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- DirectorFrancesco BertoliniAdolfo PadovanGiuseppe de LiguoroStarsSalvatore PapaArturo PirovanoGiuseppe de LiguoroLoosely adapted from Dante's Divine Comedy and inspired by the illustrations of Gustav Doré the original silent film has been restored and has a new score by Tangerine Dream.
- DirectorHenry OttoStarsLawson ButtHoward GayeRalph LewisThe tactics of a vicious slumlord and greedy businessman finally drive a distraught man to commit suicide. The businessman is tried for murder, executed, and afterward swiftly taken by demons to the Hell where he will spend the rest of eternity.
- DirectorGuido BrignoneStarsBartolomeo PaganoUmberto GuarracinoMario SaioThe devil takes Maciste down to hell in an attempt to corrupt and ruin his morality.
- DirectorHarry LachmanStarsSpencer TracyClaire TrevorHenry B. WalthallJim Carter moves in on the McWade's carnival concession which shows scenes from Dante's "Inferno". He makes it a going concern, marrying Betty along the way. An inspector calls the amusement pier unsafe but Carter bribes him. The pier collapses, leading to the inspector's suicide, injury to Pop McWade, trial for Carter, and Betty's leaving him. Carter starts over with an unsafe floating casino.
- DirectorAndrás RajnaiStarsImre SinkovitsGyörgy BánffyNóra KáldiDante goes down to Hell with the guard of Vergilius.
- DirectorBruno PischiuttaStarsGian Franco MolaroRichard ColemanLiliana TariModern representation of the poem Divina Commedia by Dante Alighieri.
- DirectorMika KaurismäkiStarsKari VäänänenMartti SyrjäLeena HarjupatanaGiancarlo Rosso, a Sicilian hit man, gets a job to kill someone in Finland, Maria. He arrives in Helsinki, buys weapons, and invades her apartment, but it's deserted. He runs into her brother Martti and, although they don't speak each other's languages, they go to search for her together.
- StarsTom AllenJeroen BalkKarel GerritsmaBased on Dante's DIVINE COMEDY, Dutch composer Jacob ter Veldhuis' PARADISO ORATORIO is a musical journey in search of beauty. Normally dealing in rock and electronic music, this piece is an attempt by the composer to counteract the trend of "doom and damnation" that he sees as pervasive in contemporary art. Aiding the composer in his vision of beauty are American soprano Clare McFadden, tenor Thomas Allen, and the North Netherlands Concert Choir and Orchestra.
- DirectorSean MeredithStarsTony AbatemarcoScott AdsitMatt BesserA darkly comedic travelogue of the underworld - set against an all-too-familiar urban backdrop of used car lots, gated communities, strip malls, and the U.S. Capitol. And populated with a contemporary cast of reprobates, including famous - and infamous - politicians, presidents, popes, pimps. And the Prince of Darkness himself.
- DirectorBoris AcostaStarsJeff ConawayVittorio MatteucciJenn GotzonThis film is a narrative journey from Dante's own hand, through the worst of the afterlife, Inferno. It is a chronological descent to the deepest of Hell, circle by circle to the exit into Purgatory. It features most of Gustave Dore's illustrations and excerpts of the 1911 feature film "L'Inferno".
- DirectorVictor CookMike DisaSangjin KimStarsGraham McTavishVanessa BranchSteve BlumDante journeys through the nine circles of Hell -- limbo, lust, gluttony, greed, anger, heresy, violence, fraud and treachery -- in search of his true love, Beatrice.
- DirectorAmos PoeStarsRoberto BenigniLoretta MugnaiAnna RezanA new translation of Dante's Divine Comedy channeling the tools of Edward Muybridge and a meditation on the perception of motion in a motion picture.
- DirectorDavid FitchStarsJason NicolaMax WinthropJackson PriceA young man's attempted suicide takes him to another world where he must confront love and sin to get a second chance at life.
- DirectorBoris AcostaStarsArmand MastroianniEric RobertsVincent SpanoDante is guided by his hero Virgil through each circle of Hell and its subdivisions until they reach the center of the Earth and emerged to the other hemisphere into Purgatory.
- DirectorBoris AcostaStarsVittorio GassmanVittorio MatteucciSilvia CollocaDante goes on a Journey to the worst of the afterlife, Inferno. He's guided by his hero Virgil through all the 9 circles of Hell until they escape and emerge into Purgatory.
- DirectorGiovanni MadernaStarsLino MusellaGiovanni MadernaFernando Mateo MarrellaInspired by Robert Walser's legendary novella. A walk through the streets of mid-pandemic Rome where an opinionated writer engages with a diverse array of characters.
