In a remote Siberian village, an anonymous young man emerges from a blizzard to claim his late father's body. Navigating the detritus of an old man's final friendless decade and the dehumanizing maze of red tape that are his father's sole legacy, the boy inadvertently picks through the debris of unraveled family ties and confronts the yawning gap between alienated Soviet generations. Scorned and ignored, his labor of mourning becomes as transformative as the labor of birth. "I'll burn everything, but not my father," the young man warns a funeral director. As he finds himself in his father's lifeless eyes, the reluctant young pilgrim discovers that they have more in common in death than they did in life.

Algún día, todo hijo tiene que cumplir un triste deber: enterrar a su padre. Este es el principal y único evento que se produce en El Segundo Círculo y es representado con una sencillez épica en cada detalle. Se hacen visibles todas las conexiones rotas de nuestra vida, la inercia sin sentido de los rituales, ahora inconexos, pero que en otros tiempos poseían un contenido sagrado y un significado.

John Cassavetes’ devastating drama details the emotional breakdown of a suburban housewife and her family’s struggle to save her from herself. Starring Peter Falk and Gena Rowlands (in two of the most harrowing screen performances of the 1970s) as a married couple deeply in love yet unable to express that love in terms the other can understand, the film is an uncompromising portrait of domestic turmoil. One of the benchmark films of American independent cinema — an heroic document from a true maverick director.

Cassavetes vuelve a plasmar con inigualable fuerza el retrato y los sentimientos de una mujer, un ama de casa mentalmente inestable con continuos cambios de humor que bordean la enfermedad. Falk es su marido, un trabajador que trata de comprenderla, pero que se enfrenta a un problema que se ve incapaz de resolver.

The disintegration of a marriage is dissected in John Cassavetes’ searing Faces. Shot in high-contrast 16 mm black and white, the film follows the futile attempts of captain of industry Richard Forst and his wife, Maria, to escape the anguish of their empty marriage in the arms of others. Featuring astonishingly powerful, nervy performances from Marley, Carlin, and Cassavetes regulars Gena Rowlands and Seymour Cassel, Faces confronts suburban alienation and the battle of the sexes with a brutal honesty and compassion rarely matched in cinema.

Richard Forst, un maduro hombre de negocios casado, tiene una aventura con la joven Jeannie, y acto seguido le pide el divorcio a su mujer, María. Después de que Richard se haya ido de casa para estar con Jeannie, María conoce a un tipo en un bar y pasa la noche con él. A la mañana siguiente, Richard vuelve a su casa y encuentra a su esposa con su amante. Cuando éste huye, el matrimonio se tiene que enfrentar al problema cara a cara.

Two middle-aged artistes provide the focus of this drama filmed in black and white. The story is set in Paris around the time of the Gulf War. Paul is an actor leading a drab directionless existence. He has an affair with Ulrika, a woman half his age. His wife, with whom he constantly argues, is pregnant with their second child. He does not interact much with his teenage son. Much of the film centers around the emptiness of his life.

Paul vive con su mujer, Fanchon, que está embarazada, y su hijo adolescente. Tiene una amante, Ulrika, de la que está enamorado y por la que sería capaz de abandonar su hogar. Pero Ulrika, marcada por tortuosas relaciones anteriores, no le corresponde. A Marcus, amigo de Paul, tampoco le van bien las cosas. Acaba de ser abandonado por su compañera, que se ha marchado a Roma con otro hombre.

An agonizing portrait of desperate Japanese soldiers stranded in a strange land during World War II, Kon Ichikawa’s Fires on the Plain is a compelling descent into psychological and physical oblivion. Denied hospital treatment for tuberculosis and cast off into the unknown, Private Tamura treks across an unfamiliar Philippine landscape, encountering an increasingly debased cross section of Imperial Army soldiers, who eventually give in to the most terrifying craving of all. Grisly yet poetic, Fires on the Plain is one of the most powerful works from one of Japanese cinema’s most versatile filmmakers.

Duro relato antibélico que narra la desesperada situación, abocada a la derrota, que está sufriendo el ejército japonés en Filipinas en 1945, durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Ichikawa retrata de forma implacable, con su habitual mirada cínica y humor negro, las correrías de un grupo de soldados japoneses y su lucha por su supervivencia recurriendo a la violencia, al robo e incluso al canibalismo.

The film starts in the last days of World War II, during the rushed marriage ceremony of Maria Braun, after which her husband is sent to battle the advancing Allies. After Maria later hears that he has been killed, she becomes the mistress of an African-American soldier. When Maria’s husband unexpectedly returns alive, she kills the soldier in a scuffle, but her husband takes the blame. Maria becomes the self-centered assistant and lover of a wealthy industrialist and a model of post-war recovery.

Maria y Hermann Braun se casan mientras caen bombas poco antes de que este sea enviado al frente ruso. Al final de la guerra le declaran desaparecido, posiblemente muerto. Un mundo se derrumba. Alemania está viviendo su año cero. Entre las ruinas, donde reina el trueque y la prostitución, Maria se hace amante de un soldado negro americano, Bill, del que queda embarazada y, en contra de toda lógica, sigue esperando el regreso de su marido...

A couple breaks up after the husband's violent and abusive nature finally becomes too much for his wife, but the breakup becomes a rebuilding experience for both of them as they pick up the tattered remains of their lives. Winner of an astonishing 61 awards, Te Doy Mis Ojos, directed by one of Spain's most promising woman directors Icíar Bollaín, is a powerful film about reclaiming one's dignity and finding the hero within ourselves to change our lives.

