna muy peligroso cuando una banda de gángsters con los que Marianne está implicada, les va pisando los talones.
Contempt
Contempt
A philistine in the art film business, Jeremy Prokosch is a producer unhappy with the work of his director. Prokosch has hired Fritz Lang to direct an adaptation of "The Odyssey," but when it seems that the legendary filmmaker is making a picture destined to bomb at the box office, he brings in a screenwriter to energize the script. The professional intersects with the personal when a rift develops between the writer and his wife.
Band of Outsiders
Band of Outsiders
Cinephile slackers Franz and Arthur spend their days mimicking the antiheroes of Hollywood noirs and Westerns while pursuing the lovely Odile. The misfit trio upends convention at every turn, be it through choreographed dances in cafés or frolicsome romps through the Louvre. Eventually, their romantic view of outlaws pushes them to plan their own heist, but their inexperience may send them out in a blaze of glory -- which could be just what they want.
For Ever Mozart
For Ever Mozart
Episodic film that follows a theater troupe from France attempting to put on a play in Sarajevo. Along their journey they are captured and held in a POW camp, and they call for help from their friends and relations in France.
Hail Mary
Hail Mary
A college student gets pregnant without having intercourse, affecting people close and unrelated to her in different ways.
Notre Musique
Notre Musique
A three-chapter (Hell, Purgatory and Paradise) meditation on the city of Sarajevo in the wake of the Bosnian war, on Palestine and Israel, and on war itself.
Vittorio De Sica
Ladrón de bicicletas
Vittorio De Sica · 1948
En la Roma de la posguerra, un obrero sin empleo consigue un sencillo trabajo pegando carteles a condición de que posea una bicicleta. Obra maestra del neorrealismo italiano que forma junto con "Umberto D." y "Miracolo a Milano" la famosa trilogía de De Sica.
El limpiabotas
Vittorio De Sica · 1946
En la Roma de la postguerra, dominada por la miseria y el desempleo, dos jóvenes limpiabotas sueñan con comprarse un caballo. La única forma de conseguir el dinero necesario es trapichear en el mercado negro, pero los muchachos intentan en todo momento no ser detenidos.
Umberto D.
Umberto D.
When elderly pensioner Umberto Domenico Ferrari returns to his boarding house from a protest calling for a hike in old-age pensions, his landlady demands her 15,000-lire rent by the end of the month or he and his small dog will be turned out onto the street. Unable to get the money in time, Umberto fakes illness to get sent to a hospital, giving his beloved dog to the landlady's pregnant and abandoned maid for temporary safekeeping.
Sunflower
Sunflower
After World War II, a woman refuses to believe her husband, missing on the Russian front, is dead. Flashbacks reveal their brief courtship and marriage. Years later, she travels to Russia with his photo, determined to find him. What will she discover?
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
In 1930s Italy, a wealthy Jewish family tries to maintain their privileged lifestyle, hosting friends for tennis and parties at their villa. As anti-Semitism intensifies under Fascism, they must ultimately face the horrors of the Holocaust.
The Roof
The Roof
Under provincial Italian law at the time, once a roof is erected, the occupants cannot be evicted from a building. This comedy follows the efforts of a family to erect the roof on a house overnight so that a newlywed couple can have their own home.
Marriage Italian Style
Marriage Italian Style
During the bombing of Naples in World War II, a cynical businessman helps a naive prostitute, who spends the next two decades desperate to have him reciprocate her feelings.
Michelangelo Antonioni
El eclipse
Michelangelo Antonioni · 1962
Vittoria (Monica Vitti), tras una acalorada discusión, decide romper con su novio Riccardo (Francisco Rabal). Mientras disfruta de su libertad en compañía de su madre, conoce a Piero (Alain Delon), un joven y atractivo corredor de bolsa, un seductor arrogante con el que mantiene un apasionado romance.
The Lady Without Camelias
The Lady Without Camelias
A Milanese shop assistant becomes an overnight film sensation when fate lands her the leading role in a prominent producer's romantic drama.