- DirectorFlorian HaagStarsMartin RentzschLisa SchlegelGeorgios TzitzikosRecorded readings of Swiss writer Robert Walser's late texts and micrographs join with documentary tableaux of his long array of residences, leaving behind a disembodied image.
- DirectorWalter DeuberStarsBruno GanzDodo HugAnja Margoni
- DirectorJoão César MonteiroStarsMaria Do Carmo RôloAna BrandãoReginaldo da CruzBased on Robert Walser's play, Branca de Neve is a recital of Snow White over a black screen with spontaneous flashing images of clouds and some unintelligible dialogue.
- DirectorStephen QuayTimothy QuayWeiser QuayStarsMark RylanceAlice KrigeGottfried JohnA young man goes to a school for servants run by a brother and sister. In the dreamlike and surreal world that he enters, how will his presence impact the people there and possibly even the school itself?
- DirectorThomas KoerferStarsPaul BurianVerena BussIngold WildenauerJoseph is hired by an inventor and moves in with his family. Although he doesn't get any salary for his work, he stays on because he believes that the highly dysfunctional family needs to be rescued.
- DirectorPeter SchönhoferStarsAndré JungHildegard SchmahlSylvana KrappatschMendel Singer, a poor Jewish teacher in his homeland Galicia, has already three children as his wife Deborah gives birth to his forth child Menuchuim. But Menuchim is sick, he never learns walking nor speaking. As time moves on he and his wife veer away from each other and his other children no longer follow the traditional Jewish way of life. Samuchim has to flee to America, so he has not to join the army. And soon he lives the American way. Jonas on the other hand wishes to be part of the army. Mendels daughter Mirjam sleeps with (non Jewish) Cossacks. Everything seems to fall apart. After some years a friend of Samuchin arrives and offers them a passage to America. But there is a price to pay: Menuchim, still sick and underdeveloped, has no chance to pass the border. Full of hope and expectations Mendel Deborah and Mirjam start the journey.
- DirectorMichael HanekeStarsBranko SamarovskiJudit PogányThierry van WervekeThe disabled ex-soldier Andreas Pum lost a leg for emperor and fatherland. After leaving the army he receives a license and a drehorgel. One day he gets into a controversy with a well-dressed gentleman, disturbs the public order, and hits a policeman. Andreas Pum goes to jail, loses his license, and becomes toilet guard in the Cafe Halali after his release. Only at the moment of death does he recognize that he was always too decent and too obedient.
- DirectorBernhard WickiStarsUlrich MüheKlaus Maria BrandauerArmin Mueller-StahlUlrich Mühe plays a German businessman who was born completely without scruples. This makes him an eminently suitable candidate for success in the chaotic years after World War I. The shameless man's story is contrasted with that of his polar opposite, a Jewish anarchist.
- DirectorErmanno OlmiStarsRutger HauerAnthony QuayleSandrine DumasAn alcoholic homeless man is given two hundred francs by a stranger, who requests that when he can he will return the money to Saint Therese in the cathedral.
- DirectorMichael KehlmannStarsHelmuth LohnerErik FreyLuise PrasserAn adaptation of a novel by Joseph Roth.
- DirectorWalter DavyStarsWolfgang HübschHelma GautierOdile Versois
- DirectorJohannes SchaafStarsAndrás BálintRosemarie FendelDoris KunstmannAfter his imprisonment during the Great War, a young soldier returns to Vienna only to realize that everything has changed.
- DirectorWolfgang StaudteStarsJosef MeinradErwin LinderKatrin SchirrmeisterThe disabled ex-soldier Andreas Pum lost a leg for emperor and father land. After leaving the army he receives a license and a drehorgel. One day he gets into a controversy with a welldressed gentleman, disturbs the public order, and hits a policeman. Andreas Pum goes to jail, loses his license and becomes toilet guard in the Cafe Halali after his release. Only at the moment of death he recognizes that he was always too decent and too obedient.
- DirectorOtto BrowerGregory RatoffStarsJean HersholtDon AmecheAllen JenkinsAustrian church bell ringer Freyman loves music and wants his two sons (both played by Ameche) to love it too. The first goes to America and the second is born deaf-mute but gains hearing during WWI bombing.
- DirectorClaudio GiovannesiStarsFrancesco Di NapoliViviana ApreaMattia Piano Del BalzoA gang of teenage boys stalks the streets of Naples armed with hand guns and AK-47s to do their mob bosses' bidding.
- DirectorGiuseppe GagliardiStarsClemente RussoRade SerbedzijaGiorgio ColangeliClemente Russo portrays himself in the story of a promising boxer who grew up in the Neapolitan mob heartland.
