Visions of Europe (2004)
Genre : Documentary, Comedy, Drama
Runtime : 2H 20M
Director : Fatih Akın, Aki Kaurismäki, Jan Troell, Béla Tarr, Barbara Albert, Šarūnas Bartas, Andy Bausch, Francesca Comencini, Stijn Coninx, Tony Gatlif, Saša Gedeon, Christos Georgiou, Constantine Giannaris, Theo van Gogh, Peter Greenaway, Miguel Hermoso, Arvo Iho, Damjan Kozole, Laila Pakalnina, Kenneth Scicluna, Martin Šulík, Małgorzata Szumowska, Teresa Villaverde, Aisling Walsh, Christoffer Boe
Synopsis
Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.
Narrator (segment "Sweden: The Yellow Tag") (voice)
Teacher (segment "Sweden: The Yellow Tag")
Narrator (segment "Sweden: The Yellow Tag") (voice)
(segment "Sweden: The Yellow Tag")
(segment "Sweden: The Yellow Tag")
(segment "Sweden: The Yellow Tag")
(segment "Sweden: The Yellow Tag")
(segment "Sweden: The Yellow Tag")
(segment "Sweden: The Yellow Tag")
(segment "Denmark: Europe")
(segment "Denmark: Europe")
(segment "Denmark: Europe")
(segment "Denmark: Europe")
Singer (segment "Germany: The Evil Old Songs")
Steelworker (segment "Germany: The Evil Old Songs")
Cello (segment "Germany: The Evil Old Songs")
Cello (segment "Germany: The Evil Old Songs")
Cello (segment "Germany: The Evil Old Songs")
Cello (segment "Germany: The Evil Old Songs")
The Priest (segment "Slovakia: The Miracle")
The Girl (segment "Slovakia: The Miracle")
The Mother (segment "Slovakia: The Miracle")
The Father (segment "Slovakia: The Miracle")
(segment "Lithuania: Children Lose Nothing")
(segment "Lithuania: Children Lose Nothing")
(segment "Lithuania: Children Lose Nothing")
(segment "Lithuania: Children Lose Nothing")
(segment "Lithuania: Children Lose Nothing")
(segment "Lithuania: Children Lose Nothing")
Self (segment "Greece: Room for All")
Self (segment "Greece: Room for All")
Self (segment "Greece: Room for All")
Self (segment "Greece: Room for All") (uncredited)
Self (segment "Ireland: Invisible State")
(segment "Poland: Crossroad")
(segment "Poland: Crossroad")
(segment "Poland: Crossroad")
(segment "Poland: Crossroad")
(segment "Poland: Crossroad")
(segment "Poland: Crossroad")
(segment "Poland: Crossroad")
(segment "France: Paris by Night")
(segment "France: Paris by Night")
(segment "France: Paris by Night")
(segment "France: Paris by Night")
(segment "France: Paris by Night")
(segment "France: Paris by Night")
Quizmaster (segment "Netherlands: Euroquiz")
Contestant (segment "Netherlands: Euroquiz")
Giorgos (segment "Cyprus: My Life on Tape")
Koullis (segment "Cyprus: My Life on Tape")
Stella (segment "Cyprus: My Life on Tape")
Andros (segment "Cyprus: My Life on Tape")
(segment "Estonia: Euroflot")
(segment "Estonia: Euroflot")
(segment "Estonia: Euroflot")
(segment "Estonia: Euroflot")
(segment "Estonia: Euroflot")
(segment "Estonia: Euroflot")
(segment "Estonia: Euroflot")
(segment "Estonia: Euroflot")
Iris (segment "Austria: Mars")
Frank (segment "Austria: Mars")
Chairman (segment "Austria: Mars")
Social Worker (segment "Austria: Mars")
Woman (segment "Austria: Mars")
Child (segment "Austria: Mars")
Student (segment "Austria: Mars")
Girl's Voice (segment "Austria: Mars") (voice)
Lawrence (segment "Malta: The Isle")
Maria (segment "Malta: The Isle")
Dolora (segment "Malta: The Isle")
Guzeppi (segment "Malta: The Isle")
Dun Pawl (segment "Malta: The Isle")
Helmsman (segment "Malta: The Isle")
Shoreman 1 (segment "Malta: The Isle")
Shoreman 2 (segment "Malta: The Isle")
Washer Woman 1 (segment "Malta: The Isle")
Washer Woman 2 (segment "Malta: The Isle")
Undertaker (segment "Malta: The Isle")
Patrick (segment "Belgium: Self Portrait")
Sofie (segment "Belgium: Self Portrait")
(segment "Belgium: Self Portrait")
(segment "Belgium: Self Portrait")
(segment "Luxembourg: The Language School")
(segment "Luxembourg: The Language School")
(segment "Luxembourg: The Language School")
(segment "Luxembourg: The Language School")
(segment "Luxembourg: The Language School")
(segment "Luxembourg: The Language School")
(segment "Luxembourg: The Language School")
(segment "Luxembourg: The Language School")
(segment "Luxembourg: The Language School")
(segment "Luxembourg: The Language School")
(segment "Luxembourg: The Language School") (uncredited)
Older Worker (segment "Slovenia: Europa")
Croatian Peasant (segment "Slovenia: Europa")
Younger Worker (segment "Slovenia: Europa")
Director of Slovak Institute (segment "Czech Republic: Unisono")
Spain Official Correspondent (segment "Czech Republic: Unisono")
Polish Institute Deputy Dir. (segment "Czech Republic: Unisono")
Sweden Official Correspondent(segment "Czech Republic: Unisono")
Dir. of the Goethe Institute (segment "Czech Republic: Unisono")
Hungarian Cultural Centre Dir.(segment "Czech Republic:Unisono")
Dir. Bulgarian Institute (segment "Czech Republic: Unisono")
Deputy Dir. British Council (segment "Czech Republic: Unisono")
Attache Embassy of France (segment "Czech Republic: Unisono")
Dir. Austrian Cultural Forum (segment "Czech Republic: Unisono")
Delegate Embassy of Belgium (segment "Czech Republic: Unisono")
Secretary, Embassy Slovenia (segment "Czech Republic: Unisono")
(segment "Finland: Bico")
(segment "Finland: Bico")
(segment "Finland: Bico")
(segment "Finland: Bico")
(segment "Finland: Bico")
A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant.