Chung Kuo: China
Chung Kuo: China
A sweeping documentary explores China through its people, showcasing life in Beijing's old city and a bustling cotton factory, a collective farm in Henan, the historic city of Suzhou, and the industrial port of Shanghai, culminating in a vibrant acrobatic performance.
Blow-Up
Blow-Up
A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. But in the course of a single day he unknowingly captures a death on film.
The Vanquished
The Vanquished
Three tales of privileged youth entangled in murder: French students kill for money, an Italian student smuggles cigarettes, and an English poet exploits a grim discovery.
Il Grido
Il Grido
A sugar-refinery worker flees his Northern Italy town after a woman refuses his marriage proposal.
Red Desert
Red Desert
In an industrializing Italian town, a married woman, rendered mentally unstable after a traffic accident, drifts into an affair with a friend of her husband.
Zabriskie Point
Zabriskie Point
Anthropology student Daria, who's helping a property developer build a village in the Los Angeles desert, and dropout Mark, who's wanted by the authorities for allegedly killing a policeman during a student riot, accidentally encounter each other in Death Valley and soon begin an unrestrained romance.
L'Avventura
L'Avventura
Claudia and Anna join Anna's lover, Sandro, on a boat trip to a remote volcanic island. When Anna goes missing, a search is launched. In the meantime, Sandro and Claudia become involved in a romance despite Anna's disappearance, though the relationship suffers from guilt and tension.
Roberto Rossellini
Roma, ciudad abierta
Roberto Rossellini · 1945
Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). Estando Roma ocupada por los nazis, la temible Gestapo trata de arrestar a Manfredi, el líder del Comité Nacional de Liberación. Annie Marie ofrece refugio en su casa a Manfredi y a algunos de sus camaradas, pero los alemanes descubren su escondrijo y rodean la vivienda; algunos partisanos consiguen escapar por los tejados, pero Manfredi es apresado.
L'amore
L'amore
L'Amore ('Love') is a 1948 Italian drama anthology film that consists of two parts, The Human Voice (Una voce umana), based on Jean Cocteau's 1929 play of the same title, and The Miracle (Il miracolo), based on Ramón del Valle-Inclán's 1904 novel Flor de santidad.
Paisan
Paisan
During the Allied invasion of Italy in World War II, six stories unfold in various regions, from Sicily to the northern Po Valley. These tales follow the interactions between American soldiers and Italian civilians as they navigate their way through language barriers and cultural differences.
Year One
Year One
Rossellini’s biopic of the postwar Christian Democrat leader, Alcide De Gaspari, who was responsible for keeping the Communists out of power in the years that followed the fall of fascism.
Joan of Arc at the Stake
Joan of Arc at the Stake
Joan of Arc is being burned alive for heresy. In a kind of dream state, she departs from her body and begins to look back upon her life. She begins this journey in a depressed and demoralized state. However, a priest appears to help guide her. First, he shows her those that accused her in the guise of animal characters, in order to show her their true nature. Then, he shows her the good that she has performed for people. In the end, she is proud of what she has done and is ready to face the flames.
Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal
In this evocative, atmospheric biography, Roberto Rossellini brings to life philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal, who, amid religious persecution and ignorance, believed in a harmony between God and science.
Where Is Freedom?
Where Is Freedom?
A barber, murderer because of jealousy, spends twenty years in jail. He cannot, however adjust himself to a changed world and to the hypocrisy of his own relatives and decides to return behind bars.
Werner Herzog
Aguirre, la cólera de Dios
Werner Herzog · 1972
En 1560, poco después de la destrucción del imperio inca, una expedición española parte de las montañas de Perú rumbo a las selvas del Amazonas, en busca de la legendaria tierra de El Dorado. A través del diario del fraile Diego Gaspar de Carvajal iremos conociendo detalles y circunstancias de aquella peligrosa aventura...
Where the Green Ants Dream
Where the Green Ants Dream
The Australian Aborigines (in this film anyway) believe that this is the place where the green ants go to dream, and that if their dreams are disturbed, it will bring down disaster on us all. The Aborigines' belief is not shared by a giant mining company, which wants to tear open the soil and search for uranium.