- DirectorMatteo GarroneStarsGianfelice ImparatoSalvatore AbbruzzeseToni ServilloScampia Vele is the Corbusian architecture which has become a stronghold for Mafia of Naples, Italy.
- DirectorNaofumi HiguchiStarsAtsuko MaedaKengo KôraSeizô FukumotoBased on the novel by Kawabata Yasunari, a few graduates gather at their high school for the funeral of their long-lost friend, Yoshida, who just returned from America and died suddenly. As the mysteries around Yoshida being revealed, they experience a most unimaginable tsuya ~
- DirectorGisaburô SugiiEiichi YamamotoStarsShin'ichirô MikiRomi ParkA woman lends an admirer her arm for the course of one night for him to find pleasure with it - An eerie erotic short story by Kawabata Yasunari is turned into minimalist animation of dazzling beauty indebted to Alfons Maria Mucha.
- DirectorYûki SaitôStarsYasuko MatsuyukiAi HashimotoRiko NarumiChieko Sanda has operated a dry goods store in Kyoto for the past 20 years. Her family has owned the store for generations. Chieko is conflicted on whether her daughter Mai will take over her position with the changing of times.
- DirectorEdmund YeoStarsLuchino FujisakiTakao KawaguchiQyoko KudoA university professor decides to go for a tour in Akihabara, guided by a young woman dressed up like a French maid. As they both walk through the streets of modern Tokyo, the man and the young woman gradually speak of a past they both share, and ultimately a painful love triangle that continues to haunt them. A poetic rumination in love, memories and loss told almost entirely with split screens.
- DirectorEdmund YeoStarsKiew Suet KimArika LeeSet in an isolated fishing village of Malaysia, a woman's relationship with her young daughter descends into a path of self-destruction and abuse when she begins to receive a series of strange and mysterious letters from her long-absent husband.
- DirectorAkemi TachibanaStarsYuuki OkamotoAki OunoA man gets one arm of a woman who he fell in love, just one night. After that a man has a tragic nightmare because of one arm. The background of this story is 1960's in Japan. It was the last period that Japonism and specific moral had remained in ordinary people and their life after world war II.
- DirectorShinju FunabikiNatsuki SetaSaki YamadaStarsAya EnjôjiHaruYuka HôshakuIn the omnibus of films, there is a man who goes to the beach because of one drawing. It depicts the beach during the sunset and a pretty girl. When he visits the beach he actually sees the girl. She has a lover who has a heart ailment. Then there is the Italian song. There is an explosion at a university. The professor and assistant were hospitalized as a result. One case is fatal. The other follows her dream of becoming a singer in her mind ..
- DirectorAkemi TachibanaStarsKeiko OkawaTsuyoshi TakashiroAn old man, Mr. Eguchi accidentally finds a special hotel for gentlemen that are called "House of the sleeping beauties" by the sea. When a guest reserves a room, he can sleep with a young girl who is dead sleep by medicine. But the house has the strict rules and a landlady controls all. Mr. Eguchi fall in impossible love with a sleeping girl and the love remind him of his life. The background of this story is 1960's in Japan. It was the last period that Japonisme and specific morals had remained in ordinary people and their life after the Second World War.
- DirectorVadim GlownaStarsVadim GlownaAngela WinklerMaximilian SchellStill mourning the loss of his beloved wife and daughter in a horrendous car accident, a reclusive sexagenarian decides to visit a rather peculiar and secretive brothel.
- DirectorNobuaki IzakiStarsAya UetoAtsuro WatabeShun Oguri
- DirectorKazuhiro OnoharaStarsNatsumi AbeMaki GotôKaori IidaShinshun. Love stories is a 2002 Japanese telefilm starring members of the all-girl J-pop group Morning Musume. Shinshun. Love stories is an anthology film based on three different romantic stories: The Dancing Girl of Izu, Haikara-san ga Tôru and Toki o Kakeru Shôjo. The film aired on Tokyo Broadcasting System on January 2, 2002. A limited edition DVD was released on October 26, 2005.
- DirectorEloy LozanoStarsClive ArrindellTeresa GimperaJane BautistaLawrence, a renowned writer, comes to Santiago to spend a winter course. There, by his colleague Elijah, finds a very special house on the outskirts of the city, run by a secretive and mysterious woman, Salome. In this house, mature men, old, spend the night with young dormant, seeking to regain his lost youth side.
- DirectorHiroto YokoyamaStarsYoshio HaradaYuka OhnishiKazuko YoshiyukiAbout an establishment where old men pay to sleep besides young girls that had been narcotized and happen to be naked, the sleeping beauties. The old men are expected to take sleeping pills and share the bed for a whole night with a girl without attempting anything of bad taste like putting a finger inside their mouths.
