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40s
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Joseph L. Mankiewicz · 1947
A young British widow rents a seaside cottage and soon becomes haunted by the ghost of its former owner.
The Best Years of Our Lives
William Wyler · 1946
It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has arrived. But for each man, the dream is about to become a nightmare.
Meet Me in St. Louis
Vincente Minnelli · 1944
Young love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family up to the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.
Breu encontre
David Lean · 1945
La casualitat fa que un home i una dona tots dos madurs i casats coincideixin en una estació de tren. La seva inicial amistat aviat esdevindrà un amor tan intens com prohibit.
Històries de Filadèlfia
George Cukor · 1940
Històries de Filadèlfia és una comèdia protagonitzada per Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn i James Stewart. Tracy Lord (Katherine Hepburn) és idolatrada per tot el món i ha de mantenir el seu sinistre ex-marit, un periodista alcohòlic, i el seu futur marit contents.
Les sabatilles vermelles
Michael Powell · 1948
Drama ambientat al món del ballet que tracta sobre els sacrificis realitzats per assolir l'èxit professional. Un empresari obliga una ballarina a anteposar la carrera a l'amor.
90s
My Own Private Idaho
Gus Van Sant · 1991
In this loose adaptation of Shakespeare's "Henry IV," Mike Waters is a hustler afflicted with narcolepsy. Scott Favor is the rebellious son of a mayor. Together, the two travel from Portland, Oregon to Idaho and finally to the coast of Italy in a quest to find Mike's estranged mother. Along the way they turn tricks for money and drugs, eventually attracting the attention of a wealthy benefactor and sexual deviant.
Girl, Interrupted
James Mangold · 1999
Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line between normal and crazy. Susanna soon realizes how hard it is to get out once she has been committed, and she ultimately has to choose between the world of people who belong inside or the difficult world of reality outside.
Titanic
James Cameron · 1997
Southampton, 10 avril 1912. Le paquebot le plus grand et le plus moderne du monde, réputé pour son insubmersibilité, le « Titanic », appareille pour son premier voyage. Quatre jours plus tard, il heurte un iceberg. À son bord, un artiste pauvre et une grande bourgeoise tombent amoureux.
The Wrong Trousers
Nick Park · 1993
Wallace rents out Gromit's former bedroom to a penguin, who takes up an interest in the techno pants created by Wallace. However, Gromit later learns that the penguin is a wanted criminal. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Stephan Elliott · 1994
Two drag queens and a transgender woman contract to perform a drag show at a resort in Alice Springs, a town in the remote Australian desert. As they head west from Sydney aboard their lavender bus, Priscilla, the three friends come to the forefront of a comedy of errors, encountering a number of strange characters, as well as incidents of homophobia, whilst widening comfort zones and exploring new horizons.
Whisper of the Heart
Yoshifumi Kondo · 1995
Shizuku est une jeune collégienne de quatorze ans comme toutes les autres, mais elle est passionnée de littérature et elle écrit des chansons. C’est l’été à Tokyo, et elle a décidé de lire, pendant les vacances, une vingtaine de livres. Elle découvre qu’à chacun des romans qu’elle a choisis, le nom de Seiji Amasawa apparaît sur la liste des personnes les ayant empruntés. Shizuku rencontre enfin ce Seiji.
Chungking Express
Wong Kar-wai · 1994
Two melancholic Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal server at a late-night restaurant.
My Best Friend's Wedding
P.J. Hogan · 1997
When she receives word that her longtime platonic pal Michael O'Neal is getting married to debutante Kimberly Wallace, food critic Julianne Potter realizes her true feelings for Michael -- and sets out to sabotage the wedding.
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Anthony Minghella · 1999
Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. Opportunity knocks in the form of a wealthy U.S. shipbuilder who hires Tom to travel to Italy to bring back his playboy son, Dickie. Ripley worms his way into the idyllic lives of Dickie and his girlfriend, plunging into a daring scheme of duplicity, lies and murder.
Conte d’estiu
Éric Rohmer · 1996
Nuevo cuento de las "cuatro estaciones" de Rohmer. El joven Gaspard llega de vacaciones al balneario francés de Dinard. Su idea es encontrarse allí con Lena, la muchacha que lo tiene loco. Pero en esos días soleados y calmos conoce a otra chica, una morena atractiva y sensual que le sugiere nuevos rumbos a su corazón. Sin embargo, tal vez la respuesta no esté en ella, sino en Margot, la dulce camarera con la que Gaspard hace amistad sin darse cuenta.
