舞台俳優であり、演出家の家福悠介。彼は、脚本家の妻・音と満ち足りた日々を送っていた。しかし、妻はある秘密を残したまま突然この世からいなくなってしまう――。２年後、演劇祭で演出を任されることになった家福は、愛車のサーブで広島へと向かう。そこで出会ったのは、寡黙な専属ドライバーみさきだった。喪失感を抱えたまま生きる家福は、みさきと過ごすなか、それまで目を背けていたあることに気づかされていく…
A stage director and an actress struggle through a grueling, coast-to-coast divorce that pushes them to their personal extremes.
ケイデン・コタードはニューヨークに住む劇作家。平凡だった彼の日常は、ある日を境に変わっていく。 額を切って病院へ行けば、原因不明の病気と診断され、家族からは、自分が演出した自信満々の舞台をけなされる。 夫婦仲も上手くいかず、遂には愛する妻と娘に捨てられてしまう。新しい恋人を作ろうとするも、優柔不断で逃げられて…。 そんな失敗続きで、人生に嫌気がさしていた彼の元に、マッカーサー・フェロー賞(別名“天才賞”)を受賞した知らせが届く。 大金と名誉を手に入れた彼は、人生をやり直そうとそのすべてを注ぎ込んだ、一世一代のプロジェクトを実行する。 それは、自分の頭の中に思い描いた理想のニューヨークを本物のニューヨークの中にもう一つ作り、誰も見たことのない舞台を上演する事だった。
私立のラシュモア高校に通う行動派生徒のマックスは、並行して20前後の課外活動をこなすという忙しい毎日を送っているが、肝心の学業は不振。高校に新たに赴任した女性教師クロスに好意を抱くが、高校に無断で水族館を建てようとしたせいで退学となり、公立校に転校することに。クロスを忘れられないマックスだったが、自分の大人の友人であるブルームに彼女を取られてしまったせいで、次第に自暴自棄になっていく。
Conflict arises in the small town of Holly Springs when an old woman's death causes a variety of reactions among family and friends.
At the end of the 1980s, Stella, Victor, Adèle and Etienne are 20 years old. They take the entrance exam to the famous acting school created by Patrice Chéreau and Pierre Romans at the Théâtre des Amandiers in Nanterre. Launched at full speed into life, passion, and love, together they will experience the turning point of their lives, but also their first tragedy.
Marcelline is an actress. Forty, single and childless, she begins rehearsals for Turgenev's A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY. Denis, the director, admires her greatly and promises he'll make her happy on stage - she will shine. But things don't go to plan. Denis introduces Marcelline to his assistant, Nathalie. The two women were at drama school together twenty years earlier. Nathalie tells her she had to give up acting: she has a husband and children. Marcelline and Nathalie look at each other as if in a mirror, each seeing in the other the life she doesn't have, the dreams she cannot bear to abandon. Their meeting is the first in a series of tremors that will turn Marcelline's life upside down.
Lopitos, who is horribly inefficient but quick-witted, is invited (because of the current ambassador's superstition about 13 sitting down to a meal) to a banquet attended by the ambassadors of both superpowers. After the news of a series of coups d'état in Los Cocos arrives throughout the meal, Lopitos becomes the official ambassador. At a summit of world leaders, the representatives of the two world superpowers court the allegiances of third-world diplomats to tilt the balance of global power in their favor. The last diplomat to remain unaligned, Lopitos instead harangues the superpowers for infringing on the rights of developing countries to self determination, talking to them with his point of view as a citizen not as ambassador because he arranged his demise as ambassador one day before his speech.
Janie lives to dance and will dance anywhere, even stripping in a burlesque house. Tod Newton, the rich playboy, discovers her there and helps her get a job in a real Broadway musical being directed by Patch. Tod thinks he can get what he wants from Janie, Patch thinks Janie is using her charms rather than talent to get to the top, and Janie thinks Patch is the greatest. Steve, the stage manager, has the Three Stooges helping him manage all the show girls. Fred Astaire and Nelson Eddy make appearances as famous Broadway personalities.
It all starts with a bang. The car breaks through the crash barrier and falls off the bridge. The lights go out. After that, he is not able to see anymore. His optic nerve is severed, from now on the young stage-director Jakob is blind. His life will change and nothing will ever be the same. Jakob cannot handle the idea of never being able to see again and screams at the only woman who is able and willing to help him, Lily. A rehabilitation teacher, she helps the blind deal with the darkness. Lily has been living with it since birth, she too is blind.
When he started as a comedy writer for the Late Show with David Letterman, Steve Young had few interests and not many friends outside of his day job. But while gathering material for a segment on the show, Steve stumbled onto a few vintage record albums that would change his life forever.
30 years ago, Switzerland was shaken by a scandal that seems to have already been forgotten: more than 900,000 people were surveilled because of their political convictions. Against the backdrop of this "secret files scandal," Micha Lewinsky sets his film. Conscientious policeman Viktor Schuler is tasked by his superior to infiltrate the Schauspielhaus, a renowned Zurich theatre, in order to keep an eye on its leftist scene. However, Viktor finds himself quite taken with the artist's life and falls in love with the subversive actress Odile Lehmann.
The lives of a French theater director, her ex-boyfriend, and the two actors playing them intersect dramatically.
A moving and very funny portrait of the personal and professional life of the magnificent French comedian Louis de Funès (1914-83), as well as a detailed analysis of his masterful acting technique.
Turmoil becomes the order of the day when a Mexican theatrical company begins its rehearsals of absurdist philosopher Albert Camus's “Caligula” for an influential upcoming international theater festival.
A portrait of a man of rare elegance and enigmatic charm, versatile and successful: Jean-Louis Trintignant, one of the most critically acclaimed French actors of the last sixty years, known for his numerous roles on stage and screen.
A widowed theatre director moves to a small Connecticut town where he gets involved in solving the murder of a millionaire, who was the most despised man in town.
A ceremony celebrated in the courtyard of the Invalides, in the presence of the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron, members of the Government, the actor's family and many personalities from entertainment and sport.
Documentary that follows events after the fall of Slobodan Milosevic, while looking back on the previous fifteen years, tracing his rise to power. Personal testimony alternates with analysis of a disintegrating society.
A well known theater and movie actor, dissatisfied with condition at home and at the theater, suddenly stops the dress rehearsal of a play in which he has one of the main roles, and goes to Danube to visit his friend, a boatman transporting bricks on his small barge from a brick plant in a settlement of poor people to Belgrade. This unexpected action confuses the actor’s environment. Everybody sets out to the Danube in order to find out the real reasons for the actor’s odd behavior and to hear when he will return to normal life. The actor refuses to talk, stating that only known what he does not want! The young director, who earlier started work on filming a portrait of the actor, doesn’t know what to do. The opening night is postponed.
