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White Ribbon, The (Das weisse Band) (2009)
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| Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years just before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. The abused and suppressed children of the villagers seem to be at the heart of this mystery.
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Wind That Shakes the Barley, The (2006)
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reland, 1920. Damien and Teddy are brothers. But while the latter is already the leader of a guerrilla squad fighting for the independence of his motherland,Damien, a medical graduate of University College, would rather further his
training at the London hospital where he has found a place. However, shortly before his departure, he happens to witness atrocities committed by the ferocious Black and Tans and finally decides to join the resistance group led by Teddy. The two brothers fight side by side until a truce is signed. But peace is short-lived
and when one faction of the freedom-fighters accepts a treaty with the British that is regarded as unfair by the other faction, a civil war ensues, pitting Irishmen against Irishmen, brothers against brothers, Teddy against Damien.
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Barton Fink (1991)
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Socially conscious scriptwriter Barton Fink has made it big on broadway. Now Tinsel Town is taking notice. Hired by Hollywood to write a restling picture, Barton quits the city smog for movie stardom.
L.A. has got the Barton Fink feeling. Barton Fink has got writer's block. Enlisting the help of able assistand Audrey and amiable neighbour Charlie Meadows, Fink finds the real-life inspiration he seeks comes from the most sinister of sources.
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Wild at Heart (1990)
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Movie follows the troubled romance of Sailor and Lula, two lovers who struggle to remain together
even when fate seems intent on keeping them apart. In this case, fate is Lula?s mother, Marietta Fortune (Diane Ladd), a desperate woman who hates Sailor and will do anything to keep him away from her daughter. After Sailor is released from prison for murdering a man - yet in selfdefense - he and sex-filled, rocking road trip, aware that they are being hunted by one of Marietta?s cronies. When they pull off the road in order to hide out in a small trailer park, Sailor befriends Bobby Peru, an incredibly intense war veteran with a rotten set of teeth. Bobby convinces Sailor to help him rob a bank, much to Lula's objections. Sailor must decide if he wants to go straight and be there for his child or remain under Bobby?s influence and risk returning to jail.
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Taxi Driver (1976)
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| War veteran and cabbie Travis Bickle , a lonely man obsessed with pornography and violence. As events in Travis' life begin to turn for the worse, he slowly descends into the depths of his own paranoia, driving away the one woman willin to love him, eventually exploding in an orgy of killing against the "scum" of the streets he hates so intensely.
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Conversation, The (1974)
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| Francis Ford Coppola┤s provoking mystery-drama explores the morality of privacy and stars Gene Hackman as Harry Caul, expert surveillance man. A routine wire-tapping job turns into a modern nightmare as Harry hears something disturbing in his recording of a young couple in a park. He begins to worry about what the tape may be used for and becomes involved in a maze of secrecy and murder.
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Dolce vita, La (1960)
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Seven days (and nights) in the life of a Marcello, a Roman journalist torn between making something serious of his life or drifting along on a pleasant if empty stream of casual affairs and profitable, but meaningless, newspaper and magazine work. In the course of the week, he flirts with a visiting movie star has a couple of encounters with a bored socialite, one of them in a prostitute's bedroom, is shocked when Steiner, a "serious" writer and deep thinker kills himself and his entire family, and generally ignores his adoring girlfriend. In the end, he seems to have cut himself adrift on a sea of frivolity and self-disgust, with no real idea of how to find his way "home" again.
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