From "Artist" and "Monster in Paris" movies' creators.
A veteran chef faces off against his restaurant group's new CEO, who wants to the establishment to lose a star from its rating in order to bring in a younger chef who specializes in molecular gastronomy.
The film opened the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival in February 2012.
1789, at the eve of the Revolution: Versailles occupants still live happily, unconcerned by the increasing turmoil in Paris. When news about the storming of the Bastille reaches the Court, aristocrats and servants desert the Palace, leaving the Royal Family alone. But Sidonie Laborde, a young Queen's reader, refuses to flee. She feels secure as she is under protection of the Queen of France. She does not yet know these are the last three days she would spend by her side.
Psychologist Margaret Matheson and her assistant study paranormal activity, which leads them to investigate a world-renowned psychic who has resurfaced years after his toughest critic mysteriously passed away.
To Rome With Love is a story about a number of people in Italy, some American, some Italian, some residents, some visitors, and the romances and adventures and predicaments they get into.
Since Dom (Diesel) and Brian’s (Walker) Rio heist toppled a kingpin’s empire and left their crew with $100 million, our heroes have scattered across the globe. But their inability to return home and living forever on the lam have left their lives incomplete.
Meanwhile, Hobbs (Johnson) has been tracking an organization of lethally skilled mercenary drivers across 12 countries, whose mastermind (Evans) is aided by a ruthless second-in-command revealed to be the love Dom thought was dead, Letty (Rodriguez). The only way to stop the criminal outfit is to outmatch them at street level, so Hobbs asks Dom to assemble his elite team in London.
A terrifying and emotional story based on one family’s experience of the 2004 tsunami, THE IMPOSSIBLE is a compelling account of perseverance and survival in the face of unimaginable disaster and chaos.
MARIA (Naomi Watts), HENRY (Ewan McGregor) and their three sons begin their winter vacation in Thailand looking forward to a few days in tropical paradise. But on the morning of December 26th, as the family relaxes around the pool after their Christmas festivities the night before, a terrifying roar rises up from the center of the earth. As Maria freezes in fear, a huge wall of black water races across the hotel grounds toward her…
Cast: Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor, Tom Holland, Geraldine Chaplin, Marta Etura.
Directed by: Juan Antonio Bayona.
Bogota, Colombia. A house built just after WWII lies nested in the mountains on one of the highest capitals in the world. A striking observant mirror in the main bedroom hides an engineering masterpiece: a small room disconnected from the world. The house was just rented by young cosmopolitan Spanish couple Adrian & Belen. Her suspicions of infidelity will drive her to test his love for her. A small decision that will inadvertently unlock a voyage into the deepest meaning of possession and the mechanisms of jealousy. A universal story based on the transformation of human relationships into destructive forces. The “Hidden Face” serves as a metaphor for the imprisonment and isolation caused by fatal jealousy and sick love…
An erotic thriller in the tradition of "Dressed To Kill" and "Basic Instinct", Brian de Palma's PASSION tells the story of a deadly power struggle between two women in the dog-eat-dog world of international business. Christine possesses the natural elegance and casual ease associated with one who has a healthy relationship with money and power.
Innocent, lovely and easily exploited, her admiring protégée Isabelle is full of cutting-edge ideas that Christine has no qualms about stealing. They're on the same team, after all... Christine takes pleasure in exercising control over the younger woman, leading her one step at a time ever deeper into a game of seduction and manipulation, dominance and humiliation. But when Isabelle falls into bed with one of Christine's lovers, war breaks out. On the night of the murder, Isabelle is at the ballet, while Christine receives an invitation to seduction. From whom? Christine loves surprises. Naked she goes to meet the mystery lover waiting in her bedroom...
Gemma visits Sarajevo with her son, Pietro. Sixteen years ago they escaped the war-torn city while the boy’s father remained behind and later died. As she tries to repair her relationship with Pietro, a revelation forces Gemma to face loss, the cost of war and the redemptive power of love. Starring Penelope Cruz and Emile Hirsch.
When it appears as though the end is in sight, the pilots, flight crew, and passengers of a plane heading to Mexico City look to forget the anguish of the moment and face the greatest danger, which we carry within ourselves.
Flight to the Moon, which seemed to all as a very distant dream turns into a human tragedy. Going to space as a winner and a chosen one, Stas finds himself in a world where time destroys everything material, except for the spirit which is indestructible.
If the usual doesn’t attract you, if you are able to see the thin fabric behind the external plot, this Space is for you. This film - a vision of a Spanish director of never disclosed facts about the flights of the Soviet cosmonauts to the Moon, sensory awareness, contradictions, striving to the romance of discovery and emerging love of a person - who took off and never came back, to the one remained.
This story is based on the real lunar program of the Soviet Union dated 1967. A complex love triangle builds between space and Earth. Stas talks to her, she can only receive the signal, but can not respond.
Spanish director Nicolas Alcala considers Andrey Tarkovsky as his teacher and inspiration, so the "Cosmonaut" breathes traditions from "Solaris." The film is presented in four festivals: Louisiana International Film Festival, Imagine Science Film Festival (Quito), Cinema at the Edge Festival (LA), New York Film Festival. The score for the film was written by Tarkovsky's favorite composer - Eduard Artemyev.
By explanation of the legendary Olympic victories - Ilya Kovalchuk (hockey), Nikolay Kruglov (biathlon), Catherine Ilyuhina (snowboard), Svetlana Zhurova (skates), Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze (figure skating).
Five real-life stories of Olympic medals. Where is love, betrayal, friendship. These are the stories of these victories.