Nosferatu the Vampyre
Nosferatu the Vampyre
A real estate agent leaves behind his beautiful wife to go to Transylvania to visit the mysterious Count Dracula and formalize the purchase of a property in Wismar.
Stroszek
Stroszek
Bruno Stroszek is released from prison and warned to stop drinking. He has few skills and fewer expectations: with a glockenspiel and an accordion, he ekes out a living as a street musician. He befriends Eva, a prostitute down on her luck and they join his neighbor, Scheitz, an elderly eccentric, when he leaves Germany to live in Wisconsin.
Heart of Glass
Heart of Glass
A small Bavarian village is renowned for its "Ruby Glass" glass blowing works. When the foreman of the works dies suddenly without revealing the secret of the Ruby Glass, the town slides into a deep depression, and the owner of the glassworks becomes obssessed with the lost secret.
Woyzeck
Woyzeck
Having fathered an illegitimate child with his lover, Marie, feckless soldier Franz Woyzeck takes odd jobs around his small town to provide some extra money for them. One job is volunteering for experiments conducted by a local doctor, who puts Woyzeck on a diet of peas. This serves to drive him close to madness, and the discovery that Marie is involved in an affair with the local drum major exacerbates the situation. Pushed too far, Woyzeck resorts to violence.
Friedrich W. Murnau
Fausto
F. W. Murnau · 1926
Relata la historia de un célebre pensador que después de buscar sin descanso la esencia del conocimiento y la verdad oculta de las cosas, es tentado por el diablo y vende su alma.
Nosferatu
Nosferatu
The mysterious Count Orlok summons Thomas Hutter to his remote Transylvanian castle in the mountains. The eerie Orlok seeks to buy a house near Hutter and his wife, Ellen. After Orlok reveals his vampire nature, Hutter struggles to escape the castle, knowing that Ellen is in grave danger. Meanwhile Orlok's servant, Knock, prepares for his master to arrive at his new home.
The Haunted Castle
The Haunted Castle
The sinister Count Oetsch scandalizes the aristocratic social gathering at Castle Vogelod as he announces his intention to "crash" the festivities. Baroness Safferstätt is expected shortly, and the guests are well-aware of the rumors that Count Oetsch murdered the baroness' late husband. Oetsch refuses to leave, vowing that he will reveal the identity of the real killer. Before the weekend is through, the Count and Baroness will reveal secrets too shocking to be believed!
City Girl
City Girl
A waitress from Chicago falls in love with a man from rural Minnesota and marries him, with the intent of living a better life - but life on the farm has its own challenges.
Phantom
Phantom
Lorenz Lubota is a city clerk with no direction in life. One day on his way to work he is run over by a woman driving a chariot and he is immediately infatuated with her.
Douglas Sirk
La Habanera
Douglas Sirk · 1937
Ana y su sobrina Astrée dejan Suecia y viajan en barco a Puerto Rico. Allí Astrée se enamora perdidamente del terrateniente don Pedro de Ávila. Cuando se casa con él, corta toda relación con sus familiares. Algunos años más tarde, un antiguo amor de Astrée viaja a Puerto Rico con el fin de combatir una epidemia de fiebre, que intenta ser ocultada a toda costa por don Pedro de Ávila por sus consecuencias negativas para la imagen del país. (FA)
April, April!
April, April!
Businessman and shameless social climber, Julius Lampe, is subjected to a cruel April Fools’ Day prank when he is led to believe a noble prince intends to personally inspect his pasta factory.
Imitation of Life
Imitation of Life
In 1940s New York, a white widow who dreams of being on Broadway has a chance encounter with a black single mother, who becomes her maid.
Magnificent Obsession
Magnificent Obsession
Reckless playboy Bob Merrick crashes his speedboat, requiring emergency attention from the town’s only resuscitator while a local hero, Dr. Phillips, dies waiting for the life-saving device. Merrick then tries to right his wrongs with the doctor’s widow, Helen, falling in love with her in the process.
Slightly French
Slightly French
A film director, in bad standing with his studio, tries to turn a local carnival dancer into a "French" movie star and pass her off as his big new discovery.
