The World’s Most Beautiful Swindlers
Five swindle stories, taking place in five international cities: Tokyo, Japan (“Fumiko’s Five Benefactors” by Hiromichi Horikawa); Amsterdam, The Netherlands (“A River of Diamonds” by Roman Polanski); Naples, Italy (“The…
The Fat and the Lean
A small and thin barefoot slave (played by Polanski) plays a flute and beats a drum to entertain his large master who rocks in a rocking chair in front of…
Mammals
“Waiting for Godot” on ice and snow, without words. Against a barren winter landscape, a figure approaches: it’s a man, pulling a small sleigh on which another man sits, plucking…
When Angels Fall
The twenty-one-minute-film is set in a men’s public rest room and recounts the day to day existence of an elderly woman who serves as an attendant in the lavatory. As…
A Murderer
The camera shows us a door handle and the door’s striker plate; from this angle, they form a cross. The door opens and in steps someone in a dark trench…
Break Up the Dance
Youths get ready for a party, decorating the dance floor, cleaning out the fountain of a pond. That evening, the party starts and guests arrive: everyone has a ticket, and…
A Toothful Smile
A man walks down the exterior staircase of building of flats; he’s dressed to go out, taking care to wrap a scarf around his neck. He pauses as he passes…
Death and the Maiden
A political activist is convinced that her guest is a man who once tortured her for the government.
Based on a True Story
Delphine is the author of an autobiographical novel that has become a bestseller. Exhausted by the promotional tour, just when she feels out of place, paralyzed by the idea of…
An Officer and a Spy
In 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at Devil’s Island.
Tess
A powerful-willed peasant woman is shipped by her father to the property of some native aristocrats to capitalize on a rumor that their households are from the identical line. This…
What?
A young American girl traveling Italy finds herself in a peculiar Mediterranean villa in which nothing looks right.
Macbeth
Scotland, 11th century. Pushed by the twisted prophecy of three witches and the ruthless ambition of his spouse, warlord Macbeth, daring and courageous, but additionally weak and hesitant, betrays his…
Rosemary’s Baby
A young couple goes into a notorious New York apartment construction to begin a household. Matters become terrifying as Rosemary starts to suspect that her unborn baby isn’t safe about…
The Fearless Vampire Killers
A former professor and his own dim-witted apprentice fall prey into their own asking vampires, while to the road of their menacing damsel in distress.
Cul-de-sac
An injured criminal along with his dying spouse take refuge in a tropical castle. The proprietors of this castle, a little Englishman and his deliberate French spouse, are originally the…
Repulsion
Wonderful young manicurist Carole suffers from androphobia (the pathological dread of interaction with guys ). When her husband and sister, Helen, renders their London apartment to go in an Italian…
Knife in the Water
Pirates
Captain Red conducts on the rugged pirate boat with the assistance of a dashing young French sailor. 1 evening Capt. Red is caught and taken aboard a Spanish galleon, but…
Frantic
The spouse of an American physician suddenly disappears in Paris and, to locate her, he awakens a puzzling web of language, area, laissez-faire cops, triplicate-form satisfying bureaucrats along with a…
Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist the current filmed edition of Charles Dickens best seller, also a Roman Polanski version. The classic Dickens tale, where an orphan meets a pickpocket on the streets of…
Venus in Fur
An enigmatic actress can possess hidden agenda when she auditions for that a part in a misogynistic writer’s play.