Una noche de invierno, una mujer, Pilar, sale huyendo de su casa. Lleva consigo apenas cuatro cosas y a su hijo, Juan. Escapando de Antonio, un marido que la maltrata y con la que lleva 9 años casada. Antonio no tarda en ir a buscarla. Pilar es su sol, dice, y además “le ha dado sus ojos”...

In Japan in 1701, Asano, the daimyo of Ako, assaulted Kira (Rie Miyazawa), an official of the Shogunate in Edo Castle, for which offense he was ordered to commit suicide. The following year one of Asano's former retainers, Kuranosuke Oishi (Ken Takakura), gathers a group of his lord's other followers and with them plots to take vengeance on Kira, whom he holds responsible for Asano's death.

Willie is a German cabaret singer working in Zurich. She is in love with Robert, a Jewish anti-Nazi activist and composer. When Willie's version of Robert's song "Lili Marleen" becomes a hit with the German troops, she becomes synonymous with the song, with the Third Reich and the war effort, feted as a national icon and celebrated even by the Führer himself. Enraged that his son's work has been co-opted by anti-Semites, Robert's father plays a cruel trick on the couple, forcing them apart. But the two cannot forget one another, and they each determine to risk everything for the one they love.

Lili Marleen es la historia de una canción que, durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, llegó a convertirse en todo un himno, primero del nazismo y posteriormente extendido hasta el bando aliado. En 1936, Norbert Schultze, un pianista de cabaret, le puso música a la letra que había compuesto años atrás un soldado alemán, y tres años más tarde la grababa en disco una bella pero mediocre cantante llamada Lale Andersen. El resultado fue el éxito y una popularidad sin límite para Lale, que fue entonces monopolizada por los servicios de propaganda del III Reich.

Pierre lives with his mother Marie in a castle in Normandy near the edges of Seine. They are very beautiful, rich, carefree and they like themselves. Every morning, Pierre leaves on the inherited bike of his father to visit Lucie, his fiancé. One night, Marie announces to Pierre that she arranged the date for his marriage to Lucie. Pierre leaves to announce the good news to his fiancé. On the way, in the forest, appears a funereal beauty. She speaks with a strong accent of the countries of the East: "Pierre.. you are not the only child, I am your sister, Isabelle."

Pierre vive felizmente con su madre, está a punto de casarse con su bella prometida y ha cosechado un gran éxito como escritor. Una noche, sin embargo, conoce a una misteriosa muchacha deambulando por el bosque que le hace una sorprendente revelación que cambiará su vida.

Lord Asano resists a bribery attempt by a member of the Shogun's court. His honesty, however, is useless against the corruption of the administration, and he is forced to commit harakiri. His samurai are dispersed as masterless ronin. The leader of the samurai, Oichi, plots with a loyal band of ronin to seek revenge for their master's dishonor.
El 14 de Marzo de 1701, en la real capital de Edo, Lord Asano ataca a Lord Kiru mientras se encuentra en tierra sagrada. Como resultado de esta grave ofensa, Asano es obligado a practicarse el harakiri, su casa es abolida y sus propiedades abandonadas. Sin embargo 47 de los samurais de Asano juran vengar a su amo.

Charles Desvallées has good reasons to believe that his wife is cheating on him and hires a P.D. in order to prove himself right. Once he knows the lover is writer Victor Pégala, he drives to his apartment, calmly presents himself as the husband, starts a conversation and then kills him cold-bloodedly. The police trace the wife but when she discovers by accident a picture that could incriminate her husband she decides to remain silent
Cuando Charles Desvallées comienza a sospechar que su mujer está teniendo un affair con otro hombre, contrata un detective privado para que la siga y averigüe el nombre del amante. Una vez confirmada la infidelidad y descubierta la identidad de él, el celoso marido prepara su venganza.

Many films have drawn from classic Japanese theatrical forms, but none with such shocking cinematic effect as director Masahiro Shinoda’s Double Suicide. In this striking adaptation of a Bunraku puppet play (featuring the music of famed composer Toru Takemitsu), a paper merchant sacrifices family, fortune, and ultimately life for his erotic obsession with a prostitute.

A trio of characters in Edo intersect during a time of puritanical social reform. A ner-do-well, Naojiro, wants to become an actor and get his face in prints (this was the Japanese version of the supermarket tabloids in olden times) and he wants to marry a geisha but his overbearing mother disapproves. A man who abandoned his wife and child returns to discover tragedy has befallen his small family. A "buraikan" plots to overthrow the despotic lord who is imposing the strict social reforms. Buraikan is an expert blend of art and history that follows the paths of six characters trying to make a living during the chaotic Tempou revolution. The intricate story lines are consistently funny, erotic, suspenseful, and absorbing. Nakadai Tatsuyo is eerily compelling as the handsome fortune teller. This dark, witty period drama is an absolute must for any film connoisseur.

In the French Riviera, the spoiled and futile seventeen years old girl Cecile is spending the summer vacation with her father, the widow playboy and bon-vivant Raymond, and his girlfriend Elsa. Cecile has a serious Complex of Oedipus with her father, and they have a quite incestuous relationship. The successful designer and former friend of her mother Anne Larson arrives in their seaside house invited by Raymond to spend a couple of days with them, and the life of Cecile changes when Raymond proposes Anne to marry him. Full of jealousy, Cecile plots with Elsa to separate Anne from Raymond. From the novel by Françoise Sagan.

Un verano radiante en la Riviera Francesa. Cecile, una difícil e independiente adolescente, hace lo imposible por separar a su padre, Raymond, un atractivo y mujeriego viudo, de su amante, Anne Larson. Movida por el temor de perder el cariño de su padre y los celos que Ann le provoca, no cesará en su empeño de dividir a la pareja.