Meu Tio da América (1980)
Gênero : Comédia, Drama, Romance
Runtime : 2H 6M
Director : Alain Resnais
Sinopse
O escritor Henri Laborit apresenta três histórias que ilustram as complexidades do comportamento humano. René é um homem de raízes agrícolas que se torna gerente de uma fábrica têxtil. Janine, ex-atriz e agora estilista, tem um caso amoroso com Jean, um político que enfrenta dificuldades em casa.
In Puritan Boston, seamstress Hester Prynne and kindly Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale fall in love. After Dimmesdale must go away for a time to England, he returns to discover that Hester has given birth to their child and is the focus of local censure.
Rosemonde, hailed as "the Princess" reign over a slum in the Paris suburbs. Herbert, a reporter who came to investigate on the pollution, ends up in a grinding machine of her invention. Rosemonde resells the bones to the church authorities who use them as holy relics. Inspector Adrian Bondu is handling the case... But a young hippie who looks like Jesus will have Rosemonde suddenly feel very earthly feelings...
Wildcat Kelly has been dead and buried for years. Or has he? Dale is a reporter for an Eastern magazine who comes West to find out the true story of Kelly, of whom Gabby seems to have mysterious knowledge.
Noruega, início do século 20. Na Ilha de Bastoy existe um reformatório para jovens delinquentes. No entanto, em vez de reabilitar os meninos, os guardas e o diretor abusam mental e fisicamente deles, os usando como mão de obra barata. Earling, de 17 anos, chega a instituição com um plano: escapar da ilha. Após um trágico incidente, ele lidera a rebelião dos meninos de Bastoy. Mas terá de descobrir: até onde ele está disposto a ir pela liberdade?
Um homem (Ryan Gosling) vive um exílio em Bagkok durante dez anos, depois de ter matado um policial. Ele mantém um clube de boxe, que funciona como disfarce para o tráfico de drogas. Quando seu irmão é assassinado depois de matar uma prostituta, o protagonista recebe a visita de sua mãe, que pretende resgatar o cadáver do filho mais novo e vingar-se dos homens que o mataram.
Émile Durand, an insecticide manufacturer, is appalled to learn that his son Gérard has fallen in love with Suzy, the daughter of a travelling theatre company. Realising his father will never favour the union, Gérard joins the company on their next tour. In an attempt to heal the rift, Durand’s wife goes after Gérard and ends up performing in their next play…
The selfishness of the bourgeoisie and the dull passivity of its servants are the theme of this puppet animation presenting the tragicomedy of a society in its death throes, taking refuge in absurd behaviour.
In September 1957, the philosopher Carl Gustav Jung was interviewed in Houston. Part of that interview was filmed in 16mm. After reviewing the images obtained, the footage was censored in many countries, ending up in oblivion, lost in a warehouse in Central America. Just 50 years later, after several years of searching for images around the world and a difficult reconstruction and restoration, the director Shang Solomon offers us on the big screen almost all of the interview with Jung, known as the main opponent to the theories of Freud and an eminence of the Philosophy and the History of Psychology.
Housemaid Georgette loves to gossip and this causes major trouble to people around her.
Inmates fight, pair off, try suicide and attempt escape at a British reform school for girls.
Brennick e sua família ainda estão fugindo de seus perseguidores. Um grupo de rebeldes pede a ajuda de Brennick, mas ele decide não se juntar a eles. Porém, todos são capturados e mandados para uma fortaleza de onde tentarão escapar.
Three generations of a wealthy Bordeaux family are caught in the crossfire when Anne decides to run for mayor, thanks to a political pamphlet that revives an old murder scandal.
Four people are killed in a saloon hold-up. The townspeople pin the murders on local no-count black sheep Chester Conway. Lawyer Jeff Plummer and prostitute Polly Winters don't believe that Chester is guilty of these crimes, so they hire smooth and suave gunman Silver to prove Chester's innocence and find the real killers.
An Old South plantation owner lusts after his female slaves.
Why We Fall In Love, is an interesting documentary about the science and “natural” findings as to why humans fall in love.
A crash-landed crop-duster betrays a fugitive and his girlfriend to Mexican bounty hunters.
When Morley has his own bank robbed, Tom tries to break it up. Mistaken for one of the gang, he is caught and sentenced to a chain gang. His girlfriend Peggy then sets out to prove his innocence.
A police psychiatrist is enlisted to catch a killer.
A team of ex-con bounty hunters go to Germany in search of Hitler. If they can find him, a million dollar reward is to be paid to them.
In a world where past meets present and the present gets lost in time, reality is blurred for 5 College psychology students who are pushing all boundaries during an ESP experiment over a lost weekend...
Em uma pequena cidade da Flórida, durante um tórrido verão, Ned Racine (William Hurt), um advogado sem talento, se envolve com Matty Walker (Kathleen Turner), uma bela e sensual socialite casada, que é dotada de vários atributos físicos mas desprovida de qualquer escrúpulo. Ned é tomado por uma paixão avassaladora e Matty o convence a assassinar Edmund (Richard Crenna), seu marido. Assim Ned se vê dentro de uma intrincada trama recheada de ameaças e incertezas, onde os dois planejam matar o marido dela para ficar com sua fortuna.
O conde Michel Forbek constrói um castelo onde deseja criar uma sociedade utópica. Anos depois, em uma conferência, encontros amorosos prevalecem sobre a educação, Nora Winkle faz previsões sobre a relação de sua amiga e um grupo de crianças cria uma história fantástica sobre os tempos medievais.