Genres:Drama Countries:USA Directors:Nicholas Ray Actors:James Mason | Barbara Rush | Walter Matthau | Robert F. Simon | Christopher Olsen | Roland Winters | Rusty Lane | Rachel Stephens | Kipp Hamilton | Dee Aaker | David Bedell | Harold Bostwick | Lewis Charles | George Chester | Richard Collier
Schoolteacher and family man Ed Avery, who's been suffering bouts of severe pain and even blackouts, is hospitalized with what's diagnosed as a rare inflammation of the arteries. Told by doctors that he probably has only months to live, Ed agrees to an experimental treatment: doses of the hormone cortisone. Ed makes a remarkable recovery, and returns home to his wife, Lou, and their son, Richie. He must keep taking cortisone tablets regularly to prevent a recurrence of his illness. But the "miracle" cure turns into its own nightmare as Ed starts to abuse the tablets, causing him to experience increasingly wild mood swings.
Genres:Crime | Drama | Thriller Countries:France | USA Directors:Stephen Hopkins Actors:Thomas Jane | Monica Bellucci | Gene Hackman | Morgan Freeman | Nydia Caro | Miguel Ángel Suárez
While San Juan celebrates San Sebastian's Feast, recently-divorced and world-weary police captain Victor Benezet calls in prominent attorney Henry Hearst to clarify his statement about discovering the body of a girl of about 12, the second such murder in two weeks. As Hearst answers unconvincingly, Benezet reveals circumstantial evidence: the lawyer is under suspicion. The interrogation strips away Hearst's dignity, public persona, and even his toupee, exposing a breech with his beautiful and much younger wife, questionable sexual predilections and a damning hobby. Then, Hearst's wife volunteers information that confirms police suspicions. Is Hearst finally at the breaking point? Download:
Genres:Drama | War Countries:Germany | Poland Directors:Max Färberböck Actors:Nina Hoss | Yevgeni Sidikhin | Irm Hermann | Rüdiger Vogler | Ulrike Krumbiegel | Rolf Kanies | Jördis Triebel | Roman Gribkov | Juliane Köhler | Samvel Muzhikyan | Viktor Zhalsanov | Aleksandra Kulikova | Oleg Chernov | Anne Kanis | August Diehl
A nameless woman keeps a diary as the Russians invade Berlin in the spring of 1945. She is in her early 30s, a patriotic journalist with international credentials; her husband, Gerd, a writer, is an officer at the Russian front. She speaks Russian and, for a day or two after the invasion, keeps herself safe, but then the rapes begin. She resolves to control her fate and invites the attentions of a Russian major, Andreij Rybkin. He becomes her protector of sorts subject to pressures from his own fellow soldiers and officers. Dramas play out in the block of flats where she lives. Is she an amoral traitor? She asks, "How do we go on living?" And what of Gerd and her diary?
Genres:Biography | Drama | History | War Countries:West Germany Directors:Hans-Jürgen Syberberg Actors:Helmut Käutner | Kristina Söderbaum | Käthe Gold | Attila Hörbiger | William Trenk | Mady Rahl | Lil Dagover | Rudolf Prack | Rainer von Artenfels | Leon Askin | Marquard Bohm | Wolfgang Büttner | Peter Chatel | Erwin Faber | Rudolf Fernau
This is a biographical movie about famous best selling German writer, noted mainly for books set in the American Old West, (best known for the characters of Winnetou and Old Shatterhand) and similar books set in the Orient and Middle East.
The film is structured as a kind of biography, and the long central scene of a courtroom battle marks the collapse of May's dreams as he gets more and more deeply embroiled in the realities of Prussian jurisprudence. The matter-of-fact historical framework acquires an added resonance from the fact that all the main parts are played by prominent figures from the Nazi cinema of the '30s. The mesh of fact, fiction, realism and expressionism is complex and fascinating.
Genres: Drama
