A young girl stays with her estranged grandparents in the city while she waits for the results of her audition for an international performance group. Her grandparents welcome her, delighted about the chance to get to know their granddaughter better. While staying at the house, the girl gets to know her uncle, who suffers from a mysterious long-term lung illness and is mainly confined to bed. She also observes her grandmother's weird religious rituals, some involving a swimming pool in the basement. When the girl's father finds out that she is staying with his parents, he persuades his sister to visit the house to get her out, ending with a terrible tragedy.
意大利米兰的瑞奇家族靠纺织业致富,在家长的寿宴上,爷爷将企业传给了儿子坦科雷德(加布里埃尔.费泽蒂 Gabriele Ferzetti 饰)和孙子爱德瓦多(弗拉维奥·帕伦蒂 Flavio Parenti 饰)。坦科雷德的俄国妻子艾玛(蒂尔达·斯维顿 Tilda Swin ton 饰)酷爱烹饪。在结识了儿子爱德瓦多的厨师朋友安东尼奥(爱德瓦多·加布瑞尔利尼 Edoardo Gabbriellini 饰)之后,艾玛被安东尼奥高超的烹饪手艺所吸引,情不自禁坠入爱河。不仅如此,艾玛还必须隐瞒她偶然发现女儿伊丽莎白(阿尔芭·洛尔瓦彻Alba Rohrwacher 饰)是同性恋的事实。与此同时,家族的事业也在变迁,尽管爱德瓦多独力反对出售家族企业,却还是无法抵挡资本全球化大潮的冲击,并购势在必行。在探讨商务的晚宴上,一个意外打破了艾玛苦心枯守的表面平静,她的灵魂就要破茧而出……
Once upon a time, Juan Pérez, the poorest of the poor, reaches fame in a fluke accident in what seemed to be an attempt of suicide, to protest against the government and his social condition. The Ministry of Economy, surrounded by the scandal in which he is blamed by Pérez's decision, decides to reward him changing his life giving him a little house, a car and a job. But when other poor people (Pérez's close friends) find out about his reversal of fortune, decide to imitate him faking suicide attempts in different buildings in Mexico City. The Ministry of Economy, terrified by the glance of having a plague of beggars, decides to declare poverty a crime and hence finish for once and for all with all the poor in the country. Pérez ends up behind bars. Three years later, Pérez is released and goes back to his previous social condition, but this time, aware of having one day as a rich man is better than a life as poor, he will do anything to get out of his misery... And he will manage to do so!
Pablo’s life is ruled by drugs and by the intense and oppressive relationship he has with his mother, a former cocaine mule who escaped from Colombia and with whom he shares a small house in the outskirts of Rome. After her death, following her relapse into drug addiction caused by his emotional involvement with a young Colombian girl mixed up in the smuggling ring, Pablo’s guilt pushes him to try and bring her ashes back to Colombia. When the embassy denies his request on the basis of the fake identity and passport of his mother, the protagonist will be forced to tackle the journey by ingesting ovules containing ashes instead of drugs and he will find himself in his home country for the first time, desperately looking for redemption and his mother’s house on the Madgalena river.