Take Me to Town
Take Me to Town
Saloon entertainer Vermilion O'Toole and her former partner in crime Newt Cole escape from a train ride to prison and hide out in logging town Timberline. Meanwhile, the three sons of widower Will Hall come to town in search of a wife for their dad. Vermilion needs to lay low to escape the marshal, so she accepts the boys' offer to visit pioneer community Pine Grove. Once there, she annoys local Mrs. Grundys but eventually starts to fit in.
The Court Concert
The Court Concert
Before he became cult director Douglas Sirk, Detlef Sierck cut his teeth on such lavish European star vehicles as Das Hofkonzert (The Court Concert). Marta Eggerth is cast as Christine, a young singer who aspires to find out who her father was. Her odyssey brings her to the court of a mythical kingdom, where she is romanced by handsome lieutenant Walter (Johannes Heesters). He is warned not to lose his heart to a "commoner," but all turns out all right when King Serenissimus (Otto Tressler) turns out to be Christine's long-lost daddy. Hofkonzert was designed as a comeback for Marta Eggerth, whose star had eclipsed by the mid-1930s.
Sleep, My Love
Sleep, My Love
A woman wakes up in the middle of the night on board a train, but she can't remember how she got there. Danger and suspense ensue.
Taza, Son of Cochise
Taza, Son of Cochise
Three years after the end of the Apache wars, peacemaking chief Cochise dies. His elder son Taza shares his ideas, but brother Naiche yearns for war...and for Taza's betrothed, Oona. Naiche loses no time in starting trouble which, thanks to a bigoted cavalry officer, ends with the proud Chiricahua Apaches on a reservation, where they are soon joined by the captured renegade Geronimo, who is all it takes to light the firecracker's fuse...
Wong Kar - Wai
Días salvajes
王家衛 · 1990
Hong Kong, años 60. Yuddy, un joven atractivo y seductor, descubre que la ex-prostituta alcohólica que le ha criado no es su verdadera madre y que además se niega a revelar la identidad de ésta. Esto provoca en Yuddy serios conflictos emocionales que le llevan a forzar a dos mujeres a luchar por su amor...
2046
王家衛 · 2004
Él era escritor. Creía escribir sobre el futuro, pero en realidad era el pasado. En su novela, un misterioso tren salía de cuando en cuando con dirección al año 2046. Todos los que subían a él lo hacían con el mismo propósito: recobrar los recuerdos perdidos. Se decía que en 2046 nada cambiaba. Nadie sabía a ciencia cierta si eso era verdad, porque ninguno de los que viajaron regresó jamás. Con una excepción. Él estuvo allí. Se marchó voluntariamente.
Chungking Express
Wong Kar-wai · 1994
L'histoire de deux flics lâchés par leur petite amie. Le matricule 223 qui se promet de tomber amoureux de la première femme qui entrera dans un bar a Chungking House ou il noie son chagrin. Le matricule 663, qui chaque soir passe au Midnight Express, un fast-food du quartier de Lan Kwai Fong, acheter a la jolie Faye une "Chef Salad" qu'il destine a sa belle, une hôtesse de l'air.
In the Mood for Love
In the Mood for Love
In 1962 Hong Kong, neighbors Su Li-zhen (Mrs. Chan) and Chow Mo-wan (Mr. Chow) discover their spouses are having an affair. As they spend time together, they develop feelings for each other, but their relationship remains chaste and unspoken, reflecting societal constraints and their own moral compass.
Long Time No See
Long Time No See
First anniversary short for TV series "Blossoms Shanghai", characters from the show meet each other again in the year of 2000 when attending the screening of "In the Mood for Love".
The Grandmaster
The Grandmaster
Ip Man's peaceful life in Foshan changes after Gong Yutian seeks an heir for his family in Southern China. Ip Man then meets Gong Er who challenges him for the sake of regaining her family's honor. After the Second Sino-Japanese War, Ip Man moves to Hong Kong and struggles to provide for his family. In the mean time, Gong Er chooses the path of vengeance after her father was killed by Ma San.
