New Yorkiin sijoittuva elokuva kertoo taksikuskiksi ryhtyneestä yksinäisestä Vietnamin sodan veteraanista. Ahdistunut, yksinäinen ja uneton Travis Bickle ajaa öisin taksia New Yorkin pahamaineisimmilla alueilla. Joka yö hän tapaa toinen toistaan oudompia ihmisiä. Valoa Travisin elämään tuovat kaunis Betsy, johon Travis on ihastunut, sekä huonoille teille ajautunut 12-vuotias Iris, jonka hän haluaa hinnalla millä hyvänsä pelastaa sutenöörin kynsistä. Elokuva keskittyy ihmisen eristäytyneisyyteen ja vainoharhoihin sekä haluun kaupungin saastan ja likaisuuden poistamisesta.
A mathematical genius discovers a link between numbers and reality, and thus believes he can predict the future.
Sankari tulee esiin, julistaen mainettaan ja nimeään: Beowulf! Hirviöiden teurastaja. Valtakunnan puolustaja. Hän kukistaa ahnaan pedon, joka tekee tuhojaan viikinkien maassa. Hän ottaa palkkiokseen siitä kultaa ja valtakunnan. Mutta viekö hänen harkitsematon vaatimuksensa häneltä liian raskaan veron?
In the immense city of Tokyo, the darkness of the afterlife lurks some of its inhabitants who are desperately trying to escape the sadness and isolation of the modern world.
Four independent stories set in modern China about random acts of violence.
Louise is dissatisfied with her mundane life in a bleak Parisian new-town. She rents a pied-à-terre in the city so she can experience independence.
Leskeksi jäänyt tieteiskirjailija David saa mahdollisuuden adoptoida lapsen - ja toteuttaa hänen ja edesmenneen vaimonsa hartaan toiveen. Davidin elämä muuttuu enemmän kuin hän oli odottanutkaan pojan muuttaessa hänen luokseen koeajalle; kuusivuotias Dennis näet on vakuuttunut olevansa kotoisin Marsista. Ystävänsä Harleen ja sisarensa Lizin tuella itsekin lapsena ulkopuolisuutta kokenut David tekee parhaansa opettaakseen Dennisin maan tavoille ja kiintyy poikaan, mutta onko hänestä isäksi myös adoptiosta päättävien viranomaisten mielestä?
Roy Anderssonin elokuva on kertomus ihmisistä; heidän ihanuudestaan ja kurjuudestaan, suruistaan ja iloistaan, itsevarmuudesta ja ahdistuksesta, heidän halustaan rakastaa ja tulla rakastetuksi, elosta, joka välillä saa meidät nauramaan ja tuo välillä kyyneleet silmiin.
A true story of shocking violence catapults a picturesque little town into history. The close sibling relationship between the two maids takes on a new dimension as their overbearing employer discovers a sexual fever between the two sisters.
A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father.
A timid young woman who lives with her domineering mother accepts an Adult Video scout's offer to "become somebody else" by performing in porn videos. As she rises in popularity, the boundaries between her two lives begin to disintegrate.
Engineer Jan Sebek (Jan Kacer) is undergoing treatment in a mental home after his unsuccessful attempt to commit suicide. His therapist, via discussions both with the patient and with people who know him, tries to find out what made the young and seemingly satisfied man decide to end his own life. Jan's pretty wife Jana (Jana Brejchová) claims not to know about anything but she is conducting an affair with a family friend, almost publicly and with the blessing of her parents.
A deeply disturbed and epileptic young man benignly decides to murder other members of his dysfunctional family for altruistic reasons.
A minimalist study of lonely, isolated existence. Mohamad Sardari has spent thirty years at a remote outpost raising and lowering a gate to keep road traffic from crossing tracks when a train passes. He lives with his wife in an unadorned shack; a few bare trees dot the threadbare landscape.
Tasmania, 1954: Slovenian migrant Melita abandons her husband and young daughter, Sonja. Sonja's distraught father perseveres with his new life in a new country, but he is soon crushed into an alcoholic despair, and Sonja herself abandons him at the earliest opportunity. Now, nearly 20 years later, a single and pregnant Sonja returns to Tasmania's highlands and to her father in an attempt to put the pieces of her life back together.
This is the story of three characters (brothers Tomek and Jacek and their neighbor Magda), each of them is in their own way lonely and alienated. The title character makes herself secluded. Tomek's alienation results from his neurological disease, and Jacek contacts the world mainly via the Internet. This is also a film about love. Love of one brother to the other and of one alienated human being to the other. All together it creates a very universal picture with a Polish entourage.
Miki is a young Hungarian boy who cannot quite understand why he is always the target of nasty bully-attacks at school. Is it because his Mum speaks a different language. Or because of the weird lunch she packs him? Determined to find out why, Miki embarks on a journey which leads his to discover he is, in fact, an Alien. The Alien Boy is a whimsical ride into a young boys perception of discrimination, alienation and ultimately belonging.
Heikosti menestyvä komediakäsikirjoittaja palaa katkeran eron jälkeen New Yorkista Sacramentoon hoitamaan kuolevaa äitiään.
Twenty-something Freddy is becalmed in a podunk French village where the only sign of life is the local amateur brass band and youth aimlessly roaming around the countryside on scooters. He has an intense sexual connection with his girlfriend but has no joy or passion to give her. When she falls for a handsome Arab youth a tragedy unfolds.
Beyond Citizen Kane (1993) is a British documentary film directed by Simon Hartog, produced by John Ellis, and broadcast on Channel 4. It details the dominant position of the Rede Globo media group in the Brazilian society, discussing the group's influence, power, and political connections. Globo's president and founder Roberto Marinho came in for particular criticism, being compared with fictional newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane, created by Orson Welles for the 1941 film Citizen Kane. According to the documentary, Marinho's media group engages in the same Kane wholesale manipulation of news to influence the public opinion.