White Paws (1949)
Жанр : драма
Время выполнения : 1Ч 32М
Директор : Jean Grémillon
Краткое содержание
An eccentric man endangers himself when he makes advances toward the girlfriend of a saloon keeper.
A small town becomes gripped by an ethical debate when the community discovers a moody, egotistical scientist is experimenting with DNA and the creation of new life.
Crickle is a tenacious small-town grocer who stubbornly resists the efforts of a monopolistic chain-store firm to purchase his establishment. The chain manager retaliates by cutting off Crickles' supply of produce, whereupon his friends and neighbors save his business by supplying him with goods from their own farms.
Действие развивается в недалеком будущем, главный герой преследует по дикой австралийской природе банду, угнавшую его автомобиль.
A drifter named Candelario asks to spend the night at the hacienda of Don Lazaro. Once there, he gets the offer to stay and work as a laborer with a fixed salary. Over time, Candelario is gaining the confidence of his employer, and becomes indispensable. The situation will change radically when Don Lazarus discovers that Candelario is having a love affair with his wife.
Главный герой наделен даром (или проклятием) видеть мертвецов. Каждый их визит становится началом очередной охоты на убийцу — призраки ведут Томаса на помощь тем, кому еще рано расставаться с жизнью. О способности героя знают только самые близкие друзья и любимая девушка. С их помощью ему предстоит отвести большую беду от маленького городка в центре пустыни Мохаве.
Alma Duval, a middle-aged housewife, trying to hide how much she suffers from her husband's amorous excursions while trying to help her children solve their problems and doing her best to keep her family together as it's slowly falling apart. Meanwhile, daughter Virginia is dumped by her boyfriend because she cannot help him with his career. Her cheating husband's birthday party is approaching and many lines will be crossed after that event.
A black comedy about the dysfunctional relationships, love, and hate; concerning a small town sausage factory manager whose careless love affairs affect the lives of the factory workers as well as the women in his life.
A "good-time girl", raised by her somewhat lax divorced father, finds herself involved in an accidental death, and the only way she's able to get out of it is to volunteer--albeit reluctantly--to be a nurse in the war effort. She travels to England and is assigned to a hospital under a very strict matron. What the girl doesn't know is that the matron is the mother she has never seen.
Sultry college dropout Annie Burroughs moves in with her older sister Marsha and proceeds to break up the relationship between Marsha and her live-in boyfriend David Mitchell so Annie can begin a sensuous love affair and have David all for herself.
Dmitrij has recently returned to his small Georgian hometown after graduating from a university abroad. His monotonous days drag on, between working and the solitary rock-climbing excursions.
A pill-popping, over-caffeinated driver accidentally hits something. Panic-stricken, he searches for help in a strange and desolate town that offers very little in the form of human kindness.
When a defense lawyer's adulterous husband becomes the prime suspect in the murder of the woman he was cheating with, his wife chooses to defend him. Can she overcome his betrayal while searching for the truth?
A severely traumatized World War I veteran, believing that he's living on borrowed time, comes upon a peaceful little village and meets an old man called Bee Master and his protégé, Little Scout, who try to convince him that he has more to live for than he thinks he does.
В самом центре города стоит публичный дом, занимая место, которое некоторые политические деятели хотят получить для себя. Под прикрытием борьбы за моральные устои политики добиваются перевода публичного дома в новое, отдаленное место, а у здания в центре появляется новый владелец, господин Гупта. Хозяйка борделя, г-жа Рукмини, в отчаянии — но, в итоге, перевод в предместье оказывается ей на руку. Рядом теперь — известное место паломничества, и, парадоксальным образом, это привлекает к ее заведению много людей. В довершение всего, сын господина Гупты отказывается жениться на подысканной отцом невесте и хочет сделать своей избранницей Зинат, проститутку из заведения г-жи Рукмини..
A small-town funeral director, doctor and sheriff are vampires who suck blood from the recently not-quite-dead on the embalming table and then immediately kill the newly converted vampire. When one of their victims disappears before being staked, they are threatened with being exposed if the new vampire surfaces.
История семерых закадычных друзей-полицейских. Один из команды погибает при невыясненных обстоятельствах. В убийстве коллеги обвиняют сержанта Рышарда Кролиса. Пытаясь докопаться до истины, он проводит собственное расследование, в результате которого обнаруживает паутину лжи и коррупции, в которой погрязли высокопоставленные чиновники.
Irène is the unhappy wife of a wealthy publisher, Jacques Voisin-Larive, who cares about her no more than a beautiful piece of furniture. Her meeting with Étienne, a young cabinetmaker with whom she falls in love, turns her dismal existence upside down. Not wanting to reveal her condition to her lover, she pretends to be a modest maid, employed by the Voisin-Larive. At the end of a weekend spent with her lover, Irène discovers that she is pregnant. The fragile balance of their existence is suddenly broken. Taking the initiative, she reveals her affair to Jacques and tells him about her desire to divorce. But her husband has no intention of giving her back her freedom...
The Magnificent Cuckold is about a hat tycoon who is ecstatically, if not hungrily, in love with his youthful wife. It is all blissful, that is, until our man, middle-aged and somewhat of a square among his blasé, upper-class friends to whom cuckoldry is a common practice, is seduced by one of them. At this point doubts and suspicions, like conscience, begin to plague him. If he could succumb to extramarital confections, why not his gorgeous mate? Quickly his love for his spouse degenerates beyond obsessive, into the realm of maniacal. He becomes madly concerned that his wife is cheating on him --even though she is not being unfaithful. When he looks at her it becomes obvious to him that she is a very attractive woman. And, all the men around her must be dying to be with her. Gnawed by jealously, he will imagine variations on nabbing her and her lover in flagrante delicto.
Известная актриса Эмили Мур и ее муж психиатр по имени Роберт, решают отдохнуть на удаленном средиземноморском острове. Но в первую же ночь в их дом приходит молодая женщина в истерике от смерти ее парня…