As Tears Go By
As Tears Go By
Mid-level gangster Wah falls in love with his beautiful cousin, but must also continue to protect his volatile partner-in-crime and friend, Fly.
Eros
Eros
A three-part anthology about love and sexuality: it features three different tales of passion. In "The Hand," young tailor Zhang (Chen Chang) is attracted to high-priced prostitute Miss Hua (Gong Li). Next is "Equilibrium," in which stressed businessman Nick (Robert Downey Jr.) explains his problems to unhelpful therapist Dr. Pearl (Alan Arkin). Finally, "The Dangerous Thread of Things" examines the relationship problems of Christopher (Christopher Buchholz) and Chloe (Regina Nemni), a couple on vacation in Tuscany.
Fallen Angels
Fallen Angels
An assassin goes through obstacles as he attempts to escape his violent lifestyle despite the opposition of his partner, who is secretly attracted to him.
Happy Together
Happy Together
A gay couple from Hong Kong takes a trip to Argentina in search of a new beginning but instead begins drifting even further apart.
Zhang Yimou
Cliff Walkers
Zhang Yimou · 2021
Sigue a un grupo de espías chinos que investigan atroces experimentos en Japón. Ambientada en Manchukuo, un estado títere del Imperio de Japón en China en la década de 1930, la historia sigue a cuatro agentes especiales del Partido Comunista que regresan a China después de recibir entrenamiento en la Unión Soviética. Juntos, se embarcan en una misión secreta pero, tras ser vendidos por un traidor, el equipo se verá rodeado de amenazas por todos lados desde el momento en que se lanza en paracaídas en territorio enemigo. En los terrenos nevados de Manchukuo, el equipo se pondrá a prueba hasta el límite.
Shadow
Shadow
In a kingdom ruled by a young and unpredictable king, the military commander has a secret weapon: a shadow, a look-alike who can fool both his enemies and the King himself. Now he must use this weapon in an intricate plan that will lead his people to victory in a war that the King does not want.
Under the Hawthorn Tree
Under the Hawthorn Tree
The daughter of a right-winger, schoolgirl Jing Qiu is sent to the countryside for reeducation, and tasked to help write a textbook. There she meets Lao San, a young soldier with a bright future ahead. Despite the class divide and parental disapproval, romance blooms against turbulent times.
Happy Times
Happy Times
Zhao is an old laid-off worker who's dreaming of getting married. After trying unsuccessful proposals, he finally pairs off with a gargantuan divorcée with two children. She, however, demands a lavish wedding and that Zhao finds a job and another place to stay for her blind step-daughter. Pretending he's the General Manager of a non-existent posh hotel "Happy Times", Zhao has to find ways and means of keeping both mother and stepdaughter happy.
Keep Cool
Keep Cool
China, the 1990s. A young bookseller is in love with a woman. The woman is now with another guy, a rich man. The rich man sends his people to beat the bookseller. In the fight, the laptop computer from a man looking at the scene gets broken. Who will pay for the computer? The bookseller wants revenge. Will it be useful? The bookseller and the laptop owner are from different ages and classes. They are two different points of view, two different Chinas. How will they fight for justice?
Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles
Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles
Takada, a Japanese fisherman has been estranged from his son for many years, but when the son is diagnosed with terminal cancer his daughter-in-law, Rie, summons him to the hospital. Through a series of obstacles and relationships, he is brought unexpectedly closer to both an understanding of himself and of his son.
Lady of the Dynasty
Lady of the Dynasty
The tragic story of a Tang Dynasty imperial consort who was the favorite of the Emperor Xuanzong.
Shanghai Triad
Shanghai Triad
Shanghai, China, 1930. When young Shuisheng arrives from the countryside, his uncle Liushu puts him at the service of Bijou, the mistress of Laoda, supreme boss of the Tang Triad, constantly threatened by his enemies, both those he knows and those lurking in the shadows.
Coming Home
Coming Home
Lu and Feng are a devoted couple forced to separate when Lu is arrested and sent to a labor camp as a political prisoner during the Cultural Revolution. He finally returns home only to find that his beloved wife no longer remembers him.
