During a holiday study in France, a girl meets the great love of her life, but the boy is involved in terrorist activities and that puts serious crisis on their relationship.
A tale of nineteenth-century New York high society in which a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's cousin.
Director:
Martin Scorsese
Stars:
Daniel Day-Lewis,
Michelle Pfeiffer,
Winona Ryder
Traveling dentist O'Connell traverses South America on his motorcycle for the 'Eversmile' foundation of New Jersey, in a fight not only against caries, but also against fear, ignorance, ... See full summary »
Director:
Carlos Sorin
Stars:
Daniel Day-Lewis,
Mirjana Jokovic,
Gabriela Acher
When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperone Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and son George step in to remedy the situation. Meeting... See full summary »
Director:
James Ivory
Stars:
Maggie Smith,
Helena Bonham Carter,
Denholm Elliott
A British art expert travels across America in order to purchase a rare Renoir painting in the South but comes across some crazy characters in the process.
Director:
Pat O'Connor
Stars:
Daniel Day-Lewis,
Harry Dean Stanton,
Kent Broadhurst
Tomas is a doctor and a lady-killer in 1960s Czechoslovakia, an apolitical man who is struck with love for the bookish country girl Tereza; his more sophisticated sometime lover Sabina eventually accepts their relationship and the two women form an electric friendship. The three are caught up in the events of the Prague Spring (1968), until the Soviet tanks crush the non-violent rebels; their illusions are shattered and their lives change forever.Written by
Dan Hartung <dhartung@mcs.com>
Milos Forman personally offered to Philip Kaufman the opportunity to direct the movie after hearing that studios were interested in making a film adaptation of Milan Kundera's successful novel. Forman had to pass the chance to direct it himself because he had family in Czechoslovakia and he feared for them in case of a possible negative reaction from the Soviet government, who were occupying the country at the time. See more »
Goofs
When Tereza is on the train after returning to Czechoslovakia, she surrenders her passport and a camera. The camera is a Leica-style rangefinder, not the Praktica SLR she has been using. See more »
Quotes
[first lines]
First Title Card:
In Prague, in 1968, there lived a young doctor named Tomas...
Tomas:
Take off your clothes.
[line recurs several times during film]
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If you have read the book, the movie is frustrating. If you haven't, it's just a bad movie. The sex scenes are terrible. Tereza looks like a stupid girl. And all the reflections that make the book wonderful are lost and vague in the movie, and just can't be expressed in the dialogs or Tomas thoughts.
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If you have read the book, the movie is frustrating. If you haven't, it's just a bad movie. The sex scenes are terrible. Tereza looks like a stupid girl. And all the reflections that make the book wonderful are lost and vague in the movie, and just can't be expressed in the dialogs or Tomas thoughts.