Professor Barbenfouillis and five of his colleagues from the Academy of Astronomy travel to the Moon aboard a rocket propelled by a giant cannon. Once on the lunar surface, the bold explorers face the many perils hidden in the caves of the mysterious planet.
It ain't easy bein' green -- especially if you're a likable (albeit smelly) ogre named Shrek. On a mission to retrieve a gorgeous princess from the clutches of a fire-breathing dragon, Shrek teams up with an unlikely compatriot -- a wisecracking donkey.
When Sam Baldwin's wife dies, he is left to bring up his eight-year-old son Jonah alone, and decides to move to Seattle to make a new start. On Christmas Eve, Jonah rings a radio phone-in with his Christmas wish to find a new wife for his dad. Meanwhile in Baltimore, journalist Annie Reed, who is having doubts about her own relationship, is listening in.
A retelling of France's iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette, from her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI at 15 to her reign as queen at 19 and ultimately the fall of Versailles.
A wealthy Los Angeles teen and her superficial friends wants to break out of suburbia and experience Southern California's "gangsta" lifestyle. But problems arise when the preppies get in over their heads and provoke the wrath of a violent Latino gang. Suddenly, their role-playing seems a little too real.
Test pilot Hal Jordan finds himself recruited as the newest member of the intergalactic police force, The Green Lantern Corps.
Megan is an all-American girl. A cheerleader. She has a boyfriend. But Megan doesn't like kissing her boyfriend very much. And she's pretty touchy with her cheerleader friends. Her conservative parents worry that she must be a lesbian and send her off to "sexual redirection" school, where she must, with other lesbians and gays learn how to be straight.
A small egg named Toto decides that he wants to fulfill his purpose in life and become a chicken instead of dying in a frying pan; so he starts a quest to return to the farms along with his new friend, the noisy egg Willy and a crazy bacon stripe. The three friends will face lot of obstacles in their quest.
Ordered to teach a martial arts class of rambunctious bunny kittens, Po tells stories of each of the Furious Five's pasts.
Two women, one from the United States and one from the United Kingdom, swap homes at Christmas time after bad breakups with their boyfriends. Each woman finds romance with a local man but realizes that the imminent return home may end the relationship.
Bored and restless, Alice spends much of her time lusting after Jim, a local sawmill worker. When not lusting after him, Alice fills the hours with such pursuits as writing her name on a mirror with vaginal secretions and wandering the fields with her underwear around her ankles. And, in true teenaged tradition, she spends a lot of time writing in her diary.
Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories, each exploring a different aspect of Parisian life. The colourful characters in this drama include a pair of mimes, a husband trying to chose between his wife and his lover, and a married man who turns to a prostitute for advice.
When a young boy makes a wish at a carnival machine to be big—he wakes up the following morning to find that it has been granted and his body has grown older overnight. But he is still the same 13-year-old boy inside. Now he must learn how to cope with the unfamiliar world of grown-ups including getting a job and having his first romantic encounter with a woman.
Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial -- find an odd solace and pensive freedom to be real in each other's company, away from their lives in America.
A young transgender man explores his gender identity and searches for love in rural Nebraska.
A seductive teen befriends an introverted high school student and schemes her way into the lives of her wealthy family.
After discovering they are all dating the same same guy, three popular students from different cliques band together for revenge, so they enlist the help of a new gal in town and conspire to break the jerk's heart, while destroying his reputation.
Oscar is a small fish whose big aspirations often get him into trouble. Meanwhile, Lenny is a great white shark with a surprising secret that no sea creature would guess: He's a vegetarian. When a lie turns Oscar into an improbable hero and Lenny becomes an outcast, the two form an unlikely friendship.