Full River Red
Full River Red
During China's Song Dynasty, a mysterious murder occurs at Chancellor Quin Hui's palace after meeting delegates from the neighboring Jin Dynasty. The members become embroiled not just in a murder mystery, but a larger conspiracy concerning the fate of the empire.
The Road Home
The Road Home
Prompted by the death of his father and the grief of his mother, a man recalls the story of how they met in flashback.
Ju Dou
Ju Dou
A woman married to the brutal and infertile owner of a dye mill in rural China conceives a boy with her husband's nephew but is forced to raise her son as her husband's heir without revealing his parentage in this circular tragedy. Filmed in glowing technicolour, this tale of romantic and familial love in the face of unbreakable tradition is more universal than its setting.
One Second
One Second
A movie fan escapes from a labour camp during the Chinese Cultural Revolution and strikes up a relationship with a homeless female vagabond.
Red Sorghum
Red Sorghum
An old leper who owned a remote sorghum winery dies. Jiu'er, the wife bought by the leper, and her lover, identified only as "my Grandpa" by the narrator, take over the winery and set up an idealized quasi-matriarchal community headed by Jiu'er. When the Japanese invaders subject the area to their rule and cut down the sorghum to make way for a road, the community rises up and resists as the sorghum grows anew.
To Live
To Live
Married couple Fugui and Jiazhen endure tumultuous events in mid-20th century mainland China as their personal fortunes move from wealthy landownership to peasantry.
Raise the Red Lantern
Raise the Red Lantern
In 1920s China, 19-year-old Songlian becomes a concubine of a powerful lord and is forced to compete with his three wives for the privileges gained.
Curse of the Golden Flower
Curse of the Golden Flower
During China's Tang dynasty the emperor has taken the princess of a neighboring province as his wife. She has borne him two sons and raised his eldest. Now his control over his dominion is complete, including the royal family itself.
The Great Wall
The Great Wall
European mercenaries searching for black powder become embroiled in the defense of the Great Wall of China against a horde of monstrous creatures.
La casa de las dagas voladoras
Zhang Yimou · 2004
Corre el año 859 a.C. y la dinastía Tang, una vez floreciente, ha entrado en decadencia. El malestar se extiende por todo el país, y el corrupto gobierno tiene que enfrentarse en todas partes con ejércitos rebeldes. El más poderoso es el de la "Casa de las Dagas Voladoras", que se está haciendo cada vez más fuerte gracias a un nuevo y misterioso líder. Dos capitanes, Leo y Jin, reciben la orden de capturarlo y para ello elaboran un minucioso plan. El capitán Jin finge ser un guerrero solitario llamado Viento y saca de prisión a la revolucionaria ciega Mei, que lo llevará hasta el cuartel general de la Casa de las Dagas Voladoras, pero durante el viaje, Jin y Mei se enamoran profundamente.
Tsui Hark
刀馬旦
Tsui Hark · 1986
Once Upon a Time in China III
Once Upon a Time in China III
Master Wong and his disciples enroll in the 'Dancing Lion Competition' to stop an assassination plot and to battle an arrogant, deceitful opponent.
Aces Go Places III: Our Man from Bond Street
Aces Go Places III: Our Man from Bond Street
A master thief is duped by lookalikes for James Bond and the Queen of England into stealing a valuable gem from a heavily guarded location then must help the police recover it.
Once Upon a Time in China
Once Upon a Time in China
Set in late 19th century Canton, this martial arts film depicts the stance taken by the legendary martial arts hero Wong Fei-Hung against foreign forces' plundering of China.
Journey to the West: The Demons Strike Back
Journey to the West: The Demons Strike Back
Tang Monk brings three disciples on a journey to the West. On the outside, everything seems harmonious. However, tension is present beneath the surface, and their hearts and minds are not in agreement. After a series of demon-capturing events, the monk and his disciples gain mutual understanding of each others' hardships and unease. Finally, they resolve their inner conflict and work together to become an all-conquering, demon-exorcising team.