- DirectorJoy FleuryStarsCharlotte RamplingMyriem RousselAndrzej ZulawskiHugo is a writer whose one great book was based on an affair he had with Lea, a sculptor. Bereft of inspiration for a follow-up, Hugo returns years later to rekindle the flame of romance and creativity.
- DirectorKon IchikawaStarsMomoe YamaguchiTomokazu MiuraKeiko KishiKoto is a 1980 film directed by Kon Ichikawa starring Momoe Yamaguchi and Tomokazu Miura in an adaptation of Yasunari Kawabata's story The Old Capital.
- DirectorKatsumi NishikawaStarsMomoe YamaguchiTomokazu MiuraHitoshi Nakayama"The Izu dancer" describes Young solo to Izu peninsula, and close to an entertainer troupe, in particular with the dancer named Kaoru,but to that brief love is just a featuring lyrical and pale memories by their sad waves farewell.
- DirectorYasuzô MasumuraStarsAyako WakaoMachiko KyôMikijirô HiraThe entangled relations between the son of a seductive tea-ceremony teacher and the women in his father's life. Based on the novel by Kawabata Yasunari.
- DirectorKôzaburô YoshimuraStarsTakahiro TamuraYoshiko KayamaTaiji TonoyamaAbout an establishment where old men pay to sleep besides young girls that had been narcotized and happen to be naked, the sleeping beauties. The old men are expected to take sleeping pills and share the bed for a whole night with a girl without attempting anything of bad taste like putting a finger inside their mouths.
- DirectorHideo OnchiStarsYôko NaitôToshio KurosawaTatsuyoshi Ehara
- DirectorYoshishige YoshidaStarsMariko OkadaShigeru TsuyuguchiTamotsu HayakawaA married woman lets her lover take naked pictures of her. The photos end up in possession of a man who starts blackmailing the couple.
- DirectorHideo ÔbaStarsMineko BandaiKakuko ChinoTakanobu Hozumi
- StarsChishû RyûYasunari KawabataChikage ÔgiThe travels of an old man after he retires.
- DirectorMasahiro ShinodaStarsKaoru YachigusaMariko KagaSô YamamuraLong before the events of the movie Ôki, who was approaching middle age, had a relation to 16-year-old Otoko. She got pregnant, but the child was stillborn. Their relation stopped at the same time. Much later Ôki had become a famous writer, not least because of a novel about this love story. Otoko had become a famous painter. But she had never overcome the double early trauma and had become a Lesbian. Her favourite student and beloved one was the beautiful Keiko. 24 years after the early love Ôki goes from Tokyo to Kyoto to meet Otoko. The meeting is polite with secret emotional shadows. Keiko makes a plan. She intends to seduce Ôki, become pregnant, bear Ôki's child and give it to Otoko. She hopes that Otoko may thereby get rid of her trauma. But she also wants to take her revenge on the man who had harmed her beloved. Secretly she gets acquainted with Ôki's son, invites him to Kyoto and seduces him. Then she calls his parents and tells that he had promised to marry her. Horrified they take the first plane to Kyoto. Meanwhile, she takes the son on boating, arranges an accident, and drowns him. It is close that she herself would also die.
- DirectorKatsumi NishikawaStarsSayuri YoshinagaMitsuo HamadaHideki TakahashiAdapted from a famous short story in Japan, The Izu Dancer is the story of a male teenager on vacation in the Izu peninsula who encounters a thirteen-year-old girl who is part of a travelling troupe of performers. The boy and the girl are attracted to one another and make certain they spend time together given the short few days they have.
- DirectorNoboru NakamuraStarsShima IwashitaHiroyuki NagatoSeiji MiyaguchiTwo twin girls are separated at birth. One grows up in a loving family. The other one doesn't. They finally meet by complete accident on a town fair. No one ever told them about the other one so they begin familiarizing with each other.
- DirectorYoshirô KawazuStarsShinobu AsajiReiko HitomiTokuji KobayashiA love story about a young man on a holiday hiking in the Izu Peninsula, meeting with a dancing girl from a traveling family of entertainers.
- DirectorShirô ToyodaStarsRyô IkebeKeiko KishiKaoru YachigusaIt's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He connects with Komako, a geisha he met on a previous trip, and it seems like love. She's the foster daughter of a local family, almost engaged to the family's son Yukio, now dying of consumption. He's tended by his sister Yuko who's angry at Komako for abandoning her brother. Shimamura returns to Tokyo but promises he will be back soon. In anticipation of his return, Komako breaks with her patron and her family loses their home. Complications arise when Shimamura doesn't come back as promised. Then Komako discovers that he and Yuko knew each other in Tokyo. Can Komako escape destiny?