亚当(马丁·巴赫 Martin Buch 饰)和妻子结婚多年,两人之间的感情早就已经被时间消磨的所剩无几。一天,亚当听闻了有一家换妻俱乐部,于是决定去探访一番,以找回往日的激情。在俱乐部里,亚当邂逅了名为派翠西亚(娜塔莉·玛杜诺 Natalie Madueño 饰)的美丽女子,被她迷得神魂颠倒。 派翠西亚和男友帕特里克(埃米尔·伯克·哈特曼 Emil Birk Hartmann 饰)一起来到俱乐部,两人为的就是寻求刺激。这一对俊男靓女自然受到俱乐部里其他成员的追捧,然而,帕翠西亚却发现,相比起女人,自己的男友似乎对男人更感兴趣。腰缠万贯的富豪杨恩(拉斯马斯·伯托夫特 Rasmus Botoft 饰)和太太也来到了俱乐部中,想不到这疯狂的举动却让他们找回了曾经的真心。
本片回顾北欧史上最具话题性的两大人物,由丹麦影帝尼可拉斯布洛(Nicolas Bro)與皮魯艾斯貝克(Pilou Asbak),詮釋離經叛道的法律狂人與嬉皮資本家,他們奢侈無度的生活,互相扶持又彼此利用的微妙關係,成為空前絕後的時代象徵。 一趟沒有規則與權威,通往自由及解放的兜風之旅!法律是他們的籌碼、女人則是他們的軍隊,挑戰社會禁忌、對抗陳舊官僚。改編自北歐震驚社會的真實事件,崇尚享樂、沉溺性愛的航空鉅亨與稅務專家好友,聯手打造全北歐最大的航空公司,滾滾而來的鈔票讓他們越發縱慾狂歡,直到遊走在法律邊緣的秘密公諸於世,兩人的合作關係和友誼蒙上巨大陰影…。 旅遊公司老闆史派有個好鑽法律漏洞、專長逃稅和商場鬥爭的換帖好友兼個人律師吉斯托。從中小企業到富可敵國,兩人雖然有著迥異的志向和興趣,卻一直是彼此堅強而忠誠的靠山。然而,當吉斯托公開其極右派的政治主張,致使舉國譁然並引來政府關切時,史派夾在友情和自身名利之間,將如何取捨?
The movie is generally lacking in character development. The film at one point follows the creepiest-looking gangster (Flavio Bucci from the "The Night Train Murders") to his home where he is shacking up with another gangster's wife and her kid, but more than character development this seems to be more an excuse for another sex scene. The Placido character has an interesting flashback of him working on a filthy fishing barge, which is contrasted with a fantasy where he is piloting a yacht. This movie is very class-conscious in the way it has this poor Sicilian boy falling for a rich, northern girl (the Italian title "La Orca" comes from the designer outfit she's wearing). Placido is pretty good here, but this handsome, light-complexioned hunk is not too convincing as a lower-class Sicilian ruffian. As for Neihaus, I can't decide if she is a bad actress, or is just playing a really obnoxious character (she's more Paris Hilton than Patty Hearst). She does get naked several times which, judging from the English, title was the primary consideration.
When 13-year-old seminarian Sacramento Santos joins a new order, he hopes to rise through levels of obedience to “Perfect Obedience”. But this progression proves to be more than just a spiritual journey. Sacramento is adopted by the order's founding father, Ángel de la Cruz, and over the course the year they fall in love and surrender to the most intense, blissful, and contradictory episode of their lives. Years later, older and wiser, Sacramento leaves the order regretting that episode, and he decides to seek justice from his old tutor.
Lucjan is a theatre actor whose health is failing. He forgets his lines on stage and feels confused and out of place in his daily life. He decides to end his acting career and soon winds up in a nursing home. In this new place, the elderly man misses his late wife. He starts having nightmares that seem to become real. In one of them, he discovers a passage into a magical world deceptively similar to his theatre. Lucjan starts living in two parallel dimensions – real life and the fairy tale – that become increasingly dependent on each other and intertwined. His immersion in the imaginary world leads to an unexpected ending. A bittersweet treatise on passing. The fairy-tale world Lucjan creates is not so much a metaphor for death as a symbolic reconciliation to its coming.
号称世界上最危险的城市——巴西里约热内卢,警匪枪战时有发生。恶徒肆意横行,死亡如同家常便饭,甚至警匪沆瀣一气,危害城市。但就在这个混乱所在,却有一支刚正严明的部队横空出世。特别警察军事行动部队(Special Police Operation Battalion)凭借其果敢凶狠的办案作风而令匪徒闻风丧胆。 时1997年,教皇即将来此视察,高层要求纳斯西蒙(Wagner Moura 饰)所率领的这支精英部队在最短时间内肃清贫民窟内的毒品链。厌倦刀光血影的纳斯西蒙将心思放在了妻子和尚未出世的婴儿身上,他将任务交给了两个热血且充满理想的年青人——内图(Caio Junqueira 饰)和马提阿斯(André Ramiro 饰)。他们俩都不满警察队伍的腐败,决心在精英部队中大展身手…… 本片荣获2008年柏林国际电影节金熊奖。