A Better Tomorrow III: Love and Death in Saigon
A Better Tomorrow III: Love and Death in Saigon
The year is 1974. A young Hong Kong Chinese, Mark, travels to Saigon to make his fortune. There, he encounters a mysterious femme fatale, the lovely Kit. As he becomes more involved in her various underworld deals, a tragic romance develops. On the eve of the outbreak of war, Kit's past returns to endanger her, and Mark must risk everything for the one true love of his life.
The Taking of Tiger Mountain
The Taking of Tiger Mountain
Yang Zirong disguises himself as a bandit to infiltrate and destroy a bandit group. He joins hands with a hostage, and together, they fight against the warlord, Hawk.
The Master
The Master
When Master Tak, an old martial arts master, disappears, his best student, Jet, steps in to find him. However, when he learns that Tak's life is in danger, he decides to protect him at all costs.
Once Upon a Time in China II
Once Upon a Time in China II
Wong Fei-Hung faces the White Lotus Society, a fanatical cult seeking to drive the Europeans out of China through violence, even attacking Chinese who follow Western ways. Wong must also defend Dr. Sun Yat Sen, a revolutionary, from the military.
Green Snake
Green Snake
A mischievous snake who assumes human form interferes with the romance between her reptilian sister and a hapless man.
Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon
Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon
Young Dee Renjie arrives in the empire's capital to join the Supreme Court as police judge of his region. He wants to become a prosecutor. Empress Wu, who is at the beginning of her reign, has commissioned the fierce detective Yuchi to investigate a sea monster that stalks the city at night and makes it unsafe.
Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain
Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain
In the fifth century, constant civil war scars western China. To escape death, Ti, a young scout, jumps through a crevice in the Zu mountains where he gets entangled in a great battle against the Blood Demon, a supernatural entity seeking to wreak havoc upon the world.
Swordsman
Swordsman
When a scroll containing valuable martial arts secrets is stolen from the Emperor, an army detachment is sent to recover it. It is based on the novel The Smiling, Proud Wanderer by Jinyong.
Flying Swords of Dragon Gate
Flying Swords of Dragon Gate
Three years after the infamous Dragon Inn was burnt down in the desert when its innkeeper Jade vanished. A new gang of marauders had taken over - innkeepers by day and treasure hunters by night. The inn is the rumoured location of a lost city buried under the desert, and its hidden treasure would only be revealed by a gigantic storm every 60 years. The gang used the inn as a front to locate the lost treasure.
Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame
Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame
When the future empress Wu Zetian's two courtiers die in a mysterious fire, she gets Di Renjie, a former detective and rebel, released from prison to solve the mystery of the fire.
Shanghai Blues
Shanghai Blues
In 1937 Shanghai, a soon-to-depart soldier meets a young woman under a bridge during a Japanese air raid. They vow to meet after the war ends, but they don't know each other's name or face. Ten years later, the young woman, a nightclub singer, takes in a naive girl fresh from the country. The country girl falls in love with the would-be song-writer upstairs who, unbeknownst to the singer, is none other than the soldier from the bridge.
Christopher Nolan
Oppenheimer
Christopher Nolan · 2023
The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.
Tenet
Tenet
Armed with only one word - Tenet - and fighting for the survival of the entire world, the Protagonist journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in something beyond real time.
Insomnia
Insomnia
Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.
Interstellar
Interstellar
The adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.
The Dark Knight
The Dark Knight
Batman raises the stakes in his war on crime. With the help of Lt. Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to dismantle the remaining criminal organizations that plague the streets. The partnership proves to be effective, but they soon find themselves prey to a reign of chaos unleashed by a rising criminal mastermind known to the terrified citizens of Gotham as the Joker.
Memento
Memento
Leonard Shelby is tracking down the man who raped and murdered his wife. The difficulty of locating his wife's killer, however, is compounded by the fact that he suffers from a rare, untreatable form of short-term memory loss. Although he can recall details of life before his accident, Leonard cannot remember what happened fifteen minutes ago, where he's going, or why.
Dunkirk
Dunkirk
The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk between May 26th and June 4th 1940 during World War II.
