1770. Marianne é pintora e tem de pintar o retrato de casamento de Héloïse, uma jovem que acaba de sair do convento. Héloïse resiste ao seu destino de esposa, recusando posar. Marianne tem de a pintar em segredo. Apresentada como dama de companhia, observa-a todos os dias.
No Carnaval Orfeu (Breno Mello), condutor de bonde e sambista que morra no morro, se apaixona por Eurídice (Marpessa Dawn), uma jovem do interior que vem para o Rio de Janeiro fugindo de um estranho fantasiado de Morte (Ademar da Silva). Mas o amor de Orfeu por Eurídice irá despertar o ciúme de sua ex-noiva, Mira (Lourdes de Oliveira).
Orfeu é um poeta parisiense famoso e entediado. Em um café conhece a Morte e ambos se apaixonam. Com ciúmes de Eurídice, a esposa de Orfeu, a Morte a leva para o mundo dos mortos. Orfeu desce até os infernos para resgatar ambas.
Two best friends set out to rescue their pal after he's accidentally dragged to hell.
A modernized telling of the Greek Mythology romantic tragedy of Orpheus and Eurydice.
Director helmut Dietls and Patric Susskinds illustrate a legendary story of two lovers who cant keep themselves away from death.
Oru Indian Pranayakatha is about the life of a young political leader and his association with a woman who comes unexpectedly into his life.
A humble Romanian actor in his 40's, hardly surviving between a complicated part in a musical, a depressed wife, and the obsession of an imminent, devastating earthquake, becomes the victim of his manipulative father.
This musical comedy based on an opera by Jacques Offenbach incorporates a twist on the classic Greek myth: Orpheus, a music teacher at a girls’ school in the ancient Greek city of Thebes, actually does not miss his wife Eurydice that much – until the gods and Offenbach himself pressure him to retrieve her from Hades.
Eileen and Martin are a young couple living in their apartment home. Martin is terminallly ill in an induced coma. With the aid of AI technology, his consciousness is being kept alive in a simulated reality of their apartment home, where Eileen visits him regularly.
In a montage alternating with moments of Nigel Rogers' interpretation of the most beautiful passages from "Orpheus," the opera by Striggio and Monteverdi, La Nuit Claire is an evocation of the celebrated myth, within which images of the love between its two modern protagonists, Anne and Julien, are inscribed. - BAM/PFA