L’edat de la innocència
Martin Scorsese · 1993
El món estret i tancat de l'alta societat de Nova York, al voltant de 1870. Newland Archer, un jove advocat promès amb una innocent i ingènua hereva, May Welland, s'enamora apassionadament de la comtessa Ellen Olenska, cosina de la seva futura dona. L'home queda atrapat entre dues dones i dos mons, i es veu amenaçat amb la marginació per la rigidesa social de l'època.
Abans de l’alba
Richard Linklater · 1995
Ένα αγόρι και ένα κορίτσι, στις αρχές της ενήλικης ζωής τους, συναντιούνται στην Ευρώπη, σε ένα τραίνο. Εκείνος Αμερικάνος που πρόκειται να επιστρέψει στις ΗΠΑ, εκείνη Γαλλίδα που επιστρέφει στο Παρίσι. Πιάνουν κουβέντα, περνούν καλά και αποφασίζουν να περάσουν μαζί μια (ρομαντική) νύχτα περιπλάνησης στη Βιέννη…
00s
In the Mood for Love
왕가위 · 2000
홍콩의 지역 매일 신문 편집장인 초 모완, 수출회사의 비서로 근무하는 수 리첸. 둘은 상하이 지역의 한 건물로 같은 날 이사하게 된다. 이사 날부터 의도치 않게 오가며 자주 부딪히게 되는 두 사람. 둘 다 가정이 있지만 어쩐지 배우자들은 자리를 비우는 날이 더 많고 두 사람의 외로움은 서로에게 낯설지 않게 다가와 둘을 가깝게 한다. 두 사람은 점점 감정이 깊어질수록 겉으로는 더욱 조심스러워지고 예견되어 있는 이별 앞에 마음이 혼란스럽고, 서로의 자리에서 마음으로 바라는 그들의 사랑은 애절하기만 하다.
The Royal Tenenbaums
Wes Anderson · 2001
Royal Tenenbaum and his wife Etheline had three children and then they separated. All three children are extraordinary --- all geniuses. Virtually all memory of the brilliance of the young Tenenbaums was subsequently erased by two decades of betrayal, failure, and disaster. Most of this was generally considered to be their father's fault. "The Royal Tenenbaums" is the story of the family's sudden, unexpected reunion one recent winter.
Uptown Girls
Boaz Yakin · 2003
Molly Gunn, the freewheeling daughter of a deceased rock legend, is forced to get a job when her manager steals her money. As nanny for precocious Ray, the oft ignored daughter of a music executive she learns what it means to be an adult while teaching Ray how to be a child.
Brokeback Mountain
Ang Lee · 2005
Verano de 1963. Dos vaqueros, Ennis Del Mar y Jack Twist, se conocen mientras hacen cola para ser contratados por el ranchero Joe Aguirre. Los dos aspiran a conseguir un trabajo estable, casarse y formar una familia. Cuando Aguirre les envía a cuidar ganado a la majestuosa montaña Brokeback, entre ambos surge un sentimiento de camaradería que deriva hacia una relación íntima. Al concluir el verano, tienen que abandonar Brokeback y seguir caminos diferentes.
Orgull i prejudici
Joe Wright · 2005
Les cinc germanes Bennet han estat criades per una mare obsessionada per trobar-los marit. Però una, Lizzie, intel·ligent i amb caràcter, desitja una vida amb perspectives més obertes, un anhel recolzat pel seu pare. Quan el senyor Bingley, un solter ric, i el seu cercle de amics sofisticats s'instal·len en una mansió veïna per passar l'estiu, les Bennett s'entusiasmen amb la possibilitat de trobar pretendents. Al ball de benvinguda, Lizzie coneix l'atractiu i elegant senyor Darcy, però, a primera vista, li sembla massa orgullós i arrogant.
The Virgin Suicides
Sofia Coppola · 2000
El viatge de Chihiro
Hayao Miyazaki · 2001
Durante el traslado de su familia a los suburbios, una niña de 10 años de edad deambula por un mundo gobernado por dioses, brujas y espíritus, y donde los humanos se convierten en bestias.
Gairebé famosos
Cameron Crowe · 2000
In 1973, 15-year-old William Miller's unabashed love of music and aspiration to become a rock journalist lands him an assignment from Rolling Stone magazine to interview and tour with the up-and-coming band, Stillwater.
Maria Antonieta
Sofia Coppola · 2006
A princesa austríaca Maria Antonieta (Kirsten Dunst) é enviada ainda adolescente à França para se casar com o príncipe Luis XVI (Jason Schwartzman), como parte de um acordo entre os países. Na corte de Versalles ela é envolvida em rígidas regras de etiqueta, ferrenhas disputas familiares e fofocas insuportáveis, mundo em que nunca se sentiu confortável. Praticamente exilada, decide criar um universo à parte dentro daquela corte, no qual pode se divertir e aproveitar sua juventude. Só que, fora das paredes do palácio, a revolução não pode mais esperar para explodir.