- DirectorKôji ShimaStarsMachiko KyôAyako WakaoYasuko Kawakami
- DirectorMikio NaruseStarsSetsuko HaraSô YamamuraKen UeharaAn ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely slights her for another woman.
- DirectorMikio NaruseStarsSô YamamuraMieko TakamineMariko OkadaThe troubled relationship between a writer and his ballet teacher wife, who has for years loved another man, finally leads to the breakup of the family.
- DirectorHiroshi ShimizuStarsKen UeharaRyuji IshiyamaEinosuke NakaA friendly bus driver and his passengers over the duration of one journey through the mountains to the nearest train station.
- DirectorMikio NaruseStarsChikako HosokawaMasako TsutsumiRyuko UmezonoThree sisters earn money by being street musicians. A number of loosely linked episodes ensue as the sisters who have different characters, variously become involved in the world of criminals, sacrifice themselves and find love.
- DirectorHeinosuke GoshoStarsKinuyo TanakaDen ÔhinataTokuji KobayashiIn this adaptation from Kawabata, a young student becomes friends with a brother and sister in a troupe of travelling entertainers, who perform at a geisha house in mining country.
- DirectorSadae TakamiStarsIkko KômiyaYoshiko TokugawaMichiko HayamaDescribes the decadent allure of the entertainment district, Tokyo's Montmartre, where beggars and teenage prostitutes mixed with revue dancers and famous authors.
- DirectorTeinosuke KinugasaStarsMasuo InoueAyako IijimaYoshie NakagawaA man takes a job at an asylum with hopes of freeing his imprisoned wife.
- DirectorJosef von SternbergStarsEmil JanningsMarlene DietrichKurt GerronAn elderly professor's ordered life spins dangerously out of control when he falls for a nightclub singer.
- DirectorYi SuStarsMa Si-TsangLan-Hing TamWei-Lien KaoThe school-teacher Prof. Raat, nicknamed Unrat by his students, becomes obsessed by the cabaret singer Lola Lola.
- DirectorWolfgang StaudteStarsWerner PetersPaul EsserRenate FischerDiederich Heßling is scared of everything and everyone. But as he grows up, he comes to realize that he has to offer his services to the powers-that-be if he wants to wield power himself. His life motto now runs: bow to those at the top and tread on those below. In this way, he always succeeds: as a student in a duel-fighting student fraternity and as a businessman in a paper factory. He cajoles the obese district administrative president Von Wulkow and wins his favor. He slanders his financial rivals and hatches a plot with the social democrats in the town council. On his honeymoon with his rich wife Guste, he finally finds a chance to do his beloved Kaiser a favor. And when a memorial to the Kaiser is unveiled in the town where Diederich lives and works, he delivers the address. He stands behind the lectern in the pouring rain, saluting his Kaiser. The crowd is dispersed. Everything is laid in ruins...
- DirectorEdward DmytrykStarsCurd JürgensMay BrittTheodore BikelDuring the 1950s in a small German town, high school Professor Immanuel Rath falls in-love with a young cabaret entertainer, with dramatic consequences.
- DirectorWerner VölgerStarsWolfgang FaetheRolf BogusKurt Buecheler
- DirectorAlfredo SternheimStarsMário BenvenuttiVera FischerCélia HelenaArmando, a single teacher in his 40s, leads a methodical, safe and quiet life. He has no involvements, only some romantic adventures and is very dedicated to work. At school, he realizes that one of his students, Mário, is showing a decline in performance. He tries to find out the cause and discovers that the boy is in love with Laura, one of his colleagues. Armando then tries to talk to the girl and suggests that she stay away from Mário. But in this thorny mission, the teacher ends up becoming attracted to Laura himself.
- DirectorRobert van AckerenStarsNikolaus DutschRomy HaagUdo Kier
- DirectorGerd KeilStarsDetlef BieckeKurt BöweJochen Diestelmann
- DirectorFritz UmgelterStarsBernhard WickiBarbara RüttingArnfried LercheThe winemaker's son Andreas Zumsee from the Rhineland is allowed to study in Berlin. However, he sees himself more as a writer; he published novellas and poems in the local newspaper. Equipped with a letter of recommendation from their editor and mentor, he is looking for Dr. Open the operator, editor-in-chief of the "Nachtkourier", one of the leading newspapers in Berlin, which belongs to the powerful banker James Türkheimer.