Ratatouille
Brad Bird · 2007
Remy és una simpàtica rata que somia de convertir-se en un gran xef francès malgrat l'oposició de la seva família i del problema evident que suposa ser una rata en una professió que detesta als rosegadores. El destí porta llavors a Remy a les clavegueres de París, però la seva situació no podria ser millor, ja que es troba just sota d'un restaurant que s'ha fet famós gràcies a Auguste Gusteau, una estrella de la cuisine. A pesar del perill que representa ser un visitant poc comú (i per descomptat gens desitjat) en els fogons d'un exquisit restaurant francès, la passió de Remy per la cuina posa de cap per avall el món culinari parisenc en una trepidant i emocionant aventura.
Mulholland Drive
David Lynch · 2001
Betty, una jove aspirant a actriu, arriba a Los Angeles per convertir-se en estrella de cinema i s'allotja a l'apartament de la seva tia. Allà coneix la Rita, una dona que pateix amnèsia a causa d'un accident a Mulholland Drive. Les dues juntes decideixen investigar qui és la Rita i com va arribar-hi.
Y Tu Mamá También
Alfonso Cuarón · 2001
Abans de la posta
Richard Linklater · 2004
O Τζέσι, διακεκριμένος συγγραφέας πλέον, συναντά τη Σελίν στο Παρίσι, με την οποία είχε μια σύντομη ερωτική ιστορία στη Βιέννη πριν 9 χρόνια. Έχοντας ελάχιστο χρόνο στη διάθεσή τους, κάνουν έναν περίπατο-απολογισμό της σχέσης τους και της μέχρι τώρα ζωή τους στην Πόλη του Φωτός.
80s
Stand by Me
Rob Reiner · 1986
Oregon, estate del 1959. Quattro ragazzini partono per un'escursione di 50 chilometri lungo la ferrovia, affrontando varie avventure per cercare il cadavere di un ragazzo scomparso giorni prima. Da un racconto (The Body, 1982) di Stephen King, uno dei film più belli sull'adolescenza degli anni '80, nel miracoloso equilibrio della memoria tra sentimento e avventura.
Amadeus
Miloš Forman · 1984
Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the hedonistic and remarkably talented young Viennese composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
After Hours
Martin Scorsese · 1985
Desperate to escape his mind-numbing routine, uptown Manhattan office worker Paul Hackett ventures downtown for a hookup with a mystery woman.
Clue
Jonathan Lynn · 1985
Clue finds six colorful dinner guests gathered at the mansion of their host, Mr. Boddy -- who turns up dead after his secret is exposed: He was blackmailing all of them. With the killer among them, the guests and Boddy's chatty butler must suss out the culprit before the body count rises.
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
John Hughes · 1986
After high school slacker Ferris Bueller successfully fakes an illness in order to skip school for the day, he goes on a series of adventures throughout Chicago with his girlfriend Sloane and best friend Cameron, all the while trying to outwit his wily school principal and fed-up sister.
Dirty Dancing
Emile Ardolino · 1987
Expecting the usual tedium that accompanies a summer in the Catskills with her family, 17-year-old Frances 'Baby' Houseman is surprised to find herself stepping into the shoes of a professional hoofer—and unexpectedly falling in love.
Francisca
Manoel de Oliveira · 1981
The life of a young man, son of an English officer who lets himself become a prisoner of love resulting in fatalism and disgrace.
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Pedro Almodóvar · 1988
The Green Ray
Éric Rohmer · 1986
Quan en Harry va trobar la Sally
Rob Reiner · 1989
During their travel from Chicago to New York, Harry and Sally debate whether or not sex ruins a friendship between a man and a woman. Eleven years later, and they're still no closer to finding the answer.
2020s
The Banshees of Inisherin
Martin McDonagh · 2022
Two lifelong friends find themselves at an impasse when one abruptly ends their relationship, with alarming consequences for both of them.
Emma.
Autumn de Wilde · 2020
In 1800s England, a well-meaning but selfish young woman meddles in the love lives of her friends.
Vides passades
Celine Song · 2023
Amb deu anys, la Nora emigra amb la família de Corea del Sud al Canadà i deixa enrere en Hae Sung: un amic molt íntim. Anys més tard, tots dos es retrobaran online i decidiran passar una setmana junts. Una experiència que els enfrontarà amb l’amor, el destí i les grans decisions de la vida.
La quimera
Alice Rohrwacher · 2023
Tots tenim una quimera, una cosa que volem fer, tenir, però que mai no trobem. Per a la banda dels tombaroli, els lladres d'antigues tombes i de jaciments arqueològics, la quimera és somiar deixar de treballar i fer-se rics sense esforç. Per l'Arthur, la quimera s'assembla a la Benjamina, la dona que va perdre. Per tal de trobar-la, l'Arthur s'enfrontarà a l'invisible, indagarà per tot arreu, penetrarà a la terra, decidit a trobar la porta que porta al Més enllà que parlen els mites. En el seu agosarat recorregut entre vius i morts, boscos i ciutats, festes i soledats, els destins dels personatges es creuen, tots a la recerca de la quimera.
10s
Somewhere
Sofia Coppola · 2010
After withdrawing to the Chateau Marmont, a passionless Hollywood actor reexamines his life when his eleven-year-old daughter surprises him with a visit.
Happy as Lazzaro
Alice Rohrwacher · 2018
Purehearted teen Lazzaro is content living as a sharecropper in rural Italy, but an unlikely friendship with the marquise’s son will change his world.
Frances Ha
Noah Baumbach · 2013
Frances (Greta Gerwig) una joven de 27 años que a pesar de su edad ha decidido perseguir su sueño de ser bailarina en una compañía de danza en Nueva York. Vive con su amiga Sophie, y disfruta de la vida con alegría y despreocupaciones. Una fábula moderna de Noah Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale, Greenberg) sobre la juventud, la amistad, la ambición, el fracaso y la redención. (FILMAFFINITY)
50s
Bell, Book and Candle
Richard Quine · 1958
A modern-day witch likes her neighbor but despises his fiancée, so she enchants him to love her instead... only to fall in love with him for real.
The Earrings of Madame de...
Max Ophüls · 1953
In late 19th century France, the Countess Louise, wife of a wealthy general, sells the earrings her husband gave her on their wedding day to pay off her secret debts, then claims to have lost them. Her husband quickly learns of the deceit, which is the beginning of many tragic misunderstandings, all involving the earrings, the general, the countess, and her new lover, the Italian Baron Donati.
Ningú no és perfecte
Billy Wilder · 1959
El Joe i el Jerry són dos músics que es veuen obligats a fugir després de ser testimonis d'una carnisseria entre dues bandes rivals. Com que no troben feina i la màfia els persegueix, decideixen vestir-se de dones i tocar en una orquestra femenina. El Joe,per conquistar la Sugar Kane, la cantant de el grup, fingeix ser un magnat impotent; mentrestant, el Jerry és cortejat per un milionari que vol casar-se amb ell.
La finestra indiscreta
Alfred Hitchcock · 1954
Un reporter fotogràfic es veu obligat a romandre en repòs amb una cama enguixada. Tot i la companyia de la seva nòvia i de la seva infermera, procura escapar al tedi, observant des de la finestra del seu apartament amb uns prismàtics el que passa als habitatges del davant. A causa d'una sèrie d'estranyes circumstàncies comença a sospitar d'un veí la dona del qual ha desaparegut.
Tot cantant sota la pluja
Gene Kelly · 1952
Abans de conèixer l'aspirant a actriu Cathy Seldon, l?ídol del cinema mut Don Lockwood pensava que ho tenia tot; fama, fortuna i èxit. Però, després de conèixer-la, s'adona que ella és el que realment faltava a la seva vida. Amb el naixement del cinema sonor, Don vol filmar els musicals amb Kathy, però entre tots dos s'interposa la reina del cinema mut Lina Lamont.
El setè segell
Ingmar Bergman · 1957
Suècia, mitjans del segle XIV. La Peste Negra assola Europa. Després de deu anys d'inútils combats a les Croades, el cavaller suec Antonius Blovk i el seu lleial escuder tornen de Terra Santa. Blovk és un home turmentat i ple de dubtes. Pel camí es troba amb la Mort que ho reclama. Aleshores ell li proposa jugar una partida d'escacs, amb l'esperança d'obtenir d'Ella respostes a les grans qüestions de la vida: la mort i l'existència de Déu.
60s
Happiness
Agnès Varda · 1965
A young husband and father, perfectly content with his life, falls in love with another woman.
The Graduate
Mike Nichols · 1967
A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.
Bonnie and Clyde
Arthur Penn · 1967
In the 1930s, bored waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks.
Midnight Cowboy
John Schlesinger · 1969
Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he finds a companion in Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg and a quixotic fantasy of escaping to Florida.
Barefoot in the Park
Gene Saks · 1967
In this film based on a Neil Simon play, newlyweds Corie, a free spirit, and Paul Bratter, an uptight lawyer, share a sixth-floor apartment in Greenwich Village. Soon after their marriage, Corie tries to find a companion for mother, Ethel, who is now alone, and sets up Ethel with neighbor Victor. Inappropriate behavior on a double date causes conflict, and the young couple considers divorce.
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Sydney Pollack · 1969
Les senyoretes de Rochefort
Jacques Demy · 1967
Dues germanes, ambdues professores de música ( Deneuve i Dorléac), viuen a la petita població de Rochefort i somien trobar un gran amor. Homenatge als grans musicals de l'època daurada de Hollywood.
Els paraigües de Cherbourg
Jacques Demy · 1964
Geneviève és una noia que viu amb la seva mare i l'ajuda a la botiga de paraigües que tenen a Cherburg. Està enamorada de Guy, un jove mecànic, amb qui pensa casar-se malgrat l'oposició de la seva mare, que considera Geneviève massa jove i Guy massa pobre. Per pagar un deute, la mare es veu obligada a vendre un collaret a un ric joier que s'enamora de Geneviève des del primer moment. Mentrestant, Guy s'haurà d'absentar dos anys per anar a Algèria a fer el servei militar.
30s
Freaks
Tod Browning · 1932
A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Frank Capra · 1939
After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington. Soon, the naive and earnest new senator has to battle political corruption.
Design for Living
Ernst Lubitsch · 1933
An independent woman can't choose between the two men she loves.
Death Takes a Holiday
Mitchell Leisen · 1934
After years of questioning why people fear him, Death takes on human form so he can mingle among the mortals and find an answer. However, events soon spiral out of control as he falls in love with the beautiful young Grazia, the only woman not afraid of him. As he falls in love with her, her father sees him for what he is and begs him to return to his duties. Death must decide whether or not to seek his own happiness or sacrifice it so that Grazia may live.
Ha nascut una estrella
William A. Wellman · 1937
Blancaneu i els set nans
David Hand · 1938
La malvada madrastra de la princesa Blancaneu decideix desfer-se'n perquè no pot suportar que la bellesa de la jove sigui superior a la d'ella. Tot i això, Blancaneu aconsegueix salvar-se i es refugia a la cabana dels set nans. Tot i així, la seva cruel madrastra aconsegueix trobar-la i l'enverina amb una poma. Però la princesa no és morta, només adormida, en espera que un príncep blau la rescati.
70s
One Sings, the Other Doesn't
Agnès Varda · 1977
The intertwined lives of two women in 1970s France, set against the progress of the women's movement in which Agnes Varda was involved. Pomme and Suzanne meet when Pomme helps Suzanne obtain an abortion after a third pregnancy which she cannot afford. They lose contact but meet again ten years later. Pomme has become an unconventional singer, Suzanne a serious community worker - despite the contrast they remain friends and share in the various dramas of each others' lives, in the process affirming their different female identities.
The Long Goodbye
Robert Altman · 1973
In 1970s Hollywood, Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his wife.
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Peter Weir · 1975
In the early 1900s, Miranda attends a girls boarding school in Australia. One Valentine's Day, the school's typically strict headmistress treats the girls to a picnic field trip to an unusual but scenic volcanic formation called Hanging Rock. Despite rules against it, Miranda and several other girls venture off. It's not until the end of the day that the faculty realizes the girls and one of the teachers have disappeared mysteriously.
3 Women
Robert Altman · 1977
Two co-workers, one a vain woman and the other an awkward teenager, share an increasingly bizarre relationship after becoming roommates.
One Sings, the Other Doesn't
Agnès Varda · 1977
The intertwined lives of two women in 1970s France, set against the progress of the women's movement in which Agnes Varda was involved. Pomme and Suzanne meet when Pomme helps Suzanne obtain an abortion after a third pregnancy which she cannot afford. They lose contact but meet again ten years later. Pomme has become an unconventional singer, Suzanne a serious community worker - despite the contrast they remain friends and share in the various dramas of each others' lives, in the process affirming their different female identities.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Jim Sharman · 1975
Sweethearts Brad and Janet, stuck with a flat tire during a storm, discover the eerie mansion of Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a transvestite scientist. As their innocence is lost, Brad and Janet meet a houseful of wild characters, including a rocking biker and a creepy butler. Through elaborate dances and rock songs, Frank-N-Furter unveils his latest creation: a muscular man named 'Rocky'.
